- If you're makin' any of the five mistakes
that I'm gonna share with you in this video,
and you're a mobile YouTuber,
you could be doing your channel harm,
causing it to grow slower than it should be,
and in one case you could be compromising
the security of your phone.
And I really hope you're not making that mistake.
And if you find that you are making some of these mistakes,
there's still time to turn this around, so don't panic,
you can fix all of these, except for the one thing
that I hope you're not doing.
The first big mistake so many mobile YouTubers make
is only using the YT Studio App to check their analytics.
Let me explain.
While the YT Studio App is pretty good
considering it's on your phone
and it's the best we've got for an app,
it's not the end all be all for analytics,
and you are really missing out on lots of other analytics
that can help you grow your channel faster.
For example, did you know that
inside of YouTube Studio Beta,
you can sort your videos by subscribers
to find out which video is driving
the most subscribers to your channel.
I get asked all the time, "Dee, how can I get
"more subscribers on my channel?"
And while there are lots of different ways to do that,
one way to do that is to find the videos and topics
that are driving the most subscribers
to your channel currently, and make more videos like that.
And as simple as that sounds,
if you do it right, it actually works.
And here's a pro-tip.
After you sort your videos to find out which ones
are driving the most subscribers,
choose the video that's driving the most subscribers
to your channel and make that your channel trailer.
It's already proven to drive more subscribers
to your channel, so if you get more eyes on it
for people who are landing on your channel,
this can drive even more subscribers to your channel,
and there's a good chance your favorite YouTubers
are doin' things like this, and you're not even aware of it.
Now you know.
It's all those tiny tweaks and changes
that people can make to their channel
that add up to make a huge difference,
and this is one of those tweaks.
The browser I'm currently using
to do this on is the Chrome Browser.
I open up Chrome and I choose request desktop site,
and then I go into either Creator Studio or Studio Beta,
whichever one I wanna go into,
and then I dig into my analytics that way.
For some reason if Chrome is not working for you,
I recommend trying the Puffin Web Browser.
Both of these browsers are free,
and I actually keep 'em both on my phone
because every now and then Chrome doesn't work,
and when that happens, I jump over to Puffin
and Puffin will usually work.
So if one of 'ems not workin' for you, try the other.
The second mistake so many mobile YouTubers are making,
is not spending money on apps.
Now before you click off,
and I know you're rollin' your eyes right now
because maybe you're on a budget,
or maybe you live in some part of the world
where you really can't afford the apps, hear me out.
Nothing makes you look more unprofessional
than when somebody loads up your video,
and they see a watermark from the video app company
up in the corner.
This immediately identifies you as a creator
and your channel as amateur.
And if you're running a business
and you have logos on your video
that don't belong to your business,
you need to take those off immediately.
As in, your next video better not have an app logo on it.
You're online image is your online branding,
and if you want people to take you seriously
and not look at you as some amateur
who doesn't know what they're doin'
and is just getting started, even though that you are,
you need to make sure you don't have
any logos on your video.
I know if you're just starting out
some of you don't wanna spend any money at all,
you just wanna test the waters a little bit,
but at the very least get an inexpensive app
for a couple of months, make some videos,
see if it's gonna work out.
Trust me on this, you wanna look as good as possible,
even when you're first getting started on the platform.
Android users, you can check out KineMaster,
it's around $5 a month.
If that's too much, you can go down to Power Director,
that's about a dollar less.
If you're on iOS you can also use KineMaster,
or you can get LumaFusion,
that's a one time payment of around 20 US dollars.
There's no subscription there.
So if you can swing this even for a couple of months
while you're testing the waters
to find out if YouTube is for you or not,
make that happen because people will look at you differently
when you have a watermark
versus when you don't have a watermark.
And like I said before, if you have a business
or you're trying to sell services,
or you're trying to sell anything on YouTube,
you can not have a watermark that doesn't belong to you.
If you think that's too much to spend on an app,
look around and see where
you're spending money in your life.
Maybe, and I can't believe I'm gonna say this,
please don't strike me down, what if you cut back
on one or two cups of coffee per month?
That will pay for an app.
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All right, we're still here, that's good.
Look, you know your life better than I do,
but give yourself an honest audit
and say, "What can I cut back on so that I can afford
"one of these apps to make me look more professional."
It's totally worth it, trust me on this.
Now I do know that there are some of you watching
in certain parts of the world
where that is actually a lot of money.
I get that, and that's gonna take us to the next mistake
that a lot of mobile YouTubers are making,
and that's sideloading, or using pirated apps.
This is a huge, huge thing that you should not be doing.
Not because you're just stealing the app,
I mean that's bad within itself, but the problem is,
you don't know what malicious code
is being put inside of the apps.
Now there are some legit apps
that need to be sideloaded into your phone.
I get that, but I'm talking specifically about
the pirated apps.
For example, if you're gonna use a pirated version
of KineMaster, somebody cracked that app
so you don't have to pay for it.
Why would they do that?
Think about it like this, why would somebody go through
all of that trouble to crack that app
and not put something in that app to benefit them?
Your Google passwords are in here
to your email account and to YouTube.
Do you really wanna risk your passwords
to your email and your YouTube account?
Maybe your banking information?
I don't know what other passwords you have on your phone,
but when somebody cracks these apps,
they can put malicious code in these apps.
You put 'em in your phone, you don't even know
that it's there, and they can get that sort of information.
So if you have to save up to buy these apps,
or just use a legit free app
out of the Google Play Store or the Apple store.
It's totally worth it.
Yeah, you might be limited, you might not get all the layers
and all the features that you want, but it's safe.
Anything that you're sideloading into your phone
that's pirated, you don't know what is coming in
and to be honest with you, that's just not worth it.
And to take it a step further,
and you might not even know this
if you're using pirated apps, but a lot of times,
you don't get all of the features with a pirated app.
Sometimes things get disabled,
or they can't crack everything.
So when you're using features that the app should have
and it's not working correctly,
or you're limited on the size of the encode,
or it crashes every three minutes or something like that,
a lot of that comes from a cracked app.
Moral of the story, it is better to use a free lesser app,
than it is to use a better cracked app.
If for nothing else, for the security of your phone.
Imagine if a unsavory person were to get your passwords,
they lock you out of you Gmail account,
they lock you out of YouTube, your channel is gone,
there is nothing you can do about it.
But hey, you saved three bucks.
You lost everything, congratulations.
If this is something that you've done,
and you've sideloaded pirated apps,
honestly, I would completely wipe my phone.
Factory reset, start over, rebuild the phone
from the ground up just to be safe.
Hopefully that fixes it.
Before I move on to the next mistake,
I would love to hear from you,
and hear what mistakes you've caught yourself doing already.
Go down, leave a comment, let me know what those are.
I read every single question and comment,
and I reply to as many of 'em as possible.
And when this video's over, I'm gonna go down there
and I'm gonna see what mistakes that you'll admit to.
I've made a lot.
The next mistake that so many mobile YouTubers are making
is not taking the time to go through
the YouTube Creator Academy.
It's recently been rebranded to the Creator Academy,
but this is the instruction manual for YouTubers.
This is gonna teach you how the platform works
because when you come in,
nobody knows how YouTube works, it's a big mystery.
It's all this algorithm talk and all this stuff
that makes your head explode.
But the Creator Academy breaks everything down
through free courses.
Again, this is created by YouTube for YouTubers.
Everything is free.
So I'm gonna put a link in the description below
to the Creator Academy.
To be honest, you'll probably never finish it
because they keep adding on to it,
but when you get through a certain amount of it,
a lot of this is gonna make sense.
It's gonna start clicking in your head,
then you can focus on the stuff that works
and then you can start growin' your channel.
The next mistake so many mobile YouTubers are making
is not going all in because all they have is their phone.
Look, your phone is a powerhouse.
It's a computer, it's a camera,
it's an organizer, it's an editor.
You don't have to wait for a certain piece of gear.
You don't need a microphone.
You don't need lenses, you don't need gimbals.
You don't need all of that stuff.
I mean those things are great to have,
and they all do serve a purpose,
but in terms of just diving all in on YouTube
and just grindin' it out and makin' video
after video after video, you can do this on your phone.
And also it doesn't matter if you're on an iPhone,
or an Android, or a iPhone 5 or an iPhone 10s,
it doesn't matter if you have a tablet.
The important thing is, is your story or your message,
or how you're sharing something with somebody,
how you're helping someone, or how you're bringing
value to someone's life.
What lens you use, what mic you use,
none of that stuff matters.
You wanna grip for your phone, that's cool.
You want a gimbal?
That's fantastic.
But you don't need it.
Make more content.
Don't let this get in the way of your success.
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