Do you really have to give up Netflix to start and grow a YouTube channel? It's
Meredith here and I want to help you spend less time shooting, editing, and
creating your videos for YouTube and social media
now it's no secret that creating videos tends to be thought of as one of the
more time-intensive types of content to create and so a lot of people shy away
from it but for people like you and I who know the benefits and the power of
using online video to build an audience a brand and create a business online
sometimes it's still tricky for us to find time to fit creating videos into
our schedule even though we have the desire to do and we have jobs families
household duties life commitment and many of the Guru's out there will
actually tell you you just need to prioritize there's nothing wrong with
feeding your kids cereal for dinner every once in a while so that you can
get a youtube video out this week you know every once a while every week
whatever you gotta do but is juggling your commitments around really the
solution and do you really have to give up Netflix to start and grow a YouTube
channel no well in this video I'm gonna walk you through my baby step planning
process so that you can spend less time creating videos and start prioritizing
action over perfection so that when you do have 30 minutes of quiet time you can
hit record and run with and because you'll have a plan recording your videos
will be quicker editing your videos would be a lot faster and easier and you
can publish videos consistently without turning your back on the crowd so let's
dive into this and if creating videos for YouTube and social media to grow
your audience and income online is one of your goals then I invite you to hit
that subscribe button so we can get started here and also come say hi to me
on Instagram let me know that you're watching so let's back up about five
years because when I started my youtube channel I had a full-time job my girls
were eight and three my husband was working 12-hour shifts at the police
department and I had an idea for a blog and that turned into an idea for a
YouTube channel and I was really I felt compelled to do something with my ideas
my skills my dreams my goals and actually monetized them and so I decided
to prioritize these because at the very least it was a fun
endeavor a creative hobby and of course over the last five years it did turn
into my business and this is my job now but prioritizing the planning of my
videos was the teeny tiny baby step bite-sized action that I took even with
the weight of little kids in the full-time job so that when I did have
those 30-minute blocks of quiet time I could just get it done or even get a few
recorded on a Saturday afternoon now for whatever reason I always have a goal of
publishing on Thursdays there's no magic formula to that I think it just so
happened that the very first time I published a video like had it ready to
upload edited it and everything it was was ready to go on a Thursday so I
published it on the Thursday and I had a goal of publishing every week so it just
made sense that I had another week to publish a video and it just became
Thursdays so with the goal of publishing on Thursdays I knew that by Wednesday I
needed to have the video ready to go right it needed to be completely edited
done ready to upload and in order to have it done and ready to be uploaded it
needed to be edited so usually by Tuesday that's when I would edit my
videos and I would try to spend maybe an hour sometimes to kind of dependent on
the video to be honest with you and so in order to be ready to edit a video on
Tuesday I needed to have it shot and recorded by Monday so in order to shoot
and record a video on Monday I needed to know what the heck I was gonna be
creating that week and so on Sunday night I would look at my notes in
Evernote and I would pick a topic or sometimes I would already know what my
topic was gonna be so using my phone I would make sure I had an outline of what
I needed to say in my video sometimes I would script out the whole thing if I
had that time and I was on my phone so you can do this watching television you
can do this when you're in the car pickup line I used to do it when I would
lay in bed with my kids night waiting patiently for them to fall
asleep you find time to scroll Instagram so you can find time to put a video
script together so by Sunday evening I knew what I was gonna be publishing that
week I had an outline so that on Monday all I had to do is set up my camera in
my lights and my microphone and a hit record I didn't have to think about it
so outlying script record at it publish and it just starts with having the idea
for the video topic and deciding what you're gonna say in that video and
believe it or not taking these bite-sized steps throughout the week can
actually work in your favor when it comes to scripting and planning your
videos because it gives you some extra time to really let those ideas marinate
in your brain you also have time when you're driving to work or in the shower
doing the dishes to kind of practice what you're gonna say in your videos and
you may even come up with some more ideas and more content that you want to
add into that video so it's okay to take these bite-sized steps and then just let
them sit there can you see how simple it is to just take baby steps now I like to
use apps like Evernote or asana click up you could use a Google Doc you could use
a Notes app on your phone or you can just use a pen and paper for this and by
the way nobody expects perfection on YouTube there are plenty of examples of
people who are getting tons of views and making money with very imperfect and
sometimes even pretty darn bad looking videos I mean just look at mine when I
first started it really just comes down to prioritizing those baby steps of
action over the impossible hurdle of perfection hey I want to know what your
time-saving tips are for creating Wow hey I want to know what your time-saving
tips are for creating videos and if you're a little fuzzy on the video
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