What's up guys Benji here from Tokio Japan Hey what's up guys Sean here coming to you
from Sandton Johannesburg South Africa
And today we are just celebrating 10 000 subscribers thank you so much
And we just wanted to make this video to send you a big thank you
For helping us reach 10 thousand subscribers here in video influencers
It's being a little under a year since we started our channel we hit
10 000 subscribers and it's really all about you so thank you so much
You know we are seriously humble and grateful that you watch our videos for
Your commenting for your engagement that you be a part of this community
It literally means the word to us and we wanted to put this video out and just share that
4 take a ways growing from zero to ten thousand in ten months
Number one Which is ironic im talking about this because
number one is it's not al about the Subscribers and views don't get me wrong I
appreciate every one of the ten thousand people subscribed
to our channel but is easy for me to compare myself to bigger channels you know
my wife and I Judy we have a vlog channel that is over a million subscribers and
I get people all the time comparing themselves to us and the one thing I like to tell
Is don't ever compare yourself to another channel 'cause when it comes down to it it's
all about the content you are delivering and the value
you give to people so are you helping people are you informing people are you entertaining
people what is it that you are doing for the people
and how much do they value your channel that's way more important than how many subscribers
or views when it all boils down to every channel is individual it's got it's own unique values
what's important to them and success it's different for different channels
back to you Sean Secondly one for the things that we've learn
it's we've grown the 10 000 subscribers as we've gone to interview a lot of youtubers
as well as entrepreneur and business owners using video is that there's so much opportunity
still with online video you know it can get discouraging it feel like it's
so crowded it is to some extend but in the other side of
that there is still so much potential to build niche content to build a niche channel
to build an audience around a focuses the world is a big place and there's a lot of new
people coming online everyday a lot of new people discovering
online video everyday and so there is tons of
potential the ship has not sailed one of the interviews we did Shay Carl said you know
online video right now is just growing and it's like exponential
growth and a rising tide lifts all ships so there is a
ton of opportunity to get in back to you Benji
Lesson number 3 is community and what we mean by that is engaging with your viewers
engaging with the people that watch you is so important that's one of the reason we are
doing this video we recently put out a survey to ask you guys
what was important to you guys about what you want to see come out of video influencers
and that survey told us a lot about what we are doing right
what we are doing wrong what we need to add to our videos and again that's engaging with
you guys and that's really important because you want
to understand what is good for your audience you don't just want to just assume what is
good, I do believe it starts from a places of passion
and skill and experience but also listening to the audience because they might be telling
you something that you don't realize and when
all boils down to it engaging replaying to people's comment
listening to people's request and questions and acting on that
And then lastly I think of the lessons we learned specially over these last then months growing
Ten thousand subscribers is that it takes Hustle we learned from the people that we
interviewed That their story and their journey has being
a struggle and maybe they make it look easy But they put in the time they put in the work
over years Putting cheap foot cams on stacks of shoe
boxes because they don't have a tripod like itsjudytime
And filming putting out videos when no one is watching for year upon years to build an
audience And over the last ten months we learned that
it takes hustle its taking time its taking money
Its taking getting gear its taking travel I look back to the last ten months and I'm like
this is serious work This has taken serious time serious hustle
it's definitely been worth it but make no mistakes it takes hustle
And so just a recap on what Benji said its ultimately not about the subs some niches
are gonna have less subscribers but it can be a very targeted and focus community of
people That others so don't get wrap up ultimately
in your sub count Number 2 there's still huge opportunity with
online video and more opportunity coming don't get
discourage but develop a mind set that's ready to jump on trends to look for the open opportunities
to open places that you can get tractions with your videos
number 3 online video is all about community We wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for
you and with your audience with what you are doing
build a community engage take the time to make
personal connections to comment back to comment on other social media platforms
And number 4 never stop hustling if you have passion for this and you love online video
like we do put in the hustle don't get discourage keep going for it keep smashing it keep crushing
it 'cause it's worth it but you gotta hustle
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If you wonder why we did the video this way Benji is actually in Japan Hes doing some
family stuff And of course their daily vlogging doing all
that kinda stuff down there And then im in South Africa with John Meriana
we're really doing some cook video stuff that we
put in other channels and what not just if you are wondering but I was like
hey you're there im here but we gotta put a video out 'cause we just hit 10000 so we
put this video out excited for 2016 let me just show you this
view this is were im shooting this video here in
south Africa