what's up y'all this is Hussein Nasser from IGeometry where we discuss software
engineering by example this is a different video today we're not gonna
discuss any software per se no software concept today but we will I'm gonna talk
about how I was able to grow my youtube channel to 2000 and plus I think to 2200
subscribers using really basic equipment I don't even I only have a laptop a Mac
and this affordable really good microphone that we're gonna talk about
so so my journey in general says I started taking YouTube seriously maybe
in 2016 or maybe 2015 and I late 2015 yeah
so I took this MacBook that I have and then I basically wanted to make a
youtube channel to transfer my knowledge to the public about software I'm not
gonna make software tutorials especially GIS software tutorials and then just
talk about software programming and and so I wanted a medium to to express
myself to talk about this you know gee I wasn't thinking about subscribers I
don't really won't really care about views and I just want to help people
that wasn't in my main my main goal of starting this channel seriously and back
then I called it I geometry because my my field of expertise is GIS geographic
information system that's what I'm that's why that's why I work at I'm
specialist in that field but in general when I when I started making YouTube but
I I got this MacBook and and I I just started using this simple QuickTime
application there literally that said and I do a screen recording and I will
take a video of my screen and then talk about that I just make the tutorial
right there I don't have any experience in Photoshop a really bad designer but
I'm good in general I I know how to talk about a topic I
I'm a good programmer I'm good a developer just software designer and I
just that really made me want to share this knowledge with people and you can
check the content of this channel to see them but what I want to talk about today
is just this notion that I see a lot of people think that hey you want you need
to have all these expensive equipment to get started and in YouTube and to do
really to be successful on YouTube right and even even without being successful
just think about sharing your knowledge sharing your ideas sharing your
creativity you don't really need anything I was able to reach to 2000
Plus subscribers by just using quick time which anyone with a Mac or even
with Windows you had there are a lot of screen sharing work applications that
does that for you and and this I was basically when I started I was using the
built in microphone of Mac it wasn't really good there's a lot a lot of noise
and you know bad captures a lot of things that I wanted to capture and it
makes my voice quality goes down and when I when I I was looking for is you
know something not expensive I already wanted something affordable I know it
was really this is okay I don't want to spend seven hundred bucks for a
microphone I don't I want something affordable really good quality so I
searched this so I found this area you can see in this screen right now I found
this microphone it I think it's one twenty four ninety nine and twenty five
blogs and it says well you don't want to spear if it's bad I'm gonna return it
but who is really surprised like oh I actually you can hear this is I'm using
that that microphone right now and you can see that the quality is pretty
decent no and I use it just to amplify my voice and if they're like a it just
reduce any noise in the background if the AC is running it just takes that
away and I really like it and I've been recording most of my videos using that
alright and then that improved my quality of the video is compared to the
videos that I had if you go back to my old videos you can see
how how poor they were and he can see the background stuff and I don't know
you know yeah in general so I just want to share this with you guys it's like
you don't really need if you want to start you teach yell if you have a skill
don't deprive people from your skill just because you think that you're
you're not good enough or or you think oh you don't you don't have these
equipments or you have all these stuff you don't really need all that you just
need a medium to start porting your voice just go in there and and just show
your skills show it just provide your skills they're out there and you will be
surprised how many people really are searching for the skills that you have
right and this will grow your opportunities I mean when I started the
YouTube channel I was like making very basic videos I was in another country
back then my my home country Bahrain and because of my youtube channel there was
a main reason making all these videos I was I got a job in a back I got a job
Oh Jeremy I mean I artists state right now in California because I was making
these videos right so you you don't know how how just by letting your skills out
you don't know who can reach you who will see it even be if you get seven
views so that one of those seven views could be I don't know Oprah or someone
someone is it doesn't you don't have to get like million views right but if you
get the right people right if you really do it with with passion if you're
passionate about don't don't do it just put a crap out there just because you
want to make videos but you make videos that because you like shit to share your
knowledge in general I hope you guys enjoy this little video and I'm gonna
put the affiliate link of this microphone in the description below I
got a little percentage Commission if you if you if you purchased
microphone in general but that just stick that advice I mean in general if
you want to do something just go do it don't let these little things like oh I
need a microphone or I need a very fancy camera sometimes I use that built-in
camera to record my face right there you can see in some of my babies but you
don't need any of that so go there and show you work to people
that's a by the way that's a good book by Steven Pressfield show your work I
really recommend listening to that audio book I'm gonna put the audible actually
link of the for that book show your link in the description below as well alright
guys that's it for me today I'm gonna see you in the next one if you're
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see you in the next one guys take care bye bye