Something amazing happened yesterday, my channel went from zero to ten thousand
subscribers in ten months now you might be asking yourself dear you'll tell us
how you did it well stick around I'll show ya hit the subscribe button and
click the notification bell to be part of the conversation so listen I know a
lot of you were creators out there wondering how you can get your channels
to grow on YouTube and I got to tell you it's probably easier than you think but
involves a lot of hard work and that's something I really want you to embrace
because a lot of times I see people want an easy button just do this and your
channel will grow and that's just not how it works a lot of creators want
YouTube to work the way they think it works instead of learning how it
actually works and then applying themselves towards that goal here is
YouTube in a nutshell YouTube wants you to bring people to the platform get them
watching videos and keep them watching videos that's your mission the reason
they want you to do that is so that they can serve them ads along the way and
make money that's the entire process in a nutshell this is the reason why
subscribers as a metric doesn't really matter and I know that sounds weird from
a guy who's telling you how to go from zero to 10,000 subscribers but it's how
you gain those subscribers that means everything I see creators using sub4sub
or doing grow with me strategies that is just basically you sub to me I'll sub to
you and somehow that'll make our channel better YouTube doesn't care about that
they don't care about your subscribers they care how long you can make people
watch videos I also see a lot of creators trying to get bigger creators
to shout them out as if somehow that will change their destiny man you know
it's such a weird thing my channel started based on doing a collaboration
with Brian G Johnson which got me one of the biggest shout outs you could get but
that shout-out turned into maybe a hundred 150 subscribers in the first 36
hours and then that went away I know a lot of you might be out there thing I'd
love to get a hundred or 150 subscribers in 36 hours but the difference is a
video on my channel that performs well can drive 2,000 subscribers and keep
driving subscribers as its out there doing its thing so if the trade-off is
trying to get someone to shut you out and grab a few subscribers who may not
be interested in your content or create content that will continue to generate
subscribers the answer is really pretty easy here the biggest trick is figuring
out what kind of content you should be making I see a lot of people make videos
and post them up and just hope that somehow they'll get discovered the real
trick here is trying to find your target audience in what videos they're already
looking for and I know that sounds really kind of vague and hard to
determine but it really isn't we use things like keyword research to find the
topics that people are searching for and then we try to position our content in
between what they're looking for and the answer that they need right so in my
case I was using filmora to leverage that information I would use things like
to buddy's keyword research tool to find questions that people were already
looking for about filmora and then I would make a video that would answer
that question and try to position it to be found so I know what my target
audience wants and I make that video that answers the question and then I
work really hard doing things like making a better thumbnail or finding a
better title so that that video can get discovered because if I do a great job
at answering that question and leveraging that information to get them
to find me I have a much better chance of growing my channel now when I talk
about a target audience I see a lot of people make the mistake of confusing
their target audience with their community the people who have already
subscribed you have to understand that you're trying to reach tens of thousands
of people not just the people who have already subscribed to your channel if
you've reached them that means that your content has already done its thing and
those community members are super valuable those are the people that you
talk to every day you have discussions with people who are loyal to your
channel but one of them might ask a question that's just specific to them
and asked you to make a video about something that they want to see but
isn't gonna do well with your overall target audience so you want to make sure
that differentiate the two I'll get people
who will ask me how to insert a Pokemon into a video which is something they
want to do but I have to figure out if that's something that the larger target
audience wants to see because I want my videos to keep bringing in new
subscribers and new viewers so I might take that suggestion and look up other
things that my audience is looking for and see if that can fit into that like
inserting images onto a video or overlaying images onto another track in
filmora its twisting it around if I just made a video about how to put Pokemon
into your video I might limit myself because someone goes I don't care about
Pokemon I don't want to do that but they may want to learn about how to overlay
images and that's where you're looking to find the things that your entire
target audience is already looking for in order to make those videos another
thing is you have to resist making videos just because you can I've seen
channels that make videos about beauty and vlogging and diet plans and exercise
and it's so many things that someone who Tunes in for one video may not be
interested in the next video someone might tune in to learn about a keto diet
plan but they may not be interested in a vegan diet plan so you have to be really
specific in the kinds of videos you make and the audience you're trying to reach
so that people keep coming back and watching videos and engaging with you as
a creator because if you can get someone to come and watch one video and then a
second video and maybe even a third video that creates that binge watch
session that will turn that new viewer into a subscriber this is what we call
leveraging the information right you take the thing that that person is
looking for and use it to get them invested in you because you're the
person who's answering their questions in the most effective manner that you
possibly can the biggest trick here is doing that consistently making videos
that reach that target audience over and over and over again so that people keep
coming back and going man I love your channel because it gives me the thing I
was looking for and that's it in a nutshell
put the audience first don't make it about you I see so many creators who are
making videos that they think the audience wants to see instead of
figuring out exactly what the audience does want to see and making those videos
if you're a gaming channel and you keep just putting up gameplay where's the
value but if your channel puts up a video that shows someone how to get
their very first win in fortnight using the strategies that you used that will
attract them to your channel and get them watching more videos because you
have something to offer you have something that they want to know that
you can give to them the better the video the stronger the thumbnail the
stronger the title and the better you deliver the information the better
chance that the target audience that you haven't reached yet but people who have
no idea who you are are going to find your video and become invested in you
your watch time will increase your subscriber count will increase and your
channel will be recommended more by YouTube because it's doing the very
thing that YouTube wants making people watch longer that's all I did here there
is no magic secret there was no easy button that I push that suddenly made my
channel grow it was hard work consistent work focused within a single path on a
single target audience that I stayed consistent to I have to say a very
special thanks to this guy right here mr. Brian G Johnson for helping me get
this channel to where it is with his patience his guidance his friendship in
his insights if you have any specific questions about how you can get your
channel to grow faster join me down in the comments section and let me know
what kind of things you think might be holding you back and I'll do my best to
answer them for you thank you for helping me get here I appreciate you and
I'll see you in the comments section below
peace