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If you'd like to know how to get to your first 1000 subscribers on YouTube, stay tuned, watch
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David Walsh, here, from DavidWalshOnline.com, part of your 5-a-day for your YouTube goodness.
Now, today, I am actually here at YouTube.
This isn't some massive sign I put above my bed at home.
No, I am actually here at YouTube Space, here in London.
Aa friend of mine recently hit 1000 subscribers on his channel so, what I thought I would
do to help you to get 1000 if you haven't got there already is to do an interview with
him.
He is going to reveal his experiences how he got there, the challenges etc. so I can
help you get to your first 1000 subscribers on YouTube.
D:
So, welcome Nick to this video.
How are you doing today?
N: I am doing excellent David, thank you for having me.
I appreciate it. D:
You are very welcome and thank you for revealing how you got to your 1000 subscribers on your
channel.
So, to begin with, why don't you tell us what your channel is about?
N: My channel is, basically, where I search the internet for questions that everybody
wants the answers to and I answer them with real data.
I actually research the information and I try to deliver it in an interesting way, you
know, just real data that support the questions that we all want answered.
D:
Excellent!
So, give us a little bit of history as to why you created the channel, what interests
you about this subject that makes you want to say I am going to do a number of videos
every week on a weird and wonderful subject.
N: Well to start, I'll mention that I also have another channel and because of that channel,
a mutual friend of ours, Derral Eves, contacted me when he saw that channel and he mentioned
to me that he thought that I would be better serving the YouTube community if I did a different
type of channel based on how I delivered my message.
So, that was the initial start of it.
D:
So, what made you want to do the particular topics you're doing and stuff like that.
N: Well, I'm curious, you know.
I'm a curious person.
I like to look in information like when people say things, I usually kind of take them at
face value and then I'll go and research the information for myself and I just like to
explore information and look for your answers to my own questions, so, I thought that that
would be a pretty, you know, a pretty useful thing for people to just answer questions
that, you know, that we all have an interest in.
D:
Excellent!
Ok!
So, you've done your first video, you've uploaded it.
What were the steps that you took to get the views on there, to get people interested and
ultimately subscribe, to begin to subscribe to your channel?
N: Well, the very first video that I uploaded was actually the channel trailer.
So, I uploaded that first and while I was in the process of putting the introductory
videos together I started spreading that video around on social media.
D:
Cool!
N: I posted it on Reddit, I went into some particular Sub Reddits there and, you know,
I was asking for feedback on the trailer, just to get some eyeballs, you know, rolling
into it.
I was getting into Facebook groups that I was a part of, that I still am a part of,
you know, posting it on Twitter, you know, things like that.
Just the general way that you spread videos around as you… you know, as you put them
out.
D:
Excellent!
So, basically you let people know what you're going to do and then posted it just as far
and wide as you could and that brought people in.
And then you were doing your videos, you had, obviously, your list of videos you were doing
anyway.
What was your upload schedule to begin with?
N: My upload schedule to begin with was twice a week.
D:
Ok.
N: Every Wednesday and Saturday. D:
Ok.
And why those particular days?
N: They were actually recommended to me.
And because there is a little bit of a gap between those days, and that would give me
time to add another video if I wanted to, which I ended up doing in the future.
And it would give me a little bit of a gap between videos so that I could still, you
know, write scripts and, you know, edit the videos and things like that.
D:
Excellent!
So, how was your first video?
How did it perform?
How many views did it get, how many subscribers and stuff like that, after your channel trailer,
of course.
N: Well, the actual channel trailer itself, I think I am on around 1,400 on that one right
now.
C: Cool!
N: On the first actual video that I uploaded, which to me is the most important video on
the channel, it's about how to be happy and that particular video as we speak, it's only
around 1,600 views right now.
The ISIS video which was the 3rd video, I believe, that one's somewhere around 15,000
right now. D:
Nice!
Nice.
So, how long did it take you to get to your first 100?
N: First 100 subscribers from the time I uploaded the channel trailer to the time that the first
100 subscriber came in I would say a week and a half, maybe.
D:
Ok.
And that is probably one of the toughest things when you're starting is your first 100 because
it's something like 93 or 95 percent of all channels out there don't have more than 100
subscribers.
N: Oh!
Wow! D:
So, yeah, you getting it done in a week and a half is a nice feat in itself.
You're in the top like 5 or 7 percent of YouTube, just by doing that alone!
N: Yeah, the trick to that from my perspective was basically once I put up that channel trailer,
you know, I just started posting everywhere, you know.
Like, I would just, basically sit on my phone and I would google.
Like, if I was eating at a restaurant for example, if I was by myself, I would sit there
with my phone and Google places that I could put that trailer and if I was at home on my
computer I would be scouring social media for any opportunity that I had to post that
trailer somewhere.
And the same thing with that first video, you know.
I scoured the internet looking for places that I could put it in.
In addition to putting the videos all over the place, on the first 4 videos that I uploaded,
I did those 1 video a day for the first 4 days that the channel was live, which, also,
was a huge help as far as giving me stuff that I was able to promote and filling the
channel up quickly to give people a reason to subscribe.
D:
Exactly.
Because, then you have enough video content to keep people going from video to video to
video rather than going one video and then it’s like brush scrub type thing.
N: Yeah. D:
Excellent!
So, you got your first 100 in a week and a half; and so, then how long did it take you
to get your first 1,000?
N: See here, it took me about 3 months now to, actually, my fourth month.
At the beginning of my fourth month is when I hit the thousandth subscriber.
So, technically it took me 4 months to get to 1,000.
D:
Excellent!
So, what do you think was the reason why you got to your 1,000 within a 4 month period?
N: I think there's a handful of variables.
One, of course, is a collaboration that I did with Derral Eves, you know, again, you
know, a mutual friend of ours.
That was definitely a huge help.
Then the other side of it, you know, I had to make as good a content as I could possibly
make in order to actually give them a reason to subscribe once they get there.
D:
Yeah, because there's no point in getting a nice good push from a big YouTuber and then
them coming over and going 'Oh, this is crap'.
Now, with your experience of you've got over your 1,000 subscribers, you're uploading videos
on a regular basis, what would your sort of top tips be for someone who's starting out
or has been on YouTube for a while but not very successful, for them to do in order to
get to that... pass that 1,000 subscribers.
N: There's actually a handful of tips.
The first one, of course, would be collaborations because that’s huge, the second one would
be to make content as best you can and three would be to expect to work hard.
Always try to push your videos every chance that you get.
Always look for opportunities to promote your videos throughout the internet, throughout
your friends, throughout your family.
All of it because, you know, every view that you get you get a potential subscriber out
of it. D:
Excellent!
Ok, let us know where people can find you, so, where your channel is and things like
that.
N: If you want to watch interesting videos, you want to learn more about the world we
live in go to www.youtube.com/allourquestions. D:
Excellent!
So that's www.youtube.com/allourquestions and I have to say I have, I actually have
subscribed and there is some cool stuff.
Stuff that I didn't even know existed.
So, also, as well, if you want to...
Nick in fact has done a video with myself on his channel and so, the link will be below
in the description of this video and it’ll also be at the end of this video, as well.
So, I want to thank you again Nick for revealing the steps you took to get to your first 1,000
subscribers because that is probably one of the toughest things to do on YouTube today.
N: My pleasure David.
Thanks for having me on.
I really appreciate it. D:
You're very welcome.
Ok.
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Thank you for watching this video all the way to the end.
My name is David Walsh, gluten and sugar free.