- I'm gonna tell you how to be a YouTuber step-by-step,
we're gonna cover all of the important things
that you need to know and we're starting right now.
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The simple answer for how to become a YouTuber
is basically just to upload videos to YouTube,
but once you start doing it,
it gets a lot more complicated than that.
So I'm gonna take you step-by-step
through the process of the most important things to focus on
to make sure that you give yourself
the best possible chances of success.
The very first step in becoming a successful YouTuber
is planning things out and this is important
because as I'm sure you've heard,
failure to plan is planning to fail,
and that applies to YouTube as well.
So knowing what you're uploading is important
so that you know the value
that you're bringing to other people
and it's also important to know
why you want to be a YouTuber,
why you're putting out content in the first place,
what the purpose of each video
that you're uploading is to serve,
and the reason knowing all of these why's is so important
is because these whys are going to help you
make difficult decisions throughout your journey.
For example, knowing your why is going to help you know
what sponsored videos to take,
it's gonna help you know who you want to collaborate with
and really it's going to dictate the specific content
that you make as well.
And the reason knowing your why also helps
dictate the content you make
is because knowing that target viewer
that you're trying to reach becomes extremely important
when you know what it is that you're trying to achieve.
And that is so that you can consistently make content
that you like making and they like watching.
Another thing that you're going to want to do
if you are serious about becoming a YouTuber
is you're gonna wanna get your channel together.
As a viewer, it might not seem like it
but as a content creator,
there's a ton of stuff on the backend
just in terms of setting your channel up properly
that becomes really important
if you wanna get your videos out in front of more people.
I actually have a video that will show you some settings
that a lot of content creators overlook,
I'll put a link to that in the description
but it's important to know
that almost none of this stuff is automatic.
As YouTubers, the people that are uploading content
to YouTube on a regular basis,
it's up to us to design the user experience
on our channels and in our content.
So because of that, it's really important
that you have a deep understanding
of how the platform itself works
and the features that you have at your disposal.
And part of learning YouTube's features
is also learning how to identify
how people are responding to your content
which brings us to the next step.
As a YouTuber, if you really want to make it
on the platform, I can't stress enough
the importance of learning how to identify
what's working on your channel
based on data and not emotion.
Look, I get it, as creative people,
it's really easy for us to get attached
to what it is that we create and we think it's awesome
just because we were the ones that made it,
but at the end of the day,
if you want to be a successful YouTuber,
it's important that you remove that attachment
and that you rely on data.
And don't get me wrong here,
trusting your gut is extremely important
because you want to make sure that you're doing something
that you enjoy as well but at the end of the day,
if you're not using the data that YouTube gives you
and you're not making those micro adjustments
to make people respond to your content in a better way,
YouTube's not gonna show your videos to people
if they're not getting that response.
Knowing that, it's crazy to not look in your stats
and not learn how to create a better experience
for your viewers so that you can get better results
and more eyeballs on what it is that you're doing.
So just like successful YouTubers do,
you as somebody that's coming in
and trying to learn how to be a YouTuber,
you have to make sure that you are learning
how to use those statistics to your advantage
so that you can get your videos in front of more people
which is gonna help you have more success here on YouTube.
Another thing that's extremely important
if you want to be a YouTuber at least long term,
you know, if you wanna do something
to where you can actually sustain it
for a long period of time,
it's important that you also learn how to make money
from what it is that you're doing.
And regardless of what some people might say,
I'm telling you right now that it is perfectly okay
if you want to make money from uploading content to YouTube.
I mean, all of the gear, the lights, the cameras,
the monitors, the sound equipment, the microphones,
the time that you spend, you know, it all comes at a cost.
You're always paying for it in one way or another.
I mean of course, you can make videos on your phone
and you can just do it with that
but when the time comes that you want to upgrade
to a new phone, or you want to get that new DSLR,
or you want to get some lights or a microphone or something,
wouldn't it be great to have your YouTube efforts
pay for that instead of having to come out of pocket for it
or if you want to go to VidSummit
or another YouTube related event,
wouldn't it be great to have your YouTube efforts
just cover that cost?
YouTubers, successful ones at least,
that's one of the things that we do
in order to make sure that we're gonna be able
to do this for a long period of time.
So as part of your planning process
that we mentioned in step number one,
you want to also try to work in different ways
that you're gonna be able to make money
from the content that you're making because if you go ahead
and you start applying that from the start,
then once you get that ball rolling
and once you start generating some momentum on your channel,
then you're gonna be able to start doing this full-time
or at least having YouTube pay
for some of your stuff a lot faster.
The next really important step
of becoming a successful YouTuber
is investing some of your time into your channel
and by that I don't mean the actual channel itself
or the actual layout itself, what I mean is this.
Education, learning how YouTube works
so that you can get the best results out of it
and staying up with what's actually happening on YouTube
so that you can make sure that you can duck and move
wherever it is that you need to,
developing your production skills, that is also important
because when you're first getting started,
there's gonna be a huge learning curve so because of that,
even when you start putting out videos
and you think you know what you're doing,
there's probably gonna be a really good chance
unless you have you know experience
with working with cameras and all that,
there's gonna be a really good chance
that even though you might think
that everything's dialed in at first,
that if you watch those videos six months later,
you're gonna be like, "Oh my gosh,
"why did I even do it that way?"
So learning the production side of things
is extremely important as well as learning
how to do some graphic design
because you're gonna be making thumbnails,
you're gonna be making video graphics,
you're gonna be making channel art and all that stuff,
so because of that it's really important
to make sure that you educate yourself
on how to do all this.
And most importantly,
something that you have to make sure that you do
if you really want to have success on YouTube
is dedicate a certain amount of time to it every week
or every day depending on what your time allows for,
but dedicate the time to it.
Here's why, if you're not dedicating time to it,
then there's a really good chance
that other things in life are gonna end up taking priority
but if you really, really in your core,
if you're like, "Hey, this is something that I want to do
"because I think the lifestyle is cool,
"I've got a message that I want to share,
"I have information I want to get out there,
"I want to entertain people,
"I have goals I want to accomplish,
"and YouTube's gonna help me do that,"
if you feel that way, then dedicating the time
to actually make all of that stuff happen is critical.
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Now if we want to loop this back around
into step number one,
make sure that you watch this video right here
on planning your content
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Thank you so much for watching, I'll see you next time.