Do you have one piece of advice for any
YouTuber starting out their journey
today? Expect to suck. Hello today we are
here with Evan Carmichael. What's
your channel how many subscribers do you
have? It's my name Evan Carmichael
and we're at 1.3 million. Awesome,
congratulations.
Do you have one piece of advice for any
YouTuber starting out their journey
today. Expect to suck, which is good.
A lot of people who are starting on
YouTube have YouTube heroes, you have
channels, you look up to them and say I could
do something like that and then you try
and you don't. Your first video will suck
and that's okay because you only suck
right now. Like with anything the
quantity leads to the quality: the more
you do the better you will get at doing
that thing and so expect to suck at the
very beginning. I made 350 videos before
I was not completely embarrassed by my
content. In 350 videos I would watch and
be just totally embarrassed I thought
this sucks but I still put it up.I was
embarrassed by it most people give up
after one video or three videos or five
videos, they don't just keep going.
You will suck at the
beginning that's okay that's great, the
celebration isn't in the quality of the
content it's in the momentum that you're
building and so just keep going, make
another one, make another one, make
another one, be better than you were
yesterday and if you keep going
eventually you'll succeed.
Can you just extrapolate that in your
channel because I think some of the
viewers will be astonished to know how
many videos you create on a regular
basis. Yeah and listen I had no talent at
the beginning I don't have a natural
gift for this. I'm an introverted person
which doesn't come across in these
interviews and in my videos which took
me a long time to get better. I think a
lot of you watching have a lot more
natural talent and will get there faster than
I did. I make three videos a day, we've
done six thousand videos. Not all of them
are public on the channel not six
thousand videos. There's a lot of work
right and so if you are doing something
6,000 times you will just get better at
it. You get better, get better at it if you
try doing anything 6,000 times so the
quantity will lead to the quality. The
more you practice at anything,
the more you practice piano the better
you're going to get at it. You'll just
sit at the piano and and play a, amazing
piece,
you practice, you practice, you practice
you practice, you practice, you put in the
reps. You do it 26 times, every single
time, every take 26 times and then you
post it. Last question,
we're a big analytics company of course
we're interested in numbers
what's the analytic that excites you
most on YouTube, what do you look for
every day to improve your content. So
if you're making a lot of content
then what to do is look at different
series. So maybe one series is you
ranting in the bathroom, in another
series you walk the dog, another
series is giving your opinion on
something. Start looking at each series
and the two pieces of data that
we really pay the most attention to is
one watch time because that's what
YouTube really cares about.
So is this series generating watchtime
higher than average for our channel and
if not how do we improve it. And two:
subscriber growth. Ss this series leading
to subscriber growth for my channel? I
don't want to be creating a series that
is losing growth unless it's for a
strategic purpose. Like if you made a
series pitching your new book you'll
probably lose subscribers for that video
for that series but you get gains
somewhere else and that you're selling a
book but if you're doing a bathroom rant
and you think it's a good video when
you're losing subscribers because of it
you might want to adjust it. Either how
do I make this bit, how do I make this
series better so that we're bringing
subscribers in or kill this series move
on to something else. And that's Evan
Carmichael. Thank you very much
Well it looks as if you're not
compatible with such a device so you
would just have to remain a medium size
influencer... can you help me out here you
Gotta learn to make better videos, man.
Where were we?
Then that happened.
What was my question?