Hey you guys, welcome to this video where we're gonna talk about getting your
first thousand subscribers in a week. Now you may be thinking "In a week? Come
on Marissa, is that even realistic?" Yes! Absolutely it is! Back when I first
started, I personally wasn't able to do it but I've seen several of my students
able to do it. Not only that, if you keep going hard at the strategies that I'm
going to teach you in this video, your growth is gonna keep compounding and
compounding and eventually you'll be getting a thousand subscribers within a
month, then 10,000 subscribers within a month, and then eventually you will work
up to a thousand subscribers in a day. So if you're super pumped about getting
your first thousand subscribers comment in the description a thousand subs.
Getting a thousand subscribers is super exciting because for a youtuber it really
does mean that you've made it. You've proven to yourself that you can do it
and that you're well on your way to 10,000, 50,000 and beyond. Alright, so if
you want to know what's on today's agenda the first thing we're gonna talk
about is external resources, the second thing we're gonna talk about is the
title, the third thing we're going to talk about is the thumbnail, and the
fourth thing we're gonna talk about is launching with a bang, I mean bang! And
don't forget after this video to download the subscribers to sales
blueprint which you could download here or in the link in the description and
the subscribers to sales blueprint is the six steps that I teach to having a
wildly profitable six-figure youtube channel for your business. Okay, so as
promised, the first thing that we are going to talk about is external
resources. Now why are external resources so important? The reason is because
YouTube loves when it sees the YouTube links on other platforms, when it sees it
on you know Instagram, Facebook the more external links that you could put
outside and get off of YouTube, the better. So now let's take a look at the
best external resource growth strategies. So the first free method we're talking
about that'll help grow your channel to the first thousand subscribers is, rhymes
with brick and with clock, and you guessed it that's Tik Tok. Yes, I just
started- well okay, not just- I started a few months ago haven't really
done with anything with it but I plan to for sure. And why do I say this? Because
there's 800 million monthly active users worldwide. It has
the most downloads, I think like 33 million downloads, which is the most in
the Apple Store and, on average, Tik Tok users use the app 52 minutes per day.
That's almost an hour! That's a long time, my partner watches Tik Tok forever,
more than that probably, like two hours. But the point is one of my creator
friends named Delania, she did an experiment recently where she wanted to
grow her Tik Tok and see how viral she could go and she ended up growing to
10,000 followers on Tik Tok within three weeks, not kidding. This is all
organic because you can't pay for growth on Tik Tok right now but that is how
explosive the virality is on the app and how fast it is growing and how fast you
can go viral on the app, so that is why I am hopping on Tik Tok right now. No I'm
not a 19 year old teenager, and no I'm not funny, but that's not keeping me from
learning the platform and learning how to drive even more traffic to my youtube
channel. And so with Tik Tok there's only two
links you can put and have in the description and that is your Instagram
and the other one is, yes you guessed it, YouTube. So Tik Tok, think of it as a
giant traffic source that is going viral right now
where you can promote your YouTube channel for free and help get those
first thousand subscribers fast. The next free method to promote your new youtube
channel is to do collaborations and this is a very excellent way to cross-promote
each other's audiences and YouTube channels and social medias because
you're leveraging someone else's audience who, probably, will be interested
in subscribing to your channel and viewing your content. So this is a method
that will never go away, it's very helpful at all stages of your online
business, I still do collaborations, and so the way
it works is you would contact another creator by email, by phone number, or
maybe you know other creators in your market or industry or niche that would
be willing to do a collab video. So the way it would work is you would do a
video on their channel and vice versa and then you would cross promote the videos
on each other's channel so that way you would grow faster because the more
outside views, meaning links outside of YouTube and with other outside sources
that your video has, the algorithms like "Oh, this video must be popular let's
promote it even more," so this is how you get more exposure to your YouTube videos
very simply. And it's really nice because that creator gets value from your
audience and vice-versa, so it's something I highly recommend you start
doing now and also in the future as you're growing your YouTube channel, your
online presence, your online brand, etc, etc. The fourth thing that we're talking
about today is Facebook groups. So there's so many Facebook groups and
every single day new Facebook groups are created.
So the key with this is you want to find a Facebook group within your niche that's really specific
with the content you're delivering on your channel and the problem you're
trying to solve so you don't want to be spammy, going to the group and start
posting links every single day, that's not the way it works. But the way
it would work is you would go into a Facebook group, get to know the people in
there, and start answering questions about different things that they ask in
the group and then you can say "Oh, by the way, if you want to message me I
can give you a video that explains exactly this," and then you could connect
with them in messenger and send them different YouTube videos and they'll
subscribe to your channel. they'll like your videos. and they'll say "Hey,
this is really good," then they'll start recommending you to other people and
then their friends will recommend you to their friends by word of mouth, it keeps
growing like that. So the great thing about Facebook groups is also you get to
learn more about your audience and what pain points you are trying to solve by what
questions they're asking. So it's really a win-win because you get to grow your
channel and you get to learn more about your audience. And so the same thing
applies with also Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, Quora, any other social media that
you have, you want to take advantage of any audience that you have even if you
only have 100 Instagram followers and you think that's too little. Definitely
put your youtube links in the bio because those are clicks that you're
missing out on. I had a student
who had a super large linkedin network and it was super cool because he was
promoting his new YouTube videos on his new channel and he got to his first 50
subscribers super fast, I think within a week, because that audience on LinkedIn
was really interested in what he was teaching on his channel. So one more
thing that I would like to mention about external resources is what you could do
is look for other blogs that are in your niche. For example, if you're
talking about veganism on your YouTube channel and recipes and stuff, find a
popular blog that has the same type of content and if they don't have videos
say "Hey, would you mind posting my YouTube video, and I could include your
blog on my youtube channel, I expect X amount of growth in the next
month," so that's another idea for external resources that you can do and I
know you might be thinking "Man, this is a lot of work," yes it is a lot of work and
that's what's gonna set you apart from other creators who aren't doing that
work. I promise if you lay the groundwork from the beginning and you set up all of
these things first you're going to soar and grow fast and it's going to separate
you from all the other millions of creators out there. Alright, so the second
thing you really need to pay attention to to get your first 1,000 subscribers
in a week is the title. The title is super, super, super important I can't
stress this enough, and in the beginning a lot of new tubers make this mistake of
having really bad titles. Titles that have no keywords in it, they don't really
give a preview of what the video is about, so you really want to take a step
back and do your research with titles for the first 10 to 15 videos that you
plan on making with your channel. Trust me, planning ahead of what the titles are
gonna be is very, very good for planning on your channel and to getting ahead of
the content that you know you're going to make because if you have a plan your
workflow is going to be that much faster. So my favorite tool to pick really good
titles is Tubenuddy and if you do decide to use Tubebuddy as a tool I have a
discount code in the description for 20% off, but the important thing about
Tubebuddy is that it gives you a lot of great tools to work with, it gives you
the search volume per month, the competition, the keyword rating, and also
suggested tags and keywords that you could use as well. So Tubebuddy is a very
powerful tool and I suggest that as you're looking for titles, make sure that
your looking it up. If you're talking about
vegans who want to build muscle you can start off with searching something like
"How to gain muscle for vegan diets," or something like that and it'll give you a
rating of poor through excellent and then from there you can start to narrow
down, okay, well if that's like only fair how can I make it good? So maybe you type
in "how to build muscle with being a vegan for beginners" so the more long tail
the keyword is, long tail meaning just the longer the keyword search phrase is,
so short tail is like "weight loss" and long tail is like "how to build muscle
for vegans for beginners," so it's much longer and those are the types of
phrases that people are going to be putting in the search engine. Alright, so
coming in at number three for gaining 1,000 subscribers is your thumbnail. I
can't express enough how important your thumbnail is. Titles and thumbnails
are like just- pay attention to them. If anything just make sure you have a good
title and a really good thumbnail and you are off to an amazing start
then over like 90% of new youtubers out there, I promise.
So we're just gonna talk about some like thumbnail anatomy and good practices and
the first thing is you want to have a close image of your face. And the reason
why you want to do that is because it's statistically proven, I've done like
statistics tests on this, trust me, that a closer up image of the face or
the object or whatever it is you're talking about in your video, maybe you're
talking about food, so a close-up image of the hamburger, a close-up image of
your muscles if you're flexing, your abs, something that's going to show and
spark emotion in the thumbnail. So a close-up face is really important. The
other thing is the title on the thumbnail, you don't want to put
your entire video title on the thumbnail. So you don't want to put "how to build
vegan muscle for vegans for beginners," you don't want to put that all in your
thumbnail, that's bad. I think no one on mobile is gonna click on that
title, it's too many words. Instead you want to have maximum three to four
words and the title of the thumbnails really want to spark curiosity or have
like a powerful statement. So instead of having the whole vegan title you want to
have something like "secret to vegan muscle" and so if I'm a vegan
and I want to build muscle, hey, I want to know the secrets to building
muscle and being vegan that's really cool. So something that's going to
spark curiosity and also make sure the branding of your thumbnails are on point
because you don't want to have a bright yellow and then a lime green and then
next week dark purple. Stick with your brand colors for your thumbnails,
you want them to look consistent. When people arrive on your channel
you want it to speak your brand. You don't want it to be so different and
people can't understand your brand. So make sure the branding is on point so
let's take a look at some examples of my thumbnails that have performed really
well. So a while back I talked about this thumbnail right here which is all about
me being hacked and deleted on YouTube, but I wanted to bring this up because it
meets the criteria of everything I talked about. I researched the
competition on other hacked and deleted thumbnails and they had like kind of
this shocked look and they had like the matrix numbers going on and I said "Okay,
so how can I take those high converting thumbnails that are already out on
YouTube and twist it, modify it, and make it my own version?" So that's what I came
up with. Hacked and deleted, my face (ahh!) and my graphic
designer added the the little tears coming down, so that thumbnail performed
really well. This other one "How to promote your YouTube channel for free"
this one performed well because the title on the thumbnail sparked curiosity
and also the colors are bright. Bright colors do well, and my brand colors are a
lot of teals and blues, it's kind of like a gradient of blue so I'm able to use
those brighter blue colors and teals in my thumbnail so that's why it performed
well. Alright, so moving on to method number four in gaining a thousand
subscribers fast is to launch your channel with a bang and don't worry if
you've already launched your channel and you're still looking to grow, you can do
this again. And the idea is on top of using all the external resources that we
talked about earlier in this video, you want to really go hard with promoting
that first video that comes out on YouTube. So this is exactly what I did
when I wanted to promote my hacked and deleted video and get the word out about
my channel being hacked and, most importantly, cyber security and cyber
crimes and people protecting their channel online. So what I did is I asked
people to promote my video. I'm like "Hey, this video is really important to me,
this is the message I'm trying to get
out there, here's who I'm trying to
serve," and they were like "Yeah, we'll support you!" And my dad promoted
it to his co-workers, my sister promoted it to her lab mates, and other
influencers help me promote that video and you can do the same thing. You have
people that would be happy to help you promote your new YouTube channel,
especially if you come across like "I'm building this audience, and here
is who I want to help, and I want to get my message out there," and explain why and
people will gladly promote your channel and just think like the co-workers that
my dad shared my video with, they liked it and they were like "Wow, great video
Marissa!" Like "Ah!" Because I've known them since I was a kid, but imagine
they share with someone, and that person shares with somebody else, that's how you
get that extra traction, those subscribers, and the views really, really,
really fast. And if you're thinking "Oh, like, okay my family could do it, but
I don't really have a big network," well of course, you probably don't. I had
no network when I started, but I was a part of communities that I was
interested in. In the beginning of my online journey I did ecommerce, right? So
I was a part of a bunch of Facebook groups in e-comm and a couple of
masterminds even though I had no list, I had no following, I was a part of
communities that I was interested in. So I would assume you are too if you're a
part of Reddit, Facebook groups, really leverage the communities that you are a
part of right now. And so the whole point of all of these things is you should
definitely do it in the beginning of starting your channel but if you keep
doing it your videos are going to do extremely well. You know why? Because
doing these methods are going to help your videos show up in suggested videos
on this side and when your video starts getting suggested and promoted by
YouTube, it is game over. YouTube will help you promote your videos so
much and no extra effort at your cost. That's why it is super important to
leverage external links and resources and to launch your channel with a bang.
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