okay guys so in this video we're gonna talk to Nate O'Brien who's only 20
years old. He has a 39,000 subscriber YouTube channel and Nate we were just
talking a second ago- your growth rate- it took you how long get to 39,000?
Nate: About 16 to 18 months I'd say. Eric: okay got it, and so what is your channel
about? So his channel is literally called Nate O'Brien.
Nate: yeah it's it's just my name
Eric: So what was so special about your channel- what was
kind of the impetus for the growth to get you there?
Nate: Okay first things first, when
you're starting a channel you know I think for the first probably almost two
months I had less than 100 subscribers and I didn't even tell anybody about my
channel because I didn't want people finding out. I'd tell my family so you know
it was it was pretty difficult to get the ball rolling like the first couple
hundred subscribers is by far the most difficult and then once you get those
they start sharing it with the friends it starts popping up in search results
and ever since then it's just been growing faster and faster cool so it
sounds like what I'm hearing is patience yeah definitely some patience you know
if you're making videos for six months and you're not getting much growth at
all you might want to just take a step back a little bit and just kind of do a
deep like analyzing of what's going on because sometimes you know people will
think they just need patience and they'll do it for two years and maybe
it's a market that's so small it's a niche that's so small that like they
can't grow much further than that I'm assuming you're just looking at the
YouTube analytics and you're looking at what's performing what is it yeah and
and if you're looking at it and you're seeing that people are watching your
video for you know 30 seconds and they're clicking off then maybe there's
a reason for that and you know today in 2018 YouTube analytics are so in-depth
you can learn so much from them and you know I try not to spend too much time
looking at analytics because sometimes you can get wrapped up in that and
you're checking into every 20 minutes looking at it but I do think that yeah
if you're not seeing that growth after I would say give it a couple months and be
active about it reach out to people don't spam people with trying to get
those initial subscribers you know you can reach out on like blogs you can
comment on other channels and leave them some valuable feedback or you know you
might want to say hey I made a video pretty similar really like yours you
know but don't don't spam them that type of okay and so for your
channel what what are you known for what's special about Nate
so I help people take control of their finances so that's something that I've
always just loved to do ever since I was little I've always just liked money I
think everybody likes money but I really like money and so I thought you know
what better than to just turn on the camera and help people become
financially independent because I think in today's society you know you can
learn everything about art and science and everything in history in school but
the one thing that they almost always skip out on especially in high school is
personal finance and you see I think credit card debt is almost a trillion
dollars student loan debts over 1.3 1.4 trillion dollars in the US and I think a
lot of people are struggling with that so I created the channel just to sort of
help people out and kind of just share my ideas it's certainly fun but it's
also just something that you know I just enjoy got it that's interesting so
you're 20 years old right so are you helping people that are around your age
or are older people also readers much gusto I mean I I get comments from
eighty year old people and you know interesting anybody watches the videos
but generally speaking yeah it's it's anywhere between 18 and 30 I'd say got
it and so you've grown I mean I'm trying to think from like let's say I'm 20
years old I want to sort of YouTube channel is it one video that in
particular shot you off or like was it a series like what happened exactly okay
so that's a really good question um so there's a couple of things you can do
for this but usually what I would kind of suggest doing is you want to just
kind of put out videos and then one of them and you don't really know which one
it's going to be but one of them will stick and it'll start generating views
and then you know a rising tide raises all boats that's what the quote is and
so you know once that video starts doing well all of your other videos will
generally pick up as well if you're trying to get some initial views there's
there's two things you can do one thing is that you can I don't know if there's
a word for it but you can make a video about somebody else who's already pretty
popular so like you can make a video about you know Eric sue or make a video
about Gary Vaynerchuk or or talk about them and and that will generally bring
yourself up in the search results for that something else you can do is
something that's pretty time specific so if there's you know
News event or something that's pretty current you can make a video on that and
it won't be evergreen content like it'll probably you know die out after a week
or two but it's a great way for people searching that you know if there's only
five videos on the topic because something just happened today and you
made a video about it today that's a great way to get some initial traffic on
your channel great that's perfect so Nate what's the best way for people to
find you online while they can just go onto YouTube actually and just look at
Nate O'Brien I only have a youtube channel at the moment I'm probably
enough to branch out a little bit you can also follow me on Instagram
it's just Nate O'Brien as well but with two ends at the end alright so that's it
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