As a YouTube creator, it's very easy
to start feeling burned out after a little while, maybe
because you're not seeing the results
that you want to get or you have just been doing this
for so long that the kind of creative passion and fuel
that used to energize this whole thing has kind of dissipated.
Today let's talk about five ways that you can reignite
that passion and get the energy back
so you can continue to push through the burnout
on your channel.
Hey guys, my name is Tim Schmoyer
and welcome to Video Creators.
The channel is all about helping you guys grow your YouTube
audiences so that you can reach people
and spread a message that impacts and changes
their lives.
So it's really hard impact to change people's lives
if the content you're making on YouTube
starts to become stale and stagnant and less motivating
for you.
The great question from Elizabeth Cooper
from a private Facebook group that I am a part of,
and she asked, After spending a ton of time and effort
over the past 6 months on my channel,
I can feel burnout starting to set in.
I've been putting out two videos a week this year,
and suddenly I find myself at a point
where all the motivation and excitement has vanished.
I need to film a video today so I can stick to my schedule
and post tomorrow, but I'd seriously rather scrub toilets
or have a root canal.
So what do I do?
Anyone else struggle with this in regard to their channel?
How do you push through it?
Take a break?
I'm not sure how to do that without disappointing people
who are waiting for the next video.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Tim, I love your take since you've
been doing this for a while, and I'm
sure you must have dealt with burnout a time or two.
Thanks.
Yes, I certainly have.
In fact, last year we had a few videos
talking about the dip on YouTube,
and how do you push through that and everything.
So go check those videos out.
Links are below.
Let me give you five ideas for your specific situation,
Elizabeth, that might help you push through that.
Number one is yes, give yourself a break.
Maybe just make a quick video update, post it
to your channel, letting people know
that you are taking a break, you're taking some time off,
but that you'll be back.
I would say probably take no longer than a month
or so, and use it as an opportunity to maybe push
people to follow you in your other social profiles
like Instagram and Snapchat, or maybe your Facebook page
or whatever the case may be, where it is easier for you
to interact.
You're doing that more naturally throughout the week anyway.
A second idea for you is to shoot and edit
all of your videos in batch.
This is what I do here on Video Creators, actually.
So instead of sitting down multiple times a week
and shooting and editing, just sit down once,
draft ideas for all your content for the month,
then sit down and shoot all them for the month
in front of the camera.
Then sit down and edit all of them.
And so rather than just taking a couple hours
throughout the week, just sit down, maybe take a day or two
every month, and just crank it all out.
Then you can upload all those videos,
schedule them to publish at the appropriate time on YouTube,
and then just check back, in reply to comments,
and promote the videos and do all those types of things.
Number three, instead of publishing two videos a week
as you're currently doing, Elizabeth,
maybe consider just doing one video week
if that would be more manageable for you going forward
with your channel.
I know for me at Video Creators a year
or two ago, I was publishing three videos every week,
but as fun as that was, as much as I loved
the creative side, the interaction and all that, it
ultimately became unsustainable for the channel
because I didn't then have the time I needed to develop
the business side of this channel that ultimately would
make the three videos a week sustainable in the first place.
So here, I've since cut back to one video, sometimes two.
I'll throw an extra one in once in a while.
Number four, maybe also consider cutting back
on some of the production side of your videos.
So for example, right here I have a place
that's just set up, which I've given a behind the scenes
look at all this for my patrons, a total behind the scenes tour.
Thank you, guys, who are supporting this on Patreon
and making all this happen.
Link to that below if you want to check it out.
But have a setup that you can just come, sit down, shoot,
and be done.
Like, you don't have to set up lights and cameras
and microphones and backdrops and everything over and over
again.
Figure out a system you can put in place
that makes it easy for you to just be able to quickly crank
out content.
Maybe another idea for that would
be if you're doing a lot of highly produced stuff,
or you're just doing a lot of takes,
you're doing a lot of cuts and stuff,
like, you've already seen me leave a few of my mistakes
in this video.
I go back and change my words a little bit.
That's fine.
You guys didn't think anything of that.
In fact, it makes you feel like a little bit more human.
Or maybe instead of doing lots of cuts, maybe just
do, like, one take, you know?
Instead of setting up all these different camera angles
and stuff, just one take and do it blog style,
and that's what I got time for today.
So your audience is probably very
forgiving of that assuming that you're still delivering
the same type of value.
The overall goal of that is to spend less time
setting up, editing, tearing down, cutting cameras together,
editing-- everything.
Just find ways to streamline your process.
And number five, consider keeping a few videos
ready to go on your channel, just keeping them private there
for that time when you just have a crazy week
and you still want to be consistent on your schedule,
on your channel, but you just don't have the time
to publish something.
Well, if you have a few videos all ready
to go as backups in the can, private on your Facebook
channel, then when that time comes, all you have to do
is just pull one of those out of your back pocket
so to speak, and set it to public,
and give yourself some breathing room.
So work with some buffer.
Don't just always work up to the deadline
for every single video.
Maybe try to stay, like, two or three videos ahead
so you have more wiggle room there.
The cool thing about this community
here at Video Creators, though, is I know a lot of you
guys have been in a very similar situation as this,
so I really want you guys to share
your feedback and your advice below on this topic
in the comments below.
And the rest of you, if you are kind of experiencing burnout
or you want ideas of how to better systematize
your process, how to save time, any of those things,
read what other people are leaving in the comments
down there.
I know you will learn a lot from them, as I always do.
Thank you guys for helping each other out here on these videos
every single week.
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So thank you for letting me be a small part of that.
Subscribe, and I'll see you guys again next Thursday
for another YouTube tip.
See you then.
Bye.