- As a content creator, you need stuff,
you need background music, you need tools to help you
with your search engine rankings,
you need captions, you need all this stuff.
I'm gonna give you my recommendations
of the things you should be using,
and we're starting right now.
♪ That's just hot is ain't gettin' over me ♪
- What is gon' on?
My name is Nick from tubertools.com.
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Okay so like I said when this video first started,
there's some stuff that you are going to need
as a content creator, and there's gonna be some options
for you so I'm gonna give you my list
of things that I personally recommend,
the things that I personally use.
There's nothing on this list that I don't use personally
so I'm gonna give you my recommendations
on the things that you should be using
when it comes to this stuff.
The very first one on this list is TubeBuddy.
TubeBuddy is a Chrome browser extension for content creators
that will help you learn how to tag your videos,
test your thumbnails so that you can make sure
that the thumbnails that you're making
are something that people are going to click on,
and it'll tell you which ones are better.
It'll help you come up with video ideas,
it'll help you organize your video ideas,
it'll even help you identify certain phrases
that you can rank your videos for
that will be better than the phrases
that you might be going for when you're trying
to learn how to rank your videos in search.
And what I mean when I say rank your videos in search
is I mean basically when people search on YouTube
for something that your videos come up under that result.
But in addition to that, TubeBuddy has a bunch
of other additional awesome features,
but that is the growth and management tool
that I personally use, and I highly recommend TubeBuddy.
I'll put a link to them down in the description.
Next on this list is Morningfame.
Morningfame is also going to help you rank your videos
because in addition to actually taking you through
a process that helps you rank your videos,
it also trains you on the most important aspects
of trying to rank your videos as well,
so Morningfame is awesome if you wanna deeply learn
how to rank your videos in search.
Morningfame is awesome because through repetition
of using the tool, you start to gain an understanding
of how things work on YouTube,
which is awesome.
Next up is captioning for your videos.
Now when it comes to closed captioning,
some people are like, oh do I even need that?
The answer to that is yes
because we all consume content in different ways
at different times in different environments.
Maybe those environments are where we can hear
or we can't hear so because of that,
you wanna make sure that your content is accessible
to as many people as possible.
The captions that you're reading right here
are done by Rev, and I highly recommend them as well.
Also, link down in the description.
Next up is keywords everywhere.
Keywords everywhere is awesome because at a glance,
they let you see a general interest for a specific phrase
that you are considering making a video about.
Next up, and this one's specifically for iPad
or tablet users with a pencil input,
but this particular one is something
that will actually help you doodle out your content plans,
and it also has a bunch of other stuff
in terms of your keyword targets and things like that,
but it's really, really awesome.
I use this to plan my content as well,
and I actually created it so make sure
that you check this out down in the description below.
It's called padplanit.com.
And that's P-L-A-N-I-T.
For background music, Epidemic Sound is what you wanna use.
I'll put a link to a review I made of Epidemic Sound
right here so you can check that out,
but Epidemic Sound is awesome.
They have all types of different music,
and you can actually cut out certain parts
of the song that you don't like and things like that.
It's just incredible.
Epidemic Sound is the place
for music for your videos.
Next up, you gotta make thumbnails, right?
If you don't have Photoshop, which is the one
that I really recommend, but if you don't have Photoshop,
I recommend that you use Canva
because Canva has some really, really good options in it
in terms of templates and things like that,
so if you don't have design experience,
Canva will help you make thumbnails that don't suck.
If you are into live streaming, Stream Labs OBS is awesome,
that's what we use to run our live show
every single Saturday at 9 a.m. Eastern.
I hope to see you there.
But in addition to the actual software itself
that will help you make awesome live streams,
they also have a website builder and stuff like that,
really, really cool stuff for live streamers
and content creators in general at Stream Labs.
Now, if you have an established channel
and you're going on YouTube
and people are diggin' your stuff
and you're puttin' out videos
and you're thinkin' to yourself, you know what,
I could probably make some exclusive content
that my viewers would really love,
then you need to check out YouScreen
because with YouScreen, one,
it's kind of like your own YouTube,
or your own Netflix really,
to where you can send people there
and then they can pay a monthly fee
and within that monthly fee,
they get access to all of the stuff
that you put inside of it, it's awesome.
Now of course you wanna make sure
that you have the right type of content for that
but if you just check out their website,
you'll quickly be able to identify if you do or not
or you'll just be able to contact them
if you have any questions.
Next up is tubertools.com.
This is another one of my projects.
With tubertools.com, we've got video graphics inside
and a bunch of other really cool stuff for content creators
so tubertools.com, you can actually get stuff on the front
to where you just get one thing at a time
or we actually have a membership
to where you can get everything plus more.
Next up for social media automation and management,
I recommend Agorapulse and the reason that this is cool
is it actually lets you just schedule out stuff like crazy
so let's say that you put out a video today.
Well you can actually schedule that video to be posted
on Twitter every so often.
You can say, okay I'm gonna post this next week,
and then I'm gonna post it the following week
and then three weeks from now,
but you can schedule it all out
to where you constantly have videos going out onto Twitter
even if they're not the videos that you're making right now
so you can just go ahead and schedule everything out
which is pretty cool.
In addition to that, they also have a really cool feature
where instead of just putting the link out there
on Twitter to where people can actually watch it
on Twitter but not come onto YouTube for it,
they actually have an option to where you can check
a little box and it'll showy our thumbnail image instead.
So basically what happens there
is they have to actually click that link
and come on to YouTube and start their session
on YouTube on your channel and your video
which is something that is really good for you on YouTube.
If you have tools that you recommend,
please bring them to my attention
and let me know down in the comments below.
I have an entire playlist where you can actually see some
of these tools in action and see how they work
and find out more information about 'em right here
so you can go ahead and click that,
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Thank you so much for watching.
I'll see you next time.