In April of this year, I started posting weekly videos on Youtube.
Over 1,400 subscribers later, I was able to monetize my channel.
Here are some lessons I learned (Thread)
Start with a narrow niche
Until I started making tutorials on Roam Research, I had no traction. For an entire month, I put out two Roam tutorials/week and finally was gaining some traction.
Look for ideas everywhere
I would search Reddit and the Roam Slack for questions people were asking and explain the answer to them. I would also search "Roam Research" on Twitter to see what questions people were asking.
The audience was *much* smaller in March.
Always end a video with a specific CTA
I always end my videos saying, 'if you liked this video about Roam Research, you might check out this playlist here for more tutorials or this video down here.'
This keeps people on Youtube longer and the algorithm will reward you.
You never know what's going to work
I was fresh out of ideas one week but had to get a video out. So I simply explained how I use the Reminders app on the iPhone.
That video now has over 30,000 views.
Act like a real person
If you look at any of my videos, I've responded to 99% of positive comments. Asking your audience questions can help you field more video ideas.
Plus, people like it when the person in the video responds.
Don't compare your results
When I started making Roam videos, @shuomi3 was at ~1k Subscribers. Now, he's over 10,000 and I'm at 1.44K.
It was really discouraging to see people tag Shu's videos on Slack and Twitter. Just once I was hoping someone would tag my channel.
Don't compare your results cont.
I could have let that get to me and cause me to stop making videos, or I could've leveraged it.
I saw questions people on Shu's channel were asking and used some of those for new video ideas.
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