What motivated me to start my YouTube channel?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\nHonestly, it really came down to a combination of being in lockdown last year to also having just this itch to want to exercise my creative muscles. And this was something that was really hard when everything was shut down. And so it was something that I turned to YouTube for because for years, I had considered making a channel, but I’d never actually taken action. So I finally said upon doing so and trying to answer all the common questions that I had thought of when I was first learning digital marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We’re at an exciting time period in which I really think the creator economy is growing exponentially and that anyone can be a creator if they so choose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. What are my goals for YouTube?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Right now, honestly, my goals are just input based. And so my next goal for YouTube is just to hit 200 quality videos within two years. And so this is something in which it really goes back to what I’ve shared in my earlier videos at my 50 video in 100 video mark, in which my goal, when I started out this channel was not a subscriber goal, but actually just to provide high quality content on a weekly basis for two solid years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So right now I’m about a year and some change into this process. And so I’m looking forward to just wrapping up those first two years and putting the work in. That said, for those that are curious, social blade thinks that I’m going to hit 10,000 subscribers by April 9th 2022. So you should check to see whether or not I actually hit that or miss that mark at that point in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. How do you speak for so long sometimes without stopping?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Honestly, this just comes down to practice coupled with some helpful and effective video editing by my editors. This is something that simply takes a little bit of time and you get a lot better at, with more repetitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After I’d done a hundred videos, I became much more comfortable in front of the camera. And then coupled with my past experiences, I grew up doing a lot of public speaking in school and in competitions and such. And so that was really helpful along with having run a team of 25 people where I was doing weekly presentations to my team. So this is something which I’m really used to and comfortable to just speaking on the cuff about different things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. Who do I look up to on YouTube?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a great question. I would say Kevin Stratvert is probably the channel that I look to emulate the most. This is because he provides high quality educational content every single week. It’s no frills and pretty much just getting straight to the point and providing value to his viewers so that they consistently know what to expect from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also doesn’t hurt that he’s an early subscriber of this channel. I think he subscribed back when I was first starting out and I was leaving some comments on his channel, but I just really value how Kevin has gone about building his channel over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And personally, I think that I would be good friends with him if we were to actually know each other in really life. Aside from just his quality of content though, something that I think relates closely to me is that he spent the bulk of his career in the tech world when I also come from the tech world as well. And so it’s just having some similarities there and seeing a career that’s a little bit further ahead of you in their YouTube journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. If you could start over, what is one thing you would do differently?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would say that I would have not necessarily made those Facebook Marketplace videos. It’s something in which I created those topics, because I thought that it was something I could speak to and start to get comfortable with making videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what I quickly realized was that you never really know which of your videos are going to hit it. And in that case, I kind of struck gold on my first few videos. And those actually became a large driver of my views. And so it led me down this rabbit hole where it had to create a ton of Facebook videos to keep the momentum there. And I didn’t necessarily feel all that passionate about that particular topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So if I were to start all over again, I would focus on just one core theme of my channel. It is something I’m still working on because personally, I struggled to talk about the same thing over and over again, but I think that that’s really what helps you build momentum on YouTube in the early days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n