These online celebrities had to put in days, months and even years of work before making any money from this.
These millionaire YouTubers didn’t start creating videos because of the money, they did it because they enjoyed it.
The reality is that you will not be able to keep up creating content unless you love doing it.
Believe me, I’ve been there.
I was able to grow my channel extremely fast—probably faster than 99% of new YouTubers—and that’s awesome.
But sadly, I’ve realized that I don’t enjoy creating those kinds of videos like I thought I would.
Same thing might happen to you, so you need to ask yourself why do you want to start a YouTube channel?
You are NOT made for YouTube if these apply to you:
You want to become worldwide famous with your videos
You only care about making money on YouTube
You are not willing to put in hours of work while not getting paid for it
In my case, I thought I would be happy if I could make just enough money to cover my living expenses from making videos playing video games.
Sadly, having to play the same game for the entire day got a bit old for me.
Having to entertain people the whole time I'm playing while making sure I'm not running into recording problems was not what I enjoyed about video games.
Generally, you should do fine if you have a bright home and film during the day, but owning a lighting kit will allow you to record under any natural light condition.
Also, lighting kits are pretty affordable on Amazon---way more affordable than a good camera.
So you will not only get more practice, but also your channel is going to get promoted to more people by the algorithm.
5) Learn YouTube SEO
If you want to grow your channel, you will need to learn what works and what doesn't work for YouTube.
What is YouTube SEO?
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is about making your content easier to be discovered by search engines and the people looking for content through them.
Remember that YouTube is a search engine that searches videos for people to watch.
The YouTube algorithm is what decides what videos are worth recommending to people on their site.
The algorithm can be your best friend or your worst enemy.
You really need to know how YouTube decides what content to promote on their website, and make your videos appeal to that.
You need to know:
How to title your videos to attract more viewers
How to encourage comments and likes on your videos
Use the right amount of tags so you don't confuse the algorithm
How to use your thumbnails to increase CTR
How to make people watch more of your videos
A lot more...
To help you with this, use VidIq. It's a free Chrome extension that will help you have better SEO.
Learn well what works and what doesn't, and you will get thousands of new viewers while you sleep.
Conclusion
You first need to make sure you want to become a YouTuber for the right reasons, or else you will end up wasting a lot of time.
You don't do this for the money or the fame, you do it because you enjoy it.
If you don't get this right, you will not get anywhere.
After that, you can start thinking about what you want to talk about in your videos.
Be specific with your subject, and start planning all the videos that you can make around that subject.
Help people achieve things, solve problems or inspire them. This is how you'll attract new viewers to your videos and turn them into subscribers.
Get ready to start recording with the right equipment; remember that your camera is not the most important gear you need. Microphone and lighting will make the biggest difference.
Do not spend a lot of money on gear from the beginning.
After you start recording and getting better at making good videos, and you know that you'll love doing this for a long time, start learning more about YouTube SEO and get better equipment.
Applying this knowledge will make YouTube recommend your videos to more people effortlessly.
The more views you attract, the more fans you'll earn and the more money you'll get.
Eventually, you will be able to make it a full-time activity if you want it.
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Will is the founder of VloggerPro. He's a YouTube Certified partner and has been reviewing equipment and teaching others how to grow and generate real income on YouTube for the last 5 years.
Nice article! Being a YouTUber huh.. Kind of my goal I guess 😉 and I’ve finally started putting out content, but I need to be doing it more regularly – guilty!
I’m putting out content around health and fitness and psychology, my big passions. Choose what you like to talk about naturally and you have a big head start!
This is an incredibly helpful article. I’m an elementary school librarian whose students asked that I start a YouTube channel to continue sharing stories with them during this covid time that we are apart. I’m starting from absolute scratch and know nothing about posting content, nor do I know much about this platform at all (aside from a cat video now and then). I just want to be a familiar face to my students as we are missing each other.
What I’m trying to figure out right now is how to name my channel. I don’t want my first and last name posted. I see videos posted by Yoga with Adriene or The Pet Collective or NPR Music. Could you tell me how to do that?
Also, You don’t need any fancy camera. You can start using your smartphone or webcam. The key is to have good lighting. See this article that teaches about good lighting for youtube https://vloggerpro.com/best-lighting-youtube-videos/ 🙂
My brother and I are wanting to become YouTubers. We like what YouTubers do when we see these people’s lives and how they’re so comfortable showing us their daily things, we know we’re the same way. We’ve been trying to start a channel for some time. We’re not sure where exactly to start, somedays we have tons of ideas and others just nothing (lol). We’ll see how we do but if you have any more tips or comments please let me know. Thanks so much for this page.