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Today, we're going to go over eight mistakes that new creators make, that if you make any one of these

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mistakes, too, it will completely kill your YouTube channel.

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So the first one that I see a lot of new creators making is they're dropping their links.

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And just kind of it makes sense when you're first starting out to you know, you want to drop links

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just wherever you can.

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You want to get traffic.

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You want to get views, you want to get potential subscribers and just more eyes on your content.

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You don't just want to rely on the organic reach of your YouTube videos and the YouTube search.

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Right.

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It makes sense.

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Logically, the problem with that is when you drop your links in random Facebook groups to show you

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an example of some of them right here, YouTube subscribers, YouTube subscribers got forty one thousand

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people.

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It's got eighty two thousand people, YouTube buddies.

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It's got twenty four thousand twenty five, 25000 roughly people.

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It sounds good.

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And it sounds logical that, OK, why not just drop my link in one of these groups?

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So the more people see it, the more potential I have and the more potential viewers I can bring to

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my actual video.

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The issue with that is a lot of those people that frequent those groups are there for the same exact

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reason.

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And a lot of them are not going to be interested in your content.

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You spent more time initially trying to attract, even if it were a smaller amount of people, you would

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rather have 20 loyal, dedicated subscribers and viewers that care about the content that you're putting

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out.

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Then you would rather then than have a thousand that don't.

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And the reason being is because the more you want to when you're just starting out, you want to try

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to build traction.

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You want to kind of grow go up on a compound curve.

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You're looking at it like that, actually.

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And the reason being is if you can start building traction with twenty people, well, then that's going

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to turn into 25 and 30 and 50 and 100 and then a thousand dedicated people and you're going to start

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snowballing faster.

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That's why you start to see people that just start their channels.

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And in a year from now, they're hitting 100000 subscribers like that.

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It's because they built a legitimate channel and a legitimate viewer base of people that actually cared

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about the content that they were creating.

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They didn't try to go after any of those secret hacks or strategies like dropping their links in groups

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where people aren't going to actually care what that's actually going to do.

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And it's counterintuitive, I get it is YouTube is actually going to see that you're dropping these

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links in these videos and that they're not going to see that you're dropping the links.

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That's a bit you know, even YouTube can't do that.

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But they are going to see the people that come through those links, aren't watching your videos aren't

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staying, which is going to hurt your watch time.

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They're not going to care and it's really going to hurt all your metrics.

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So even if they subscribe and even if they watch for a portion of your video at all, it's actually

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going to do more detriment than you think it will.

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And it's going to do a lot more negative to your channel and to your videos than to actually is going

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to do positive.

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So that's a very, very big one.

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And that ties me to point number two here, which is why I kept this up, is, you know, dropping your

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links in these groups and doing sub for sub.

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So if you come here, it says YouTube subscribers, you'll notice that a lot of these you know, if

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you drop a link in here, people just want sub for some, sub for some.

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Sub for sub.

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Sub for some.

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So if we actually check out my most popular video, which is how to buy YouTube subscribers the right

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way, and basically that says don't buy YouTube subscribers, obviously, it basically talks about,

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you know, a lot of different ways and tactics that you can use as well.

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It's an older video, but you'll see that a lot of people in the comments suffer sub one Leykis equals

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one sub on fast sub me.

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That is the complete wrong approach if you actually really want to grow your channel.

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The reason being is a lot of those people, same with the with the dropping links, are not going to

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care.

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So even if you build up a channel of 100000 subscribers, all doing some for sub, it's a little bit

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unlikely.

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But let's just hypothetically say it was possible.

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The chances of you either buying subs or doing super sub and building a channel is completely diminished

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the moment you start doing that because you're not building up an audience that cares about your stuff.

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If you get some sub and you even get a thousand people, not only will you probably not keep those because

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YouTube does like annual purges and monthly purges of just dropping those types of accounts and deleting

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them.

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But also, even if you could keep them, it's going to completely kill your engagement metrics.

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It's the same thing on Instagram, it's the same thing on Facebook, and it's the same thing on YouTube.

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If you post the video and let's say you have a thousand subscribers, well, what YouTube is going to

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do is it's not going to suggest your video out to all thousand subscribers right off the bat.

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It's going to take maybe a hundred, maybe two hundred.

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I don't know the exact algorithm, but it's going to suggest it to a small portion of your viewers first.

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And then if it starts to gain traction and it proves itself with that the the most dedicated viewers,

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then YouTube is going to suggest it to more of your following, more of your subscribers and more outside

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That's how all the algorithms are currently working right now.

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So if you actually do some sub or drop your links, just like the first example, it's actually going

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to completely kill your metrics overall and it's going to do a lot more detriment to your channel than

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I'm not going to elaborate on that too too much, but it's very, very important.

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Don't drop your links and don't do sub for sub and please for all, add a third one there.

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Please don't buy subscribers either.

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Moving on to number three now, and that is really something that I've just kind of figured out in the

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past maybe six months, and it could not be more important now when I do consulting with certain people

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that are just starting their YouTube channel or I talk to friends or network with other people that

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are going YouTube, the importance of reaching down and really identifying what it is that you want

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your channel to be about is super important, especially when you're first starting out as a new content

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creator.

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The reason being is if you go to broad and I made this mistake, that's how I know it.

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If you go to Broad and you're creating videos on Instagram, videos, on email, marketing, videos,

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on e-mail and email marketing, videos, on drop shipping videos on how to, you know, buy YouTube

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subscribers, these are all my most popular videos on my channel.

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And yes, they all are individual OK videos, but I've done so many different things and I didn't nesh

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down in general.

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All right.

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I kept it, General.

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I didn't nesh down enough when I first started out.

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And that basically made it such an uphill climb rather than just kind of gaining traction on one niche,

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starting very, very niche down and building an audience around that niche or specific topic and then

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using that platform an audience to, you know, maybe branch out a little bit and then building there

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and then branching out a little bit and building there.

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That's how the majority of people grow.

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They start really, really neef down.

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They pick something like maybe drop shipping and they build up a 50000 subscriber, drop shipping and

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then channel.

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And then they basically branch out to drop shipping and then creating content or drop shipping and then

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private label and something else.

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But they don't they definitely don't do what I did.

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So don't do that as well.

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You don't want to start out too too broad.

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You really want a niche down.

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Pick a topic.

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Maybe that's personal finance.

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Maybe that's, you know, email marketing, maybe that's Instagram marketing, maybe that's Amazon private

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labeling.

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Whatever it is, it doesn't matter.

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You'll start to notice that I realize this and it's actually helped a lot of my metrics recently.

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So if we go to my more recent videos, I have been creating recently videos on like making money on

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how to make money online.

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And, you know, I still create videos on what I care about, but I've started to notice that I pick

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up traction a lot more when I do consistent videos on online arbitrage.

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That's what a lot of my viewers like.

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That's what a lot of my viewers care about now.

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It's not just online arbitrage.

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It's also things about like making money online and how to actually make money from your computer.

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What I make videos like this and I'm going to go out on a limb and say right now, it's probably not

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going to perform that well.

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The reason being, here's a perfect example of that, a video that I spent a lot of time to create,

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a lot of great info just like this video and put it out there.

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And nobody received it that well, because just like the supper club and the dropping links, my audience

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isn't built around how to grow on YouTube.

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So videos like this right here, ten ways to get your YouTube videos perform better are going to perform

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that well on my channel because the audience doesn't necessarily want to see that.

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What they do want to see, online arbitrage, how to make money online online arbitrage, make money

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online.

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Lets see other ones that are performed well recently, online arbitrage affiliate marketing online businesses.

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You can start online basically with zero money.

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You get the picture.

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If I kneeled down and I continue to start building up traction, creating the same type of content,

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it's a lot easier to grow.

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And everybody, if you talk to any top YouTube or anybody that's growing really in general in any of

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the online marketing platforms, what they will tell you, it's the same thing for Instagram, same

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thing for YouTube, literally same thing across the board.

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Pick a very specific niche and then build an audience around that niche.

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And once you do build an audience, then obviously you can start to branch out once your audience is

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built and you gain some traction.

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Now, you might be sitting there saying, well, I see all these big, you know, YouTube, all these

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big Instagram accounts, and they post, you know, a video on how to make money online one day and

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then they're blogging the next day and then the next day it's like a travel or like a try on video of,

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you know, I don't know, like a bikini hall or something and literally anything across the board.

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And you're like, well, what?

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They can do it.

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Why can't I?

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It's because they if you went back to their channel and you started, you know, and looked at their

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original content, they built it around something very, very niche, most likely first, or they've

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been doing it for a long time.

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So it doesn't work anymore.

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You can't just start creating general content.

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You have to nail down.

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The next one is very, very important, too.

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And this is something that I really actually just started realizing in the past six months.

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And, you know, I still like to win videos like this.

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I get off on tangents because I like talking and I like I like talking.

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That makes me sound like so arrogant and egotistical.

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But I didn't mean it like that.

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I like to talk and relate my ideas to the camera so you guys can better understand who I am as a person

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and where I'm coming from with the actual idea.

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I don't want to be too, too scripted.

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That said, OK, that said, you know, you need you can't win your videos.

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You need to have a plan in mind.

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You need to have some kind of script that will allow you to do so many things.

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You will have plans in place.

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You will have things that you want to talk about.

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You will have points that you know you need to make.

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You can't see it right now, but literally right behind the computer, right above this is.

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The camera right here, right above is the script that I'm reading off my computer that's behind this,

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and I do that for a reason, it's not that I'm literally trying to, you know, read off the script

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behind me.

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It's that I want to make sure that I hit on the points that I've outlined that are important to hit

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on.

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And I've done this across the board.

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It gives structure to your videos.

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It basically here's the example of this outline right here.

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It's the not the full complete one, but it's the outline of what all the things I want to talk about.

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Here's another one of one I'm going to do in a future video.

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I'm an outline how Alex Bekker built this channel up.

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And it's basically things that I'm I'm I'm, you know, trying to align and make sure I touch on Instagram

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followers how to grow to 20 Instagram followers a day.

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And I outlined that.

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So you want to have a plan, you won't have a plan in place.

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You want to have a script.

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You don't have to read from that script.

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You don't have to be a robot, but you want to make sure that you hit on important points.

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You don't miss points and you want to make sure that you're going after targeted keyword phrases.

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So you want to write them down to make sure that you say them.

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Now, I've done a video like this, like I said right here, because one of the ways to get your videos

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to perform better is to actually say the targeted keyword phrases in the video so that when YouTube

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indexes your video and they do the closed captions that they do, it's going to index your video for

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all those keyword phrases and you will appear in search a lot better.

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And you'll also be suggested for those other types of similar videos like that.

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So it's very, very important to have a plan and do an outline.

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You don't have to read from it word for word.

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But I would say and it doesn't matter if you go across the board, I would venture to assume a lot of

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top you tubers and a lot of top content creators do something very, very similar.

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It's going to allow you to hit those points home.

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And more importantly, it's going to give you some structure.

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Like I said, don't have to read from it, but it will be important and it will make a difference in

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Moving on to number five now.

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Now, this is important and this one's trying to be original.

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So, you know, as creators, we're all naturally creative.

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We enjoy creating videos and making stuff that we enjoy making.

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And if your your entire goal is to start creating content that you love and you enjoy, then more power

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to you completely disregard this one.

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But if you want to grow the fastest and you want to stop approaching it as like, you know, you're

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going to throw shit at a wall and seeing if it sticks type of thing, what you want to do is you want

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to go after proven content.

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So what I will do, and I've talked about this before, is I will go to other YouTube channels that

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are very similar to mine.

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If I want to make a video on, for example, can I flip books?

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One hundred dollars a day flipping books.

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I got this this video idea from two different people.

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I got that thumb nail idea from Graham Stefan.

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He literally created the exact same thumbnail.

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I'll pop it up on the screen right now because I need help with thumbnails and I want to see what works

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and what's converted clicks.

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So I basically stole that from him.

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Full disclosure, he's got a great channel.

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Go check it out.

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It's not that I'm stealing their video.

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I'm not going out and literally copying their video word for word.

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But if I go after and I see like Raila's raise the entrepreneur, whatever his name is, has also a

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He created a video that was like, can you make one hundred dollars a day?

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Well, that got like a million views.

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And yes, he has a bigger channel than me, but I basically took the same exact idea and did it with

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Amazon Books and, you know, online arbitrage, which is something I'm very familiar with and that

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for my channel.

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And that can indicate that that can go over a thousand in the future.

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Now, those are just ideas you want to basically go after proven content.

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Another example that is thirty three quick ways to make money online.

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Twenty nineteen created this about a week ago, a little bit over and it's gotten almost 600 views already,

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which is a great metrics for my channel.

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I saw a video, I forget who actually did it, but one of the ways that I actually came up with that

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video idea was I saw like Twenty Ways to make money online in 2018 from some other creator.

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I've given countless examples of how to do this.

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But if you want another example, let's say hypothetically, Bill's a good buddy of mine.

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He's got a great channel on online marketing.

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So if I wanted to make a video I was looking for video ideas, I would go to his channel.

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If you haven't gone to his channel, you want to go over his channel and hit the subscribe button because

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you got a lot of great content.

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But what I would do is I would sorbets most popular and you can do this across the board with any other

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creator that is in the same niche as the video that you're trying to create and obviously, hypothetically,

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the same niche just in general.

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view numbers ish to you.

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Now, he's done this for me, so I created now it's better video that went really viral on my page.

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If we saw my channel one more time, most popular, he saw that it went and went viral on my page right

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here and it got forty one thousand views.

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He made the same type of video and it blew up on his channel so I could do the same thing.

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If I wanted to create free paper money, which seemed to blow up on his channel, I could literally

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go create a free PayPal money video, make a very, very similar video with my own spin on it.

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It's basically YouTube screaming at you saying, hey, there's an audience out there in your niche for

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Moving on now is worrying about what other people think too much now we're all victims of this.

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I do it myself from time to time, and I still catch myself doing it from time to time.

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And this might seem completely contradictory to what I just said, because a number five, I literally

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just told you to make sure that you have a proven plan before you ever post the piece of content that

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said, you know, if you're letting the fear of what other people might think about your content or

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what you post, basically, you know how how your video is going to stack up any of those things, it's

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going to prevent you from ever actually posting enough content and getting a roll on and getting, you

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know, gaining traction in moments.

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You know, everyone starts at the beginning and my content can still be improved a lot.

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You know, chances are you tubers and content creators out there that you look up to the most in whatever

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niche that is.

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Their content probably sucked in the beginning, too.

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Now, I can look back at my old YouTube videos and it literally makes me cringe watching what I actually

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I can't think to myself, you know, it's literally horrible.

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I can't I can't even think of myself and imagine how I thought that that was a good piece of content.

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posting that stuff and posted bad content.

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I would have never improved.

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I would have never looked at that.

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And the fact that I'm looking at that and kind of cringing now is a good sign that I've made progress.

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So don't be afraid to post.

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You might not be the best at it right now.

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I don't care if you're on YouTube and we're specifically talking about YouTube or wherever you're creating

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content.

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The key is to post.

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Yes, you want to have a proven plan first.

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That's a mistake, but it's also a mistake if you overanalysing think too much.

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And even though those old videos sucked of mine, guess what?

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They paid me ad revenue.

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They helped grow my channel.

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They brought in viewers and subscribers.

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And a lot of the content actually helped other aspiring entrepreneurs, even though the video quality

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and production wasn't that great.

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So if I didn't post those, I definitely wouldn't be where I am today.

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You know, chances are six months from now I'll look back and this video will make me cringe as well.

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But that said, that's a good thing because it means I'm growing and I'm improving.

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Moving on to number seven and number seven is copying what bigger creators do.

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So it doesn't matter if you're copying a bigger YouTube or in your niche or you're copying a content

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creator that's outside your niche that you look up to.

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You don't want to click bait with your titles.

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And I learned this the hard way.

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I got really heavily into, like, you know, basically writing headlines and kind of doing copywriting.

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And I still have a copywriting passion.

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For those of you that don't know, copywriting is just like the ability of to sell in written form for

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lack of a better way to put it.

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I got really into into copywriting and every single title of mine would read like a headline you don't

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want to do what other big YouTube tubers do.

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You can't click bait with your titles when you're a new creative.

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For example, you can't put out a video about how you made one thousand, you know, today online and

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title it.

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You'll never guess how much I made today.

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The reason being is because nobody knows who you are yet.

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You haven't built up the audience to click bait yet.

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So instead of using click baity titles, what you want to do is you want to use your titles to a have

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a targeted keyword phrase so that people understand what the video is about.

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results that will basically create an evergreen video that is always bringing traffic to your video,

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your channel, and any future pieces of content that you go out there and create that consistent, targeted

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search traffic is crucial when you're just starting out and just building a channel.

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Now, if you want a free tool that I actually use, I used to be right here.

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So do you like YouTube creator?

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So if you do want to get this, I'll make sure to link to.

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But you don't have to pay for the service.

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It comes one hundred percent free.

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You'll see here that I haven't even upgraded and I still get the keyword explore.

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It comes in the free version of the software and can really, really help you out when you're trying

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to rank videos.

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Now, if you do want to click bait, there's a place for that.

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You can use click bait, but use click bait in your thumbnails.

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Just make sure word of caution, if you do click baiting your thumbnails, make sure that it's not a

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lie and it's still relevant to the video.

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Use your creativeness and, you know, click baiting in your thumbnail.

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But instead, I caution you to use your title not to click bait, but to rank first search for targeted

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Now, number eight is also a big one, and this is arguably the biggest one.

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They're all very, very important.

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But number is one that I'm still kind of, you know, a victim of.

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Essentially, you'll start to notice one thing about my channel if we scroll down.

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What do you notice that's different?

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Well, I used to basically create thumbnails like this, right?

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They were branded.

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they're on mobile, kind of see, oh, that's another one of Brian's videos.

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I might.

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To watch that and those those thumbnails didn't pop, they didn't compete well against other videos

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that were very similar and there wasn't anything good about that.

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So the number one problem that I see across the board, and I'm a victim of this, too, you know,

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I'm guilty of this as well.

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So I'm not above anyone is not focusing on thumbnails now.

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I still spend time when I can learn a little bit more, just a little bit every single day about Photoshop

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and different skills that I can use in Photoshop to improve my thumbnails, because clickthrough rate

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is a massive, massive, massive metrick on YouTube that YouTube uses analytic wise to measure your

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video success rate against another video.

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For example, affiliate commission results.

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How much affiliate commission can you make with Amazon Associates if YouTube puts my video, a video

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up against another similar video that talks about Amazon associates?

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They're both very, very similar and a lot of things.

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But this one, the other video has a much higher clickthrough rate.

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Who do you think is going to get suggested and shown to a lot more people?

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Who do you think some get suggested and, you know, rank higher in the search results?

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It's going to be the other video with a higher click through rate, because that indicates the YouTube

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that people searching for that topic or people interested in that topic, if they're suggesting it,

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are more likely to click on this video and watch that one.

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That suggests that my video is not that great.

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You know, basically for that topic and the way that you can improve that is super, super simple.

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Now, you can definitely do what I do and you can take courses or you can watch tutorial videos on Adobe

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Photoshop to just get a little bit better every single day.

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And that's a great way to go as well.

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Or you can also do what I do and just buy a premade pack of thumbnails that come readily made for you

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so that you can basically switch the text out with your actual words instead of what's actually in there,

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switched the pictures out and kind of use premade thumbnails.

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They make it super, super easy to put your own content in them.

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So a lot of my my recent thumbnails, not all of them, but a lot of them, you know, have a lot of

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the stuff in them from the premade thumbnail packs that I bought.

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And I actually bought Roberto Blake's YouTube starter kit.

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I highly recommend that you check that out.

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If you're into it and you really want improve your thumbnails.

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It's, you know, full heartedly made a huge difference in my creation of thumbnails and just certain

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I wasn't able to do in the past with my other thumbnail creation tactics.

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Canvas a great free place to make thumbnails, but I highly recommend learning Photoshop.

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If you're really serious about going on YouTube, it will make a huge, huge difference.

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That YouTube starter kit comes with a hundred premade thumbnails, roughly, and basically, like I

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But like I said, you can basically just plug and play certain words and certain pictures to customize

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a thumbnail that's already red and readily made for you.

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And if you want to grab this for yourself, I'll make sure to link his YouTube starter kit.

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But there you have it, guys.

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That's eight really important things and really, really big mistakes that new creators make that if

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you make any one of those or a couple of them, I know I'm still guilty of some of them here and there.

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They will completely kill your channel growth.