Best Apps to GROW your Youtube Channel

Okay, what tools do you need to actually get some success on YouTube? I'm gonna share the 2 top tools that I am absolutely loving right now to help grow my channel. Stick around. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I am Dan from millennialmotivator.ca, helping you learn how to create, engage, and inspire. If you're new to the channel, hit that subscribe button, the little bell down there, and And you'll get notified when my next video goes live. We throw videos up here Monday through Saturday, helping you learn how to use online marketing, digital marketing, social media to grow a business. Now, whether that's a YouTube channel, a website, an offering, a product, a service, who knows? But that's what this channel is about, helping you guys grow your business to success. Today though, we are looking specifically at your YouTube channel and some of the tools that you can use to grow your channel. Now, for those of you that have been around, you know the story. We've been here since December 2017, so not too long. We're only in March right now, so already had some success. We hit that partner milestone, so just waiting on the approval back from YouTube, but we've hit the partner, partner mark. All of those criteria are filled, and I wanted to share some of the tools that I found that have been extremely helpful along the way. Now, these tools have a free option, which is phenomenal to get started, or if you're looking to invest a little bit, they've got fantastic perks that come with with the investment into the tool. Now, one of the tools has been around for a little bit and you're gonna be familiar with it. The other one is kind of new and is really a great tool that's coming into development, new features all the time popping up. So stick around, check these out, and we'll see if maybe they're a great fit to helping you grow your YouTube channel. Let's go. Okay guys, first up is TubeBuddy. Now, I know that you guys have heard me speak at least once or twice about TubeBuddy. TubeBuddy is a phenomenal app. It's a browser app that you can— I think there's a mobile version too on your phones, but I think the phones are only for the Apple phones, not the Android phones yet, but I'm sure they're coming out with an Android eventually. The reality is though, TubeBuddy, guys, has been an essential part of the process in me growing my channel. How so? It provides several key tools that I use daily as I'm putting out videos. What tools, you might ask? Okay. So first and foremost, guys, what we're going to be looking at is the keyword search tool. Keyword search tool is an amazing tool, guys. This tool allows us to actually go into any search on YouTube, um, whether you are looking for a specific topic, whether you're looking at a specific niche, you can throw that in there and just use a keyword tool planner and see, you know, how does this work? How does this play out? How does it feel? Feel. Am I getting top search results with this? Is this something that's regularly searched in Google, in YouTube? It's such a powerful tool, guys. Powerful, powerful, powerful tool. Now, it's not just the keyword searcher that I use regularly. It's also the title search, and it's an amazing feature that TubeBuddy has. You can actually go into your YouTube search bar, type in any search that you want, and you guys will see this tomorrow when I do my live reviews of websites. Often I'll use this tool and you'll see it pop up. It'll generate rankings on your, your search that you pop in, and then you use those rankings to decide on titles and topics. It's a very, very powerful tool, and it's been extremely helpful in me crafting tools, descriptions, and tags that are gonna result in my video being seen more often. Now I know that's something that everybody out there is wondering about— what's the algorithm? How do you play the algorithm? I'm not big on playing the algorithm, but I'm also not being— I'm not big on being ignorant with the tools that are available to you, okay? This is a powerful tool that allows you the ability to go in quickly, to type in a search, play around with it a little bit, and see which search is going to produce the best results for you. Now, who says that this app really knows what's right and what's wrong with YouTube being so locked down on their algorithm? Nobody really, but I can give you this: almost everybody I know that uses this tool see success in one form or another through the tool. Okay, so you've got your Keyword Planner, you've got your Search Planner. On top of this though, guys, the ability to engage easily with your community is so powerful on this. I know that when I'm going through my comments, I make it a point, especially as a small channel, and I advise all you small channels out there as well, make the time to engage with your community. Now often, as you'll find as you get more and more videos out there, we're up to 85 videos on this channel now, it becomes more difficult for me to keep track of older videos that are getting comments, which still happens from time to time. So how do I do that? TubeBuddy is the key to that. I can actually go into my comment section and tell it, show me all the comments that I have not replied to. And right away, bam, I get a list of comments that are usually from videos that are a couple days, if not a couple weeks old at this point. It allows me the ability to stay on top of this and ensure that I am replying to every single person that that comes into the channel and takes the time to leave a comment. Very powerful way to grow your community, guys. I highly recommend that you are on this and using this tool if it's not something that you've regularly got. Now, does it have a free version? Like I said, absolutely, it does have a free version. It is available for you guys, but it also has many perks that are available to you if you have a paid version. Now, it's all explained on the website, so I am gonna put the link down in the comments below. You guys can go check it out, see See what the tool is about, plug it into your own browser, see how it works for you. And you know, let me know, let me know down in the comments what you think of it. If you like the tools, if you have questions about it, let me know. But again, guys, you'll see me using this tool tomorrow on the live stream where we review some small channels. So make sure that if you aren't sure whether the tool's for you or not, you swing by tomorrow, catch the live stream, and you can see the tool in action. All right, so that's it. First tool that I recommend is TubeBuddy. Next up, okay, if TubeBuddy is my community and search power engine, then Morning Fame is my goal setting, tracking progress animal. Okay, now it's not that TubeBuddy doesn't have milestones. It definitely has milestones in it. They give you fun little certificates with it. But the reality is, it shows me the data really well. Here's where you are, here's where you've gone. But it doesn't really show me where to go. It doesn't give me fixed targets, which is where Morning Fame comes in. And blows me away, guys. Now, Morningfame currently is an invite-only app. So if you don't know somebody that's using the tool currently, you cannot be invited to use the tool. Good news for you, I'm using the tool, I'm gonna invite you guys in. The link is down below, just click on it. You can go in, you can play around with it. But the beautiful thing about this app is you go in and bam, right away, it links with your channel and it starts to assess, okay, not only by channel, so how are you performing as a channel as a whole, but each video is broken down into several different things. So the first one, is your channel trending upwards? Is it getting views? What's the average watch time? What are your engagements? What's your engagement rate? So percentage of engagements versus views. What's your gained subscribers for each video? And it breaks this down channel as a whole. How are you doing? It's a quick snapshot. Bam! I look over here at it. Okay, bam, bam, bam. I'm looking for checkmarks. I'm looking for medals. They use really simple logos to let you know how you're doing. If you're seeing sleeper marks, big Z's across the screen, you know you've got something that you've got to work on. So Just at a glance, it allows me to go, okay, instead of me having to interpret all of the data, really dig down deep into the analytics, because most small YouTubers don't have time to dedicate all day to ripping apart their analytics. So Morning Fame provides you that ability, provides you a quick snapshot of, bam, here's where you currently stand for the health of your channel, the growth of your channel, the wealth of your channel. What do you do next? Where's your target? And this is where I love it the most, guys. You know that I aim for a target, I move towards it, I hit it, I set another target. But often those targets are arbitrary. I'm not sure which metric I should actually be aiming for moving forward. Stop. Morning Fame fixes this. It honestly provides you a key target that says this is really where you want to be aiming at the current size and growth rate of your channel. This is the mark that you want to be aiming for right now. And it allows you daily to be in there, to be wrestling with it and going, okay, great. So if If this is where I currently stand and this is where I'm having success, these are the areas I really need to focus on to hit that next level of growth. Such a powerful tool. Now it doesn't only stop at the traction of your site. How well is the site currently doing? It provides you strategy the more you use the tool. So this is not a paid feature. This is a, if you use Morningfame for a certain period of time, it's going to show you, oh look, here's more information just for using the app. Even better, it goes into here's a workshop. So here are different specific actions that you can take, and velocity— how quickly is your channel growing? Now, I am amazed at this tool only for this reason. About a week ago, I picked this up off of, uh, Roberto Blake's channel, and it was amazing to see when I pumped in, oh, this is so great, it gives me a key metric for me to measure and go after. It's so valuable. But as I started to move towards it and use this tool, you guys will know it took me the 2 months to hit 4,000 watch hours on the channel, which seemed like a ton. But after using this channel and focusing specifically on what this channel rec— or what this tool recommended for my channel, I've gone from 4,000 watch hours in less than a week to over 5,000 watch hours. I tagged on another 1,000 watch hours in one week, guys. This tool is so powerful. I highly recommend it. And again, it is invite only. So if you're not currently using Morningfame and you don't know anybody else that is, just click the link down below. You can grab it. It's free. Use it. Love it. It's an amazing, amazing tool that will help you grow your channel not only quickly, but effectively. And it will set goals for you as you progress further up the ranks. You're not waiting on larger increments of, oh, so I hit my partner. Now I've got to aim for 10,000 subscribers. Well, I'm only sitting at 1,400. That seems like a large gap to go from 1,400 subscribers to 10,000. So the reality is Morningfame fixes that issue for you. It gives you realistic targets and goals to help you incrementally grow the channel while laying foundations for monumental growth and velocity. So grow a channel effectively with a foundation, build it to last. Such a powerful tool, highly recommend it, guys. Let's give you one more bonus one on top of the TubeBuddy and the Morningfame before we get out of here, okay? For those of you that are new to the channel, you haven't heard me say this, but those of you who have been around a while, you know that I think community is so core and key to what's going on. I mentioned it briefly with TubeBuddy in engaging with the community on your videos, making sure that you're replying properly. However, this doesn't go far enough for me as far as understanding the niche, understanding those around me that are already seeing success and building best practices off of what they are doing. What tool do I recommend for that? Social Blade. Again, integrated app extension for your browser. You simply go into the channel and you'll see this one tomorrow as well. Any channel that you go into, it will let you know where they're at. It gives them a grade. It lets you know how they're doing with subscribers, how they're doing with their video ranking. Um, it gives you an estimate as to what their monthly ad revenue might be, and it also shows you their sub growth and keywords that they typically use. It can break that down by video for you as well. Why is this so vital? I think it's vital for this reason. If you are recognizing other key players in your niche that you want to see this similar success that they've had, it allows you to go to their channel and learn from their best practices. Now clearly I'm not talking about going in and just copy and pasting whatever's there. That's not going to work for you. But what is going to work for you is reviewing what keywords they're using, see how they use keywords, and then formulating strategy around that concept. That's a powerful tool. That knowledge of how are people that are experts at YouTube already, professional YouTubers using keywords in order to get their videos ranked properly and appropriately every single video. The Social Blade is the key to that, guys. So again, all of these tools— TubeBuddy, Morningfame, Social Blade— I'll put the links right down below. You can click in, get in. Social Blade doesn't cost you a thing. You get in, it's there, it's available, and everywhere you go on YouTube, you'll see it from now on. So I highly recommend these guys. Great way to go. Alright guys, that's it. I really hope you guys take the time, check out these tools, see what they can do for growing your channel. Question of the day is, which one of these tools are you excited to try first? Don't forget, guys, tomorrow Saturday noon Eastern Standard Time, we are doing our live evaluation of websites, YouTube channels, social media networks. So if you have a YouTube channel, a website, or a social network that you would like me to take a look at and break down live on the stream, just show up tomorrow. Now granted, guys, as always, I understand you're busy. So if you don't catch the live stream, don't worry. I post all of those reviews into the channel feed, so you'll be able to see it afterwards. So if you want your channel reviewed, don't Don't hesitate to leave that down in the comments below, and I'd be more than happy to take a look at it tomorrow. That's it for today though, guys. Thank you so much for watching. Have an amazing day, and I will see you tomorrow with another great video. Bye!