Youtube Learning (First 50 Videos)

Alright guys, 50 videos in on the channel, time to figure out what I learned after 50 videos on YouTube. Welcome back guys, I'm Dan of millennialmotivator.ca, and I am here helping you grow your business, create, engage, and inspire your clients to find success. If you're new to the channel, go ahead and click that subscribe button down there, the little bell, you'll get notified. I put up videos Monday through Saturday, so every day. You get a new video. Except for Sunday, 'cause I take a rest with the family and do church and all that fun stuff. Anyway, 50 videos in. I'm recording this the day before because, you know, you've got Saturday. But on Saturday, I intend to just relax. So anyway, it's not gonna be multiple broken up clips, guys. I'm gonna just try to do this one shoot, one off. That's it. One and done. So let's do this. First and foremost, what did I learn after 50 videos? For those of you that don't know, like I said, I'm doing one video a day, Monday through Saturday, for a year. I just want to see what the results are from it. I'm not looking to grow a super mega channel. If it happens, great. But the concept is most of the big YouTubers out there just tell people, do what you love, speak to what you love, create content regularly, and you'll see some form of success. So, that's all I'm doing. I'm gonna take him up on it and I'm pumping it out. One thing that I've learned in the first 50 days is don't beat yourself up if you miss a day. In whole, I think I've missed one day so far. And at first I wanted to get really upset with myself. I was like, oh man, I had a schedule, I stuck to it. And then I realized, if I get upset about this and I get frustrated about it, all that's gonna do is frustrate me further. And the more that I miss a day, the more frustrated I'll get and it'll just kind of snowball, right? If you set a schedule for yourself, whether it's, you know, 7 days a week, 6 days a week, 5 days a week, 3 days a week, maybe once a week, maybe you're an animator and it's once a month, not a problem. Whatever it is though, guys, stick to it as best as you can. That doesn't mean stick to it perfectly. If something comes up, if life hits, you know, if one of my kids gets sick, if I get sick, if something terrible happens, God forbid, to someone in my family and I've gotta go, YouTube video is my last concern. So I'm not gonna beat myself up. I'm gonna do the best I can, get as many videos out as I can, and that's just the way it's gonna be, right? Work, family, there are other things that come up. This is not a full-time gig, especially as a small YouTuber. So do the best you can with what you've got. If you miss a day, no problem. Don't sweat it. Don't fuss. Just come back at it twice as hard. Okay? Now, what else did I learn in my first 50 videos? It doesn't need to be perfect. When I started off, I was playing around with a whole bunch of different tools, and you guys can check out past videos. I've got one that will happen, you can catch it right after this, what I learned in my first 25 videos. And I was playing around with all kinds of tools. And I'm not opposed to you improving your cinematography, your video editing, all that stuff. That's gonna happen kind of organically. Don't rush into that. The thing you should rush into is getting into the habit of creating the content, okay guys? Big, big deal. Once you're in the habit of creating the content, little by little you can piece together new things, learn how to transition, learn how to edit. Learn how to store better, learn how to— next up for me is gonna be B-roll, how to include B-roll, 'cause that's a big thing I see from guys like Casey Neistat and Peter McKinnon. Just doing a better job with storytelling overall. Most of the videos that I've shot have been in this location. I'm gonna try to get out and shoot some video with some other people, see what that'll do. Try to diversify the channel. But the reality is, guys, don't try to get too big too fast. If you're a small YouTuber, be a small YouTuber. There's no shame in that. Own it. Just be that. Okay, that's it. Now, what else have I learned? I have learned I have a terrible habit, especially because I've got two screens. Okay, so there's the one screen here that I'm staring at, and then there's this screen over here, and then I've got notes sometimes over here, and I've got a really bad habit of doing this while I'm shooting my video. And that is something that I'm really trying to get over. So I literally now you guys can't see it, but like. Here's my setup. Here's where I normally shoot, right? Got the— it's like this little container that I put this on top of. So now I've put it right in front of my face. So I've got my recording right in front of me and I'm staring at the camera. So it's like I'm talking to myself almost. And I found this made it a lot easier for me to keep my eyes on the camera. Why is that important, you ask? Because when I make gestures, if my camera's over here or I'm looking over here, It's gonna take away. You don't feel like I'm looking at you. So if I was talking over here for any reason, I'm looking at this screen and I'm talking over here, I'm not engaging the audience anymore. You can see right away when I'm talking like this, I don't have your attention. I don't have your focus. But as soon as I look at the camera, if I make hand gestures or I'm talking to you, I'm a big hand talker. So if I'm doing this and I'm pointing and I'm gesturing and I'm trying to get your attention, the more that that's right to the camera, the more critical that is. It's just so crucial and it creates that level of engagement where you feel like I'm speaking to you instead of somewhere else. So whether that's you're shooting on your phone, make sure that you know where your camera is and that you are looking at that. Bam. Like there's the camera. That's what I'm looking at. Somebody else is shooting you. You know where the camera is. Look right at it. So bam, I'm looking at it, right? Even if you've got a camera stand, like my stand's back there, the Uber is back there, but I would set it up right there like that. Bam! I know what I'm looking at. That's it. Next up, guys, and this is something that early on I was brutal for. I was absolutely brutal. And I think in one of the recent videos I may have made the same mistake as well. I didn't watch the video all the way through before uploading. And somewhere in my newness with Premiere Pro, I either deleted audio or delayed audio somehow or spliced it. So it may seem common sense, but I didn't learn it in the first 25 videos, 'cause I clearly made the mistake again the other day. So always watch your content all the way through on Media Player or Premiere Pro, whatever you're using. Watch it on your device first before you upload it onto YouTube. You will find that 9 times out of 10, your content drops off suddenly when you're watching your videos. I know in my analytics I've seen it. Everybody's watching, retention's pretty good, it steadily goes down, and then all of a sudden, I know right then something has happened. Either the audio's cut out, or the video's not working properly, or I've spliced in the wrong video content altogether, it's from another video. So whatever it may be, guys, make sure that you watch the video all the way through before you upload it, okay? The last thing I am gonna touch on in the first 50 videos— ah, no, there's 2 more things. One is, don't be afraid to one-take like this. There are several videos now where I've just sat down and I was passionate about the topic, I had my notes written out, I was ready to roll, so there was no need for me to do multiple shoots of it. I'm gonna do this, then this, then this. I knew where I was going. And I figured, I'm on fire. You've got a good flow going, just bang it out. Bam, bam, bam, bam. To talk for 10 minutes is not super difficult if you lay out 3, 4, or 5 points. If you're passionate about what you're talking about, you're knowledgeable about what you're talking about, It should be relatively easy for you to get in there and make it happen, okay? So don't sweat it. You can do it in one take. There's lots of guys out there that do it in one take. It's not the Casey Neistats and Peter McKinnons. Theirs is more edited content with B-roll, so they get multiple shots from multiple angles. They're shooting a larger amount of footage, and it reflects. The quality by far, hands down, is better on a highly edited video like that. But as a small YouTuber just getting started, Don't be afraid to do a one-shot. Don't be afraid to just hop on, one-shot the sucker, and you're off and running. Don't be afraid of that, okay? Last but not least, guys, if you're not a fan of your own content, nobody else will be. This is the biggest one that I can give you. Honestly, in the first 50 videos, the number of times that I— and I've seen some small success, and I'm super thankful to you guys for that. The people that have been watching, sharing out the content, subscribing, you guys are amazing. Thank you so much. But the reality is this, guys. As much as I want you guys to be fans of what we're doing here, I have to be a fan of what I'm doing here. And that means when I'm done and I've uploaded my video, I better be open to sharing that out on my social media accounts. So when I'm done sharing a video, I share it out onto Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook. I also share it out onto Instagram. It will go out onto Did I say Tumblr already? Tumblr. I feel like I'm missing a big one. Google Plus. Google Plus is a huge one. Lots of great— a lot of people take a dump on Google Plus. The reality is I've seen high retention views come out of Google Plus in relevant groups. Not from the groups that are just like, I wanna be a big YouTuber. Don't, those are spam. You're not gonna get anything out of that. But if you've got a— so graphic design or photography, be a part of those groups and put your videos up on there. People love that stuff. The business groups that I post this stuff in, I get great feedback from those guys, and the retention from those visits is huge. So make sure you're a fan of yourself first and foremost if you're gonna have a YouTube channel, and share that content out. First 48 hours, you wanna get as many eyes on your videos as possible. The best way to do that is using social media to your advantage. Okay guys, that is it though. Question of the day is gonna be this. What is your favorite What do you want to see in the next 25 videos? I'm going to do one of these every 25, um, let you know what I've learned in the first 75, 100, 125. So what do you want to see? What kind of content do you guys want to see? We put out some website reviews and social media reviews. We're going to keep doing that. We saw some success. We did some business book reviews. Happy to do that. I'm toying around with the idea of some interviews maybe down the road. I just want to know, what do you guys want to see? What are the things you're struggling with as an entrepreneur or as a small business that you want answers to, that you want to figure out, that you want to know what's going on? Let me know in the comments down below, and I will catch you guys next time. Later! 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