Youtube Partner in 80 Videos (ENTREPRENEUR Advice)

Alright guys, today we're taking a look at how you can get to YouTube partnership in just 80 videos. Let's go. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Dan from millennialmotivator.ca, helping you learn how to create, engage, and inspire. If you're new to the channel, I put up videos here Monday through Saturday, helping you learn how to use digital marketing, social media, and YouTube, how to grow your business online, reach more customers, and be more successful. Today what we're looking at is how do you get to YouTube partnership in 80 videos. If this sounds like it's a channel that's up your alley, click that subscribe button and the little bell down there. You'll get a notification the next time I go live. Now, why are we making this video about partnership in 80 videos? Well guys, the reality is, for those of you that have been a part of this channel from go, you know that I've been here since mid-late December putting out videos daily in the hopes of showing people how to create online business success. Now YouTube was a part of that, and I've made a point all the way along the journey— you can check out past videos where I've done 25 videos in, 50, 75— just bringing you guys along the way and seeing what I'm learning, how it's growing, and the best practices that I can put out to help you learn how to grow your channel. Now the channel has been growing substantially over time. You see tiny little incremental gains at the start, and then over the past little while it's been 100, a couple hundred hours of watch time per day hitting the channel. Over the weekend, Sunday morning, for those of you that are following me on Instagram— if you don't have that link, it's down in the comments, you can click it and follow me there and get more frequent updates anyway, a couple times a day— but Sunday morning we hit the 4,000-hour watch time threshold, which means we have the 1,000 subscribers, we have the 4,000 hours watch time, so this channel is currently under submission for partnership. Fantastic, right? The reality is I want to give you guys what I see as the 3 biggest things that I did to get the channel to that level in only 80 videos. So without further ado, let's go. Number 1, guys, the biggest thing that I can attribute to the success is the sheer quality quantity of video, okay? Now, for those of you who have been watching for a while, you've seen a couple of videos that I've done with quantity over quality. And I know there's a lot of debate out there on YouTube about which one is the priority. Do you wanna be putting out quality content consistently, or do you wanna be putting out frequent videos that may not have the top quality out there? For those of you watching the channel, you'll see that the strategy that I chose was just get started, put out a video a day, whatever quality you can manage, in a day, fine, but put it out there one video a day, make it happen. Now, the success that I've seen with this strategy is this: it creates a huge catalog of videos that YouTube is able to search. Each of those videos has links through cards or end screen enhancements that allows people to click through to other videos that I have. So just the sheer quantity of videos— having 80 videos in a little under 3 months— is a huge benefit to the channel where people are able to find content more frequently in search, which in turn leads to more views, which in turn leads to more watch time. Alright, so the biggest first tip that I can give to you guys is don't be slow on content creation. Now there's a few channels out there that we've talked about in the past, things like animation, music, high-quality video creators. That's fine, that's your bread and butter, that's fine. But I've always recommended to still create a video a day. Now it's not gonna be your finished your finished content, your finished quality content anyway, right? If you're an animator, for you to create a 10-minute, 5-minute animation, it may take you more than a week. It may take you a month, may take you 2 weeks. Who knows how long it's gonna take? So what should you be doing then in order to create a daily video or a 3-time-a-week video? At minimum, I would say, guys, you want to be creating 3 videos a week. So how do you go about doing that if you can't create your finished product? Well, It's called digital journaling, really. So for those of you who aren't familiar with a journal, it looks something like this. You write in it daily, a couple times a week. Here's what's going on, this is what I'm up to, right? Use your YouTube channel the same way. A lot of people that are involved in your channel as a part of your community or are interested in your niche want to know how you go about building something, right? And so if you're a musician, let's say, and you're working in studio, you're creating music at the moment, you're looking to put out new tracks eventually, let's say one a week or one every 2 weeks. Great. Have your camera live, show people the process, do a vlog where you're showing people the creative process inside the studio. Don't be worrying about people stealing your, your riffs or your, your, your beats or your, your, your song lyrics. Get out there, put the content out there. At, at most, what it will give you is a credible resource to say, look, we created this content first, here's the proof. Here's the process, right? So you'll always have copyright claim because you've got a video journal showing you create the music. But on top of that, your fans, community, get to see behind the curtain of how music is created. Same can be done with animation, with high-quality photography, with filmography. All of these different skills and tools that are harder to put out frequently with content, you're able to chronicle the process, which the community loves to see. I know for me, I know Sarah Nici puts out one video a week. I wish she would put out 3 where I got to see not only the video that she finishes, but I also get to see the process of her creating the video at different points throughout the week, you know what I mean? So number 1, guys, quantity. Get as many videos out onto the channel as possible. If you can't create daily content like I do with this style of Q&A, how-to, this is informative, if you need more time to process quality content, that's fine. Chronicle your journey, alright? So that's number 1, quantity, guys. Sheer quantity. Get it out there. Alright, what's next? We've got our quantity up there. The next thing is optimize Optimize, optimize. What do I mean by optimizing a video? It looks like this. How are you picking your titles? It's a huge thing. Are your titles optimized? How do you best optimize a title? That's right. You gotta use a tool like TubeBuddy. If you don't have TubeBuddy already, check out the link down below. I've put it there for you guys. It's an amazing tool that will help you quickly and accurately select titles that are the best way to get your videos viewed in search. If you're not using TubeBuddy, it's a tool. There are, there are benefits to getting the premium version as always, but the free tool is an amazing boost to your channel and will help you select proper titles. Now you've got proper titles in place, what else needs to be there? Meta tags— TubeBuddy will provide that for you as well, suggestions as to the best tags that you can put on your video so that they will pop up in search. Proper descriptions that describe what your video is, what it's about, make sure you've got relevant keywords organically showing up in the text. What does that mean? Organically showing up in the text. Don't spam. Let's say this video, don't spam YouTube partner, YouTube partner, YouTube partner, YouTube partner in the description. Instead, provide an honest description that is a written paragraph that will have natural keywords in it. How to become a YouTube partner in 90 days. This is how I took my video from YouTube part or my channel from nothing to a partner level channel in only 80 videos, right? That would be something that I put into the description of my videos in order for those keywords. YouTube partner, 80 days, videos— those are keywords that I would want to register for, and it would help the algorithm inside YouTube to understand what my video is about. So title, keywords, description, and thumbnail, thumbnail, thumbnail. If you guys don't know how to do a proper thumbnail, go ahead and search your favorite YouTube channels. If I'm not one of them, oh sad, but that's okay. Go find another channel and see how they do their thumbnails. You'll see great thumbnails and you'll see really bad thumbnails. Throw in a search for something you're interested in and just look at the thumbnails that pop up. Take note of the ones that catch your eye. Take down notes. This caught my eye because— this caught my eye because— and then start to build your thumbnails out of that. If you're not sure what tool to use to do thumbnails, I— there's a lot of tools out there. There's the custom thumbnail generator with YouTube. I've never used that. I'm not gonna recommend it just because I haven't used it, okay? The two that I see out there that are huge. Number one, Canva, and I'm a huge fan of Canva. I use it every day to create my thumbnails. Again, that link will be down below, but you're able to use the free version and a premium version. I paid for the premium version just because I like some of the custom ability or customizing that it affords you, but it's up to you. I like Canva. There are people that have Photoshop out there. I have Photoshop. I'm not a huge Photoshop guru though, so I haven't really dabbled into it. I find Canva is quick. And efficient and simple. And so I use it to create my thumbnails, and you've seen them. And if you like them, you might want to use the tool. But optimize your videos, guys. Title, description, tags, thumbnail— so crucial, so vital. Make it happen. That's 1 and 2, guys. Quantity, optimize. Quantity, optimize, and community. The last one is community, guys. Make sure that as you are creating content, you're not keeping it to yourself. Like your video, Put a question of the day in it, encourage conversation, share it out there to all those social networks. The beautiful thing about any YouTube video is, if you guys like this video, please share it out. But you can see down below, they make it easy. There's a share button. You click the share button, it opens up a bar that's got a bunch of different social networks you can share it to. You should be sharing daily to every network that applies for you. I share daily into every single one of those buttons except for the 2 Russian networks, just because I I don't speak Russian. I don't feel that I can engage effectively on that network. If I spoke Russian, I would be using those networks as well. Put your video out there, share it to as many different people as possible. So that's a big part of community, right? The first one is share. Share your content out there. The next step, guys, in building community is engage. If people answer your question of the day, if people are commenting on your video, make a point, especially as a new channel or a small YouTuber, to get out there and have those dialogues. Communicate with people, answer their questions. Thank them for watching the video. Thank them for their insights. Be a part of that. If you go back and check every single one of my videos, yet another perk of TubeBuddy, I can go into my dashboard and say, show me every comment I have not responded to. And I make sure that every day when I start my day, that's the first thing I'm doing, checking every single comment, making sure that I haven't missed a single one. All right guys, so you're going out there, you're sharing it out there, you're letting people know you're creating content, you're engaging with the people that engage with that content. So vital, so crucial. And last but not least, guys, if you're engaging, make sure you're also consuming other people's content. And I know here on this channel, that's something that we're starting to do a little more frequently. I'm making a point every Saturday now to do a live review of YouTube channels and websites and social networks of anybody that's a member of this community. So what I do is I go out and I actually consume what they're creating. I look at their channels, I look at what they put out, I look at their content. And I make a visible effort here on YouTube to say I like what you guys are doing. Not only do I want to help on my channel put out great videos like this, I want to help look at your channels and help you guys with your websites and help you guys with your social media. It's a great way to engage in community. Community can't always be about you spewing on everybody. It needs to have a little bit of back and forth. You can't just share, you also have to consume, and it's a great way to go. I've got, I've got tons of I have a bunch of subscribed channels. You can see them mostly on my homepage on my channel of different people that I like to watch. Guys like Tom Bilyeu, Emmett Carmichael, Roberto Blake, Derral Eves, Tim Schmoyer, Sarah Nichi, Peter McKinnon. Like, these guys are phenomenal. And if you guys are fans of their community, I guarantee you on every one of their videos, I'm there, I like it, and I comment on it. Every one of those videos. Why? I love what they put out. It inspires me. It gets me that willful drive to create and it has me engaging with them. And hopefully somewhere down the road I'll see some engagement back. That would be an amazing thing to do, to meet some of these people, talk with some of these people, pick their brain on what they're doing, share some of my insight into what I'm doing. These are just powerful opportunities, but community, guys. So quantity, quantity is so core and so key. Optimizing your videos, so core, so key. Creating a community around your content, so vital. It for today, guys. Keep it simple. Keep those tips there. Make sure that you're out there daily creating, engaging, inspiring people with what you're doing. I am so stoked to finally have hit that partner mark. I do need to create a new goal though. So question of the day is: What do you guys think my next goal should be here on YouTube? Let me know down in the comments below. And of course, guys, as always, Saturday at noon Eastern Standard Time, I will be going live. So if you want to be one of the people that has your channel showcased on that live review. of either your YouTube channel, your website, or your social media channels, make sure you're here on Saturday. All right, Saturday noon Eastern Standard Time. Saturday noon Eastern Standard Time. That's it for today, guys. Take it easy, and I will catch you tomorrow with another great video. See you then.