Evan Carmichael reviews Tech Deck Talk Time and identifies three problems: the channel mixes tech, movies, and lifestyle content with no clear focus; it lacks an intro video explaining the creator's purpose; and it posts too infrequently. He recommends narrowing the niche, adding a dedicated intro, and uploading daily to build momentum and find a unique voice.
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Hey, it's Evan. I'm a little bit sick today, but I am doing a review and answering YouTube comments because that's what I love to do. So today I'm answering a question from one of my YouTube viewers, Tech Deck Talk Time, who wrote in to say, "Hey, would you mind checking out my channel and leaving a comment telling me what you think, what I might do differently? It would be much appreciated. Thanks." So I loaded up the page here. This is the page at the top, and the first thing, my first bit of advice here is we gotta focus. I come to this page, I don't know what I'm getting, and I'm not really curious to learn more, right? So either tell me what I'm gonna get up here, or even better, make me feel something, right? I wanna come to your page and say, wow, I'm really curious to learn more. I don't know what this is all about. So Tech Deck talk time is long, it's hard to say. I'm assuming you're some kind of technology, you know, vlogger. You're gonna be gonna tell me about new products coming out, some kind of technology. But I'd shorten that up and keep me focused. You're telling me I get new videos every Saturday, but I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what the subject of the videos are. And, you know, the two pictures of you, it's great, but it's not making me want to learn more. So I'd focus this a little bit more. Tell me what I'm going to get, or even better, make me feel something when I land on this page. If I go to the About page, it says, "Here I review things like songs and movies and tell you what I think about them." Okay, so I don't know how that relates to tech, but songs and movies, okay, fine. And then I go back to the video page, and you've got things like, you know, "Tips for Freshmen," "Summer Break Review." So that— is that a movie? I don't know. Uh, RIP Robin Williams. What else you got here? Dawn of Planet of the Apes, Dance Recess. So there's some— it's a mix, right? There's not that many videos here, but, uh, you know, your main video is talking about tips for freshmen, your page at the top is talking about tech, and your about page is talking about movie reviews. So it's kind of all over the place. And if you're making a lifestyle channel around you, that's fine, just make that clear, right? So focus this in so I know what I'm getting and can have a pleasant experience in following you. The next thing I do is have this video here introduce yourself. So 5 Tips for Freshmen is probably not the best way to start, especially if most of the stuff you're going to be doing is about movies. Then this is totally out of character. And it's okay to have some of these on your channel. It doesn't have to be all super focused. But especially as your main video, you want it to be related to what you're usually talking about. So I'd either have it as a movie review, but ideally it's a, hey, I'm, you know, whatever your name is. It doesn't even say what your name is here. Does it say on the About page? No. Okay. So put your name on it. But you can introduce yourself and tell me what I'm going to get on this channel, why it's so great. You know, give me some more information than just having one video here that is about a specific topic that's not what you usually talk about. And then the other thing I would say is you got to post more frequently. So we've got this video from 3 weeks ago, and then 2 weeks ago, and 1 month ago, and this was 2 weeks ago. You know, I watched a bit of this video and it's fine, it's okay. For anybody starting a YouTube channel, okay, it takes time to develop your style. You gotta figure out what your style is. You gotta watch a bunch of other people's videos and channels and take bits and pieces and try something, and it's gonna be uncomfortable at the start. And you just— it takes a while to find your voice and your style and what— how you wanna create your videos. And that comes with practice. So if you wanna really turn this into something popular, something that you can be proud of, something that can potentially make you a full-time income and beyond, you need to get more practice. Like once a week is not enough. You gotta amp this up. You gotta be doing something every day Just like anything else, you know, you want to get better at baseball, you got to go out and practice every day. You want to get better at math, you got to go out and do your homework every day. You got to practice. You want to get better at videos, once a week isn't enough. You got to do something every day to develop your style, you know, and try new things, take some risks with it until you develop a point where you're like, wow, I'm really happy with what I've done so far. Okay, so those are your 3 tips. 1, focus. 2, make this video an intro video, make it better. And 3, make your videos come up more regularly. Practice, practice, practice. 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