How to BUILD Fast on YouTube | 10 Tips

Get started! Don't wait for conditions to be perfect before you actually do something, because by the time you figure it all out, you'll have missed your window of opportunity. You have to get started, and get started today! Do something, even if it's a small thing. Start building some momentum. I got a question from Valerie, who's a YouTube viewer— love you guys on YouTube— wrote in, you know, I have the equipment to do a YouTube video, I want to get started on YouTube, but I have to find somebody to help me set this up for my business. What do I do? You don't need somebody, Valerie. You can start on your own. Don't wait for somebody else to get in this for you to start making a successful YouTube video. Start! And if your goal is to build something big with it, you will find resources, people, connections to help you out. When I first started on YouTube, I wanted to do it because I was a visual learner. I wanted to be able to share and answer the same question a lot of people are having. Instead of just helping that one person, I could put it on YouTube, make a video, and help tons of people. That was the main goal, and my first video sucked. You know, I was nervous, the camera equipment was terrible, the lighting was off, the sound was off, but I just started. That's the key. You start, you look at the product that you create, you want to make it better. You have standards, right? You want to start increasing the quality here, and part of that's going to come from you doing research. So I researched better cameras, I researched tripods, I researched microphones. It came from feedback from my users. The people who are watching videos said, "I love the video, but the sound quality kind of sucks." So I got to get a microphone, and I started improving the quality gradually. I brought on a team of people to help me. So I do the videos myself. I'm in my office. I've just got a Sony camcorder or Handycam, whatever it is. I got a Sony microphone. It's sitting on a tripod, and I film it, and then I put it on my Google Drive, and I have a contractor someone on my team who edits all the videos. So I started editing myself, and they were crappy, like they were basic editing, but it doesn't matter. Like, you don't need editing. Just put it up, get started, build some momentum. Don't wait to find the perfect editor before you start this thing. Go start doing it. Practice, you'll get better. I found an editor. I use oDesk, which is a great service, and she works for me every week. Christina, she's watching this video. Hey, Christina. "Love your work, awesome, keep doing a good job." And I send all the files to her. We use Google Drive. I upload them on my camera, she puts them on my YouTube video channel. She'll put the name, description, all that stuff. She posts it because my time now is best spent making the videos. So that's what I do. And I've slowly built up my equipment, my technology, the people who've helped me. And I'll talk to people who are in video and who are in who are photographers, and I'll say, "Look at my video, what do you think? Could they be better?" And they give me tips on lighting, and they give me tips on setting the stage, and distracting background, all this stuff that you learn, 'cause you wanna get better. But if you keep just learning and you never take any action, and you keep waiting for the right person to come along, nothing is gonna happen. You have a great idea built up in your head, and you'll never take action on it. You look back, it's like 2 years have gone by and nothing has happened. So it's great to plan, like, plan, it's great, keep that plan in mind, but also do something about it. To make a YouTube video is easy. You have a camera, you use your laptop, anything, some kind of camera, press record, start sharing your opinion, make it as powerful and impactful as you can, care about your audience, and just put it up. And it'll get better and better and better and better. And that momentum of you actually doing work will feed into making those videos better. And before you know it, you have an amazing product on your hand. If all you do is plan, you're never going to make it. And I know, I know it's hard. A lot of us are planners. A lot of us want to have everything done perfectly before we do something, and it's, and it's a fear of something going wrong and it not working out. And it's a legitimate fear, right? You don't want to create something that sucks and it's a big failure. But you also have to work through that fear and not just plan. I know a ton of entrepreneurs who just plan, plan, plan, plan, plan, and it takes them forever to do something. And as a result, they're building a company that's a fraction of what it could be. So you need to combine the planning with actual action. So plan for your YouTube channel or whatever project it is for the rest of you guys watching. Plan for it, but also start. Do something now, do something today, small. Record a video, even if you don't post it, record a video on your camera just to see what you look like. Practice, make it as good as you can. Build some momentum. It'll feed into your business, make you better, make your company better, make you more money. Believe. You guys like this video, thumbs up below. Thank you so much, it makes me wanna do more videos for you. And I wanna hear what you have to think. Comment below, please. For those of you watching, you like the video, please leave a comment. Even just say, "I like this video." Those make my day every day when I eat my breakfast and I'm watching the videos. And if you have a question for your company, leave it below. I will make a video response for you just like I did for this one. Thank you guys. I'll see you soon.