TOP 3 Secrets to YouTube SUCCESS

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This is a professional thing here. It's a professional channel.

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Professional channel. Hey everyone.

Hi.

Happy weekend.

Happy weekend.

I got a question from Anna.

Dear Evan, for my English exam, I picked out the topic YouTube. For this, I decided to ask my 3 favorite YouTubers 5 questions about how they feel about YouTube, which they hopefully will answer me. I would be very thankful. This could happen in form of a response letter or if possible, short in a video. This will make It's going to be very happy and it will be a big impact on my exam.

I'm honored that I'm the top 3 YouTuber in your life. That's awesome. Yay! I hope it's legit top 3, not like you sent this to 20 people and you're hoping 3 people write back. Like legit top 3. And, uh, yeah, we're making a video response just quickly because I'm assuming your exam is coming up soon and you need a fast response. So Nina's going to ask the questions and I'm going to answer them. And we'll see how we do.

What was your motivation to start YouTube?

I'm a visual learner. I like to learn from videos much more than I do from reading or hearing, especially hearing. Hearing is the worst. I think visual, at least you can see it on text. But I wish, I wish there were more videos out there that I could learn from. And so since it didn't exist, I started creating it. And the first series I had was around modeling success and showing famous entrepreneurs. That's why my channel is called Bonding with the Masters. And then I started ramping up when I started getting a lot of questions, kind of like this. I got tons of people emailing me, and I would spend so much time, hours, just responding to people's emails and trying to help them with their business. And I thought, you know what, there's other people who have the same problems. Why don't I make a YouTube video about it? And that would help that person but also help all the other people with the same problems. So I started.

You're a successful YouTuber. Do you see yourself as a YouTuber?

Yes, I think I'm a YouTuber. I call I call myself an entrepreneur. If somebody asks, "What do you do?" That great question at a dinner event where you've never met people before. I just say I'm an entrepreneur. I don't really care so much about what people call me or call themselves. I'm not necessarily that attached to the label "I'm a YouTuber." Um, what's happening back there? Nina's doing dangerous things back here. Yeah, I remember reading in a discussion forum, YouTube has opened up a backend kind of YouTube special creator community. I don't know what the criteria is to get in, but I'm one of a few members in there. And somebody posed the question, you know, at what point do you consider yourself a YouTuber? And they were getting upset with smaller channels, people calling themselves YouTubers when they weren't doing it full-time or they only had a few videos up. I don't see the problem with it, you know, like, why not? You're on YouTube, you're creating videos. Like, at what point do you become a YouTuber? When you feel like you are one. That's it. You know, when are you an artist? When are you an entrepreneur? You should already be one. And so I'm not too attached to the labels, but I consider myself a YouTuber. I consider somebody who posted, you know, a couple videos and they want to make something of it a YouTuber as well. So hopefully that helps.

Why do you continue with making videos for YouTube, and what's your motivation?

The biggest reason that I keep going is honestly you guys, like the fans, the people watching, The daily comments that I see and Nina sees from you guys saying how much the videos have helped you and changed your lives. And some of the comments are really deep and meaningful and impactful, and reading them every day just makes me feel like I'm doing something valuable. I think sometimes when you're doing something like YouTube, you're making a video. It's like we're in our bedroom making this video, right? You're making a video from your house, from your office, from the street. You don't necessarily think that somebody's going to consume it and watch it and have it touch them. And so that can be pretty insular, and it can be hard when you're just talking to a camera. But knowing that what we're creating is having a positive impact on people's lives, that's what makes me want to keep going. That's the biggest reason. Just, there's so much love on this channel, and I think a number of people have commented that the, the amount of love that we get on this channel The lack of haters on this channel compared to other channels is really noticeable, and I think that's awesome. I think we've developed an awesome community, and I do it for you guys. Almost all the videos I make on the channel are requests. This video is a request. Believe Life is a request. All the anspressos are requests. The top 10s are all requests.

Hello, Evan. Good morning. Anspresso, keep me going.

I like it.

I like the song.

Yeah, so it's all, it's all based off you guys and your feedback and love and comments is what keeps me going through it.

Do you hope that you have an impact on the viewers? Do you believe that you have an impact on your viewers?

Yeah, I mean, I think that ties to the last question. Yeah, I definitely hope in anything that I do that I have an impact. I'm starting more and more now to turn down projects that don't have a huge impact. I just feel I feel more fulfilled when I know that the things that I'm doing are having a big impact. My personal goal is to help a billion entrepreneurs. That only happens by doing big projects. So looking at YouTube as one platform, looking at writing a book as another platform, just how can I get a message out that will reach lots of people is now much more a goal than it used to be, where if I helped one person one-on-one, I really helped that person, but that may not have a massive impact on a lot of people. I believe, believe, I'm the believe guy. Yeah, I believe in it. I know it based on the last question. Like, I get lots of comments every single day. Like, every day it's a struggle to keep up with the number of comments between me, Ivan, and Nina. It's a challenge, but like, don't stop commenting. We love it, and I know that it helps. And I try to share those with my team. Just so you guys know, for the commenters, every week I pull out one of my favorite comments for the past week and I share with everybody on my team because not everybody gets to see it. Nina, Ivan, and I get to see the comments, we get to live it, but there's a lot of people behind the scenes in my YouTube channel as well as in my regular business running the website who don't get to see all the love, you know, like my programmer and my researcher and my marketing assistant, you know, all these people who are kind of behind the scenes that make everything go. They don't get to see the love, and so I share your comments with them so that they know that they're being a part of something big as well.

What's your benefit from being a YouTuber?

I think my benefit, the biggest one that I get, is knowing that I have an impact. I think as people, we crave a couple things. We crave, one, learning and growing opportunities, right? If you stop growing as a human being, you get bored, you get angry, you get depressed, you get sad. I think that's why most people hate their jobs. You know, 90% of America wakes up and drives to a job that they hate. A lot of it's because they're not learning learning and growing anymore. And so, and that's, I think, being an entrepreneur in general, as long as you're learning, you're happy and growing. I think YouTube gives a great opportunity for that. I'm constantly coming up with new ideas, new techniques, new things that I'm learning, I'm getting better at being in front of the camera. If you look back on my channel and saw a video, an impromptu video like this, like I just said, Nina, this person has an exam, let's make a video. That a couple years ago would have been me scripting out answers and trying to find the exact right words and me speaking really boringly. Boringly. So I've gotten better and that's great. I love that I've had the opportunity to grow and learn. And then also I think you want to make sure that, again, just as a human being, you want to have an impact. You want to know that you're touching people's lives and YouTube gives me such a great way to do that. YouTube was never my number one priority, but it has become my number one social media priority and one of the most important things I do in my business. I'm on YouTube every single day. I check my comments every day. We post 3 times a day. I'm reviewing videos basically every day. It's just, it's something that I love doing so much, mostly because of the audience. When you know that the work that you're doing is reaching people and having a positive impact, That's the drug. Like, you want to just do more of that. When you know that you found something that you're good at that can help people, you want to do it again and again and again and again and again. So that's what I get. What do you get?

Get what?

Well, you help on the channel. What do you get? I'm gonna sit back. You can kneel up and answer the question. You answered that last question.

I'm not a YouTuber.

You're a YouTube— yeah, are you on YouTube?

I'm just, I guess You're a special guest. A special guest in your video right now.

So what do you get from being— you want to do videos together. What do you get from being there?

I don't know, it's just fun.

It's fun?

Yeah, it's fun.

Fun is a good reason too. People don't have enough fun in their lives. So there you go. Growth, impact, and fun.

Good luck on the exam.

Good luck on the exam. I hope that helped. And for members of Believe Nation, for those of you who are YouTubers too, maybe answer those questions too. In the comments below. Give Anna a little more context and a little more data to work with. Thank you guys for watching.

Merry Christmas! Happy holidays!

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Next week!

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I feel like we should have hats on or something. You have the big kiss.

Yeah, the big lips, not kiss.

Big lips.

Hey, watch where your lips are going.

This is a private family channel. It's a family channel. Okay, that's it. Thank you guys for watching. Have a great day. Believe. Why are you— and we'll see you soon. Bye!

My English exam. Oh, for my English exam.

Okay, let me— give me this.

Holy cow. It's not for you, you just texted.