Nicolas ColeCo-Founder Ship 30 for 30, Premium Ghostwriting Academy

The Easiest Way To Get Started On YouTube #creator

24 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this concise creator‑advice video, Nicolas Cole explains his go‑to recommendation for anyone asking how to begin a YouTube channel. He advises aspiring creators to first write several long‑form articles, then record about 50 Loom‑style videos where they simply talk over those written pieces. The purpose of this low‑production approach is to develop camera comfort, endurance, and a repeatable workflow—skills that are independent of visual polish. Cole emphasizes that production quality is irrelevant for the first 50‑100 videos; the focus should be on mastering speaking to the camera and content structuring. Once these foundational skills are solid, creators can invest in higher‑quality production later.

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Whenever someone asks me how to get started on YouTube, I give the same advice every time, which is you should write a handful of long-form pieces and then you should open Loom and you should talk over the long-form piece that you wrote. And you should do that like 50 times in a row. Your first 50 videos should be that. The reason is because video is such a different skill and requires such different skills that it really doesn't matter how high of production quality you have. It doesn't matter because for the first 50 to 100 videos, all of the skills that you have to build have have nothing to do with production quality. They have to do with you getting used to talking to a camera, you building the endurance and the muscle of doing it. They have to do with you understanding like the different little workflows, writing out the content ahead of time, and then being able to sort of riff on it. All of those skills have nothing to do with production quality. And so you might as well save the money and just do that in a Loom video and build all of those skills. And then once you become proficient, you can always level up the production quality later.