I'm Eddie I'm a wildlife biologist I'm starting a YouTube channel that combines
travel with environmental education to my main passions and in case you were
thinking about starting a YouTube channel and you don't think it might not
be worth it well I'm here to tell you all the good reasons why you should
still start a YouTube channel even if you don't end up making money off of it
because I think there's some pretty good reasons to still do it which I will tell
you and explain right after this well the first good reason why I would have
been worth it to start the YouTube channel is very practical okay is you
will gain skills that are potentially very useful in your future one skill is
you'll learn at least to a certain extent how to edit videos it depends how
hard you work at it believe me man I just started doing it like a couple
months ago and I have learned so much I found it a lot of fun too which I'll get
to later we live in the age of videos man videos are all over social media
companies are making videos to advertise there's many more jobs opening up for
videographers and I'm not saying that you should pursue a career in
videography but you never know you never know what kind of small business you'll
be involved in which hey you know if you know how to make a video on your own
maybe you could save money rather than like hiring like this big-time
professional videographer maybe you can advertise for your own small business
the other kinds of skills that you will learn are your social media influencing
skills for the longest time I counted like down on social media I thought it
was a waste of time I thought it was just a way to make other people mad
about posting your comments about various things that it was kind of weird
how you could like kind of you know stalk your friends photos the truth is
social media has taken over our lives now maybe I'm preaching to the choir
maybe everyone already knows that by now social media is the best way to
advertise these days learning how to advertise or grow yourself on social
media it's a very strategic thing you know there's certain things you can do
there's alga rhythms you know that you can tweet that you can post at certain
times you're getting to know these platforms you also learn how to keep up
with these platforms as they keep changing so I'm not saying that you
should pursue a career as a social media marketer but let's say again
you're in a business it's important to keep up with this stuff you know it's
important to learn these skills okay I'm a wildlife biologist some wanted you
like you know you're studying wild animals you're studying Birds why would
you ever need to advertise yourself on social media well I don't know I
actually work in the private sector you never know when I might be you know in
business trying to advertise to a client you got to be on top of social media
these days if you're gonna be on top of your business in whatever field man a
second reason why you should grow YouTube channel is let's say you have
this inner desire okay not really to to grow a business and gain money but let's
say you know you have some message you want to get out to society let's say
it's for a good cause you know you're you're trying to you know help world
hunger or let's say you're trying to raise awareness of some disease you guys
remember a couple years ago the ALS bucket challenge you know so there's
philanthropy causes for my youtube channel I want to be able to help other
people in a couple different ways the first part of the message of my channel
is just inspiring other people to travel the world because I've done a lot of
traveling and I had so much fun labs traveling and I want to inspire people
to do it I want to sort of guide people how to do it but then you know I'm also
a wildlife biologist I have this lifelong passion for nature and Wildlife
and birds I want to inspire people to appreciate nature in a way that they
never had before all in an effort to create environmental awareness you know
to help you know save the planet you know even if I didn't really even grow
that much if I even spread that message to a small handful of people I still
view that as a benefit and then number three growing a YouTube channel yeah it
is a lot of work okay and if you want to succeed okay I can already tell that
it's a ton of work and you have to have a very hard working cutthroat mentality
I haven't succeeded I just started even if you don't succeed it's actually
really fun I love filming wild animals I love filming birds taking photos of
birds when I'm out in the field and I've also discovered that I love vlogging my
trips it's pretty cool because at first it is like kind of off
word but once you get over that it's really cool going back over the footage
and editing it and it's just memories man it's hilarious you know it's
hilarious to like to edit things and like the really inappropriate stuff that
you can't share put all that funny stuff into a separate video and you know share
it with your buddies you were traveling with so this video is all about all the
reasons why you should make a YouTube channel besides money well the truth is
you should still definitely do it for the potential to earn money because why
not right and it's also gonna motivate you if you actually were able to earn
enough money to be a youtuber to like just to be a full-time youtuber sounds
like living the dream there's a number of ways that you can make money off
youtube you know there's the ad money directly from YouTube there are sponsors
there's affiliate marketing and you can also use YouTube as an advertising
platform to sell your own merchandise and there's also other ways that you can
make money on YouTube as well one thing that I love about YouTube it seems like
to me again I'm brand new I'm just starting out is it seems like there's
kind of like this middle ground you know you can be a large channel you can be a
medium channel it can be a small channel even with a few thousand subscribers you
can still get some types of sponsors hey I've 150 subscribers I've only really
gone on one real trip and done like a real vlog out of it to Nicaragua last
month and I sent one of the videos that I made to a hostel that I stayed in in
Nicaragua of me just going to the hostel having a good time going one of their
tours they looked at it they loved it they stuck it on their page and you know
what they told me they said hey man if you want to come back here and stay for
free you are more than welcome dude I don't know if that counts as a
sponsorship but that's already some benefit that I got out just for making
like a couple videos out of my first trip but I'll tell you one reason why
you should not make a YouTube channel and that is to get famous okay you
should not try to be the next Logan Paul for example you know he has millions and
millions of subscribers statistically no matter who you are statistically that's
just not going to happen but you know what is famous even me and right is this
famous mean two million subscribers you know a hundred thousand you know ten
thousand a thousand what does it mean again there's a middle ground I've
leave where hey you know if a thousand subscribers means I'm famous among a
certain group of people hey men I think that's a pretty decent goal that's
actually my goal over the next year is to reach a thousand subscribers and then
the last thing I want to say is when you first start making YouTube channel it's
gonna be pretty frickin weird there might be some people that think it's
weird that think it's strange it's gonna be weird talking to the camera this is a
lot easier to do right now like at home by myself but out in public believe me
man it's pretty freaking weird at first but you know once you start getting that
confidence on it feels amazing and it's super fun to do and it's freakin
hilarious dude they're gonna be people who freakin who freakin start calling
you out your friends might start making fun of you okay and you just gotta
ignore them my friends have told me dude Edie yeah you know you're just trying to
get famous you know I've already told you that I'm not trying to get famous
but they're like good you're you're just trying to get famous man like if you
really actually just want to make money man you should just do poor man yeah man
just ignore people and it's gonna be scary once you start doing it and even
if you never are successful I truly believe that still gonna be awesome and
anyways guys if you were thinking about starting a YouTube channel I hope you do
and feel free to subscribe to my channel if you want to be inspired to travel
learn about traveling on I explore all kinds of things about the youngtravel
life like you know the budget travel life the party life that goes along with
traveling you want to be inspired about nature about wildlife about
environmental issues in the world and how I tie that into the travel life
subscribe and good luck with your YouTube channel man peace out
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