what's up shenanigans John here and I am back I hope you guys are having a
fantastic weekend I'm here to talk to you about three things I believe could
be holding small youtubers back before we get started I'd like to say thank you
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I post videos now look guys YouTube is not easy it's not easy no one is saying
it's easy everybody who is a big youtuber had to work the rears off to
get there no one has gotten a free ride that I know of they have please clue me
in to who's gotten a free ride but everyone is put in the work on YouTube
so I think we could probably all agree YouTube is not easy whether it is a
hobby you treat it in you treat it like a hobby or whether or not it's something
you hope to replace a job or to be a job or to be supplemental income for you
you're gonna have to put in that level of effort so if it's a hobby you're
gonna have to put in hobby level effort and if this is something you want to be
successful at you want to make it your job you're gonna have to put in that
level of effort that job type of effort to be successful in this platform and
that leads me to my first first issue that I think that small youtubers have
this is me included guys from the last three years that I've been on this
channel I think we compare ourselves to each other and to bigger youtubers way
too much and I think that is really unfair to do to ourselves look to make
fair comparisons you need to compare apples to apples not apples to oranges
those big youtubers have had years and years and years
to hone their craft and become who they are if you have ever seen the beginning
videos for these big youtubers there just as cringy is the ones that we've
created everyone starts somewhere comparing yourself to somebody who is
that established there's really unfair especially if you're starting off or
looking around so I've been on this platform for three years and if you've
just started off is it fair to compare yourself to me now after almost 400
videos gotta learn to cut a lot of things you have to learn your voice you
have to learn your personality your editing style your audience how to talk
to the people on the other end of this camera it takes a while to kind of hone
that craft and get it zero and for your channel again what's gonna
work for you is not gonna work for me so it does take time to learn your voice to
learn how you're gonna communicate on this platform to kind of find who you
are and how you address people it does take quite a while to do that and the
other thing there's so many other factors to compare here it's personality
channel type content type SEO on the channel how good or bad are you with
that you know talent experience you know if somebody's been doing this for years
and years and years it's gonna be really hard to compare yourself to them if
you're just starting out or if somebody's like Casey nice that could
come into the platform who has a decade of moviemaking experience they're
bringing something to the table that we may not have so it's not fair to compare
ourselves to those folks we all start with zero subs that we all bring our
past our experiences to the table so we're all different when we're all
starting from a different starting point when we start here yeah we all have zero
subs but we're all bringing different experiences different talents different
backgrounds to this platform into our channels and we're gonna be exposing
that to folks and that's gonna be different and it'd be exposed
differently in different ways just depending on how we start the type of
cameras we use the editing style that we use just our general personalities it's
all gonna be different so it's really not fair to compare yourself to anyone
else on this platform a second area I think small youtubers fail in quite
often is not focusing on your strengths and therefore minimizing your weaknesses
why did you start your channel is it because you're good at something and
you're focusing on that maybe you're a good speaker and you don't have to worry
about editing too much because you can just throw it turn on the camera and
talk for fifteen minutes and not have to worry about editing at all or you have a
photography background and transitioning to video is not so hard for you or you
could be someone who has a weakness like you're not able to speak very well to
camera you're kind of awkward but if you're really good at editing and you
can hone that craft you can cover up that for a while until you get better at
it so you can focus on the strengths and minimize the weaknesses if you come on
to YouTube and your channel is about something you're not good at and you're
not confident and that's gonna show itself in your video so if you're
something you're good at I think that's probably what you want to
focus your channel on if you're you know good at farming you
probably want to do a channel about farming and really hone in and on that I
know that kind of contradicts my saying a lot about diversifying your channel
but I think as you grow as a youtuber and you get better at this craft you can
start expanding into the other areas doing all of those things is gonna allow
you to expand the areas that you can concentrate on once you get through
those first probably a couple hundred videos as you're learning on this
platform take it easy on yourself we're all gonna grow at different paces we're
all gonna learn at different paces so just take it easy on yourself now the
third area that I think small youtubers need to concentrate on is being self
aware one thing I've learned on this platform after the last three years is
that you have to be self-aware to make adjustments you have to be confident
enough in yourself to have those difficult conversations with yourself
you talk to yourself when you're editing and being able to understand where you
need to improve if you need to bring somebody else to kind of see the video
with you and watch yourself and kind of give you tips do that you're it's it's
hard on YouTube to get constructive feedback now you're either gonna get
people that come onto your channel and just feed you a load of BS because they
want you to sub to the channel or they're not gonna give you true feedback
just because it's difficult to give people feedback it's not easy especially
when you don't know the people to really say yeah I don't know where this video
was you just rambled for 10 minutes and you held the camera down at your waist
and I looked up your nose for seven or eight minutes it's saying that someone
you don't know is difficult so you have to be able to look at other videos and I
think when you're not when I say don't compare yourself you can look at other
videos to say to kind of get that baseline okay like maybe I need to hold
the camera up and not down at my waist up at my face and try to make those
adjustments and I'm just using that as an example there's a many things that we
do that are strange on camera I've learned a lot about myself I say I'm a
lot I leave some of them in but a lot of them I edit out between my thoughts I
just say um and I do that kind of thing and I'm doing I'm editing I can actually
see them in the audio track that's annoying see things like that you
have to be kind of confident enough in yourself and say you know what I need to
improve in that maybe I'll learn to not do that look no one's perfect this is
all a learning experience for all of us being self aware be able to watch a
video and change the things that you see that you don't think are coming across
very well or taking feedback is a lot of times there's a little nugget of truth
when you get negative feedback there's people who'll make a comment on your
video you're like well they were kind of a jerk but I can see what they're
talking about so for you and I to get better on this we're really gonna have
to be self aware and make those adjustments to mitigate any kind of
issues that could be coming across as annoying on camera success is no
accident it is hard work it is perseverance is learning studying
sacrifice and most of all a love of what you're doing or what you're learning to
do that just sums up everything we've talked about today you have to love this
you have to want to study and learn about it and make those adjustments
for the craft that you love so concentrate on not comparing yourself to
people make sure you focus on your strengths and minimize your weaknesses
and be self-aware enough that you can make these adjustments and not feel bad
about yourself and realize that we're all doing that we're all going through
the same thing you are from the smallest youtuber to the largest youtuber I think
everyone is constantly growing and they're doing that by being self-aware
about what they see alright guys that's all I have for you tonight please let me
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