I started a channel to do two things. 1. Make a video playlist of my life journey, so when I pass away, my future grandkids will know me. If others watch, great, if not, that's also great. 2. My retirement lifestyle.
Quality is key! Thank you for that ✨some of my videos take me 10 days to edit, I’m really ok with that and I really enjoy the process 😊 new French subscriber here ❤
Thank you for the reassurance. I was getting so much bad advice. The worst one was "if one of your shorts does well, don't post another for a few days"... lol
Thanks for sharing. I just decided to post two videos a week. One on growing my small channel and one on my other topics like creativity, journalling, crafts and seasonal ideas. We'll see how it goes. 😊
Agree 👍 "Many" try to make "me/you" feel like we have to rush, but there's no way to publish a video or more per week at the beginning, for me personally as I do travel content and still working full time (even though remotely). I'm doing my best (just started) and planning to do more soon but don't get too stressed guys. IF you take this business seriously and see it long term, slow and steady WINS THE RACE. 👍
I have been able to get 1 video per week and 1 short every other week sometimes 1 short per week. I am a very experienced sound editor and do my own video editing. My channel is a faceless channel.
Sorry for just popping in here, but I saw your comment and I'm wondering if you have any cool sounds I could use for my Starship Sleep channel, I'm slowly building a library of videos to sleep by. The Alpha Channel one I posted recently I tested and had the most lucid dream ever. I plan on re-designing some of the videos specifically to trigger lucid dreaming.
Best advice I ever heard 'quality is better than quantity' but you need quantity to develop quality. Comparing my first video a week ago to my 12th release last night, I can see my own improvements.
Thanks for the tips, I decided to post a video every two days until I'm monetized. I am able to pump out videos as my style of content doesn't need high quality videos so it's perfect.
I fully agree Trena, in a way I become the niche. My social group follows me because of my personality, whereas a topic on it's own is very narrow and like a straight jacket.
Totally agreed. I was watching some of these BIG BIG channels but now they sounded like a broken record. Play over and over and over and over and over and over and over..... THEY DIDNT JUST DOUBLE DOWN. THEY XXX SO MANY TIMES
I will say, they probably did double down on the few topics that took off but they are also testing different things, they are also really studying their analytics. They are upping their thumbnail quality. They are A/B testing titles and thumbnails. So yes… they are double downing BUT they are also doing other things as well
i started TH-cam in 2022 and got stuck with random videos then I vacuum for almost 1 year until I heard and learned from everywhere. Now I decided to come back with new theme and some topics that I hope it will be useful and give benefits for my audiences. I uploaded 1 or 2 times in a week and I can't believe I got more unique viewers since I did YT with support to each other system. And I left that way and try to grow naturally and I feel more excited. Even my viewers now isn't alot yet but I am happy when I check my analytics. Thanks for sharing and added my knowledge beautiful Trena☺
Thank you for this video, I have been posting for a while but don’t feel like I’m getting anywhere. I listen to a lot of advice but don’t feel like it works and feel like giving up at times 😢.
As a new youtuber, I defintely didn't want to niche down anymore because my small business is so niche and it's been three years, but I'm officially bored of it unfortunately and I can only repeat myself so much on instagram
With how hard it is to make videos, film b-roll, film without being out of focus and redoing it a million times, edit the video, color correcting the poor filming I have time to create, etc, I am happy if I get one video out per month. I'm happy to hear the ADHD style is fading. I watch those videos and I think to myself, do I need to do that? By the way, what is going on with the end screen links? In every video I have watched in the past couple weeks, the end screen links happen closer to the middle of the video. Or is this just me?
As a new youtube channel, I've definitely noticed it's a struggle. I've also noticed so many different people tell you different things about what to do and not do.
Thanks for the info. I really enjoyed the niche discussion. I do a fishing channel with my young son, and I sometimes worry that we do too many different "types" of fishing. However, I was more concerned about not getting bored on the videos and, more importantly, exposing my son to lots of different types of fishing. It keeps us excited about the adventures. So hopefully it translates to audience as we grow.
Trena, my goal would be 3 a week. Gotta work up to that though. Used to be at least once a week but I fell off. I'm still solo and work a full time job so it's tough.
Wow, yes 3 a week is a lot! Try to get back into the routine of one a week and see how you feel. The last thing I want people to do is push themselves to pump out lots of videos and burn out.
I only make shorts. My target output has been 3-4 shorts per week recently but I've noticed I am starting to slow down now in pursuit of higher quality (better script/idea/visuals/voiceover etc), which is not a bad thing I think. Since I've been busy making videos in July/August, now I have a content library of 18 shorts. I feel less of a need to grow the quantity now, so I'm focusing on making better videos at a slower cadence.
@@TrenaLittle It was easy to fall into that trap. I realised my mistakes when I lost one of my few subscribers and found myself drained from pushing out content all the time. I posted a video apology and what I plan to do to improve. Thank you for this video. It came just at the right time. I think TH-cam might have been sending me a hint.
Thank you so much for this honest take and reminding me I can do "off topic" but still appealing videos. I feel like my "risky" videos sometimes perform better - so it makes sense when I think of my target audience over topic. I think another lie is the idea that you have to collect emails right away with a freebie printout or digital something. False. My diehard audience will sign up when I actually have something good to put out. The people who have already unsubscribed frankly would unsubscribe from my emails too. Maybe not the very next day, but they will. I'd rather have a quality freebie or have the bandwidth to do a good newsletter before I collect emails. Thanks for the SEO chat too - if I search engine a specific topic, chances it's a one-off thing I need. I find way more in browse for my daily viewing enjoyment than searching. I want hangout audience. If I have a topic that can be searchable, cool, but it's not my only strategy.
I really loved your thoughts on lead magnets and collecting emails. Right not the most important thing BUT can save you a lot of head ache owning your own communities emails in case something were to ever happen to your channel!
Question, with my name Cemetery Oddities I show cemetery art, I have a small loyal audience. If I was to post videos from my job or nature stuff would that ruin my channel. Or should I make a different channel for that?? In regard to the niche topic
Niche audience sounds very interesting to me and I would love to explore it further as a new small channel. I also love the quality being more valuable than quantity. Thank you 🙏 I appreciate you for sharing this message with us.
Educational! I fell into the trap of Lie #2 and....the SEO portion you mentioned. Thank you for the guidance as always! You cleared up a LOT with the difference between the niche topic and audience!!
Waiting more than "one video a week" drives me crazy. I love making the videos....however they are disasterpieces and if I upload too often TH-cam will throw me off the platform. Neil from TH-cam wrote " How about TH-cam pays you to go to Facebook and you promise to stop posting here........deal?"
Having a niche topic feels like making a module. I’m a newbie and decided to make videos on several topics, mostly about immigrating. I plan to make use of Playlists a lot. 😅
In other words, common sense never hurt anyone. Especially, in one's self-employment journey; youtube or not. As the author above stated, (Obviously) if you're bored .. so is your audience. Even in this video I was inclined to ffwd through half of it. If it's not interesting to you it's not interesting to the audience. Why? because it's your audience filled with folks just like you. Any sustainable success takes time to build. Always has been that way, always will be. Even youtube itself didn't turn a profit for nearly a decade. It's not for everyone, but out of those who persevere, a small fraction will see a decent level of success. A tinier circle will achieve better than that.
Hello Trena. Thanks for the valuable content. Could you pls explain why views from my videos come only through search? It's as if ytube's not pushing the video on the browse/homepage, even though the topic is trending/viral right now. How can we know for sure if youtube has shadownbanned us? thanks
I listen to advise but always put it in the context of performance. I note 57K subs which is okay but not remarkable for a channel of a year plus. But views seem to be pretty small for a how to grow your channel channel. Is there something I'm missing?
Nothing missing - I target a very specific audience that pays to work with me. So my channel and views may be small, but the audience I’m attracting is generation $500k+ a year… so listen to my advice or not but is working for me and my clients
@TrenaLittle Okay, I appreciate the response. It always pays to ask versus assume and there are sometimes contexts that are not apparent such as that you provided. 👍
You are 100 % right I do outdoors videos Fishing, Backyard Chickens and solo car camping and I grow 1000 + subscribers in less than 3 months 😊I like your video. I’ll subscribe to you
Hello from Gatlinburg TN Smoky Mountains Park 🏞️🌄..I try 4 per week .. I've gotten 13k in about 2 years...I try to get the tourists that have Never been here AND the ones who visit often ..We get 16mil tourists a year 🏞️🌄
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I started a channel to do two things. 1. Make a video playlist of my life journey, so when I pass away, my future grandkids will know me. If others watch, great, if not, that's also great. 2. My retirement lifestyle.
Cool. Sounds like a good idea.
Awww❤
Let me subscribe to your channel for that ❤❤❤❤Namibia 🇳🇦
This is a beautiful idea!
Yes when we older ones go public we leave more traces to whomever... that's part of my yt channel mission too❤
I’m finally on 100 subscribers
I’m super excited 💃💃💃
Congrats.
@@MikeOrazzi thank you
Ive sub to your channel
Go Sister! God Bless Us!
Congratulations!!! I’m only halfway there but this video is helping me stay encouraged . Good luck to you and your TH-cam journey ❤
Congratulations!!!🎉
🎉 Perfect 👍 advice. I just hit 636 subscribers
Im so happy. I pray 🙏 all small channels make it 🙏 🙌
Congrats on 636! That's amazing
Congratulations!!! We can do this!!
Quality is key! Thank you for that ✨some of my videos take me 10 days to edit, I’m really ok with that and I really enjoy the process 😊 new French subscriber here ❤
Thank you for the reassurance. I was getting so much bad advice. The worst one was "if one of your shorts does well, don't post another for a few days"... lol
Same here
Thanks for sharing. I just decided to post two videos a week. One on growing my small channel and one on my other topics like creativity, journalling, crafts and seasonal ideas. We'll see how it goes. 😊
Agree 👍 "Many" try to make "me/you" feel like we have to rush, but there's no way to publish a video or more per week at the beginning, for me personally as I do travel content and still working full time (even though remotely).
I'm doing my best (just started) and planning to do more soon but don't get too stressed guys.
IF you take this business seriously and see it long term, slow and steady WINS THE RACE. 👍
So true
Thanks for this comment, it’s given me motivation to carry on ☺️
@@travelberries3 Happy to hear that 😌🫸 good luck with your journey 💯
I have been able to get 1 video per week and 1 short every other week sometimes 1 short per week. I am a very experienced sound editor and do my own video editing. My channel is a faceless channel.
Sorry for just popping in here, but I saw your comment and I'm wondering if you have any cool sounds I could use for my Starship Sleep channel, I'm slowly building a library of videos to sleep by. The Alpha Channel one I posted recently I tested and had the most lucid dream ever. I plan on re-designing some of the videos specifically to trigger lucid dreaming.
Best advice I ever heard 'quality is better than quantity' but you need quantity to develop quality.
Comparing my first video a week ago to my 12th release last night, I can see my own improvements.
That’s amazing to hear! You’ve got this
Thanks for the tips, I decided to post a video every two days until I'm monetized. I am able to pump out videos as my style of content doesn't need high quality videos so it's perfect.
I fully agree Trena, in a way I become the niche. My social group follows me because of my personality, whereas a topic on it's own is very narrow and like a straight jacket.
That’s awesome! Glad to hear about your success
Totally agreed. I was watching some of these BIG BIG channels but now they sounded like a broken record. Play over and over and over and over and over and over and over..... THEY DIDNT JUST DOUBLE DOWN. THEY XXX SO MANY TIMES
I will say, they probably did double down on the few topics that took off but they are also testing different things, they are also really studying their analytics. They are upping their thumbnail quality. They are A/B testing titles and thumbnails. So yes… they are double downing BUT they are also doing other things as well
i started TH-cam in 2022 and got stuck with random videos then I vacuum for almost 1 year until I heard and learned from everywhere. Now I decided to come back with new theme and some topics that I hope it will be useful and give benefits for my audiences. I uploaded 1 or 2 times in a week and I can't believe I got more unique viewers since I did YT with support to each other system. And I left that way and try to grow naturally and I feel more excited. Even my viewers now isn't alot yet but I am happy when I check my analytics.
Thanks for sharing and added my knowledge beautiful Trena☺
Thank you for this video, I have been posting for a while but don’t feel like I’m getting anywhere. I listen to a lot of advice but don’t feel like it works and feel like giving up at times 😢.
As a new youtuber, I defintely didn't want to niche down anymore because my small business is so niche and it's been three years, but I'm officially bored of it unfortunately and I can only repeat myself so much on instagram
I feel this deep 🦋🦋🦋
right haha
Social platforms are consistently changing. Awesome tips! Thanks 🎉
Never stops!
@@TrenaLittle have to adapt
With how hard it is to make videos, film b-roll, film without being out of focus and redoing it a million times, edit the video, color correcting the poor filming I have time to create, etc, I am happy if I get one video out per month. I'm happy to hear the ADHD style is fading. I watch those videos and I think to myself, do I need to do that? By the way, what is going on with the end screen links? In every video I have watched in the past couple weeks, the end screen links happen closer to the middle of the video. Or is this just me?
As a new youtube channel, I've definitely noticed it's a struggle. I've also noticed so many different people tell you different things about what to do and not do.
Thanx a lot. This is exactly what I needed as a new youtuber for 3months 😢😢😢😢
Thanks for the info. I really enjoyed the niche discussion. I do a fishing channel with my young son, and I sometimes worry that we do too many different "types" of fishing. However, I was more concerned about not getting bored on the videos and, more importantly, exposing my son to lots of different types of fishing. It keeps us excited about the adventures. So hopefully it translates to audience as we grow.
Next to quality i just have fun making my videos and cos advise is important but it often goes as it goes.
Niche audience - exactly how I've been approaching it on my channel (it's very refreshing to hear somebody else embracing that idea).
Glad you’ve been focusing on a niche audience 👏👏👏 you got this
Trena, my goal would be 3 a week. Gotta work up to that though. Used to be at least once a week but I fell off. I'm still solo and work a full time job so it's tough.
Wow, yes 3 a week is a lot! Try to get back into the routine of one a week and see how you feel. The last thing I want people to do is push themselves to pump out lots of videos and burn out.
@@TrenaLittle yeah you're right. I'm gonna focus on getting one out a week.
Goal is one a week. I am a busy Health care provider so time is limited . Eventually I would like to get to 2 per week. A short and a long
Great advice. I try to do two videos and one short each week.
Just came across Trena's channel and watched this video and love 🥰it. Thanks for the information and subscribed. Love ❤Trena.
I only make shorts. My target output has been 3-4 shorts per week recently but I've noticed I am starting to slow down now in pursuit of higher quality (better script/idea/visuals/voiceover etc), which is not a bad thing I think.
Since I've been busy making videos in July/August, now I have a content library of 18 shorts. I feel less of a need to grow the quantity now, so I'm focusing on making better videos at a slower cadence.
That makes sense. However, I think people are struggling to understand how to identify their viewers' needs.
Quantity over quality is exactly where I am going wrong. I realised that today. I am going to apologise to my subscribers soon.
Hey at least you are going to make the change. You got this!
@@TrenaLittle It was easy to fall into that trap. I realised my mistakes when I lost one of my few subscribers and found myself drained from pushing out content all the time. I posted a video apology and what I plan to do to improve. Thank you for this video. It came just at the right time. I think TH-cam might have been sending me a hint.
I don't even know if I have a niche. I want to create something else, too. Confused.
That could be a problem bc if you aren’t sure who you are creating videos for, TH-cam won’t know either
@@TrenaLittle I know, hence why I'm educating myself and I think I am onto something. 🙂
I’m still looking for my niche
But I will feel so cheated if I niche down to one
Thank you so much for this honest take and reminding me I can do "off topic" but still appealing videos. I feel like my "risky" videos sometimes perform better - so it makes sense when I think of my target audience over topic. I think another lie is the idea that you have to collect emails right away with a freebie printout or digital something.
False. My diehard audience will sign up when I actually have something good to put out. The people who have already unsubscribed frankly would unsubscribe from my emails too. Maybe not the very next day, but they will. I'd rather have a quality freebie or have the bandwidth to do a good newsletter before I collect emails.
Thanks for the SEO chat too - if I search engine a specific topic, chances it's a one-off thing I need. I find way more in browse for my daily viewing enjoyment than searching. I want hangout audience. If I have a topic that can be searchable, cool, but it's not my only strategy.
I really loved your thoughts on lead magnets and collecting emails. Right not the most important thing BUT can save you a lot of head ache owning your own communities emails in case something were to ever happen to your channel!
@@TrenaLittle that is a good point.
Question, with my name Cemetery Oddities I show cemetery art, I have a small loyal audience. If I was to post videos from my job or nature stuff would that ruin my channel. Or should I make a different channel for that?? In regard to the niche topic
This is the best reminder I have seen in.. Forever! Thank you
True
Niche audience sounds very interesting to me and I would love to explore it further as a new small channel. I also love the quality being more valuable than quantity. Thank you 🙏 I appreciate you for sharing this message with us.
Yes - you just need to think who you are creating this content for so TH-cam can find those people for you faster!
Educational! I fell into the trap of Lie #2 and....the SEO portion you mentioned. Thank you for the guidance as always! You cleared up a LOT with the difference between the niche topic and audience!!
You are so welcome! So glad to help
@@TrenaLittle You shed a lot of light on this! Going to give the once a week posting a shot!
Waiting more than "one video a week" drives me crazy. I love making the videos....however they are disasterpieces and if I upload too often TH-cam will throw me off the platform.
Neil from TH-cam wrote " How about TH-cam pays you to go to Facebook and you promise to stop posting here........deal?"
Having a niche topic feels like making a module. I’m a newbie and decided to make videos on several topics, mostly about immigrating. I plan to make use of Playlists a lot. 😅
Makes a whole lot of sense
Thank you for this video, I agree with all of the points and this is how I have been dealing with my channel. Thank you x
I love my niche. Animals rule.
Practical advice! God Bless Us!
Hi, thank you for creating a video with helpful tips and tricks; things have changed a bit since creating my first video. Keep up the great work.
42 Subscribers so far. I'm trying to figure out where this channel can go for my family.
i picked product review as my niche because i know people have different things and hygiene where they live
Makes sense !! Great content and helpful
Thank you so much - glad you found it helpful
I’m slowly growing. Goal is to have 1K subscribers by November. This is such great information!!!
My ex lied so much it was more than taxing to me.😮
yes -- makes sense
I would love to get to two a week, but I need to get back into doing at least one good one a week first.
Yes start with one a week to stay consistent… as you streamline your workflows and systems then maybe add another video a week
There’s so many bad advice here on TH-cam 😢
Thank You! Finally someone is telling the truth!
Excellent point about the audience niche.
I dont niche too hard if i don't feel like it, im a car infused channel but i do lots of different stuff.
You are a star lady🎉🎉🎉
Thank u for sharing 🎉❤
Thanks alot for this information definitely learning alot as a youtube beginner ❤🎉
I just started and have 6 subs now :O
One good video of week.
You got this!
Great info. We are working on 1 long form and 2 shorts a week
I do about 3 videos a week but I don’t know how long I can keep it up.Everytime I think I don’t have any tech to do a video on an idea pops up
Let's Create Something Amazing Together!
I’m streaming monster hunter world 5 times a week I’m just having fun playing the game if the people show up that a plus
Makes sense.
In other words, common sense never hurt anyone. Especially, in one's self-employment journey; youtube or not.
As the author above stated, (Obviously) if you're bored .. so is your audience. Even in this video I was inclined to ffwd through half of it. If it's not interesting to you it's not interesting to the audience. Why? because it's your audience filled with folks just like you.
Any sustainable success takes time to build. Always has been that way, always will be. Even youtube itself didn't turn a profit for nearly a decade. It's not for everyone, but out of those who persevere, a small fraction will see a decent level of success. A tinier circle will achieve better than that.
Thank you Trena always! I a lot from from your videos
You are so welcome! Happy to hear that
Makes sense. 😊
Great! Thanks for letting me know
Thank you
Makes A LOT of sense!!
Makes sense, thx!
Hello Trena. Thanks for the valuable content. Could you pls explain why views from my videos come only through search? It's as if ytube's not pushing the video on the browse/homepage, even though the topic is trending/viral right now. How can we know for sure if youtube has shadownbanned us? thanks
You’re right!❤
I listen to advise but always put it in the context of performance. I note 57K subs which is okay but not remarkable for a channel of a year plus. But views seem to be pretty small for a how to grow your channel channel. Is there something I'm missing?
Nothing missing - I target a very specific audience that pays to work with me. So my channel and views may be small, but the audience I’m attracting is generation $500k+ a year… so listen to my advice or not but is working for me and my clients
@TrenaLittle Okay, I appreciate the response. It always pays to ask versus assume and there are sometimes contexts that are not apparent such as that you provided. 👍
For what it's worth, the advice seems sound and I've playlisted the video for replay and notes.
Very cool video! Thanks!
Makes sense! 😊
Ok thanks.
Makes sense!
TH-cam is too random
1 video a week but in 2 languages 😎✨️
And you got this Sonia
you have legit made videos on how to do all of these topics lol
I’m sick of the lies just make videos and upload
I think I need to post 10 videos a day
I actually think thats way too many a day 😬
@@TrenaLittle kidding my friend
Hi Trena, thank you so much for your sharing your experience . Keep posting. We are watching. Subscribed your TH-cam Channel :)))
I like the way you speak with energy. Watching from Ghana. Have my own sports channel called @Footballlions
You are 100 % right I do outdoors videos Fishing, Backyard Chickens and solo car camping and I grow 1000 + subscribers in less than 3 months 😊I like your video. I’ll subscribe to you
Hello from Gatlinburg TN Smoky Mountains Park 🏞️🌄..I try 4 per week .. I've gotten 13k in about 2 years...I try to get the tourists that have Never been here AND the ones who visit often ..We get 16mil tourists a year 🏞️🌄
Makes sense! 😊
Awesome! Thanks for letting me know and commenting. Really appreciate it