Q & A for Episode 2 of #AskKrista 1. I'm trying to connect with people and people aren't that interested in what my channel is about. What do you think? 2. Do you think that really small channels like mine, should do livestreams? I look forward to hearing your thoughts, ideas and experiences in the comment section below, about this weeks two questions. Let's all be kind and respectful to one another. If you have questions for future episodes, please do so in the comments or email me and use the hashtag #askkrista so they stand out. Thank you ☺
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Great job Krista!!! This playlist is going to be a valueable resource for those wanting to improve in an area, learn a new way to do something, solve a problem, learn something new, or gain insight and perspective. When I reach out for someone elses opinion or advise I really appreciate it when they say it like it is, no pussy footin' around the bush. Ain't nobody got time for that!!! This is a great platform to help lots of people. I applaud you for starting this dialog and playlist - I love everything about it. Well done.
Awwww thank you for such thoughtful and kind words of encouragement ❤Possibly some of the topics may be valuable to some 🙂and then again, I may never get anymore emails, lol.
You are absolutely 100% correct I did this three months ago I only had only used 30 chargers and I change this and put in 500 containing to my channel and what I do. The difference over the last three months is astronomical. It is an absolute must if you want to grow your channel I can’t believe I made this mistake so important. I am glad you’re sharing this. Thank you.
Good suggestions. I am going to update all my channel info because I have a much better idea of what direction I am going in now. I didn't have much idea of how youtube worked when i started. I had to learn on the fly. Lol. Still learning but i haven't crashed yet lol😅😅😅❤❤❤
This is so cool! I missed the first episode. Listening to you answer these questions is helping me. I like how straight forward you are. I’m similar to the 1st question you answer for 2 people. My name absolutely doesn’t make sense and my videos are very personal to me. This has me realizing that my growth will be SLOW growing. I have to be prepared for this. I complained and was confused however as I go along it makes full sense. I do love how I get so much engagement. I’m a touchy feely kind of gal and it’s fulfilling my heart. I’ve settled my mind and heart finally to realize making money may not be my destiny. I like making personal goals like 1,000 before I invest in better equipment. Thank you for taking the time to share and answer these questions. Btw, I did a lot of music over voice and it didn’t go over well. I love music so I try and use now in a very limited way. I went to a class once and believe it or not the instructor played music softly in the background as they spoke and it seemed quite nice. I think it depends on how people are wired. Well explained. Thank you.
I'm glad you found the info helpful Tracey 🙂Thank you. Some music is not bad in the background, but it is I think, if it drowns out what the speaker is saying, or takes away from it. Everyone is free to do as they please for certain. These were my observations while doing some homework to answer the Q. 💕
Thank you ❤You definitely have a passion to teach and educate others in the ways sistah and the more you reach, the more will know 💯You have a no nonsense, down to earth, no fluff kind of channel and many need to be hearing that now a days, lol.
TH-cam is a business I been on TH-cam for a decade I been Monetized several times made some decent money once I made $8000 in one month paid my husbands car off at a lower end I would make $100 to $600 per month. I found when the money came TH-cam consumes your time always trying to post more videos to continue the profit then I would get demonetized for breaking rules get re monetized this last time I decided to put videos up to share what I am doing but not looking to get monetized again I don’t want to be TH-cam’s cash cow. TH-cam is not a friend it’s a Business but I enjoy watching and sharing ❤ great topic!
Your 💯right Angel. I did say business partner during the video but by saying friend I was trying to emphasis that if you succeed so do they. Not everyone has the goal of making money and in the case of 1 of the 2 that sent me the Q, their goal is not to make $ it's to bring awareness to a passion that God has placed on their heart. Thanks so much for sharing your insights of being monetized and demonetized and remonetized again and the new direction you are taking now. You are in the lane God wants you in sister 💕🙏
@@AlmostOffGridGrandmacre-zs5eu😂😂😂 but if the monetization comes take the money I would I just know that they control how much they will pay per commercial so they purposely put back hoping the people will just keep putting out more and more content TH-cam Wins one becomes exhausted and less time doing healthy things so have a balance TH-cam is a good side hussle 😂 then a big break up ❤
I love this series. It's good information. What works for one channel may not work for another. You have to find what works for your channel and keep doing that. Great video Krista
Wow, Krista, this was so helpful! I had no idea about that customization area. I went over and filled in the key words. This was really wonderful that you made this video to help us out. I so appreciate it! 💖 I do have to say though, about the music, for me it's important to have music to bring in the emotional feelings of what I am showing. I am aware that I need to speak louder in order for my subscribers to hear me. Thanks again, this was awesome!
Morning Barby ❤I'm so happy that you found the information helpful and you were able to fill in that area 👍It's a very key area to letting YT know who to send out the videos to. Music is played for a ton of different reasons and I think that as long as you can clearly be heard, as you mentioned, then you have nothing to worry about. Have an awesome day mf 💕
Great video! I am gearing up to kind of make videos talking about the actual content creating side of YT and IG, just sharing my experiences and thoughts, I think it’s great to share what we’ve learned like you have here!
Found your channel through Hippie Chick's recommendation and look forward to seeing more of your videos in the future. This one was very informative and should be helpful for small channels considering their approach to growth. Also you are very well spoken. My experience is that it is very difficult to speak for an uninterrupted 20 minutes like that without embarassing yourself. Very well done, you clearly have a knack for this. Best wishes to you.
Hello and welcome 🙂I'm glad you found this video informative. Your correct, that it is targeted towards a smaller channel. Thank you for the compliment about speaking but I warn you now that there are times that I have and will be times that I do mess up while speaking 😁but I keep trying to improve. Thanks again for watching, sub'ing and commenting.
Krista! You are an absolute doll. Such an awesome vlog. Great tips for everyone! I love your no BS approach. I did the tags a long time ago but i should definitely try to use more hashtags in my titles. Have a great day. Watched in full! ❤
Your welcome Sherry 💕The few things I mentioned are fairly easy fixes for any channel to go see if they are doing these things. I could say exactly the same thing you just did about my own channel but I honestly think that there are many gardening/homesteading/prepping/cooking/etc/etc channels and growth just gradually happens. Maybe I'm way out in left field on that but that's what I think. I also think you have a great channel ❤
Thank you Millionaire Pau 🙂It's intentional to combine questions that I get so that I can answer them in a timely manner. These were recent Q's and I have a list of older Q's that I will combine in upcoming videos. I appreciate your suggestion, thanks. Have a great day 🙂
I went back and created better thumbnails for some of my videos. And I noticed a surge in views on them after that. Yes it is good to go back and look at old videos.
Thanks. Yes it is and to also change the title maybe to something more simplified and catchy. The goal is to improve the views to at least 100 so a video can be put on that vid.
In some part I disagree with the only do one thing on the channel. There are some I watch that are gardening channels it in winter do cooking and other activities. I watch the people not so much the content per se. I ignore algorithms and I don’t pay attention to the comments I get about hey I can help your channel grow. But I just garden and vlogs are secondary to allow connections to other friends that garden. Some great tips Krista hope it helps some people 👍👍, Ali 🌧️🥶🇨🇦
I see what your saying. Perhaps I didn't expand on that area of the video as much as I should have. The channel that asked the Q has two "totally" unrelated things going on in their channel. They know what I meant. The example you gave sort of fits me, as I don't have much going on in the winter but gardeners do crossover into other interests/hobbies, in that they prep meals (cooking) for future use, persevering, hunting, smoking meats, etc. I get what your saying though. Thanks so much for your insights into the discussion 🥰
@ 💕 I’m always cautious about what I say to others about content and I totally appreciate your input it’s an ever changing topic “TH-cam“ conversations 👍
Good morning Patty. As I mentioned in the video the keyword section needs to be filled out first otherwise the hashtags are really meaningless. Once you've done this, then your hashtags in the title and description become important. I'm glad that you found this video useful my friend 🙂💕
@AlmostaGreenAcre-zs5eu sometimes I start a video then have to stop leaving the setup as is until minutes or even hours later. 😂 not kidding one bit here. Choppy is where it's at sometimes ah ha ha ha. I just know you and I would get along quite well if we were neighbors!
I don't know anything about anything. I've been a creator for 3 years now, almost 1.4K subs. Don't ask me why, I have no clue. I do this just for fun & never thought about "promoting" my channel. I do some shorts to "introduce" my channel to others. And most of videos are well over 100 views, some in the thousands & one over 30K now. Again, don't ask me why??? I seldom do hashtags, I'm really not interested in monetization. It's always been about fun for me. I "like" all my comments & answer many. My content is mostly bluegrass cats with some scenery & yard stuff too. And I don't talk with music, I just play music with my cats without talking. That's just me, my intro says it all. No one has to like me, no one needs to subscribe. But I appreciate all those who are trying for more! I live in a shack, I have no computer or editing capabilities. A friend created my intro for me. But otherwise, I'm happy just being myself in my Virginia mountain shack with the 4 catbillies! Love y'all ❤️!
Good morning 🙂I answered this Q for two people that were interested in growing their channel but of course there are many that don't try to promote the channel and the growth has come anyway. There are so many types of channels doing different things that may require different ideas to achieve this. I love ❤your passion with the 4 catbillies 😻😸😼😽
I certainly am thrilled that my channel is starting to really take off! It's what I love about TH-cam, we can each have our own focuses, yet also share other passions too which are like a sidebar on our channels. For me, my focus is my catbillies, yet I love gardening & nature & scenery also, and have met so many amazing friends just by sharing all the different things I like. Some folks wish to be monetized, some wish to grow their channels kinda purposefully. It's all good! I've been doing this for a few years now, remained stuck at around 20-30 subs for a year, just my best friends. I wasn't hitting the algorithm because all of my earlier background music was copyright, so TH-cam didn't push it. But suddenly the cat community noticed me, & everything took off. Of course I thought about it & figured out a way to put local bluegrass music in my catbilly backgrounds without copyright. BOOM! I can be unique with bluegrass catbillies & get commercials now plus constantly increase my subs. Again, the shorts are for introduction, the long forms are where I get the most traction. I like how newcomers will engage & comment regularly at first & then they settle more into just watching & liking. You know when they periodically come back just cuz they couldn't resist saying something. Y'know... you can lose 3 subs in a week, but gain 10 also in that same week & that means you're growing! Never sweat the simple stuff. Just be YOU. There's a million ways to be successful on TH-cam. But none will make you happy if you're not smiling & it's all work. I smile when I watch your videos. And therein lies the answer! I'm never gonna be what I call "big cat"... but I got one long form with over 30K views & it's still going strong. If I was interested in monetization, I'm over half way there with legit watch hours. Maybe when I retire in a couple years, it could happen & help pay the catbillies expenses. But if not, it's all good! I think you had some very good advice here. But mostly, I like your gardening videos, they're just so natural. Keep it up, you're amazing... Krista... did I spell that right??? Don't forget, I'm just a Southern hillbilly with a few catbillies, hehehe... ❤
I subscribed on both of my accounts to you, good video deffinalty has some good points I see missed on some channels. My thoughts on live streams, I do not watch my self I don't like the style. We did one our selves, I hated it it was very hard almost like public speaking as they were watching. Editing a video is alot more disconnected, we only had a dozen or 2 dozen views on the whole 1hr+ thing. Looking back on it it was was poor quality as we had to use our cell phone so it could be live, the camera is not good on that thing so the quality was really anoying to me to watch it after words it looked like garbage. If it was shot with the normal camera it would look better for sure not a Pixelated mess. So that may be a thing for some fokes, if you don't have a high end cell phone then lives look like garbage quality wise. They are also hard to talk or do stuff constantly vs an edited video where it's short clips to get right.
These are all excellent points to make. I thank you for sharing and also sub'ing with your other profile 🙂I agree that some videos that I see that are lives, are terrible quality compared to normal videos that I would see that person doing. Making that decision is entirely up to each individual but I do think the main reason many do so, is to increase there watch time in order to get to that far reaching goal of 4000 watch hours and 1000 subs. I personally have been approached to go on co-streaming lives with other channels. Streamyard offers this service to paid users and the users allow other channels to come on with them but stream to their own channels. These channels typically have an established viewer base and stream typically weekly. I have gone on a few live panels before but never personally streamed to my channel. Just last night I had a channel email me the details or directions that Streamyard has in order for me to do so. They go live every Saturday. I have not read the particulars of the process yet or weighed the pro's and con's of doing so........so the verdict is still out for me. Your example of 2 dozen views or so on the 1 hr + thing = 24 x 60 = 1440 watch hours approx. I don't know what your audience base was and at what part of your journey you were at when you did this. It obviously gave you the watch hours I mentioned above but did it also increase your subscribers?
I just brought your channel up now and based on the #'s that have watched the videos you have put out, I would guess that you have been successful at the goals of becoming monetized 🙂Just your channel name alone would draw in a huge audience because this is a hot and popular topic and has been for a number of years. Off grid and self sufficiency will remain a popular subject because of the times we live in. People want what you have, lol...........but you will have to put up or delete rude remarks from the peanut gallery for sure 😁
@@AlmostOffGridGrandmacre-zs5eu at the time we were not monetized when we tryed the live stream, 800 or so subs. None stuck around for long so it barely gave me any watch hours and actualy lost subscribers. I had a bad experience my self so that's my take on it. I know some channels have success with it. I ended up getting my watch hours through a video that popped off and went.
@@AlmostOffGridGrandmacre-zs5eu yes we are monetized and only lately we have been successfully. Our name we never realized at the time it meant anything, to us it was personal. We live off grid in an unorganized township, we didn't realize we hit the key words on the head. We started jan/fed 2023 by Oct 2023 we had a whole 30 subscribers with under 100 veiws per video. We made 1 video that just clicked and hit 12k veiws and got us to 220 subscribers which stayed there untill July 2024 when we moved up here. Begining In august 2024 then we started climbing and by Sept 2024 we were able to monetize finally. Now since then its starting to move, our journey has been long and slow, we are over a year and a half as an active channel. I am basicaly computer eliterate, she can work a computer but I can't. I do all the filming and editing, I can only do the 1 thing and that is the editor program. I have had to learn from scratch how to even use a computer let alone how to film. I think that was a big thing to learn before videos started doing anything. I also spent countless hours studying instead of watching similar creators and how they craft their content, which coensides with the 1 video that popped oct2023. I think it's a massive leaning curve to be successful and just keep pushing. I also did the vidiq FREE program and learned alot about crafting videos, that helped alot get things moving I think just learning what people want to see and how to present it.
Q & A for Episode 2 of #AskKrista
1. I'm trying to connect with people and people aren't that interested in what my channel is about. What do you think?
2. Do you think that really small channels like mine, should do livestreams?
I look forward to hearing your thoughts, ideas and experiences in the comment section below, about this weeks two questions. Let's all be kind and respectful to one another. If you have questions for future episodes, please do so in the comments or email me and use the hashtag #askkrista so they stand out. Thank you ☺
Good topic 👏 👍 👌
Thanks Nafex 🙂
Good topic
Thanks Dave 🙂I'm glad you liked the topic.
Thanks for the support our friend welcome God bless yah 😊❤
Thank you and may God bless you as well 🙏💕
@AlmostaGreenAcre-zs5eu your so welcome our friend and God bless you 🙏
The content shared was well-received. It discussed interesting topics and included good questions and answers, which were highly valued. Thank you for sharing
Thank you kindly 🙂
I am very happy to that you commented on my video. I'm glad to meet you and learn from you. Thank you so much for this video.
Hello and welcome. I'm happy your here and thanks so much for your kind words 🥰
Great job Krista!!! This playlist is going to be a valueable resource for those wanting to improve in an area, learn a new way to do something, solve a problem, learn something new, or gain insight and perspective. When I reach out for someone elses opinion or advise I really appreciate it when they say it like it is, no pussy footin' around the bush. Ain't nobody got time for that!!! This is a great platform to help lots of people. I applaud you for starting this dialog and playlist - I love everything about it. Well done.
Awwww thank you for such thoughtful and kind words of encouragement ❤Possibly some of the topics may be valuable to some 🙂and then again, I may never get anymore emails, lol.
very nice mom son good topic twitter
Thank you 🙂
Great tips, Krista!
~ Sandra
Thank you Sandra 🙂
Nice video Krista. ❤❤❤
Thank you Tina ❤
You are absolutely 100% correct I did this three months ago I only had only used 30 chargers and I change this and put in 500 containing to my channel and what I do. The difference over the last three months is astronomical. It is an absolute must if you want to grow your channel I can’t believe I made this mistake so important. I am glad you’re sharing this. Thank you.
I'm glad you were able to figure this out and make adjustments and congratulations on the growth of your channel 🥰
Thank you @@AlmostOffGridGrandmacre-zs5eu
Good suggestions. I am going to update all my channel info because I have a much better idea of what direction I am going in now. I didn't have much idea of how youtube worked when i started. I had to learn on the fly. Lol. Still learning but i haven't crashed yet lol😅😅😅❤❤❤
Thank you ❤and just like you I also have been learning on the fly. I'm happy to pass along any small bits of knowledge I do have to help others.
Very informative video❤❤❤❤❤
Glad you found it informative. Thank you ❤
This is so cool! I missed the first episode. Listening to you answer these questions is helping me.
I like how straight forward you are. I’m similar to the 1st question you answer for 2 people. My name absolutely doesn’t make sense and my videos are very personal to me. This has me realizing that my growth will be SLOW growing. I have to be prepared for this. I complained and was confused however as I go along it makes full sense. I do love how I get so much engagement. I’m a touchy feely kind of gal and it’s fulfilling my heart. I’ve settled my mind and heart finally to realize making money may not be my destiny.
I like making personal goals like 1,000 before I invest in better equipment.
Thank you for taking the time to share and answer these questions.
Btw, I did a lot of music over voice and it didn’t go over well. I love music so I try and use now in a very limited way. I went to a class once and believe it or not the instructor played music softly in the background as they spoke and it seemed quite nice. I think it depends on how people are wired.
Well explained. Thank you.
I'm glad you found the info helpful Tracey 🙂Thank you. Some music is not bad in the background, but it is I think, if it drowns out what the speaker is saying, or takes away from it. Everyone is free to do as they please for certain. These were my observations while doing some homework to answer the Q. 💕
@ well done.
Thanks for sharing ❤❤❤
My pleasure Maxine. Thank you 💕
Very helpful and interesting topics. Thanks for sharing 😊
My pleasure. Thank you ☺
This is a GREAT video and something to ponder. Im not out to make money but really enjoy watching my channel grow and reach folks.
Thank you ❤You definitely have a passion to teach and educate others in the ways sistah and the more you reach, the more will know 💯You have a no nonsense, down to earth, no fluff kind of channel and many need to be hearing that now a days, lol.
TH-cam is a business I been on TH-cam for a decade I been Monetized several times made some decent money once I made $8000 in one month paid my husbands car off at a lower end I would make $100 to $600 per month. I found when the money came TH-cam consumes your time always trying to post more videos to continue the profit then I would get demonetized for breaking rules get re monetized this last time I decided to put videos up to share what I am doing but not looking to get monetized again I don’t want to be TH-cam’s cash cow. TH-cam is not a friend it’s a Business but I enjoy watching and sharing ❤ great topic!
Your 💯right Angel. I did say business partner during the video but by saying friend I was trying to emphasis that if you succeed so do they. Not everyone has the goal of making money and in the case of 1 of the 2 that sent me the Q, their goal is not to make $ it's to bring awareness to a passion that God has placed on their heart. Thanks so much for sharing your insights of being monetized and demonetized and remonetized again and the new direction you are taking now. You are in the lane God wants you in sister 💕🙏
@@AlmostOffGridGrandmacre-zs5eu Amen I left one important thing out once you get popular here comes the trolls 👿 😂
@@angelspodcast1111 🤣Haha...........well now, I beg to differ. I've had a few doggin me for about 6 months. What say you to that? lol
@@AlmostOffGridGrandmacre-zs5eu😂😂😂 but if the monetization comes take the money I would I just know that they control how much they will pay per commercial so they purposely put back hoping the people will just keep putting out more and more content TH-cam Wins one becomes exhausted and less time doing healthy things so have a balance TH-cam is a good side hussle 😂 then a big break up ❤
😂 I love deleting disrespectful comments 😂
I love this series. It's good information. What works for one channel may not work for another. You have to find what works for your channel and keep doing that. Great video Krista
Thanks Amy 🙂You're so right. One size does not fit all 👍
Great tips! My subs are a bit slow so I will definitely check out your tips.
Thank you Lee. Good luck 🙂
TH-cam is definitely challenging. Great feedback. 🙂
Thanks AJ. Yes, it sure can be 🙂
Wow, Krista, this was so helpful! I had no idea about that customization area. I went over and filled in the key words. This was really wonderful that you made this video to help us out. I so appreciate it! 💖 I do have to say though, about the music, for me it's important to have music to bring in the emotional feelings of what I am showing. I am aware that I need to speak louder in order for my subscribers to hear me. Thanks again, this was awesome!
Morning Barby ❤I'm so happy that you found the information helpful and you were able to fill in that area 👍It's a very key area to letting YT know who to send out the videos to. Music is played for a ton of different reasons and I think that as long as you can clearly be heard, as you mentioned, then you have nothing to worry about. Have an awesome day mf 💕
Wonderful tips you’re sharing.Will check out episode 1.😊
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Cindy, thanks 🙂
Great video! I am gearing up to kind of make videos talking about the actual content creating side of YT and IG, just sharing my experiences and thoughts, I think it’s great to share what we’ve learned like you have here!
Thank you 🙂Good for you. I wish you every success in your endeavor 👍
Found your channel through Hippie Chick's recommendation and look forward to seeing more of your videos in the future. This one was very informative and should be helpful for small channels considering their approach to growth. Also you are very well spoken. My experience is that it is very difficult to speak for an uninterrupted 20 minutes like that without embarassing yourself. Very well done, you clearly have a knack for this. Best wishes to you.
Hello and welcome 🙂I'm glad you found this video informative. Your correct, that it is targeted towards a smaller channel. Thank you for the compliment about speaking but I warn you now that there are times that I have and will be times that I do mess up while speaking 😁but I keep trying to improve. Thanks again for watching, sub'ing and commenting.
Krista! You are an absolute doll. Such an awesome vlog. Great tips for everyone! I love your no BS approach. I did the tags a long time ago but i should definitely try to use more hashtags in my titles. Have a great day. Watched in full! ❤
So glad you found value in the vlog Loretta ❤Thanks for your support my friend.
I didn’t know about the 100 views and they can put a commercial up. I wondered when that decision was made. Good info! 👍🏻
Thanks, I'm glad you found it useful 🙂
Good morning,I am here watching.😊
Hi Cindy. Good morning and thanks for watching 🙂
lovely video
Thank you Nadia 🙂
😊
Thanks 🙂
Nice information
Thank you McD. Hope you're doing well my friend 🙂Have a great day.
Thanks for sharing, it makes me nervous and makes me wonder how many things I'm doing wrong with my channel.
Your welcome Sherry 💕The few things I mentioned are fairly easy fixes for any channel to go see if they are doing these things. I could say exactly the same thing you just did about my own channel but I honestly think that there are many gardening/homesteading/prepping/cooking/etc/etc channels and growth just gradually happens. Maybe I'm way out in left field on that but that's what I think. I also think you have a great channel ❤
Thank you for sharing and this is a good topic and that was really good questions and good answers too much appreciated.
Thank you ShadowScoutSwede 🙂Have a great week.
Great video with so many great suggestions! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you Miki and Bill 💕
thanks for all the good info!!!!!
My pleasure and thanks 🙂
Thanks for reminding me to review and update this. I rarely go on my computer. ❤
My pleasure Jen 🙂Have a great day 💕
👍👍 I do two thumbs up when I'm either doing chores or if I don't have my glasses on (and can't see the keyboard). 🙂
Thanks Jill 💕🤓
Great share❤
Thanks Donna ❤
so nice dear ❤
Thank you 🙂
Very well presented, I think you should do more of these Christy. This could have been 3 separate videos though? Warm wishes from Millionaire Paul 👋
Thank you Millionaire Pau 🙂It's intentional to combine questions that I get so that I can answer them in a timely manner. These were recent Q's and I have a list of older Q's that I will combine in upcoming videos. I appreciate your suggestion, thanks. Have a great day 🙂
I went back and created better thumbnails for some of my videos. And I noticed a surge in views on them after that. Yes it is good to go back and look at old videos.
Thanks. Yes it is and to also change the title maybe to something more simplified and catchy. The goal is to improve the views to at least 100 so a video can be put on that vid.
In some part I disagree with the only do one thing on the channel. There are some I watch that are gardening channels it in winter do cooking and other activities. I watch the people not so much the content per se. I ignore algorithms and I don’t pay attention to the comments I get about hey I can help your channel grow.
But I just garden and vlogs are secondary to allow connections to other friends that garden. Some great tips Krista hope it helps some people 👍👍, Ali 🌧️🥶🇨🇦
I see what your saying. Perhaps I didn't expand on that area of the video as much as I should have. The channel that asked the Q has two "totally" unrelated things going on in their channel. They know what I meant. The example you gave sort of fits me, as I don't have much going on in the winter but gardeners do crossover into other interests/hobbies, in that they prep meals (cooking) for future use, persevering, hunting, smoking meats, etc. I get what your saying though. Thanks so much for your insights into the discussion 🥰
@ 💕 I’m always cautious about what I say to others about content and I totally appreciate your input it’s an ever changing topic “TH-cam“ conversations 👍
I am SO neglectful with comments! I always say to myself, when i sit down, ill respond to the comments butnthen i sit down and fall asleep!
Less editing = more connection 💕I edit zippo, lol. I know everyone can tell but oh well.
but sleep is more important than connection and editing 😁
I don’t know how huge channels do it 😂 answering 50 takes time never mind 500
@@myrustygarden Isn't that the truth 👍
Great video! So, you’re saying we are supposed to put hashtags in the title and at the end of the description? I haven’t been doing that.😢
Good morning Patty. As I mentioned in the video the keyword section needs to be filled out first otherwise the hashtags are really meaningless. Once you've done this, then your hashtags in the title and description become important. I'm glad that you found this video useful my friend 🙂💕
...or geese honking when i talk. I usually try to edit them out 😂
😆STOP editing the poor geese out. Everyone loves listening to them and it makes your video look choppy when you do that ❤🙏
@AlmostaGreenAcre-zs5eu sometimes I start a video then have to stop leaving the setup as is until minutes or even hours later. 😂 not kidding one bit here. Choppy is where it's at sometimes ah ha ha ha. I just know you and I would get along quite well if we were neighbors!
@@hippiechickoffgridmaine8625 FACTS 💯
I don't know anything about anything. I've been a creator for 3 years now, almost 1.4K subs. Don't ask me why, I have no clue. I do this just for fun & never thought about "promoting" my channel. I do some shorts to "introduce" my channel to others. And most of videos are well over 100 views, some in the thousands & one over 30K now. Again, don't ask me why??? I seldom do hashtags, I'm really not interested in monetization. It's always been about fun for me. I "like" all my comments & answer many. My content is mostly bluegrass cats with some scenery & yard stuff too. And I don't talk with music, I just play music with my cats without talking. That's just me, my intro says it all. No one has to like me, no one needs to subscribe. But I appreciate all those who are trying for more! I live in a shack, I have no computer or editing capabilities. A friend created my intro for me. But otherwise, I'm happy just being myself in my Virginia mountain shack with the 4 catbillies! Love y'all ❤️!
Good morning 🙂I answered this Q for two people that were interested in growing their channel but of course there are many that don't try to promote the channel and the growth has come anyway. There are so many types of channels doing different things that may require different ideas to achieve this. I love ❤your passion with the 4 catbillies 😻😸😼😽
I certainly am thrilled that my channel is starting to really take off! It's what I love about TH-cam, we can each have our own focuses, yet also share other passions too which are like a sidebar on our channels. For me, my focus is my catbillies, yet I love gardening & nature & scenery also, and have met so many amazing friends just by sharing all the different things I like. Some folks wish to be monetized, some wish to grow their channels kinda purposefully. It's all good! I've been doing this for a few years now, remained stuck at around 20-30 subs for a year, just my best friends. I wasn't hitting the algorithm because all of my earlier background music was copyright, so TH-cam didn't push it. But suddenly the cat community noticed me, & everything took off. Of course I thought about it & figured out a way to put local bluegrass music in my catbilly backgrounds without copyright. BOOM! I can be unique with bluegrass catbillies & get commercials now plus constantly increase my subs. Again, the shorts are for introduction, the long forms are where I get the most traction. I like how newcomers will engage & comment regularly at first & then they settle more into just watching & liking. You know when they periodically come back just cuz they couldn't resist saying something. Y'know... you can lose 3 subs in a week, but gain 10 also in that same week & that means you're growing! Never sweat the simple stuff. Just be YOU. There's a million ways to be successful on TH-cam. But none will make you happy if you're not smiling & it's all work. I smile when I watch your videos. And therein lies the answer! I'm never gonna be what I call "big cat"... but I got one long form with over 30K views & it's still going strong. If I was interested in monetization, I'm over half way there with legit watch hours. Maybe when I retire in a couple years, it could happen & help pay the catbillies expenses. But if not, it's all good! I think you had some very good advice here. But mostly, I like your gardening videos, they're just so natural. Keep it up, you're amazing... Krista... did I spell that right??? Don't forget, I'm just a Southern hillbilly with a few catbillies, hehehe... ❤
@@4catbillies 🙂Thank you for your kind words. Yes, you spelled my name right 💕
I subscribed on both of my accounts to you, good video deffinalty has some good points I see missed on some channels. My thoughts on live streams, I do not watch my self I don't like the style. We did one our selves, I hated it it was very hard almost like public speaking as they were watching. Editing a video is alot more disconnected, we only had a dozen or 2 dozen views on the whole 1hr+ thing. Looking back on it it was was poor quality as we had to use our cell phone so it could be live, the camera is not good on that thing so the quality was really anoying to me to watch it after words it looked like garbage. If it was shot with the normal camera it would look better for sure not a Pixelated mess. So that may be a thing for some fokes, if you don't have a high end cell phone then lives look like garbage quality wise. They are also hard to talk or do stuff constantly vs an edited video where it's short clips to get right.
These are all excellent points to make. I thank you for sharing and also sub'ing with your other profile 🙂I agree that some videos that I see that are lives, are terrible quality compared to normal videos that I would see that person doing. Making that decision is entirely up to each individual but I do think the main reason many do so, is to increase there watch time in order to get to that far reaching goal of 4000 watch hours and 1000 subs. I personally have been approached to go on co-streaming lives with other channels. Streamyard offers this service to paid users and the users allow other channels to come on with them but stream to their own channels. These channels typically have an established viewer base and stream typically weekly. I have gone on a few live panels before but never personally streamed to my channel. Just last night I had a channel email me the details or directions that Streamyard has in order for me to do so. They go live every Saturday. I have not read the particulars of the process yet or weighed the pro's and con's of doing so........so the verdict is still out for me. Your example of 2 dozen views or so on the 1 hr + thing = 24 x 60 = 1440 watch hours approx. I don't know what your audience base was and at what part of your journey you were at when you did this. It obviously gave you the watch hours I mentioned above but did it also increase your subscribers?
I just brought your channel up now and based on the #'s that have watched the videos you have put out, I would guess that you have been successful at the goals of becoming monetized 🙂Just your channel name alone would draw in a huge audience because this is a hot and popular topic and has been for a number of years. Off grid and self sufficiency will remain a popular subject because of the times we live in. People want what you have, lol...........but you will have to put up or delete rude remarks from the peanut gallery for sure 😁
@@AlmostOffGridGrandmacre-zs5eu at the time we were not monetized when we tryed the live stream, 800 or so subs. None stuck around for long so it barely gave me any watch hours and actualy lost subscribers. I had a bad experience my self so that's my take on it. I know some channels have success with it. I ended up getting my watch hours through a video that popped off and went.
@@AlmostOffGridGrandmacre-zs5eu yes we are monetized and only lately we have been successfully. Our name we never realized at the time it meant anything, to us it was personal. We live off grid in an unorganized township, we didn't realize we hit the key words on the head. We started jan/fed 2023 by Oct 2023 we had a whole 30 subscribers with under 100 veiws per video. We made 1 video that just clicked and hit 12k veiws and got us to 220 subscribers which stayed there untill July 2024 when we moved up here. Begining In august 2024 then we started climbing and by Sept 2024 we were able to monetize finally. Now since then its starting to move, our journey has been long and slow, we are over a year and a half as an active channel. I am basicaly computer eliterate, she can work a computer but I can't. I do all the filming and editing, I can only do the 1 thing and that is the editor program. I have had to learn from scratch how to even use a computer let alone how to film. I think that was a big thing to learn before videos started doing anything. I also spent countless hours studying instead of watching similar creators and how they craft their content, which coensides with the 1 video that popped oct2023. I think it's a massive leaning curve to be successful and just keep pushing. I also did the vidiq FREE program and learned alot about crafting videos, that helped alot get things moving I think just learning what people want to see and how to present it.
I'm happy for you and your family that it did 🥰@@offgridandunorganized
Loads of fake channel's in England ❤
Hi and welcome 🙂 Care to elaborate but not necessary?