Food for thought: Growing a YouTube channel to 1 million subscribers is not an overnight success operation. You must love what you do as a video marketer. Growing a YouTube channel to 1 million subscribers should not be the first thing on your video marketing agenda. The first thing on your agenda after picking a niche topic is creating quality video content for your YouTube viewers to view and learn from. Viewers who learn from your YouTube videos will end up in the long run being loyal subscribers to your YouTube channel. If you desire to make money online as a full-time YouTuber with the intent on quitting your day job, you need to create quality video content and put people first before profits.
How to stand out on YouTube.com and grow your channel to the "public 9th step":
- Acquire a quality DSLR or mirrorless digital camera with microphone capability.
- Pick a niche topic for your YouTube channel you feel will empower others with priceless information-creative ideas.
- Respond to comments on your YouTube videos.
- Take time to respond to video feedback in future YouTube videos and support your commenters by naming them in your video responses.
- Engage often with your YouTube viewers in life question and answer video discussions. This will allow you to accept donations, increase ad revenue from Google AdSense on your YouTube channel, and increase affiliate revenue potential from affiliate links promoted in your YouTube video description section.
- Upload videos to your channel daily or no less than three times weekly.
- Give commentary in your videos of your personal feelings-opinions of what other YouTubers are saying in their videos. Be mindful to include a link in your YouTube video description pointing back to the aforementioned YouTube video, or a link to your blog post or webpage of the YouTube video you're discussing.
- Patience is a virtue; learn it if you want to thrive as an aspiring YouTuber and future side hustle millionaire.
- Refute some YouTubers when necessary by specifically proving where the vlogger went wrong in their video message.
- Always...ALWAYS share your YouTube videos on pay interest, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and on your blog or website. This gives your YouTube videos additional exposure without being self reliant on getting traffic from Bing, Google and YaHoO!.
- Use a 3rd party permission based e-mail marketing service to collect e-mail addresses from all corners of the World Wide Web. People who supply you with their e-Mail address give you permission to freely e-mail them, using the "third-party automated permission based e-mail marketing service" to automatically send them links to your newly uploaded YouTube videos. This gives you a peace of mind in focusing more on creating quality content rather than e-mailing people manually.
- Be yourself in your YouTube videos, even if your YouTube presentations in the infancy of your YouTube career seems somewhat socially awkward. No million-dollar YouTube or today started out picture-perfect. Regardless how you start out in the beginning of your YouTube career, keep going regardless how many mistakes you make or how awkward you look or feel.
- Stop worrying about what people think. Some people will always hate on your YouTube videos. Don't expect everyone to support your YouTube venture. And this includes family.
- Keep going regardless how slow your subscriber base is building up. Don't look at slow growth. Focus on the people by creating quality content and building and sustaining relationships in longevity between you and your YouTube viewers.
- Put people before profits so you will never be fixated on earning your first million dollars from YouTube in a short time span and become disappointed when you don't achieve your online financial agenda in that time.
Now that this thread gave you something to think about in terms of growing your YouTube channel to 1 million subscribers or more, how do you plan to take your YouTube video marketing to the [public ninth step], and inspire people to be their best through your creative YouTube video messages?