#23kChallenge Day10
Skipped Days 8 and 9 over the weekend. Took a break. Enjoyed the Father's Day weekend.
Welcome
to Day 10 of my New 23K YouTube Subscribers Challenge report... where I
track my results and find out what worked and what could be done better.
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For more tips on how I grow my YouTube channel, go to the link below...
👉 https://gum.co/YTsecrets
Here's Day 10 of my 23K YouTube subscribers challenge report - measured and tracked.
📈 Last Friday - 22065. Up 16.
📈 Today - 22076. Up 11.
What's the outcome of my YouTube channel?
💰 Adsense Revenue - less than yesterday
💰 Affiliate Products - 16 of 100 clicks
💰 Own Products - 193 of 200 views
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See you in the next one.
Adrian Lee
@AdrianVideoImage
The Report
The Main Challenge
- 📈 Last Friday - 22065. Up 16.
- 📈 Today - 22076. Up 11.
- This week's habit challenge.
- Publish YTVL videos. 2 longs and 2 shorts.
- 👉🚧⚠️ Today's mission: Edit a new video based on the Outline here... https://www.facebook.com/VideoLane/posts/10159378721099489 ...wireless mic for gimbals
- Thought on 17 June 2021: Divert traffic from Zhiyun Smooth 4 back to Aweber auto-responder series instead of Gumroad coz that could be a powerful reason for the drop in YouTube growth.
- Concern: I will lose the Pay What YouWant opportunity.
- Counter idea: Use Buy Me a Coffee in my content instead.
- The Pros: Auto-responder series definitely work.
- 👉🚧⚠️ Revert Zhiyun Smooth 4 back to Aweber from Gumroad. Why? The auto-responder series generates return traffic. Add Buy Me a Coffee to replace Gumroad Pay What You Want.
- 📊 Google Trend 21 June 2021
- Zhiyun Smooth 4 in the US is dwindling sometime touching zero. (time to move on)
- DJI is the related search particularly DJI OM4 and DJI Mini 3 in the last 30 days.
- One the sidenote, DJI OSmo Pocket and DJI Osmo Action are both even higher.
- 👉🚧⚠️ Buy DJI OM4. Why? Stay relevant to Smartphone videography.
Sub-challenge #1
- Yesterday
- All - 133 of 200 clicks 5 orders
- YouTube - 16 of 100 clicks 1 order
- 0 refund
- Today
- All - 82 of 200 clicks 1 orders 😱
- YouTube - 16 of 100 clicks 0 order
- 0 refund
- Overnight
- All - 1 order
- YouTube - 0 order.
- Lesson on 15 June 2021: Tips to be successful in affiliate marketing...
- Maintain a professional looking website. (Consider moving VL website away from Bluehost to Siteground or Wordpress)
- Automate with an email auto-responder series. (Keep Aweber)
- Make reviews, tutorials and comparisons. (Stick with these formats)
- Post content consistently with SEO.
- Build relationships with followers and not the numbers.
- 👉🚧⚠️ Create two new trending topics today. Doodly vs Toonly, Doodly vs Videoscribe
- Most popular VL topic: Doodly
- Google Trend in the last 90 days: Doodly vs Toonly, Doodly vs Videoscribe
Sub-challenge #2
- Yesterday
- 317 views.
- 20 downloads.
- 1 sale.
- Today
- 307 views.
- 20 downloads.
- 1 sale.
- How many views coming from YouTube?
- 193 of 200 views
- Reminder to self - Why am I doing this?
- Adsense and affiliate programs can shut down anytime, but I control the products I create.
- Redirect all AW's opt-in boxes with gumroad links.
- Gumroad is where I place my free and paid digital downloads. Eg. E-courses.
- Gumroad is faster to manage than AW when targeting paid or free followers.
- Eventually, cancel AW's US$179/year (S$250) subscription before renewal on Dec 2021.
- One more thing - Subscribers on Gumroad can choose to pay for a free download if they want to support me... See this post for motivation... https://adrianvideoimage.blogspot.com/2021/03/day-123-of-my-100k-youtube-subscribers.html
- Also, look out for Gumroad alternatives to sell my digital products.
- Thoughts updated 16 June 2021: Moving from Aweber to Gumroad may be a mistake. The number of clicks I am getting is slowing down. That's because I have cut off the Aweber autoresponders. Let's merge Gumroad and Aweber instead.
- How to Automatically send Gumroad customers to AWeber? I have to use Zapier. Free Zapier is limited. I have multiple lists. So I am not going to use this method.
- Aweber vs Gumroad Price Plans
- Gumroad is more expensive than what I am paying for Aweber now.
- OK. Let's interconnect the three. YouTube-Aweber-Gumroad
- WAIT! I don't want to lose the Pay What You Want Feature. Think about it.
- 👉🚧⚠️ Write to Gumroad followers every week to distribute traffic. (in place of autoresponders)
Sub-challenge #3
- Yesterday.
- 59 K followers. Same.
- Today.
- 59 K followers. Same.
- What's working?
- Post once a week on a trending topic.
- What has Tiktok got to do with YouTube? New YT subscribers are coming from Tiktok.
More Challenges
- Daily live multi-stream.
- 10K LinkedIn followers.
- Sell my videos as NFT.
- Podcast.
See you in the next one!
~ Adrian Lee
PS:
- Use these 10 query words in front of keywords when researching on Google Search... What, Who, When, Where, Why, How, Which, Will, Are, and Can.
- I am repeating my mistakes. Trying to edit my live videos and wasting time. Don't.
- Set habit goals instead of destination goals.
- Streaming and YouTube are my lifestyles.
- Tiktok tip - If your account is getting a lot of views and you are not engaging with the comments, Tiktok will stop showing your videos to more people. So I started replying the all the comments that were left in the last 3 days.
- Whatever we post now will see fruits 3 to 6 months later. How long the fruits last depends on the topic.
- I can do one thing at a time. Cannot multi-task.
- Drop everything at 5 pm. Switch my mind to a different topic. Switchback tomorrow morning. 🥰
- The top three gimbals people are searching for DJI OM4, Zhiyun smooth 4, and Zhiyun smooth Q2.
- These are the topics with million searches. Other brand gimbals videos are slowing down my viewership.
- Should I buy the DJI OM4? Is the DJI OM5 coming out soon? The DJI OM4 was released in August 2020, so expect the DJI OM5 to be announced around August 2021. Buy DJI OM4. The number #1 talked about gimbal.
I attended a class conducted by YouTube and this is what I have learned.
10 fundamentals of a YouTube creative strategy to build a loyal fan base.
Three basic categories:
- Get viewers
- Keep viewers happy
- Keep yourself happy
Objectives:
- A guide to develop new creative ideas for your YouTube channel.
- A process to help improve your existing videos.
- A tool for evaluating all your creative ideas.
- This is not a checklist. You don't have to do every step to be successful on YouTube.
- The strategy is for you to adapt and modify because every channel is different.
1. Make Shareable Videos
Popular videos become popular because they are shareable. By shareable, I'm not talking about the share button... but how to influence your viewer to click on it. Here are 5 ways to get your viewer to share your video.
✅ 1. Be up to date - What's going on in the world or in your industry right now? How you can add your unique spin to it? ✅ 2. Be relatable - Let people feel relatable to you. You could think about showing your face in your video if you haven't. ✅ 3. Be valuable - Provide the information that people came to your video for. Give something unique to your channel. ✅ 4. Be remarkable - Think about the videos that stand out for you. What is the one thing that makes them stand out? What is the one thing you want your videos to stand out for? ✅ 5. Tell your viewer to share - Towards the end of your video, after you have completed giving out your information, simply tell your viewer to share the video if they like it.
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- The difference between YouTube and movies or TV shows is that there is no barrier between you and your audience. Your audience can leave comments and you can interact with them.
- Viewers see their favourite YouTubers as friends in their computers.
- Talking to your audience is powerful because it builds loyalty and repeat views.
- Allocate parts of your videos where you talk directly to your audience. Not about the content of the video but about what your audience want to hear from you. Thank them. Ask questions about what you have just presented. Share updates. Ask how they are doing.
3. Interactivity
- Think of a way to make your follower feel they are included in your content.
- Do it by asking in the Community tab or through the pinned comment in your video.
- Ask them what they like to see from you. Ask them to DM you in other platforms.
4. Consistency
- Focus on quality over quantity.
- Consistency includes regular upload schedules, show format, personality, and theme.
- Can you develop a series that people will stay and watch continuously.
5. Targeting
- Do I have a clearly defined target audience? Who do I think is perfect for my video?
- Check your audience demographic in your YouTube Analytics.
- Target your audience by topic, location, or age group.
- Create content that is appealing to the specific group.
6. Sustainability
- Your YouTube channel is a long term journey. There will be times you lose interest or burn out.
- What are your topic performing videos? How can you do more of them?
- What is easy to shoot? What is realistic? What fits into your time commitment?
- Which format can you stick with?
- Be conversational. Develop an easy repeatable format.
- Think a a topic that people are consistently searching instead of a one-off type of event.
7. Discoverability
- How to be seen by more people?
- Include trending topics in your videos.
- Use Google Trends.
- Insert your country and see what people are searching for.
- Insert keywords and see what people are searching for around those keywords.
- Make content with the ideas from the trend.
- Remember to create evergreen content too.
- Optimize your videos with effective title, tags and descriptions.
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