A creator answers his email list's questions about growing a channel from zero, case study by case study, pulling up real subscriber channels and real comment counts on screen as he goes.
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Big Idea
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Growing a YouTube channel comes down to building roughly 100 true fans who comment, share, and return to every upload, and the fastest way to create them is consistent uploading, simple sustainable formats, and directly answering viewer questions on camera.
Who This Is For
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READ IF YOU ARE…
You're a solo creator with a small or new channel trying to figure out why views and comments aren't coming yet.
You've gone inconsistent or recently took a break from uploading and need a concrete plan to restart without burning out again.
You lean on heavy scripting, a teleprompter, or heavy editing and want a simpler, more sustainable way to make videos.
You want tactical specifics on seeding early videos, building lead magnets, or niching a title without narrowing your actual content.
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Your channel already gets strong comments relative to its view count, this video covers audience-building basics, not advanced algorithm tactics.
You want a shot-by-shot editing breakdown of one specific viral video rather than general channel-growth advice.
TL;DR
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A YouTube creator answers questions submitted by his own email list about growing a channel from zero, using real examples pulled from subscribers' own channels, comment sections, and emails. The throughline is that traction comes from roughly 100 true fans, viewers who comment, share, and return, and those fans are built by publishing consistently (a fixed weekly time budget beats sporadic bursts), keeping formats simple enough to sustain without burnout, and directly answering audience questions in dedicated Q&A videos. He also covers seeding early videos to a small list of genuinely interested contacts instead of posting broadly, building a separate lead magnet per content pillar instead of one generic freebie, and repackaging a single named framework across multiple videos by changing the benefit in the title instead of the framework name.
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States the video's core argument up front (100 true fans drive traction), explains this is a Q&A built from an email-list prompt, and admits it's his first video back after a week off.
01:40 – 07:45
02 · Lucas's win: consistency plus simpler filming
Reads out a subscriber's unsolicited win: switching from daily uploads and short choppy clips to one-to-two-minute unscripted takes produced his best-performing video ever (114k views, 1,500 subs in 3 days). The host pulls up Lucas's real channel and view history on screen as proof.
07:45 – 13:14
03 · Teresa: how to get a brand-new channel noticed
A 7-subscriber channel with near-zero views per video. The host weighs 'growth hacking' (posting to LinkedIn, Reddit, cold outreach) against just staying consistent, and lands on sending videos to a small list of genuinely interested contacts as a middle path and an engagement test.
13:14 – 15:58
04 · Jeremy: relaunching a channel with a 30-video challenge
Short answer: yes to a 30-in-30 or 30-in-90 day challenge when relaunching a rebranded channel, framed as data-gathering on format and process rather than a virality play.
15:58 – 18:01
05 · Louisa: avoiding burnout when work comes in cycles
Advice to keep a consistent weekly YouTube cadence even when the day job is cyclical, and to hard-cap video work at three to five hours a week rather than letting effort creep during busy periods.
18:01 – 23:55
06 · Armin: from speaking freely to an actual video system
A 30-Day Talking to Camera Challenge graduate can now ramble for three to five minutes but doesn't yet know how to shape that into a real video. The host recommends bullet-point planning (the Pull Paint Point method) over unstructured rambling, and says a style change (dropping the teleprompter) is safe to just commit to for five to ten videos.
23:55 – 29:21
07 · Ben: how predictable is a video's performance?
Reviewing his own 30-day challenge data, the host estimates he can usually tell in advance which videos won't do well, has a weaker read on which ones will pop, and puts real numbers on it (roughly 20 of 30 videos he expected to do fine, about 10 he expected to hit, 5 of those actually broke out).
29:21 – 31:56
08 · Leslie: turning views into comments and community
Leslie's weekly-upload channel has low comment counts; the host runs the actual comment-to-view ratio against his own channel's numbers and shows the ratio is already healthy, the fix is more views, not a community problem. He also names Q&A-style videos as his single best lever for building loyal commenters.
31:56 – 35:05
09 · Paul: restarting after a two-year gap
For a creator who hasn't posted in two years and finds talking to camera awkward, the advice is to deliberately 'start badly': film several rough videos back to back during an upcoming week off rather than waiting to feel ready.
35:05 – 36:20
10 · Matt: beating overwhelm with a time box
Overwhelm around scripting, filming, and thumbnails is solved by assigning a hard weekly time limit (three hours) to the whole process, which removes the unlimited runway that fuels procrastination.
36:20 – 40:19
11 · Sarah: how to find your own video formats
The host lists concrete format types (Q&A, one-take, framework/system, listicle, roast) as creative constraints to try, and tells the story of a 'roast' format that flopped because his audience was too vulnerable about being critiqued on their speaking.
40:19 – 44:32
12 · Kelly: niche titles, per-topic lead magnets, and going broader
For a burnout coach whose channel is niched to 'coaching burnout,' the advice is one lead magnet per content pillar (nervous system, mindset, nutrition, exercise) instead of one generic freebie, plus broadening titles while keeping the video content itself niche.
44:32 – 46:45
13 · Omar: repeating one framework across several videos
When a single named framework needs several videos to cover, the fix is to stop putting the framework's name in the title/thumbnail every time and instead lead with a different benefit or pain point per video.
46:45 – 51:37
14 · Chirin: expanding from vlogs into talking-head videos
For a three-year vlog channel adding coaching-focused talking-head content, community comes from doing more videos like this Q&A, and sales come from how tightly the whole channel is aimed at one specific problem, not from picking a single content format.
Atomic Insights
Lines worth screenshotting.
A channel's real growth engine isn't total subscriber count, it's roughly 100 true fans who comment, share, and return to every upload.
Uploading less than once a month tanks a channel even when the videos themselves are strong, because view counts compound downward between gaps.
One creator switched from five-to-ten-second scripted clips to one-to-two-minute unscripted takes and posted a video that hit 114,000 views and 1,500 new subscribers in three days.
Sending a new video directly to a small list of contacts who are genuinely interested works better as an engagement test than posting it broadly to LinkedIn or Reddit forums.
A 30-day or 90-day upload challenge is less about virality and more about gathering data on which formats, locations, and ideas actually work for a specific channel.
Capping YouTube work at three to five hours a week breaks the burnout cycle of overworking during a busy period and then abandoning the channel during the quiet one.
Comment counts scale with view counts, not with video quality: a channel earning one comment per hundred views already has healthy engagement, even if the raw numbers look small.
Publicly answering viewer questions on camera builds disproportionate loyalty, because commenters feel personally addressed, even though Q&A videos typically pull fewer views than a channel's normal uploads.
A one-hour, single-location, minimally-edited video can outperform a heavily produced, multi-location video from the same channel by roughly 20 times the views.
Naming a framework directly in a video's title makes follow-up videos about the same framework feel repetitive; naming the benefit or pain point instead lets the framework be revisited without feeling recycled.
New creators do better building one lead magnet per content pillar than a single generic freebie repeated across every video description.
Broadening a video's title and thumbnail while keeping the actual content niche can pull in a wider audience without diluting the value for the core audience.
Takeaway
Traction is built from a hundred fans, not a viral hit.
WHAT TO LEARN
A channel gains real traction when a small group of viewers comment, share, and return to every upload, and that group is built through consistency, simple formats, and directly engaging your audience, not through chasing a single breakout video.
02Lucas's win: consistency plus simpler filming
Uploading less than once a month tanks a channel regardless of quality, because view counts compound downward between gaps.
A subscriber who switched from choppy 5-10 second scripted clips to unscripted one-to-two-minute takes posted his best-performing video ever within days.
03Teresa: how to get a brand-new channel noticed
For a brand-new channel, sending videos to a small list of genuinely interested contacts is a better early move than broad posting to LinkedIn or Reddit.
Whether a contact's reaction is thought-provoked or vanilla is itself a test of whether a video's premise is strong enough.
04Jeremy: relaunching a channel with a 30-video challenge
A 30 or 90-day upload challenge is a data-gathering exercise on format and process, not primarily a bid for virality.
05Louisa: avoiding burnout when work comes in cycles
Capping video work at three to five hours a week breaks the cycle of overworking in busy periods and abandoning the channel in quiet ones.
06Armin: from speaking freely to an actual video system
Being able to ramble comfortably on camera is a prerequisite for an unscripted channel, but it isn't the same skill as structuring an actual video.
A style change away from a teleprompter is safe to just commit to for five to ten videos rather than agonizing over it in advance.
07Ben: how predictable is a video's performance?
One highly-produced, multi-location video can be outperformed roughly 20x by a single-location, minimally-edited video from the same channel.
Even an experienced creator has a much stronger read on which videos will flop than on which ones will break out.
08Leslie: turning views into comments and community
Comment counts scale with view counts, not video quality, so a channel getting one comment per 100 views already has healthy engagement.
Publicly answering viewer questions on camera builds outsized loyalty even though Q&A videos typically get fewer views than normal uploads.
09Paul: restarting after a two-year gap
Deliberately making and publishing a few rough, bad videos is the fastest way out of a multi-year posting freeze.
10Matt: beating overwhelm with a time box
An unlimited time budget for a video is what fuels overwhelm and procrastination; a hard weekly time limit removes that runway.
11Sarah: how to find your own video formats
Naming concrete formats (Q&A, one-take, framework walkthrough, listicle, roast) turns an open-ended 'make a video' into a tractable creative constraint.
A format can be right for the internet in general but wrong for one specific audience, the fix is to drop it, not force it.
12Kelly: niche titles, per-topic lead magnets, and going broader
Building one lead magnet per content pillar converts better than repeating a single generic freebie across every video.
Broadening a title and thumbnail while keeping the actual content niche can widen reach without diluting value for the core audience.
13Omar: repeating one framework across several videos
Naming a framework in a video's title makes repeat videos about it feel recycled; naming the benefit instead lets the same framework be revisited.
14Chirin: expanding from vlogs into talking-head videos
Community is built by making more direct-engagement videos like Q&As, not by picking one specific video format.
Sales come from how tightly an entire channel is aimed at one specific problem, not from which format carries that message.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
True fans
Viewers who watch, comment on, and share every upload from a channel. Their engagement signals to YouTube that a channel deserves wider distribution, and building around a hundred of them is treated as the real growth milestone, not raw subscriber count.
Growth hacking (channel-launch sense)
Manually seeding a brand-new video to outside platforms or personal contacts, LinkedIn, Reddit, direct messages, to generate its first views and comments before YouTube's own recommendation system has anything to go on.
Lead magnet
A free resource offered in exchange for an email signup. The advice here is to build one per content pillar rather than a single generic download repeated across every video.
One-take video
A video style aiming for a single continuous take rather than many short clips stitched together, valued for feeling more natural to watch and faster to produce, even when it actually ends up as a handful of longer chunks.
Pull Paint Point method
A named script-planning framework the creator references and sells access to, used to structure bullet points inside a YouTube script so a speaker can talk 'off the cuff' around a plan instead of reading a script verbatim.
“Once you get those true fans who truly care, that's when your YouTube channel starts really gaining traction because you can put out any video and they will watch it, like it, comment on it, share it.”
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Once you get your first 100 true fans on your channel who tune in, watch every video, and also leave comments, people engaging with your material, telling you that this stuff is game -changing, asking you questions, giving you ideas for future videos, even giving you constructive criticism. Once you get those true fans who truly care, that's when your YouTube channel starts really gaining traction because you can put out any video And they will watch it, like it, comment on it, share it, which gives you that initial traction that you need for your YouTube videos to start going out to all of the right people, bringing more people into your world, bringing in more true fans, bringing people into your business as clients.
That is what gets you off the ground. And I put out a Q &A prompt to my email list recently around YouTube strategy. You guys came back with some unreal questions.
There's some real juice to be squeezed out of these questions today. And I want to help. I want to help you guys out.
So I'm making this Q &A now to see how much I can help you in the shortest amount of time possible. And the theme with these questions seem to be, how do we really get that traction from day one and get more engagement, more comments, more community from our channels? So I've got a...
A tea here. Supreme matcha green. I believe it's green tea mixed with a bit of matcha.
I've already had a coffee.
I haven't had breakfast. It's 11 .37. And this is the first video I've made in a week.
It feels crazy to say that seeing as I made a video every day last month. But I have just been on holiday. And so this is my first video back.
This is my first video back. And I'm sort of using this Q &A as a bit of... bit of lubrication, if you will, to start sort of to enter my YouTube process and flow, which is returning to about three, three uploads a week these days, maybe more.
So let's get into it. There's going to be a huge win, a massive, gigantic win in the first question here, which isn't a question. It's just a win.
from one of my awesome audience members, guy called Lucas. So check this out. This is going to be a massive inspiration for everyone here.
Let's just zoom in a touch. Amazing. Thomas, one month ago, I was uploading less than once a month on average.
My views were tapering down. Sound familiar? Yeah.
I mean, if you're uploading less than once a month, doesn't matter if your videos are bangers, some point your views are going to be going down and down. And once you get to that, you know, I've uploaded three weeks ago and even if the video does well, the views are going down and down and down.
Every upload feels like you're fighting this huge uphill struggle. And so it's one of the reasons why I recommend uploading more frequently. And one of the reasons why I was doing my daily uploading last month.
So he said, when I found your daily videos this month, which was last month now, your notes on consistency and video creation met me exactly where I was at. Technical side of how to talk to camera while certainly being valuable is the least important thing I learned from you. You gave me undeniable proof that you don't have to take every upload so seriously.
Yes, I love that. And that videos of little to no editing can still be great if they're well planned. 100%.
So I've posted two videos since being inspired by you and they've been much more of a joy to make. Joy process -based wins if I'm enjoying this process more. They are my favorite wins because they mean you're going to keep going.
They mean that you're going to stay consistent and play this for the long game, which is the key. With most of the work being done beforehand planning instead of in the editing room. Yeah.
So not just like doing a load of bad takes on bad ideas and having to try and edit something together to make it watchable. B, this is a huge unlock. I posted the second video on Tuesday and it's my best performing video ever in the first three days.
Currently 114 ,000 views and 1 ,500 new subs already just from that video. Unreal. If you watch it, you'll see some direct inspiration from you.
It's a little simpler with me just talking in a single location, but I did my best to deliver it in one take, more or less. Ended up being more in chunks, but one to two minute chunks, way bigger than the five to ten second chunks of talking that I used to work with so much of the time. Yeah, so...
Lucas is focused on improving his speaking, improving the planning that makes his speaking better. And he was able to film this video for a minute or two at a time. So shooting for the stars, a one take video, but landing on the moon.
Maybe this is a five or six minute video and he did it in five or six takes. Rather than talking in half a sentence or three words at a time and then cutting all the time, which is a pain in the ass. And it's a kind of weird feeling when you're making a video that way.
Anyway, I've got all this for free just by watching your channel this past month and I wanted to let you know about the breadth of your impact. This isn't a question, so don't really expect this to make it into your video, but I was thinking I owed you a thank you. Well, thank you, Lucas.
Absolute legend. I watched this video as well. Really good video.
I love your channel. It's so cool. Really, really cool.
Let's go on Lucas's channel. We won't watch the video, obviously, otherwise this video will start getting very long, but let's just see what Lucas is talking about here. So simple Lucas, 50 ,000 subscribers.
This is the video he's talking about. So when he left me this email, it was 100 ,000 views. Now it's on a 500 ,000 to 20.
What am I talking about? 520 ,000 views compared to the last sort of five videos that were anything from 3 ,000 to 17 ,000 views. So a massive outlier, we'll call it.
Now, let's look at this as well. Lucas, six months ago, made a video that got to 2 million views, which is incredible. However, What Lucas is alluding to here is this video is highly edited, shot in a bunch of different locations over a long period of time with a ton of editing and a ton of work, I imagine.
Which is cool, you know, if you're in the creative flow and you're making a video like that, amazing. But the outstanding thing about this video, if you go and watch it, is Lucas is leaning on his car, talking to camera for about six minutes with some very basic editing and cuts.
to do as well as this video, which is unbelievable. So huge win from Lucas. We're kicking off this Q &A with a bang, bit of motivation for you guys.
Lucas, you're smashing it, mate. Proud of you. Okay, next one.
Teresa, let's get into some juice. Congrats on the successful 30 -day publishing experiment. Thank you.
My question for you, what suggestions do you have for making people aware of a new channel? Yeah, this is what we're talking about. So let's assume a tiny list of existing contacts who would fall into the target audience.
Here's my extremely new channel. Thank you for what you do and best wishes for even more success. Thank you, Teresa.
So this is Teresa's channel, seven subscribers, and she's made eight videos. Great stuff. You've been very consistent.
So over the last two weeks, you've published a lot, like maybe three times a week. This is amazing. Amazing to see.
What Teresa is saying is if we look at her videos, some of them have literally got no views. Others have four views or one view, right? So the question here from Teresa is how can I make people aware of my new channel, right?
Because I've been putting out eight videos over the last two weeks. I've got like two views. Is this to do with how good my videos are?
Is this to do with... my packaging, or do I need to promote those videos to real people I know in my network to help me start getting that initial traction? Now, there isn't a clear, crisp answer here, but what I would recommend is doing a bit of both.
And if you are going to do a bit of, what's the word for it? It's like, I think it's growth hacking. Might be wrong there.
growth hack marketing, where you're basically, you would take your channel and then post it in a bunch of relevant places. So you might go and post it on your LinkedIn account. You might go and find a Reddit forum or thread where people are talking about the topic of your video and go and post it over there.
You might even I don't know, go so far as to cold email it to people. You're basically trying as hard as you can to get those initial 100, 200 views from your own hustle, which then could form the traction of your channel.
Now, I've heard different theories about this. Some people say, yes, absolutely, that is the key. Other people say, no, absolutely, don't do that.
Because if you do it, you might attract the wrong audience. And if you attract the wrong audience, it's going to give YouTube the completely the wrong idea. And that's not going to work.
And it's going to actually do damage to your channel. I think there's two answers here. One is the long -term answer of don't worry too much about these little growth tactics here, Teresa.
Instead, just focus on staying consistent, making your videos better, learning and growing, and the views will come, right? That's the overall long -term boring answer. And that's the key, right?
That is the key. However, I can only speak from my own experience, the experience of my clients. And from my own experience, when I started out on YouTube, I did do a bit of this sort of growth hacking.
I posted my videos on my Facebook, which was way more active. I'm talking like 10 years ago. So it was way more active at the time.
And I probably got my first like 30 to 50 to 100 views from that. I remember posting some videos on Reddit, I think. This was about videography back in the day.
And so I was doing some of this growth hacking stuff. And I think that did help to get me my first few subscribers and first few views. And in this case, I think I would recommend doing that as well.
If you've got your channel here, which is...
about leadership right leading teams this is the kind of stuff that you could definitely put out to people that you know and ask them to watch and leave a comment almost like doing you a favor my client kian who i made a video about recently did exactly this as well you know so i'm speaking from the experience from of my clients as well kian said where are we Yeah, great.
So Kian's doing great at the moment. He's, you know, hitting 40 ,000, 20 ,000 views. He said for his initial videos, he used to spam his friends with these videos, you know, and his channel was about personal finance in Ireland.
And he sent it to his friends who are interested in personal finance who lived in Ireland. Right. And that would get him those initial five to 10 comments from his mates just being like, oh, yeah, this is a good point.
And sort of doing him a favor, giving him some better watch time. leaving some comments. And so I do hear the advice of people saying, don't do that because you're going to upset the algorithm.
But there's two cases, my client, myself doing this as well, where I think it does actually work. You've just got to be careful about where you post it to get started. And rather than posting it on LinkedIn and posting it on Reddit forums.
I would recommend you curatedly send it to this small group of people, tiny list of existing contacts. And that's sort of if you have a good relationship with them, right? Like if it's sort of a friend of a friend or somebody you vaguely know and you're kind of just asking for a favour at this point, this is probably not going to work.
But if you send it to a group of people who you genuinely have a great... relationship with and it's genuinely something that they're going to be super interested in then it could be really helpful and i think this speaks to this is a good test for your videos as well if your videos are about something thought -provoking that have new information or at least existing information packaged as new and interesting and it's it can provoke a discussion it can be thought -provoking and you get your existing contacts to watch it they will be interested in this content.
It's a good test to be like, are you actually interested in this? And if they are like, oh, this is actually really interesting. I haven't thought about that before.
And I'm actually going to implement this in my next team meeting. Then, you know, you're onto something. Whereas if they're sort of, you know, this response is very vanilla, very vague and they're not really interested, then you're either sending it to the wrong people or you could make your video better.
So it's a good sort of litmus test to start with as well.
Let's go to Jeremy. Love the content, Thomas. I've set all my previous videos to private and rebranding my channel, helping content creators build a business that they own with an email list and digital products.
Love it. Would you recommend 30 videos in a row to jumpstart the channel again? Here's the link, but of course there's nothing there at the moment.
Yeah, so he's almost spilled my tea there. That could have been disastrous. Jeremy has sent me a link to an empty YouTube channel, so I'm not going to open that, but...
30 videos in a row to jumpstart the channel again. Yeah, absolutely. I would recommend doing some kind of challenge to help you jumpstart your channel.
30 videos in a month or 30 videos over 90 days. I think those are both really good courses of action to test a bunch of different video formats, test some ideation strategies, test the location you make videos, test the vibe that you have in your videos. It's just about gathering that initial data as well as getting yourself process oriented.
to be like, cool, what is my process? How can I experiment with making this more enjoyable for myself? That's all going to be amazing stuff to do.
So I think it doesn't necessarily have to be a daily video, especially when you're starting out, but some kind of challenge over 30 or 90 days is a very good idea to start a channel. Louisa. Hi, Thomas.
Thanks for the brilliant newsletter. Jam -packed as always with super helpful tips. Awesome.
Here's my question. I burnt out a few months ago and gave up making videos. How do I get back on the horse and prevent this from happening again in the future?
My main work, psychology translations, come in cycles, and I have a quiet month every quarter or so. So I know I should be able to prep in advance. Somehow, I seem to end up getting close to burnout a few times a year during busy periods.
Cool. Okay, that's sort of one question here.
Basically, how can you not burn out when you're making YouTube videos? This is an age -old question and a very good one.
If you have a quiet month every quarter or so, you know you should be able to prep in advance, but you're almost getting close, always end up getting close to burnout.
Yeah, I think if your work comes in cycles, I'm actually tempted to still maintain a sense of consistency and not just do these because if your work comes in cycles you're going to be potentially a bit stressed or burnt out from your work if it's a busy cycle and then you're going to have a quiet month and that's probably why you you end up not doing youtube in the quiet month because you need to rest and so if you keep youtube going if you right i finished my work in this cycle and now it's time for my youtube cycle you're not giving yourself time to rest and you're probably burning out in that in that sense.
And so I'd probably give yourself a more consistent routine and saying, you know, if you're busy doing a video a week and not allowing yourself to spend more than four or five hours on that video every week, that's the key. And even, even more three hours a week, right? Can you make a video in three hours a week?
The way I see youtube is from a lens not just of analytics and strategy it's also from the lens of what is the creator's process and how are they making videos and so if you're spending three hours a week on your videos right now if you're a beginner in this the three hours might not be spent very optimally but if you keep improving then in a few months, those same three hours will be way more optimized.
You'll be doing all of the right things in those three hours versus all of the wrong things. But the only way that you get to be doing all of the right things is learning and growing in action. And so I would recommend sticking to a limit of three to five hours a week on YouTube and staying in that limit and not allowing that creep, the time creep to end up making you burnt out.
And just giving yourself that limit and then taking time off and relaxing. That's going to be the key to make your YouTube channel work.
I'm going to leave that one there. Amen.
Hi Thomas, thanks again for featuring my transformation mate. I really enjoyed the video. Yeah, check out the video somewhere in the description or on my channel.
It's called The Insane Benefits of Talking to Camera Every Day for 30 Days, featuring Armin's 30 Day Challenge. I'd love to ask you two questions about the next steps after the 30 Day Challenge. Before the challenge, I relied completely on scripts, a teleprompter and heavy editing.
Now I can speak comfortably for, and I can comfortably speak freely for three to five minutes, which feels like a huge milestone. Amazing. Thanks again for making that possible.
Yeah, that is a huge milestone. Kind of similar to Lucas, being able to speak freely. That's, that's huge.
But that still feels quite different from creating an actual YouTube video. Yeah coming from fully scripted information dense videos It feels like there's still another step between speaking freely for a few minutes and creating a polished YouTube video. I Watched your recent one -hour video where you showed your complete workflow It was really impressive, but I don't feel like I could apply that process myself just yet Yes so Assuming you're in my position comfortably speaking freely for three to five minutes, but still transitioning away from fully scripted videos, how would you train that next skill?
What would your progression look like to become better quickly and develop a natural workflow for creating YouTube videos?
Well, I think that, so you're essentially saying, cool, I can speak in the 30 day talking on camera challenge, which Armin's referencing here. You're kind of speaking, you're speaking. The focus is mainly on just how you're speaking, not specifically on what you're saying.
And so he's now developed this ability to talk about whatever he likes for three to five minutes. Great. But that's often not what you need to actually make an amazing YouTube video, because making a great YouTube video is about talking in a very specific way for whatever, three to five or five to 10 minutes, which.
involves addressing the right person in your niche, using psychology to hook that person into your video, keeping them engaged, teaching effectively, enabling your information to be memorable, impactful. There's a lot to pack into actually making an effective YouTube video, which isn't just learning how to ramble. freely and comfortably for five minutes although that's an incredibly valuable skill as well which you is almost a prerequisite if you want to make unscripted videos which is why we focus on that first in a 30 -day challenge but armin's now at a point where he's like okay how do i actually translate this into youtube i would go with bullet points to start out with and when i say bullet points the mistake that a lot of people make here is I'm just going to write three bullet points and then sort of ramble around them.
Instead, what you want to be doing is using the pull paint point method within each bullet point and also having an intro that hooks people in. The way that you do that, I've got a bunch of tutorials on this channel, including the one that is that recent one hour video. That was more focused on a one take video that I made.
so I can understand why you don't feel like you're there yet. But translating your new speaking skills into an actual YouTube planning system, I've got a video called This Forces You to Speak Coherently on YouTube or something like that. I can put that on the screen.
I would follow the planning method in that video and then speak off the cuff around that style of bullet points. That's how I would go from... speaking comfortably to speaking comfortably coherently with purpose.
And then question two is my audience has only ever known my highly scripted teleprompter based videos, planning to switch to a more natural, minimally edited style similar to yours, but I'm worried that such a big change might confuse existing subscribers. How would you make that transition without losing your audience's trust?
I would just... I think you're at this point. I think this question is a bit of overthinking and I would just send it.
I don't think that it's going to like, it's, it's not going to ruin or tarnish your channel. It's not going to tank your channel. You could, I would, I wouldn't say, Oh, I'm just doing this forever now.
But what I would do is try it, maybe commit to it for five to 10 videos. see how it does and then adjust from there. YouTube is always this continuous journey of adjusting and you will adjust your video styles throughout the next however many months or years you'll be doing this or decades.
And so, so many of these questions is what are my audience going to think? Is it the right time to change my style? So much of it is overthinking and just doing.
And experimenting for a period of time is the best way to do things. So if I was you, I'd set, you know, why not do this for the next month? Why not do this for the next two months and then see how it goes?
That would be the way I would approach it.
Great. Next question. Thanks for that, Armin.
Ben. Hey, mate. Well done on the results.
Been loving the videos. You're smashing it. Thank you very much.
When did you... Oh, this is cool. This is my client, Ben.
What's up, Ben? When you did the 30 days, was there an inkling as to which videos would pop off over others? Was there any predictability to it?
There, I had some inklings for sure. So just for context, this is a 30 day challenge I did that started around here. And then I'd post a video every single day for 30 days and it ended somewhere around here.
And so I had a few videos do well. These two videos did pretty good. You know, they're pretty recent seven, 8 ,000 views.
And then I had two videos specifically breaking out. This is another 7 ,000, but two videos specifically 25 ,000 here and then 31 ,000 here. And they're still going pretty strong.
Did I have an inkling? Yes. Yes, I did.
I feel like I have a stronger inkling to know when a video is not going to do that well. but I'm kind of doing it anyway, because I kind of want to make the video or it might do well for sales or emails, or I'm just in a flow and I say, right, I'm making 30 videos in 30 days. So I have to upload anyway.
I have a strong inkling when a video, like I kind of know when a video isn't going to do well. It's less so when I know it is most of these videos, I think are going to do well. Otherwise I wouldn't really make them.
So maybe 20 out of 30, I was like, this video could pop off. Not sure. It's probably about 10 where I was like, this isn't going to pop off, but that's fine.
Like my audience is going to like it. It's going to keep my warm viewers warm. It does lots of great stuff, even if it doesn't pop off.
Right. So no YouTube video is a waste of time. And so I had about 20 that I thought, oh, this could pop off.
And maybe about 10 where I was like, oh, this is going to do well for sure. And then out of those 10, maybe five of them were disappointments. And the five of them, I was like, yeah, they actually did do really well.
And so you do start developing some kind of spidey sense or some kind of predictability where you're like, I'm pretty sure this video is going to bang. And then maybe there's a 50 % chance that it will bang. But, you know, it's still a lot of guesswork in there.
So I'm not saying that I am like the octopus that can guess the lottery.
There's definitely some inklings floating around Leslie hey Thomas. My question is on building a YouTube community. My channel is a few months old I'm just starting out and I'm consistently posting a weekly long -form video and plan on increasing that to two or three videos a week in the fall Also giving myself summer off to spend time with family.
Hell. Yeah I'm wondering now that I'm growing my channel. How do I build my community?
I started making posts, but there's not much engagement and I know YouTube doesn't push that often and that's okay. I've also started a sub stack. It's more essays and a deeper behind the scenes of my thoughts.
How do I connect with the people who have subscribed to my channel authentically? Yeah, this is a great question and something we sort of alluded to in the intro of this video. So if we go on Leslie's channel, we've got 150 subscribers, 34 videos, and we can see here, sort of posting weekly, which is amazing.
That's the first thing I love to see. We've had a couple videos hit four, three, 400 views. I think there was a one or two, this one, 2000 views, first video, not bad.
And then more recently, sort of a hundred views basically. And if we go on these, I watched a little bit of this one, zero comments, right? So this is kind of what Leslie's alluding to.
Four comments. That's great. What kind of two comments that Leslie's replied to?
Let's just look at one more.
Zero comments. So pretty low engagement. And I'm not saying relatively low.
I mean, if you are consistently posting videos and they're consistently getting 100 views, I'm not saying getting zero, one or two comments is low engagement. It's all, you know, if you look at any... I don't know, one of my videos.
Let's just look at percentages, right?
Percentages of engagement. If I go on this video here, we've got 4 ,000 views and 37 comments. So let's say 40 comments, 4 ,000 views.
So if we make that 400 views, it would be four comments, right? So the 100 views would be one comment. So the ratio is actually pretty good, right?
So in this case, Leslie, The lack of comments is mostly to do with lack of views. So it's about you.
I mean, if we look at this 275 views, let's see if we've got comments on this one. There you go. You got seven comments.
Three of them are from you. So that's four comments. There you go.
You got double or triple the views and you got double or triple the comments. So if you want more engagement. kind of the main thing is to basically get more views.
And the way that you get more views is to keep going, is to keep doing what you're doing. There's quite a bit of YouTube strategy that you could implement to get more of these views.
But not going into that here, I might make another video doing more of some YouTube strategy breakdowns for you guys. The main thing here would be to keep going and getting more views. In terms of actually getting more comments and building some more of these true fans.
The number one thing that I wanted to share in this video, where are we? This, is doing videos like this one. When I first started off my channel a decade ago, my filmmaking channel, I made a few videos like this, and I called them coffee Q &As.
And I said to my audience, my email list, which at the time was, I don't know, 100 500 000 subscribers i can't remember and my email list similar you know 100 200 people i said what questions do you guys have and i just made a couple of videos like this one and they they're gonna perform worse than your normal videos perform right they'll get less views every time i post a q a you know if my average video gets 7 000 views or something or whatever my q a's will get like one or two thousand views And that's totally fine.
But what you're doing is encouraging people to come back and comment on your videos. And you're building true fans. You're building super fans.
Because if you answer somebody's comment in your video, the psychological effect that that has when they're like, holy shit, they're looking, they're talking about my problem. They're talking about me. It can give people this real feeling of like, oh, wow, this is amazing.
They're talking to me right now. There's somebody I, you know, I'll just watch. Now they're talking to me.
If you do that a few times, over let's say a period of five months and you make one of those videos a month or two a month and you answer let's say 50 comments or 100 comments in that time you are starting to build 50 to 100 super fans and having 50 to 100 super fans is so much more powerful than having 10 000 people who kind of watch a couple videos and then bounce and so by building those super fans you're building that real relationship with those people who are going to come back, comment more, give you more engagement and build your channel.
Like those will be the people to give you that traction. And the way that you do that is by doing things like this, answering real questions in real life, real life, in a real video, that really starts building that small, compact, dense snowball of people that will start picking up more and more and more.
Great question, Leslie. Paul. Hey, Thomas.
I want to say thank you for your videos. I find talking to camera awkward and uneasy and to people as well. Great.
I appreciate you for being here. Infrequent YouTube video. I can't even speak anymore.
I'm a very infrequent YouTuber. My last video was two years ago. Yeah, that's pretty infrequent.
I keep meaning to create videos, but with a busy work and family life, it's hard to get started. Yes, the getting started procrastination interruption issue. Yeah.
You've been observing my videos. Great stuff. I have next week's off, so I'm going to try and film a few videos with the aim of starting badly.
I love that. Start badly. That's a huge unlock to get out of this loop, right?
The best way to get out of a I'm stuck loop is let's make some shit content. I'm going to make some terrible, horrible content and publish it. And then I'm going to do that again a few times.
And then... it's going to start feeling good. It's honestly how I felt at the beginning of this video.
Wasn't feeling, and I've only had a week off, not two years, but you know, you have a week off when you're used to posting every day, or you have a month off when you're used to posting every week. Shit feels rusty, you know, it starts feeling rusty and you've just got to make some bad content to get going. And I know this isn't bad content.
Hopefully it's really helping you guys, but even my thoughts going into this is like, oh, I don't really want to do this. I'm just going to sort of get this out the way and just like jump into it.
And probably it will be like, okay. And I'm not super proud of it, but it's going to help people and do something good for my channel. So whatever, let's just do it.
That's the mindset I went into making this video. I have next week off. So I'm going to try and film a few videos.
Okay. Great stuff. Right.
I've already read that. Give it a try. So you're going to create videos across a couple of channels.
How do you come up with ideas for videos and draft them? How detailed are your drafts or scripts? Do you record multiple videos per day or do you find it easier to work on one at a time from start to finish?
So to the second question, both. I have recorded four videos in a day once. That was pretty hectic, but that was a real flow.
I can tell you that. That was cool. I wouldn't recommend doing that all the time, but if you've got a free day and you're like, I'm literally just going to make YouTube videos today, you could either shoot one or you could shoot four.
And I'm saying that from experience, by the way. If you're a beginner, I wouldn't recommend shooting four because you want to put more of your time and resources into making one better video rather than four really bad videos. However, do you find it easier to work on one at a time from start to finish?
Both I don't really have a preference on that to be honest. They have pros and cons This one. How do you come up with ideas for videos and draft them?
I would recommend watching that One hour video walkthrough that just completely answers this question I I've already mentioned this so I'll put a link somewhere. That's what I would watch Rather than give you another answer I'm just gonna send you there because I think that that's that will give you the exact answer you're looking for Matt, what advice would you give to somebody who's just getting started with YouTube and gets overwhelmed and overthinks everything?
The scripting, filming, and the thumbnails. It feels like every video requires too much. Yeah, this is a great question.
And again, I would go with time limitation. I would go with, cool, let's make this into a process, a weekly process. Let's take this from this overwhelming thing of all of these things I have to do and just put time limits on it.
And just say, right, I've got three hours this week to make a video. And within that creative constraint, how good can I make this? That's it.
That's really the answer to overwhelm is to start doing that. Because overwhelm comes with all of this time that you give yourself, which, and especially if you're just getting started with YouTube, if you don't, I don't know if you posted yet, Matt, but if you haven't posted yet. and you haven't got a date that you're going to post, you're basically giving yourself all of the time in the world to overthink and procrastinate.
But once you're in it and you say, I'm doing this every week and I'm on a weekly cadence, then all of this stuff goes away because you're like, shit, I've got three hours to do it. You know, Monday morning, Tuesday evening and Saturday, right? That's when I'm going to be planning and shooting videos.
And you know, you give yourself five hours in the first week or whatever, because you'd have to, or 10 hours even to just to like get started. quite quickly, you want to be getting that down as short as possible. That's when things start clicking and you stop having all of that overthinking.
Sarah, dear Thomas, awesome that you're making a Q &A about YouTube again.
Right now I'm at day 24 of your 30 day talking to camera challenge. I already tried a few topics that I want to incorporate in my YouTube channel. Hell yeah.
I can confirm that when you're in the flow, the ideas just keep coming. Absolutely. I know I'm thinking a few steps ahead here.
I want to switch between my formats on my YouTube channel, but I don't know which these are going to be yet. So I was wondering, how do you come up with your specific formats of your YouTube videos? Yeah.
How do you know that it was a specific format? Did you try some of other YouTubers? Yeah, this is a great question.
I love thinking about formats. So just to, I'm going to put some text here. Just to sort of think about formats and types of video that you can make.
It starts giving you some creative boundaries to start actually operating within, which is much better to be like that rather than I'm just going to make a YouTube video about whatever in whatever style it's. Hmm. What if I can make a YouTube video about this in this style?
Suddenly, oh, this is tangible now. And so a format like this is a format. This is a Q &A format of a video.
Another format is a one take. Right. Can I do a sort of mindset shift video?
with no cuts. That's a challenge. It's the format.
It's a cool thing, right? And a one take video could include sort of filming whilst doing something. So I've seen a video of like a girl making a video whilst doing her hair or somebody getting a coffee, right?
I'm on my way to get my coffee. It's a 10 minute walk. So I'm going to make this video right now, right?
Another format is a sort of system or framework or here's this outcome that you want. Here's where you are right now. Here are the exact steps to get here.
There's a sort of tips or listicle, hacks. Here are five hacks to do this better. So these are just a quick barrage of formats that you can then start getting creative within, right?
how do I come up with the specific formats? I think it's, it's looking at what other people are doing. Sure.
But it's also looking at what you want to do and trying new stuff that you think could do well for your audience. For example, I once tried a roast, a roast format, right? Which I got from, I think it was from Ed Lawrence.
He's a YouTube. uh, strategy guy and he was, he was doing roasts. So he would, he would get his audience's channels like this one, for example, and be like, right, this is all the things you're doing wrong.
This is all the things that you're doing right. Here's how you could change it. I'm going to remake some of your thumbnails and make it better, which is a great format for, for my channel at the time, I was focusing way more on speaking.
And when I asked people, Hey, send in your speaking videos and I'll roast them. Right? So the roast being a playful, way of saying i'm going to give you loads of advice right rather than actually roasting somebody being mean but the thing is speaking is a much more vulnerable thing and so even though i had a good audience almost nobody sent me in videos to be criticized like hey can you publicly criticize how i speak to camera and so i realized hmm yeah maybe roasts are not the best format for my channel and so that was something that i haven't done in a while like a roast Uh, I might do another one.
I might not, but you're, you end up finding what works well for your channel is my point here. And you know, you might love doing Q and A's or you might hate them. Same as one takes same with all these things.
So it's a sort of a trial and error. Use these as a starting point and then go from there. Kelly, I love the sound of all this.
I'm loving doing a 30 day challenge. My question is, how do I increase the email signups? I feel like I'm in a YouTube jail.
Oof. I keep getting YouTube experts telling me to go wider with my content so I get more views. I know why I'm super niching.
I'm not expecting virality. I'm also not getting the traction for my videos or the signup to my emails. Okay, so two questions here.
How do I increase my email signups? The fastest way to increase email signups is individual lead magnets for each video. Right?
That's the ideal way to do it. It's unrealistic to do it for every single video. And what I mean by that is, you know, if you've got a video, I think your channel I checked out is on burnout, right?
And so you could, within burnout, I don't know, I'm just coming up with this now, but you could have the topic of nervous system. right nervous system that could be a thing another thing could be mindset or sort of thinking addressing it more sort of cognitively another thing could be more uh maybe food based i don't know but or like nutrition right and then exercise for burnout so maybe you've got four pillars your pillar is going to be totally different but let's invent these for example so with each of these pillars You would then make a lead magnet for each specific one.
So a nervous system lead magnet, a nutrition lead magnet. And all these are like free lead magnet, by the way, is free resource that is valuable enough to get somebody's email in exchange for. And then whenever you make a video about each of these topics, you talk about that specific and promote that specific lead magnet.
That increases your email signups a lot versus just having one that you constantly repeat. Now extreme version of this is you make a new lead magnet for every single video, which is getting easier now with AI But it's still you know, just to create a signup page and do all this stuff It's it's another It's a bit of a ball like to be honest, so I wouldn't I wouldn't do that But definitely having a roster of lead magnets that you rotate that's the fastest way to increase your email signups Also, just promoting a lead magnet early in the video If you if your priorities emails doing that within the first three minutes is much more effective than just doing at the end This is sort of a separate question, which is, do I go wider?
Do I go, you know, do I go niche?
I think in this case, if we look at your channel quickly.
So you're sort of specialized in burnout. Now, burnout isn't that niche.
Burnout is something that millions of people experience.
And so I'm guessing what you're talking about is niches, coaches, burnout coach. So you've got a lot of burnout for coaches. You coach leaders.
Okay, cool. And you train coaches. Great.
Okay. So there you go. You got two niches.
You coach people through burnout, but you also coach coaches how to coach people through burnout. And I can see that, right? So coaching burnout, coaching burnout, coaches burnout.
So I can see what you're trying to do here. You're trying to make it very niche by putting coaching and burnout in the title. That's great.
It's a great strategy. You could also go broader in your titles, but keeping your content niche. So you could make a burnout video that doesn't have coaching or coach in the title or thumbnail, but still address them in the video.
So that's a way to go slightly broader, but still be niche within your actual topic. I don't think that is going to... I think your information will still feel relevant and useful there.
That would probably be the thing that I do. I feel like your title and thumbnail, they're so niche that that could be holding you back.
So I'm thinking... that I would go slightly broader in your packaging whilst keeping the information in your video still pretty niche. I hope that makes sense.
Omar. Hi, Alexander. Love your work.
I'm doing a 30 videos and 30 day challenge on YouTube as well. Great. Say I have a content framework I want to teach, something like the binge framework.
Cool. If I want to cover it across several videos instead of just one, how would you package them so each video feels different instead of repeating the same explanation in different words?
I would probably... I mean, you've got to ask yourself, why do you want to do it across several videos?
I guess it would be talking about a lot of different situations or topic and then applying the framework to each topic. That's totally fine.
If I was to do that, I probably just wouldn't lead with your framework in the packaging, right? So I would go... So it's sometimes good to lead with the framework and the packaging, right?
So here I've sort of put the framework in the packaging. Another thing I did in some of my popular videos is put my framework, you know, a rule or a framework in the packaging, the coffee shop rule, the best friend method. So you've got the unique mechanism in the actual packaging.
You don't have to do that though. So for example, here, speak like this to make YouTube videos with zero editing, one take. That is just saying, you know, this is possible.
You can do this in one take, but it's not saying, here's how you do it. Here's my framework in the packaging. The same one as this one.
Speaking like this gives you an unfair advantage on YouTube. That's a clear benefit and curiosity thing. Speaking like what?
Well, it kind of answers it was be authentic. Okay. But how do I do that?
I'm not saying in the packaging, here's the authenticity framework. So you don't have to pack it. You don't have to package the framework in the packaging.
And so probably in this case, I probably wouldn't put the framework as your packaging. And that's how you could make them feel different by you could put different benefits in, you could in the titles, different pains that people are trying to avoid, et cetera, et cetera. And then within the video, you can revisit the same framework.
Omar, Chiran, Chirin. just finished doing 30 day challenge awesome first off thank you for the program it's been so fun and helpful and i truly look forward to every day awesome that's so cool to hear my question for you is what is your advice for a vlog channel who's expanding to doing more talking head videos as far as building community and driving sales it seems like a lot of the youtube success and advice out there excuse me is aimed at education talking head creators cool yeah for context my channel is still very small but i've been doing behind the scenes vlogs of my creative business videos for about three years recently i started adding a podcast style video to my channel and expanding my business to offer coaching mentorship and retreats for creative business owners amazing i'm about 10 days into uploading daily videos and have definitely experienced the internal shifts but from a data and analytics standpoint have not seen much improvement cool oh yes i did see this channel
prepping for this video. Yeah, amazing. Yeah, very cool channel.
And yeah, one of your videos that did well was one of your vlogs. Yeah, cool. So the question here, what advice for a vlog channel is expanding to doing more talking head videos as far as building community and driving sales?
I think it's a very similar answer to a question I gave before, which is Building community is doing videos like this. So Q and A's it's interacting with your audience.
It's giving advice based on questions they have or things that they submit. A hundred percent. It's, you know, sitting down with a nice coffee, having a nice vibe and then just connecting with people and not even expecting those videos to do super well, but having that engagement I think is really huge.
Driving sales, I mean, that's everything. That's how you set up your channel. That's how niche your channel is.
When we talk about driving sales, it's your whole channel and business solving a specific problem, right? So it's having that thing that you are solving is the best way to drive sales. And it could be multiple things.
It could just be one thing. It could be multiple problems for one specific person. That can also be a way to think about it.
I wouldn't separate yourself from an education talking head creator. It seems like you want to start making more talking head stuff. I would just make a blend.
I think it's totally possible to have a blend of amazing talking head videos and amazing vlogs. I think they can both support each other. The vlogs are great for building community and you can give value and advice in the vlogs and the education talking head videos.
You can probably get more creative with the packaging, make more specific targeted videos where you give more value more quickly. So it's, I wouldn't say I'm a vlog channel, just I am a channel, right?
In terms of your regular uploads, they will start to compound. You know, if you're 10 days into it, my videos didn't start really snowballing and getting a lot of traction until probably halfway through the challenge or 20 days into the challenge. So definitely keep going.
And ultimately, it's not about getting tons of traction in 30 days. It's about... getting and keeping traction over however long you're going to be doing a youtube channel so it might happen within 30 days or the 30 days is going to be a huge learning where you're like cool this did well this didn't do well this didn't do well this didn't do well this did well and then the next 30 days then you start repeating the stuff that did do well and it could you know it could be a couple months down the line where things start really taking off but great stuff uh cheerine and Yeah, you're doing great with your consistency, your creativity and your drive just from seeing that snippet of the video I saw.
And it's just up to you to just keep going, keep learning. All right, guys, thank you so much for this Q &A. I've put some resources in the description below for anyone who wants to be on the newsletter to get the chance when I put out these prompts to ask your own questions.
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Cheers.
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The bait, then the rug-pull.
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100 true fans
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Three-to-five-hour weekly cap
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