Hello, everyone and welcome back to a new video Sean's, a name and YouTube is the game today, I'm actually in the process of creating another jam-packed in super meaty YouTube. Course this one's more geared towards advertising, but while I was making it I realized, I haven't actually made a video on this channel about YouTube tips and tricks in a while. So I figured let's do it today, plus I just updated my master class for the 2020 release. So if you want to learn more about that link in the description but hands-down, the biggest issue that, like 99.9 % of people run into when they start out on YouTube, is how to get those starting views on their channel.

So today I want to talk about the strategies that have helped me launch 10 plus channels over the past few years on how I got those starting views and how I got those channels kicking and rolling. So hopefully you can apply this to your own channel today. So I'm not gon na lie. Youtube can be incredibly unmotivated at times.

We've all been there like take, for example, this video right now I really didn't want to make this video. I've had a ridiculously busy week have not even had a few minutes of free time. For myself, but if you know me or anything about me, my goal for this channel is to create one video a week for this entire year and we're kind of in the homestretch. So I couldn't give up now so here I am hey hi what's up, but I get it it's painful.

You can spend hours and hours on a video that, like nobody, watches and it's just no fun at all, like I get it. We've all been there take, for example, this channel that I'm on right now now I'm not saying that nobody watches these videos, but it's all relative. So if you know anything about me and my background me posting videos on this channel, they get like no views compared to what I'm used to. I built up like numerous other channels where I can spend half the amount of time on a video and get like a hundred times more views.

So it's all relative. Everyone can tell you. Oh, don't worry about the views just make content, but I get it it's so unmotivated when you don't get the results you're looking for, but that's why YouTube isn't for everyone and that's why it's so special when you do really find some success on YouTube, and I Do want to say I really like the growth on this channel. This channel is doing phenomenal for what I'm looking for.

I'm just saying everything is relative. Okay, so again, today, I want to talk about some great strategies. I've used over the years to get you some starting views. We need to get you out of the trap that, like everyone, falls into you of spending tons of time, not getting the results quitting YouTube.

We don't want that to happen. Okay, but before I get into these strategies that have helped me grow some of my channels over the years. I want to tell you one thing that you need to understand before we talk about any of these strategies and it's the fact that it is your job. Your job to get those starting views, it is not YouTube's job.

Most people do not understand this like come on. People. Long gone are the days where you could post just a weird random video, and it just goes absolutely viral for no reason. No there's so much content upload its YouTube.

Now, that's not how it works anymore, there's over 300 hours of YouTube content that is pushed to the site every single minute of the day, pretty nuts right. That means that you're 5 to 10 to 15 minute video is seriously just a grain of sand on a massive beach. So you can see why you can't expect YouTube to show up to the beach and go ah that grain of sand right there. Let me pick that one out yeah, everyone should watch this one.

No, you have to prove to YouTube that your video or your grain of sand is legit and that everyone else should go watching. Ok. So how do we do that? Well, a few things you really want people to thoroughly enjoy your video now. What exactly is that? Well, it's people hitting the like button on your video which, by the way, you should do right now, but it's also people commenting and engaging with your video and, most importantly, hands down.

Is people actually watching your entire video increasing that view? Duration? Okay, if someone goes to your video and after 30 seconds they're like mmm, it's not all that interesting, I'm losing interest! I'm gon na go watch a different video on YouTube. Well, YouTube's gon na interpret that and go alright. This person only watched 30 seconds of this video. It's probably not that good.

They went and watched this video. Instead, let's promote this other video that they're actually watching the entire thing up hands down. That is the number one most important thing you have to understand before we even start talking about YouTube view: strategies. Okay, if you don't understand this concept, you're just gon na be spinning your wheels on YouTube so start with that really good content that a lot of people like prove to YouTube that a lot of people do like it and then YouTube's gon na go hey this Content is actually pretty good, let's just start promoting it to the millions and millions of people who are on our platform, then we're in business.

If you can do that on every single video you create and that's when you start making that frick, you YouTube money and your videos are in suggested boxes showing up higher in searches on the homepage, etc, etc. But now that you understand that concept at so many people just cannot wrap their head around. For some reason, we can actually talk about some of the strategies that have today to get you, those starting views, so YouTube can actually pick your video up so number one. Most important thing: anyone can do it's gon na sound, so simple, yet so many people don't do it is to actually utilize social media.

Social media is absolutely king. These days now, email used to be the king like ten years ago, or something like that, and now it's just it's social media. Social media is everything. So you need to be promoting your videos out on social media and here's the important thing about that.

You probably have way more friends way more followers way more engagement on Instagram Facebook, Twitter than you do on YouTube. Why? Because all of your friends, all of your followers, everyone is on Instagram Facebook in twitter and maybe some of those other social media platforms, but not necessarily. Everyone goes to YouTube and they're, like I'm gon na search up all of my really close friends and I'm gon na subscribe to them. Oh, that's not quite how it works.

I wish it was a case, but that's not how it works. So you need to tell all of your friends all of your family members, all of your followers on all these other social media platforms that hey, I just released this awesome video that I think you're gon na enjoy, go onto YouTube and watch it, and I know This seems so basic, yet so many people do not do it. I promise you so many people don't do this. Everyone should be because not only are you getting those starting views on YouTube on your YouTube channel, but you're, actually bringing traffic to YouTube YouTube is tracking that taking notes of that and if they say hey this guy's bringing us traffic to our platform.

Maybe we should really throw them a bone and promote his videos out. I'm telling you this is going to snowball your channel trick, you money baby and, if you're sitting there going oh Sean, I don't want to like spam, my friends and family saying that you know I've made a video you're, not spamming them and if you are making Really good content, which we just talked about if you're, making really good content that they will enjoy, then there should be no reason to shy away from actually telling all of your friends and all of your followers that you just uploaded a video, definitely use social media To your advantage, in fact, let's actually take a look at my external traffic on YouTube from this channel from a few months ago. Ok, when I was really trying to get this channel off the ground, so it doesn't account for like a ton of my entire views, but that's because you know again once I prove to YouTube that my video is good. It does the rest for me alright.

So, as you can see, I've got lots of initial traffic coming from Facebook in Twitter, okay and I'm also ranking really well on Google and Bing, which is super dope and kind of a bonus, but the other one on there is Gmail, which is my number two Strategy now this rule might not apply to everyone, but for me I've got a sizable email list of family friends. Past clients, people interested in any of the courses that I have online. I've got a pretty sizable email list so anytime, I upload a video. It's free entertaining content that a lot of people can get some good use out of it.

So I sent an email out to everyone. I say: hey, I just uploaded a video here's why I think you're gon na like it and why you should go watch it and then you know I gained some traffic people go cool yeah. Let me go check out this video. They go.

They watch the video and that's again just more starting views right as I upload a video email is not gon na, be your bread and butter. Social media is a lot better for that, but it's something to kind of just add to your tool belt. To get more views for your channel so again not for everyone, but still an option out there. Next up is just actually putting some effort into marketing your videos.

Remember it's your job to make sure people actually watch your videos so go out and tell people about it, whether it's in person. When you see someone or texting a friend hey. I made this video that I think you're really gon na like go. Watch it, or maybe it's posting on reddit in a specific subreddit that relates to your video or posting in a discord.

Community server, there's so many ways in today's day and age to actually promote your video out. But the big key is to not come off as a spammy person. If you're out here just slapping these links to your videos everywhere, you can everyone's gon na say: who is this dude? Why is he putting this up? Ah, no we're not gon na go watch! Your video you're gon na get the adverse effect and everyone's gon na hate you so don't do that. But what you need to be doing is engaging in the community and, if there's something that your video relates to very heavily tell someone why they should go.

Watch it. Not just here's a link to my video go watch it. It's hey! You were you had a question about this, like I answer that in this video like go check it out or hey you like this kind of content. My contents really similar, like maybe you'll like it, go check it out like be polite, tell people why they should go.

Watch it and the biggest thing guys is it just actually go out and market your videos, I mean that's like making a product like, for example, let's say you made a product that you want to sell. You've got this product aka your video, but if you don't market it at all, no one's gon na buy your product. No one's gon na watch your video, so you just got ta tell people about it. It sounds simple, but again so many people do not do it.

Okay, so this next one I want to talk about it's something that actually surprises a lot of people. When I break it down, it usually clears up most of the confusion, but it's just engaging with the people who engage with your videos, so you're engaging on the engagement engagement section. But when someone actually comments on your video or engages with your video engage back with them reply to their comment card, some of their comments, these people are gon na watch. Your video, then they're gon na go watch something else when you actually reply to them or hard-up their comments.

They're gon na go. Oh that's, really cool. Let me go back to that video. Maybe reply back to you or maybe co e harder.

My comment - oh maybe on top comment now they're, coming back to your video. It's getting another view on your video and again, while this isn't gon na get you hundreds of thousands of views, it's gon na bring you an extra 10 to 15 views and maybe even more because then there's gon na be a massive conversation. That's starting to spark in the comments section your videos now you could get like 20 people constantly coming back to see what other people are saying. You're racking up all these views, everything's just going great for you again think small.

It's gon na be a small snowball. Turning into a big snowball, I talk about it all the time, but those 10 to 15 views can turn into a hundred views. Now, YouTube's going hey we're getting. You know.

People are coming back to this video. They they really like this video. We should be promoting it out more then. The last strategy actually want to talk about is actually increasing your search, ranking when people actually search for your videos, which is where a majority of your newer traffic is gon na, come from when you're actually creating YouTube videos.

And if you want to know how to increase your search, ranking then check the link in the description to the video I made on that because, like honestly, that's a whole another piece in and of itself. If I were to add that to this, video we'd be out like a 20 minute video so go check the link in the description to watch that, but those are my basics, aw geez for actually getting those starting views on YouTube again. They might seem kind of simple, but so many people don't do them, and that's literally how I built this channel you're watching right now and the ten other channels. I've been a part of over the last few years.

It's literally just by doing those simple things and like I've always mentioned it, starts small and turns into a massive massive thing. So again, you can get those extra five to ten to 15 to 20 views. Now that'll turn into an extra a hundred to an extra thousand to an extra ten thousand views later down the line. I promise you, if you put a little bit of effort into marketing your videos, you're gon na, see some serious success on YouTube again.

It starts with that amazing piece of content that people actually enjoy. That is your number one thing to understand. Once you've got that great product go tell the world about it, and I promise you. I promise you YouTube is gon na, say hey that video is awesome.

Let's promote this out and guys, like I said, I've been doing this on all my other channels. This is what works, not viewbotting, or doing some other shady thing paying for views whatever that stuff doesn't work. I promise you that stuff does not work and even if it does, it only works for the short term. We're thinking long term gain here.

What's the point of getting a couple starting views now, if you can't maintain that later on, so do these strategies - and hopefully it helps your channel out anywho. If you really want to take your channel to that next level, learning I'll be advanced up. I'm always talking about then check the link in the description I head on over to my master class. Otherwise I hope you learned something new today.

If you did I'd appreciate a comment down. There also comment down below what strategies you're currently doing to grow your channel, or maybe some roadblocks you're running into you with growing your channel I'd love to learn from you guys, reply back and kind of see see if I can help out so seriously. Go comment down below also like the video. If you did enjoy it again, really helps me out and subscribe if you're new around here.

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