How Real Businesses Can Get 200 YouTube Subscribers (in 5 Months!)
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- 8October2018
As our “YouTube Friend” Roberto Blake says, learning YouTube is like learning how to play a musical instrument. For real businesses and solopreneurs who are already so stretched for time, it can be a real challenge to try to learn how to win at the game, to learn and practice the art, etc. Here’s our story of how The ADS Agency – a real business just like yours – was able to get to 200 subscribers in pretty much 5 months. We listened to the likes of Sean Cannell, TIm Schmoyer, Sunny Lenarduzzi, Roberto Blake, Derral Eves, Pat Flynn, Andrew Kan and others to learn the best tips we could on how to learn this YouTube game. Now you can extract the best from all of them in this video where we explain 10 of our best tips for what’s really worked for us – plus a few bonus ones we’re going to try out to help us get to 250 and 300 (maybe even ultimately 1000 subscribers)! So stay in this journey with us. It’s going to get even more interesting!
How Entrepreneurs (i.e. REAL businesses) Can Get 200 YouTube Subscribers in 5 Months:
OUR QUICK YOUTUBE STORY:
When we first started out, we weren’t on YouTube to win any kind of YouTube game. We were USING YouTube just to create caption files for our Facebook Live videos we were doing once a month starting around May last year (2017). We read a hack where you could rip your live video from FB, transfer it to YouTube, manually insert your captions there and then take the SRT file, rename it and upload that back to your FB live video – all so that your FB live video could have captions and people might watch it longer than 7 seconds! That was really our only purpose for being here. Granted, now I think you can do the same thing on Facebook, but we’re so glad we were forced to use this YouTube platform.
So at the time, we were only using Facebook live for about a month at a time. You can see where we pretty much only uploaded a video a month up until December last year. At that point we decided – we’d really prefer a custom URL for our account! However – you’ve got to have 100 subscribers before you can even get that! And that started the rabbit hole journey of figuring out the world and craft of YouTube. We hope these tips help you to get to your first 100, 200 and beyond! Cheers!
OUR 10 TIPS: These are the tips we elaborate on in our video
1. Verify your channel
2. Brand your channel
3. Be consistent
4. Invest in decent equipment
5. Pay attention to your background
6. Editing
7. Optimize your videos
8. Optimize your channel
9. Leverage your audience
10. Tips we haven’t tried yet (but will to get to 300+ subscribers).
Download our ADS YouTube Checklist
EQUIPMENT WE LIKE:
BEAUTY RING LIGHT: Savage Luminous Pro LED Ringlight Plus (about $297)
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MICS: Insignia – Omnidirectional Lapel Microphone (about $82)
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TRIPOD: Acuvar 50″ Smartphone/Camera Tripod with Rotating Mount & Wireless Camera Remote. Fits All Smartphones X, 8, 8+, 7, 7 Plus, Android Note 9, S9 etc.
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SPECIAL SUBSCRIBER LINK:
Once your channel is verified, insert your user name you create for your channel into this link below so that you can create a link like we showed you in this video where people can automatically subscribe to you:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/USERNAME?sub_confirmation=1
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL
https://tinyurl.com/adsyoutubesubscribe
SIGNUP FOR ADS EMAILS
https://tinyurl.com/ADSemailsubscribe
CHECK OUT OUR ADS PODCAST ON ITUNES:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/theadsagencys-podcast/id1366370725?mt=2
ABOUT A.D.S.
Andrea D. Smith, The ADS Agency
Marketing & Branding Tips for Entrepreneurs & Career Professionals
Website: https://theadsagency.co/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theADSagency
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theADSagency
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/theADSagency
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-ads-agency/
