50 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO GET MORE VIEWS AND SUBSCRIBERS ON YOUTUBE

50 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO GET MORE VIEWS AND SUBSCRIBERS ON YOUTUBE

1. Be genuine – do videos about things that you genuinely care about and just be yourself. Viewers can easily tell if you are being honest and genuine and it will greatly help you make those emotional connections.

2. Focus on watch time – by increasing retention and making longer videos you will increase more watch time and will rank higher on search and get more views from suggested video.

3. Give value – think about what you can bring which others can't? think about what the audience gains by watching your video.

4. Work on your thumbnails – good thumbnails generate higher click through rates and high click through rates get you promoted by the algorithm every time.

5. Be consistent. Decide on the amount of videos you can create per month without turning your life upside down and stick to it.

6. Write great titles. A good title creates an information gap that clicking on the video is supposed to solve. Look at how newspapers title their article. Relevance and curiosity is a recipe for a good title.

7. Post on set hours and day. By posting your videos in a specific day at a specific time you will create expectation and an emotional connection with your viewers.

8. Stay relevant. Make videos about things that interest your viewers right now. You can lurk the trending tab or participate in relevant forums to identify trends early.

9. Don't waste time promoting off-site, focus on getting the algorithm working for you and promoting your video. The best way, get a high click through rate and a high watch time on your videos and the algorithm will do the rest.

10. Paid traffic is worthless. Unless you got 50000 dollars to spend on ads, this is a waste of time and money. Even if you got that money, I would advise against buying traffic. Once you stop paying the traffic stops. Plain and simple. Spend that money on gear and software instead of ads and promotion.

11. Get a decent microphone. Before anything else. That is a small expense with incredible importance for your channel growth.

12. Don't mess with copyright. Only used material you own or license. If you intend on using copyrighted materials educate yourself on fair use before you do it.

13. Put your face in your thumbnails. This is super effective to get returning visitors not for getting new viewers.

14. Collaborate as much as you humanly can. Collaborating with other creators will double up your exposure and will drive a new audience to your channel. Usually it would work best with similar size creators. If you offer a joint proect, offer to host it on your channel first. Don’t be an A-hole.

15. Batch produce videos. By doing that you eliminate setup time of camera lights and sound which takes a lot and you only do it once for a bunch of videos. Make sure you got enough battery though, I had a horrific incident a while ago which involved a dead battery without me noticing for about 3 hours.

16. Avoid variety channels. One focus and one value proposition per channel is the only way to go in 2019. You got other shit you want to do? Start a second channel. Simple.

17. Don't sub for sub or any of the other moronic tactics people do on YouTube. That will only HURT your channel and will not help you grow. It is essentially trying to drive a care in neutral gear. Very noisy but you are not going nowhere.

18. Listen to people that can help you. It may be experienced YouTubers or YouTube educators like Nick Nimmin Dee Nimmin and Derral Eves for starters.

19. Don't complain. Before you made 100 videos I don't want to hear how the algorithm is fucking you over. Grind it. Work hard. Nobody owes you a thing. You may or may not get lucky and hit a wave of growth. Have 0 expectations and 100 work ethic.

20. Don't delete your videos ever. Make it private. You never know when you may need it for any type of reason. Private videos cant be seen by anyone besides you no matter what.

21. YouTube Premieres is not for you. Stay away. Unless you got a huge special event you trying to hype, its not for you. It will only hurt views and engagement. Stay away.

22. Don't post daily videos. You will kill yourself and besides, it is counter productive. The algorithm works best with 2 uploads per week. You don't need more.

23. TubeBuddy. Its awesome and its free to download right now (tubebuddy.com/tomnashtv). Trust me, it will hyper upgrade your channel and will take you to the next level. Ask Phil if you have any questions, he is the most responsive CEO I have ever met.

24. Use pattern interrupts. Talking heads are boring without pattern interrupts. Either move around or use B roll or jump cuts but don't be static.

25. Invest in decent lighting. Cameras love plenty of light. Especially the bad cameras. Get some bulbs from a Home Depot or a similar store with stands and covers and you are ready to go.

26. Read primal branding by Patrick Hanlon. It will blow your mind. You are missing out if you haven't yet. If you make a free trial on Amazon Audible, you can get it for free even if you cancel your free trial. Amazing book.

27. Limit your intro to 3-5 seconds top. People hate intros. Get to the point as fast as you can.

28. Don't waste a lot of time on tags. I'd spend more time on titles and thumbnails in 2019. Tags are nice to have but not that critical anymore.

29. No one CARES how hard you work on your videos! Result and numbers are the only thing that matters.

30. Find a niche that is not super competitive and double down on it. Otherwise you will likely get crushed by the big boys.

31. Learn basic Photoshop and premiere skills. Canva is great and basic video editors are also decent, but there is nothing like thumbnails from Photoshop and videos from adobe premiere.

32. All you need is 1 video to blow up. With every upload you are rolling the dice. Don't get discouraged if it takes time. All good things come to those who wait.

33. Spend HOURS on your analytics. Back in the day we had no access to stats like click through rate. Its critical. Study it and improve. Knowing how to leverage your analytics will be huge for you.

34. Don’t use COPYRIGHT FREE MUSIC channels. It’s a huge risk. You may get screwed royally. Best place to go is epidemic sound or other credible music providers.

35. Don’t get offended. People exaggerate on social media and YouTube is no exception. People will always hate and say nasty shit. Don't take it to heart. Remember, every comment and dislike are engagement and help you grow.

36. Don’t compare yourself to other YouTube. Do YOU. Focus on YOU. Doing otherwise will crush your soul and de-motivate you. Run the marathon and breathe. That is all.

37. Promotion services emails are a SCAM! It will destroy your channel. Stay away.

38. Don’t be afraid to try new things on your channels. This is your time to try new shit and see what works

39. Stock videos are great to explain and emphasize your point, but make sure you license all these clips legaly from respected sites such as video blocks.

40. Got an accent? Great me to. So what? Fuck those who are bothered by that. Do your thing and ignore the haters.

41. Stay away from text to speech robots. It’s the definition of cringe. Anything you can do even with a phone mic would sound better.

42. Interact!! Reply to comments and start conversation with viewers. And yeah, reply to all your comments. People gave their time to write it – show your appreciation EVERY time.

43. Feeling demotivated is normal and its pretty common. Go watch some porn. Have a cup of coffee and get back on the horse.

44. Get a unique channel ID for your link. If you got 100 subs you are eligible. Do it. It looks 1000 times better vs the generic channel link.

45. Invest time in writing a good ABOUT section on your channel home page. Its key to get people connected and give the algorithm info about your channel.

46. Self promotion is cringe. Don't. let your work speak for itself. Make relationships, don’t hand out business cards.

47. Be natural. Writing a script of bullet key points is fine. But don't just be reading a script word for word, talk from the heart.

48. Invest time or money in your channel art and header. This is your store front. Make it look fire. Otherwise people will just slide to the next channel.

49. Utilize the power of playlists. This is a huge watch time driver and it only takes minutes to set up.

50. DON’T BE AFRAID TO SPAM A TOPIC. You cant spam me with videos about Michigan football. If your viewers like a topic go to town on it as much as you want.