Greetings Stalkers and Happy New Years.
How It started
Last September after a decade of thinking I made the choice to start a youtube channel. It has been a great adventure. It was also one that I did a lot of research into before I started, and I consider myself to be a self-proclaimed obsessed expert on how to make it “realistically” on youtube. So without further ado here are some things to digest before you decided to make a YouTube channel.
1: The Burn Out!?
Do you like making videos? If you don’t know the answer to that question that is fine. I certainly didn’t when I started out my channel. My first goal was to make videos for 3 months just to see if I liked it and to figure out all the work that went into a channel.
There is a lot of work. If you are like me, more work then you are prepared for. The point is that everyone who starts a channel probably hopes to make money, become famous, or some other impractical reason. There is nothing wrong with that either, at least in my opinion.
However, if there is any part of the process of making videos on youtube then you aren’t going to succeed. Research, scheduling, writing scripts, prep work, shooting, tech, editing, more tech, promotion, networking, etc and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
If you enjoy making and doing youtube, then you are gold. IF not, you are going to burn yourself out forcing yourself to do something you don’t like.
2: The Odds are not in your favor.
Success on Youtube has been compared to starting your own business. When you look at the numbers though your chances of making a successful business is higher than starting a successful Channel. You have a 3% chance of success vs 1% with Youtube.
So 1 out of 100 Channels will “make it”.
There are a lot of statistics out that contradict each other. However, there is one thing all the stats have in common. The creators gave up! If you want to ensure that you make it on youtube, then you have to try, try, and try. It is also certain that you will mess up, get burned out, and want to give up.
As long as you keep going and work on improvement then it is inevitable that you will succeed. Failure is label given to those who give up.
3: The journey of a few + years
I found a statistic before I started my channel that stated that 1 in 4 youtubers quit after 4 months. The reason was that the creator did see the success they expected after that time. I can understand that!
I’ve been on for 4 months. I’ve created 109 videos. I have 2,389 views, and 35 subs. All of which is a lot lower than I intended when I started. I wanted to produce 150 videos, have 5k views and 100 subs. I created a plan to accomplish it but it failed. That is disappointing, but I feel these past 4 months have been an experiment to figure out what I want to do.
I first started my channel on a trail, which is what the first 4 months have been. I said If I like it, which I do, I would work on it, and see if I would make it into something in 2 years. Which starts today.
However by youtube standards, 2 years success is very quick. Everythig is so subjective. It is possible that a video could go viral and tomorrow I’d make it. I might get lucky and grow in the rapidly in the next two years. It could also take 5 years or even a decade before I see anything.
The New Year
I don’t care how I get to success as long as I do. Admittedly it would be great if it happens this year or next, but slow and steady is acceptable as well.
If you are still deciding on weather or not to start a channel, then you should! If the above intimidates you that is okay. But it is certain you won’t succeed if you don’t try. Also, you shouldn’t fear failure. That is a word used to describe creators who gave up. Besides you never know, you might not like youtube and wouldn’t want to do it for that reason.
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