Journey To 100K Subscribers Before 2017!

FamilyToyReview said:
I thought your post was a little too optimistic. But then i checked out a couple videos and loved it. My channel is more PG. youve got an awesome channel man. Fun stories.

We also saw a double rainbow last month it was very cool.
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Thank you :) You're in a good niche and I see your channel being up there too. Can't wait to see you in the 100K+club. Fantastic engagement on some of those videos!

Report #17 12K+ realtime views. Subs are at 1,173. And total views are 157,987. I'm a little saddened as I got banned from a subreddit today. It's only temporary.. but come on. I was frontpage of it and it had close to a million followers. I was on there for about 4 hours and the remainder could've gotten me an additional 9K+ views, maybe way more, who knows. I messaged the mods, because I know today was the weekend and so they relaxed the rules a little bit. Turns out they do allow some videos.. but they said that the context changes a bit when talking about "relatively popular" channels such as my own. Well that's a little silly, mine's still very small. And I'll be promoting my channel even if I'd have 100M subscribers. I'm always hungry for more. Of course as I grow, I'll let my subs do the marketing for me (for the most part).

I have some crazy ideas for offline marketing which I can't wait to invest in next year. One for example that's rather simple would just be shipping out tens of thousands of stickers to subscribers so they can paste the colorful and crazy stickers everywhere across the nation's cities. Another would be enlisting the help of the homeless. I'd be giving them small gigs and they'd be helping me out with large marketing in big cities. Those are rather the mild ones though, and I can't reveal the truly good ones ;) But you get the point.[DOUBLEPOST=1475948494,1475894518][/DOUBLEPOST]Report #18 I decided to do these much earlier in the day, as it's better to get things out of the way to make room for more later. So I'm sitting at 1,203 subscribers right now, 163,859 total views, and 12K+ realtime views. The 6th of this month, the last report on analytics says I made $3.22, so that's the second best day I've had so far. Multiple days around $3 or more. First best day was the 24th of last month being $5.17. I'm excited, as I know I'm sure to have a day beat $10 this month. Again the numbers are small, but nothing to complain about. I know fully well that my content isn't appropriate for all ages and it's not advertiser friendly, so some demonetization here and there and lower paying ads is alright. At 100K subscribers I think I'll be able to afford a simple lifestyle, not bad. That's in 2 months. Next year will be even more exciting.

I've got a fair amount of reddit promotion in small subreddits to do later tonight. I think it'll be worth it long term. At least if it doesn't get much views, I'm happy making backlinks all over the web for my channel. The more places that people and search engines see my name, the better.
 
Report #19 Sitting at 1,214 subscribers. Unfortunately yesterday was a pretty bad day, but hey we all have those. First off I wasn't too pleased with the video I had to release, but just was out of footage and wasn't able to record and yesterday was rather hectic. I usually render at night but wasn't able to so turns out yesterday I figured out there was audio problems and the lighting was terrible and overall, not one of my best videos. But I still didn't think it was THAT bad. I'm not quite sure if it's from that, or something else but I suddenly lost like 8 or so subscribers within an hour of posting. It's always painful to lose some subs, but hey, it needs to happen every now and then. Just have to think of the long term. Second off, I got my first video flagged but it wasn't taken down, just age-restricted. Unfortunately this is my main video which means it got demonetized and there's little hope in it anymore. It went from 3,400+ daily views to suddenly 1/10th of what it used to get. It could've easily gotten to 10K daily but it's just a sign to market more videos to get views. It's a numbers game. Total views is 170,073. Realtime views went down to 8,900 and is decreasing a bit. I think there was a third thing contributing to the slow growth but I forgot about it, so it's all good. I'll just have to figure out something soon, which I always do, and we'll be back stronger than ever before.

One more thing which I find funny, a lot of youtubers that I send business emails to don't even bother responding. I have tracking on so I know they've seen it, and I've tried multiple examples now to see if there would be a change. Nope. I'm just asking what kind of promotion they can offer and for what prices, because of course some people may not feel comfortable with shoutouts or the usual. And I'd be perfectly willing to even pay for a collab video, but hey, it's fine. I'll find somebody eventually, that's not what worries me. I just feel.. bad for some of these youtubers. Someone told me long ago that if I started up big accounts again, one day I'd be able to do consulting as a side job. Get paid a few grand to come in for an hour to talk to some board at some large company. A lot of people already like what I write on all the forums I post. I know some people irl who even beg me for help. I guess in a way it's good that there's few who know how to make good money. I'm not talking about selling out, but when I see articles about youtubers with 100K+ subscribers living on bread crumbs.. like come on, that's just someone who doesn't have a SINGLE clue on how to turn this into a business. I'm not in it for the money, but you can't act like it's a hobby forever. Unfortunately for some of the channels that I've contacted, they don't realize it now, but one day I will be their competition. I'm not competing against anyone directly, but if you have a channel targeting similar niches as mine and you don't bother to even respond to a simple business email, don't expect much mercy when I'll come along and wash over you like a tsunami. I wish I could work with everybody, but some people just aren't willing. And maybe this post may seem a little grim.. but I'm thinking back to even some of the responses I got back when I was trying to buy gaming channels. One person literally told me to go F myself. Very professional. I do take note of such examples, and I do keep lists of people who have helped me, and as well as those who have acted foolishly.[DOUBLEPOST=1476118036,1476040519][/DOUBLEPOST]Report #20 Total views: 173,878. Total subscribers lost: 196 (of course both of these stats are higher, because these are lifetime without the past 48 hours). Realtime views: 4,700 unfortunately. I appealed the demonetization and age-restriction but still no response, so we'll see. I'd like to get the same features as some of the larger Youtubers soon, that I can appeal for ALL demonetized videos. I'm not so upset about losing money, it's more just if it's possible to get it back it'd be nice. Also, some of the videos are just weird. Where one day it's monetized, the next it's not, then it just keeps cycling. And some of them I have no idea why they'd be demonetized, while others I'm surprised are still running. Very interesting system. The thing that upsets me most is just that the age-restriction basically cost me thousands of views daily, but oh well. It was expected, however not so much on that video. But anyways, we're at 1,235 subs.

I might go to the local universities and hire some college kids for videos and marketing. I'm not worried about the 100K goal. It will be achieved. Just one viral video, even on the last day, and voila. I'm studying many other channels and their histories, trying to figure out what's the next best approach. I've got many ideas, but I have to be 100% confident in order to invest my money.
 
Report #21 A little late coming back from the city, but the results are good. Yesterday I had my little problem resolved. They put monetization back on and since the age restriction's been lifted, I've been seeing a big increase in views again. It's still much lower than when it was before, but I think it's just gotta warm up again. Way better than 1/10th though. My subs: 1,289 Realtime views: 6,400+ Total views: 176,320

I launched a test ad on Reddit with a $5 spend to see how it goes. CPC on reddit is super cheap compared to all other platforms, but the ad won't go live till tomorrow (unless it's not approved, but again, won't know till tomorrow).[DOUBLEPOST=1476298453,1476235642][/DOUBLEPOST]Report #22 Total views are at 179,819. The realtime views went up to 7,400+. The subs are at 1,313. I'm going to be doing a few posts on Reddit today and then doing some personal planning for where I want the channel to go next year. Doing the math is extremely fun as it's looking awesome, even if I'd do poorly. Which of course I'm aiming for high goals, so that's not going to happen. Planning out the rest of the videos for the week as well. I definitely want to get some other people involved in my videos to spice it up.
 
Report #23 I'm planning my 2.5K subscriber video out. I'm doing an interesting giveaway. It cost me a fair penny or two, you could say that for sure. But it's also different than other giveaways where you ask for subs and likes and sharing the video. I want my subscribers to be more engaged and feel like they have some say in the channel. Also it'll help my channel grow potentially even more than the traditional giveaways. Hopefully I can reach that soon. Not worried though. Just wondering where to invest my money in. I found a company called Virool today.. it made me laugh. $100K for 1M views! WOW, WHAT A DEAL! If you bid low though, you can get 1M views for the nice price of only $50K!

I remember going to a networking event with 50 year old CEOs and it was funny when some marketing guy came over to me and was stunned that I could get 50K views for a few grand. Sure I could. If I have a proper ad to promote, I can use Reddit and other targeted ads no problem. I just need one good video and a small chunk of change and we're good to go.

Just saying, if I can achieve 100K subs within a few months.. there's no way I wouldn't aim for 10M subs by the end of next year. Of course I wouldn't be able to do that myself. But with a proper team, I'll be in touch with all the big YouTubers out there. I want to collab as much as possible. Even Gary V said it himself, when you're starting out small.. even a collab with a 100 sub channel could mean the world to you. And as you grow bigger, the power only increases with those.

I'm sometimes sad looking at where I am in life right now.. I could've had 10M subs without a doubt if I hadn't been greedy a few years ago. Even without the VIne channels, my gaming channel was on a roll. But then I remember, live life without regrets. There's a reason why I had to fail so many times. Or at least, I'm giving those moments meaning. I've got a lot of experience, and it'll help me with upcoming challenges. It's funny when I look at one of my inspirations for YouTube.. it wasn't Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Andrew Carnegie who inspired me to start working. I mean I always had those people in mind, I have long lists of the Greats... but sometimes you must start with a small step. And I always looked up to Hutch, Seananners, xJawz, the whole of Machinima really, and even my old gaming buddy. Back in 2008 and 2009 I really liked what was going on. And xJawz being able to afford a $60K Merc and having an interesting.. err girlfriend in the adult entertainment industry was inspiring haha. It's fascinating to look at his channel now. I wonder what's going through Sam's mind. I always sided with the YouTubers who were going through tough times. I even support Sam Pepper and VeeTwoEye. You can see the pain in their eyes sometimes. It's tough being famous and going through drug and sexual scandals. Some aren't able to handle it. And I wonder if a younger version of myself would've been able to do it as well.

But anyways, back to domination mode. We're right where I want to be. 100K here we come.[DOUBLEPOST=1476393830,1476393689][/DOUBLEPOST]Wow and I forgot to add the most important details lol. Here they are: 1,370 subscribers, 183,301 total views, and 7,700 realtime views.[DOUBLEPOST=1476475772][/DOUBLEPOST]Report #24 We're at 187,328 total views, 7,800+ realtime views and 1,412 subscribers. I received a rather funny business email today, the CEO of a nootropics company wants to send me some free product. And promote my video even further maybe.. Why? He found my video hilarious. I made fun of him and called his company a scam haha. Ah, gotta love it. Sure, I'll take free stuff. Why not? I'll give it a test.

I keep getting more and more offers from people who want my help with their channels. They're even willing to pay good money. I definitely do enjoy this, as it'll keep growing exponentially soon ;)
 
Report #25 1,448 subscribers, 7K realtime views, 191,651 total views and 215 unsubs. The record is 11 subscribers lost in one day. I had this happen twice, and this recently happened on the 11th. I just lost a sub while posting this actually, so it would've been 1,449. I'm not quite sure why I lost so many subs that day, as my video of the day was rated pretty nicely and I didn't really promote all that hard either.

It is what it is though. I find it funny how YT allows some of my "bad" videos to be monetized but demonetizes a perfectly clean video that had some pretty good tags. I'm not quite sure how SFW tags, description and title still get demonetized, I mean it was one of my business videos.. so that probably should've gotten a good CPM. Oh well, it's random sometimes. Some of my demonetized videos are monetized the next day and it just cycles. It's strange.

I'm going to be spending more time working on the gaming channel right now. I'm a little upset that reddit marketing didn't really work out last night.. wanted to pump like $50 into it. I was supposed to have gotten approved for my reddit ad, still no response and it's been a couple of days now. I tried posting in a subreddit that has over 110K followers but none of my accounts were able to successfully get a post to show up.. which is strange considering they do allow YT videos and I don't think I posted more than once in that subreddit throughout my entire life. To add to the mystery, there's only 3 mods and 2 of them haven't posted anything on reddit in over 4-5 weeks.. And the other mod is a bit more active but.. I don't know what's up over there. I did send a message to the mod team but it might take some time. And lastly another service I used went down, but oh well. At least my bank account's growing nicely so I'm not worried. I just wish there would be more action going on right now but I guess December will be the most exciting month then.[DOUBLEPOST=1476649564,1476568965][/DOUBLEPOST]Report #26 1,472 subs, 194,717 total views and 6,300 realtime. My most viewed video kind of is declining but I'm sure it might get another boost or two in the near future. I don't want to promote it though because I'd rather it goes on its own for now. I'd rather promote other videos to get to its place and hopefully do better. I'm going to retry with Reddit today and I'm looking for maybe some new subreddits I haven't discovered yet. I'm getting to a point where I'm trying to respond to most comments (can't to all, YouTube only shows the ones that aren't responses, I don't have time to look through all 100+ videos daily for new responses lol) and hopefully I can continue doing so until like at least 50K, if not more.
 
Report #27 Nearly forgot to post today, kind of hectic. 1,511 subscribers. Less than 1K away from doing an awesome giveaway, and I got an amazing video edit idea today. I can't wait to put it into action, hopefully before the month is up. I've already contacted some higher end editors and hopefully this can blow people away. Definitely want this to be different than my vlogs.

Total views: 197,879
Realtime: 6,400[DOUBLEPOST=1476825220,1476749550][/DOUBLEPOST]#28 I found an editor for both a video for my channel and my gaming channel. We're set. At least I think so for the gaming channel, but anyways, I'm happy to get this started. It will cost me a pretty penny.. that's for sure, at least a couple hundred dollars. But I'm fine with even spending $500 just to produce a good video. And then an additional $500 to promote it. I can't wait to be able to share the finished product, which might take a week or two before it's up and running.

But that'll definitely get me the subs ;) And it'll take my channel to the next level in terms of quality. But for right now, total subs is: 1,530. Total views: 201,451. Realtime: 6,100
 
Report #29 1,566 subs. Realtime: 6,100 and total: 204,599. I'm preparing a video for next week that'll be an updated version of one of my most viewed ones and top rated, so it's even more helpful. This one actually is like educational so I'm quite happy with it and I'll be even happier when I get to promote it. And for the edited video that's coming out soon.. Oh man. I'm super excited about it. I'm not promoting right now because I feel like I should keep that to a minimum until that's released soon as well. I'll go fully out on that ;)
 
Report #30 1,591 subs, 207,652 total views and 5,800 realtime. As you can tell my stats are falling, however we've already beaten last month's analytics and still have 13 more days left of data ;) And of course I'm waiting to go full out with the video at the end of the month. I will NOT settle for anything less than 1M views with that. Hopefully within a week or less of promoting! If you do the math, if we'd have the same exact results as right now (1544 subs for every 207,652 views) then an additional 1M views would net me at least 7,436 (rounded up) subs! I think it might be closer to 10K subscribers though, as this will hopefully be the best video I've uploaded yet. It still won't be perfect, but it sure as heck will be better than vlogs. I just don't think many vlogs are "viral" worthy. You either have funny, shocking, cute, or crazy videos go viral. Vlogs rarely solidly fall into any of those categories.

And hey, worst case scenario (this is like worst, worstttt case, so it's not even gonna happen) the video doesn't do as well as I'd like it to. I can make more. No problem. 100K isn't far away..[DOUBLEPOST=1477088244,1477016838][/DOUBLEPOST]Report #31 1,600 subscribers, and the total views are the same (still didn't update for some reason). 5,500 realtime views.

I've been spending a lot of time working on my gaming channel and am happy with where it is right now however it's going to require an insane amount of work over the next 2-3 weeks or so. I'll still be uploading on my personal of course, but I'm just excited as now I see $ signs everywhere with every upload for the gaming channel as Infinite Warfare's coming out. If I reach the goals that I'd like to reach with it, I might be able to sell off my shares for a realllyyyy nice price. As in 5 figures. If so, that would enable me to invest a lot of that into this channel and there we go. 100K is a nice goal, but I've already made goals for next year as well that are quite large. I'm a little saddened with the fact that I'm only at 1,600 today, thought it'd be more but that's alright. I did lose a sub just before posting haha, not sure why.

It's not the best day but hey things are moving so that's what matters most
 
Clearly you're growing at a rapid rate.. Do you have any advice as to how? Seems like reddit is the reasoning for that? Any advice on how to make a successful reddit post that with have people engage and not just bash it?
 
xxheathermarie said:
Clearly you're growing at a rapid rate.. Do you have any advice as to how? Seems like reddit is the reasoning for that? Any advice on how to make a successful reddit post that with have people engage and not just bash it?
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The main things are to just post content consistently, and every now and then (if not as many as you can) try and relate to whatever is trending or controversial. Any content that triggers emotion + makes use of a little bit of clickbait is ready to promote. If you have a video that you'd like to promote that you feel is good, pick as many subreddits as you can to promote in. Anything from the big ones such as: r/videos r/gaming r/funny r/news etc. to smaller subreddits such as r/unknownvideos r/promote r/newtubers etc. to then specified subreddits. I posted my most viewed video in about 50 places actually and some were hits others misses.

It's not spam as long as you follow the simple rule of: 1 video submission for every 9 responses to normal posts. 90/10 rule. Check what's on the top of the subreddits and see if they love posts that are clickbaity like "CRAZY SHOCKING OCTOBER 22 NEWS!!!" or if it's very specific like "Hey guys here's my latest video which promotes this and that". Get your friends to upvote your posts within minutes of posting and that boosts your chances too of getting in the rising section and then from there you can get on the front page. And even if you dont get on the front page, if you get on rising and get downvoted you can get on controversial for 24 hours which still gives you a lot of views. Reddit's tricky but it definitely works. Also engage with every comment of course as that helps boost it up too i think[DOUBLEPOST=1477179160,1477178238][/DOUBLEPOST]Report #32 Subs: 1,626 Total views: 213,494 realtime views: 5,700 I've had a hectic day today so not much happened however I did do a few reddit promos, albeit small ones.
 
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