Carlos_Clerencia
Active Member
Thank you soooo much for the advices!!Your channel is only two months old and you only have four videos on it. Additionally, three of those four are two months old and your newest one is a month old. You're seriously wondering why your channel isn't more successful?
Here's a little to-do list for you.
1) Do cover music videos of songs RISING in the charts. If you do them once they're at the top, interest quickly fades with them. So go to Billboard (dot) com and look for new arrivals on their Billboard 200 chart and their other charts.
2) I like that you went outside for your HATER - KORN video. Do more of that. Listen to the song's lyrics and think what place near you would best fit that song and film you playing your cello there.
3) You are an entertainer. You need to think of yourself as a complete package. What you wear expresses who you are as an artist. Don't wear someone else's T-shirt. Think of a unique look for yourself that reflects your aspirations. Having said that, the more bizarre your attire, the more you'll be remembered. Dress to stand out. If it is a choice between looking cool or being remembered, pick being remembered. Make your attire part of your signature.
4) You need eye candy to spice up your video. If you know a hot babe who is willing to dance around you in her bikini, have her do that and make sure to put her in your thumbnail for that video. But anyone will do. Got a goofy friend who is willing to put on a outlandish costume and do insane stuff behind you? Know someone who has a horse who is willing to do maneuvers around you while you play? Got a younger sister who would love to dress up as a princess and dance around you while you play? Is your father willing to not shave that day and walk across the scene in his bathrobe and slippers while sipping on a cup of coffee? You cannot get too bizarre or crazy. What they do doesn't have to be connected to the song you're doing in any way. However, never have them do the same thing for the next video. New outfits. New action.
5) Once the above troupe of characters are on board for your music videos, think of doing flash mob videos with them in public places. You just walk out into the public place and start playing. Then your troupe starts doing stuff around you one by one until all of them are all around you doing crazy stuff.
6) Make an intro video for your homepage that is 30 second to a minute long. First talk about what kind of things you talk about on your channel ... then who you are (people subscribe to people, not channel) ... then tell your release schedule ... and then do ONE call-to-action and that is for them to subscribe. Don't monetize your intro video. The intro video is an ad for your channel. Don't have another's ad hurt your ad.
7) Increase your release schedule to at least weekly. Longer than that and people start to forget about you.
8) If you are monetized, you can use the scheduler to regularly release videos. Always always ALWAYS build up a backlog of videos sitting in your scheduler. Do this not just for vacation time but in case you get sick, your computer crashes, your internet connection goes down, you get writer's block, etc. It also gives you breathing space. If you release a video everyday, fourteen videos in your scheduler represents two weeks of episodes before you have to produce another video.
9) Work on your thumbnails and video titles. Do a YouTube search on how to do thumbnails and video titles. There's a lot of good videos out there about both topics.
10) Subscribe to Tim Schmoyer's "Video Creators" and mine its archive. You can and should spend days in its archive.
11) Make up a flyer. Use yellow paper to draw the eye. Have tear-off tabs at its bottom that has your channel's name and its YouTube URL. Post it everywhere you can within reasonable driving distance. By "reasonable" I mean as far as you are willing go to promote your channel. Laundry mats, bus stops, supermarket bulletin boards, and telephone poles at intersections are good places to post. Get a map of your city and mark on it where you've posted them. Once a week, revisit those locations and replace missing, all tear-off tabs gone, torn, etc. posters. Always keep a box of these flyers in your car so when you travel, you have them right there with you and you can post them wherever you go. If you go on a trip, put a stack of posters into one of your suitcases and take a half day and post everywhere there.
12) At your school or college (I cannot really tell your age), start a YouTuber Club.
If you're still in high school, talk to your teacher about creating it. Get a teacher to be its sponsor. Ideally a teacher who knows how to work a camera, lighting, etc. Your best bet is your art teacher! Ask the teacher if those who make videos for the club can get extra credit from their teachers (or at least the art teacher) and ask the teacher to pitch this to the principal. Getting extra credit will pull in some kids. The key to the club is the teacher that runs it. Find a teacher who is excited about doing it. The teacher can then invite local video production companies and TV stations to come and speak to your group. Don't just invite news anchors and radio talk show hosts, but separately invite camera operators, sound technicians, producers, editors, etc. They have a HUGE wealth of knowledge that your club can mine.
If you're in college, simply start up a student organization. Where I went to college, I had to fill out a form and indicate what I was requesting. Usually you're just requesting the use of a room on campus. More importantly, when you're an approved student organization, you can plaster posters all over campus (or at least on all designated bulletin boards).
Be inclusive. The club must to open to all grades in your school/college and all students are welcome. Don't let it become a clique. Meet weekly. Every meeting, show all the videos that all the members did over the last week. Applaud and comment. Encourage. Help each other. Collaborate with each other. Appear in each other's videos. Do skits. Have a group discussion video. Make cookies together. Brainstorm, brainstorm, brainstorm. But most importantly of all, have fun.
13) Lastly but most importantly, collaborate, collaborate, and collaborate. You're a very small channel right now but everyone has to start from somewhere. Your best bet is to contact local YouTube channels. As you grow, contact larger and larger gaming channels that match your new size. Always propose an activity for the collaboration and never just that you want to do one. Or simply ask them to join you in what I suggest for #3, #4, and #5. After you release a collaboration video, send links to it to other local YouTubers to show them how you do collaborations and invite them again to do one with you. Go to ALL YouTube conventions that you can afford to go to. Find out who's going and suggest you meet up for at least an interview of them. Doing it while you're at a friendly restaurant gives it a good backdrop. Don't worry about the sound.
They have helped me so much!
Seriously thanks!
