YouTube Full Time

RyanH said:
Main channel is a gaming channel, which provides most of my income, and I do optimization consulting and managing larger channels for the rest of my income.
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How did you get into optimization counseling and managing other channels?
 
TheDutchTexan said:
I would suggest you not worry about that one bit. It is a pipe dream but for a select few people. If you don't make it in a few months (or heck, say a year), you are unlikely to make it ever. You just don't have it. You are missing that "X" factor. Oh, and don't worry. I don't have it either. There is always that small chance that you'll fall into grace, but... it's small... astronomical.

And there really isn't any other advice but to be yourself and see what happens. But, if you stare yourself blind on the numbers you can bet your behind people will pick up on that fact by looking at your videos. Empty, soulless... There is a distinct difference in videos when someone's heart is in it. And by heart I mean passion, passion for the art of creating content.
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very good advice, but I have to disagree with the "if you don't make it in a year you never will"
It's taken me 9 and a half years to get where I am now, and I didn't see big growth till 2012 when they introduced adsense.
But my content has improved hugely since then, so I have to say that's the reason.

My 2 cents: Try to improve every video, and if your content cannot be improved further, and growth still doesn't happen, it is best to drop the idea, or really change things up.
 
Though I'd love to make it full-time, I would rather like Youtube to be a way to lighten my load on my new tutoring career. Maybe 50/50 in income would be a more realistic goal for me at this time.

Everyone's told me that I'm on my way to doing this full-time, as I've been around for 5 months now and I'm starting to knock on the door of 1,000 subscribers. I can guarantee you, as a gamer, that the best way to go if you want to get to any level being full-time is don't do what everyone else is doing. I don't think I'd even have 1/10th the subscribers today if I just focused on Let's Plays of FPS games, but that's just IMO.
 
Lightsen said:
My 2 cents: Try to improve every video, and if your content cannot be improved further, and growth still doesn't happen, it is best to drop the idea, or really change things up.
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Or, proceed to do what you are doing because you are not in it for the fame / money. I'd be lying if I wouldn't want that 100K subscriber base, but a requirement or a negative effect of the lack thereof? Nope. I love what I am doing, and that will stay the same, be it at 2K subscribers or whatever the future may bring.
 
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