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How To Create an Animated YouTube Channel Video Intro

by | May 13, 2024 | YouTube

Would you like to learn how to make a short branded intro video for your channel?

It’s not as hard as you might think!

Creating an animated YouTube video Channel intro couldn’t be easier with Canva.

When I first created a channel many years ago, I struggled to make a professional intro. I finally found some templates for After Effects and it was so hard to figure it all out!

Canva makes making an intro video so easy.  And unlike years ago, less is more.

 People are not going to pay attention to a long intro and they will just jump offyour video.

 So I suggest to keep your intro video to four seconds or less.

Follow along with me as I show you how to make a simple channel intro video.

And I do recommend Canva and especially the paid version.

Here’s a link to my affiliate link – http://bit.ly/3dV3Rs
 

I actually stopped using Photoshop and now use Canva exclusively for my thumbnails and all my graphic design projects!

 

It’s so easy!

How to Block the Spam Bots in YouTube Studio Settings 👾

by | May 13, 2024 | YouTube

Have you noticed spam showing up in your comments in different languages with embedded inks?

These are from spam bots! 👾

More and more spam bots are making comments on your videos. Most of the time, they are pointing to porn sites, often in a foreign language.

You don’t have to take it!

Most of the time, YouTube does a pretty good job filtering inappropriate comments.

But you can go a step further by going into your YouTube Studio and then go into the Settings and then into Community.

Scroll to the bottom the the Blocked Words box and you can put in the words that you want to filter.

Once those words have been added to the blocked words, they won’t show up on your video’s comment section any more!

In this video, I show you how to do this while you watch me on loom so you can see exactly how I do it!

How to Go LIVE on YouTube – Beginner’s Guide for a Successful Livestream

by | May 13, 2024 | YouTube

You only need to have at 50 subscribers to go live on your desktop but you need 1K subs to go live on your mobile device.

 Weird, I know, right? 

Once you have 50 or more subs, you can go live on your desktop.

Going live is a great way to build your community. When you go live, people can ask you questionsin the chat and you can answer them in real time.

I suggest that you create a topic that your subscribers would like to talk to you about but also a topic that will do well in the search after it’s finished.  

You can set up your live stream in advance so you can publicize your live and get people exited and energized before the event.

The way you do it,  is you schedule your live for your preferred date and create a custom thumbnailand description.  It’s best to schedule it one to two weeks out so you can build momentum.

Follow along with me as I show you how to set and schedule your live.

 YouTube lives work a little differently than lives on social media but the community building aspects are great.

Your subscribers and fans would love to interact with you on your live.

Make it your goal to get to the 50 subscribers benchmark so you can use this amazing tool!

 

Until next time,

How to Use Your YouTube Channel for Business Growth

by | May 13, 2024 | YouTube

Businesses have generally not used the power of YouTube to generate clients to their businesses.

But in truth, YouTube is a great place for all kinds of businesses to gain clients. And this goes for services, products and coaching; both brick and mortal businesses and online.

The difference between social media and YouTube is profound. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter all have a feed which needs to be constantly fed.

 YouTube,  on the other hand, creates evergreen content which will constantly be found. YouTube videos are discovered through search, which is connected to Google. That’s why YouTube is superior to all other platforms for generating leads.

If you are new to YouTube as a business, here are the benefits that can help you grow your business.

1. YouTube gives you instant credibility.

Whether you are new to your business or if you are well established, YouTube will help your businessby showing your back story or an inside look through videos, which has an immediate impact on the potential clients.

Especially if your videos solve problems for your ideal clients, they will return to your videos again and again and eventually reach out to you.

2. YouTube will help you get clients that want what you have to offer.

When you have a YouTube channel, people will get to know you and your products and services. Each video you make reinforces your expertise and approach.  And when they get to know you and see what you can do for them, they will reach out to you.

3. Once you reach 1K subscribers and 4K watch hours, you can get monetized on YouTube.

No other social media can bring in so much income from ad revenue alone!

This is exactly what happened to me. I created a channel in 2010 so I could put videos on my website when I moved to Seattle.

In 2011, one of my videos went viral and then I started teaching voice lessons all over the worldfrom the clients I got directly from my YouTube channel!

And now I actually make regular ad revenue from my YouTube channel, too.

So don’t wait!

Now is the time to use YouTube to generate clients for your business!

 

Until next time,

Build a Community on Your YouTube by Growing Your Channel

by | May 13, 2024 | YouTube

When we think of growing communities, we often think of Facebook groups. It’s easy; it’s a captured audience and everything stays in the group.

 But you can also grow a community around your YouTube channel! Your biggest fans will always follow your videos. And they would love to interact with you and your other subscribers.

YouTube is a great platform to get your message out and attract clients, subscribers and followers but another goal is to build a community.

Building a community of followers and fans is a bit easier on Facebook and Instagram because of the closed in nature of groups and friends.

But there are great ways to build community on YouTube as well and once you have them, they will be loyal to you.

The first step is to identify your ideal subscriber. What kind of person will devour your content? Spend some time thinking about that person and then make content for them!

Once you get to 500 subscribers, you get the community feature where you can make postsand create polls.

With creating polls, you can offer your audience choices on what content they would like you to make. And they will appreciate you asking them!

 The other way to build community is by going LIVE.

 I suggest scheduling your lives a week or two out so you can get people ready and exited.

It’s easy to create a live stream in advance and schedule it so people will see it and plan to attend. Create a theme or subject that will be searchable and desired for your audience and create a good thumbnail.

 Your people will be happy to engage with you live by texting in the chat box and then you can answer them!

And last of all, make sure you follow up with people who comment. Doing these things will help you grow both your community and your channel.

Keep making consistent content for your ideal subscriber and just watch your community grow!

Until next time,

Sub4Sub and Why It Is BAD for Your Channel 

by | May 13, 2024 | YouTube

Many people like to create threads in Facebook groups for networking and they ask to support eveyone’s channel by subscribing.

 It sounds innocent enough. But in truth, asking people to subscribe to your channel can often backfire and create more subscriber loss.

Subs 4 Sub is when people ask other people to subscribe to their channels.  Usually it can be an organized group or just people wanting to support other people and their channels.

The problem with Sub4sub or Sub 4 Sub, is that if the people are subscribing to a channel and they don’t watch any videos from that channel, the YouTube algorithm will see that it is a sub4sub and then the subscribe will revert back and the channel will lose those fake subscribers.

YouTube isn’t like social media, it’s all about watching videos!

If people subscribe without watching a video from the channel they have just subscribed to, it’s a seen as a fake subscriber.

YouTube wants people to watch videos, they don’t really care as much about subscribers.

So if you sub and don’t watch a video from that channel, it penalizes that channel and it makes that channel lose subs.

If you want to support a channel, subscribe and make sure you watch a video from that channel all the way through.

Only then will that channel keep the subscriber count because it’s about watching videos not gaining empty, fake subscribers.

Just keep on it!

Until next time,