$8,000 Of Youtube Advice in 7 Minutes transcript

this information cost me about $88,000 I've been to the past four vid Summits and overall those cost about 2,000 each to go like 1,000 for the tickets and there's hotels and flights and all that type of stuff so in total about $8,000 spent um going to vidsummit and I wanted to share with you some lessons that I learned from there including from people who make multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars a month and just save you some time so to start off is this isn't super YouTube specific but they are normal people the first time I ever met somebody making 50 or 100K a month was at vidum I met people making about 300K a month actually and I was kind of taking back and I realize that there is a whole another level to this game and you might think 10K a month is inspirational for me that was until I started hang out with these people and I realized that they're not working any harder they're just working different than me and once I kind of realized that there was this whole another level to wealth and they are just normal people like you and me they just decided to play a game that had a bigger upside um I actually started to think different and actually initially when I went to my first vid Summit I just started hanging around these types of people who are thinking bigger thinking um you you know more business-like than what I was doing I had a huge bump in my channel and almost every year I've doubled so I started first year I had 80k next year I had 150 or something like that um and then this time going so year four year year 1 was 80k year four is 560 okay I don't know what I'm at now but I don't think I ever would have gotten anywhere close to where I am now if I had not gone around those type of people and honestly you don't need to go to vids I don't know if I'll go again um I've been every year I have a lot of friends there and stuff it's really cool but I don't know if like that's as much the play as it is just seeing in real life people doing the thing you want to do this place is full of people chasing their dreams and living their dreams and you just meet person after person who founded a company who started a Creator agency who uh is a a small Channel you know that reviews um wellness products and makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a month there a large Channel who does entertainment stuff who makes all kind of money like there's so many people making way more money than you can even imagine in the stupidest niches you've never heard of so um just being around those type of people make you think like oh maybe I'm not unworthy and especially meeting people who have you know much smaller channels than me making about 10 times more than me I realized that like hey I can think bigger I can try some of these strategies and stuff that I meet from other people so um that is one lesson they are normal people just like you and me but lesson two is that um it's kind of a long-term game met one kid there he had like 3 million subscribers and he had been doing this for 15 years and met another kid who'd been doing it for 9 years another person for S years and each of them had over a million subscribers and I realized that pretty much every person that I met that had been taking this seriously for 5 years plus had close to a million subscribers uh or was making crazy money with a smaller channel so I think the the real thing that I took away from that was especially with YouTube or really any business that you start is that if you just stay consistent and make you know 1% better every day 1% better every week for 5 years you're going to be successful at whatever you're doing for the most part like if you don't pivot or whatever um then maybe not um and it doesn't work for absolutely everybody but I think for most people if you keep getting better and realizing like okay I've worked really hard for these six months it's not really clicky and I'm going to Pivot I'm going to Pivot again I'm going to try this I'm going to try that some people were on their third or fourth channel before they had one that took off and just like you know made made stupid money so that would be another one that it's like a very long-term game and if you're discouraged in the first 3 months or the first 6 months and then you quit and you say you didn't get lucky that's totally on you and um that's what I've done multiple times I tried so many different businesses before I tried YouTube YouTube's the one thing I haven't quit for like 6 years I posted every video like I posted a video a week four six years and that's why I'm successful um it is not because I'm especially skilled or talented or have a great story or whatever it's because I sucked for a really long time I had six months where every time I posted a video I lost subscribers um just when people were reminded I existed but I stuck with it I just kept doing I don't know why I was like kind of psychotic and because of that I have become you know successful with YouTube so that would be my encouragement if you if you if you pick something whatever it is is if you stick with it long enough and you actually learn and you don't just like do the same thing over and over expecting different results but you actually like get better at it and really practice it you will probably become successful um and I think YouTube's a super cool tool in order to do that next one is positivity now this doesn't just apply to YouTube again this applies to everything but I shared a room with a guy this week and he was the most positive person I have ever been around and he was just talking to absolutely everyone smiling just generally happy to be alive something that I'm not very good at as an extreme introvert and it literally changed my life a little bit because we got backstage we got free coffee and stuff we met multiple founders of companies all because this guy was just happy with everybody that he saw talking to everybody that he saw and I'm not naturally like that but I realized that he had so many amazing things happen to him just in the the two days that I was with him all because he was just a positive person and it's not fake positive he literally is just happy to be a alive he looks at the the negative things and the positive things and chooses to focus on the positive things and tries to make everybody's day better around him and he was also one of the happiest person uh people that I've ever met because of of kind of that Outlook and because of that I met multiple Founders and people that I've like looked up to for a really long time other creators just because of that mindset and he's you know become a friend of mine as well so that's just a thing that applies to most things even if you're not naturally an out go in person if you are a positive person you have other people's best interests in heart and you work hard in order to make other people's lives better and also on your own business in in like a good attitude people really feel that especially with YouTube there's a lot of negative YouTube out there which most people who do that for a long period of time aren't happy and end up trying to Pivot to something else but if you're generally a happy person that will also connect with people on YouTube and they'll feel that contagion that you have and you know it's just something that I'm trying to put more of into my content just this excitement to be alive I'm try to share that with people the next thing is that packaging is everything I take this away every time I go to vid Summit but the idea and the title in the thumbnail matter more than almost anything else I think most people they do this thing where they come up with rough idea for a video they shoot a video they try to figure out what the thumbnail is as it's uploading they edit something real quick they slap it up there and then they're like oh man I need to put a title on this thing uh we'll put this title and that's what they do for for most videos if that's you let me know in the comments and that's what I did for years and when I made this shift which I I'm still trying to do cuz I I just got in this routine is bad habits but when I do actually do thumbnail first idea and title like first like make sure the idea is really good the title and thumbnail really good they compliment each other really well the rest of the video Almost Doesn't Matter like as long as it's a decent video with a pretty good hook the rest of it does not matter as much as having a really really really intriguing idea and a really like click baiting but true title and thumbnail in order to lead into that idea so that's what I'm working on uh on upcoming videos and uh working on on my Channel right now but yeah that's my my general overall thoughts lessons that I've learned from spending $88,000 going to vid Summit um but can't complain because it literally changed my life so enjoy see you next week