97 day roadmap from 0 to 10,287 subs Fast transcript

What if I handed you a proven system to go from zero to 10,000 subscribers in the next 97 days? In this video, I'm going to break down the exact system that I have used to do that with this channel and to grow my other channel to over 600,000 subscribers and generated tens of millions of long- form views. So, if you are someone who is planning to start or just started a YouTube channel and you're looking to get to that 10,000 subscriber benchmark, this video is going to be a proven step-by-step system that you can follow to get that first step and really start making a lot of progress and growing your channel.

Now, the journey to 10,000 subscribers does not start with fancy equipment. That's why I don't put in what camera I use or what mic I use cuz it literally doesn't matter. It doesn't start with understanding the algorithm or this viral strategy or having like the first, you know, 30 videos planned out. None of that matters. It starts with the most important thing that beginner YouTubers don't focus on. It's the thing that separates those people who post a couple videos and then disappear and you you just never see them.

They never get views from the people who stick with it and become successful. The people who get that silver play button, who get the gold play button. What do those people have in common? It's not that they had this viral strategy planned out from day one. They and I I would say even looking back myself have become successful not because of all of those things but because they had something way more important and that is the right mindset.

Now I know a lot of you guys want to jump into like the pure sauce and trust me we are going to get there. But again, someone who has hit 600,000 subscribers, I've talked to so many creators who've reached the 10,000, 100,000, million, multiple million mark, and all of them have this thing in common, which I think is almost as important or more important than the other stuff we're going to talk about, and that is that right mindset.

You see, when most beginners start their channel, they have these dreams of hitting a million subscribers, of making $100,000 a year, or $100,000 a month. And I know actually uh like a dozen people who do that, believe it or not. So, I get that being aspirational and seeing that as a goal and being excited about it and really wanting that. But merely having that goal and seeing those people do that will not be enough to push you to make the third video that nobody watches and then the fifth and then the 10th and then the 30th video that can't even break a 100red views.

Just having a goal and and wanting that stuff isn't enough because at some point you're going to get to that where you have given it your all. You've tried everything you can think of with the best of your abilities right now and it's just not going to be working and you're going to want to give up. But in this video, I want to give each and every one of you the knowledge and kind of the road map to hit that 10K mark to push through this and ultimately however long it takes get the road map to get one of those.

So to start off with, don't come to YouTube thinking like how can I go viral fast? How do I get that banger video? Come with the mindset of how can I make this video a little bit better than last video. Don't even try to go viral. Literally don't even worry about that. Don't think about it. You probably suck. Your videos probably aren't getting views because they suck. because you suck at making YouTube videos. That's probably why I didn't see success on my channel for years because my videos were trash and all I was chasing was that viral one.

Oh, this person did a good one. Let me try to copy that and I'll try to go viral, too. And it's like my video making skills were not good enough for me to have any chance of success on YouTube. And as long as you're chasing the metrics and the views and stuff like that, you probably won't progress enough with your skills, which are ultimately what leads to that. It's not chasing the views that get you views. It is building skills by making one video and then the next week you're like, "Okay, this video was the best I could possibly make it, but next week I'm going to try to have better thumbnails and then next week I'm going to try to have better sound design.

And then next week I'm going to try to have better camera work. Okay, well now you've stacked all these things and now your video is like 20% better than it was a month ago." And then you keep doing that and then a year later it's like, I don't even recognize the videos that I used to make. I can't believe I thought that was good. But if you keep making those videos without always trying to progress, then you're going to get stuck in that getting 100 views, getting 20 views, getting five views.

It's because your videos suck and your skills are not getting better each and every week. So to start off with, focus on nothing else for the next maybe couple months than gaining as many skills as possible and just working on making better, higher quality video. work on your audio, work on your visuals, work on your editing, work on all of that stuff before you even think about trying to go viral because ultimately the best chance of of going viral is making better videos.

Let me walk you through the next step quickly because the next step works like having a clear destination in your mind. Let me ask you this. If you don't know where you're going, how are you going to keep yourself motivated to get there? Like as much as your mindset is important, having a crystal clear destination of where you're trying to go is equally as important. See, the more precise and like clear and and planned out your goal is, the more motivated you will be to get there because you actually know where you're going.

If you're feel like I'm trying to get better on YouTube, well, that can mean anything. Like, if you say, I'm trying to get in shape, that could literally mean anything. That could mean gaining weight. That could mean losing weight. That could mean going to the gym. That could mean running a marathon. That could mean so many different things. So, if you don't have a clear goal of what you're actually working towards, you're very unlikely to actually get there because you're sporadically trying.

I'll try this this week and then I'll try this and this system works. Oh, now watch this creator and I'm following his system. Honestly, there's a ton of other channels like mine and probably a lot of their systems work and I know for a fact because of um proof that my system works, but ultimately probably most systems do work. The problem is is you're trying to do five different systems instead of picking one person and following their system.

But to start off with, you got to figure out your why. Like, why are you starting YouTube? And you got to figure this out because the stronger your why, the more likely you are to succeed. And then next, you got to ask yourself, how many subscribers do you want to hit in the next 90 days, in the next 3 months, or the next year? And honestly, subscribers is kind of a vanity uh metric that works for clicks. But ultimately, it really comes from again having those skills and making quality videos.

Subscribers you can't control as much. But be realistic. What do you want to hit in the next 90 days? Do you want to make $1,000? I've started two channels in the past year that have made $1,000 in 90 days. One of them made $1,000 in the first like 2 weeks. That is 100% doable. But if your goal is to make money versus to gain subscribers, how you go about your channel is not even comparable. It's not not even close to the same because you would set up your channel different.

Your audience would be different. Everything would be different. So again, having a clear goal in mind of is your goal to share your passions? Is your goal to connect with people? Is your goal to make money? Is your goal to just grow subscribers? Is your goal to entertain? Is it to educate? Like what is your goal on YouTube? If you don't have it, it's probably going to fail. And then what is your goal personally? Is it to leave your 9 to5 in the next year?

Is it to make a little bit of passive income? Is it to be a hobby? Do you not care about the money? Again, these things kind of change everything. Honestly, so now hopefully you have this mindset of you're going to keep improving. You have a goal of what you want to shoot towards. You know why you want to do it. What is your motivation? because you have to have that because you're going to go through a time of 6 months of suck where I had 6 months of videos where I lost subscribers every time I posted a video and like you're just going down.

And if you want to actually get through that and see success, you need to have the right mindset and goals and everything. Now, how do you actually grow to that 10K subs mark in 97 days? Let's break it down and give you a road map. First 10 days, if you're starting from scratch, physically write down your goals and your why. Goals that are written down are 42% more likely to happen. Please write them down. Go ahead and write them down.

Think about it. Really ponder why you're doing this. If you don't have a strong why, maybe just don't do it at all. Try something else. Like YouTube's hard. Go ahead, create your channel if you don't have one already. One of the top questions I get is like uh banners and naming your channel. That does not matter. Channels with stupid names do well. Channels with super creative names do well. Literally doesn't matter.

But just go ahead, get everything set up and write down those goals. And that can be like the first 10 days if you need that much time. Or you can do that in a day. Honestly, the next 10 days is getting over the fear of posting. This is something that is a very rational fear because you can embarrass yourself on the internet in front of like unlimited amount of people. I've done that. So, I get the the fear of this. But to be a successful creator, you need to get good at talking to a camera.

And you know, the best way to do that as somebody who's made 500 plus long form videos, it is to talk to a camera. I know you were you were looking for these stellar insights when you clicked on this video. But for real though, over the next 10 days, maybe write out some ideas, but ultimately just turn on your camera and talk to it for 20 minutes at a time, three times a day, as much time as you can possibly spend talking to a camera.

Go ahead and do that. You don't have to post these videos. That's totally fine. But just talk to a camera constantly. Get reps in. Get used to it. One of my favorite things to do is just to come up with an idea. I was like, I think that would be a good video. I'm just going to talk and I'll turn on the camera and I'll talk. And uh I've posted a couple of those videos. Actually, one of my top videos on this channel was one that I thought of like an hour before I made the video.

I sat down. I like wrote some things out real quick and then I just talked and that's the video and it's my top performing video on this channel. If you think they're decent, post them. You don't have to worry about editing. Don't worry about the thumbnails. Don't worry about all that stuff right now. That's all things that you will have to learn to have a good chance of success. But ultimately, either just don't post them.

Or if you think they're good enough, post them. But just make a crap ton of videos of you on your phone or on a camera talking and get those reps in. And that's how you become comfortable, become natural, so that when we get to this point of like actually taking a shot at becoming successful, you have the skill in order to do that. So get used to talking to a camera. Now, if you don't know what you want your channel to be about, it's not super clear what you want to do.

That is okay. There is different strategies of doing this. One would be uh kind of things which I do more of like hyper focusing and thinking everything out and totally planning things, but I have all the skills to do that. And honestly, like if I was starting from square one, it probably wouldn't work. But for you, maybe you don't know exactly what type of content you want to make, exactly what your niche is going to be.

This is a time where you can just post all those videos that you just made. Post them. Even if they're bad, that's okay. And try doing a variety. So, for the next 10 days, maybe make a vlog one day, try making a tutorial the other day, try making a talking head the other day. Talking head is what I'm doing right now. Kind of mixed with tutorial, I guess. And if you're consistently posting all these videos, you're getting better.

You're trying a variety of them. Most likely, if they're actually decent, again, it really depends on how long it takes you to learn these skills. If you're posting like 10 videos, one or two of those has a decent chance of becoming successful, especially with the new channel, you get a little bit of a boost. If the videos are decent, you could definitely get one of those to pop off. And more importantly, you'll also learn what type of videos you like to make.

I always loved watching vlogs. I've tried making vlogs before. I'm not very good at it. And also, it's very hard, especially with family. I have two kids, so like they're crazy noise. It's just it's not as as fun as I thought it would be. Other people love it. It's not really my thing, but I found that out by making vlogs. I tried uh entertainment videos. I thought it would be fun. I like watching them. I'm not very good at it.

I'm not super entertaining. Um as you can tell. And so I realized that was not my thing. But the only way to find out what your thing is going to be is to try a bunch of different things. So even if you don't think like you have like a boring life, film your day for a day. Even if it's bad, upload it. Doesn't really matter. Worst case scenario is nobody's watching it anyways. Whatever. And then you learn, oh, I love doing this.

Oh, I hate doing this. Oh, I love doing this. Oh, I hate doing that. And this can help you narrow in your niche. you can talk about something, you're like, "Oh, I actually don't like talking about that. I thought I would, but I I I don't really." One of my students started with more educational stuff, and now he talks about frying pans. Went super viral, made $1,000 in a day by continually trying new things until he found something that not only worked with the algorithm, got him thousands of subscribers and thousands of dollars, but also he enjoyed to talk about.

So, try talking about things that you are interested in, making as highquality videos as you possibly can about them until something eventually sticks. And again, if you're not sure exactly what to talk about, ask yourself, what could I talk about for like the next three years? Because if something does stick, you need to talk about that for a while. And if you don't want to talk about something for three years, don't make a video about it.

What is something that I figured out and mastered that I have some unique advantage on that I could teach people that I could share that is different from other people? And who is the person that I'm trying to help? What is the transformation that I'm offering? I am helping small creators grow their channel through proven systems that I have done myself. That is hopefully who you are. But for my friend Tonio, he is giving people entertainment and being a positive influence and a light and he's not really trying to teach anything.

What we talk about is going to be totally different. These questions will help you narrow down your niche. And ultimately, if you know who you're talking to, how you can help them, what skills do you have to offer, and what like mindset they're going to be in when they click on a video, you can make way better videos that are more likely to leave somebody being like, "Oh man, I feel good about this." Like I I I now feel like I have a step forward.

And that's how you get a video to do well because it actually helps people and they uh you know interact with the video and subscribe and all that type of stuff. So next up we have the learning phase. This is where you're going to go through a cycle of getting better each and every video. Hyperfocusing on one thing. Thumbnails, titles, ideas, scripting, editing, music, sound design, camera, lighting, framing, whatever it is.

Every week you are trying to get better. Now people do ask should they post long form? Should they post short form? How long should the videos be? And I want to kind of give you my two cents on this, especially for this strategy of trying to like speedun getting 10K subs. Ultimately, it's going to be one or two videos that are going to get you 10K subs. If you can get like two videos to pop off, that's probably what is going to lead to you getting 10,000 subscribers in the next 90 days.

You can either post three videos and have a chance of two of them popping off. Very unlikely, but totally possible if you have some decent skills, or you can post 30 videos and have two of them pop off. Personally, I post about one video a week because I feel like that is a good cadence for me. I don't talk a lot naturally, so I can't make a video every day. It's just I run out of things to say. I'm just not very uh wordy person, but I have friends who post every single day and they do great.

So, finding out what type of person you are and then seeing how many quality videos can I make in a week. If you can make three quality videos in a week, which I do, but they're just on three separate channels. I can't do that all on one subject, then three videos a week is ideal. You could post so many videos. you get so many swings in and eventually one of those is going to hit and you just need again one, two, three of those to hit and you're at 10k subs.

Or you can post every single day. But the problem is if you're posting every day or three times a week, probably the quality is not going to be there unless you're going for that like vloggy type of style. So if you're just posting bad videos and a lot of them, you're not really going to get a lot of views. You're probably not going to get a lot of subscribers. like one of them right randomly pop. But if they're just not highquality videos, then you need to scale back and put all of that effort that maybe you had into five videos, posting five long videos a week, which would be crazy, or three long videos a week, which still a lot uh for most people, and you condense that into one video.

Now you have a chance to see success. You're doing one high-quality video a week or as many as you can possibly do. And that would be ideal for getting this 10K subs. That's exactly what I did when I first blew up on my first channel is I went from three videos a week that were not good. I went to one video a week in literally the first week that I did that. I got a video that got hundreds of thousands of views and really changed the trajectory of my channel, my life, and uh everything really.

It's that first time that I really saw success and how like one video can change everything. And so what you are chasing for in these next 97 days is the skills and the mindset and the reps to get that one or two videos that will change your life. And ultimately it might happen next week. It might happen in 3 months from now. It might happen in 6 months from now. But if you have all these tools and you just keep working at them, then it's just a matter of high quality reps.

Like you could do pull-ups and like high quality, not Mark Wahberg pull-ups, which are not real, which is just like posting out a crappy video, but actually well thought out, well researched, well created videos, targeting a specific person with a specific problem in a specific place, with a specific mindset. And that is how you kind of grow. Now, something else that you could do is to steal like an artist. As you're trying to gain skills, try stealing like an artist.

Look what other people are doing and see how you can adapt it into your own life. Again, one of my first videos that popped off was inspired by another creator. He showed a day in the life of a minimalist and he had this skit that I thought was pretty funny. He got tens of millions of views on that video. I was like, "That's pretty cool. I don't even have 10k subs right now, but I'm going to try something like that cuz I thought it was funny." So, I did my own skit about frugal living, which is different.

I tried to make it funny and that video changed my life. And then I started copying different creators video style or storytelling style or music style. And I would eventually learn these skills from them by kind of seeing what they were doing and adapting it into my own stuff. they were talking about cameras. I'm talking about finances, but I can still use the way that their videos look or the way they paste their stories and I can learn things from that.

So, look at other people, see what they're doing that you like and see how you can adapt it into your own channel. And that's how you you kind of find your own voice is by trying other people's. Now, as you get to this next stage, it is time to build repeatable systems because ultimately you're probably going to get burned out. You're probably going to make some videos. You're just randomly slinging stuff against the wall. you're trying to do all this stuff and it's just stressful and you don't know what to do.

So, this is where systems changed my life. This is how I run all my channels now and I teach other people to do the same is to create systems. So, at this point, you're getting into your groove. You're making all these videos. So, you have to break down how you're making them. Make a system for coming up with ideas. Break down how you're scripting. Are you a word for word person? Are you an outline person? Make a system for doing that and doing it consistently.

Make a system for hitting record. I listen to a song usually before I hit record because it gets me in the right mindset and then I just hit record and eventually I'll start talking or I'll procrastinate for three hours if I don't like have a system to actually do that or procrastinate for three days. Uh it's literally Thursday right now and I haven't hit record once. But make a system for that. Make a system for your thumbnails so that you can batch them.

Make a system for your description so you don't have to write them every time. After you upload a video, when do you analyze how it did and look at that? Everything you do as a creator can be like written down and systematized. And that's how you go from working, you know, 20 hours on a video to bringing it down to five hours is by finding the correct systems. And that's also how you keep it repeatable. If you're working a day job, you're trying to do this nights and weekends and you're like, you just can't wing it every single week.

You have to have a proven plan that you follow or it's like almost un like I've tried not having one. It's so so stressful. When you have a system and you're constantly like one to four weeks ahead in videos and and you know what you're going to do, you wake up in the day and you're like, "Okay, I know today is my shooting day. Okay, I know today is my thumbnail day. Okay, I know today I need to finish the script." If you just don't know what you're going to do that day, again, it comes back to not having a clear goal.

You're just not going to succeed most likely. And I've gotten actually a bunch of people uh emailing me and like messaging me on Instagram if I do coaching. I do not offer one-on-one coaching, but I do have cohort where you have pretty much unlimited access to me for eight weeks and my team and all the systems that I've built. And I think it is the best YouTube course. We've already had like two people leave their job through it.

I'm trying to help more people do that. So, if you do want to check that out, I'll leave a link down below. You can join the wait list or if it's open by now, um, feel free to join. I'm such a believer that success on YouTube, it is just math and like time where like if you keep getting better and working on the right things over time, it's just going to happen. and even researching videos, whether it's making money or or going viral or getting 10,000 subscribers, all of that is just breaking down and then working on the correct things.

And that's exactly like what I study and what I teach how to do every day to hundreds of creators. So, if you want to check that out, it's linked down below. Even if you don't, hopefully this gave you steps on how to get started on kind of a road map and direction and things to work on to actually start making progress and not quit on your channel. Honestly, just hit record and start making progress and see what happens 3 years from now.

If you actually start now, your life could be totally