STARTING OVER ON YOUTUBE | why I left my 22K subscribers behind
STARTING OVER ON YOUTUBE | why I left my 22K subscribers behind
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- New channel vs. Convert Old Channel
- Walk through thought process
- High level overview / thesis statement
- Incorporates Stock footage + non-generic transitions (bouncy jumper)
- Freelancer --> transition to Content creator
- Ali Abdal - Reason for starting
- Simple zoom (out) + color to b&w
- First Video
- Video 2 - flop
- Simple animation, simple motion graphic - simple sounds
- Twitter Video - flopped as well
- Deep Dive - Titles, Thumbnails, Editing
- NFT's - self-taught
- Learning opportunity
- New Editing Techniques
- 14 MINUTE VIDEO --> 26 HOURS TO EDIT!
- Feynman Technique
- Analysis of Why NFT video worked...
- Editing Techniques, motion graphics, thumbnail, highly searched for niche, effort = winning video
- No Passion for NFT's
- 1 video = monetization (I've done the same)
- Slow pivot away to a niche she enjoys?
- $100 PER day - new ish channel...
- Passion - can't be manufactured / sustained...
- No passion = reduced output
- Lose passion --> reduced output
- Existential Youtube crisis - Qui Je Suis?
- Consistent. Studio Space. Mechanics.
- Rebrand? Or Start From Scratch?
- New videos your subs don't wanna watch = could hurt you...
- Low CTR and Low AVD...
- Slow Pivot (over years)
- New content messing up how channel is catalogued....
- Starting New, with no job... How?
- Why I abandoned a 22,000 YouTube channel to start again on a brand new channel
- Answer
- I quit my fancy Wall Street job
- I became good at writing long education threads
- My first video
- How to grow on Twitter flopped on YouTube
- My first viral video: breakdown my NFT collection into simple-to-understand points
- It was worth it: the video blew up
- That one video got me monetized on YouTube in 1 month
- Niche down to blow up, then pivot to making content you like
- At its height, $100 a day was incredible but not sustainable
- I tried convincing myself why I should focus on NFTs despite lacking the passion for NFTs
- I knew how to write educational yet entertaining videos
- I decided to focus on "How to make good educational YouTube videos"
- How to convert expert knowledge in your brain to an educational and engaging YouTube video
- I am an educator at heart, I love to teach
- Rebrand or launch from scratch?
- Holy crap, but F it!
- Why pivoting a channel is a bad idea, better to start a brand new channel
- Must pivot slowly over 1 year like Ali Abdaal did