How to Be a Youtube Vlogger and Make Millions | how to make money on youtube,
so you want to be a super successful youtuber and make millions of dollars well honestly you don't really need any of this so fun fact I love YouTube the whole behind-the-scenes has been so fascinating to me for years box and the cameras here and then you can see what it looks like I love cameras I love editing I've always loved that stuff but this is gonna sound so stupid especially years ago my channel was first growing I would purposely hide a lot of that to just be like straight up and honest with you guys and super real and blunt I realized how competitive I used to be back in the day and I would even notice myself hiding what cameras and lenses I was using and not wanting to tell YouTube or even certain friends or like whatever just because I genuinely like this it's like weird to admit I felt like a lot of my value was in my editing and my knowledge and people would always come to me for advice and I felt like if everyone starts using the lens I'm using that like my channel is nothing and that's so wrong to think that way and you know we've we've come a long way he's since been we've grown a lot hence this video if you want more videos like this let me know also if you want to hear more stuff like this um you should listen to my podcast with Remy because we've actually done a handful of episodes that go in and we spill all the freaking tea about like branded trips like what really goes on I have friends who have actually had to go to court because they signed something and had no idea oh my god and they just they didn't know they were young they got taken advantage of and someone said hey you're gonna owe me 40 percent of your earnings when like you don't know you know you're just so excited that someone wants you you think is so careful management agents all that stuff like ah I love I love this it's just so interesting to me also we're gonna be doing four stops of live shows you should go buy tickets and you can listen to us okay please keep in mind this is coming from a very overly perfectionist workaholic all the things I'm gonna say goes to my own style I'm willing to bet there are hundreds of other vloggers who don't work this way and that's totally fine for them so one of the number one questions that I actually get is people asking me what camera and equipment I personally use but I actually don't really like spending too much time on all of that because just use the best camera you have there's so much more to youtube than that but I'll go through it real quick for this channel I usually use a Canon 5d Mark 4 and I love a nice wide lens my favorite is the Canon 16 to 35 millimeter 2.8 I use it pretty much every single day I love it so good now a wider aperture equals a blurrier background so if you want that nice @ beauty guru look that's what I'll usually do one point 250 millimeter is butter if you didn't know I do have a second channel which is my vlog channel Alicia Marie vlogs go subscribe and I am constantly trying out different cameras but I usually always come back to the canon m5 I love the flip down screen and I love the fact that I can add a mic on top now I would actually recommend it the canon g7x mark ii or a canon 86 for first-time vloggers because it has a flip up screen but your girl over here loves some good audio should I do it which is why I sacrifice seeing myself on a tripod to be able to have good audio but it really just comes down to preference there is no perfect vlog camera out there yet so just find one that works for you so believe it or not natural lighting is actually like the best I recommend that more than anything especially getting like sheer curtains like this it kind of works as a natural diffuser it's amazing but if I do use all I love using a ring light a lot of youtubers use this there you can get like they're not that that expensive but I love it because one it's super easy to use and two it makes your skin look freaking airbrush like it makes your skin look good show it don't say it this is legit one of the biggest secrets that I used to keep to myself don't tell us that you and grocery shopping show us that you went grocery shopping don't tell us that you went to Target show us that you went to Target so the main reason why I'm here there's such a difference from just sitting in your car saying everything you did that day to actually showing the audience you know your whole day I want to see you going into this door and I want to see you going in picking out your favorite items if like I genuinely am obsessed I even want to see you struggling deciding if you should buy something or freaking out over home decor just know okay so if you're doing a daily vlog from the beginning of the day to the end of the and you leave out a lot of huge moments that happen that was hilarious and it's just you really explaining what you've done already today like that's a it works but it's not as interesting as you showing the audience I love like stocking people and seeing their morning routines and you don't even have to say a lot it's just showing what you're doing one of the mistakes that I did early on in my youtube career was I was so focused on super cinematic shots that literally all of my shots would be like super zoomed and tight and like that was it like wide angles wide angles show you so much more of like someone setting and I feel like that helps add a lot to your story or your daily vlogs kind of like an establishing shot of just showing where I am opposed to literally this the whole time literally just go watch all of my old videos because I'm like no one wants to see a room to her like that in that room doing an overview that way you can see my entire room all together first okay so here's another little tip that I swear has helped me so much the hard thing about being a youtuber is you have to constantly 24/7 keep in your head what you've already shot and what you still want to shoot that day so it can be really overwhelming a lot of times I think I shot stuff when I really haven't what I like to do at least once a day is just whip out my blog camera and then skim through all the footage that I have it takes two seconds and it literally will help you so much mentally and it'll honestly make your vlogs so much better if you're thinking about what type of content you want to upload well the first thing I feel like you should do is think about what type of content you actually watch yourself what interests you think about the videos you actually watch on YouTube because that is probably something that you're interested in this is something that I've had to learn the hard way when you upload videos that you like you are so much more proud of it and then you're not using the views as a spectrum of like success or validation really speaking to myself right now also just the short-term goals of getting viral views for a few seconds really doesn't help you in the long term for instance short term versus long term what do I dream goals is to work with Canon or Apple but I don't show cameras or tech stuff that way then why the hell would they even want to work with me do you see what I mean to figure out what your long-term goal is and then figure out the steps to get there Kannan if you want to work with me no don't get stuck into the trap of uploading whatever is just gonna be viral during the moment for instance like I don't know something you're not into like slime videos I don't know that has nothing to do with your long-term goal now if you forget love making slime videos then yo do it and upload sine videos but if you're only uploading certain videos because they're getting views yeah maybe they'll get a hundred thousand views or maybe they'll even get ten million views and you'll get a cool paycheck for a second but it's so easy and like low even like toxic just to get in that mindset of just chasing views that way she's okay so I think we all know that YouTube is so freaking saturated now so if it's overly saturated like how do you stand out so how do you stand out think of the biggest youtubers on the platform okay you have like Shane Dawson Jeffrey star James Charles PewDiePie whatever right all of them stand out from each other and I think this is something that's really crucial that people don't really notice like let's take Jeffrey and James for example they both do makeup yet you watch them for different reasons they could both upload the exact same new foundation review and you want to watch both of them because you want to hear each of their perspectives and that comes down to not just their talent but like their personality there's so many people who blow up overnight and in a year they have over a million subscribers but it's because they stand out somehow it's not because there's too many people uploading videos so another comment that I get all the time is actually from people saying they wish they could do my vlogs but they feel like their life is boring you know they don't go on expensive vacations or their life isn't super luxurious have you watched my vlogs literally I feel like every single vlog I pretty much do the same thing I get ready I make coffee I maybe go shopping that's the fun part about YouTube is doing the same thing 20 different times but showing it 20 different ways like for instance when I get ready in the morning some days I'll do a chitchat get ready with me and I'll do my makeup some days I'll do a time-lapse some days I'll do like a clicky ASMR thing like it's just I think that's the fun part where you get to be creative believe it or not my favorite vlogs are actually home vlogs like I love people just chilling live in their life doing their thing making their coffee that's just like what I like watching okay so my next secret is if you yourself can't sit through your own video that you have spent days and hours making no okay so if you're watching our final video and you're already bored watching it and haven't even published it yet then change something maybe cut that one part out that's not that crucial or add graphics sound effects also feel free to ask a friend to watch your video with them and don't watch the video with them but watch them watching your video see every single time they look down at their phone because even though they're watching they're trying to be a good friend for you they're still getting distracted and they're getting bored so then they check their phone and then literally take notes of certain time stamps of when they're not paying attention I have my three or four go-to people that I always send my videos to before him because it's so important to have a good audience retention which is the actual amount of time that a user watches your video like what percentage of the video they watch is so freakin important to the YouTube algorithm so if you want to be successful you need to have engaging videos people need to watch your videos which kind of makes sense so yeah just like click baiting and stuff actually can hurt your channel because if you're just click baiting people are gonna be clicking out really fast and it's not good BAM so it's worth taking your time okay so one of the number one questions that I've gotten over the years is just from people asking but how did you actually get millions of subscribers I can't explain the whole thing like oh it was consistent probably like no no how did you get the subscribers it's almost like they wanted to be this huge like secret key or just secret that if I tell them boom they'd have subscribers overnight too it's just being here so which is so cliche I know you're not wanting that answer okay let's talk money so I think it's not a secret anymore that you can make a lot of money if you are a successful youtuber keyword can I can confidently say if you are just in this for the money girl there's no girl guy dude whatever people there's no way like it's you won't survive but if you aren't just in it for the money and you really do love YouTube and you have a passion for making videos then here are some tips that I actually give my friends who are just starting out and they're they're following so here's the real the real tips the realty the money will come it may take a while guys for me it took four freaking years but let's be real the way you get money is from having good enough content to gain a following that wants to watch that content to growing your viewers so much that brands and advertisers notice that you have a following that they'll want to work with you and promote their products that is the T there are no shortcuts and guys honestly if there were I would tell you okay so yeah I just wanted to let you guys know that you don't have to have the nicest camera or the nicest equipment or spend thousands and thousands of dollars like you can still have a very successful channel without all of that and when it comes to making money like don't worry about the money because if you love what you're doing and anything in life in any career like if you love what you're doing the money will come you just love what you're doing and that is so much more important and I'm just like I feel like a preachin also I don't know if you guys can tell I am so sick but yeah I hope that this helps some of you guys out if you're starting YouTube if you've done it for 10 years if whatever and you want more videos like this let me know because there is so much more that I didn't even cover I feel like there's so much more that I could talk about yeah I love you guys so so so so much and yeah I'll see you guys next week with new blogband yeah my
0 Comments