Shaun's Journal.

[ShaunM]

Hey guys,

This thread is intended to log the daily activities of my YouTube exploits in the hope it can be used by people in the future as a point of reference for setting up and building their own channel.

I am into YouTube 100% for the money, I don't care about fame or getting my opinion out there just the money. My end goal is to build my own private MCN that's soul purpose is to earn me money so I can quit my job and travel. This channel will be ran as a business from day one.

I have made around £300 from a gaming YouTube channel I set up but I deleted it as the game owner started to flag other peoples videos and I wanted to protect my Adsence account.

I am going to back date this first post a little as I have been working on this project for Three days now...

Day 1

After finding minimal success with my old YouTube channel I decided to brainstorm and see what made it somewhat successful and what limited its ability to grow. I realized that it had gained its audience due to the face I was doing stuff in the game other people wernt, I created an over powered build that became popular and was nerfed after 6 weeks, I was finding bugs to essentially cheat in the game and I was doing stuff solo that would usually require a group.

I released that it was limited due to the face it was so niche....instead of being a broad general topic it was Gaming->MMO's->MMORPGs->Guild Wars 2->Mesmer Class. This was far too niche to become a large powerful channel so I moved my brainstorming efforts to find something extremely broad with a lot of cross over into mini niches to pull people out of that niche to my channel and bag them as a subscriber.

Eventually I came up with my idea, it is such a broad niche that is covers almost anything you can think of. I currently don't plan on releasing the niche or the channel as I have learned from past efforts as soon as something is successful lots of clones pop up increasing your competition.

I then moved to thinking of ways to make money from the channel, I already have Adsence so that is one option. I have found Affiliate and Advertising opportunities that fit well with the channel. I have also found various Large companies that sponsorship deals could be cut with if my channel grows to a decent size. I have also found some smaller companies that sponsorship deals could be made with almost right off the bat for services other than money such as an email blast to their users to kick start the channel in return for each of my videos having a link back to the companies website. I have not contacted any of these companies yet though as my current priority is prepping the channel and I already have access to Adsence, Affiliate deals and direct advertising.

Day 2

I brain stormed for video ideas that could be used for the channel, this initial session generated over 700 ideas that could be used for videos.

As I want the channel to look professional and I have money available to invest I have decided to hire an actress to be the face of the channel. If I have learned one thing in marketing it is that sex sells, this actress is beautiful and does professional quality videos. I have contacted her with my idea to use her for the project and shes happy to move forward. My role in this channel will be behind the lense.

As I want this channel to be a success I have decided that I want to launch it with 30 videos being released on day one with another 30 scheduled for daily release at a rate of one a day. While the scheduled videos are being release I will use that time to create the next 30 videos and order them in batches of 30 as I get a discount in bulk.

I then settles on the initial 60 videos that I want to use to launch with and started looking for content for them. I plan to use the creative commons and fair use licences on this channel so have to be fairly careful what I use.

I then started collecting content for my launch videos.

Day 3

I finished collecting content for my launch videos and have added a few more video ideas to my list.

After collecting the visual content required for the initial videos I then moved to collecting audio content that will fit the theme of each video.

And that brings us up to date for now

 

[Crown]

Hey good luck with it man. You seem to know where you want to be and are motivated and that's half the battle.

 

[ShaunM]

Cheers Crown

Day 4

I finally finished collecting CC rights audio that will fit each of the 60 initial videos. One of them was a total nightmare but I got it in the end . After that I wrote the 60 scripts that each video will need along with the end script that will be played over the end card to pull on various calls to action. I have designed a basic cover art layout and channel art layout that will do for now and I have registered a channel name so I can start on a branding logo to go on my video overlay.

I have worked out that I will need to pay the actress around £190 ($300) for her to read the scripts I have written, it may sound like a lot to come people but some of the past online business ideas I have had required £1000 ($1600) and upwards to get off the ground so its a pretty small investment.

I have spent the rest of the day looking for various methods to make money from the channel. I have finally discovered a Primary income source that may work but it requires the channel to have 1000 subs before I can join so it will have to wait for now. I am classing Adsence as a secondary income source for this project, in addition to adsence I also have two affiliate programs that I now have access to that are going to be on the second tier of income along with one that will be used on the third tier.

I have also came up with an idea for a fourth tier that can earn money but it required building Social Media channels and initially I plan to focus on getting the viewer to subscribe. There's a popular and often miss used saying in the internet marketing world and that is "The money is in the list." I believe that with this idea the money is in the subscriber so getting viewers to subscribe will be my main focus for the foreseeable future.

The basic idea is to build a subscriber base that increases the income earned from tier one by default. Tiers two and three incomes are then increased by subscribers viewing new content and in turn the subscriber base viewing, commenting and liking videos increases the YouTube rank for my videos increasing exposure.

I have looked into search engine SEO and will rely on long tail keywords and foreign hits bringing in traffic from them for now as to my knowledge there still isnt a publicly available method to beat the May Google algorithm update.[DOUBLEPOST=1411646174,1411586266][/DOUBLEPOST]Day 5

Not going to have much spare time today as I'm back at work.

Sent my scripts to my actress and paid her $300 through an escrow agent.

 

[ShaunM]

Day 6

I basically sat and prepped video tags for around 35 videos today. Havent had much time.[DOUBLEPOST=1411899624,1411832506][/DOUBLEPOST]Day 7

Havent had much free time today but I managed to finish a few more sets of tags for videos.

Im away traveling with work for the next three weeks so internet access will be limited but I plan to store as many things as I can on my pocket app so I can keep working on this project while away with a goal to be ready to launch the channel on my return.