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YouTube Channel Growth Rate Case Study - 7 Lessons Learned

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Case study of My Youtube Channel Growth Rate, the 7 lessons I  learned and how you can apply them to the growth of your OWN channel.

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When first starting out on YouTube your channel growth rate may be very slow.  It’s easy to become discouraged when your videos receive little or no views. 

When I first started my channel in 2006 I was using a non-hd video camera. I had just started a marketing tips newsletter for my web design business. As you can see from the first video that I uploaded to YouTube in 2006 using this non-hd camera the presentation was little wobbly, the quality was poor, but hey I wasn’t aiming for perfection.

Here’s a quick look from my YouTube Channel Growth Statistics from 2007 to 2017 when I’m shooting this video. From 2007 to 2013 I hardly got any subscribers because I wasn’t focused video marketing and I wasn’t uploading many videos.

In January 2013 I purchased a video traffic course called Video Traffic Academy which is currently unavailable.

 After studying the course I started uploading videos every now and then. So I only got 357 subscribers from April 2013 to April 2014. Video marketing was still not much of my focus.

It was only after April  2014 that I   began uploading videos twice a week. As a result I received 2620 subscribers in one year. This could be viewed as a very slow YouTube channel growth rate compared to other channels which are receiving 1000s of  subscribers every month.

The following year I doubled my subscriber rate and got 5591 subscribers.  From April 2016 to Feb 28 2017 I received over 7200  subscribers. Currently I’m on track to double my subscriber rate  from last year.

Here are the 7 lessons I learned about the growth rate of my YouTube channel and how you can apply them to the growth of your own channel:

1. Channel growth rate is very slow at the beginning
2. Channel growth rate increases with upload frequency
3. Channel growth rate increases as video quality improves
4. Promote your video within the first 48 hours
5. Improve view duration
6. Don’t compare your growth with the growth of other channels
7. Know your target audience


Here’s a Bonus Tip
Don’t get affected by negative comments
“You can’t change the forces of the wind but you can change the setting of your own sail.” This means if somebody doesn’t like your message, just let them be.  Life isn’t about pleasing everybody. So just be yourself and enjoy your own  journey.

Let me ask you an important question..
What lesson have you learned that has contributed to the growth of your YouTube channel?

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