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YouTube Life Hacks To Grow Your Channel - Top 10

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Top 10 YouTube Life Hacks To Grow Your Channel 
Even though you may have purchased multiple video marketing courses, you still wonder why your channel hasn’t grown very fast.

Here are my top 10 life hacks or lessons that have contributed to the growth of my channel and how you can use them to grow your OWN channel.

1. Purpose
When I started my channel way back in 2006 I just uploaded videos every now and then because I had didn’t have a  clear purpose for my channel. As a result my videos received little or no views or subscribers. It was only when I decided to use videos to generate leads for my web design business, I noticed an uptick in growth. 

2. Passion
My passion for creating video content kicked into high gear when people started asking me questions about how to use video to market their products and services. I get inspired and motivated when I help people solve their problems. As a result I began to focus on creating tutorials and online course related to marketing on YouTube.

3. Belief
When I first began my YouTube Channel it was hard to believe it would be successful, because I had no audience. The key was to find the keywords people were searching for on Google and YouTube then create videos based on those keywords. 

As people discovered more of my videos my audience began to grow at a steady pace. People often give up when don’t see immediate success. YouTube channel growth begins slowly, then speeds up as your videos gain traction in the search engines.

4. Fear
Fear leads to inaction. One of the scariest things I had to overcome was appearing in front of a camera. It initially made me very nervous as I continuously stuttered trying to get my message across. When I focused on sharing valuable information instead of worrying about  what I look or sound like,  I overcame my fears. It also helped that I could edit out all the mistakes before sharing the video publicly.

5. Perfection
Aiming for perfection doesn’t produce quick results because you’re always analyzing. For example I recently spent 1 hour recording a video only to discover later, I hadn’t plugged in the microphone. As a result the audio sounded terrible but I uploaded it anyway. It’s better to take action and upload an imperfect video than not uploading one at all.

6. Perseverance
Perseverance is not a long race. It’s many short races one after the other. Success is th result of hard work, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. You can’t learn all the steps to grow a successful channel in one hour. Channel growth is a process that requires a great  investment of time and energy.

7. Procrastination
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. For example I sometimes get stuck for video content ideas so I put it off until the last minute. This kills  my creativity and causes stress. I’ve now learned to keep an ongoing list of content  ideas when I’m in a creative mindset. 

8. Consistency
In my of my  recent videos called “YouTube Channel Growth Rate Case Study”  I showed how my channel growth rate was very slow when I had no audience because I only uploaded a new video every now and then. I’d  only hear crickets. When I changed the upload frequency to twice a week, my growth rate increased rapidly.

9. Community
It’s easy lose to motivation and inspiration when you receive little or no results from your efforts. You may get discouraged when you receive negative comments or compare your channel growth against the explosive growth of similar channels. Instead of going it a lone get support from other YouTubers by joining their newsletter, Facebook group or online forums. You’ll find many people are experiencing the same problems. Click the card icon to get on my email notification list so I can support your efforts.

10. Be yourself
It’s impossible  to please everybody so  instead of trying to impress people just be yourself. It's better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants. Focus more on the tasks you love to do that generate energy rather than activities that leave you drained. If you love what you are doing you will be successful. 

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