Are you planning to start a YouTube channel? This episode shares top tips for small channels new to YouTube. This isn’t like most content on how to grow a YouTube channel fast. These are tips for starting and growing a small YouTube channel. And how to increase your YouTube subscribers naturally. Unlike the big YouTube creators’ tips, this episode will give you tips to start, grow and manage your YouTube channel on a small budget (or none at all). In this special deep dive episode, I’m sharing 50 tips for YouTube beginners. These are all the tips I wish I had when I started my YouTube channel as a small creator in one place. So, from one small YouTube creator to an aspiring one, I hope this helps as your guide to getting started on YouTube. We will be covering everything from how to plan your YouTube videos, how to film your YouTube videos, how to edit your YouTube videos and how to publish your YouTube videos. Designed as top tips for small YouTube channels, here’s just some of what we’ll cover in more detail:

PLANNING for your YouTube channel

• How to optimise your video topic, title and thumbnail for YouTube videos (using YouTube analytics, Google trends and more)

• Creating a hook for your YouTube video

FILMING your YouTube videos

• How to set up your filming for YouTube as a small channel

• My thoughts on batch recording your YouTube videos

• Tips for filming your video as a small YouTube creator

• Tips for a YouTube setup that stands out and builds your personal brand

• Tips for your call to action on YouTube

EDITIING your YouTube videos

• Tiny tips for editing your YouTube video

• Tiny tips for editing your YouTube thumbnail

PUBLISHING your YouTube videos

• Tips for your YouTube profile page and building your personal brand value on YouTube

• SEO your YouTube title, description and tags

• Timing the release of your YouTube video (using Google Trends)

• Staying consistent on YouTube

• How to manually add chapters to your YouTube video

• How to promote your YouTube videos on social media

• The value of YouTube playlists.

This episode is not about beating the YouTube algorithm when you’re just starting a YouTube channel. It’s about learning YouTube best practices and YouTube SEO as a small channel, so you can improve your YouTube video content and YouTube subscribers organically in the long term. All this and so much more in this mega episode to help you start your YouTube channel.

Video chapters:

• 0:00 Intro

• 1:05 Planning tips for your YouTube videos

• 11:26 Fliming tips for your YouTube videos

• 28:57 Editing tips for your YouTube videos

• 37:32 Publishing tips for your YouTube videos