Thinking about ways to get more subscribers on my YouTube Channel. I only have four and that makes me want to create another channel to do something more related to writing. The gripe is that a channel solely towards writing is going to make me yearn to do publishing — unless it’s hobby writing.
I don’t know what I want to do. I didn’t think this would stress me out a little bit, trying to get more subscribers and views on my videos. Well, I wouldn’t say that I’m very stressed out — just a tad anxious in some ways.
I know it will take time for me to gain more subscribers, but I still feel like I’m not doing enough to get there. So, what can I do to grow my channel bit by bit? Should I change something or do something?
I have never run my own youtube channel, so this is outside my realm of knowledge. But sharing the links to videos or your channel on other social media and asking others to like and share might help? Also I do hear a lot that you have to post on a consistent schedule to get followers. Doesn’t have to be every day. Could just be once a week, but it does have to be on a schedule people can reliably expect to find a video waiting for them every time the schedule repeats.
I don’t know much about how YouTube works, but you seem to be doing all the right things. Now you just need to keep doing it for years and years and years. Everyone I follow took ages to get any subscribers, but now they have thousands, and it literally took years. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
You’ve just started. I think it’s too early to worry about that.
I’d say just post consistently. And I don’t mean content. So, if you decided to go weekly, post on the same day every week.
Also, if you keep doing different things every single video, you won’t be able to retain your audience. They’ll be confused. People need to know, right away, what this channel is all about. So, if you’re going to talk about hobbies, pick the topics and cycle them.
So, let’s say you have four topics. Topic A, B, C, and D. You then cycle through them. This week is A, next week is B, third week is C, and fourth week is D. Then you go back to A again, then B, C, and D.
People need to know what they’re signing up for. If I go to Desk Time Hobbyist’s channel, I will see this, this, and this, and I like those things, and so I will subscribe.
I’ve changed the channel to focus on writing strictly, instead of just hobbies.
It will be geared towards hobby writing and only that. Since I mainly write, I shall focus on that more than the other hobbies. I can talk about writing and show people the joys of me writing as a hobby.
Yeah, I was really worried about that far too early. What do you mean by “and I don’t mean content”?
I tried posting shorts and did not know what I was doing. But it ended up as a video when it was supposed to be a short.
What I mean is, you don’t have to focus only on writing as your video content if you don’t want to.
As a subscriber, I would love to know what you enjoy. Since hobbies at the desk can be pretty broad, I want to know which three or four you often do and want to hear you talk about that.
There’s so many writing only channels out there and…in my opinion, it would be nice to see something different
Writing is the only hobby I really do at my desk though, besides watching anime. I don’t read at my desk honestly.
I write more at my desk than watch anime. Though I am writing fiction and journaling and even world-building.
The difference between me and the other writer channels are they’re either trying to publish, getting published, or is published. I’m the only minority who wants to keep writing as a hobby and only that.
I figure my vlogs were confusing because they were all over the place. Though I am happy to just focus on writing only.
Another thing that will make me different is a SINGLE day in my life vlog. I would rather do that than a week or weekend in my life, since I will be mostly at my desk and don’t want to film around my apartment — plus I live with someone.
Maybe you could do a video about how you do world-building? Honestly, I just write a book and as different aspects of the world are needed I come up with something right then and just add it in. I assumed everyone did world-building like that. Do you have some kind of process separate from writing for that?