We got 2 new members today! @Manish Singh @Zack Caracostantakis I would like to welcome you guys and encourage you to share your youtube channels in the Youtube reviews section and make an introduction post so we can all say hi to you! And as always feel free to start asking questions. I will answer them as best as i can.

After hundreds of youtube video's I finally understand why worrying about niche in the beginning is pointless. I procrastinated for 2 years before i posted a single youtube video. After about 10 more i got discouraged and quite for another year. I couldn't decide on what niche i wanted to be. I Started a new channel and just reacted to music because i was curious if i could do it. I expected people to laugh at me or completely ignore me. i didn't think i would get any views at all. To my surprise My third video got 1000 views. So i kept going but i eventually got discouraged and burt out completely. Here are the core things I learned from this experience. 1. Niche is the enemy of exploration. clarity is a luxury that comes from putting in the reps and getting the experience. If you have no idea what your channel should be about and you don't have a product to sell, just talk about what ever is interesting to you. 1.2 If you choose to only talk about things that you really care about, this will make it easier to come off as passionate on camera. this will make viewer resonate with you more and increase the likelihood that they will stick around and subscribe. 1.3 By giving yourself permission to post about whatever you feel like talking about in the beginning you are giving the market permission to tell you what it wants. This will give you much needed clarity on what your channel can be about and what people want from you. if you follow this you will be more likely to be successful. 1.4 The dangers of confining yourself to a niche are that if your still in the exploration phase and are still curious about making all different types of content, continuing to put out the same old thing and not permitting yourself to explore topic and content styles can cause you to feel demotivated. this will result in the process not being fun. If you not making money at this point that is when self doubt can creep in. I speak from experience, my second channel was a reaction channel, but the only video's that got lots of views we're ones that i didn't feel like making. I couldn't even monetize them because of copyright, so i completely burnt out and lost interest.

youtube payed me embarrassingly little in the last year and it's my fault of course. here is what i learned 1. copy written material is great to attract a particular fan base, but you need to add more to your channel. i made a lot of music reactions back in the day, but once my channel got monetized i realized i wasn't going to make any money on the videos that were still getting me views as they contained copywrited material and couldn't make money. this is when i started to pivot to other forms of content. i was basically starting all over again. However this is how i learned to love the process and i learned to stop chasing views at all costs and started focusing on the quality of the videos i was making. i also started focusing on who i was speaking too. I had been perusing views so much that i started making content about things i didn't care about. i also didn't pay any mind to who the videos were reach and who i actually wanted to talk too. here is what i would do instead if i had to start over. I would still make reaction video to music but only to music that i really enjoyed, no faking it allowed. if you don't like what your making the audience will know. i would also start working to perfect other videos that do not contain copywrited content. this way i would have some video's that can make money right away. 2 falling in love with the process is key. if you hate what your doing. no matter how much money your being paid, you will eventually burn out. or turn to other things to find satisfaction. or live a miserable life i know we all want to escape our jobs, but we need to do it the right way or else our youtube channel will just become another job that we don't want to do. so anyways those are my thoughts. oh yeah, youtube paid me $50 in my first year of being monetized. it's better than nothing, but i'm going to blow that out of the water this year

I would love to see your channel and have a look at your video's. I believe that we don't have enough people cheering for us in the beginning so i would like to cheer for you! feel free to dm me as well. we can talk privately about your youtube experience.