Creating your first YouTube channel boils down to three main components.
These components are:
creating an interactive environment and talking directly to them, and making sure your content is presented well with good video and audio quality.
1. Creating the appropriate environment
The first and most important component is to create an environment where the viewer feels like you are inviting them to interact and be part of your video and ideas. There are many situations where informational content is all that is required, but to be successful with these new platforms, you need to have a social outlook.
Always look at the camera. Just like in real life, people feel uneasy if you are talking to them and looking all around them rather than in their eyes. Appearing as if you are speaking directly to the audience will help you appear much more confident than a person looking at the surroundings or at other people.
This applies in your videos just the same. People will consider you more knowledgeable and will see that you are more confident if you are looking into the camera.
2. Getting your viewer involved
The second component is getting your viewer involved and giving them an attachment to not only your videos and content, but to you. The reason you are creating YouTube videos is to spread your content out to as many people as possible and to have them want to return and continue to enjoy your content.
This means that the more involved they can get with you and your videos, the more likely they will be to return. Looking directly into the camera helps out with this but there are many things that will significantly increase your viewers’ experience.
Take a few short clips to test how close or far away you should be. If you are showing products make sure you are close enough to the camera so people can view them properly.
Also, make sure your lighting is good. If you record in a dark area, place a lamp behind the camera and turn the lampshade up a bit to shine a little more light on yourself.
3. Audio recording
Audio is the next thing you should test before creating your videos. A common mistake that occurs when first creating a YouTube channel is recording in mono audio rather than stereo.
This means that if people listen to your YouTube videos on a stereo system or headphones, your voice would only come out of the right or left side. Also, take note of where the microphone is in relation to your mouth. Depending on the location, the microphone crackles and pops as it records which decreases the viewers experience.
With all the technical aspects, be sure to test your video and audio quality beforehand so you don’t waste time making a 15 minute video only to realize you couldn’t see the product you were endorsing or that your microphone was making obnoxious sounds.
These are just a few basic ideas you should think about when creating your videos and starting up a successful YouTube channel of your own. Keep in mind that it takes a while for a YouTube channel to become successful and to being getting views.
Remember, it’s a social media platform for a reason. The best way to get your content out there is by networking with other people! Leave comments on other videos, interact with other YouTubers and significantly help in attracting more traffic your way.
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Thanks for these great tips to create YouTube channel. Getting viewers involved is a great point and a very valuable one. You Tube can be a great source of traffic, if used properly.
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Just slapping your videos into the stock standard youtube channel design isn’t exactly nice to look at. If you’re looking at creating a brand then you should always start with the look and the feel of the Youtube channel. Solid advice on this particular post that I hope others take on board also!
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Good Article!
Believe it or not YouTube drives traffic more than Google if you follow the promotion methods in an order. Moreover, the tips mentioned here are awesome for creating a first YouTube channel.
Thanks for sharing
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Thanks for these useful tips. I am looking forward to make Youtube channel so this information can really help me a lot.
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These tips will surely help me to create my channel in youtube. Thanks !
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These are really helpful tips! I’ve always considered creating a youtube channel but wasn’t sure exactly how to begin or do it. The article is quite insightful thus helping me answer a couple of questions I had.
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Thanks for these great tips to create YouTube channel. Getting viewers involved is a great point and a very valuable one. You Tube can be a great source of traffic, if used properly.
Nice article and thank your valuable information and I wish you luck
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The only thing that YouTube needs to change is allowing the YouTube channel owners to add more than one URL hyperlink in the description section of the YouTube channels, whereas people are able to easily click the URL address and go to any webpage of choice. At this time, YouTube only allows one.
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How do you think that you can adapt this to work for a B2B environment – I can see how a quality YouTube presence works for a B2C offer, but I have been thinking about launching a YouTube channel for http://www.startranscription.com to promote the interview transcription and audio transcription services, and I’m not quite sure how to approach it. Good tips here though.
Thank you for nice tips I will try to do you advice :)
Youtube will bring many traffic to my blog
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Youtube channel is one of the most effective way to SEO.These tips helps me a lot to create my channel on youtube.
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This is a really great tutorial for beginner Youtube users. My friend was needed help for his Youtube channel and I tried to explain him how things are going on, but now he can read more important information about it himself. Thanks a lot for this article. It helps a lot.
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This was a great basic breakdown for those just starting to create a website. And you touched the most crucial points; quality is definitely important.
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As many Here I have also just created my Youtube Video Channel for iPhone App Review and this post has helped me to do so. previously I was confused about audio recording but now audio checked :)
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I just finished creating my first YouTube channel. And I followed your tips. Now I know what to do on my first video that I’m about to share. :)
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for me, as a youtube-channel owner i´ve seen the posibility to insert a dofollow-link from youtube to my site. Is this a good or a poor way?
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I keep wanting to generate traffic from youtube in case I ever get hit for any reason by google! Good tips on getting started…
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I have also just started my own YouTube channel to promote my dog site and will be putting up some vids to engage my audience. I love the idea of getting your viewers involved in your vids, and will be doing this in the form of dog training videos that I will be putting together. I’m also thinking of accepting comments on each vid for even more social interaction.
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For a youtube beginner like me this post pretty much outlined all the basics. I had no idea about the audio factor and now i will make sure to record only in stereo. I haven’t really considered lighting either but now i’ll make sure to have it just right when i record my first.
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Hey Yo (that sounds cool!) – awesome pointers! The one other tip I’d give is learn from successful video marketers like the guy at 3+1. Also, although you should be learning from them, do something different. Be daring! That’s the only way people are actually gonna want to watch you