Who wants YouTube to be their side hustle?
I think everyone in the WCE community wants to make better content and strengthen their community. There is nothing wrong with posting when you want to and having a steady community. Those are some of the absolute best YouTube channels.
But I’m looking for those people who want to actively and earnestly push their channel ahead. I know there is work and life and kids and all the things. I listen to startup and productivity podcasts a lot. Most of them had kids and work and they created their business in the early morning or evening and called it their “side hustle.” I want to build a framework to help us achieve our goals.
I want us each to create a strategic plan for our channels and an action plan as to how to execute this strategy. I want to set up a task manager system that we all use. You control your own, but we can all be your accountability partners to make sure you are on track. Tasks will be put into 3 categories.
New skills you want to learn or improve like lighting, editing, sound, animation, performance, script writing, thumbnails, closed captions, and so on. These are the things that make your content better. We can’t learn all the skills at once. We will prioritize them and create tasks about how to accomplish them.
This is the heart of your channel. We will discuss how often you want to create certain types of content. I learned yesterday that channels should have 3 types. Hero, which is your bigger flashier videos that take a long time but bring in lots of views. Hub, which is your consistent content at the heart of what you do. And Help where you answer the most ask questions about your topics.
We wil devise a plan and tasks to help you produce regular or semi regular content.
If we want to grow our channels, we need to get better at this one. We will create a strategy for getting the word our about our content. This could be through social media or collabs.
Watch these 2 videos on color correction
Use color correction on next video
Read X post and watch Y video about compression
Use compression on next video
Create 1 Hero video in next 6 months
Create 1 Hub video every other week
Create 1 Help video every month
Find two hashtags relevant to my content
Pick one social media platform and post to it on a regular basis
We would come up with a strategy for each of these things together and make sure we accomplish them as best we can. I want to know if anyone is interested in doing this before I put a bunch of effort into setting up a system for us to use. Let me know via Tumblr, Twitter, Reddit, or Slack.
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