How I got my first 1,000 subscribers in 24 days

I'm about to save you years of work and show you how you can get your first thousand subscribers on YouTube the easy way everyone knows the hardest part about growing on YouTube is getting your first thousand Subs it could feel like you're creating content that nobody is watching in the past month alone I've gone from 0 to 1300 subscribers using the seven simple strategies I'm about to outline for you by the end of this video you'll have your own custom blueprint for getting your first th000 Subs too let's get into it boom I'm over here now new camera angled everyone knows the hardest part about growing on YouTube is your first thousand subscribers over the last month I've been able to go from zero to about 1,400 subscribers using seven strategies that I will outline in this video so let's talk about strategy number one and

that is promoting on other platforms when you're under a th000 subscribers YouTube just simply doesn't work in your favor the algorithm isn't going to push you to other people so what you need to do is take advantage of other algorithms instead of having just one algorithm work for you need to have 567 so what did I do well first I started promoting on X as you can see here every video I created I started posting it on X so I would post it natively on X which on X the algo pushes videos big time and then under that I would link directly to my YouTube so people would come in the X algo would push them my content because it's a video and then they'd go and say oh here's a link to the YouTube so I started getting a lot more subscribers this way by pushing people through my ex it doesn't even matter if you only have three or four followers on X if you start pushing your videos on X and you start getting one two three new subscribers every time you push people to your YouTube that's going to start the momentum that's going to get your growth going that's going to indicate the YouTube algorithm okay people actually like this guy's content let's start pushing it to more people again if you're relying just on the YouTube algorithm when you're under a thousand subscribers it's not going to push you to people you need to take advantage of other algorithms I also have a newsletter that I'm pushing people to my YouTube as well so every newsletter I send out I link to my latest YouTube video again it doesn't even matter if you have a couple subscribers if you don't have a newsletter you need to create one now because if you can push people to it through your ex and through your YouTube you have people you can send your YouTube videos directly to in their email somewhere they're every day they're not on YouTube every day but they'll be in their email every day so I'm pushing people through my newsletter X and I'm pushing people through YouTube again here's your action items number one set up your X set up your Twitter right doesn't matter if you only have a few followers start getting people on there and linking them to your YouTube number two if you don't have a newsletter I'd highly recommend setting up as well get people's emails through your Twitter and through your YouTube and then push them through those two new platforms again instead of having just one algorithm work for you make sure you have multiple

the next strategy we're going to talk about number two is niching down is critical for your growth in early stages when I first started growing on YouTube I was creating videos about anything Apple Vision Pro Tik Tok different social media platforms I was all over the place after doing some experimentation I quickly figured out that my content about AI was performing really well and so I decided to Niche down into AI here's the thing if you're just doing General content and you're not niching down you're playing a game against millions of other people right if you're making generic here's Five Habits to improve your life you're competing against millions of other people are making the exact same videos you want to stay in your own lane you want to play your own game and so if you Niche Down super specific when people search for your Niche they're going to find you they're not going to find all your competitors because my Niche is now building software with AI when people search for that it's going to be me or like two other people right I've gone Niche down which makes it a lot more likely I get found in YouTube search when you're small you want to start with a very small Niche so your competition is much smaller and let's check out my analytics too you can see here 16% of my audience is coming from YouTube search that's massive you don't want to lose out on YouTube search so make sure when people search it's not going to be a billion different people doing the content you make it's just going to be you Niche down the third

strategy we're going to talk about here that is super critical to Growing if you're under a th000 subscribers is SEO and this is probably the most underrated strategy on the entire list people don't realize this but Google is pushing a ton of traffic to YouTube maybe more than any other platform obviously as you know Google owns YouTube what they're doing is putting a ton of YouTube videos at the top of every search this is where you want to be so you want to make sure all your videos are SEO optimized let's take a look at an example so here you can see my best performing video I've ever made build a game with AI this for me has several thousand views and it has only been going up over time the views which has been incredible has consistently just gone up since I put it out there's no plateauing it's just up up every time I check the analytics I'm getting views on it it's been amazing there's one big reason why this has been happening and that is SEO if you look at where people are coming from to see this video almost half of the people are coming from Google search that's because Google has Index this video so that when people search for build a game with AI I'm showing up near the top I built this video specifically with SEO in mind everything from the title which is very simple build a game with AI in 10 minutes this is something people search for all the time building games with AI building with AI programming with AI down to the description I hyperfocused on the description if you look at the description I jam-pack this with SEO keywords with things that people normally search for no programming experience necessary beginner friendly I built this with SEO in mind and now almost half of my viewership for my best performing video is coming from Google you need to be focusing on Google and one of the best parts is other people under a th000 subscribers they're not thinking about SEO so if you focus on SEO you think about it for every title for every thumbnail for every description and you're going to start bringing in a ton of people from Google which is going to be massive before we get into Point number four if you've learned anything at all make sure you hit the like button and subscribe button down below for more educational content like this also let me know in the replies which of the first three points have been the most helpful for you let's get into Point

number four Evergreen content is a very critical concept you want to be thinking about as well whatever green content means is it's going to be content that's relevant forever 1 year from now 2 years from now 10 years from now people are going to be wanting to click on it and watch your content I created my content with Evergreen in mind so for instance you look at this build a stock tracking app in 10 minutes with AI build a no code chess game with AI in 10 minutes these are all things people are going to be searching for 2 weeks from now 5 weeks from now a year from now 10 years from now that's going to keep people coming back and getting views on all my videos until the end of time as long as Ai and programming is relevant which they'll be relevant forever I'm going to keep getting views in here this is again something people don't think about when they're creating their content they're not thinking well people still care about this in 10 years they're creating content around things that are only relevant in the moment that might not be relevant in a week now they're creating titles that might not be interesting a year from now they're creating thumbnails you want to make sure when you put out content the title description subject scripting thumbnail are all built in a way where even 10 years from now they're still going to be relevant if you focus on this again your charts will start looking like this R views do nothing but go up and don't Plateau if you're talking about things that are only relevant now for the next 2 Days in 2 days you're going to plateau and stop getting views right you really want to make sure you're focusing on Evergreen content and creating as much content as you can that's going to be relevant forever the fifth strategy we're going to talk about is collecting

as much data as humanly possible how do you collect as much data as you can well you release as much cont content as you can a lot of people when they start creating on YouTube they might only create a video once a week once every two weeks once a month they really slowed down they overthink it they try to get the perfect idea this is the wrong strategy you want to constantly be releasing content so you can collect more data you don't want to aim to be perfect you just good enough let me show you an example when I started releasing every couple days that's when my growth exploded that's when I started consistently getting 1,000 plus views per video and what's great about this is I can now go into my analytics and see what people like I can go into maybe my video about building businesses and see that the retention rate is awful right it immediately just goes down into the lower 20s but since I was releasing quickly and seeing what other people were really into I'm able to go into each one of these videos look at the content and find ones like okay this consistently stays in the 40s and 30s throughout the entire video people like this subject now I can double down onto it because I'm collecting so much data I'm able to see exactly what subject my audiences into what they're not into and I can start leaning into what they like if I'm only releasing once a month I'm not able to see what people like or don't like quite as often but because I release every 2 to 3 days I'm able to say okay they like this they don't like this and I'm able to move much quicker and be a lot more Nimble it's really critical when you start off you focus on being good enough rather than perfect so you can collect all that data in your analytics and the last thing I'll show you on this point is just what data you want to be looking at so going back into my analytics you want to make sure you're in the YouTube Studio a few things I'm looking at when I'm looking at my data retention is everything look for your videos and ideas that keep people around and even get higher retention as the video goes like this one I'm also looking at average view duration I'm comparing my average view duration on my videos with other videos to see what the averages people are watching up to if your average view duration is going up as you can see here this one is 2 minutes and 55 seconds more than my usual which is double my usual this is a really good indicator that people like your video watch time is going to be one of the biggest things that Force YouTube to put your video out in the algorithm look at this data release often and make sure you're optimizing for these data points strategy number six you really want to

think about is you actually want to deeply care about your titles and thumbnails when I started I didn't really care about my titles and thumbnails I was just putting out videos my mindset was is if my content's good enough titles and thumbnails don't matter that was pretty damn stupid to be quite honest with you so if you look at my first few videos I put out here the thumb nails are nothing it's literally just a screenshot from my video I mean I'm literally taking screenshots and then putting bold letters on top of it they are awful thumbnails and I thought I was above thumbnails to be quite honest with you if my video is good enough who cares I was totally wrong look at the data the moment I started giving a crap about my thumbnails my viewership absolutely exploded thumbnails and titles cannot be overstated enough how important they are it doesn't matter if it's your first video your 10th video your millionth video you need to make sure you're focusing on title and thumbnail every time couple recommendations I would give you to learning about thumbnails is pick up adobe Express it's a free tool you can very easily put nice thumbnails together there's some templates in there I'd also run your titles through AI so if you run through chat GPT I like Claude 3. 5 on it put it through there say hey what do you think about this title is this powerful enough give me 10 different versions of this title that'll be a really good way to optimize your titles as well but you need to be caring deeply about your thumbnails and titles I'm not filming my video until I have a title and thumbnail figured out and the seventh and last strategy we're going to

talk about here is giving off attractive energy now I know that sounds kind of Hokey Pokey and weird but let me explain this is probably the most important concept of anything we talk about here and that is you're going to get back the energy you give so if you're giving off high positive energy to your audience you're going to get that energy back if you go into your videos and you make sure you're giving off positivity you're giving off value your high energy there they're going to be a lot more likely to hit subscribe they're going to make sure they're more likely to hit like and reply because they want to give you back the same energy you're giving to them I don't film a single video unless I'm in a really good State of Mind unless my energy is high I'm in a good mood and I'm feeling well people can detect your energy through your videos If you go into your videos and you're very lethargic and not feeling energetic they're going to feel that and they're going to click off quickly the energy you put out in your videos are critical you want to make sure every time you hit Bo you have the highest energy possible you want to put out attractive energy the videos I'm the most energetic in the most positive in are always the best performing videos you want to make sure again you're putting off attractive energy probably the most critical component this if you're not feeling good don't hit record go out for a walk but I'm going outside I'm walking for half an hour I come back almost every single time I'm feeling positive very critical for putting out good videos those are my seven strategies for getting to 1,000 subscribers as quickly as possible got to a th000 and under month using all seven of those make sure you focus on all of them write them down before you do any video go through the checklist go through the seven and make sure you're focusing on each one for each one of your videos it's really critical and I guarantee you if you focus on these seven strategies your growth is going to explode let me know down below which one of these seven strategies you're going to focus on the most maybe one you haven't thought about too much in the past I want to hear from you what has been the most helpful and if you learned anything at all make sure to hit subscribe the like button I put out tons of content about growing your Brands growing your platform and using technology and AI to do all that so make sure to hit subscribe down below also don't be afraid to check out this other video I just put out there a lot of people are saying it's amazing thank you for watching I'll see you in the next