How to Become a Youtuber

1. Have a passion for becoming a Youtuber

Becoming a successful Youtuber starts with passion. If you’re passionate about streaming live on YouTube, you will be self-motivated to do all that it takes to move forward. Especially in the initial stages of your channel.

Before you get started, you should understand that even the most successful YouTubers you hear of in the current times took time, and also worked for many days without pay to achieve their present status.

2. Choose your niche

Before choosing your niche, have in mind that the niche that you will specialize in will largely determine how far you will go with the new career.

If you choose for the sake of having videos streamed on Youtube, moving on might not be easy. Below are the tips that can help you create a channel that stands out.

• Choose what you love doing, eg. Sports, Games, Music, or Makeup.
• Select the topic that you understand and present it with the utmost professionalism.
• Choose a topic that is popular yet done by a few YouTubers.

After choosing your niche, you should narrow down and specialize in a section of the niche that people like.

As a result, you will gain a large number of viewers and followers. After all, that’s the unit of measuring your success as a Youtuber.

3. Gather the necessary equipment

With passion and niche, the next thing that you need to succeed is equipment.  These are the essential things that you must have to start streaming your videos on your YouTube channel.

Below is the primary equipment that you must have.

• Camera,
• Microphone,
• Excellent lighting.

➡ Camera: Camera is what you need to capture your videos and images. For a start, you needn’t invest heavily in the instrument.

Therefore, you can go for some cheap cameras but high-quality output. Alternatively, you can pilot with your mobile phone’s camera.

➡ Microphone: It’s required for recording sound. The high-quality microphone records a clear voice and sound that’s great for YouTube. Microphones aren’t that expensive, and you can grab one just from $20.

➡ Excellent lighting: For keeping your background clear. With everything working well and the light becomes you have bad lighting, you’re still likely to end up with a poor quality video. To improve on your light, you can purchase lighting kits from amazon.

4. Develop the content of your channel

After gathering the necessary equipment, you now have to develop high-quality content. It can go without saying that the quality of your content is what keeps your audience put. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, delivering value to your audience is not an option.

The most crucial part is that you should handle this with the utmost professionalism. To some extent, the quality of your instruments will affect the quality of the output.

And that’s why it’s advisable to invest in your Youtube gear. If you want videos of outstanding quality, you should go for the top-quality equipment. Below are some tips to help you develop top-quality content.

• Select a unique topic but ensure it’s somehow related to the niche.
• After that, research widely about the topic to ensure it holds facts rather than speculations.
• Having done thorough research, draft your content, and divide it into portions having in mind the element of time.
• Draft the final content that you will present to your audience.
• Practice the content with another pair of eyes at the watch and help you to amend your weak areas.
• Practice your content behind the camera. Also, ensure you have excellent mastery of the content to prove to your viewers that you’re well-equipped.
• Ensure you’re using high-quality equipment with an excellently lit background.

When crafting your content, the critical point is quality. Therefore, have it in mind that you are not alone in the industry. Instead, you’re competing against your rivals.

Therefore, create the content that distinguishes your channel from others, and you will be shocked at the traffic on your channel.

5. Map out your presentation

After crafting a top-quality content, the next step involves mapping your presentation.  This means that you should plan on how you want to deliver your content to the viewers without any inconvenience creeping in.

Segment your content according to time. This helps you to keep your audience focused, informed, and entertained.

Also, ensure that you work on the duration of your presentation, the time you stream, and the frequency of your streaming.

For anew channel, it’s advisable you schedule as many times as you can afford to gather more viewers.

6. Work on SEO  optimization of your content

This is one of the indispensable practices that you should never overlook. For your content to be discovered by a wide range of people, viewed, and shared, you should use appropriate keywords in your content.

The keywords help you do get a better ranking by search engines. Even though this acronym might sound significant, it’s pretty simple to understand as it involves looking for the most searched words. Doing that helps to know the most trending topics and other popular searches.

Therefore, after getting the keywords, you blend them organically into your content. Since the keywords keep changing, you should continuously update them to enhance ranking.

Fortunately, there are many SEO tools that you can use to make your work effortless. Below are some of the ways to trap more viewers.

One of the things that matters, when you’re grading your way into becoming a successful Youtuber, is consistency.

You should be consistent in your content theme, duration of the presentations and frequency, and the precise time that you go online. Consistency helps your viewers to plan their time and know when to watch your program.

8. Interact with your viewers and Increase your social dominance

Engaging your viewers during live streaming is one of the ways to keep your precious followers as they will be able to get answers to their troubling questions instantly.

Also, share your links across all the social platforms to ensure for many people to join and watch you live on your channel. Ensure you respond to all the comments.

9. Market your channel

Ensure your channel has a welcoming appearance. In addition to that, you can create a killer blog to help in reaching more people. Also, you can share videos on your blog, and socials media platforms to expand your audience base.

How to Become a Youtuber with a Mobile Phone

1. Check on the mobile phone’s specifications

Taking high-quality videos for Youtube requires a smartphone with high image resolution to give more explicit images and also allow you to zoom and make clear videos. If you have a phone with a double or triple-lens, the better.

Also, using a smartphone with an image stabilization feature is a plus. Before you can start capturing your videos, always ensure that the image and video qualities are set to their highest bar.

2. Gather the equipment that you need

Since your phone’s microphone may go down as you tend to move a few steps away, you should get a compact external microphone to capture your voice clear.

If you need such a microphone, you can order lavalier from any reputable online store. Alternatively, you can try using a directional microphone.

Besides that, you also need a tripod stand to take a stable video. Due to the current revolution in the technology industry, there are fantastic hand-held gimbals that can really be great for holding your camera when making videos.

3. Choose your niche

Having the right tools at hand, your next step involves identifying the niche that you feel confident in.

Some of the niches include Sports, Gaming, Music, and more. However, these nitches are broad to focus on as a whole.

However, you can narrow down to a single element and produce exceptional content that wins the attention of the general public.

4. Record your videos

When recording your video, always try as much as you can to produce the best quality video for your channel.

Combine the quality footage of your phone with a high-quality microphone to record excellent videos.

Also, you can use handheld gimbals to ensure you record unwavering videos. The gimbal is easily portable and versatile. As such, you can use it anywhere.

5. Edit your videos

Before you can post your videos, you should edit the footage. However, editing videos isn’t easy on mobile phones, considering the low speed on mobile. And that’s one of the major caveats of shooting your videos using your mobile phone.

But this may not be the same case for iPhone as you can speedily edit your footage using iMovie. If there is something to break or make you video fantastic, it’s your editing skills. So, make sure you’re perfect in the art.

6. Post your first videos

After editing and making your videos awesome, you should now post the videos to your channel.  Open the Youtube app and upload your videos.

7. Work on the SEO aspect of your content

For you to get maximum views, subscriptions, likes, and shares, your video must be visible on the website to the majority of the viewers.

Therefore, learning SEO as a Youtuber is more than vital. Ensure you’ve used relevant tags. Also, the number of tags shouldn’t exceed the maximum required.

Besides that, ensure you spread your keywords organically in the video title.

Note: Check in the first part of this article for more tips on how to become a Youtuber. Most of the tips of becoming a Youtuber with your phone are more similar to the general tips of how to become Youtuber that we’ve shared at the beginning of this article.

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