How I Got 1000 Subscribers in 8 Days (Do This to Actually Grow on YouTube) — Transcript

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1. 0:00So, for the first six weeks of uploading
2. 0:01to this channel, I was getting almost
3. 0:03zero views and zero subscribers. And it
4. 0:06got to a point where I realized I need
5. 0:08to switch something up. So, after making
6. 0:10just one small change, I reached my
7. 0:12first 1,000 subscribers just 8 days
8. 0:15later, which is absolutely mental. So,
9. 0:18in this video, I want to share with you
10. 0:19how I made that happen using that one
11. 0:22simple change, and how you can also use
12. 0:24it to get to your first 1,000
13. 0:25subscribers as well. Okay, so here we
14. 0:27are inside of my YouTube analytics. And
15. 0:30what we're looking at here is the first
16. 0:316 weeks of the channel and you can see
17. 0:33there's not really much going on. So
18. 0:35we're getting 10 views, eight views,
19. 0:36some some days were even zero views. And
20. 0:38over the course of that entire 6 week
21. 0:40period, we gained 11 subscribers. And
22. 0:43it's important to note that all new
23. 0:44creators and all new YouTube channels
24. 0:46have a period like this where there's
25. 0:48nothing going on. And I call this the
26. 0:50dead zone. but also because the niche
27. 0:52I'm trying to get into is extremely
28. 0:54saturated, which by the way, if you
29. 0:55don't know who I am, my name is George
30. 0:56and I help earlystage creators to grow
31. 0:59faster and earn more. But this content
32. 1:01creation niche is very saturated, so I
33. 1:03did expect the results to be quite slow
34. 1:06at first. But I'm not sure if I expected
35. 1:07the views to be this low. I mean, there
36. 1:09were some videos that literally got zero
37. 1:11views when I uploaded them. And if
38. 1:12you're in this stage of your journey as
39. 1:14a creator, maybe you can relate to this
40. 1:16because even though the views were very
41. 1:18low, I knew I had something to share and
42. 1:20I knew that I had insights that people
43. 1:22would find valuable. So, I had to keep
44. 1:24going. But having said that, it's still
45. 1:26not a great feeling. Like, let's just be
46. 1:28honest with each other. If you spend
47. 1:29hours or even days on a video and you
48. 1:32put your heart into it and your
49. 1:34creativity into it and it gets like
50. 1:35seven views, it does sting a little bit.
51. 1:38Like, let's just be honest. But then I
52. 1:40posted a video called How Content
53. 1:42Creation Completely Changed My Life in
54. 1:4490 Days. And it's actually pretty likely
55. 1:47that that video is how you found my
56. 1:48channel in the first place. And now if
57. 1:50we look back to the analytics, you can
58. 1:51see that that 6 week period that we were
59. 1:53looking at before, I mean, you can
60. 1:55barely even see those spikes that we
61. 1:56were looking at. And you can see as soon
62. 1:58as I posted that video, the views just
63. 2:00immediately shot up to, you know, about
64. 2:026,000 views a day. And if we click up
65. 2:05here, you can see that in the 8day
66. 2:06period after I posted that video, we
67. 2:08reached 1,000 subscribers. And I really
68. 2:11wanted to show you this because I really
69. 2:13want you to see that just one video can
70. 2:15literally change everything. And I think
71. 2:17this is so interesting because when it
72. 2:18comes to YouTube, I think a lot of new
73. 2:20creators, they expect to see kind of
74. 2:22slow, linear progression over time. And
75. 2:25they usually expect to see something a
76. 2:27little bit like this. And there's a
77. 2:28reason why we expect this because you
78. 2:30know in life that's usually how we see
79. 2:32results with this kind of slow linear
80. 2:34progression towards our goals. For
81. 2:36example, if you were trying to learn the
82. 2:38piano, you would expect that over time
83. 2:39and over the years with practice, you
84. 2:42would slowly improve and slowly see
85. 2:44results. But when it comes to seeing
86. 2:46results on YouTube, I would say 90% of
87. 2:48the time it's not going to look like
88. 2:50this. it's going to look more like this
89. 2:53where we have this kind of long dead
90. 2:54zone period and then all of a sudden you
91. 2:57post one video and everything changes.
92. 2:59And this actually happens to most of the
93. 3:01big creators. So I remember Hamza back
94. 3:03in the day talking about this where he
95. 3:05was describing this long period where
96. 3:06nothing was going on and then all of a
97. 3:08sudden he posted one video and his
98. 3:10entire channel blew up. This is so
99. 3:12valuable because it means that if you're
100. 3:13not seeing results yet and maybe you're
101. 3:15feeling a little bit disheartened, it
102. 3:17might be because you're expecting to be
103. 3:18here in terms of your results, but you
104. 3:21might actually be here. So, yeah, that's
105. 3:23just something to think about. Now,
106. 3:24let's dive into this then. So, what one
107. 3:25change did I make right here to reach my
108. 3:28first 1,000 subscribers in 8 days? Now,
109. 3:31here's the thing. When you are an early
110. 3:32stage creator, you have a big problem to
111. 3:34overcome. And that's that when people
112. 3:36see your video recommended, they also
113. 3:38see the amount of views. And this could
114. 3:40be a bit of a problem because
115. 3:41unfortunately when people see a video
116. 3:43with low views, they associate it with
117. 3:45low quality and then obviously they're
118. 3:47less likely to click on it. And the most
119. 3:49egregious example of this is if you were
120. 3:51to upload a video called How to Grow on
121. 3:53YouTube and the video had, you know,
122. 3:54like seven views, then it's going to be
123. 3:56very hard to get people to take you
124. 3:58seriously. But this also actually
125. 4:00applies to any niche on YouTube. Because
126. 4:02if people see your video next to a video
127. 4:04that has a ton of views, they're going
128. 4:06to be more likely to click on the video
129. 4:08with high views. because again they
130. 4:10associate it with high quality and I
131. 4:12wish that wasn't the case but it is the
132. 4:14truth. So how do we remedy this issue?
133. 4:16How do we counteract this negative
134. 4:18social proof of having low views and not
135. 4:21many subscribers? Well, what we're going
136. 4:22to do is lean into our newcomer status.
137. 4:25So what on earth do I mean by that?
138. 4:27Well, I think this will make a lot more
139. 4:28sense if I give you an example. So let's
140. 4:30say you're trying to get into the
141. 4:32fitness niche and you know you've got 12
142. 4:34subscribers. You're a brand new creator.
143. 4:36Now, at some point, your videos are
144. 4:38going to start getting recommended next
145. 4:39to the absolute pros. You know, these
146. 4:41are guys with perfect bodies in perfect
147. 4:44lighting. You know, they've got millions
148. 4:45of views. And if you posted a video
149. 4:47called How to Build Muscle Fast or
150. 4:49something like that, it is game over
151. 4:51because people are going to go with the
152. 4:53pros with millions of views every single
153. 4:55time because they're going to assume
154. 4:56that they have more value to give. It's
155. 4:59just the harsh truth. But here's how we
156. 5:01fix this. We need to lean into the fact
157. 5:03that we are new creators. So, we need to
158. 5:05lean into our newcomer status. So,
159. 5:08instead of just posting a broad video
160. 5:10about how to build muscle fast, it would
161. 5:12be way more powerful to post a video
162. 5:14documenting your first year or even your
163. 5:16first 30 days trying to build muscle as
164. 5:19a beginner. And to prove how well this
165. 5:21idea works, this is Joe Faser's channel.
166. 5:23He has around 2 million subscribers and
167. 5:26his first ever video has 31 million
168. 5:29views. And the title and thumbnail looks
169. 5:31like this. Now, the thing is that 31
170. 5:34million people didn't click on this
171. 5:36video because they thought he was a
172. 5:37certified expert. They clicked because
173. 5:39they saw themselves in him and they
174. 5:41wanted to follow along with the early
175. 5:43stages of his journey. So now if we zoom
176. 5:45out, this is so interesting because if
177. 5:47you post a video where you lean into
178. 5:49your status as a new creator instead of
179. 5:51trying to look like an expert, the fact
180. 5:53that the video has low views kind of
181. 5:56compliments the video itself because it
182. 5:58makes people think that they're
183. 5:59discovering something valuable and
184. 6:00something relatable that not that many
185. 6:02people know about. And the crazy thing
186. 6:04is that in all the videos I've watched
187. 6:06about, you know, how to grow a YouTube
188. 6:08channel, they never mention this, which
189. 6:10is mad because it's such a powerful
190. 6:12concept for new creators because again,
191. 6:14this is the concept that I used to start
192. 6:16seeing some real growth on this channel.
193. 6:18So instead of posting videos like how to
194. 6:20grow an audience in 2025 and and things
195. 6:22like that, instead I decided to switch
196. 6:24it up and lean into my newcomer status
197. 6:27and start talking about the struggles
198. 6:28and the successes of my first 90 days as
199. 6:31a content creator. And in that video
200. 6:33that did quite well, I talked about all
201. 6:35my insecurities and all my overthinking
202. 6:37when talking to a camera. And I talked
203. 6:39about my unfiltered experiences as a
204. 6:41beginner. And I think people really
205. 6:43resonated with that because it's
206. 6:44something that everyone goes through and
207. 6:46everyone can relate to when it comes to
208. 6:48getting into content creation. So
209. 6:50finally, how do we apply this to your
210. 6:52own videos? So you want to start off by
211. 6:54asking yourself, what journey are you
212. 6:55actually on right now? Like genuinely,
213. 6:58what are you learning? What are you
214. 6:59building? And what are you struggling
215. 7:01with? Because trust me, these small
216. 7:02moments are so much more powerful than
217. 7:05you think. These are the moments that
218. 7:06make your story real and they make you
219. 7:09more magnetic. And then you can also
220. 7:10think, what is a specific milestone that
221. 7:12you've hit recently, even if it's small,
222. 7:14that others might want to hit as well?
223. 7:16Like for example, this video right now.
224. 7:18So to a lot of people, hitting 1,000
225. 7:20subscribers is not really a big deal,
226. 7:21but to a lot of small creators is a huge
227. 7:24milestone. And these are the aspects of
228. 7:26your journey that you really want to
229. 7:27focus on. And it's so cool because this
230. 7:29is actually your advantage as a small
231. 7:31creator because people don't always want
232. 7:33to learn from the experts or the gurus.
233. 7:36Sometimes they'd rather just learn from
234. 7:37the person who is maybe one or two steps
235. 7:39ahead of them. And I think that's
236. 7:41actually what I'd like to leave you with
237. 7:42because if you're sat there thinking,
238. 7:43you know, I don't have anything to teach
239. 7:45or I don't I don't have anything that
240. 7:46I'm an expert in, then you're probably
241. 7:48the exact kind of creator that somebody
242. 7:50out there needs. And if you are
243. 7:52interested in watching or even
244. 7:53re-watching that video that got me to
245. 7:551,000 subscribers in 8 days, then there
246. 7:57should be a little box appearing on the
247. 7:59screen somewhere over here. So yeah,
248. 8:00click onto that video and I'll see you
249. 8:02there.
250. 8:03[Music]