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0:00how to choose a name for your youtube
0:01channel so i know this is something that
0:02can create a lot of stress it stressed
0:04me out when i created a new channel
0:06about six months ago i'll tell you more
0:08about that at the end of the video but
0:10by not choosing a name i probably waited
0:12a month or longer before i started
0:14creating content on youtube i don't want
0:16that to happen to you let's go through
0:18my recommendations for helping you
0:21choose the channel name the first
0:23decision to make is do you want to use
0:25your name or do you want to create a
0:27name for the channel specifically there
0:30are tons of channels that use the name
0:33of the creator here are just a couple
0:35something i would think about is the
0:37topic of the channel something really
0:39important to you where you could have
0:41your name attached to it or would you
0:43rather have a different name for the
0:45channel is the topic of the channel
0:46really important to you where if someone
0:48searches for your name on google or
0:50youtube that the channel comes up or
0:52would you rather have a brand name for
0:55the content so maybe this is just a
0:56hobby or something you're doing for kind
0:59of work related but you don't want to
1:01have your first name and last name on
1:02youtube be this type of content it's
1:05completely okay but something to think
1:07about are you going to be the only one
1:08creating content on this channel so this
1:10channel is called the figco our business
1:12is called the figco and it's not just me
1:15we have a bunch of content that we also
1:17create in spanish my colleagues create
1:19videos in spanish there's several people
1:21that appear on that channel so my
1:23business partner and i our last names
1:25are thalin and figueroa and so we
1:27basically kind of squish that together
1:29to create the fitco and so most people
1:31don't get that they don't understand
1:33where the name came from but it's not
1:34just me on the english channel or not
1:36just her on the spanish channel so we
1:38came up with name and we use it for both
1:40the english and the spanish channel is
1:42your name easy to remember pronounce and
1:44write if you think people are going to
1:45have trouble with your name you can use
1:47it i'm not telling you not to but it's
1:49just something to think about maybe
1:50you'd want to choose a brand that's
1:51easier for someone to remember than a
1:53name that people are going to always
1:55right wrong youtube will probably figure
1:57out it's you after a certain amount of
1:58time but it's just something to think
2:00about so think of gary vee so his name
2:02is gary vaynerchuk but vaynerchuk is
2:04complicated to write so he goes by gary
2:06vee sarah adichie always says saradici
2:10rhymes with peachy so you can understand
2:12how her last name is pronounced a third
2:14example would be tom bilyeu so maybe not
2:16the most complicated name but still
2:18people may not be 100 sure how to
2:20pronounce his last name you're welcome
2:22to use any name that you have for your
2:24personal brand on your channel but just
2:26one factor to think about do you have a
2:28fairly common name is there already
2:29someone using your first name and last
2:31name for their channel so a story with
2:32this my colleague diego has a youtube
2:34channel about video editing in spanish
2:36and the thing is his name is diego
2:38figueroa a fairly common name so if you
2:40search for it on youtube you may see
2:42something like this and you don't see
2:43his content even though several of his
2:45videos have thousands of views and he
2:47almost has a thousand subscribers so if
2:49you want to stand out and someone else
2:51already has you knit your name you'll
2:52need to create lots of content so you
2:54show up first when people search for it
2:57or think about maybe creating a brand
2:59what i want you to do now is write down
3:00all the words that come to mind related
3:02to the content you're going to create
3:04the niche that you're in and potentially
3:06the outcome that your audience is
3:08looking to get from viewing your content
3:10after you finish that list the next
3:12thing i want you to do is to think of
3:13any other words that you could add to
3:14the name that add more clarity on the
3:18type of content you're going to create
3:19how you're different than others in your
3:21niche so the word i want to use an
3:22example today is filmmaker so there's
3:25already a channel called filmmaker so
3:27you're probably going to need to add a
3:29word or couple words if you're creating
3:31content about filmmaking let me show you
3:33what i'm talking about so here is a
3:35channel called filmmaker that has 58
3:37videos and 35 000 subscribers if you
3:40want to see other channels related to
3:42the search what you can do is click on
3:44filters right here and then go to type
3:47and channel so here are all the channels
3:49that have filmmaker in the title or the
3:52most relevant ones so if we scroll down
3:54filmmaker iq tomorrow's filmmaker so the
3:56future of filmmaking you can learn here
3:59the engineering filmmaker and parker
4:01wallback so parker walbeck has full-time
4:03filmmaker so the idea of his courses and
4:06the content on the youtube channel is
4:08how to make a full-time living through
4:10filmmaking so not to be your side hustle
4:13or something you only do on the weekends
4:14how to make it your full-time career
4:17scrolling down further let's see the
4:18frugal filmmaker how to make films and
4:20not spend a ton of money filmmaker
4:22survival so how to survive
4:24the savage filmmaker the fit filmmaker
4:27the practical filmmaker filmmaker school
4:29filmmakers formula the fly fishing
4:31filmmaker you get the idea so you have
4:33the two types of words right now the
4:35next thing i want you to do is to go to
4:37youtube go to google search start
4:40putting some of those phrases in and see
4:42what other channels websites social
4:44media accounts come up okay so what i
4:46just brought up are a bunch of different
4:48youtube searches and we'll see the names
4:50of the channels of the creators that
4:52show up in search result so the first
4:54search is new mac studio apparently
4:56suggested products google and youtube
4:59are confused if they should show mac
5:01cosmetics or the mac studio from apple
5:05down below so we have marquez brownlee
5:07or known as mkbhd
5:10you have your average consumer mac rumor
5:12so including mac or apple or i for
5:16iphone ipad or whatever in the name if
5:18you're going to be creating content
5:20about apple products
5:22mary spender so personal brand max tech
5:25dave 2d
5:26renee ritchie
5:28ijustine marquez brownlee jared paulin
5:31cnet nine to five mac
5:34greg's gadgets
5:36you get the idea alpha gaming
5:38next one
5:39is how to cook brisket who doesn't like
5:41brisket so let's check out the channel
5:42names the dog father's barbecue simply
5:45mama cooks
5:47anne's family recipe gordon ramsay how
5:50to barbecue right
5:53smoke trails barbecue how cast
5:56the cook and share so one thing i want
5:57to point out here is how focused or
5:59broad do you think your content is going
6:00to be so if you include mac or barbecue
6:04or something more specific than if you
6:06have mac in the name you're probably not
6:07reviewing android devices or pc
6:10computers the same thing with cooking if
6:13you're going to be doing just barbecue
6:14hey have barbecue in your name if you're
6:16going to do cooking that's much more
6:17broad then maybe you want a broader name
6:20so i just opened up a whole bunch of
6:22different youtube channels so you can
6:24see the name that they came up with i'm
6:26not including any personal brands i
6:27already showed you some of those earlier
6:28the first one is channel maker so coming
6:30up with a word related youtube youtube
6:32channel so channel makers making
6:35channels i think that works well
6:37okay whiteboard crypto so i'm going to
6:39teach you through whiteboarding what
6:41crypto's all about hey dominic didn't
6:43want to use his first and last name so
6:45hey dominic
6:46alpha gaming so
6:48big tough alpha and gaming potato jet
6:51i'm not i can't remember how he came up
6:53with his channel name thomas frank
6:55explains so there's already a thomas
6:56frank channel and then the explains part
6:58is to learn about notion it's not
7:00totally clear it's about notion from the
7:02name but it's different than his
7:04personal brand silicon valley girl so
7:06everything related to startup silicon
7:08valley making money things like that
7:10creator economics how you can make money
7:12as a creator that icelandic guy so his
7:15name is really super difficult to
7:16pronounce so he decided that icelandic
7:18guy is more memorable easy to pronounce
7:21easy to remember so
7:23he's going with that
7:24um how to adhd becca de la plantes
7:28manflo yoga so yoga for men pretty clear
7:31from the name
7:32make art now about video related stuff
7:35dslr video shooter so one thing i want
7:37to point out here is most cameras that
7:39are sold today are not dslrs they don't
7:42have the mirror that comes up and down
7:43they are mirrorless cameras so the name
7:46that he chose for this channel is kind
7:49of
7:49irrelevant or not
7:51up to date i guess
7:53let's talk money
7:55teaching men's fashion charisma on
7:58command this is one i like it's just
8:00really clear from the beginning that
8:02i'm going to teach you to be charismatic
8:05keep productive so
8:06not just be productive this second but
8:10maintain your productivity
8:13chris winter tutorial so
8:15his name but wanted to add tutorials on
8:17the end
8:18sarah beth yoga so you see yoga with
8:20adrian so you put yoga at the beginning
8:23or
8:24at the end
8:25so film boo so this channel is amazing
8:27if you want to learn to grow on youtube
8:28their content is great the name i'm not
8:30sure the booth part of it film i get the
8:33booth i'm not sure how they chose that
8:36coffeezilla i don't really know how he
8:38came up with that name
8:40maxtet so the maximum of technology
8:42you're going to learn here
8:44think media so so sean created this
8:47channel a long time we only had
8:49content for think international so they
8:51said think media we're going to talk
8:53about youtube cameras and things like
8:55that and they're obviously doing well
8:57today even though they're like hey if
8:59they chose the name today maybe they
9:01would have picked something different
9:03fellow filmmaker so i think i mentioned
9:05them earlier so hey we're going to help
9:07you create films the community
9:09experience by spi so spi stands for
9:11smart passive income the founder of that
9:14pat flynn already has a channel with his
9:16name so they wanted to create a channel
9:18that the rest of the team could create
9:20content for not on his personal brand
9:22and so this is that channel if you want
9:24additional help getting started on
9:25youtube with your channel your first
9:27videos and starting to grow on youtube
9:29we just launched a youtube course for
9:31beginners it's four weeks long and
9:34there's live sessions and a ton of
9:35information to make sure you have
9:37everything you need no more excuses to
9:39getting your channel up and running so
9:41if you want to learn more check out the
9:42link in the description below here are a
9:44couple of additional recommendations
9:45when choosing a name so the first thing
9:47you don't want to go against the youtube
9:49community guidelines so i wouldn't use
9:51swear words in your content i wouldn't
9:52include numbers in the name so would it
9:54be this or this it's kind of unclear so
9:58i'd stay away from numbers if you can
10:00help it try to keep your name as short
10:01as possible ideally two or three words i
10:04would say the max would be five but
10:06these shouldn't be five long words so
10:08something that works that's five words
10:10is the colin and samir show so each of
10:13the words is fairly short another way to
10:15look at it would be trying to keep it
10:17under say 30 characters now let's talk
10:20about a couple different categories for
10:21names so the first would be a name
10:23related to your niche so this could be
10:25the crypto dad creator economics alpha
10:28gaming man flow yoga another could be
10:30the outcome that the viewer is looking
10:32for so full-time filmmaker charisma on
10:34command it's very clear hey this is what
10:37you're going to have if you watch our
10:39content random names that sound cool
10:41coffeezilla that icelandic guy mr beast
10:44pewdiepie niche with name so this could
10:46be investing with rose yoga with all the
10:49people that use yoga with there's a ton
10:51of those channels and then cooking with
10:53shireen or you can switch it around and
10:54have mad fit sarah beth yoga thomas
10:57frank explains chris winter tutorials
11:00there's a few more things we need to
11:01check before moving forward the first of
11:03which is to see if you can get the
11:05custom url for your channel name after
11:08you get 100 subscribers on youtube
11:10you'll be able to get a channel url that
11:12looks something like this as opposed to
11:14something like this when you first
11:15create your account you should also see
11:17the same username as available across
11:19all of social media it's much easier if
11:21you have the same username for all of
11:23your social media accounts for your
11:24youtube channel and for your website you
11:27may not want to create a website right
11:29now but you at least want to check to
11:31see if the url is available ideally you
11:33want to get the com but also.co.net.io
11:38there's a few other options if d.com is
11:40taken and you can check all of this in
11:43one place if you go to namecheck.com
11:45it's written a little bit strange but
11:46don't worry it's down below in the
11:48description here you can figure out if
11:51the youtube url is available the social
11:53media accounts are available as well as
11:55the different urls it's not the end of
11:57the world if you can't get the exact
11:58username on social media or the domain
12:01name that you want you can get a little
12:03bit creative here so a business like
12:05yada an online savings account their
12:07website is withyatta.com and i think
12:10their social media accounts are the same
12:12so you can kind of get around this if
12:15some of the usernames that you want are
12:17taken the next thing you want to do is
12:18google the potential name for your
12:20channel and see what comes up for
12:21example catherine manning her channel
12:23used to be called the content bug and
12:25people relate content and websites and
12:27bugs as something's wrong with the
12:29website essentially so she decided that
12:31she wanted to change her channel name
12:33which brings me to my next point and one
12:35of the most important things in all this
12:37video is the important thing is to
12:39choose a channel name and move forward
12:42and start creating content don't get
12:43stuck at this stage and not actually
12:46create content for youtube just move
12:48forward and know that if you don't like
12:50the name later on you can always change
12:52it so catherine mannion used to be the
12:54content bug think media's podcast was
12:56think marketing podcast they thought the
12:58content would be more about marketing
13:00than they realized it's a little bit
13:01confusing when everything else is called
13:03think media so they made that change
13:06also primal video used to be called
13:08video editing coach they realized they
13:10wanted a broader name that encapsulated
13:12more types of content and so they made
13:15the switch as well so choose something
13:17start creating content and move forward
13:19now let's talk about the new channel
13:20that i started so if you're watching
13:21this video it means that we're in
13:24process of monetizing our channel so we
13:25reached a thousand subscribers and four
13:27thousand hours of watch time we have the
13:29watch time and right now we have 930
13:31some subscribers at the moment of
13:33recording this video it's in the
13:35personal finance space and it's called
13:37greater than enough so what i was
13:38thinking when coming up with the channel
13:40name
13:40is the fact that i want to think of the
13:42end goal what's the goal for people with
13:44their finances and a lot of people have
13:47less than enough they're struggling to
13:48get by they're living paycheck to
13:49paycheck and so that person would like
13:52to be at a point where they have
13:53abundance they have more enough so
13:55abundance was kind of the word that i
13:57had in my head that kind of not that i
13:59want to be a millionaire but i want to
14:00have enough and feel comfortable and so
14:03abundance didn't really work out using
14:05that in the name also more than enough
14:08is kind of the same idea there's a book
14:10and some other things with that name and
14:12i'm kind of math nerdy and was thinking
14:15of greater than like the greater than or
14:17less than sign and most people are less
14:19than enough and so i thought why don't
14:20we call it greater than enough and so
14:22the profile image is the greater than
14:24sign and so it kind of gets that idea
14:27across i don't know if everyone totally
14:29gets the channel name but that was the
14:30idea that i was going for it was a name
14:33that i was considering for at least a
14:35month before making the final decision
14:37and i wish i just made the decision
14:39start me creating content and i would
14:41have a month's worth of additional
14:43content and the channel would have been
14:45monetized a month sooner my advice to
14:47move forward is to follow these steps
14:49choose a channel name and start creating
14:51videos for your youtube channel you can
14:52always change the channel name later and
14:54to help you get started creating content
14:56for youtube i have two video
14:57recommendations the first how to come up
14:59with ideas for your youtube videos you
15:00can check out that video right here and
15:02how to get your first hundred
15:03subscribers you can check out that video
15:04below hope to see you in those and
15:06future videos bye

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