What tools do you use to edit your videos? Do you use an additional microphone? I have not invested any money to purchase filming/editing tools yet……I am new & frugal. :) However, I am open to learning….. please share your recommendations! I use Quick time player on my mac to record, then edit using iMovie.

I uploaded a video as private. I was prompt to share it with a friend so I entered his email. When he got the email and try to see the video it's says email is private. Any idea why?

So I read somewhere that when you upload videos, you should schedule it 24 hours later to publish to allow youtube time to analyze and find the correct viewers to recommend to. Does anyone actually do this or do you just publish after uploading?

Hello! Mary Schiller here. I'm thrilled to be part of this group because I have seen what YouTube has done for my business, even though I've been haphazard about it, and now I want to use it intentionally. I have 30 years of experience as a writer, editor and online educator. In 2016, I started a life-coaching business and have done some business coaching along the way, too. My specialty is helping solopreneurs create and share "authority assets," starting with a mini-book. Short books on Amazon + my YouTube channel have been the two biggest sources of clients for me. On the personal side, I'm originally from California but moved to Paris, France, in 2017, with my husband. I'm an unabashed cat lady, although I don't have any right now! We're hoping the "cat distribution system" will find us soon.

Alexa. I am following through on my Youtube comment that I am here to show up and grow up. In Jan - I launched a Mighty Network community called Walking Sober - Walking was a big part of my journey to Sobriety- hence the name. My domain is walking sober. My community Walking Sober Club. So when I turned to Youtube - I made a Walking Sober Channel- 10 subs My personal channel - with my name Terry Grier - has about 350 subs. I had the idea of doing both and wound up doing neither. I consulted my AI (Claude) and it thinks my name Terry Grier - is better channel than a branded channel. and I tend to agree. It would be 95% sobriety / recovery and about 5% other but that other is still going to be around my journey and story etc. Any thoughts?