Posted a fascinating video today on posting more videos to grow her channel. she made a very important statement in that video, "this is my experience." My experience is different. i’ve been posting one video a week since September 18 of 2024. tomorrow my channel will be four months old. I have been monetized for a little more than a month. I have a little over 20,000 subscribers. My first months revenue was a little over $1000 from Adsence. I’m not a big numbers cruncher and I seldom look at my analytics. Right now I am averaging between 30 and $50 a day in adsence and I am averaging between 250 and 400 subscribers a day. this is on only 16 long form videos.
For me, I could never do three videos a week. I have a hard enough problem doing one video week I spend between 20 and 25 hours to do one video. And I also have a full-time job that I am still working. So for me, I am a part-time YouTuber. Alexa is a full-time YouTuber.
My take away is that everyone who is a YouTube content creator needs to find their best practice and what works for them. I am very proud of Alexa and what she has accomplished and what she has done. And actually, I’m proud of what I’ve done at starting a channel at 80 years old.
She and I do have some similar goals and that is to reach 100,000 subscribers this year. And I believe that we both will do that.
So here’s a young, energetic, young woman who lost her job and here’s an old guy who’s thinking about retirement. What do we have in common? PASSION For what we are doing.
I would encourage you to find what works for you and then do it. I think I’ve discovered that nobody has the magic bullet for making a channel a success. You have to always be learning and it takes dedication and hard work.
If one video a week works for you then do it. If three videos a week work for you and then do that. The key is consistency. The biggest thing that I have learned in the last four months is that you need to produce content that is so valuable that your viewers will share your content with other people.
2025 can be the most exciting year for us that are YouTube content creators.