How to start a Youtube channels for beginners – a complete guide

How to Start a Successful YouTube Channel for Your Business? – Well, how long have you been shaping a tendency of being a Youtuber in the future? Since when? Since “forever”?

And why? Because you want to be a great story teller. You have some tips and hacks that you want to share worldwide. You want to reinvent yourself, stop being a social-wreck, and share your thoughts, expertise, ideas with many people. 

Or maybe you want to make money and establish stable financial income from your monetized Youtube channel.

Anyways, whatever your goals are, and lucky for you, Youtube is an incredible social platform for communicating with others and helps you to fulfill your dream of initiating a content-creation journey. 

With that being said, you must be armed with useful gears, and welcome to “how to start a Youtube channel for beginners” from AudienceGain!

Youtube channel account registration

First off, you need to register for a Youtube account to enter this monetization platform. Since Youtube belongs to Google,  you can use your Google account to create a Youtube channel. However, you should re-register a new gmail account for easy management later.

Youtube registration steps

YouTube for Beginners – How to Set up Your Channel

If you already have a Gmail account, continue to learn how to create a Youtube channel. If you do not have an account, you can follow the steps below:

Step 1: Access google.com.vn, select Gmail in the upper right corner (buy phone, laptop, tablet, based on your purposes). 

Step 2: Choose to create an account and fill in all the information. Then click on the next button. 

Step 3: Fill in the information for account security. Keep in mind, you must have at least 1 recovery email address to get your information back when needed. Then fill in the real phone number that you are using. Click on next.

Step 4: Click on the send button to let Google send you a verification code to the phone number you just registered. Then you enter the verification code and choose next.

Step 5: Select Agree with the terms that the service provides. Now that you have completed the registration steps.

Create Google Account

After you have yourself an account, now is the time to navigate how to make money on Youtube. 

There are many ways for Youtube monetization, such as joining the Youtube Partner Program (YPP), affiliate marketing, video marketing, and so much more. 

In fact, the choice of most beginners is usually to make profits through posting videos, creating content that attracts viewers, transmitting advertising messages, and promoting brand products to viewers. 

Create a Youtube channel

With that being said, becoming a Youtube partner and making money on Youtube, from Google Adsense account is the most popular and basic for beginners. When you have met the requirements to join YPP, signing up to become a Youtube partner is quite simple. 

Create a Youtube channel

After you have set up a Gmail account, you can access Youtube.com. Select the login icon located in the upper right corner.

Next, enter the email address and password you just registered. Then, you press the next button to log into your account.

On the next step, you need to update videos to get views and subscribers. 

In case, if you already reach the threshold of 4000 watch hours and 1000 subscribers as one of the minimum requirements for YPP, you can go to Creator Studio -> Channel – > Monetization. 

Now, proceed to create an Adsense account, fill in the lines of personal information, phone number, confirm and wait for the Youtube homepage to evaluate your channel and respond (takes about 30 days). 

After being approved, your channel is now basically recognized as a Youtube monetization channel. As a consequence, you can gain your first source of income.

Create Youtube channel on phone

Creating a youtube channel on your phone is also basic as well. 

Step 1: Create a Google account (Gmail account) (which is already mentioned above)

Step 2: Once you have an account, download the Youtube application to your device.

This will make it much more convenient for you to access, post videos or follow other channels than using the platform’s website.
After successfully downloading and installing, go to the circle icon located on the top right corner of the app. Proceed to login to your Gmail account and then choose to enter Youtube your channel.

Step 3: At this moment, Youtube will ask you to enter information, including your full name (or nickname), the topics you aim to make then click on the Create channel . After finishing this step, you will see on the app’s interface a text “Created channel” is displayed, which means you’re successful creating a channel on the phone. 

Establish content

High quality content is the most important factor for the long-term development of your Youtube channel. 

Starting by your passion

To literally “survive” on this money-making platform, you have to be persistent, especially with the content you make. Creating content which you’re expertise in will give you the patience and motivation to keep on track. 

Keep on track of what you’re interested in

If you are an enthusiast of photography, you can share the videos of tips and tricks for amateurs. You can sing, then go ahead do some song covers or become an online vocal coach. Let people in the virtual world acknowledge your talent and how attractive and inspirational your contents are. 

Furthermore, once you have selected a certain subject, you can start to explore more variety from the original topic.

For example, if you are a home cook, apart from just uploading your recipes, make videos about how you go daily or weekly grocery shopping, or a couple of footages you filmed while cooking to make behind-the-scenes videos in order to stay engaged with your audiences. 

Thus, a motivated plan is enough, now you just need to wait for your channel to grow. 

Running online business

If you have been planning to make money online, then Youtube is a great fortune you should make use of. 

Running an online business to monetize from Youtube

If you are already an entrepreneur and have a business brand of your own, expand your business on Youtube to increase profits, as well as find potential customers.

Besides, since Youtube is a video-sharing social network that everyone looks for because of its diversity, you can completely learn to do business online from business-related channels. From here you can find ways to effectively trade with your channel.

Plus, if your channel is eligible for Youtube monetization, make use of the number of views and subscribers you have to do affiliate marketing.

Afterward, try to find brands that have products that you are interested in and can confidently promote, make a video review of those products. Try to make it different, the more audiences click on the product link, the higher your commission percentage.

Precautions

During recent years, Youtube has been increasingly enhanced and developed strongly in the entire world. Apart from the benefits that the platform brings to users, it’s also full of downsides. A huge number of “random” and “inappropriate” content has sprouted like  mushrooms, accompanied by increasingly deteriorating quality just for quick monetization. 

Therefore, some creators turn Youtube into a horrendous whirlwind of weird and “salesy” topics, just to meaninglessly polish their names. These thoughtless and negative acts will leave a bad effect on the users, especially young adults. 

These Youtubers are going to be quickly dismissed or condemned by the authorities and subject to severe penalties for themselves and their families. In conclusion, in order to have safe and attractive topics for Youtube channel, our team will present your several steps below to for constructing your content ideas: 

Make a draft first

As a beginner, you should start with brief outlines to come up with a high-quality and concise draft. Most viewers tend to prefer short videos, so you should do the scripts to fit in one page or less (up to 500 words), then remove the unnecessary parts (if needed). 

Make a draft of your script writing

Editing and completing a video is like making a movie. If  you have a clear script, the content will be very straight forward and engaged. 

What are your videos about? 

Now, with the draft, to transform your “hazy” ideas into something tangible (the video), deploy the holy “W-H” to process the plan. 

• What is the main goal of videos you make?
• Who are the targeted audiences?
• When are you going to upload them on the platform?
• Why do you want to deliver these topics?
• How to deliver them effectively to the audiences?

Last but not least, try to predict the audience’ feedback to decide what you should not talk about in your videos. Sometimes, your opinions may not get on well with what the users want to hear. 

Write the complete script

Completing the script fro the next stage

When you’re done with the draft and subjects, now you can start writing the whole the script

• Make a short and spicy intro to immediately drive the audiences’ attention to what is going on next. 
• The main content must be concise. Not too short but not too long. If you want your video to be approachable to many groups of people, the sentences must be suitable for different ages, use as little slang as possible. 
• Make it meaningful by emphasis on the main points of the content. 

Video production

Another important factor that requires your cinematography skills.

Preparation

Preparation for video-producing

In order to record videos, you definitely need basic equipment to support the production process. As a beginner in this field, you should temporarily take advantage of all available devices that can record video such as smartphones and digital cameras.

Recording and uploading to Youtube is very easy, in addition you can download some simple video editing apps to get acquainted with the video editing for more beautiful and perfect footage.

After the first bit of hardship and you are now able to make money from your content, invest in more expensive and professional equipment for long-term growth. 

Support devices

A Tripod: Trust us! You need this and a tripod is absolutely not redundant at all! Besides, you can’t just stay in one spot and place the camera on a table, or hold your phone all the time while recording. 

Furthermore, a tripod keeps the camera still, creating shake-free angles, and you can easily increase interactivity in your videos. You can use eye contact and body language to emphasize the parts you want.

Led lights: Have you ever seen when looking in the mirror and when taking pictures and videos, is it so different? Because the camera’s light source is not effective, for that reason the led light will help you overcome this issue.

Editing software

Now you have so many great footages (including some bad ones, but you still want to keep it). Here are some effective and widely-used apps and computer softwares as our recommendations. 

Adobe Premiere – professional software for editing footages

Adobe Premiere (available with phone app and computer software): The most widely-used.  This is a professional video editing software. Overall, it doesn’t lack anything you need to do the editing parts.

However, as it is a professional software, it will be quite difficult for beginners. Besides, it is only suitable for high-spec computers.

As for the phone application, it has lots of good features for premade theme and music background, including exposure correction, light and dark area adjustments and so forth. 

Filmora or Camtasia Studio: More friendly-users computer softwares for beginners. They are simple, easy to understand and very light-spec for computers

iMovie: A great editing phone application, easy to use, suitable for cutting and editing short and fast forward videos. 

Tips for Starting a YouTube Channel

The Hatred

There are of course several bad feedbacks and negative comments popping up on the comment section. Indeed, the audiences don’t care if you’re just a beginner or not. They watch the videos, if they don’t like it, leaving a critical statement costs nothing for them.

So don’t let those comments make you feel down. Remember that you can’t please everyone. Appreciate those who love what you create and make them stay engaged. Produce more high-quality content, make a direct eye contact to the camera and enhance body language to emphasize on the main points.  

Video promotion 

A great video needs an effective promotional campaign to show its full potential. 

This focuses a lot on how you put the title containing keywords, write a short but full description, tag and especially create an attractive thumbnail for viewers to click on your video.

The video title is not enough, since many people only pay attention to the video images. As a consequence, you need a clickable thumbnail to increase Youtube views and subscribers by a quick glance of your audiences. Eye-catching wallpapers will attract more people to click to see your video. 

Standard size Youtube thumbnail 

The minimum image size for a Youtube thumbnail is 2560px x1440px. On the other hand,  other sizes can lead to some errors. 

The maximum size of the image file should not exceed 6mb, the frame must not be too big, since when you upload the videos on Youtube, its frame will be cropped.

Some outstanding softwares

Design Wizard: This software adapts to multiple social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter as well. Moreover, there are over 10,000 pre-designed templates and completely free. In addition, you can completely edit with many arbitrary tools. 

Canva – the best software for designing thumbnail

Canva: The most trustworthy and user-friendly. Canva has a lot of interesting features, which are suitable for designing YouTube covers based on a completely free database. You can edit all of your footages within a short duration of time. 

Fotor: The premium of Fotor only costs $8.99. On top of that, you can use the free version, but it’s only sufficient for simple creating and editing. 

Want to have more views, 4000 watch hours and subscribers for your Youtube channel? 

Youtube has been growing and bringing success to many creators. However, you get what you pay for. You need perseverance to keep on learning and build your own successful Youtube career.

With that being said, AudienceGain is a Social Media Marketing company which dedicates to support content creators to develop and promote their videos, brands and products across social platforms, especially Facebook and Youtube.

If you are searching for gaining views and watch hours for your Youtube channel, make sure  to sign up for the AudienceGain community right away. 

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