[00:02] YouTube channel of over 700,000 subscribers and most months I spent less than 30 minutes a day producing my videos managing my channel and everything that's gone in to Growing this thing that is now my full-time
[00:15] source of income but I don't say that to brag because I don't really think it's anything all that unusual as far as successful YouTube channels go while there are some creators who put so much into their videos that each one is 100
[00:29] plus our project most of us earn full-time livings here on YouTube with way less than full-time hours like I said a minute ago in my case it definitely averages out to less than 30 minutes a day which I'd bet is less time
[00:43] maybe even less time than you spend eating lunch each day so in this video I want to show you how you can do this too how you can build a wildly successful YouTube channel in a tiny amount of time a channel that allows you to reach
[00:58] thousands of people with every video you create a channel that can grow out to even earn you hundreds of thousands of dollars a year so what I've done is I've dollars a year so what I've done is I've created a simple weekly seven step
[01:11] growth routine so in other words one step for every day of the week and each of these steps takes about 30 minutes to do now of course you don't have to break it down that way you don't have to spend 30 minutes every single day I certainly
[01:24] don't most of the time I spend a few hours one day a week on my channel but for the sake of showing you how little time this can take you each day I'm going to just break it down across the seven days of the week like you were
[01:37] single day so starting out what you need to do on the first day of the week which to do on the first day of the week which let's say is Sunday is to plan your time to mention that this plan I'm going to walk you through over the next few
[01:51] starting a YouTube channel this is assuming you've already gotten your channel up and running and this is how you would produce your videos and your to say that you would need to spend more than 30 minutes a day to get a channel
[02:05] started I think you could certainly do that in 30 minutes a day as well but I who this is for and what I'm assuming about your channel so day one you plan your videos now for planning your videos I am specifically talking about planning
[02:18] the video you're going to film and publish this week so you will choose the topic of the video if you haven't done that already you can outline the video you will want to choose a title and maybe plan out what you're going to do
[02:32] thing I would not recommend you do is try to script the entire video word for word I find that doing that ends up creating two problems one is that it takes way too much time and the other is
[02:44] that it ends up making your videos sound really unnatural so skip scripting your videos word for word unless you're trying to create some sort of mini documentary series with your video planned you are all done with your work
[02:56] for day one so when day two which let's say is Monday rolls around you are ready to start recording this thing now even though I've tried to spread this week out as evenly as I could across the seven days of the week I will freely
[03:09] seven days of the week I will freely admit that it would be best if you spend and a little bit less time on other days and day two of this plan when you are doing your initial recording session is one of those days where you might want
[03:22] to spend a little longer my goal for you for this second day of the week is that you get all of your a-roll or all the main footage for your video filmed so for example if you have a talking head shot like this where you are narrating
[03:35] something or you're explaining something you're looking at the camera then it would be best if you could get all of that footage recorded on day two so that makeup and put on the same outfit again on day three now of course setting up to
[03:51] film and getting ready to film can take some time and so you might spend about 20 of your 30 minutes just getting ready and then 10 minutes sitting down and talking to the camera but like I said on day two you might want to spend a little
[04:05] bit more time so I would allow yourself about an hour on this second day of your production week whatever day that ends isn't getting out of control and it's all going to even out in the end and day
[04:19] three is a great example of that because day three is kind of optional day three is another day to keep filming your video and if you got it all done on day two then you don't need to do anything on day day three but if you only got
[04:31] half of your main footage filmed then you can film the second half on day three or if you want to film some additional footage what's often called b-roll to add into your video as visual examples of what you're talking about
[04:45] then day three is available for you to do that on so now we come to day four of this video production routine and it's time to start editing that footage that you've recorded So I've allowed two days for you to edit this video on which
[05:00] would be days four and five of your routine on a day four I would recommend you focus on the rough cut so this is where you're going to scrub through all sure that it's in the right order on your timeline and you're going to go
[05:13] through and you're going to cut out any mistakes or pauses or anything like that so that you've got the video basically put together now one important note here if you're going to do any color grading or edit the audio of your video at all
[05:29] then you probably want to do that before you start chopping it up into a million tiny pieces but that is what you need to take care of on day four the rough cut so now we move to day five a second day of editing and for this you are going to
[05:43] be adding things into your video so this could be Graphics that you add in it could be music that you add in this could be where you cut in your b-roll if course you'll want to tighten up all those cuts a little bit and add any
[05:58] Transitions and I'll just just say here that you might end up spending more than half an hour on day four or day five you've got a couple options here though one is that on days six and seven you might be able to cut down on the time
[06:12] another would be to make shorter videos yes that really is an option and it can definitely save you time on editing and then the last option is that especially as your channel starts growing you certainly might want to Outsource the
[06:26] editing this is something that I did fairly early on with my channel because I did find that editing my videos was one of the things that was the most there is no doubt about it that Outsourcing my editing is one of the key
[06:39] Outsourcing my editing is one of the key strategies that has enabled me to run my YouTube channel and grow it to the size that it is while spending far less than 30 minutes on average every day but enough about editing let's move on to
[06:53] day six of this production routine and that's going to be the day that you publish your video or you schedule it to publish so in my example here where we started our production routine on a Sunday at this point it would be Friday
[07:06] video on but if you don't want to publish on whatever happens to be day six of your production week then you can just schedule your video instead but there's a little bit more to it than just uploading your video to YouTube and
[07:20] you're also going to need to take care of the thumbnail on this day now hopefully you recorded some thumbnail footage or took some thumbnail photo photos back when you were filming your video and you had your hair and makeup
[07:33] did so that you have something to work with now to actually create the different ways you can create this thumbnail but I find that the quickest and easiest way tends to be with canva even though its capabilities are
[07:46] somewhat limited so that's what I would recommend that you do and when I am in a hurry at all with my videos that's definitely what I turn to so that I options that are available in something like Photoshop so you're going to want
[08:01] to start your video uploading to YouTube and then while it's uploading you can spin up that thumbnail and then you can enter all of the information in that YouTube needs to be able to publish your video things like the video's title and
[08:14] the video's description and the tags and all of that now of course you can sit there and just write this out yourself but there are a lot of great AI tools out there these days that can save you some time here because most of the time
[08:27] your video description isn't all that important now it's best if you've done terms you're trying to Target but you can tell chat GPT or whatever tool you're using to write that video description to include those terms in
[08:42] the description if you have done that research however even if you're typing that title and description out by hand I think you'll still find that it doesn't those steps taken care of and get your
[08:54] before we know it we are at day seven the final day of your production week and on this day I would recommend you do Channel management so this can include a few different things but should at least
[09:07] involve you responding to comments that have been posted on your videos and you checking your analytics to make sure that everything is looking good with your videos you also might want to use this opportunity to reach out to
[09:21] sponsors if you're looking for sponsors for your videos and to start brainstorming topics for upcoming videos on day one of the production routine the intention is that you are planning the video for that week now that you're
[09:35] having to brainstorm an idea of what video you're even going to be filming so it's best to get that taken care of on day seven what I just shared with you in getting the videos produced and getting them published on YouTube but if you
[09:49] aren't good enough quality or you don't know how to work with the algorithm then your channel isn't going to grow even if you're steadily pumping out a video every single week so if you need a little bit of help with those things if
[10:03] you want to learn the basics of YouTube strategy learn how the algorithm Works learn how you can work with it to grow your channel as quickly as possible then check out the link in the description that is for a one-hour YouTube strategy
[10:17] master class that I recorded that breaks all of those things down the class is completely free and we've had thousands of people go through and take the class at this point but if you haven't yet then I would love to invite you to do so
[10:31] and then you'll want to check out this video right here where I share this really cool new feature that YouTube just launched in the last couple of months that is starting to explode everyone's audiences