--- title: 'How to Succeed on YouTube: Persistence, Improvement, and Marketing' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=eQTj6M21dGY' video_id: 'eQTj6M21dGY' date: 2026-07-11 duration_sec: 553 --- # How to Succeed on YouTube: Persistence, Improvement, and Marketing > Source: [How to Succeed on YouTube: Persistence, Improvement, and Marketing](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eQTj6M21dGY) ## Summary The speaker discusses the journey of building a successful YouTube channel, emphasizing the importance of persistence, self-improvement, and marketing. They stress that success requires continuous effort, learning from mistakes, and understanding that both content quality and marketing are essential. ### Key Points - **Starting a YouTube Channel** [00:06] — The speaker talks about people who decide to work and upload videos alongside their studies, hoping their talent will be recognized. Talent can vary, such as sharing beauty tips. - **Earning Potential** [01:33] — The speaker mentions that a channel could earn 40-50 lakh rupees a year, but success comes from doing work perfectly, not just from the start. - **Persistence is Key** [02:01] — Many people stop after uploading a few videos due to lack of views. The speaker emphasizes that success requires continuous effort and improvement. - **Learning from Others** [02:28] — The speaker uses the example of 'Super Woman' to illustrate that viewers may think they can do better, but they need to honestly assess their own work level. - **Never Give Up Attitude** [03:10] — The speaker shares personal experience of conducting sessions with empty chairs initially, but persistence led to large audiences. The key is to keep going and never give up. - **Improving Content** [03:36] — After posting videos, one must watch them carefully, identify mistakes, and improve. Success doesn't come immediately; it takes time and practice. - **Marketing Matters** [04:44] — Even with strong content, if no one watches, marketing is needed. Learning from successful YouTubers about keywords, tags, and collaboration is crucial. - **Collaboration for Growth** [05:52] — Collaborating with established YouTubers can help gain exposure. The speaker suggests offering to work for free initially to get noticed. - **Product and Packaging** [06:18] — The speaker compares oneself to a product: good content is the product, but marketing and presentation (packaging) are equally important for success. - **Value in the Job Market** [07:12] — In a job, you are a product with skills. Your value depends on how essential you are to the company. Improving skills makes you indispensable. - **Interest and Focus** [08:04] — To avoid distraction, do work you are interested in. If you are interested, you won't get distracted easily, similar to watching a good movie. ### Conclusion Success requires persistence, continuous improvement, and effective marketing. Treat yourself as a product and work on both your skills and presentation to increase your value. ## Transcript You decided to work, you said I will try to do this work along with my studies, I will try to do this work along with my studies, so you said nowadays people here are uploading videos of all kinds, so I will record my videos and I will upload them on here and maybe something will happen based on their talent and that talent can be different for everyone, someone's talent can be that she has a great interest in beauty, she has been in the beauty parlor from morning till night since she was born, so now she is sharing her beauty tips with people, sir, first of all my parents tell me not to do it, girl, I have been trying for the last two months, I mean I am collecting some information, whose family did not show it not show it here, edit it, show it here, you can show it here, see it, otherwise if you ask then I will edit it, there is no problem, this is that girl who cannot show her face, but you can see it here later, you may see it sometime later You wo n't get to see them, their videos will have millions of views, but you will only see their faces in this video. For example, my channel, if I activate the app on it today, does anyone have an idea how much I can earn? A lot means what does it mean? What do I do? I mean by a lot, 40 to 50 lakh rupees a year. It's a different matter that I am not interested. The moment you start doing something perfectly, success automatically starts coming. perfectly, success automatically starts coming. This is also a problem with people. I have just started working. I have started uploading new videos, but there are no views on it, so what will they do? They will stop uploading after uploading two or three videos. Are you able to understand what I am saying? I am giving a very simple example, that it comes from within you, that I have a talent, comes from within you, that I have a talent, I can make people laugh, it is coming, it is coming from within you. These people are uploading it, suppose someone is uploading it internationally, there is one called Super Woman, you must be knowing it, yes, when she uploads her videos, you see her and you say, friend, whatever she is doing, I can do it better than this, or I can do it, forget better, I can also do this, you started uploading it, the moment you do that, now you honestly said to yourself, at what level is my work today, then now you will understand that my work is not at the level it should be, that means the work does not have the strength, that is why there are no views, now you have you are not losing anything in it, the work is being done for free, you recorded it at home on your mobile, you uploaded one, two, 10, 20, what is going to happen in it, people stop here also, I go and upload a video, nothing happens, what do you mean by that, does anything happen in a day, when I started conducting my sessions, people used to not come, more than half the chairs used to remain empty, understand So did I stop doing sessions and today it is like if I post somewhere, then lakhs of people will gather there, so how did this happen because at that time when I did it, I kept doing it and did not leave it, never give up attitude, never give up and how that never give up attitude comes, understand this carefully, you have to understand what I have to do now, pick up such videos and post them, I have to post comedy videos, you posted them, now you have watched your videos carefully, this is a part of work, the part of work is not just that expecting that views will come immediately, no, now you have seen that okay what is the person who is successful in this field doing and what am I doing, where am I making a mistake, where am I making a mistake, then you caught your mistakes, you improved it, then posted it, then the views did not come, then posted it, then the views did not come, such a level was reached after a few months because now you keep doing this No skill is developed instantly, it takes time, right? You want to learn skating, will you learn it instantly? It takes time, it needs practice. So what happened? You kept posting, kept posting, kept posting, kept posting for a few months. Now you are understanding. Now you are looking at yourself honestly and saying, now my content has power. I mean, the videos I am uploading six months ago had no power, but today they have power, but even then there are no views. So you said, now my product has power, but it is not selling. So what should I market now? How should I do it because the content has power? I mean, less people are coming to watch the videos, but from those who are coming, there are good comments and good likes. There are good memes, there is no lack in it, but nobody is watching that, you understood, people are watching. So Now you are learning from those people who did their marketing. Those who became also started from somewhere, right? Also, sometimes their videos had 100, 200, 500 views, how did they increase, then they must have done something which you have to understand sir, keywords and tags etc. there are many things, there is subject line, there are keywords, there are tagging, there are lots and lots of things, people who are successful YouTubers, maybe they have strong content but no one knows them, so now they went and typed to someone who gives them a big role on YouTube, I will work with you anywhere for free, what happened as soon as it came on their channel, people got to know them, people saw their work and after seeing the work, what did you say to them, say there is no problem, what is going on for me, I am getting an artist for free, you I am getting an artist for free, you understood, his work is done, your work is done, now people have come to you, now you are thinking how do I grow further, so whose part is all this, all this What is happening, if you look at it carefully, then success is coming towards you automatically, you are moving ahead automatically, where is your focus, it is on work, but do not think that work means only that I have made a good product or made myself good at work, that is just work, oh no, marketing is also a part of work, packaging is also a part of work, you have made a very good product, but its packaging is dirty, insects are crawling on it, the product is very good, the packaging is such that you will feel disgusted after seeing it, who will buy it, packaging is also good, the product is also good, no one knows about it, you have invented something sitting in your house and are making products, you are one knows, only if they know, there is a possibility that people will buy that product, they will buy it if the marketing is strong, but when will they buy it again, when will the product buy it, then what is the first step, the product will have power, what is the product, you yourself are a product, whether you are doing a job or doing business Whatever work you are doing, if you are not a product then what else are you? Ultimately, if someone is giving you a job, paying you for what? For your skills, for your personality, for your confidence, for what you can do for that company. So what is this? Are you can do for that company. So what is this? Are For that company, it may sound odd to you, but you are like a machine. Some machines are more useful, some are less useful, some are small machines, some are machinery which is called a company, in which many small machines fit, which many small machines fit, so it is up to you what role you are playing in that entire machinery. so it is up to you what role you are playing in that entire machinery. you have worked so hard on your skills that if you are not in that company, the entire machinery will come to a standstill. So your value is high. For that company, you can also be such a part that there are lakhs of parts like you standing in line outside. If you remove a part and fit another one then why I say make your work better. Yes sir, yes now how do you make your work better? You will do better in the work in which you are interested. How do I avoid distraction? If you are interested in some work then you do not get distracted. Do you get distracted by watching movies? If you are watching a good movie, you can get distracted there. If you are watching a bad movie, you get distracted there or not. Your attention will get diverted from the movie again and again. Friend, what are you cooking? You will look at your mobile again and again, you will go out, maybe you will get up in the middle and come back. What is happening? You are interested in one work and not in the other, so do such work in which you are interested such work in which you are interested [music]