Simple Way to Grow a YouTube Channel from Scratch in 2025

[00:01] promote your small YouTube channel. Yes, so that it is not you who invest millions in it, but it that brings them to you. And as clickbait as it may sound, really only need one hour a day to develop it. And yes, YouTube really is not complicated, and today

[00:15] understand its logic. Hi, I'm Stas Maar, and over the last three years alone, my team and I have released over 2,000 expert videos on YouTube. And let's get straight to the point. Look, to promote your YouTube channel, you don't need hundreds of

[00:29] videos. or the need to develop it over the years . It's enough to simply know what works well and where to spend your time to get results. And before we start, I want to show you one common mistake I

[00:41] made on my old channel. Then I published these four videos and spent more than 15 hours on their consciousness. Well, that's with the editing. And instead of a spectacular success, I got a less than spectacular result. And now I understand that these

[00:54] 30 and 50 views are well-deserved. At that moment, only three things, which I did n’t even know about, separated me from complete failure to success. And as practice has shown, they will help all newcomers take off. And the first thing is to focus on what

[01:07] the viewer wants to watch, not what interests you. The second is the attractive packaging of the videos. And it’s not even about the attractiveness of the covers and titles, but about the desire they evoke in you to open them. And the third, most important thing is a

[01:19] clear understanding of who your audience is and the uniqueness of your offer. In Let me show you now how you can create content in one hour a day and take all three of these points into account. Before you release your first video,

[01:33] think about what you're truly passionate about and what you're best at. And also immediately think about what benefit you can bring to viewers and what your mission is in general. You don't have to answer these questions now, but remember that the answers

[01:45] to them will serve as an anchor when searching for new topics. And how do you find your first topics, especially for beginners? Everything is much simpler. There's no need to reinvent the wheel or get too clever when Analogues of what has worked well for your competitors are ideal.

[01:58] Just look at their best work, be sure to create and add them to your spreadsheet, all in one place. I recommend taking three or four of the best and most popular videos from each author. And you need to find at

[02:11] least six or eight such authors. And your task at this stage is to determine which topics will be of greatest interest to your specific core audience. To filter out irrelevant videos, try sorting by publication date and

[02:23] leaving the most recent ones at the top of the table . This way, you can record first, and also pay attention to how many views a video has received relative to the number of subscribers the author has. The more

[02:36] views and fewer subscribers an author has, the higher the relevance and interest video's virality is determined. To determine how viral your video might go , simply divide the number of views by the number of subscribers on your channel to

[02:49] key factor that will ensure you spend no more than an hour a day on content production is determining how easily you can replicate a given theme with your own alternative version. Therefore, if you have expert

[03:03] content, choose only topics that don't require titanic efforts, so that they can be easily taken, filmed, and edited. And once you've decided on the topic of your video, your task is to avoid repeating what your competitor does. Moreover,

[03:15] inside it. It will be enough to use artificial video, summarize it in the form of main ideas and use it when creating your own content. Moreover, with your experience and expertise, you can confidently

[03:28] take any competitor, copy the link, paste it into any neural network, and set a simple prompt: "Write me a structure for this story." And insert the link. and in a split second the neural network will give you this result.

[03:40] captivating introduction that will justify the cover and title of the video and give viewers a reason to watch the video to the end. At first you will have little experience. These are the very moments I recommend spying on your competitors, opening their

[03:53] videos and watching the first 10-20 seconds. How they make their decides to watch them. We only watch the most popular videos, which means the introduction definitely worked perfectly there. Well, then, according to the structure

[04:06] that the neural network wrote for us, we work only by improvisation. Believe me, revealing each of these thoughts with the help of your experience and expertise will not cause any difficulties. But I'm not saying this tactic is the only possible one,

[04:18] but believe me, it will save you a lot of time and help you at first. But what shoot and can't even find similar competitors in your niche? Then just experiment on yourself, record videos in which you test new skills

[04:32] and methods. For example, I decided to publish two identical videos on different channels. They will be absolutely identical in plot, but in the first one I used editing for 500 rubles, and in the second one I spent 20,000 rubles. Let's see what

[04:46] interest among your target audience or are an example from another niche. Friends, I bought two excavators. One for 200,000 rubles, the other for 15 million. And I want to see how much work they can do in one construction day, how justified

[05:00] my investment is, and how much money they will bring me in per day. Trust me, your audience inspired. And don't forget that in almost every niche you can use standard micro-stories, some tips, tops, collections - things that

[05:13] first topics for the channel. That's it, at this stage the script is ready. I recommend no more than 30-40 minutes on it at first. And now the production part. The main thing you'll YouTube video is equipment. For this, a

[05:27] phone camera won't be enough, but a professional camera will do. Now it doesn't matter what phone you have. The picture will not play a decisive role. The sound will be much more important. stingy. Take a normal lavalier microphone or a tabletop microphone. If

[05:40] you are shooting indoors, then set up a basic light source. Any cheap ring lamp or cheap light source will do. Remember, softboxes, the light will fall harshly on your face, and to do this you will

[05:53] cloth, or even a white transparent bag will do. This is exactly what I did in all my videos on the old channel. I took the picture with a bag and a cheap ring initial equipment in front of you, remember the main thing: don’t polish

[06:08] the picture to perfection. It doesn't matter at all. As a last resort, if you can't afford a record using the built-in microphone on your phone or camera, then If you don't know which neural network does this well, just ask me in

[06:22] YouTube algorithms exclusively for my Telegram channel, which, by the way, you can subscribe to using this QR code. Or you can watch benefit from it, as well as appreciate the quality you can achieve in just 5 minutes of

[06:36] preparation for filming. This video was shot on a regular iPhone and a built-in on reliable automatic devices. That is, it looks like something nonsense, yes, that’s it. the video gets to the actual shooting, it will be important how you feel in the frame.

[06:50] Don't demand any outstanding eloquence from yourself. You will learn this eloquence gradually with practice, and this is normal. But if you're faceless content is still available. Practice there. And the next tip for

[07:03] working on camera: minimize the number of unsuccessful takes. If you slip up with some slips of the tongue or filler words, don't worry, leave them in, you 'll seem more alive. If you plan to edit content

[07:15] yourself in the future, I recommend mastering basic editing skills. To master 's enough to watch a few free tutorials on YouTube. The good productions is gradually becoming a thing of the past, and now what matters is real life, without embellishment,

[07:29] honesty, and expertise. But still, even if you have mastered editing, I recommend delegating this process to specialists. This way you will free up a lot of time. Ideally, I recommend spending exactly 1 hour recording one episode.

[07:41] recording process will go faster. The creating content quickly is to come up with an attractive cover without the hassle of creating it. A video cover becomes automatically easy to make when

[07:54] you know that you need to limit it to only 3 or 4 objects. Let's say it will be some text of two or three words. If you want to place yourself, then it can be your emotion and, most importantly, an object that will depict the

[08:07] action or over which the action will take place. No eye-catching creativity, no colors and lighting, no artistic elements that, excuse me, don't work at all. Create simple yet engaging

[08:20] previews that convey the essence of the video and generate interest. Well, to check interest in the viewer, send it to your friends and ask for their honest opinion: would you watch such a video? Well, ask them to answer honestly, if not,

[08:34] separate community where you could post anonymous surveys and subscribers for their opinions. But if you want to take part in these kinds of surveys and you, then subscribe to my

[08:48] Now that you've chosen a topic, written a script, filmed, edited, and now it's which of the tasks took you a lot of time and was a burden to you. And those doing, simply delegate to other specialists. But

[09:03] you can delegate any task not only to freelancers, but also to experts and professionals in this niche, Meddiia team. To do this, you will need to contact me using the contact information in the description and outsource to us. For those who don't want to waste their time on anything other than

[09:16] filming, we offer a comprehensive turnkey channel production service. word that is in the description to get a 10% discount on all types of services. left is to upload it to YouTube. To do this, you will need to fill out a description and

[09:30] tags, which I want to say a few words about. If you don't know what to write in the tags field and you don't have an assistant tool like the IQ view, then simply combine partial phrases from your title. It will look something like this

[09:42] . Let's say the title of your video. We replaced the crappy CVT with a reliable gearbox in the Chrysler Tigo 4 Pro. Everything you need to know. In the tags we will write the following. Let's write tags for the channel itself so that both the video and the channel itself can be found in searches

[09:54] . RMservice. RM service. Now we take some phrases from the title itself and combine them. Replacing the variator. Variator. Automatic transmission. Yes, that's an incorrect spelling. Automatic transmission. The correct spelling is variator on automatic transmission. Service,

[10:08] car. Auto. Car repair. Auto variator. Automatic transmission replacement. Automatic transmission repair: CVT or automatic transmission? Replaced the CVT with an automatic transmission. Automotive gearbox service. Cherry Tig 6 Pro variator. Cherry Tig 6 Pro variator. Cherry Tig 6 Pro. Cherry Tig 6 Pro in

[10:23] be sure to add the end caption and hints. Just in my organize prompts and end screens to hook viewers into a long viewing session, so they watch not just one video on your channel,

[10:37] but several at once, and why this will be a powerful boost to your out. Now your task is not to be disappointed with the results of the publication. That is, don't look at the statistics and don't pay attention to

[10:50] such small reach, which will 100% be on your first videos. Just don't the video to immediately get tens of thousands of views. Be content with small results and stick to the tactics of publishing for the target audience, and then,

[11:03] in any case, the results will not take long to come. And now your final task is to try to produce a lot, but at the same time maintain a comfortable Other experts are unlikely to tell you this, but it is very important not to slow down. YouTube

[11:16] notices a negative trend when you publish twice a week and publishing less often. Believe me, reach always drops when the pace slows down. But at the same time, reach always naturally grows faster if, on the contrary, you

[11:30] increase the pace of your publications. But I recommend weighing your strengths and choosing exactly the comfortable pace that won't strain you over the there's a simple mechanism to explain the situation when you start to slow down your

[11:43] new videos drops. This is because your viewers will no longer see you on the main recommendation page, but rather other authors will take your place. Conversely, when you pick up the pace of your publications, you'll increasingly appear

[11:57] So, friends, before you go and try all this, I want to warn you against the stupidest mistakes you can make right now at the start. The first popular authors, forgetting about your own uniqueness. To use an analogy,

[12:11] athlete lifting a heavy barbell over his head with grace and elegance. And never done any sports and is trying to lift this barbell off the floor. How newbie on YouTube looks like, simply trying to copy the experience of popular

[12:27] creators. Another mistake is to cover too many different topics on a clear idea of ​​who your audience is that you begin to fish and test whether this topic will work or not, and try completely different coverage topics.

[12:40] And instead of creating content on your channel for a narrow core of your viewers, you begin to drift and end up moving away from your desired topics, in which you are strong, to those that are popular. And then you get frustrated because

[12:52] these broad topics are outside your expertise and interests. And the last mistake: there is a lack of a clear publication plan, and this is demotivating. It is very important to prepare a series of releases at the start. I recommend four pieces. Record

[13:05] in advance and then rest, gain strength and enthusiasm to record the next episode. This way, you can spend no more than one hour a day creating content and managing your channel. And I took this with a reserve. I

[13:19] myself adhere to this strategy and spend no more than 24 hours a month on running my channel. Despite the fact that I myself issue the technical specifications for editing and select each frame manually. Friends, to put all the pieces of the puzzle about working on YouTube together

[13:31] , watch these two videos, believe in your project, and enjoy the process. Remember that even small successes are a big step forward. Bye everyone successes are a big step forward. Bye everyone .