ALERT: I Ruined My YouTube Channel Because of This (Avoid It)

[00:01] YouTube channels don't fail because of a lack of strategy or because they don't know how to monetize on YouTube. It fails because they unknowingly destroy their channel with just their first video. After creating channels for years and trying

[00:14] all kinds of strategies, I've seen the exact same pattern over and over again . Most people sabotage themselves in the first 30 days, and not even without realizing it. If your videos aren't growing, if YouTube isn't recommending you, and you feel like

[00:28] you're doing everything right but it's not working, this video will save you months of frustration because today I'm going to show you the most common mistake new creators are making and you'll see how to avoid it before it happens to you. If you don't

[00:41] know me, I'm Erica Lanis and today I'm managing more than 12 automated channels, which together generate between €10,000 and €20,000 per month. And not only that, but I also help other people achieve

[00:54] exactly the same thing. Most people upload their first video and the first thing they do is share it with friends, family, etc. And obviously it makes sense, you want support, you want

[01:07] people to see your videos after you've been working for a long time . But that seemingly harmless gesture ends up harming the algorithm within your channel. YouTube doesn't show your videos randomly. First, start by testing with small audiences

[01:22] to understand what type of audiences are enjoying it the most and what type of audiences are liking your content the most. When your friends, family, etc., watch that video out of obligation, they probably leave the video after a

[01:37] few seconds, and that's literally ruining the video completely, because , that people enter the video, stay for 3, 5,

[01:49] 10, 20 seconds and the user, the person leaves, and that data is saved in the system. From that moment on, the algorithm starts showing your videos to the wrong audiences because it doesn't have that analysis, that real data, and that

[02:04] causes retention to drop, the CTR to drop, and all the possibility of organic growth to decrease. What at first seems like they're supporting you, you do n't realize, and the reality is that it's contaminating both your

[02:18] videos and your channel in the long run. Therefore, at the beginning, we need to focus on not having many visits, not having a high volume of visits, but having the right visits. It's pointless for you to share your video with a group of

[02:30] you to share your video with a group of 500 people if those people are literally going to watch the video for 10 seconds and then leave. As I said before, YouTube is detecting that a user enters your

[02:42] video, doesn't like it, and leaves. Many do it to validate what they are doing or to validate themselves with those results, but that is actually working against you. If you let YouTube do its job without forcing those views,

[02:56] the platform will eventually find your ideal audience naturally, organically. Therefore, the key is not to have more visits at the beginning, it's to have the right visits. Don't worry if you initially have 0, 5, 10, 20, or 100

[03:12] visits. What matters is that YouTube gradually understands which audience it needs to show those videos to so that in the long run it has the right audience and your videos perform better. Many people

[03:24] do it to validate what they are doing or to show off other people's results, but it actually works against you. What people don't know is that the niche, the channel's theme , and how you direct those

[03:36] , and how you direct those video ideas account for 90% of the results. And I know many cases of people who have wanted to showcase the channel on social media. In fact, I myself made a very long video where I showed a channel

[03:49] and a few months later I had to abandon that channel. Because? Because I had a lot more competition. There are many people on YouTube looking for profitable ideas. If you share your niche, your structure, or your videos, they will be

[04:03] copied. And they don't need to steal an exact video from you, they just need to know the channel's theme, the niche. And in the end, when a type of video or channel is massively duplicated, what YouTube ultimately does is split the pie in

[04:15] half and give a small percentage to those people. Obviously, if we do things that nobody else is doing, we're going to attract the largest possible audience. That's why I always recommend never saying which channel you're

[04:29] working on, because as I've said, if there's someone else doing exactly the same thing as you, YouTube will also show their videos to the same audience as yours, and in the end, they're stealing your traffic, which means they're

[04:41] taking your money. And the end result is that you did all that searching. You've been working on a whole channel to figure out what works and what doesn't, only for someone else to come along and take that

[04:54] other part of the pie. As I said before, I used to have a Formula 1 trends channel that I promoted on social media and I got a lot more competition and it was a channel that was generating €2,000 a month for me and in the

[05:07] end, since I have a network of automated channels and I don't depend solely on that same figures. But if I had income would have completely collapsed. When you reveal your niches, you lose one

[05:20] of the great real advantages that exists on YouTube. The fewer people who know what you're doing, the much better. You have a much bigger advantage. Because, a niche with volume and high demand, you'll get the whole

[05:34] pie. That's why people who have multiple channels, like me in this case , never mention their niches, because we could jeopardize our network of channels and our income from all those channels. That discretion gives you the

[05:47] freedom to experiment, to try new formats and, above all, to scale without competition. So if you're starting a channel from scratch, remember this. Never share your channel with anyone, and above all, don't reveal the niches you

[06:02] 're building. Your growth depends on those two things: clean data and a quiet strategy. And if you want to build a channel that generates income without showing your face, you can

[06:15] schedule a consultation with me or a member of my team using the first link in this description. And there we will analyze your case and show you how people who previously had no channels have been able to grow and scale to more than €2,000, €3,000, €5,000, even more than

[06:28] €10,000 per month. For example, there are people like Alex Shil, Aida, Adrián, Alexis, Rodrigo, Fernando and I could literally go on for another 10 minutes of video who started with no channel and today are living completely off of it.

[06:44] So if your profile fits, you'll have the option to access the program and there you'll learn how to create and scale channels that are more rewarding than the job you're currently working on, and above all, without investing a

[06:56] third of your effort. So, see you at the first link in the description.