You need to start first (sometimes) with life dumping on you the worst possible circumstances. The covid pandemic is just icing on the cake. I was already steeped in all sorts of challenges. I knew life could be better. Here's 3 things you can do to boost your channel out there.
1 . Find something people want you can offer at your skill level.
When you have nothing left to loose you go for it all. No matter what. Deliver what you can to whom you can in an area THEY appreciate and learn appreciation for it. You will find you enjoy it because it matters to others. You will also enjoy your topics and videos more when people engage with them often.
2 . Use as many social platforms as you can.
Before I began 18 months ago I was on only Facebook and barely used it. (I still barely use it but it keeps coming up as useful and had it's use.) The best thing about Facebook is Groups. Join them and share your content. I will be sharing some of my content there eventually. I started 18 months ago by adding all the main socials that seemed to matter to Fortnite gaming. Twitter and Instagram are usually promoted and you can add other socials. TikTok came up in my searches way later and I am now trying to grow on there. Learn hashtags and use them and don't give a damn about having zero followers. Post what you yourself find meaningful and others will find it meaningful and adapt from there.
3 . Go fast and hard alone THEN decelerate to go far with friends.
All of the effort I put into the channel at the beginning was to make my crappy life better as soon as possible. I hit monetization and $11/mo wasn't enough. So, I aimed for 10K and hit it. I'm now reorganizing for other things. But it was out of my trouble and pain that I was driven to make it or break it. I was doing everything in my power tirelessly and using every minute of the day. I didn't have video skills, Fortnite skills, or YouTube skills but you get them on the way. I have many reasons why I needed YouTube to work out the way it has. You need to be driven. You need to have motive. Don't look for motivation. Look for motive. Hit those early goals as quick as possible to fuel your progress and keep you in the game. Too slow and you will have successes too spread apart to remain emotionally invested. It is ALL a head game. One of the biggest best things I did for my head game is remove people from my life that were (not bad people but) toxic (for me!). For my sake they had to go. I was solo and going fast to goals, but slowly, lined up with your goals, you will meet others who are there for the ride. Those ones you slowly add as you slow down and get to your goals. Mine was 10K. All of those who are now surrounding the work I do I appreciate. They were there from the start many of them. Some of them will be here for many more months and years to come. Now that we have a foundation, substance, and a community we can feel things out as we go and go far because it means something to us all.
Never give up. Never surrender.
Dream big. Shoot for the stars.
-ZymaPro
(I always end with dream big and such because I'm here for you and rooting for your success too. We are successful together. We are stronger together. Go hard or go home.)
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