The Complete YouTube Book: What Works for My Channel with 8+ Million Views? - Couverture souple

Banfield, Jerry; Gerard, Michel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1537253093 ISBN 13 : 9781537253091

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

YouTube connected me with a way of living that I genuinely love. It gave me the opportunity to wake up every morning and create something meaningful on my own terms. If you want to understand how that is possible and how you might build something similar for yourself, this book will walk you through it. Making videos is not a side project for me. It is my full-time work. I create content for my courses, share previews on YouTube, and publish across platforms like Facebook and Twitch. I run my own company, work for myself, and design my days around creative output. That is not something I am chasing anymore. It is the life I am already living.

My YouTube channel, Jerry Banfield, grew to tens of thousands of subscribers, millions of views, and hundreds of videos. Those numbers are meaningful, but they are not the real story. The real story is that I love the process of creating. This book is not about copying my exact strategy or duplicating every move I made. It is about understanding the mindset and structure that allowed me to build something sustainable and enjoyable. What I am offering you is both the technical foundation and the philosophical approach that makes long-term success possible.

The biggest lesson I have learned is that creativity works best when it is not a means to an end. When you create only to chase views, money, or validation, the work feels forced. You can see it across the internet — scripted, rigid content built purely to perform. That kind of work drains you because you are constantly pushing against yourself. In contrast, when you build around something you genuinely care about, ideas flow naturally. Recording feels energizing instead of exhausting. You do not have to fight to get through it because it aligns with who you are.

Inside this book, I explain the system I use to create and publish consistently. I cover the practical details — recording setups, formats like webcam videos and screen captures, content structure, and how to use YouTube as a gateway to broader opportunities. You will see exactly how I organize my workflow so that I can create from home full time. At the same time, I challenge you to find your own alignment rather than blindly follow mine. There are infinite niches you could choose from, but there is one direction that will feel right for you at this moment in your life. When you discover that, everything becomes easier.

That does not mean your life becomes perfect or free of difficulty. It means your work becomes a source of energy instead of resistance. When you enjoy what you are building, consistency becomes natural. Growth becomes sustainable. If you love making top ten videos, start there. If you enjoy watching a certain type of content and believe you can contribute something better, experiment with that. If you feel called to teach, entertain, review, or explore, lean into that curiosity and see where it leads.

This book gives you the tools and framework to build a creative career on YouTube from home. Whether you succeed will depend less on technical tricks and more on whether you are willing to pursue what genuinely excites you. If you are ready to deepen your knowledge, expand your opportunities, and take a leap of faith into creating something that feels like the big thing in your life — not just a stepping stone — then this book is for you.

— Jerry Banfield

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

YouTube connected me with a way of living that is awesome. How can you do it? Read this book to find out! Making videos on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and my website is what I do now full time. Reading this book explains each part of the system I use that you can duplicate! I am honored and very lucky that I can start every day off making videos. That's my full time job now and that's what I do. I have my own company and I work for myself. I make videos every day to put on my online courses. Then, I put some of those videos as free previews on my YouTube channel. My YouTube channel, Jerry Banfield, has 72,000+ subscribers, more than eight million views, and 922+ videos. I absolutely love it! What I'm offering you in this book is not a system to do exactly what I’m doing, but an idea for what might work to find your passion for what you want to do. The magic in what I'm doing is that I love doing it! I don't do it as a means to an end and I'm not trying to go anywhere. I'm happy right where I am at, right here, talking to you today. That is the miracle. I'm not trying to use this so I can get somewhere else. I'm not trying to make this into a stepping stone, so then I can do something bigger. This is the big thing I'm doing and I love it! If you want this to be the big thing you are doing, then you have got the basics in this book of exactly what you can do to make that happen. Ultimately, exceptional things through creativity happen when you love what you are doing, you are present when you are doing it and you are not doing it as a means to an end. You can see a lot of online courses and videos everywhere, where it is just a means to and end and where there is no real passion. You often have to struggle really hard to create things like that too because you have to work against your inner self. You have got to fight by making scripts and forcing everything together somehow. I make things nearly effortlessly because it comes from the soul. It is passion and I love doing this! There is almost no resistance to it and it just comes out. I don't have to use a script and I don't have to plan hardly anything out. It just explodes out of me into existence online. That's the power I'm offering you by what I share in this book. I’ll give you a lot of the technical details on how you can go through and do some of these things. I’ll give you the gateway and the excitement into the world to do this. Now, if you want success with it, it is up to you to find an area that you are passionate about. I haven't seen this covered in other books or online courses. You can do an infinite number of things, but there is only one thing you are going to do right now, that you would be fulfilling your inner purpose, that you would feel it is the right thing to do, and when you match up with that, everything becomes almost effortless. That's not to say your whole life is perfect, and you don't have some down times, but your work becomes a flow of creativity and passion. YouTube is a great venue to explore this. By doing webcam videos, screen captures or even just putting other videos together. If you love making top ten videos, then give it a try. If you enjoy watching videos on a certain topic, and you have thought: "You know what, I can make a better video on that." Then go for it if you enjoy doing it, if you do it as the thing that is the big thing to do and not a means to an end. What I am giving you is a powerful set of tools, where you can use this to work and make videos at home full time. But if you are doing it to try and get somewhere else, it is not going to work. If you want to do this, find your passion in it. That can be scary and you will have to make changes to your life lots of times to get things to work exactly the way you want them to. Read this book to take a leap of faith with me in advancing your knowledge and opportunities on YouTube!

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1537253093
• ISBN 13: 9781537253091
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 364
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg