1000 YouTube subscribers!
by Harry DryI started my channel last week and made my first video.
I promoted it on my Twitter page, to my newsletter, Reddit, and good ol' Indie Hackers, and ended up with 5.7k views and 1000 new subscribers.
It's an interesting case study in how tough it is to move audiences across platforms. I have 40k Twitter followers, 23k newsletter subscribers and 1k decided to subscribe to the YouTube channel.
My rational behind starting YouTube is all about organic search. I have over fifty high quality written on the Marketing Examples website!
But they're all super short. And not picking up much organic traffic on Google. It's hard for me to compete with big companies, who are writing SEO optimised stuff, with a team of link-builders.
But on YouTube it's more of a level playing field. And the numbers are just as big for the same keywords.
Also, I love the platform myself, and only see it getting bigger and bigger!
Anyway, I'll keep you updated with how it goes.
Viva Marketing Examples!
If you'd like to check out my channel or my first video I've linked em. Any questions or YouTube advice from seasoned pros — hit me :)
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I've seen this first hand when I tried to push traffic from my entrepreneurship Tiktok page to my newsletter. Made me realise why it's important to diversify.
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Loved the video! Good job! Subscribed!
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Hey Harry, Congrats on the milestone. I've been a big fan of your newsletter and site. I usually circulate your newsletter because there is some nugget of wisdom I want either our creatives or copywriters or marketing department to know.
After I read you last newsletter on your YT channel I was excited because I run a YT analytics company (videoamigo.com) I wanted to know what you kinda touched on - Can you leverage your audience to get that initial velocity? It looks like you did. Congrats!
You are right about YT as a platform that is underutilized. You have a great niche, and I predict you will hit 10k subscribers in no time. Since videoamigo is completely free, I hope you find it useful to grow your channel. I hope this doesn't come off as shameless plug but I figured since this is on-topic I might as well share. :)
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Great to hear you've found a marketing channel you love. It sounds like you've got passion for it. 🙌
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Awesome video! Nicely done.
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Well done Harry!
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Well done! Got one sub more :)
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This is great conversion so quickly. Well done my man!
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Awesome stuff Harry. Been following since June 2019.
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Not surprising given how good your first video was!
I've seen similar in regards with SEO on my own projects - even with great content, it can be hard to reach people.
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Love your marketing examples newsletter
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The first video is amazing 😂
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The first video is really great mate - didn't expect your voice to sound so cool ngl hahaha
How are you going to take this further? Whats your end goal?
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Hi Harry Dry,
Good to see you already have 1000 subscribers on your channel. Congratulations!
Can I know the content you are publishing on your youtube channel?
Do you make videos based on the trending keywords?
You have mentioned that you like to keep your content small on youtube. How effective is it?-
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No videos on trending keywords, nope. Early days to tell how successful YouTube will be.
This video is picking up around 40 / day organically. From YouTube “recommended’ and stuff like that. So a fairly positive early sign.
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It is for sure a positive sign. You mentioned YouTube "recommended". How does YouTube select these videos as recommended? Based on the number of views? or Based on Content?
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1k subscribers after just one video? that's a great result even considering your following numbers on other channels ;)
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Cheers Kacper! Was a complete unknown. I got no complaints
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Congrats Harry! Impressive numbers!
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Thanks Leo!
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Liked and subbed. You are a legend, my man.
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lol! Cheers Andrei. I'm Frodo at the start of Lord of the Rings. Long way to go.
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