How to Use YouTube Ads to Grow Your Channel ft. Ryan Masters (DVG 024)
Paying for ads and not knowing whether or not you're getting anything out of them can be extremely frustrating. Especially ones that take a lot of work to produce like YouTube ads.
And getting more views isn't the only thing you can do with YouTube ads either. Channel subscribers, building your email list, and gaining actual customers are all possible from running YouTube ads.
In this episode I chat with Ryan Masters all about how to get started with ads on YouTube, how to properly track them so you know which ads have a positive return on investment, and what tools you can use to do so. We also talk at the beginning about how and why he changed his broad fitness channel to a more specific niche and what the results have been since.
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How to Edit Videos Twice as Fast (Video)
As if shooting videos didn't already take enough time, editing can take even longer.
But there is a little trick I picked up that helps me get through the first draft while editing a video in less than half the time.
Once you know it, you won't have to watch through all the footage you shot to pull out the best takes and delete the bad ones.
You can learn this trick in less than two minutes by watching the video in this post, on YouTube, or using iTunes.
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10 Video Mistakes I've Made and How to Avoid Them (DVG 023)
Even if you're a professional and you've done something tens of thousands of times, you're still going to mess up occasionally. (Just think of how often NFL receivers drop easy catches.)
When you make enough videos, you're bound to make plenty of mistakes.
The two most important things to recover from mistakes are to fix them as soon as possible and to put processes in place to never let them happen again.
In today's episode I talk with Tim Krupa, my editor, production assistant, and brother-in-law. In it we discuss ten mistakes we've made while making videos for ourselves or clients and how you can avoid them.
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4 Ways to Focus a DSLR on Yourself (Video)
On a typical afternoon and you set up your camera, your lights, the microphone, and get ready to record. You record for a hour, take everything down, put it away and the put the SD card in your computer.
"Wait a minute. I'm out of focus?? Are you kidding me!?"
This only needs to happen once for you to never let it happen again.
Which is why one the most common questions I get asked from people starting to shoot videos of themselves is, "what is the best way to focus my camera on myself?"
In this first episode of DIY Video Guy TV I detail four different ways you can make sure you're in focus every time you shoot a video.
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DIY Video Guy TV is Launching Next Week
I'm super excited to announce the beginnning of my new weekly video show: DIY Video Guy TV.
Every week I'll be sharing tips on how to make better videos for the web.
Everything from what camera, audio, and lighting equipment you should buy, how to use it to make your videos look and sound better, figuring out what kinds of videos to make, how to convert your viewers into subscribers and customers, and I'll even go behind the scenes on videos I make for clients and break down exactly what gear I use and how I set it up.
Every Tuesday starting next week there will be a new episode of the show and there are three ways you can find out when they go live.
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How to Start Getting Paid to Make Videos for Others (DVG 022)
If you're making videos for yourself, there is a good chance that you might be interested in earning some money on the side or full-time by making videos for other people.
I've been making videos part-time for a couple years, and full-time for the past few months, so I have some decent experience doing so, but in this episode I chat with Chad Owen, who has been freelancing as a video maker for the past 6 years.
We talk about how to feel comfortable charging what you're worth, how to properly sell your services, creating properly through budgeting and proposals, how to position video as a solution with an ROI for your clients, and when to invest in gear versus renting your equipment.
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How to Make 200 Videos in 200 Days ft. Antonio Centeno (DVG 021)
What if you released a video every single day? How long do you think you could keep that up? What do you think the results of that would be?
Today’s guest on the podcast, Antonio Centeno, created 200 videos in 200 days and racked up over a half million views on them a few years ago. Fast forward to today and he has a YouTube channel about men’s fashion that has over 400 videos on it, with almost 15 million views, and over 227,000 subscribers.
In this episode I chat with Antonio about why he got started making videos on YouTube after seeing a competitor do so, his tips for batching the creation of his videos together, how to make your thumbnails more clickable, how he grows his email list directly from his YouTube videos, and why he embraced the DIY mindset when he first started making videos online.
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2014 Year in Review
Each of the past three years I've written an annual review and I encourage you to do the same.
Sometimes it is easier just to keep thinking about today, tomorrow, and the future, but looking back at what went well and what didn't go well can help you see just how far you've come and determine what to do or focus on in the upcoming year.
- In 2011, I started blogging, quit my day job, got married, and traveled for three months straight.
- In 2012, I co-launched Fizzle.co, started my first podcast, shot my first real video of myself, and started a mastermind group with Barrett Brooks & Nathan Barry (that's still going strong).
- In 2013, I lived in Italy for 6 weeks with my wife Jen, helped grow Fizzle to over 1,100 members, started doing video client work, Jen was diagnosed with cancer, and we got a puppy.
At the beginning of 2014, Jen and I picked a single word for the year: simplify. I'm pretty sure we failed at that.
We moved into a bigger place, traveled a lot, Jen's cancer returned, I left my job at Fizzle to go solo, and did all of the below.
Let's first take a look at all of the things I helped create or did this year.
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