I have had my YouTube channel since 2009, and for a few years it was used for sharing videos to my family and friends.
Wanting to learn more about video editing, I ended up spending quite a bit of time editing movies about our trips, events, and even making music videos of the songs I wrote. I would spend hours learning 2 camera editing with synchronizing sound and all that.
As I expected, I hovered around 100 to 150 views per video.
Then I got the idea to record myself while I was fixing my keyboard and car mirror and post it as a "How-To". While I spent some time creating and editing these how-to videos, it was far less time than some of my other videos. Further, I needed to fix these things anyway, so the video was not staged or anything…it was capture something I did in real life in hopes someone else could benefit from it.
You know what?
My channel just passed 100,000 views…mostly thanks to these how-to videos. Now, I realize this is a far cry from many hit videos, but it's far more than I ever planned and I am quite pleased.
How did these videos become popular? I can think of a few reasons:
- I created content to help someone else
- I envisioned a larger target audience than just family
- I captured a moment that many around the world also experience and created an emotional connection to
Create Content to Help Others
Come to think of it, maybe creating a successful life is even simpler:Live to Help Others
Take a peek at my channel and my popular videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/GregHint/videos?flow=grid&view=0&sort=p What do you think?