YouTube receives more than a billion page views per month
and you want to grab a share of that pie. So, you thought about it and are
ready to start your YouTube channel now.
Starting a YouTube channel is just a matter of few minutes.
However, it would be a much better idea to get into the game with full
preparation. So, here is a list of essential things that you should do to
before starting your own YouTube channel.
1- Design a Channel logo and a Cover Picture
The one thing that best defines your channel as a brand is
the logo. Another thing that describes your channel and its content is your
cover picture. So, it is always better to create the Channel Logo and cover
picture in advance so that you can establish your identity as soon as you start
the channel starts.
It does not matter whether you want to create a personal
brand or a professional one. If
relevant, you can use your own picture
as the channel logo as well.
2- Learn basics and Practice Video editing
Video editing skills are very required to make high quality
videos. These skills are polished with every video that you make. However,
there is still a threshold of skills where you will need to start off. Learning
video editing will also help you get to a certain depth of video creation
before you start.
Learning video editing beforehand will also help you get an
idea of what will you be working on in the future. It will help you familiarize
with the interface and functions of the program that you are going to use later
on.
3- Buy the required Equipment
The need of equipment for your video channel depends
largely on the kind of videos you are going to make. Depending on your niche
and scale, you might need plethora of expensive equipments or you may not need
to buy single equipment at all.
If you literally do not have an essential requirement of any
equipment and the channel can run for a while without any equipment then it is
fine. But if your channel demands some equipments and you will have to get it
in a while anyway then buying the equipments beforehand would be a much better
idea. The equipments that you buy do not have to be the top of the class but
just the basic ones that will help you get the ball rolling.
Investment made on equipments, no matter how small will also act as a motivation factor in your
consistency.
4- Get some videos ready
It probably is a good idea to get 2 -3 or (even more
depending on your niche) videos ready to give you a head start. As soon as you
start the channel, first few weeks are going to be a learning process for you.
So, it is better to have some videos in the reserve so that you are provided
with some time to manage other things while maintaining the consistent flow of
videos. Also, those videos will act as lab rats for experimentation in video
editing.
Hence, it is a good idea to keep some videos ready before
you start the channel.
5- Learn YouTube SEO already
We all wish it were as easy as just uploading a video and
waiting for the views to come by. But as you must already know YouTube search
is the second biggest search engine after Google and there is a lot of content
and competition to rank better on YouTube Search just as Google search itself.
For that you will need to optimize your channel to gain better results in
YouTube search as well as other search engines.
So, you are better off learning some basic SEO beforehand in
order to carry out the optimization right from the first video..
6- Observe other Channels in your niche
You probably have been watching videos on YouTube for some
time if you want to create your own channel. But now is the time now for you to
observe them closely and figure out their intricate working format. Looking at
other channels from critical perspective and get various ideas for what you are
going to do on our own channel.
Observing the other channels will help you attain ideas and
concepts to use in your own channels while helping you with various whats and
what-nots to do on your channel.
Learning these things before starting your YouTube channel
will help you release pressure when you start your channel and will help you
focus more on just video creation later on while maintaining a stable schedule.