Karla is n’t a fan of the daily YouTubing :
“ What are the “ few successful videos ” ? I ’d bet they are evergreen feature article types that are among your technically salutary and most generally appealing video recording . If there ’s a pattern there , go with it — or at least explore it further . ”
My top videos are :
How to Make Chewing Tobacco ( 258k views )
Top 10 mistake to Avoid When Harvesting Rain Water ( 250k sight )
Best Composting Toilet I ’ve control Yet ( 209k views )
Cleft Grafting a Fig Tree ( 195k view )
How to Germinate Peach Pits and Other Stone Fruit ( 111k views )
An ( Almost ) Instant Compost Pile ( 94k persuasion )
How to Change the Transmission Fluid in a Dodge Ram ( 79k views )
How to Make Paper Fire Bricks / Fire Logs from Recycled Paper ( 70k views )
Rocket Stove Manufacturers Hate Him ! Local Kid Improves Cob Rocket Stove with this One Weird Trick ( 65k views )
Awesome Homemade Kegerator and Home Brewing Setup ( 60k view )
Those ten videos represent almost all of my YouTube income . I have over 500 video .
There are picture I like well than those in my top ten ; however , YouTube algorithmic program are a eldritch thing . It ’s very strong to tell what is going to “ go viral ” and what will not . “ Rocket Stove Manufacturers Hate Him ” was a laugh championship and the video is n’t all that modern . The “ ( Almost ) Instant Compost Pile ” video is mostly Rachel talk while I cast off together a binful made of pallets .
The “ how - to ” videos seem to be the way to go , though . Most of the top ten are that sort .
She continues :
“ I love learn from you — you ’ve completely changed the way I look at horticulture and the natural world . That go whether I ’m consuming a volume , blog post or video of yours — except for the casual telecasting . I ’m tired of determine you take the air up and down a hill and wing it locally . I do n’t get enough out of those videos to sink 7 to 9 minutes of my life into them . From the exterior , it come along to me that the only reason to do those dailies is just to be capable to say you post on YouTube daily , which is n’t your style . So if daily videos are a badly paying prison term sink for you , allocate less prison term to them and more time to more remunerative manners of spreading your gospel truth already . ”
really , the even YouTube posting is n’t just to say I station on YouTube day by day . I shoot for 4 - 5 video a week . This is on the advice of Justin Rhodes , though he urged me to post seven days a hebdomad . His canal went kooky when he did that . My content , even when I ’m winging it , is more entertaining than 99 % of the gardening videos on YouTube , but I get the criticism . I am not much of a video spectator myself . I do YouTube to make a visual interview . I favor to communicate through writing , but many more citizenry are on YouTube . The aspect there compared to the horizon on this web log attest to that . Also , the YouTube picture are targeted at a lower - IQ audience than my penning . It ’s deliberate . I ’m not going to go full reality TV - show like Justin ( I honestly ca n’t watch most of his videos ) , though that ’s a with child way to make much more money . I do n’t put my total home on the net , because it ’s full of malevolent people , plus I find picture about beingsick in the carandgoing to the dentistobnoxious . Yet he is a MAJOR YouTube success ! And avail me get to where I am . So it ’s a matter of find the niche , I guess .
That said , I do make some farcical put-on and put up some stupid thing just for fun . And yes , I do wander around and wing it in many television . They ’re not for everyone , obviously . My volume are what I really am proud of . The YouTube thing is part for get through fresh people and partly as a side income . I was hoping to build it into a serious income over time , but it ’s move slower than I would like .
“ There ’s nothing wrong with thinking that manner . If you want to make a full - time go at this , you have to look at your options that mode . It ’s not selfish or greedy . If your content does n’t make you money , your audience will lose out on succeeding capacity — a lose - lose . Besides , if a particular mass medium pays more , chances are it ’s a medium your audience enjoys more . So , again , mind those patterns .
Just please no podcasts , because I ’m so not an auditory scholar .
As for the moral quandary of YouTube - ing , you ’re on your own . Godspeed . ”
The pattern is in spades moving towards picture and audio and away from photographic print , unluckily . I have written and produced thousands of wireless programs – no kidding – as that was my life before jumping full - time into garden writing . A podcast would be easy for me to do . Again , I sleep with some people are n’t go to get it . That ’s why I compose books as well . And I then put my books into audio for those that prefer it .
YouTube is evil but it ’s probably a necessary evil at this decimal point . I may cut down my production of videos for a time and see what happens , or re - focalize the content . I ’ve been very busy writing a novel lately so it ’s been good to not have all the videos to bring on .
I do need to filmBahfeemus II , though .
