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Getting Your First 100 Subscribers is the Hardest Thing About YouTube — Here’s How to Do It
Subtitle: Get these two things right, and you can safely ignore pretty much everything else
Elon Musk is the worst person to ask about starting a business.
You’d think that business advice from him would be priceless; and for business-owners and creators at a certain level, it could be. But the plain truth is that he’s just too advanced for most people to be able to learn anything that they can immediately apply.
I have enough faith in him to believe that we’ll colonize Mars in our lifetimes, but I wouldn’t go to him and ask about registering a domain name or scaling an ad campaign.
No, the best person to learn from is someone who’s just done what you want to do, and for that reason, I’m going to show you myself exactly how to find your first 100 YouTube subscribers. I achieved this milestone literally yesterday, and I’m here to cut your learning curve drastically.
My channel is mostly about books, and I started uploading videos semi-regularly about 8 months ago. Now, according to VidIQ (a YouTube analytics app that I use…
