How to Get Your First 1,000 Subscribers on YouTube
31 strategies from 6 YouTubers with 70k+ subscribers.
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9 min readNov 17, 2020
I recently wrote an article here on Medium about how much I earn as a small YouTuber with a little over 7k subscribers.
Since posting that article, several people have asked if I had any tips for getting your first 1,000 subscribers — which is the amount needed to be monetized on YouTube.
While I wish I had some profound insight to offer here, I do not.
I started my YouTube channel on a whim roughly two years ago.
I did what many aspiring YouTubers do — I posted a few videos and quickly became discouraged when they didn’t take off right away. Then I abandoned the platform for over a year.
Last year, I randomly decided to check in on my channel and discovered that my videos had acquired over 100k views and several thousand subscribers.
