If you want to grow as a streamer, there are
rules. You can't just go live and hope for the best. You will waste your time. That's why I decided to write down my top
10 tips for every single small streamer and what they should know before they go live. And when I started writing, I couldn't stop. I ended up with over 30 tips that every single
creator, not just small ones, should know if they want to grow in this industry. Even scarier, I realized over half of them
were crucial to having long term, sustainable and effective growth as a streamer. Let's go. Hey, I'm Eljayem with Streamscheme.com. I'm also of a variety streamer, and here are
my 32 crucial tips if you want to grow your stream. And I have a challenge for you, Billy. That's right. I want you to make a note of every single
tip in this video that you were already doing, and then comment down below your score out
of 32. I've split this entire video up into categories
and put time codes and descriptions so you can skip ahead to whatever part you want. But I will throw it out there, the final tip
of this video is crucial. If you are not growing as a streamer, if you
are not growing as a creator, you will need to listen to that final tip. It'll completely change how you look at your
content, and I promise you if you do it properly, you will actually start growing. So all that and more coming up, but first
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beginning with my beginner tips. Now even if you've been streaming for a while,
I'm sure there is something in here that you haven't done and you absolutely should have
done. But the very first tip, I want you to expect
to have zero viewers for your first stream or if your first week of streaming and that
is okay. Turn off your viewer account and stream as
if you have hundreds of viewers. There are multiple reasons for this. The first, you need to practice your skills
as a streamer and practice your skills as an entertainer. The second reason is because you need to think
about every single stream as if you are producing content or another platform. I see so many people say, "I'm not going to
talk to myself, I'm not going to try to be entertaining when I observe reviewers." That's idiotic. No, sitting there stone faced like a zombie
playing a video game and not even trying to be entertaining streamer is more idiotic. If you're streaming just to mess around and
have fun, go for it. But if you're streaming because you want to
grow, then you need to stream as if you're producing content for TikTok for YouTube,
for YouTube, for YouTube shorts, for Instagram and every other social media platform out
there. Don't worry, later in this video I will show
you a tip that'll not only improve yourself as a streamer, but also it will help you find
all the best bits for your stream so you can use them later. I wasn't going to include it because I feel
like it's obvious but third reason, that viewer account isn't accurate. It takes minutes for it to update. If someone joins, it'll still say zero, they'll
see your stone face zombie, and they'll just leave. Then it will go one, you'll try to talk to
them, they won't reply because they're already gone. Just a fact. The second tip might seem obvious to you,
but I promise it is not. Use titles, tags and smart category choices
if you actually want to grow. You might be surprised to hear this, but the
large majority of creators are not titling their streams and they are just writing the
words, chill vibes, or they're simply writing the name of the game. That is literally it, and there is no reason
for a person to click on that stream. There is nothing special, nothing unique and
nothing clickable about those titles. And the sad part is even if you did create
a unique title, you are not making smart category choices. You're streaming Fortnite, War Zone, Apex
Legends, or any other massive overly saturated category because apparently that's the only
game you enjoy. But if you have zero viewers and you are not
producing content on other platforms, then you will not be discovered in those categories. You will not be discovered on Twitch. You need to pick a category that you can actually
be discovered in. Something you can sit in the top three rows,
and then use a unique and engaging title, and a nice, solid looking thumbnail so that
people will actually click on you rather than the person next to you. If you do this, you'll start to get a few
clicks and a few viewers. And I promise you, just getting three to four
viewers is much better than sitting in the War Zone category and streaming to zero viewers
forever. Tip number three, turn your VODs on or at
the very least, record your streams. Every time I click on someone from the YouTube
comments or the Discord, because yes, I love to look at our community streams and see what
they're doing. It helps me make these videos. You guys don't have your VODs being saved
which means I can't review your channels or I can't check out your content to give you
feedback. And, it also means you'll kind of just wasting
your time. If you stream for three to four hours and
you didn't record any of it and you don't save any of the VODs for later, and there
are no clips of it, well, that is gone. If you didn't even get any followers from
that stream, it means you achieved nothing. If you stream to zero viewers for four hours
but at the very least you saved your VOD, it means you can go back and use the highlighter
tool to find all the best bits, create clips and post them to other social media or in
general populate your Twitch stream. If you want to turn your VODs on, you can
see it on screen now. Go to your Settings, go to Stream and you
can click this little button here that says, Save VODs. Tip number four, subscribe to this channel
and give it a light to help the algorithm. Just kidding. Tip number four is actually to set up your
bio's, and Twitch panels and everything else. I'm so tired of clicking on streams who have
just literally no panels, or they've just got a donation panel. I'm not going to go into this, because I just
did a whole video breakdown and how to set up your panels. I'll just link that into the description or
in the cards on the channel. Just please set up your panels properly. Stop it. Stop just putting a donation button. I can't handle it, Billy. In that video also cover how you need to set
up a business PayPal or a brand new PayPal account, because it'll dox you otherwise. You will give out your full name, you'll give
out your email address, your phone number and even sometimes your home address. Seriously, go watch that video on buyers and
panels after this one. Tip number five, I'm going to slide a quiet
but also very powerful tip here. If you're streaming for money, fame, or generally
streaming because you want to do it as a job because it seems easy, then you're probably
going to quit. This industry is absolutely brutal, and you're
going to need so much more motivation and discipline if you want to actually grow in
it, because you get none of that for a very long time as a streamer. You get very little money, you get very little
fame until you're much larger. If you're doing it because you have a passion
for it, you'll be much better off. Tip number six, please make old brand new
social media. Don't list your full name on your social media,
don't link back to your old socials. Don't use your personal Facebook account. Seriously, make a brand new social media and
stop doxing your full name. Frauds and other people can hurt you if they
get that information. Protect yourself, protect your identity, please. Tip number seven set up your Twitch auto moderation
because I found out a lot of you guys have no idea that Twitch has built-in AutoMod and
that you can turn it on. I covered pretty much this entire process
in my video about how to stop bots from a few weeks ago. If you want to see a full breakdown, go check
that out. But otherwise, you can see it in your moderation
tools on your stream dashboard. Because I deep dive into AutoMod in another
very recent video, I'm not going to do it here. Instead, I will give you a bonus tip that
I see constantly on Reddit and all sorts of other streaming platforms. Take all of your personal information, and
put it in your band phrases on Twitch. This is such a good idea if you want to leak
all your personal information easily. If you happen to leak your phone number, your
email address, your home address, your full name, whatever it is and then someone finds
that and comes to your Twitch chat and types in the phone number. And it doesn't come up because it's a band
phrase, all you have done is give that person confirmation that they did find your phone
number, address, or whatever else. They can now confidently dox you, troll you
and hurt you because they are a hundred percent correct in the information they have received. LJ, if it's bad phrases though, it means that
it won't come up in Twitch chat and other people won't find out about it. It's called adding dashes, adding numbers,
or just sending it in multiple messages. Band phrases does very little, unless you're
willing to add hundreds of variations to what you're trying to protect. But if they post your phone number, and try
and troll you with it, all you have to do is ban them and go, "That was weird." And laugh it off, then handle it privately. Tip number eight, lock in a schedule and absolutely
stick to it. I'm adding this one in, even though I've said
it a thousand times because it still is something I need to repeat. People don't understand how crucial this is. I know some people have work and life issues
that they won't be able to overcome and that's fine. I have a tip for you in a second that'll help
you with your schedule. I get messaged by people both in the Discord
on Twitter, and in the YouTube comments dozens and dozens of times a day saying, "LJ, I'm
streaming consistently. I have been for months. I'm streaming good content in good categories,
and I have no idea what's going wrong. I'm not growing." The first thing I do is go directly to their
Twitch stream and look at their Twitch schedule. If they are actually streaming consistently,
it will appear here and show me at least in the past three weeks when they went live,
for how long and on what days. And almost every single time, they are streaming
at random hours of the day, random days of the week and they're streaming random games
with no consistency. If your only discovery method is going to
be Twitch, then you need to lock in a schedule because humans are creatures of habit. Every day at 7:15 when you go live, they want
to sit down with their dinner and watch you. If you are not there, they will watch someone
else. It doesn't matter, it's just a fact. This might not be what you want to hear if
you want to be a streamer, but if you cannot set a consistent schedule because of work
or general life, instead of consistent schedule as a YouTuber. Stop with making videos until your life opens
back up and use streaming as a secondary engagement tool. You need to start building an audience. You can't just go, "Well, I can't have a schedule,
so I'll just do my best." No, stop trying, focus on videos. At least one video a week is better for consistency. Tip number nine, grab yourself an overlay
pack. Whether it's some owned or a free one, I don't
really care. Just please get something that looks professional. Get something that isn't blurry, the wrong
sizing and just generally looks scuffed. Some overlay packs are scuffed by aesthetic,
but you can definitely tell that there's [inaudible 00:10:04] actually scuffed and aesthetically
scuffed. Just get yourself something that looks proper. Tip number nine, grab yourself an overlay
pack. Whether it's some owned or a free one, I don't
really care. Just please get something that looks professional. Get something that isn't blurry, the wrong
sizing and just generally looks scuffed. Some overlay packs are scuffed by aesthetic,
but you can definitely tell the difference between actually scuffed and aesthetically
scuffed. Just get yourself something that looks proper. Tip number 10, you've heard it before and
I'm saying it again because it is the most important piece of advice I can give you. Every single day I get asked, "I hate my voice,
I hate my face. I hate looking at myself. I can't stand it." Okay, and this is all you have to do. Every single day, get a phone, get a camera,
open up your webcam. It doesn't matter what, hit record. Film yourself for 10 minutes, talking and
trying to be as entertaining as possible. End of the 10 minute recording, don't watch
it. Go away, don't think about it. The next day, sit down, watch your entire
10 minutes without speeding it up, without looking away, close everything else. Just focus on watching it. You'll very quickly realize what you need
to improve. As soon as you finished watching that 10 minutes,
hit record and film another 10 minutes. Don't watch it, come back the next day and
repeat. Not only do I go live four nights a week and
make these videos weekly, but I still record myself daily for 10 minutes. I get fully dressed up, turn the lights on,
turn everything on and do it every single day. So, if you've heard me give you this tip before
and you haven't started doing it, or you've listened to this now, and you're not going
to start doing it, why? Do you not want to become a better entertainer? Do you not want to improve? There's no downside here. You can't fail, you're not sharing the 10
minutes with anyone else. All it is, is improvement and steps. Taking action, up to you. Tip number 11, we're starting the tech tips. Time to familiarize yourself with OBS or Streamlabs
OBS. It doesn't matter which one you're using. Just sit down, close the software, open up
guides and start reading and watching. You need to understand what OBS is, what Streamlabs
is and how to use them effectively. These are your tools as a streamer to making
your stream polished, professional and look good. Don't get distracted with your music, stop
replying to Discord messages, close down your other YouTube videos and your Twitch streams. Just seriously spend time studying OBS and
studying Streamlabs. Too many people hit Go Live without understanding
how to use their software, and they're plagued with technical issues and things that should
not be fixed while you're live. They should be fixed before you go live. If you need any help, I have guides on this
channel, so please go check them out and familiarize yourself with your tools. Tip number 12, learn about your GPU and CPU
resources, and where you can find the information about them inside Streamlabs and inside OBS. The amount of people who say that they're
dropping frames when in reality they're lagging frames, or skipping frames, or vice versa
is kind of insane. So, let's cover exactly how to tell the difference
real fast and where you can find the statistics panel, so you know exactly which one is the
issue. Probably with Streamlabs OBS, we're going
to look at the performance tab. If we look down here at the bottom, you can
see a performance tab and you can give it a click and turn on quick view. This will show you your CPU usage, your frame
rate, your bitrate, and most importantly, your dropped frames percentages. But sadly, this is all it will show you. I do wish there was a little bit more information,
but there isn't. OBS absolutely has three months beaten in
this regard. If you want to find out what is going wrong
with the stream, they have it on their statistics panel. I want you guys to head up to the view section
and I want you to click on Stats. This is where you can see literally everything. If we look at this section here, you'll see
frames missed due to rendering lag and that means your graphics card is lagging. Skip frames or encoding lag is your CPU usage,
or if you use NVENC encoding, then it's your graphics card ships struggling. Dropped frames is included here, and this
means your network or bit rate is wrong. If you want a full breakdown of that, I have
another video on the channel as well. If you use this to determine the problem,
you can then solve it much easier. I have a whole video of breaking down each
of these and how to solve them as well if you need it. it's called How To Fix a Laggy Stream! and
it's on the channel. Seriously, you guys go watch the rest of this
channel as so many resources for you. Tip number three, check your canvas, your
output, your FPS, and your bitrate and make sure they actually all work together. So many people are just throwing stuff out
there. I saw one guy tried to have a 20,000 bitrate
for Twitch streaming the other day. That's not how that works. By the way, hey, if you're using Streamlabs
OBS, come here. Check your advanced settings and make sure
dynamic bitrate is turned off. This tool is literally Satan's butthole. It is really bad. Do not use it, it'll kill your stream. If you want a quick guide to resolutions,
canvases, frame rates and all that, then I have one link to the description is the Twitch
one. It shows you everything you can set up and
how they work together or as I said, my video about how to fix laggy stream. Tip number four, check, check, and triple
check your microphone and your filters are leveled properly. The amount of times I see people talking into
the wrong side of the mic, or it's far too quiet, or they've got all this background
noise, even though it is so simple to fix these things. I think the most common issue is people have
their music or their game audio way too loud, and it's overpowering their voice and they
just could fix it if they listened back to their stream or their audio. So please, please, please triple check your
microphone and your game sounds. If you look in the bottom right of OBS or
in Streamlabs, you'll see your levels and you can tell where things are at. Your audio for your microphone should be just
about hitting the yellow, and then your games should be a little bit lower than that in
order to actually give you a nice balance. I also want to make sure that at the very
least you add a limiter or a compressor filter to your microphone. Right click filters, add filter, limiter or
compressor. Seriously, add one of these. If you yell, it'll stop you from hitting red
and then causing everyone who is watching your stream to have their ears blown out. All you hear, you can also add noise suppression
if you want to remove fans, air conditioning or low white noise in the background which
comes with a lot of condenser microphones. Just don't add too much, you'll sound weird. Full video on that on the channel. Tip number 15, always check to make sure there'll
game capture and your game settings will actually work with OBS and Streamlabs before you go
live. You can do this with a test recording and
then heading into your game settings and capping it so it is 60 frames or 120 frames. So it has a nice balance down to your 30 or
60 frames stream. And, also make sure you have the correct resolution
and the right window or full screen mode for that game. Doing technical fixes while you're alive really
kills your momentum and throws people off, so make sure you do it before you go live. Test out games and don't waste your time while
live. But number six, if you want to make sure you're
interacting with chat as fast as possible, please turn on low latency mode. Super easy, super important to do. It's insane, the amount of people who come
into my stream and say, "How do you reply so quick?" It's low latency. Just make sure you have the internet to support
it, of course. Tip number 17, subscribe to the channel. Using the same joke multiple times is very
funny, isn't it? That's why I'm almost at a 100K subs. Tip number 17 is actually the tone on disconnect
protection. If you had your settings, you'll be able to
find it pretty quickly and this will save you. Now you have to be using Streamlabs or OBS
or another major encoding software. If your internet cuts out, then you're going
to be able to have disconnect protection for at least 90 seconds while you try to get yourself
back online. If you don't have this on, everyone just gets
kicked straight out of the stream, essentially. And it makes it look like you're offline. It's much harder to recover from that than
from disconnect protection. Tip number 18, if you are going to use a webcam
then please make sure you turn off all of the automatic settings. Turn off your auto focus, turn off your auto
white balance, turn it all off and learn how to use your tools properly. I have a video on it, but essentially make
sure you light yourself properly and please make sure you light your background properly. I know your room might not seem dark, but
the webcams and the cameras that you guys are using are not as good as the human eye. Our eyes will adjust and make it so our rooms
don't look dark. Our cameras struggled to do that, so you will
look like you're streaming from a basement or some sort of weird creepy dungeon, please. Tip number 19 is an extra one for the cameras. Please make sure when you put your webcam
on screen, make sure you put your webcam in the middle on the left or anywhere on the
right. Don't put it in the top left or the bottom
left. Why? It's because your thumbnail, when you look
at a category, has multiple overlays there which will block your face. You need to have your face nice and visible,
so people are willing to click it at a nice glance. Choose between being on the right or being
on the left, it really comes down to where your eye line is. But me, if I'm looking at my screen, my eyes
run this way which means I should be placed in the left, looking across to the right. Now, if I had my eyes looking the other way
towards the wall, it would look weird and jarring. Now, if I was looking from the right to the
left, I would go to the opposite side and you can see the exact same thing. It'd be looking at the wall, so I have to
turn to face it this way. Bonus tip as well with your cameras, I feel
like a lot of people have really large cameras in their gameplay in browsing scenes. If you hold Alt, you can just drag and make
a perfect box or square or really limit down your camera so it takes up less space. Just a bonus tip. You can actually use any source. Hold Alt and drag and it just crops. It's brilliant. My 20th tip and my last tech tip before we
get into my growth tips, you may not want to hear it but if your PC and your internet
cannot stream, then stop trying to. Stop spending so much money upgrading your
equipment, and your internet and everything else just so you can stream and go live. You don't know if it's going to work out for
you, so investing huge sums of money isn't a good idea when you're starting out. Instead, spend time making YouTube videos. It may be more time-intensive to make a video,
but there's a lot less resource intensive for your PC to record something, edit something
and upload something. If you do this, you can start building a base
of content. You can practice your craft and become more
experienced. And most importantly, if you want to keep
streaming later down the line, you'll have someone to instantly start streaming to. And, you wouldn't have put a huge sum of money
into something without knowing if it'll actually pay off and work for you yet. I just don't want to see someone spend thousands
of dollars on new internet or a new GPU just so they can encode while live only for it
to not pay itself off. The tip 21, let's get into the growth tips
by watching our VODs back. You might think this is kind of strange, but
the amount of people who don't watch their own VODs back is wild. You need to watch your own VODs, because instantly
you'll understand where you need to improve, whether your mic sounds okay, whether or not
you're actually being entertaining. And if you watch them back while you're in
the highlighter tool, it means you can also capture the best bits for your stream and
use them on other platforms. This is huge when it comes to increasing your
discoverability. Speaking about discovery, let's talk about
tip number 22. And, that is the fact that discovery on Twitch
is very difficult. The platform just has certain ways you need
to act and certain types of content you need to make in order to be discovered. And, that's actually the same with TikTok
and YouTube. Every single platform has certain rules you
have to follow and certain types of content you need to make if you want to grow. Not all content is discoverable in this day
and age whether it's TikTok, YouTube or Twitch, it doesn't matter. Don't blame the platform, don't put your heels
in, don't throw a tantrum. Adapt. Adapt to what works on those platforms and
use it to your advantage when starting out. We don't really get to fight against these
giant machines and these giant algorithms. We have to play the game. YouTube won't let you grow if all you upload
are badly edited montages from your streams. It's just a fact these days. TikTok won't even share your content if it
detects your swearing in them, and don't even get started on the trends and tags that TikTok
uses. Every platform has a game, we just have to
play it if we want to grow. That's a fact. Tip number 23, speaking of external platforms,
it's time to pick your social media and how you're going to use them for your niche. I want you to pick one that is good for engagement,
and then one that is good for discoverability. The most common one for discovery is YouTube,
and the most common one for engagements are Twitter or Discord. Spend time learning about the platform, watch
guides like mine on how to use them to your advantage. I've seen people stop posting random highlights
and follow my guide on making search-based content. And surprise, they actually start getting
views. They start making reviews on games, and they
start making little how-to guides and those videos perform so much better. Tip number 24, I mentioned Discord. I want you guys to set up a Discord template
server. Even if you don't invite people to it, even
if you have no viewers yet, set it up and start learning how it works. We have a video about how to set it up that
even gives you a template server that you can just start with and play around it. It might seem complicated, but once you get
your hands into Discord, it's actually really easy to set up and run. And I want you guys to have it ready to go
so that when you actually get an audience, it is there and you can start inviting them. Tip number 25, Twitch released a stat that
says that 50% of the people who chat for the first time in a stream are more likely to
come back to the stream again. If this is true, we need to set up a reason
for someone to actually talk in your stream when they join. If you have a bot such a streamlined cloud
bot, then you can set up timers, and commands and more to help engage viewers. Once you're an affiliate, you can add channel
points as well. You just need to give someone something to
talk about. I really recommend the question of the day
command, QOTD and then you just manually add a different question every single day. Someone joins, oh, I wonder what this QOTD
command does and just ask them, "Hey, what's your favorite type of ice cream?" And then if they say anything other than cookies
and cream, you can just ban them because you don't want them in your chat anyway. Tip number 26, spend time planning out your
content. I feel like a lot of people these days just
kind of go live and they wing it and just play a game. But, you need to actually think about what
you want to talk about, what kind of jokes you want to make. I'm not saying script everything, but just
have a small page of fun things you want to talk about because otherwise it's easy to
get lost and just stop talking. You can narrate the game, but sometimes just
having a little extra is really powerful when it comes to engaging people to actually start
chatting. When you're more experienced as a creator
than, yeah you can completely wing it. But for now, I think sometimes planning stuff
out that you can talk about really takes you the extra mile. Tip number 27 is find a unique selling point
for your stream and your content. I've talked about how you should always make
your titles and thumbnails clickable, but take it a step further. If someone looks at all the Super Mario Odyssey
and they see your title says, "Beating Mario with only my feet." Maybe they look at Dark Souls and it says,
"Every death, I eat a spoon of Vegemite." Or they look at Pokemon and they go, "Every
trainer is level 100, can I beat it?" These are unique selling points and they are
reasons to be able to click your stream over the person next to them. So number 28, stop saying things like, "Large
creators are only big because they've been doing it a long time. They're boring and they suck." There's a lot of large graders out there who
are incredibly talented. You should go watch some larger creators and
see what they're doing to make entertaining content, and then find how you can insert
it into your content. It's really important to look for inspiration. Tip number 29, join streamer communities and
Discords that have a focus on education, collaboration and don't allow go-lives or any kind of spam
of that nature. If you join a Discord and it is full of go-lives
and spam, pretty much just leave it instantly because self promotion like that, lazy self
promotion, it never works. If you're the kind of streamer who goes around
only posting your go-live link in a bunch of Discords in YouTube comments, anything
like that, stop pretending like you're hustling. Stop pretending like a grinding. That's the laziest way you can try and promote
and it will not get you anywhere. Most of the time, that's just follow for follow
with extra steps. Tip number 30 might be controversial, but
you need to be consistent with your category, your game, your content and your style. The reality is when you start out, you cannot
be a variety streamer. You have to pick a niche and stick with it. There is a reason why people can get 5,000
followers playing one game and have 120 average viewers. It's because people follow it for one type
of content and they enjoy that type of content. You can become variety later using some transitioning
tools, but for now, if you're just trying to grow, stop changing games every night,
stop changing games every week. If you start getting followers, those followers
have followed you with intent for a type of content, stick to it and you will keep growing. Before I cover my absolute final tip, the
pinnacle of whether or not you're going to grow as a streamer. First, I want to throw out a bonus piece of
advice. Creators and generally people build up ideas,
projects, cool things they want to do in their head for so long that it becomes almost impossible
to start it. There's so much hesitation there because you've
built it up, but I promise you if you want to be a YouTuber, make videos. If you want to be an artist, make art. If you want to be a streamer then stream. We all hesitate. We're all guilty of doing this, but that doesn't
mean you can't start now. It doesn't mean you can't take action today. You've got this. And while you're probably going to suck at
the very least, you're able to start improving rather than just dreaming about it. Seriously, just start. No matter how many times you guys ask me,
I'm not going to be able to give you some secret tip to motivation. The reality is you have to have a passion,
a drive, and then you just have to start and stick to it. Making consistent small steps that are entirely
action-based. So now that I've told you just to start streaming,
are you ready for your final major tip? The one that might be very hard to hear. After your first week, maybe your first month,
maybe your first few months of streaming, if you aren't seeing any growth at all then
stop. Stop streaming. Look critically at why you're not growing,
and be honest with yourself about what you need to do to start growing. Streaming has a very toxic culture surrounding
it that tells people to just keep grinding, keep doing what you're doing, you'll get there
eventually. The reality is that's not how it works, and
that's not how anything in this world works. To be a successful streamer, it takes a huge
amount of hard work. It's not just hitting Go Live and playing
games like it looks like from the outside. Being a streamer or being a content curator
is so many jobs rolled into one. You have to be a digital marketer, a community
manager. You have to be a social media manager, and
of course, you have to learn all the skills that come with it such as editing, audio,
sound design, film. There's so much more to it than just hitting
Go Live and hoping for the best. And the hardest part is you have to do all
of that pretty much alone. There's no one else to help you out at the
start. I don't want to be this person that has to
say this to you. I'd love to sit here and sell snake oil to
you and say, "You got this. Yo buddy, just keep it up." I considered cutting this from the video because
I don't want to deal with the angry comments and the people saying that I'm crushing their
dreams, but I also don't want to lie to you. So again, if you are not being discovered,
if you are not growing your viewership, if your viewers are not coming back to other
streams, you need to take a step back and look at everything you are doing and then
make changes. Because I don't want to see you guys waste
your time grinding like everyone seems to tell you to. But I can say this and I can end this on a
positive note. If you do take a step back from your content
and objectively look at it and start taking actionable steps to improve yourself, to be
more discoverable, to learn more as you clearly do. You're watching this video, so you want to. Then you will start growing, because you're
going to become better at your craft and you're going to be able to be discovered because
of it. Okay, comment down below, how many of my 32
tips are you already doing? I hope it does help, and I hope you guys through
start growing. I'll see you guys next week.
