How To Get Your First 25,000 YouTube Subscribers (Full Blueprint)

Getting your first 25,000 subscribers on YouTube is a major milestone

While it’s not 100,000 subscribers and won’t have you hanging a fancy YouTube Play Button in your house (see below)

At 25,000 subscribers, you have now gained a solid grasp on how the YouTube game works

At this point you’ll know how to:

• Select your niche

• Create high retention videos

• Craft intriguing titles

• Create eye-catching thumbnails

At 25,000 subscribers, achieving the rest of the YouTube milestones simply becomes a game of patience

One great example of someone employing the blueprint you’re about to learn is my friend and Tube Ignite student Mark

Mark started his YouTube channel in exactly two years ago

In that span of time, he’s gone from a CPA looking for a way to share his investing expertise to a full-time creator

How did he do it you may be wondering? Let’s go over his exact process now…

Step 1: Select niche

Mark is a competent CPA and a passionate investor. He could have easily made an investing YouTube channel but instead decided to niche-down and focus dividend stocks content.

Mark knew that there was a ton of interest in dividend stocks because let’s face it, who doesn’t love making passive income.

Mark was also enthusiastic about making content around this topic so making videos could be something he’d enjoy doing for years to come.

In short, Mark perfectly applied the interest intersection:

Step 2: Create high retention videos

Mark will be the first to admit that his videos don’t exactly have Netflix-level production quality. But what he lacks in visuals he more than makes up for in content value.

Mark offers some of the most insightful dividend stock content on YouTube and his 25,000 loyal subscribers in a rather narrow niche prove just how good of a creator he really is.

Especially in a niche where information is the main driver of value, Mark’s videos have solid retention rates which prompt YouTube to promote his videos across the platform.

Step 3: Craft intriguing titles

At first, Mark’s titles weren’t anything to write home about. He used very generic titles and his view count reflected that…

But like all creators, he learn and improve over time and that’s exactly what Mark did.

One strategy that’s been rather effective is what I call the “misdirect” title

This is where you veer away from an expected result to prompt intrigue in a viewer. Here’s an example:

JEPI is a popular dividend stock and one of that most dividend-related YouTube channels are always touting

Mark uses a midirect and implies that there are better dividend ETFs out there that people need to learn about

34,000 viewers and counting bit on this title growing his channel and fan base even further

Step 4: Craft eye-catching thumbnails

Your videos are only as effective as their ability to capture the attention of prospective viewers

Mark has found a proven strategy for crafting clickable thumbnails like this one

Mark knows that his audience enjoys watching REIT related content

Because of this he uses loss aversion in his thumbnails to capture attention

“3 must own REITs” makes people feel like they are missing out if they want to own REITs and have yet to buy into the ones he’s going to talk about in his video

But there’s one other thumbnail strategy that Mark uses that can easily go overlooked by the untrained eye…

What you will notice is that Mark consistently place his face in all of his thumbnails

This is the “face familiarity” strategy I talk about in Six-Figure Tuber

Mark’s videos become instantly recognizable to his core audience whenever he uploads

This improves his chances of his core audience watching his videos sending positive signals to YouTube to keep pushing out the video more and more

Step 5: Upload consistently

The most boring but important aspect of winning on YouTube is to never stop uploading

Mark didn’t start with 25,000 subscribers nor did he average 1,000s of views per video

He started from scratch like us all and despite being a busy CPA he never let his upload schedule waver

He shows up for his audience every single week and he’s been rewarded for it

He’s now made $1,000s from his channel through ad revenue, brand deals, affiliate commissions etc.

The question is, will you follow in Mark’s footsteps?

Until next week,

Adam

 When you’re ready, there are 3 ways I can help you:

1. If you want to learn how to grow and monetize your own faceless YouTube channel, check out Tube Automate and Tube Freedom

2. If you want a personalized review of your YouTube channel, sign up for a YouTube Channel Review

3. If you want to work with me one-on-one to build a faceless channel, check out Tube Launch