Top 5 Channel Growth Problems and How To Overcome Them [Ep. #198]

<p>If you're working hard to grow your channel, but not getting the traction you'd like, you likely find yourself in one or more of these categories:</p> <p>1. I'm not getting any views.</p> <p>I don't know how many times I've heard creators say, "Well, just stay consistent and eventually you'll get your break-through moment."</p> <p>Several years ago when a creator told me that, I asked him, "How long have you been waiting for that break-through moment?" His response? "About 10 years."</p> <p>10 YEARS!!?! C'mon! That's not a strategy, that's just a waste of time.</p> <p>Break-through videos don't happen just because you keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again.</p> <p>2. No one is subscribing to my channel.</p> <p>Watch almost any video on YouTube and you'll hear the creator ask you to subscribe multiple times in the video. They ask in the beginning before you leave, they'll include a subscribe graphic half-way through, and then ask you again when the video is over.</p> <p>The result? Still no growth. Turns out people don't subscribe just because you ask them to.</p> <p>3. My videos aren't ranking in search.</p> <p>When discussing a creator's growth strategy, I often hear, "I'm spending a lot of time on keyword research and am optimizing my titles, descriptions, and tags with all the right words."</p> <p>When I ask, "Great! How's that working out for you so far?" they hesitate a second, take a deep breath, and say, "Well, not so great."</p> <p>That's because YouTube's search and discovery systems don't care about your keywords. Their algorithms actually moved away from that system back in 2012 and have focused on watch time since then.</p> <p>4. I'm not making any money.</p> <p>I feel bad for creators who work very hard to become eligible for monetization on YouTube, are finally approved, and then realize that they're only making a few dollars per month... and that they need to reach a minimum threshold of $100 before YouTube pays them.</p> <p>It takes them another year of hard work just to get that