How to Start a YouTube Channel? Complete Step-by-Step Guide

A lot of users have been commenting about how they can start making money online by creating and making useful videos. So we decided to write an article about how to create a YouTube channel and make money online.

How to actually start your YouTube channel and what exactly goes into that process because I know that many of you are interested in starting your own YouTube channel either because you have something that you’re really passionate that you want to share with people or you want to make it into a career and earn a full time living from it.

You can easily start your own YouTube channel and educate or entertain millions of users worldwide. But, always remember each one of us has this passion inside of us, to share something with the world and your YouTube channel will help you do exactly that.

So let’s start, the only thing to starting a YouTube channel is to have a Gmail ID or a Google account. If you don’t have one, you can create it very easily by visiting www.accounts.google.com and clicking on Create Account.

How to Create a Youtube Channel?

• To create your YouTube channel, go to www.YouTube.com, and you will see the Sign In button.
• Click on the Sign In button and enter your Google Account credentials.
• Now click on the top right corner of the YouTube page.
• Click on create a YouTube channel.
• Now click on Get Started button.
• Now choose how to create your channel.
• You can use your name or use a custom name.
• Then click on select button.
• Read the terms and condition and click on Create button.
• Once you give your channel a name, you will be asked to upload a profile picture.
• Then write a unique and a breif description about your channel.
• This will help your audience understand about your channel.
• Then click on ‘Save and Continue’.
• Your channel is ready now.

Note: All these details you have provided can easily be changed later.

How to Start a Successful YouTube Channel:

You could also use various tools within YouTube to start making amazing videos online and make a professional channel. Other steps that you need to follow in order to start a successful YouTube channel.

1. Topic: First thing is that you need to choose a topic for your channel that you’re really passionate about because if you want to have a successful YouTube channel you’re gonna have to make a whole lot of videos that are mostly focused around one central topic.

2. Viewers: The second thing that you need to do is get really clear for yourself about exactly who your viewers or subscribers are going to be and what value they’re going to get out of watching your videos.

Now a days people are only going to watch your videos and subscribe to your channel if there is something that they’re getting from it even if that’s something is simply entertainment value or relief from their boredom.

But you need to figure out who these people are going to be and why they’re gonna watch your videos so that you can decide what videos will really appeal to them and make videos every single week that will continue to interest and engage them.

3. Equipment: The next step for starting your YouTube channel is to choose some equipment now you don’t need anything really fancy you can really get started with just your smartphone. Smartphones actually tend to have a really good audio quality as well so you won’t even need a microphone.

4. Uploading Schedule: The next step that you need to do is to decide on your uploading schedule so don’t just decide which days you’re gonna upload but also figure out when you’re actually going to get those videos filmed so that you can put on your calendar and make sure that you get that done every single week for best results.

I’d recommend you upload at least once every week two or three times can be great if it isn’t compromising your quality just make sure that you’re not focusing on the quantity over the quality you need to be consistent with that uploading.

Don’t make too many videos because quality really does matter especially when you’re trying to stand out in some place that’s competitive YouTube.