Can I run a YouTube Channel?

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https://youtube.com/@UpgradeEnglish

Hi John, how are you recently?

Hey Mary, long time no see. I’m busy lately. How are you doing after graduation?

I’m good. I heard from an old schoolmate that you’re currently a part-time YouTuber. It sounds interesting.

Yes, I started my YouTube channel one year ago. I’m teaching how to make dessert.

Wow. How can you do this?

It’s actually my personal interest. I’ve strong passion in making delicious dessert and have been taking cooking classes since secondary school. My friends like my dessert very much in terms of presentation and taste. I’m so happy during sharing at my YouTube channel. I’ve high satisfaction.

You’ve a full-time job, right? How can you allocate your time well?

You have to manage your time efficiently and reduce playing online games, shopping or dining out with your friends. I make use of personal time to achieve my goal.

I always feel so tired after work. It’s such an impossible task to me.

If you set a clear target, you will follow it. Being a full-time YouTuber, it’s my dream work because I am the boss. I can control my time with growing passive income. 

What do you mean for “Passive Income”?

“Passive Income” is the money generated without the daily commitment of a full-time job. It can be earnings from dividend of your purchased stock, rental fee of your property or income of your YouTube channel. I choose to start now and would like to have financially freedom after my early 30s. It’s my ultimate goal.

It’s awesome. What is the meaning of “Financial Freedom”?

It means that you need not worry about your living expenses and it can allow you to plan for life goal. You can control your finances and select your life choices. That’s the simple concept.

It’s truly incredible if I can be financially free when I’m in 30s. Even if I can achieve it when I’m in 40s, it’s still unbelievable.

Please be confident of yourself. You dream can come true and please do not underestimate yourself. Do you know why? If you can be financially free, you’ll have your flexibility. It does not mean you should get retired earlier. You can still work based on your interest. Most importantly, your body is healthy and you are still energetic to perform different activities. If your retirement is in early 50s or even up to 60s, you may have already taken different types of medicines or be suffered from chronically ill. You’ll sometimes feel upset and harassing. It’s meaningless even you have sufficient money for retirement. You can enjoy yourself only when you can still travel where you would like to go. This is the motivation that pushes me to start now.

I hold the same belief as you. Your mindset is great. How can I be a YouTuber? Let me think about the content that I should communicate and share at my channel.

Yes, it would be good to get started as early as possible. You’ll find that you can learn on the preparation of video’s content. You can improve your content and presentation by collecting comments from the viewers. As soon as you are willing to accept opinion from others, you should be able to have improvement gradually.

It sounds doable to me. I always feel frustrated at the boring office because the pressure is sometimes causing me suffocation. My boss is unfair to colleagues and providing an unreasonable deadline to complete the tasks. Every task is ad hoc with no priority at all. I do think that the management is having a big problem.

It’s normal when you work for every employer. Your boss is also under huge pressure from senior management. There is KPI to achieve for every company. I mean Key Performance Indicator. For example, sales target or projects to deliver. Hence, the instruction is from top-down level. Every colleague has to meet different targets. If not, business performance of the company cannot be achieved in the year end.

It’s true. I got your fruitful points that planning for future is crucial. Such flexibility is a high priority for me. I can have control of myself. I cannot think of other reasons why I should not make a trial now.

I just tell the truth. When everyone is talking about metaverse, we should upgrade ourselves. If not, we’ll get eliminated in the society.

I’ve come across news and development of metaverse. It’s about virtual world that brings us with new and incredible experiences by using new technology. It’s really true that the world is changing and we should embrace the new concept rather than escaping from the new things. I’m so grateful to have such conversation with you. Can you shed light on creating an attractive YouTube channel?

Well, I only got 10,000 subscribers. I can state that the content of your channel should solve the pain point of some viewers. It should bring benefits to viewers and such benefits can attract them to subscribe your channel.

What’s meant by “Pain Point”?

It’s simple. Your content can help viewers to solve their existing problems in their daily life. They may be some problems that annoy the viewers consistently or the knowledge that improves viewers’ skill in the long run. If the content is valuable to viewers, they’ll subscribe your channel because they would like to enrich their skill or knowledge continually through your channel. They are your fans and trust no matter of your mindset or knowledge. The subscribers can also provide positive feedback to the content creator, hence, supporting the running of channel persistently.

I’ve no idea of your meaning. Can you elaborate it more?

For example, if viewers have difficulty in learning practical English, the pain point would be “Cannot speak fluent English”. If your channel can provide plenty of examples showing use of terms and presentation easily and uniquely, viewers can gradually improve their spoken English through daily practice. It would be the value of your channel and viewers would spend time to view the videos and subscribe the channel by receiving your alert pro-actively once new video is uploaded. Your fans are waiting for your update of each video every week.

I’ve a critical problem. I do not want to show my appearance at my YouTube channel. I’m too shy and cannot overcome it.

That’s not a problem at all. There are different ways of running a YouTube channel no matter of showing or not showing your appearance. If you would like to be a KOL i.e. Key Opinion Leader, showing your appearance may work better for the growth of the subscribers. However, there are still many successful channels that content creators do not appear explicitly in the video. As soon as the content is valuable to viewers, both approaches work.

However, there’s still such a big challenge to me. You mentioned that the content should be unique. How can be unique? It’s not easy to achieve it.

That’s true. Your content can be interesting and makes peoples laughing. It can also be treated as unique because it can help relaxing after viewing. Hence, it depends on the value of your content. Your content can be special and communicates positive thinking. It can also be treated as unique because it can help motivate peoples after viewing.

I got it. The content should be valuable to viewers. It can help people reducing pressure, thinking positively or even saving money smartly. If someone can teach such special technique, it would be valuable to viewers.

That’s correct. You’ve already got the basic concept and please have open-mind to explore.

Can you share with me how you allocate your time in a week?

First of all, you have to sacrifice your personal time. Taking myself as the example, I’m still having a full-time job and can only prepare the content and film the videos during weekend. After filming the video, I have to edit the videos by adding clear subtitle of each screen. The whole process may take you a few days if you’re not familiar with the tool. Well, efficiency will increase when more and more videos are produced. Subsequently, better quality of videos can also be produced. At the moment, I’m fully involved in each procedure because it’s not justified to outsource film editing to a third-party. Ideally, I would like to find expertise in helping me editing videos when number of subscribers met a significant number. I would like to spend more time to think of the unique content rather than editing the films.

That’s really a time-consuming task. Anyway, I’ll give a trial.

Well, if you enjoy the work, you do not treat difficulty as obstacle. It would happen anyway. In turn, you’ve a strong belief to make the videos professional and attractive to viewers.

Oh, it seemed to me that I still have another problem. I do not know well for using the tool of filming and editing.

Same to you. I learnt through practice. You can get the skill improved when you continually practice. In fact, there are many good and free softwares that can support me and increase my efficiency.

Hey John. I would like to say a big Thanks with you. I’m now having much confidence and will explore the content that would be interesting and unique.

Please do not mention this. I’m also a learner of running a YouTube channel. If I can wake up anytime during morning in the future, it’s fantastic. If I need not worry deadline of my work in the future, it’s unbelievable. They are the drivers for me to pursue my dream continually.

Can you teach me the basic setup required?

Sure, I can share my setting and steps when preparing for the filming and editing. Please remember, being a YouTuber, you’ve to be self-discipline so that you can release your videos in regular period.

Thank you so much. Meanwhile, I’ll perform research on the content that can help bringing in more subscribers.

Just a reminder. You have to be persistent in running a YouTube channel and do not feel upset when the number of subscribers is not growing as expected. You can learn from errors and find ways to enhance the content and presentation. The no. of viewing will increase finally.

It’s a good tip for me because I may easily drop it because the effort spent may not be proportional to the result.

Correct, especially when you do not have any passive income or the amount is still a few. I hope my encouragement is helpful to you. As soon as our objective is clear enough, we should work out the plan and tasks. I have a target in my mind. When my passive income would be half of my monthly income after 2 years, I’ll definitely quit my job at that moment because I enjoy the flexibility of being a full-time YouTuber.

Oh great! I think you can make it. Let’s catch up later.

Sure, see you. Bye!

WITH CHINESE SCRIPT

嗨，約翰，您最近好嗎？

嗨，瑪麗，好久不見，我最近很忙，您畢業後怎麼樣？

我很好，聽舊同學說您現在是兼職YouTuber，聽起來很有趣。

是的，我在一年前開始了我的YouTube頻道，我正在教如何做甜點。

哇，您怎麼能這樣做？

這實際上是我個人的興趣，我對製作美味的甜點有著強烈的熱情，並且從中學開始就一直在上烹飪課，我的朋友們非常喜歡我的甜點，無論是外觀還是味道，在我的YouTube頻道分享時我很開心，我的滿意度很高。

您有一份全職工作，對吧？如何合適地分配時間？

您必須有效地管理您的時間，減少與朋友一起玩網上遊戲、購物或外出就餐，我利用個人時間來實現我的目標。

下班後我總是覺得很累，這對我來說是一項不可能完成的任務。

如果您設定了一個明確的目標，您就會遵循它，成為一名全職 YouTuber，這是我夢想的工作，因為我是老闆，可以控制自己的時間，並增加被動收入。

「被動收入」是什麼意思？

「被動收入」是在沒有全職工作的情況下產生的收入，它可以是您所購買股票的股息收益、您物業的租賃費或您的YouTube頻道的收入，我選擇現在開始，並希望在30歲出頭後實現財務自由，這是我的最終目標。

這很棒，「財務自由」是什麼意思？

這意味著您無需擔心您的生活費用，您可以規劃人生目標，可以控制您的財務並選擇您的生活，這是一個簡單的概念。

如果我在30多歲時能夠實現財務自由，那真是不可思議，即使我能在40多歲時實現，這仍然令人難以置信。

請對自己有信心，您的夢想可以成真，請不要低估自己，您知道為什麼嗎？如果您可以財務自由，那麼您將擁有靈活性，這並不意味著您應該提前退休，您仍然可以根據自己的興趣工作，最重要的是，您的身體是健康的，您仍然精力充沛地進行不同的活動，如果您在50出頭甚至60多歲退休，您可能已經服用了不同類型的藥物或患有慢性疾病，有時您會感到沮喪和煩惱。即使您有足夠的退休金也沒有意義，只有當您仍然可以去您想去的地方旅行時，您才能享受自己，這是促使我現在開始的動力。

我和您持有同樣的信念，您的心態很棒，我怎樣才能成為YouTuber？我要想想應該在我的頻道上交流和分享的內容。

是的，越早開始越好，您會發現可以學習準備視頻內容，您可以通過收集觀眾的評論來改進內容和演示，只要您願意接受別人的意見，就應該能慢慢地有所進步。

這對我來說聽起來可行，在沉悶的辦公室裡，我總是感到沮喪，因為壓力有時會讓我窒息，我的老闆對同事不公平，並提供不合理的限期來完成工作，每個工作都是突發的，沒有優先級別，我確實認為管理層有很大問題。

當您為每個僱主工作時，這很正常，您的老闆也承受著來自高級管理層的巨大壓力，每個公司都有要達到KPI，我的意思是關鍵績效指標，例如，銷售目標或要交付的項目，因此，指令是自上而下的，每個同事都必須達到不同的目標，否則，公司年終將無法達到經營業績。

這是真的，我明白您有用的觀點，即規劃未來至關重要，這種靈活性對我來說是一個高優次的事項，我可以控制自己，我想不出有什麼其他原因我現在不嘗試一下。

我只是說實話。當每個人都在談論元宇宙時，我們應該升級自己，否則，我們就會被社會淘汰。

我聽到過元宇宙的新聞和發展，它是關於虛擬世界，通過使用新技術為我們帶來新的和令人難以置信的體驗，確實世界在變化，我們應該擁抱新觀念，而不是逃避新事物，我很感激能和您進行這樣的談話，您能否闡明如何建立一個有吸引力的YouTube頻道？

好的，我只有10,000個訂閱者，您頻道的內容應該能解決一些觀眾的痛點，它應該給觀眾帶來好處，這樣的好處可以吸引他們訂閱您的頻道。

「痛點」是什麼意思？

這很簡單，您的內容可以幫助觀眾解決日常生活中存在的問題，可能是一些持續困擾觀眾的問題，或者從長遠來看可以提高觀眾技能的知識，如果內容對觀眾有價值，他們會訂閱您的頻道，因為他們希望通過您的頻道不斷豐富他們的技能或知識，無論您的心態或知識如何，他們都是您的粉絲和信任，訂閱者還可以向內容創建者提供積極的反饋，從而支持頻道的持續運行。

我不知道您的意思，能詳細說明一下嗎？

例如，如果觀眾在學習實用英語方面有困難，那麼痛點就是“不能說一口流利的英語”，如果您的頻道可以提供大量示例，輕鬆而獨特地展示術語的使用和表達方式，觀眾可以通過日常練習逐漸提高英語口語水平，這將是您頻道的價值，觀眾會花時間觀看視頻並在新視頻上載後主動接收您的提醒來訂閱頻道，您的粉絲每週都在等待您更新每個視頻。

我有一個嚴重的問題，我不想在我的YouTube頻道上露面，我太害羞了，無法克服它。

這根本不是問題，無論是否展示您的外表，都可以有不同的方式來營運YouTube頻道，如果您想成為 KOL，即關鍵意見領袖，展示您的外表可能更有助於訂閱者數目的增長，然而，仍有許多成功的頻道內容創作者沒有在視頻中亮相，一旦內容對觀眾有價值，兩種方法都會奏效。

但是，對我來說仍然是一個很大的挑戰，您提到內容應該是唯一的，怎樣才能獨一無二？實現它並不容易。

這是真的，您的內容可以很有趣，讓人發笑，它也可以被視為獨特的，因為它可以幫助觀看後放鬆，因此，這取決於您的內容的價值，您的內容可以很特別並傳達積極的想法，它也可以被視為獨特的，因為它可以幫助在觀看後激勵人們。

明白了，內容應該對觀眾有價值，它可以幫助人們減輕壓力、積極思考甚至醒目地儲蓄。，如果有人能傳授這種特殊的技術，那對觀眾來說將是有價值的。

沒錯，您已經有了基本的概念，請保持開放的心態去探索。

您能和我分享一下您是如何分配一週的時間的嗎？

首先，您必須犧牲您的個人時間，以我自己為例，我還有一份全職工作，只能在週末準備內容和拍攝視頻，拍攝視頻後，我必須編輯視頻，為每個屏幕添加清晰的字幕，如您不熟悉該方法，整個過程可能需要幾天時間。那麼，當製作的視頻越來越多時，效率就會提高。隨後，還可以製作質量更好的視頻，目前，我完全參與了每個程序，因為將剪輯外包給第三方是不合理的，理想情況下，當訂閱者數量達到一定數量時，我希望找到專業知識來幫助我編輯視頻，我想花更多時間思考獨特的內容，而不是剪輯電影。

這確實是一項耗時的工作，無論如何，我會試一試。

好吧，如果您喜歡這份工作，您就不會把困難當作障礙，無論如何都會遇到的困難，反過來，您要堅信使視頻做得專業並吸引觀眾。

哦，看來我還有一個問題，我對使用拍攝和編輯工具不太了解。

與您也一樣，我通過練習，當您不斷練習時，您可以改善技能，事實上，有很多好的免費軟件可以幫助我並提高我的效率。

嘿，約翰，我想和您說聲非常感謝，我現在很有信心，並將探索有趣且獨特的內容。

請不要客氣，我也在學習如何營運YouTube頻道，如果我以後可以在早上的任何時候醒來，那就太棒了，如果我以後不用擔心我的工作限期，那真是太不可思議了，這些都是我不斷追求夢想的動力。

您能教我所需的基本設置嗎？

當然，我可以分享我在準備拍攝和剪輯時的設置和步驟，請記住，作為一名YouTuber，您必須自律，以便您可以定期發布您的視頻。

太感謝了，同時，為有助於吸引更多訂閱者，我會對內容進行調研。

這只是提示，您必須堅持經營YouTube頻道，並且當訂閱者數量沒有按預期增長時不要感到沮喪，您可以從錯誤中吸取教訓並找到提升內容和演示的方法，收看次數最終將會增加。

這對我來說是一個很好的提示，因為我很容易放棄，因為付出的努力可能與結果不成正比。

正確，特別是當您沒有任何被動收入或金額仍然很少時，我希望我的鼓勵對您有幫助，目標明確了，就要製定計劃和任務，我心裡有一個目標，當我的被動收入在2年後是我月收入的一半時，那一刻我肯定會辭職，因為我享受全職YouTuber的靈活性。

哦，太好了！我想您能做到，我們稍後再談。

當然，再見！