Telling A Story, Going from YouTube to Business

• 5 - 7 minute speech

• the goal: start a youtube channel and build it to make passive income

Getting Started

• did video club in high school, but the "advanced" tech that we had was a VCR
• had to expand the skill set; use video editing software like Kdenlive
• made videos of projects and tasks that I was working on at my house; home repairs and building software
• struggled to find identity with the channel because it was too broad, not niche specific
• tried to follow the professional creators way of creating videos, but proved to be difficult or well beyond where I currently was
• monetization threshold moved; already had money but not paid and had to wait

Building A Portfolio

• started posting similar content on personal social media pages
• that lead my followers to start asking me to do work for them
• posted about doing that work, effectively creating a content generating machine; do the work, talk and share about the work
• signed up as an independent contractor; Handy, Wal-Mart, HomeAdvisor
• plenty of opportunities, not plenty of money; sometimes 40% cut
• COVID meant that contractors were getting paid bonuses
• paid to just show up; delivery errors, broken tvs

Legal and Legit

• filed the paperwork for business in 2021, Robinson Handy and Technology Services
• learn from others that are in business and run youtube channels
• continued to produce content but more efficiently by using automations and changing filming style
• talk about the commonalities that exist with homes in the Montgomery area
• being more efficient, then can do more work and thus more money
• have reached monetization level; get paid for work and videos done years ago
• created automations and looked for ways to improve processes; being more efficient

Evaluation

• good use of hand gestures
• could have used more vocal variety; given the context of the topic, seemed to be sufficient