YouTube is an amazing place that can bring you lots of clients. Yet, when I started YouTubing, I did not know it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I just did not wake up one day with a desire to start YouTubing. No. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It all started in 2017. I had a series of courses for foreign language teachers \u2014 \u201cTeach English Now<\/a>!\u201d from Arizona State University. We had many tasks to do. They gave us two choices: to write them or film a video with the answers. I was not looking for easy ways, so I chose videos. At that time, I had a YouTube \u043a\u0430\u043d\u0430\u043b<\/a>, but I had no purpose in using it for my business. The tutors told us that one video should be no longer than 4 min, and if a video is 4 min and 1 sec, it will be marked as \u201cfailed.\u201d We were to upload videos to our YouTube channels as unlisted so that a person who has a link can watch them, and when a person views your channel, the videos do not appear in the list of your videos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I decided to record my videos using my mobile phone in my kitchen. Instead of a tripod I had a pile of books. That\u2019s it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you remember, in 2017, mobile phone cameras were not as good as today. In addition, I could not find any applications I could use easily to edit. That is why I recorded a video in one \u201cchunk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh, God, how challenging it was! I was as nervous as hell! Because of stress, I could not remember what I had said already and what I intended to say. On top of that, I had to be brief and up to the point, as my videos had to be 4 min at maximum. I stuck to 3:59. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Holy moly! My videos did not look professional at all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n