YouTube Creators Hub - Taking Your Common Knowledge And Making Videos About It With Alan Smith...

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He loves hunting, fishing and sports. Allen is a pastor at a church, so he likes to help people where he can, which led him to start a YouTube channel that helps people fix things. around his house, which by the way Alan, you don't know this about me. I'm the least skilled person you'll ever meet so your channel is like a blessing and I hope it saves them money in the process Alan, how are you and me today? I'm so excited to have you, you literally live 30 or 45 minutes from where I currently live so maybe one day you and I can go for lunch or coffee or something like that and we can meet in person, but as of now we're going Let's talk about your YouTube channel and content creation that you just merged and do a little more on Facebook, so let's talk about that too, but try this DIY YouTube channel that says daily home and car repair , so you seem to be a very helpful person, so I can't wait to talk to you about that, but Tell us the story of the origin of the YouTube channel, uh, and the process of getting it up and running, well, it's kind of a crazy story .

I liked YouTube and watched YouTube for a while, but never did it. I had an idea what to do and I meant you mentioned I'm a pastor and one day we were at this lady's house, my family and I were at her house, she's a single mother and she had just moved. this house and you know we were there having dinner and I asked her, you know, hey, have you made a fire in your fireplace and you know she mentioned that she said, I'm not sure how to do it yet. I was like Oh, okay, and then she had bought a new grill and I was like, “Oh, have you used your new grill?” and she said I don't know how to do that either and some other things and I said, man, I really want to help, but you know, I'm busy, I have three kids, they play sports, I have, you know, jobs and everything, maybe I can do some

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and send them to her to help her, you know, that's how you make a fire, do other things like that.

And that was one of the big reasons I started a couple more things. I had some young families at my church that I mentioned that had bought a house and some of them had been there. for a year and I said, "Hey, have you changed your air filters yet?" and they looked at me like I was an air filter and I thought "Oh my God, you know," and there's a couple of them and a couple of other things they had said. I had never heard of that and I thought, oh, let me make some

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for you and here you try this, you know, and another reason why my dad and my father-in-law are super helpful, so every time they come to our house, They were fixing things or showing me how to do things, so another reason I started the channel as a joke was to show my wife that I could fix some things and then also have a video log that I could.

I could point and say hey, look what I did, yeah, and then finally things started happening in our house, you know, things would fall apart. I have three kids, so they flush things down the toilet or break pipes. They're doing different things like that, so there's been a lot going on in our house and that's really what I'm doing, you know, fixing things and then showing other people how to do it too. I love this idea. super cool you basically do what I do on the tech side so I do tech tutorials and that's exactly why I started my channel over 10 years ago.

There was a guy who wanted to know how to use Adobe InDesign. They were located. You know, obviously. I wasn't where I could physically show them, so I made the video and put it there. I had no idea it would lead to what has led to what has happened more than 12 years later, but I am very grateful that it has educational content. on YouTube it's a different beast, so we'll definitely address and cover that as well, but again your channel name. Allen's channel is proof of this DIY. He has a great community there. What surprised you the most now that you are here?

After a few years of this, what has surprised you the most is having a YouTube channel and being a content creator. Hmm, that's a great question. People are probably watching the videos. I mean, I know it's kind of random, but probably surprising. the most is that and honestly, Dusty, I'm going to be completely honest before I start. I wasn't skilled and I still don't consider myself skilled. I just have to figure it out. You know, I have to figure out how to do it. I investigate how. do it and then I just go and do it and show people how to do it.

I try to be honest, like Hey, listen, if I can do this, you can do this too, so people message me on YouTube just thanking me. like, hey, this saved me, you know, 400 or, hey, this was really helpful or that kind of thing that's really been something. I never thought I would have created a channel where I could help people fix things in their house, but now I really enjoy it and enjoy it. fixing things and helping people and showing them how to do those kinds of things. I love that now, as far as any obstacles or things that you've run into since the beginning or even recently with the YouTube channel, whatever some of the things that you've run into with those big obstacles and how you did them. you have overcome.

Some of the big obstacles. You mentioned this a lot on your channel and I appreciate that you're looking left and right. You know when you're doing your best and then you look and people are like, I don't know, you're

making

very similar videos to someone else and they're crushing it and you're like you know you want to. to encourage them and you know you're telling them great work and you ask why mine isn't going so well, you know, or yeah, or different things like that, uh, that's been kind of a struggle and then also a great time.

The most important thing for me is time, you know, I have three kids, they all play sports, they work full time, they're married, you know all this kind of stuff and so I just figure out how to make time to edit videos, shoot videos and do things like that. are probably some of my biggest obstacles as a parent, myself, two very young married children, plus how do you b

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ce your time with your full-time job and your family? What are some systems you have implemented? What are some things that I've done to help you manage your time because I see that you're very consistent and that's one of the things that you mentioned to me when scheduling this interview is that you've really tried to be consistent and really take that into consideration. when when you know, your week starts, yeah, and I've taken some of your suggestions from this podcast and also the other one, um, and I've really done it.

When I have time, I try to get it going and work like I'm really done. during the holidays, you know my kids are still little, so right now, when they go to bed, you know I'm going to go to my basement where my office is and I'm going to put out a couple of videos, you know, and so on, um, and that's how it is. A big one when I have time is just to get it going, so it might be staying up late, you know, on a weeknight or a weekend, or getting up early before the kids do to do it, and that It's been a big thing for me to just know, again, that these number one things have to be done because I'm fixing them, you know, a leak under the sink, I fixed it last week and that has to be done, so that I might as well leave. go ahead and fix it and then I have those videos in a queue and when I have time again, when the kids are in bed or things like that, that's when I'll produce two or three videos, so maybe I know you mentioned a lot of batch times to record .

I can't always batch record, but I can batch edit, and that's when I'll try to make sure I can do things that way, yeah, and I guess you have a list of videos or a list of things. that needs to be done or needs to be worked on and you put it somewhere, even if it's in your memory bank in your head, whatever it is, that way you have that list, if you can't batch log, at least you have a list that way you won't have to fumble around and figure out what video you need to record next yeah, that's exactly right.

I have a list here on my iPad. I have about a hundred videos that I can record, so these Are these videos that are additional things that I could show people how to fix? But currently I have about 10 to 12 videos in my queue that I need to edit and then I have another three or four videos of things I need to fix. around the house, so people often ask me whatwith family members they ask me, do you know what you are going to keep? Do you ever know that you have things that worry you? I say, well, not currently, not yet because I still have things I'm fixing.

I filmed one last week at church, so I'm always open to continuing to shoot videos, but I know I have those that I can always come back to, whether it's to highlight an item I use or even you know how to highlight something else. You know, a tip or trick that would help you. You know, DIY things at home. Yes, if you are listening to this podcast. You are more than welcome to follow this idea of ​​mine. I've always had this idea and Alan. Tell me what you think about this idea Yes, I basically like it.

I told you at the beginning of this episode. I can solve almost any problem you have with technology. You have a problem with your computer. I'm your boy. You have a problem. with your new iPhone I'm your guy, but if you need me to prepare something, it will take me twice as long and the quality may not always be the best, but an idea I had when I had kids and my youngest birthday was just Yesterday, while we were recording this podcast, I had to put together several children's toys. The idea I had for a YouTube channel is for someone to reach out to all these big toy manufacturers and basically send them the product and say, Hey.

Listen, I'm going to put out a video tutorial on how to properly set up and build this toy or this product and I'll just put it on YouTube as the Toy Guru or whatever you want to call your channel or whatever, and I promise you. you're going to explode now is going to be the next thing we talk about, which is Evergreen content, that's going to be that, so I want to use this as a nice segue to talk about Evergreen content, it's one of my passions and Alan, I guess you know that this is what you are doing, but you use one of your videos, for example, how to fix a freezer that does not cool, easy solution, it already has almost 60,000 views.

You posted this two years ago, but that video will continue to get views for 5, 10, or 12 years in the future because people will always need to know how to repair a freezer. Is this something that you think about and is evergreen content as the foundation and type of searchable content? from the base of what you're building your channel around 100 and so when I started, I didn't know it was called Evergreen, you know, I just knew I had used it. I had used YouTube to fix some things. around the house and then honestly when my father-in-law was in town we were fixing something we were actually turning an old attic space into a reading nook in my son's room and I just know we did it and I I was like how the hell are you doing this? and he said, well.

I just watched some YouTube videos on how other people did it and then, you know, I just replicated that and thought, man, that's crazy and then I was thinking carefully. that and I started watching those videos and like you said somewhere in seven years and I thought these guys are

making

videos and they can be used for years and years and years and that was one of the reasons why I created the channel too because I have a couple other YouTube channels that I made and left and stuff like that while I was making my DIY channel just because I liked the idea of ​​Evergreen content. not knowing that I can make a video today and I hope it's still relevant five like you said five ten fifteen years from now and that's a big reason why I have my channel because I have several friends, I'll probably get to this question later.

They have several friends who are also on YouTube who started around the same time I did, but their content isn't Evergreen, so they have to make a video every week about what's happening at the time. It has a short shelf life and then is net until next week, so I know mine will continue to grow each week. I was looking at my analytics while you were talking. I have a video that is nine years old. I recorded the video um probably uh you know, obviously over nine years ago and it still gets five to eight thousand views a week and there are so many people doing YouTube that the power of every video you produce working for you years later and that's the The beauty of these podcasts that we like, this podcast that we're recording right now will continue to be relevant and useful for YouTube creators and you mentioned me off the air and you're like, hey, I've listened to your older episodes and you.

I can attest to this, these are things that you can really use and leverage when you think about creating content and Alan, how does it affect the way you think about your content when you're producing your videos? Change something? Does it make any difference knowing that you want these to be valuable years to come? Yeah, I mean, again, it helps me to know that and sometimes I'll bring it up when I've achieved it or I'll say, hey, right now, this is it. what I have or this is what we use now um and as you know 10 years from now they might go back to that freezer video they might have a different type of relay switch or they might have a different type of shape. to fix that or they could even have a different type of system, you know, but a lot of times the basic things are still there, so you could tell someone, hey, the links for this are in the description, you can go check them out. and I will say that if they have updated this, I will do my best to update those items as well.

I love it, what I usually do is say, hey, if you've updated this software or this version, click the link in the description that you know for the older version or for the newer version. I'm still working on it. You know you can always link back and forth and the old stuff is still relevant because what I found with similar software and it's certainly the case with stuff that what you're doing with DIY is that there will be people who have the old version of something, they have the old truck that you're talking about or they have the old HVAC unit or they have the old version of Photoshop, you get the point there, this is going to be relevant because people are not willing to change or pivot to the new things.

Now I want to ask you about monetization, how are you making money on the channel? I know you mentioned three different types of uh, off-air baskets, so talk about each of them in depth and how you're doing it. I'm sure the first way I make money that we've talked about here is through ads on YouTube. I'm monetizing. monetized for a little over a year, and that's probably the best way I've done it, making money with ads and then the second one is Amazon Affiliates, and again, like you said when I post links in my description or different things like that, yeah people click on those links so you know I'm going to make some money off of that and then I started making money on Facebook.

I'm really just using content that I already posted on YouTube and just posting it on Facebook I had a friend who does YouTube with me and he told me about this so I'm also doing more research on Instagram and Tick Tock and all that to gain some Extra money. Next thing I do, I meet you. I didn't ask this question, but my next goal would be to get some, again, some brand deals. I've had a few where they sent me items to make videos, but I haven't had one where they paid for it yet. You asked me to make a video and that's one of my goals, to try to get to the next step and you talked about Facebook, um, talk about that for a minute, repurposing your YouTube content on Facebook, what that process has been like and what it implies.

Of course, currently all I do is create a Facebook page and then I've been posting my short films on Facebook, which are called reels, so I post them there and it's mainly about replicating that content again of things that I do. I've done it before and it's a little bit different, the Facebook community is a little bit, I don't know, maybe tougher than the YouTube community, which is fine because, again, any kind of participation helps and more people watch. It's more people, I hope it helps more people, but yeah, that's mostly what I've been doing, I just created a page and then from there you can post reels and I had a few friends join the page. at first and then after that he started sending them to other people, yes unfortunately different communities will be different.

Now I want to ask you about YouTube shorts and your kind of transition to reels on Facebook. and then obviously they are called Tick Tock videos for tick tock, so would that be the case? How are you b

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cing fully developed videos? You know, normal videos. I don't know what to call them anymore and then. Shorts YouTube shorts like how are you? Are you doing one video and then one short or vertical video a week or how are you managing that? For two years I mainly did one long video a week and then uh, sprinkle in the short ones, um, but in 2023 my goal was to do one long video a week and then also do my best to get to one short video a week and the Short videos to me are more like tips and tricks, and you can.

You don't see me, but I'm using air quotes, yeah, you know, and it's like how to use this tool or what you know. One thing I really like is how these drywall anchors work when you attach something to the wall. Does that really look like on the other side? I've always wondered that and I, uh, I've shown some videos, hey, this is what this looks like on the other side, you know, and that kind of stuff, again, just some. short videos that will be sent to people who are not in my audience and hopefully gain new subscribers and hopefully can help you meet more people that way.

What is your production process? How does it look? Because I want to know from start to finish, what it looks like, you know everything, the tools that you use, your thought process and the planning of the video and the production, give us a summary from start to finish of what it looks like for you, oh , man, I knew you. You're going to ask this because you asked this in your other videos and I love hearing from everyone else. You know they have a list of all the things I've never heard of and I think it's amazing, but I use my iPhone. to record all the videos so I have them on my iPhone and then my wife is a photographer so I'll use some of her lighting equipment but that's it it's good stuff but I use my iPhone and then uh put it on my computer and then I use iMovie and edit my movie or my videos through that and where can I add it.

You know if I need to do some voiceovers or any kind of things, images or all that kind of stuff. and then I post them and it's pretty basic with all that kind of stuff. I haven't tried any of the cool stuff you talk about on your channel again, but that might be something I get to at some point. but right now that's all I use and what do you do Post once you post your video I mean is there anything that you've put in place as far as systems that you maybe do once I've uploaded the video, um, not that I know, are you talking about what kind of things are you talking about there?

Do you publish in other media that you talked about? You know, republish, reuse on Facebook? As far as annotations or different things like end cards, do you have anything special that you do there? I don't have anything super special. I add, as you mentioned, Facebook and I have an Instagram. In fact, I just started reposting that thing I used to post every week. I would post, you know, as soon as I posted my video, I would go post on Instagram, um, just so people know that they're my friends and stuff. So I posted a video hoping that people would go see it at the time, but now again I'll take those things and, especially if it's a short, I'll post it on YouTube and then post it.

I'll post it on Instagram and then I'll post it on Facebook as well, so those are the main ways that I do that and use basic end cards and YouTube end screens and that kind of basic stuff. things and I use uh tubebuddy. I know you mentioned that many times and I recommend it. I know you always recommend it, and like you said, I don't know if this is the intro or the outro, but I do recommend it. Using Tubebuddy helps you a lot with getting information about that kind of stuff, so I use it at the end to make tags and all that kind of stuff, and those are the main things that I do. with video, that's kind of basic again, what I do as someone who does educational content and search-based stuff on YouTube, how deep do you go into your analytics and if you do, what are you looking for and what are you doing? look and how they help you decide what to do in the future oh, that's a tough question.

I would probably dive too deep. I love the details. I love statistics. I love that kind of stuff. That's one of the things. I actually do a lot in my job just knowing you know again, all kinds of different things like that, so I definitely look at all my analytics multiple times a day just to see what's going on, what people are looking at, um, they have . especially in the type of DIY space that they have, we have events like tents, you know where, hey, you know, right now people are starting, you know, still in February, but it's starting to warm up a little bit and I'll look and I will realize. my analytics, as I look at them right now, I see that some of my videos thatIt's more outdoor videos are starting to gain some momentum so I'll know right now or some videos that people are searching and searching for. and with that in mind then I started going back and making some of those videos and although I have a few of these videos in the queue where I've hung shelves and stuff like that, those videos usually work better when it's cooler and people are inside looking for that type of information and knowing that my outdoor videos are going to start to be more successful in the next month or two, so I need to start preparing for those types of videos that will be published in the future and that are very interesting.

You know, you see what's working for the season. and then you duplicate it, yes, I'm a data person too. I really had to do it. I almost had to delete the Studio app from my phone recently because it became kind of an addiction because you watch them in real time. statistics and you say, oh, they're down today or this week from what they normally are, why that's the way it is or whatever, so I'm also a data expert, looking at it and being able to see what's working and what's not represented. as data on YouTube is undoubtedly very important.

The next question is one of my favorites. I love to ask this: what's something you wish you'd known sooner now that you've been at this for a few years, you're actually a YouTuber creator, believe it or not, like a lot of us, sometimes we don't want to call ourselves that, but... What is something that you look at now and are as a man? or maybe it's a couple of things like, man, I wish I'd known before, yeah, that's a great point, um, like using this. I have some answers to that using this kind of going back to your last question, um, I wish.

I knew in my analytics that it's not and I still do and I watch it every time I post a video, I give it a few hours and I go watch and I really hope it's the number one video, but that's not the case. Not always again because of my evergreen content and my type in my niche and all that, that doesn't mean much because the video that you referenced, the video where I fixed the freezer that was at about I think it was around 200 views during about a year, so it just stayed at 200, I may have had, you know, 225 and then I changed the image.

I just saw it and thought, you know what? Maybe I'll put my face in this picture and try it. changed it and then out of nowhere it exploded and now it's one of my top videos so I know it doesn't always matter initially because again you know when as soon as we post we want to see the ones where the explosion or the confetti or do it on the number one video and those always feel good, but it doesn't always mean that that's going to be your best video because I've had a lot of number one videos that end a week later and they're still stuck at, you know, 200 views. or 300 views after a year, you know, and that's a big question that I really want, uh, and these are a lot of things that a lot of people that you've had on the podcast say that I want.

It would have started earlier. I have a friend who's been at this for eight years and he's crushing it and he's really helped me a lot, but I really wish I'd started this sooner and again, not that this is what it's about, but I wish. "Everyone who would have known when I came in that it's about distributing the revenue streams and it's not just about Facebook ads or it's not just about YouTube ads or whatever, or yes, YouTube and Facebook ads, but It's about spreading them." and that kind of stuff and you talk about it a lot on your podcast and your guests have really helped me understand, hey, there are several ways to make money with this and try to help yourself, knowing that I wish I had.

I knew about it before to look into it more, but it's definitely been nice, you know, figuring that stuff out now is interesting. I want to ask you why you think people don't start like that, why do people say? For me, why do I have so many people here who come to this podcast who are successful creators and even some of them have been creating for several, you know, five, six, seven years and one of the main things they tell me is? exactly what you said. I wish I had started earlier. What stops people and how can you?

What advice can you give them to push them beyond that? Oh man, uh, so I've had several people start YouTube channels in my friend group in their The last two years and I've had several people, no and, you know, I talk to them. I wonder why I think one of the biggest things is fear, man I think it's fear and again I think both. I still have, you know, I think there's fear every time I post a video of someone watching something and you know they're like, hey, that wasn't cool or you know why don't you do that and I think that happens every time.

You know you are a little afraid, but I think there is another one. I listened to a lot of YouTube podcasts and Leadership and stuff like that and one guy says you have to punch fear in the face, you know, and I think I believe. about that every time I make a video, you know, I have to punch fear in the face and keep pushing, you know, and I know this is a weird example, but I know Dusty, you worked out, you worked out in a gym before, this is like that. of correct. I was activities director and then I got a promotion to associate director and I was associate director of the YMCA here in Hall County in Gainesville, Georgia for years, yeah, so you might like this example. love working out all the time uh that was before kids and you know, now I would still do the housework, but not as much as before, but I loved

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kids with me to the gym that I had never been to or that hadn't happened in years and always They would ask you do you know what they are like or they would always say man, I'm nervous about what people think and I don't know if you saw this at the Y, but I realized, because I was one of them, that you know what people really don't. is watching you work out, they're more worried about who you are if you're watching them and I know that sounds super selfish and arrogant and all that kind of stuff.

About things, but I think there are more people worried about what you think of them than about what they look at you and what you're doing, and I don't know if that makes sense or something, but I had several friends who you know who got angry again fit. and they started to recover because they kind of got over that fear factor of, oh my God, I'm worried about what people will say. Listen, people don't care, they don't wonder what you're doing. I'm also wondering what you're thinking about them. It's just this cycle where we have to get through whatever it might be to start a YouTube channel, get in shape, all this kind of stuff, and that's one of my biggest things every time I speak.

I told people about how to start a YouTube channel: listen, you have to leave that fear behind. The things that are going to happen, you're going to make mistakes, you're going to do some dumb things, but you just have to keep going and and. Make it happen man, that's powerful because you're so right. I know that even to this day, I sometimes think to myself what my eyes are in quotes. Here again, real friends or people I know in real life will think of me being on YouTube. or putting my face in a video or talking about this topic or whatever, they don't care, they're worried about what's happening to them and I guarantee you once they see success, they won't be.

I'll care about how you got there, what you're doing, um, and it's the fear of exposing ourselves and how to go further. There are so many different things and topics that we could push here today, but it's really believing. in yourself and believing that you have something valuable and worth saying and just putting it out there because we all have something to say and for the most part it's worth it and being able to get your message across and what you want to receive. I've been listening around and using YouTube to improve people's lives and you know when you entered your information to appear on the podcast you said you wanted to follow your advice and you're trying to replicate my thread. you have built in shorts but one of the things you mentioned here is that you start a DIY to help others and show my wife that I can fix things like that, that's enough, that's enough to get off to a good start, why do you have to have this ?

Why do you know you want to keep your target audience in mind, but maybe it's just something you want to do to see if you can do it and then it becomes something that doesn't always have to come from? You know, Mr. Beast probably didn't sit here and think to himself in the first video he uploaded that he was going to be the biggest YouTuber one day, he thought maybe he'd want you to know what a fun, funny, interesting personality he was. There and now look at it, so having aspirations is great, but just doing something and starting something is powerful.

So I completely agree with what Alan says. Alan, it's been a pleasure having you on this podcast. Can? let us know what's next for you and the channel in the future and then at the end let us know where we can contact you, yeah right man the channel right now is still up and running. stuff again trying to get two videos out um like again great example going back to the last question you know I was worried if I could fix things and now I've been doing this for a couple of years it's been great and then uh hopefully , in the future I would like to try to do a little carpentry and try to start building things.

That's my next goal after I've fixed as many things as I can. I want to start trying to build. some things uh and then uh a question that or something that I wanted to say go back to the last question or the last question or the previous one is definitely having some people around you to help you with this process. I have a boy who is you. I know a few years ahead of me, that's really helped me, I mean, he's really kept me active. You know that the first year is difficult because you are doing it and you think about what is happening to you.

I know I have eight subscribers and seven of them are my family. Do you know what's worth it? You know, having someone who is further down the road is great and also having someone with you. I've had two friends we started with at the same time. time, so we are pushing each other, so having a group like that is very helpful. I know Dustin, you have a brain. I'm not in this group, but I recommend you join a group like that and this is it. It's a great opportunity for you guys to join a group like that, but yeah, but yeah, if you're interested, I'd love to help you, you can message me on Instagram.

I know I have done this during many of your previous jobs. guests, I messaged them, I subscribed to their YouTube channel, I watched them, what are they doing well? What can I implement in my channel? I told them: I know that has helped me and if there is anything I can help you with. with those who are listening to this, I would love to do that too I love uh Alan is Alan Smith from test this DIY YouTube channel. He was our guest today. Alan, thank you so much for all these interesting nuggets you shared. my audience today and we'll talk to you next time.

Great, thanks Dusty, listen to the creators podcast for great benefits like having your YouTube channel featured on the show and a link on our website until next time, keep uploading those videos.