YouTube Sailboat How To Videos…Tools we use for growing our sailing Youtube channel that have worked. Many ideas specific to Sailboats. To get right to the tools , skip to the icons at the end and click on any of the images that sound interesting. There are a lot of ideas and I keep adding more as I find them.
Youtube Sailing Videos…How does a Youtube Sailing Channel grow? “Sailboat Fixing/Patrick Childress Sailing” grew a lot last month, but can we keep it up? How do we mtake viral sailing videos every time? What are the tools successful Youtube how to sailing channels use to succeed? These are the questions we have been asking ourselves. We spend almost every day now, working away trying to make a go of this. Our Youtube Sailing vlog is here: Sailboat Fixing /Patrick Childress Sailing . It’s mostly a “Sailboat How To Videos” Channel more than anything else…not as much about the destinations we sail to, as the things that we fix once we get there 🙂
We had a video go viral, which maybe was just lucky timing since we were close anyways to the 1000 subscribers/4000 Watch hours threshold. but it pushed our subscriber count and our watch hours over the limit and we were monetized, and now Youtube itself does a lot of the heavy weight lifting for us! But it’s still slow going.
Now in order to maintain the $50 or $75 a month or so that it looks like we will get without viral videos, we are trying different tools, watching YouTube creator videos and everything else we can find. We are going in 4 directions at once trying to find the right combination to grow it. Why? I’m not sure really. The promise of a few thousand dollars a year? The promise of being the next Delos? Patrick’s strong desire to educate new boat owners even if its for free? Just something to do in our retirement? I’m not sure..but we are forging ahead, full blown efforts now. Once the channel monetized and I saw a glimmer of hope, I joined in on the efforts…but up til then, it was just Patrick full time, and me, maybe 10 hours a week of helping to promote it. Bravo Patrick Childress Sailing!
Some other cruisers we know in similar situations are just trying to get to the milestone we have reached and have such great material but the word just doesn’t get out… They admire us. And of course we admire the Youtube sailing channels that have hundreds of thousands of views, or even tens of thousands of views on every video they make. We are all praying for more subscribers and to get out to the people who will watch our videos front to end to improve our watch time. We are working on keywords, and tags and hashtags and anything else we can figure out that we need to work on. This is all on top of Patrick working 70 hour weeks trying to get videos out in a timely manner. This is on top of cleaning the boat perfectly so that we don’t look like slobs when we are rich and famous some day haha.
One fantastic photographer and videographer…”Umadum Sailing” has a Channel Umadum Sailing on YoutubeIt should most definitely have more subscribers. We can’t figure out why it hasn’t taken off. What do they need to do to get more subscribers? Heck, what do WE need to do to get more subscribers? Why do these sometimes really bad boring sailing vlogs have 60,000 subscribers and 2 million views every video they make one?
These are the tools I have started using that have given us a bit of lift and seem to have some effect on things. But of course time will only tell Maybe some big Sailing video gurus out there can give us some more ideas on how to grow our channel without working 20 hours a day and 7 days a week to do so?
TubeBuddy has probably been the most helpful so far of those that I have tried. If you have less than 1000 subscribers it’s half price. They have a free version too, but it doesn’t rate you in relation to your OWN site being able to rank…just in general…so the paid version I think is a good investment…click on it for lots of info. It’s very feature rich though MUCH better on the laptop right inside of yourtube.com than on a tablet application.
We edit movies with Magix Movie Edit Pro…Its what Patrick has learned…but we don’t really love it.
We use Magix Music Maker for music on the videos but again, we aren’t really crazy about it.
Full versioin of Music Maker for free. Download now!
No link for this one but in IPad App Store…”YT Tracker”
Also this is a great tool for stats and comparative analysis etc. free 7 day trial…
Heard of Affiliate Links? Here is what I think is probably my most exciting Affiliate program…since I think it probably pays the best. It even has some boating specific companies and other things that would work on a sailing blog or YouTube channel: Dint try to figure it all out. Just sign up, and then they send you easy to understand and implement emails and you are on your way before you know it.
I have not tried these 2 below yet…but they look promising…what do other people think? I’m considering them…I need all the help I can get! Please feel free to leave comments below so we can talk about this!
Update on 3/6/2019
Hands down… THIS is the tool that is working…VIdIQ is the tool to get! We now have 7500+ subscribers…8000 views a day instead of 800 that we had just 2 months ago…and views of 20,000, 40,000, even 150,000 on our videos! If you are starting a Youtube channel, DO NOT try to figure it all out yourself…get the right tools!
Hi guys. I have watched all of Patrick’s videos and enjoy the practical approach he takes. I have been around boats and yachts most of my life, and we currently own a 33 foot small cruising yacht, but there is always more to learn and better ways to do things. So I do look forward to your videos. The various vlogs that show pretty girls, parties and destinations don’t appeal to me although they might to others. I generally fast forward through those sections, although I did enjoy your safari video. So keep it up, don’t worry too much about polish but focus on content, and I hope that the returns make it worthwhile to share your combined experience of safe yachting to help others do the same.
Thanks so much for your kind words of encouragement 😉 It’s certainly become a full time job for both of us, and we are hoping we can find a balance as time continues. For now, it’s nose to the grindstone when something else really fun isn’t capturing our attention!