YouTube Sailboat How To Videos…Tools we use for growing our sailing Youtube channel that have worked

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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.

keyword finder

Sailing Blade

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!
Music Maker - Free Full Version

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…

SEMrush

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!

Agora Pulse

VidIq 

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!

 

 

Who is Patrick Childress..and why a YouTube Channel?

 

 

 

 

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Process to get a Drivers License in Tanzania

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We are in Dar Es Salaam and we realized that Patrick’s US drivers license is expiring this month! We can not be back to the JS for more than a year, probably two years, so we had to do something so he doesn’t get caught out like the last time his license was expiring. He had to take the written and driving test back in the US to get his new license. What a pain!

So this was our second day today, trying to get the CORRECT TRA (Tanzania Revenue Authority) Office to go to. There are offices, it seems on every street corner, and only ONE has the authority/ability to issue “Conversion Licenses” for Non Tanzanian Citizens.

Finally we found the right one. It’s a unlabeled, dark hole of an entrance in a building called “The Samora House”. It’s near the tall Exim Building which houses the Exim Bank, and the Central Police headquarters. Finally, 5 tries at 5 buildings, the lady behind the counter snooker her head “yes” instead of “no”. We were covered in sweat, and hungry for lunch as we walked in the front door. Who knew this would be the place it all starts.

Her first hoops to jump was to fill out an easy form, and return with copies of passports, visas, and our current drivers licenses, front and back.. Patrick got busy filling out the forms, while I ran to look for the photocopy shop she explained was downstairs. Down the stairs, and out on to the hot street I hurried.

The photocopy store was closed for lunch, so I made fast work at finding another one down the busy road and across a busy intersection. Crawling up in the rafters of this business on the second story…likely someone’s home, the copies were made in sign language and I pad my 56 cents. That’s when I realized I didn’t bring much more money than $1 with me, and I had to return with some money too. So on the way back, I dipped in to an STM and took out a minimal amount. I thought I had read the equivalent of about $18 for each license, so I got about double that. If someone wanted to mug me, I didn’t want to have too much for them to take!

So in another pool of sweat, I hurried back, ran up two flights of stairs, just as Patrick was finishing the paperwork. The nice lady behind the desk took our applications right away. But then she says we must get photos, and fingerprints taken, so it’s off to line 2 or 3. It’s a good thing she told us which lines to go to because there were so many!

The network went down during that process a few times, so it was a little time consuming, but they finally got through it, and it was back to line 10…the original lady, although this time she had a bit of a line. That’s Ok. We have time.

So after in entering some more data in the computer, she tells us our next step is to go get verified by the traffic police. So down around the corner, we manage to find the correct police after just 3 police stations. The police takes our paperwork, types something in the computer after a lot of joking around, and sends us back to the lady.

So back up the stairs, and in to Line #10 again. lady tells us we now need to bring her two bills to the bank to pay. She tells us to go to NCB bank..it’s close, and an easy walk. I think I may have been dripping on her floor and she was starting to feel a little bad.

So down we go again, and tromp off to the Bank. I ask Patrick to walk a little slower…that I don’t have much more in me. I’m still hungry for lunch.and it’s hOt

We wait in the line at the bank. We got so spoiled in SE Asia where foreigners are somehow always pushed to the front of the line. Here we are just another customer…all are equal..which we kind of like. Especially since the air conditioner was cold here! We paid our bill, signed our names (to pay a bill?) and off we went, to climb the stairs one more time, and get in lIne #10.

This time she took our receipts, and told us that our 3 year licenses would be ready next Wednesday or Thursday…to stand in line #7 for that. So to be sure…next Friday we will go stand in Line #7.

We asked a well spoken young local guy after we left there if getting the drivers license is easy, and he told us that usually you just pay someone some extra, and they go do it for you…so it’s really easy 😉 I guess us second class citizens are the only ones that jump through these hoops and wait in these lines. He even said that if you pay the right people, you don’t even take the drivers test! This explains why we often drive on the wrong side of the road to get home during rush hour in some of these Uber taxis 😉

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What I did when I Lost ALL the data on SD Card after a Safari

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I can not tell you how many times in the last 2 weeks I have heard from friends who overwrote the data on an SD card in a camera, or who deleted the contents on the SD card because they thought they successfully transferred the photos to their PC.

You CAN get this data back!!! Even if you put it back in your camera and took some more photos! Even if you see no trace of them in the contents of the card!

We did the same thing with the SD card in Patrick’s camera a few months ago. We spent 3 days on a safari, and he lost the first 2.5 days worth of safari video because he overwrote the SD card. Everything gone.

I went through no less than 12 programs trying to find one that would work for the amount of photos I had and do a good job of recovering them. Many products recovered them, but they still had lines going across the screen, or only half of the frame was recovered. Patrick really wanted to make a video of our safari!

So I thought I would put reference to the tool I found to be the best one. I DID pay for the full version because I had so much data, and because I am quite sure this WILL happen again. It is nice to know I can always get the data back of of anything we delete by accident.

It is called the EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard. Another good tool for a cruiser or photographer to have up their sleeves!!

Click on this image to see the details, and get your copy today.

The link below may be all you need to get your files back this time…no need to sign up unless you think you will do it again…

 

If you have less than 2GB on the card, use this link for a free trial. It may be all you ever need. It will deliver a file to download and you can I nstall it right away, completely anonymously. This is how initially tried the product..the link is good, and I did get the first 2 GB back…it gives you a selection too of which 2GB you can have.

But if you know you had more than 2GB, and want to recover them without any further waiting, and want to have the best shot at recovering everything, Use this link to go ahead and buy it.   . Or for a MAC, use this link.

Note: These ARE affiliate ads and I would make a small commission if you baught them, but really, I just want to see someone get their photos back. I could be an affiliate of ANY software product out there, this is just the one Products of many that I tried and this one worked really well.

Here is the video Patrick made with the recovered photos. All but about 3 of the photos were lost on this Safari in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania, but are now found forever with this tool!

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Mikumi National Park Safari….the cheap way!

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