I'm Burning the Boats on YouTube

YOUTUBE 📚 THE READING LIFE 📚 PATREON

📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

I’ve been reading (binge-reading, more like it) The YouTube Formula, by Derral Eves recently, and I’ve heard enough.

I'm about to take YouTube a HELL of a lot more seriously, and here's the upload schedule I'm committing to until the end of August:

July 28 - Podcast Episode 5

July 29 - 100 Popular Self-Help Books in One Sentence

July 30 - Monthly Reading Update

July 31 - Eric Jorgenson Podcast

August 1st: Stop Watching Self-Improvement Videos

August 2nd: Great Books Written by Horrible People

August 3rd: Mental Distinction Books/Movies

August 4th: Be Useful Book

August 5th: Think Like a Billionaire Book

August 6th: YouTube Changed My Life

August 7th: Podcast Episode 6

August 8th: An Iron Will Book

August 9th: I Read 40 Books on Money

August 10th: Peace of Mind Book

August 11th: Books on Every CEO Bookshelf

August 12th: Nine Figure Mindset Book

August 13th: 31 Ways to Read More Books

August 14th: Podcast Episode 7

August 15th: 10 Books From My Bookshelf I’m Reading This Year

August 16th: Five Books Five Bangers

August 17th: Winning Through Intimidation Book

August 18th: Joshua Lisec Podcast Episode

August 19th: It Takes What It Takes Book

August 20th: Unlimited Energy for Your Dreams

August 21st: Podcast Episode 8

August 22nd: My Top 10 Books of All Time (Out of 1,300+ Books)

August 23rd: Time Management for Entrepreneurs Book

August 24th: Create an Ad Campaign Inside Your Own Mind

August 25th: The Greatest Salesman in the World Book

August 26th: The Books That Started My Reading Journey

August 27th: My Bookshelf Tour + Recommendations

August 28th: Podcast Episode 9

August 29th: How Reading Fiction Affects Your Brain

August 30th: I Make an Extra $5K Per Month Recommending Books

August 31st: Monthly Reading Recap

That's right...

F***ING DAILY UPLOADS.

High effort, high(ish) production videos, every single day for the next month, after which I'll probably slow down to 3-5/week, then probably 3 per week, unless I hire an editor to ramp up production. Which I might, depending on what my AdSense payments are like.

Those are only “working” titles above - the final uploads will be named slightly differently - but that’s generally what they’ll be.

Anyway, the next month is going to be insane. But it's also going to blow up my channel, and THAT'S what I need to keep in mind.

Not only will I be posting those videos, but I'll be supplementing them with Instagram Reels repurposed as YouTube Shorts, which will drive up my subscriber base even more.

I feel crazy for even posting this.

But there are a few things to take stock of here:

1) To accomplish this, I will NEED to get serious about batch-creating my content. There's literally no other way. It would be damn near impossible to script, record, edit, and publish a new YouTube video every single day, over and over. Instead, I've already got scripts for many of them outlined/written, and so I'll record a bunch of them tomorrow, edit them all together, etc.

2) I'm still not monetized on YouTube, so this month is ALL about getting my watch time up so that I can enter the YouTube Partner Program and start getting paid for creating videos. The plan after that is to funnel ALL profits back into the business: into Facebook ads to grow my newsletter, as well as back into the channel itself in the form of video editors, etc.

3) This will be insanely difficult, and I know that going into this. It will require more effort and focus and just....pure fucking determination than I've had to put into the channel so far. But I want insane results. So I have to put forth insane effort. There is no other way.

All that being said, however, at the end of August when I look back at my monetized channel, with my substantially larger subscriber base, and my increased skills at the craft of YouTube (from putting in so many reps), I know that it'll all be worth it.

Wish me luck. Wait...no...don't wish me luck. Wish me fortitude, energy, and DRIVE.

Let's do this :)

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Within My Direct Control:

Read 20 Books | 14 Books Left

Publish 8 New Time Mastery Videos | 8 Videos Left

Publish 31 YouTube Videos | 27 Videos Left

Publish 155 Medium Articles | 130 Articles Left

Completely Update My Social Media | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Patreon Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Newsletter Platforms | Incomplete

Launch Affiliate Program for My Paid Community | Incomplete

Update 20 Patreon Book Notes | 14 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 500 Authors | 449 Authors Left

Not Within My Direct Control:

Get Monetized on YouTube | 3,571 Watch Hours Left (10.7% Complete)

Negotiate 12 Newsletter Partnerships | 10 Partnerships Left

Organize 12 Instagram Collaborations | 10 Collaborations Left

Reach 117,000 Instagram Followers | 4,845 Followers Left

Reach 22,000 Threads Followers | 4,400 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 X Followers | 2,312 Followers Left

Reach 3,000 Medium Followers | 1,078 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 Facebook Followers | 729 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 LinkedIn Followers | 1,254 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 YouTube Subscribers | 8,588 Subscribers Left

Reach 10,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 5,910 Subscribers Left

Reach 1,000 Competitive Advantage Subscribers | 468 Subscribers Left

Reach 50 Competitive Advantage Members | 12 Members Left

Reach 50 Patreon Supporters | 18 Supporters Left

Note: I’ll update follower counts once per week, since it’s such a waste of time to go through all of them every single night. Also, Threads annoyingly doesn’t give exact numbers. Oh well.

Read 7 Books | 6 Books Left

Publish 4 New Time Mastery Videos | 4 Videos Left

Publish 7 YouTube Videos | 7 Videos Left

Publish 40 Medium Articles | 33 Articles Left

Record VSL for Skool Community | Recording Soon

Upload Skool Community Testimonials | Gathering Now

Upload All Old Podcast Episodes | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Facebook Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My LinkedIn Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Updated My Twitter Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Threads Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Instagram Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My YouTube Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Medium Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Reading List Page | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Now Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Website | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Newsletter | Incomplete

Completely Update My Patreon | Almost Finished

Update 14 Patreon Book Notes | 14 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 150 Authors | 139 Authors Left

Note: “Week Four” Runs From July 22nd to the End

Woke Up: 12:00PM

Sleep Quality: 91%

Pages Read: 117

Workout: Rest Day

Work Completed:

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 4x on Twitter

Posted 4x on Threads

Posted 4x on Facebook

Posted 4x on LinkedIn

Posted 1x to YouTube Community Tab

Published 1 Medium Article

Managed My Skool Community

Worked on Next YouTube Video

Worked on Updating 2 Book Notes

Worked on Updating My Various Platforms

Mapped Out My Entire August YouTube Strategy

Mapped Out My Entire August Instagram Strategy

Mapped Out My Entire August Medium Strategy

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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Today was something ELSE. I had so much energy, I had an INCREDIBLE amount of work done, and guess what…it PROBABLY had a hell of a lot to do with how much sleep I got the night before!

I’m finally being SENSIBLE about sleeping, and it’s already paying off. It’s even giving me confidence that I can rise to this massively intimidating YouTube upload schedule. If I can keep getting to bed on time, I can ROCK these daily uploads and move my business forward in a BIG way.

But hey, it’s 3:23AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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