Waching daily Dec 27 2017

hey guys it's Danielle with Danielle and Minnesota vlogs and we are quickly

saying goodbye to 2017 and hello to 2018 if you watched any my videos you know

I'm a big planner and excited for my 2018 planner um so this time of year

like planning for the new year and resolutions and lists like this is my

this is my time this is my Super Bowl I started my youtube channel in March so

I've got about ten months under my belt I can't believe that not quite a year

but pretty close and even though I am a planner and I would consider myself an

analytical thinker I didn't do much planning or like much strategy on my

youtube video I kind of just pumped out three videos every week just whatever I

want and I would pump out and I'm glad I did it that way because it was really

scary for me to start this way outside my comfort zone

so I'm glad I just kind of like jumped off the cliff and did it but now I kind

of wanted to be more strategic and thoughtful with the content that I put

out so because of the time of the year I spent some time thinking about my plans

for my channel I'm 2018 and my goals and I thought I'd share it with you

so my new planner which I have a video on has a blog section so I'm using it

for my YouTube and what I did is I just took a little sticky note and I went to

my analytics and I wrote down my top ten videos by number of views just to kind

of see my most popular content and I know people will tell you views don't

matter you do it for you well they matter so let's be realistic here they

matter so I just kind of want to list them and to be fair one of them that was

in my top ten I didn't enjoy that video I wouldn't want to do

another video like that so in that case I crossed it off the views didn't matter

and I added an eleventh one to become my new ten and then what I did is I kind of

tried to find similarities between them and lumped them in categories and I came

up with four different themes or categories at my top 10 videos fit into

that I'm passionate about and I really want to focus on those four things for

the year 2018 I did like a really easy ghetto vision board on my planner so in

the middle I wrote danielle minnesota blogs a lifestyle channel and then i put

a sticky note on each corner with the themes that i'd like to focus on and

that way i can just look at this every time I open my planner to the blog

section and just be grounded and focused on these four topics so they are

planning obviously I'm glad that those videos did well for my channel at least

I love to plan this video would fit into that planning foot category I am a

planner the second one is health and wellness I love health and wellness

working out doing like food videos and cooking videos and funny enough my top

two videos overwhelmingly are random but they are how to sprout black beans and

how to grill vegetables on the grill I always thought they were really random

and maybe they are but I if you are new to me have been eating mostly vegan diet

recently and it kind of dawned on me that those are both you know vegan food

videos so I'm hoping it's not a coincidence I'm excited about sharing

some of my vegan journey with you I don't think this channel will ever

become a vegan channel but I am going to share about that you know every month a

video or two about eating healthy and working out and all that jazz because I

love it third is ADHD my son has ADHD and

anxiety and maybe a sensory processing disorder and I definitely want to open

up about that more that was really scary for me to do and I'm glad I did it I

connected with a lot of other moms through that and I've learned through

that and I'm super excited I have some collabs coming up with a youtuber who is

a much bigger than me so I'm very humbled that she wants to

work with me and I'm excited to definitely focus on that kind of content

in 2018 and then lastly everyone's favorite

video cleaning I like cleaning videos I love being a consumer of cleaning videos

I like making them also they are hard to do if you're not a youtuber at least for

me I think they're one of the hardest they are very time intensive to edit but

I do like doing them I think it kind of goes with my planning mentality I like

planning out different cleaning projects and tackling them so I do want to

continue doing them and like I said this is my vision board I work full-time in

two weeks a core group of us get together and we go over our mission as a

company and you know our foundational goals and it just grounds us every two

weeks we think let's remember why we're doing this and as every choice that we

make fit into our mission company our core principles and so that's what I

kind of want this to be to me I want to be reminded of the things that I want to

focus on I want to focus on and touch on all of these topics every month and of

course I can change and throw in some other videos but I do want to be more

intentional with each choice I bring I'm also gonna continue at two videos a week

I went from three to two a couple months ago

I like that for my lifestyle I think it it's better that way for my sanity level

I can be more thoughtful and put more time into editing

so I'm gonna continue that and as of right now Sunday and Wednesdays are

working well for me for upload days I have never met anyone else who likes

Sunday to upload but Sunday's like Danielle Minnesota vlogs that's always

my most viewed day even if I don't upload on a Sunday it's usually my top

day of the week so I'm gonna continue writing the Sunday train and I kind of

arbitrarily picked Wednesday so we'll see how it goes and you know if I do a

collab that day will obviously change based on the other person's needs and

schedule and you know once in a while I'll throw in a third bonus video on a

random Friday so I'm excited okay lastly real quick I'm gonna share my 20 18

subscriber goal for you it's really a hard and big goal for me

so I'm a little nervous putting it out there but I think that

speaking your goals that loud does something so I'm almost to 300

subscribers right now I'm very proud and humbled by my progress but it has been a

bit slower than I'd hoped for and I would like to be at 2,000 subscribers by

the end of 2018 which if I continue on the pace that I've been going there I'm

not even gonna be close so I'm really banking on some exponential growth in

2018 again it's a very hard goal for my little humble channel but on the other

hand I know people who've gotten there in a couple months so I know it's

achievable but it's gonna take a lot of work and I might be really embarrassed

at the end of 2018 that I put this out there but I also might make it and I'm

gonna work hard to do it and because I'm a planner kind of a nerd that way I made

well I don't know if you can see it yeah I made just a simple easy chart and

pasted it in my planner with the different months and here is my goal of

2,000 so at the end of every month this year I'm gonna fill it in with how many

subscribers I'm at and hopefully I will be making a video in a year showing that

I've met this school I hope so those are my youtube goals for the 2018

and kind of the direction you can expect my channel to go in I hope you enjoyed

it if you did please give it a thumbs up please subscribe help me inch one more

closer to that goal of 2,000 in December of 2018 and Happy New Year you guys

we'll see you later bye

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