How to make the best YouTube videos

Checklist of items that will make each YouTube video successful

1. Engaging thumbnail

You want to make the user click on your thumbnail to watch the video. Thumbnails with a person's face do better.

The video needs to be long enough to engage people, but not long enough that they lose interest.

Ask the user for something you want.
- What the next video
- Visit your website
- Take your course etc.

You want to the user to come back and watch more as you post more. Subscriptions are the way to monetize faster.

Describe what the video is about. YouTube is a search engine and will categorize your video when people search.

Engaging and descriptive title. Make people want to click.

Plan out what you are going to say in your video.

Does not have to be perfect. But it better to have an interesting 'set' for viewers to look at.

The more fun you can have the longer you will want to do it.

This is the most important of all. Post at the same time on the same consistently for years.

YouTubers, Experts, Authors, Smart people, Entertaining people etc.

You want people to watch your video all the way through so design your video that the user wants to stay and watch.

A James Altucher technique. Give them more than they expect.