Aprilynne Alter is a YouTuber who abandoned her 20,000 subscriber channel to completely start over a year ago. Over that next 8 months, she tried everything. Nothing was working until she got 755,000 views on a video she posted with less than a 1,000 subscribers.

In this episode, she'll take us through the process of how it happened from ideation to upload, so you can do it too.

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TIMESTAMPS

(00:00) The Formula for a Breakthrough Video

(00:43) It All Starts With an Idea

(05:23) Why Make a THAT Idea

(07:41) Creating the Perfect Title and Thumbnail

(14:46) The Packaging That Didn’t Make it

(16:57) Gathering Good Feedback

(19:40) The Most Thorough Research Process You’ve Ever Seen

(33:04) Writing a Script for YouTube

(36:50) What Influences High Retention?

(39:28) How to Edit a Breakthrough Video

(41:44) What You Didn’t Know About Uploading

(44:06) Why Was This THE Video that Broke Through

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