The Video Creatr Podcast

Physical Therapists help people who get injured improve their range of movement and quality of life by strengthening their muscles. Dr. Renee Ostertag’s YouTube channel is a great place to find simple exercises to make you feel better after sitting too much or not moving enough. 

Dr. Renee Ostertag is both a PT and Psychotherapist who focuses on Mind-Body Relationship Therapy. Dr. Renee believes that regulating the nervous system is the key to freeing yourself from the damaging effects of trauma, lessening physical pain, and satisfying the curious mind. Dr. Renee’s focus is on eliminating pain without drugs, surgery, or expensive procedures that will keep you dependent on others. 

In today’s podcast, Grant and Dr. Renee Ostertag share about Dr. Renee’s YouTube success and how it all started. Dr. Renee’s YouTube channel has reached almost 35,000 subscribers by helping them accomplish their wellness goals. 

Check out the Episode Highlights

00:34    The secret behind Dr. Renee’s seaweed arms exercise
03:20    Dr. Renee’s business aside from her YouTube channel
05:40    How YouTube affect Dr. Renee’s practice as a Physical Therapist
07:11    The difference between helping people in-person versus online
12:45    Dr. Renee’s gift of listening to people
15:17    Dr. Renee’s advice to people who want to succeed
18:53    The key to finding the balance between intellect and intuition
21:50    Dr. Renee’s philosophy for her YouTube channel
24:51    Dr. Renee’s YouTube channel journey 
26:18    How Dr. Renee’s videos on Facebook give traction to her channel
29:27    Dr. Renee’s overwhelming YouTube success 
31:19    How Dr. Renee handles negative comments on her channel
34:08    Dr. Renee’s posture tips to people who sit too much
38:12    Dr. Renee’s advice to YouTube starters

Links/ Resources Mentioned

Follow Renee Ostertag’s Instagram
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Watch Renee Ostertag’s latest videos on Tiktok
Check out the Renee Ostertag website
Renee Ostertag's YouTube channel

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Baller Boot Camp

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If you’re just starting your business on YouTube, you should increase your subscribers as part of your marketing campaign. To get more subscribers, you should upload videos that are highly engaging and interesting like the influencer Theresa Roemer. Theresa is one of the most promising Fitness Instructors, a Social Media Influencer, Entrepreneur, Author, Former Bodybuilder, and Philanthropist of this time. 

Theresa Roemer’s lavish lifestyle and her huge closet have been featured on ABC News, Good Morning America. She lives on Theresa's Ranch, which is gorgeous and huge in a country estate. Because of her interesting life, Theresa has a great number of views, followers, and subscribers on YouTube. Theresa Roemer’s YouTube channel, Theresa Roemer THE LIFE OF AN INFLUENCER has reached 147,000 subscribers and over 28 million total channel views.

Grant and Theresa share how Theresa Roemer started from milking cows to being her boss in her business. 

Check out the Episode Highlights

01:32   How Theresa Roemer’s YouTube channel started
03:10   Does Theresa cover anything to make her life interesting 
04:39   How Theresa’s closet got featured on Good Morning America
06:56   Is Theresa Roemer’s life worthy to be on YouTube
09:20   How Theresa Roemer became her boss
13:32   What makes Theresa’s channel appealing to viewers
16:41   How YouTube affected Theresa’s business
20:44   How Theresa maintains an organic content
24:13   How collab with other YouTubers affected Theresa’s channel growth
26:18   Theresa’s secret formula for creating her content
30:09   Theresa trusts her intuition over YouTube’s analytics
32:54   Theresa’s experience on YouTube shorts
38:41   Theresa’s advice to people who are starting their business on YouTube

Links/ Resources Mentioned

Follow Theresa Roemer’s Instagram
Like and subscribe to Theresa Roemer’s Facebook
Share Theresa Roemer’s latest tweets on Twitter 
Check out the Theresa Roemer website
Theresa Roemer's YouTube channel

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Baller Boot Camp

Get all your YouTube content done in 1 hour a week.

As a creator, knowing how to handle burnout in the hybrid world of YouTube is essential. Feeling tired of doing the same thing and being filled up with pressure could be the source of your burnout. To have a smooth-running business on YouTube, you need to get things under control and create content that would make you and your community happy. But, how can we do that? 

In today’s episode, Grant and Augie talk about burnout and how it affects the life of YouTubers. They share tips and advice on dealing with burnout and having a healthy mindset to focus on monetizing your business on YouTube. 

Check out the Episode Highlights

00:50   First, listen to your body
05:05   Take a fun side project
09:15   Rethink your workstation
15:43   Reset by taking a vacation
24:20   Burnout as a sign to start something new
26:32   Create a systematized process for your channel
39:35   Timeblock in creating your content 
41:31   It’s okay to have a backlog 
42:52   List video topics in the spreadsheet
43:37   Limit your time on social media

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Every video you upload has to have a purpose and an intent. You can’t just upload random videos and hope for the best. It’s crucial to decide from the start the objective of your channel if you want your YouTube journey to succeed. The niche you’ll be targeting is the foundation of a YouTube business. 

Many people already know their niche when they decide to start a YouTube channel because they want to focus on something they usually do. Bill Jelen also known as Mr. Excel has been practicing his niche since 1998 by writing books about Excel and sharing his knowledge on YouTube in 2008. No doubt he’s an MVP (Most valuable professional) of Microsoft! But how was he able to come up in this niche? 

In today’s podcast, Grant and Bill share how it all started on Bill’s journey with Excel and how he was able to monetize this niche on YouTube.

Bill Jelen’s YouTube channel, Mr. Excel, has reached 121,000 subscribers and over 16 million channel views. Bill is also a writer and an ultimate expert in Excel. 

Check out the Episode Highlights

01:48   How Bill come up with his books about Excel
06:00   Bill’s strategy when he started Mr. Excel channel
10:38   How Mr. Excel affected Bill’s website mrexcel.com
12:25   How Bill develop a system for his content
17:15   Bill’s transition from selling books to creating a YouTube channel
23:07   How Bill crafted Mr. Excel as his identity on YouTube
25:17   How Mr. Excel’s website boosted Bill’s community engagement 
30:27   YouTube as a platform to answer people’s questions
33:27   How Mr. Excel affected Bill’s life
37:17   Bill’s advice on starting your own online business

Links/ Resources Mentioned

Check out the Mr. Excel website
Mr. Excel's YouTube channel

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Treesicle

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Baller Boot Camp 

Get all your YouTube content done in 1 hour a week.

YouTube is a continuously growing platform because of its accessibility to users today. YouTube makes it easy to get started and share your content with a large audience. The simplicity with which people can get started on YouTube has contributed immensely to attracting millions of content creators worldwide. 

As a creator, uploading content to your channel is the first step. It’s vital to check the statistics of how your video goes when it gets published online. In this episode, Grant and Augie share their insights about the 6 YouTube stats crucial for your channel’s organic growth. They will also share the strategies and techniques to increase the metrics, analytics, and the number of channel views on YouTube. 

Check out the Episode Highlights
01:38   The importance of checking your YouTube analytics
04:40   Create thumbnails with a catchy keywords
08:08   How to get a high percentage click-through rate
12:13   Ways to retain your audience
15:02   Get more watch time with long videos
19:38   The relevance of video recommendations
23:24   Organically boost your YouTube subscribers
27:18   Audience engagement as a great strategy
33:11   Growing an audience while satisfying your current viewers
39:50   Double your watch time with unique viewers

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Get all your YouTube content done in 1 hour a week.

If you think that meme would only make us laugh then you are wrong! Memes on social media pages also provide publicity, promotional visits, and business advertisements. It’s even surprising that making memes is now considered a career that companies already have positions for meme-makers! FreshPrinceYuuup, a content creator and an accomplished entertainer on YouTube, will tell us what it takes to be a meme-lord by getting ideas from Twitter posts and creating videos from them on YouTube. 

In this episode, Grant and FreshPrinceYuuup discuss how FreshPrinceYuuup’s career as a content creator started on YouTube and how it evolved over the years.

Fresh’s YouTube channel, FreshPrinceYuuup’s, is a veteran in the business. His channel now has over 144,000 subscribers and over 29 million total channel views for 11 years.

Check out the Episode Highlights
01:08   The story of FreshPrinceYuuup’s YouTube channel
02:56   How FreshPrinceYuuup get ideas for his content
05:50   FreshPrinceYuuup’s YouTube channel as a business
10:38   How FreshPrinceYuuup utilizes social media platforms
16:12   FreshPrinceYuuup’s content changed over the years
19:53   FreshPrinceYuuup’s job aside from YouTube
21:46   How FreshPrinceYuuup come up with funny content
28:28   The reason why FreshPrinceYuuup’s channel turned into a family-friendly 
33:52   How FreshPrinceYuuup plays around with trends
35:08   FreshPrinceYuuup’s new channel about video gaming 
41:04   How FreshPrinceYuuup deals and maintains his community
45:19   FreshPrinceYuuup advice for starting creators

Links/ Resources Mentioned
FreshPrinceYuup YouTube Channel

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Vidchops
Baller Boot Camp 

Get all your YouTube content done in 1 hour a week.

There's so much more to being a YouTuber than just creating videos. When you start a YouTube channel, you’re starting a business, and like any business, it comes with strategies. 

Just because you posted a video on YouTube does not guarantee that it will quickly go viral and be seen by millions of viewers. You need to have realistic expectations and creativity when it comes to your video topics.

In this episode, Grant and Augie share strategies and techniques to create video topics for your brand. Plus, we’ll be able to know how they apply these strategies on their channels. 

Check out the Episode Highlights
00:48   Grant’s video topic strategies
02:20   How to pick a trending topic and be creative with it
09:36   Smart ways to use video tags and keywords 
13:46   Making search engines (SEO) your bestfriend
19:28   How having a unique brand resonates with your audience
26:11   Creating reviews related to your niche
29:38   How controversial topics can draw attention
33:04   Why challenge videos can be appealing

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Get all your YouTube content done in 1 hour a week.

The world of video editing has changed over the years with the help of digital systems and platforms. Not only has the equipment used to edit visuals, audio, and graphics become much cheaper, but more importantly, it is less complicated for beginners. YouTube tutorials about video editing allow a more comprehensive range of people to learn and use applications to edit their projects and others’. Billy Rybka’s YouTube channel, named after him, is our first stop for advanced techniques, transitions, and effects for better videos.

In this episode, Billy Rybka shares how his YouTube journey started, tips and tricks on video editing, and even his software recommendations! Billy also shares how his YouTube channel saved him when he lost everything because he failed to manage his team. 

Billy Rybka’s YouTube channel has 112,000 subscribers and over 6.6 million views in 3 years. 

Check out the Episode Highlights

00:41  The secret behind Billy Rybka’s aesthetic thumbnails
03:24   Difference between DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro
06:30   How Billy Rybka’s started his YouTube channel 
08:59   Building a business on YouTube and earning money from it
12:18   Billy Rybka’s monetization and marketing strategy
30:11   The moment Billy had a realization of his past failures
42:37   What Billy Rybka teaches us from his past experiences

Links/ Resources Mentioned

Check out the DaVinci Resolve website
Billy Rybka's YouTube channel

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Treesicle

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Get all your YouTube content done in 1 hour a week.

If you’re wondering how to start, grow and make money from your small YouTube channel, this podcast episode is right for you! Your channel may seem impossible right now but there's a lot behind the YouTube sponsorship than meets the eye. 

Nowadays, a lot of people, especially the younger generations, are turning to online platforms for information, entertainment, and advertising. This has been a great way for brands to attract people and maintain their existing connections. Promotions distributed through bloggers and YouTubers are impactful when it comes to influencing the audience’s purchasing decisions. As a creator, how would you attract companies to gain sponsorship and know which sponsors are right for your brand?

In this episode, Grant and Augie talk about how important YouTube Sponsorship is, tips on how to negotiate with companies, and ways how to be creative and comfortable with sponsors. 

Check out the Episode Highlights

01:16   How Augie started to get attention from companies
04:30   Knowing your worth for Sponsorship
11:34   How Augie’s network got him his sponsors
16:15   How sponsorship works according to Augie
23:08   Augie’s strategies on how to be creative with your Ads
25:50   How to avoid sketchy sponsors
30:14   How to negotiate with midroll sponsorship

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Treesicle

Augie Johnston
Vidchops
Baller Boot Camp 

Get all your YouTube content done in 1 hour a week.

Fashion is one of the most critical industries in our world today and occupies the center ground in modern pop culture. It has become one of the primary ways people express their personality and distinguish themselves from those around them. Beth Djalali's YouTube channel is the one we can check when it comes to having style at a certain age, being fashionable on your OOTDs, and being comfortable with how you present yourself. 

In this episode, Beth talks with Grant about her journey on YouTube, and why for her, connecting with her audience on YouTube is better than writing blogs. Get insights into how Beth was able to monetize her wardrobe with the use of YouTube.

Beth Djalali is a writer and has been an inspiration when it comes to styling and fashion. Beth’s YouTube channel is named after her and has reached over 183,000 subscribers and 25.6 million total channel views in just 6 years. 

Check out the Episode Highlights

01:13   How Beth Djalali's YouTube channel started
03:06   How YouTube helps Beth connect with her audience
05:07   How YouTube affected Beth’s life
08:46   Beth Djalali’s monetization strategy
11:24   How Beth connects with other creators from her demographic
14:48   What Beth shared about her YouTube Shorts strategy
18:29   How Beth’s creative team looks like
21:12   Beth’s journey in creating YouTube content
23:23   Ways on how Beth interacts with her audience
26:34   What’s next for Beth Djalali’s YouTube channel
31:38   Beth Djalali’s upload schedule and strategy
35:32   How Beth decides and reach out to Sponsors
38:24   Beth’s advice to YouTube creators who are still starting

Links/ Resources Mentioned

Follow Beth Djalani’s Instagram
Like and subscribe to Beth Djalali’s Facebook
Visit Beth Djalani’s website
Check out Beth Djalali’s Pinterest
Share Beth Djalalis’s latest tweets on Twitter
Beth Djalali's YouTube channel

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Grant Ball
Treesicle

Augie Johnston
Vidchops
Baller Boot Camp 

Get all your YouTube content done in 1 hour a week.