How YouTube Changed My Life

In today’s newsletter:

☑️ Life Changer

☑️ AI Voiceover Your Shorts

☑️ End of Days? Or Just The Beginning?

💥 YouTube Changed My Life

It may sound crazy, but I honestly believe that starting a YouTube channel has helped me become a better dad, husband, friend, colleague and employee.

When I finally put my big boy pants on and took the YouTube plunge, it was terrifying, but in hindsight one of the best decisions I ever made.

Which is why I keep banging that drum and telling YOU to start a channel of your own.

Why was it so life changing? In what ways can it help you?

Find out by watching this….

▶️ YouTube Just Added AI Voiceovers

YouTube are a funny old sort at times. Over the last few years its been generally accepted that AI voiceovers don’t create the best viewer experience. The robotic voice can really put people off.

Many people assumed that YouTube would never monetise a channel with AI voiceovers, though I never did see that specified anywhere, so could just have been general feeling from the community rather than 100% fact.

Yet this week, they have released the ability to add AI voiceovers to your YouTube shorts videos. Currently only available to Android users, the process is very simple.

You can check it out here.

My first impression is that the voice sounds abysmal compared to some of the offerings out there, my favourite being software called Murf.

Let me know what you think?

▶️ End Of Days? Or Just The Beginning?

In a week where one dodgy bit of code took out IT systems across the world, affecting banking, travel, retail, hospitals, and so much more. It did highlight one of the best ways you could start a YouTube channel.

So my day job is in IT. I am chief switcher off and on again. 20 plus years of technical blaggery. I have experienced monumental mistakes like the poor person at Crowdstrike, just not to the same scale.

Whilst my YouTube channel isn’t about IT in its truest form, I do help people with technical issues, usually tutorials around software for creators:

• Creating Images Using Canva AI

• Recording Your Screen Using Filmora Video Editor

• YouTube Tool To Create Videos Faster

I took the skills I have developed from my day job and applied them to YouTube.

A pure IT channel would bore me to tears!

Here’s something to consider though. Many channels are directly linked to the creators day job.

Whether you are an engineer, baker, firefighter, security guard, dancer, plumber, joiner, dolphin trainer.

There are viewers looking to learn more about your profession and skills, especially if it leads to their problems being solved.

But your viewer can also be someone in the same field of work. Looking for support and inspiration.

You know what the added bonus is? The X factor that makes this a great way of choosing what your channel should be about?

Chances are that this will make you better at your job, maybe even get you closer to that promotion and payrise.

I firmly believe that when you take your knowledge and teach others, it re-enforces that knowledge in a way you might not otherwise.

You have to find ways to explain the thing to others, possibly simplifying it or finding clever ways to illustrate your teachings. This gives you a different perspective and will improve your own knowledge.

So think about it. Could your channel relate to your profession?

👋 Let’s Connect

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I truly appreciate you taking the time to read this, speak soon, Jon.