Are you afraid of getting SUPER narrow with your niche? If you’re afraid you won’t find your audience, we’re crushing that myth today! Phone fashion YouTuber and Bootcamp alum, Kimbyrleigha, returns to share how she became the Pop Sockets Queen with 200k subscribers.

“You don’t need to have hundreds of thousands of followers to have influence.”

The last time Kimbyrleigha was on, she spoke about how she got started with YouTube as a creative outlet in 2015. She was only hoping to earn enough YouTube money to quit her gruelling full-time job and take care of her daughter. And by 2017, not only did she leave that job, but she had started building her affiliate empire working with over 100 companies.

“Anything that can make me better, why would I not do that?”

Now, she’s back and better than ever! Kimbyrleigha niched down even further to focus on phone cases and Pop Sockets and has opened a thriving store selling her own phone cases. She’s even been dubbed the Pop Sockets Queen!

“If I don’t feel a video, I shouldn’t do it… YouTube is going to be there tomorrow.”

Kimbyrleigha leaned into her excitement and passion for phone fashion, and with her new niche, she’s getting the brand deals she had dreamed of. She’s sharing everything about how that advice and others she received in the Bootcamp helped her take things to a whole new level. Kimbyrleigha now has over 200k subscribers and 14 million total video views.

“A year on YouTube is like 10 years… that year you can tremendously grow, change and evolve.”

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Are you just getting started on YouTube and have no idea how you’re going to convert your 20 subscribers into 50,000? No need to worry, we have the full scoop in our latest YouTube case study. Fashion and beauty YouTuber and Bootcamp alum, Sindhu, walks us through her explosive growth from 50 views per video to millions.

“Once people find you and they think your content is good, they’re going to expect more from you, and you need to fulfil that.”

Sindhu is a star student from the Zero to Influencer Bootcamp whose experience with growing her channel is a really interesting and informative YouTube case study. She started her YouTube experience in 2008, but she pulled down her channel out of fear of what her family would say. In 2017, she decided to get serious and try again. So Sindhu joined the Bootcamp, changed her niche, and exploded from her 200 subscribers to 50,000 in 6 months!

“YouTube was the best platform for me to talk. I’m not a blogging person, I can’t sit and write.”

When Sindhu moved from India with her husband in 2014, she initially started her YouTube channel as a means of connecting with new people and building friendships in her new home in America. She is in love with old Indian traditions and practices of beauty and fashion that were passed down from her grandmothers, and she believes that through YouTube she can keep those traditions strong and pass them on through her videos.

“Every time someone tells me they heard compliments and they felt really good about themselves, that gives me a lot of happiness.”

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What does it really look like to go from 0 to 50k subscribers in 4 years? Between competing against many top channels in a tough niche, finding ideas that convert into views and building loyal relationships with complete strangers, what does it take to carve out a name for yourself on YouTube? Beauty & lifestyle YouTuber and Bootcamp alum Ashley Klaty shares her journey growing her channel and her biggest takeaways from the Zero To Influence Bootcamp.

“You can always learn and benefit in some way from something.”

Ashley started on YouTube in 2014 just for fun. She wasn’t consistent, and she didn’t really have a clear goal. But in 2016 she fell in love with YouTube all over again and decided to get serious about it. Starting with only 2,000 subscribers, just 2 years later she is close to 50,000 subscribers. It wasn’t by coincidence though.

“Typically, if there are around 10 videos on a product, I scratch it… at that point, it doesn’t stand a chance.”

How did Ashley do it? She learned all she could from the Zero To Influence Bootcamp course and community and used those insights to level up her channel. Ashley is a full-time photographer living in Kansas and she has the drive to inspire women to love themselves by freeing all the expectations placed upon them and to pursue a life full of happiness.

“I like to go off what my subscribers are telling me because if they're excited it usually means other people are too.”

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The last time she was on she had 30,000 subscribers. Now she has over 400 thousand and its only been a year! Luxury & style YouTuber Shea Whitney shares the most impactful lessons from her rise to the top on YouTube while maintaining her sanity in a hectic world of family and a full-time job.

“Fluffy is easy, but that’s not gonna get you results.”

Since Shea started, she’s always tried to maintain a release schedule of 2-3 videos per week. As you can imagine, that isn’t easy when kids and a full-time job are in the mix. But being the #GirlBoss she is, she makes it work any way she can. Shea believes you can have anything you want in life if you’re willing to go for it. The biggest tipping point for her channel was the video she made titled “10 Ways to Always Look Expensive” which, over a year later, has over 4 million views is still getting her new subscribers.

“I want the person when they click on my videos to not know what to expect.”

Shea started her YouTube channel in September 2016. In only a year she hit 100k, and it’s only been 11 months since then, but she’s already at 400k. She uses her instincts and an unusual approach to finding inspiration for creating engaging and high-quality videos for her luxury-loving and stylish female audience. She lives with her husband and two small boys and continues to work her full-time dream job as a Human Resources Specialist.

“When YouTube sees there’s a boost in subscribers, it’s going to promote it even more, and it’s just like this big cycle.”

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When it comes to growing and optimizing your YouTube channel, there are few tools as well known and loved as Tubebuddy. Tubebuddy’s head of video production and community management Andrew Kan stops by to give all the details so you can crush it at YouTube using SEO. 

“YouTube wants to make you money… because when you make money, YouTube makes money.”

YouTube SEO isn’t a buzzword you can ignore. When it comes to making serious growth, it starts by understanding that YouTube is a giant search engine, and if your content is optimized for search, YouTube will help you promote your content. Forget the notion that “the algorithm is working against you”. The algorithm will be your greatest ally when you start doing SEO correctly, and this episode dives deep into how you can start doing that.

“A random viral hit isn’t as fun as a calculated success strategy.”

Andrew has been a YouTuber since 2007. He started with a passion for film and has helped build brand channels over the years. Brands like Family Feud, BBC and Fox. But he has connected with his love for helping others and through his work at Tubebuddy, he is making their informative videos and has helped our own bootcampers grow their channels. Listen in for the all the components to having a successful YouTube channel.

“If your own twist is enough, people will stay and become invested in the channel.”

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