Jenn Johns is a kindergarten teacher by day and YouTube entrepreneur by night. In just 3 years she and her husband, Paul, have turned her love of baking into Cookies Cupcakes and Cardio, a YouTube success story. In this episode she tells us how she got started, about her niche, and how she’s able to be so successful in baking—an incredibly competitive field on YouTube. Her videos routinely get hundreds of thousands of views per episode.
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In the interview we discuss how she got started, business strategy, the equipment used to make the videos, the production process, how other platforms are used (Pinterest, Facebook, Tumblr, her blog), keeping up with fan YouTube comments and email, and what’s next. Want to learn how to be a YouTube success? Listen to Jenn’s story.
Mentioned in the podcast
Jenn’s YouTube channel – Cookies Cupcakes and Cardio
Website – Cookies, Cupcakes, Cardio blog (Get to know Jenn on her About Me page)
Some takeaways from the interview.
1. Decide on your niche. You can make a niche YouTube channel out of almost any personal interest. Jenn’s niche is showing her audience that anyone can make seemingly impossible-to-make baked items.
2. Get started. These days all you need is a smartphone and good lighting. One or two $10 dollar shop lights with a 100 watt compact fluorescent bulb can brighten things up.
3. Everyone is rough around the edges when first starting. Keep making videos and you will improve as you do.
4. Go where your audience is. Use other social media platforms to drive traffic to your YouTube channel and build your brand.
5. Get a helper. As noted in the podcast, Jenn’s husband does the videoing and editing. It’s much easier to produce videos and manage the other work when the workload is shared. As noted in the podcast, Jenn’s husband learned how to make her videos from scratch.
This podcast was originally published by The Growing Entrepreneur
Author: Dave Goodwin is the founder of growinge.com, a business web hosting company, and the host of The Growing Entrepreneur iTunes podcast. Connect with Dave on Twitter @davegoodwinge.
Published: April 21, 2015
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