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Anyone here have tips and tricks for marketing and spreading a youtube video/channel? 

On a side note, Is there anything I should improve? I'm trying to make personal development entertaining?

http://tinyurl.com/YoungLifeThoughts

[League of Lions Org]

Hey Henry, went to check out your video. Really love where your heart is and message you're trying to get across to other teens and twenties, is a great message and point well made.

Our daughters who are now 24 & 26 gave us plenty of push back as we never allowed video games in our home here in the northern suburbs of Atlanta. We allowed them to play video games or just games in general any time they wanted to outside of our house and so long as their other work/commitments were handled.  They often complained about always getting beat when they would play games at friends houses, but still got to do so and had fun, including when we would go out in general, for pizza, arcades, Dave & Busters, etc. So we never made it like games were evil, we didn't act all crazy about it, our argument was that if we allowed them in the house, then it would be just too easy to skip homework, say it was done when it wasn't, get up and play at night while we slept, etc. and that their grades, involvement in sports and time in real relationships including with us would suffer, period, plane and simple. After a few weeks or months of testing us, they got over it.

I can tell you Henry, that probably around 20-22 or so, when they were in college or had moved out, they both came back at the holidays and talked about how gaming out of control had kept many of their friends from going to or finishing school. How they could see as adults that gaming without boundaries or limits had hurt a lot of people, then they hugged my neck crying and thanked us for protecting them, but in a nice, loving and non-argumentative way. They have both promised without being asked, that no matter how big gaming is when they have kids, they will have computers, but no games or game controllers in there house either.

So, I want to encourage you Henry, this is an important issue for you to bring to the attention of your own generation, hopefully they'll take it better from you than many of their parents. I do want to encourage you to ponder making another video or videos that go before the ones I saw that you've already made. It's just my humble opinion, but even though the avoidance/coping issue is huge, it may come after a decision that's made in the mind of our youth that they can't do more, that it's not worth the effort, that no one will notice if they even do the right thing...the hard thing and be disciplined, they may be concerned that they won't get paid off for making good choices. Now you and I and most on this forum know that's hogwash, that's crazy. If we want to live a great life, we have to build a great life and the only good shortcut is not taking a shortcut...but, society, movies, pop culture and there other friends who are already making these bad day-to-day life decisions are speaking in this way and it's rubbing off on them. So I would love to see a video, or perhaps a series of videos that tease these same gaming addiction kids out in offering to talk with them about why gaming can own and control them and why they let it...

So this is a little extreme, but I can get kind of extreme, not angry or yelling, not UFO's and such, but "hard truth". When you tell someone a hard truth, they may or may not be ready to deal with it, it my be a salty finger in their wound, but if you can deliver hard truth(s) in a way that is firm, no-nonsense but compassionate, kind, from a place of love...it can be very, very effective. If you're not careful, you can come of just feeling sorry for them, you can use too much data or info and come off patronizing...like Mr. Spock LOL. The key, is to come into a state of loving your audience before you teach them, and perhaps planting seeds is even better than teaching. To plant seeds is to realize that it might take 5 or 10 videos, like Leo uses, to reach them and that one big over the top video may shut them down instead of opening them up. It's a relationship with strangers, so it may serve you and your mission better to give them 2-5 minutes and focus on just one or two main pieces per video, but tease them, cliff hanger them into watching the next and the next and the next like M&M's or chips LOL.

Ok, so the tough love title might be "5 ways video game addiction may be sucking the life out of you like a digital vampire" and the dialogue might look something like "video games are a part of life, but they act as a subtle and often missed life and death test as they end up determining the survival of the fitest". We think that if we're not good at much, our life sucks, then all of a sudden we're good at video games, we get acceptance when we play video games, etc. and come on, video games are all good to me right? But, what if video games are a trap, a pre-qualifier that sorts out winners from losers before we ever make it to college, before we ever get a great job or start a business or have a family? What if when we win at video games and find our identity in video games we've actually been weeded out so that the people our age with "real confidence", with "real self discipline", with "real goals" and willing to do "real work" will be left standing? Later, when you outgrow video games at 25, 30 or older you'll say they got ahead because "they knew someone", because "they had parents that could pay", because "they were encouraged" when reality is, many of them would not be a success if they had allowed themselves to get trapped at the video game station.

You could back up into the issues that come before the video game addiction and you could make a 100, so just have fun and keep doing this since it's obviously close to your heart and many could use someone to speak life and truth and tough love to this area of their lives before they end up a big mess and feeling behind the 8 ball at 30!

I'll watch for more of your video postings and rooting you on from my own little mission possible Henry ;-)

Gary

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@League of Lions Org Thank you for the kind love! 

 

I personally believe video games should be allowed in the house but the parents should teach their kids about its danger and allow the kid to play the real video games, life, to see that their is so much out there. Of course this is time consuming and varies factors play into its success. 

I considered doing short videos of 2-3 minutes but decided to solely focus on conveying the information in an entertaining form one way or another. As long as it is entertaining, people will keep watching and coming back.

Although your point about hard truth being slammed into people's faces is very valid, I have sewn seeds into people's mind which in due time, sprouts a plant with blatant truth. On a side note, I plan to be less aggressive(Main reason in the video game video was nervousness!). 

I think it would be interesting if parents would focus on getting their kids addicted to life- activities, socializing, passions etc. Especially at a young age so they would likely more addicted to life's drugs and realize how much more potent it is and more rewarding. Also if the mindset that life is a video game is instilled and their is always a way to the next level and have fun doing it, then I believe we would see a domino effect of progress.