What I wish I knew before starting my YouTube channel

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If you're a health practitioner building on YouTube right now, there's a good chance you're making the same mistakes I made in 2007 when I started with zero strategy and no idea why nothing was growing. 

I've since built two channels with tens of millions of views combined and generated millions in revenue directly from YouTube. 

Here are the six things I wish I had known before I started.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Why Most Health Expert YouTube Channels Fail to Grow
1:19 Lesson 1: Consistency Without Strategy Is Just Noise
3:31 Lesson 2: Niche Down or Get Buried by the Algorithm
4:36 Why Chasing Views Will Hurt Your Coaching Business
6:14 Lesson 3: Subscribers Don't Pay Bills. Conversions Do.
10:27 Lesson 4: Your Title and Thumbnail Outweigh Your Content
13:33 Thumbnail and Title Mistakes Most Health Creators Make
14:48 Lesson 5: Stop Treating YouTube Like a Vending Machine
16:35 Lesson 6: View Velocity Is the Metric That Actually Predicts Growth
18:12 How to Maximize View Velocity From Day One

❓ QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Q: How long does it take to make money from a YouTube channel?
A: There's no guaranteed timeline. Revenue depends on whether you have an existing audience, a sales process, and a conversion system in place behind your videos. Without those foundations, treat YouTube as a long-term compounding asset rather than an immediate revenue source.

Q: How many YouTube subscribers do you need to build a coaching business?
A: Far fewer than you think. With 27,000 subscribers, Healthpreneur has generated millions in revenue. Subscriber count matters far less than having a conversion mechanism that turns viewers into clients.

Q: What is view velocity on YouTube and why does it matter?
A: View velocity is how many views your video accumulates in the first 24 to 48 hours after posting. The faster those early views come in, the more YouTube pushes your content to new audiences. It is the strongest single predictor of total long-term views.

📱 RESOURCES
Website: https://healthpreneurgroup.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/healthpreneur
Podcast: The Healthpreneur Show with Yuri Elkaim: https://healthpreneur.buzzsprout.com

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ABOUT YURI ELKAIM: 

I am Yuri Elkaim, founder of HealthPreneur. For over 20 years I have helped health coaches, practitioners, and wellness experts build seven and eight figure businesses online. This channel is where I share the exact strategies, funnels, and frameworks we use with our clients every day. New videos drop weekly.

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