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In this video you're going to learn how to add a channel icon and also how to add a description to your

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YouTube channel and add links to your other social media profiles.

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So to get started you want to just click on customized channel after you've created your channel and

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then you have the option here to add your channel icon so add on can just click on the Edit button and

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click on edits and then you really want to upload your channel icon.

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Now for this example all this upload a picture of myself here.

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But really you want this picture to be something that is either a closeup of your face if it's a personal

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channel or the logo for your company and you want to keep this as simple as possible because this will

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be shrunk down and appear underneath your videos.

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So you really want to keep it simple and use the same logo that you might be using on other social media

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platforms as well.

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So once you have created your icon and I did that in and you want to come back and start to add a channel

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description now it may take five or 10 minutes to actually get that icon to show up.

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So don't worry if it doesn't show up straightaway.

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It just takes a little bit of time to come through.

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And then let us have a look at the really about page.

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This is where we really want to add in some information about the company or your own channel so you

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can see the first option here is challenge description sort of click this open you really want to write

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a little bit about your business here on what you're all about.

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Now I know this can be hard to do especially if you're just starting out.

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So one of the best things that you can do is just come in to YouTube and have a look at the description

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of similar businesses to you.

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So let's have a look at this.

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Look see here compering.

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And if we come across to their bite page we can see their description here.

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So obviously they mentioned what they're about we love hair and so they create tutorials kind of describing

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what their channel is about and at kind of describe what all the videos are better.

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It's not just the company but also water the videos really abide and make it clear in the first couple

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of words they've done here.

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What is the key word that could be Instagram if you're teaching Instagram could be digital marketing

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could be law Cobi whatever real estate.

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So really get get make it clear what you're all about.

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Right from the start and then like they done here this is a good idea if you want to promote some of

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their social channels you can do that.

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So the best thing to do is really have a look at a couple of similar similar channels.

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And if you don't know who those channels are just start to type in some of your key words into YouTube

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and you're going to find their videos pretty quickly.

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And then you can click through to the About section.

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So after you've heard your description you have some other details to fill here.

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You cannot in an e-mail so people can contact you directly through YouTube for business inquiries.

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You can go ahead and select your country there so just change this to Ireland.

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And then here you can also add in links to your different social media profiles or web sites or if you

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click and you can really just paste the URL if you want.

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So for example

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and if I click add here I actually do need to specify a name.

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You can just say Web site and you can see this shows of his web site and actually underneath here the

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channel arch it shows up as well.

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So if we look at our example we can see they get luxury hair extensions that's actually a smart thing

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to do to show people exactly what to do and what they can get by clicking here.

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And then you can also see that they have links to their other social media profiles as well which they've

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put in here.

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So now that you know Heidi you are a channel icon and a description email and links to social media

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profiles.

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Go ahead and do that for yourself and use existing channels as inspiration and to help you speed up

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this process.