WEBVTT 00:00.570 --> 00:06.330 Let's create your YouTube channel in this video and the following videos I'm going to walk you through 00:06.360 --> 00:09.090 creating your channel design your channel. 00:09.090 --> 00:14.760 Tips for making better videos making your video chat your channel itself more successful. 00:14.760 --> 00:20.100 So I hope this is very beneficial to you if you have not started your YouTube channel yet. 00:20.160 --> 00:25.710 For those of you who already have a channel there might be videos in this series that you already know 00:25.710 --> 00:26.160 how to do. 00:26.160 --> 00:27.780 So go ahead and skip those videos. 00:27.780 --> 00:30.320 But for those of you who don't follow along. 00:30.570 --> 00:36.510 So the first thing to do is to sign in and to start if you don't have a YouTube channel or a Google 00:36.510 --> 00:36.990 account. 00:36.990 --> 00:39.420 Go to YouTube and click sign in. 00:39.510 --> 00:42.170 You'll want to sign in with a Google account. 00:42.180 --> 00:48.020 If you already have one if you don't just click the more options button and click Create account and 00:48.030 --> 00:53.790 you'll sign up for a new Google account and walk through the typical things like setting up your e-mail 00:53.790 --> 00:56.130 address setting up your password. 00:56.130 --> 01:00.540 All of that kind of stuff if you're signing up for an account for the very first time you might need 01:00.540 --> 01:03.100 to verify your account with a text. 01:03.120 --> 01:05.310 So I'm going to go ahead and do that right now. 01:05.580 --> 01:10.320 Awesome so I actually created a new e-mail to show you how it would look if you were starting a new 01:10.320 --> 01:11.320 channel from scratch. 01:11.320 --> 01:14.150 All you have to do is click on continue to YouTube. 01:14.220 --> 01:16.060 Now you have your account set up. 01:16.080 --> 01:19.560 So what we're going to do next is start building out our channel. 01:19.560 --> 01:25.110 But first let me show you if you already have a gmail account or even if you have a YouTube channel 01:25.110 --> 01:27.750 How do you create a new channel from that same account. 01:27.810 --> 01:33.330 If you already have an e-mail you use with Gmail or with YouTube it might be better to actually just 01:33.330 --> 01:40.060 create a new channel that is already connected so you don't have to sign in with multiple accounts. 01:40.080 --> 01:44.920 So here with my videos go online account what I can do is actually go to YouTube settings. 01:44.940 --> 01:49.640 So if you click on your icon up there go to YouTube settings in the overview. 01:49.650 --> 01:55.890 If I click under additional features see all my channels or create a new channel I can see all of the 01:55.890 --> 01:57.350 channels that I've started. 01:57.360 --> 02:03.240 Wow I've actually started a lot of channels and the top left I can click Create a new channel and to 02:03.240 --> 02:08.490 do that you're creating a brand account for your business or brand perfect so I'll call this filles 02:10.060 --> 02:11.870 finance click Create. 02:11.890 --> 02:12.210 Great. 02:12.210 --> 02:17.270 So now I have my channel set up which is a different channel from my regular channel. 02:17.380 --> 02:18.940 And we should all be on the same page. 02:18.940 --> 02:24.940 So if you had created a brand new account just go to click here and then go to my channel and you should 02:24.940 --> 02:26.560 see something like this. 02:26.560 --> 02:30.620 Now YouTube is currently actually testing out a new look. 02:30.730 --> 02:36.490 And they do often update Well not too often but sometimes they update the look or the feel or the style 02:36.490 --> 02:37.150 of things. 02:37.210 --> 02:41.140 Sometimes the channel art changes size the position of the photo changes. 02:41.200 --> 02:46.870 So this might look a little different than what you're used to or this might change in the future but 02:46.870 --> 02:51.640 the basics of what we're going to be going over like how to actually add channel are how to come up 02:51.640 --> 02:53.870 with your logo to add videos. 02:54.040 --> 02:58.770 That should be the same if you have any questions though make sure that you just post them in the Q&A 02:58.780 --> 02:59.880 section of the course.