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Now let's jump into the episode.

Not answer general questions on YouTube, answer specific questions.

My view count looks good, my channel looks good, my photos on Instagram look good, but that's just appearance.

What's the substance underneath the surface?

We're going to be looking at four YouTube success secrets that will

help you gain an unfair advantage on YouTube right now. There's a lot of people on YouTube

that are saying and preaching things that they're not living. There's a lot of people who are

teaching things that maybe they got lucky on one time or they hadn't fully tested or verified.

The truth is competition is rising on YouTube. So it's important that we find ways to create

an unfair advantage so that we can get discovered and get ahead. We've been going through a series

on the Think Media podcast called The Battleground

for Views, where we have been discovering some classic military strategies that can be applied

to modern challenges on YouTube. Today, on the classic book on war, covering military strategies

from General Carl von Klausowitz, we're going to be looking at four YouTube success secrets

that will help you gain an unfair advantage on YouTube right now. Number one, strike fast when you

see the opportunity. Here's the quote. The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

The truth is on YouTube, speed matters, especially if you're just starting. Let me tell

you a story. Back in 2015, when I was working full-time at a church, I had a full-time 9-5 job,

I was even working on weekends as I had Sunday service duties, and really I had about a day

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