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let's jump into today's episode. Let me guess that small channel advice still isn't working. You're checking your channel day after day. Things are looking about the same. And you're waiting for that video that's going to break through and change things for you. Well, the good news today is I actually don't think a lot of that pressure is on you as it is the advice that you're taking in and trying to execute on. There's a lot of half-truths out there when it comes to how to grow on YouTube as a small channel. And I get it. A lot of this advice sounds smart. It's coming from big channels. It's coming from people with supposed credentials. And so it's like, why wouldn't you try this? I've worked with hundreds of creators helping them grow, monetize, and continue making money with their YouTube

channel. I'm throwing my name in this conversation as well. But today I'm going to walk through

six of the most dangerous pieces of YouTube advice is floating around out there for small channels.

And more importantly, give you an actual framework to think through that you can filter

through these three things. And it will help you decide, is this a YouTube strategy I should use,

or is this one that I can ignore?

Number one right here, the first piece of advice

that is pretty dangerous, that's messing people up,

we're just gonna talk about it right away.

The advice is just let AI do it.

Just let AI do it.

And by do it, I mean do everything for you. Like actually outsource everything. Who needs to worry about doing thumbnails? AI can do it. Who needs to worry about crafting that title? AI can do it. You don't even need to write your script. Some advice out there is like, hey, you actually don't even need to show up on camera Because of the way like AI, a video creation, AI audio creation, you don't even need to use your voice. You can actually

just press buttons and pop off. That is an extreme take, but I've heard this before, and this is

where I see a lot of small channels drifting into because I understand it. YouTube is hard.

I would love to be able to push a button and stuff starts to happen on my channel,

but what you don't realize that you're doing, this is why it's a half-truth.

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