How To Create Your Own Podcast (or YouTube Channel)

This week, a slightly different episode. I’m answering a question about how to start a podcast, a blog or a YouTube channel.    Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website The Time Sector Course Carl’s Time Sector System Blog Post The FREE Beginners Guide To Building Your Own COD System Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl’s YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page   Script Episode 139 Hello and welcome to episode 139 of the Working With Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein and I am your host for this show. A question I am asked more and more these days is how do you start a blog, podcast, YouTube channel or even a newsletter, so I thought okay, I will answer that question this week because it is linked to productivity and being better with your time management.  Now, before we get to the question, if you are ready to take your time management and productivity to the next level and build a system fit for the twenty-first century and be ready for when we return to a semblance of normalcy, then now is a great time to get yourself enrolled in the course.  And if you are not yet ready to buy the course, I do have a number of resources that will give you an overview of the fundamentals of building the system. All the links are in the show notes.  Okay, it’s now time for me to hand you over to the mystery podcast voice for this week’s question.  This week’s question comes from Jim. Jim asks: Hi Carl, how do you start and run an effective YouTube channel (or podcast or blog)? I think this is a valuable question for people, like me, who would like to start a podcast or YouTube channel in their specific area of expertise. Hi Jim, thank you very much for your question.  Now, before you get started with something like this you do need to understand the time sacrifice you are going to have to make each week or each month. It’s great that you have the idea of wanting to start a podcast, YouTube channel or blog, but the consideration I see a lot of people missing is just how much time it takes to create something like this every week. So let me tell you how much time I need to commit each week to produce the content I produce each week. First my blog. To write a 1,000-word blog, edit and publish it takes me three hours. I allocate ninety minutes for writing the draft. Then I have a further hour of editing and finally thirty minutes to post the blog post and create the blog’s image. My YouTube videos take around four to five hours each week. It depends on how many videos I produce. If I am publishing two videos in a given week, I need around three to four hours and three videos would need the full five hours to record, edit and publish with subtitles. This podcast takes around two hours each week. There’s the script to write and the recording, editing and posting.  I also write two newsletters each week. Each one of those takes around two hours to produce and publish.  In total, I spend around fourteen hours each week producing my content.  Now, of course, you probably won’t be producing six to seven pieces of content each week, but those time estimates should give a rough figure to base your estimates on. So, if you already feel overwhelmed by the amount of work you have each week, will you be able to commit to a further three hours of work?  And that brings me conveniently to my next tip. You have to commit to this every week (or month) for the next four to five years.  Creating a blog, podcast or YouTube channel is not a one-off event. It is a long-term commitment. This is not just about writing one post and thinking you have done it. It’s about writing or recording multiple posts.  Over the last four years, I have written nearly 300 blog posts, produced 138 podcasts and over 700 YouTube videos. It’s a big commitment.  So the first question you will have to ask you