Archive - Chris Sharpe - YouTube and the Creator Economy

March 2025

February 2025

How To Make Videos That Get Watched 13 Years Later

How we used YouTube SEO to turn a competitive keyword into a long-term asset that still generates passive income 13 years later.

Feb 27 •

January 2025

How to Turn Clickbait into a Tipping Point (The Chick-fil-Gay Story)

How I turned my love for Chick-fil-A sandwiches into a "tipping point" moment for our YouTube cooking channel.

Jan 14 •

December 2024

How To Start a Yoga Channel

“Consistency is key. You gotta show up for your friends. You can’t just put something out there and not have their back.” - Adriene Mishler

Dec 13, 2024 •

November 2024

How To Level Up

Building an Audience Is Kind of Like Playing a Video Game. 18 months into our YouTube channel we beat the first "boss" and progress to level 2.

Nov 22, 2024 •

How To Make (And Sell) Your First Digital Product

After publishing YouTube videos for almost two years we decided to create a revenue stream we could control by creating and selling digital products.

Nov 15, 2024 •

How To Start a YouTube Channel

How To YouTube Part 3 - We develop a format for the Hilah Cooking YouTube videos and start making and uploading videos on a weekly basis.

Nov 8, 2024 •

How To Start Something New

I finally get a good day job and start a YouTube channel + The first Yoga With Adriene and Hilah Cooking collaboration video.

Nov 1, 2024 •

October 2024

How To Fail at Filmmaking

Before I made YouTube videos, I made low-budget horror movies for the direct-to-DVD market. This is how that all crashed and burned.

Oct 25, 2024 •

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