Simon Clark's YouTube channel inspires Ali to start his own
story · status: told 4× · last event: retold (2020-04-17) · owner: Ali
About: Simon Clark
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-16 | told | Ali feels pro vloggers always have something to say and make it entertaining while he does not know what to say; he likes the way Simon Clark, "that Oxford guy", vlogs. | Temples of Siem Reap (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medical Elective #09 00:02:58 |
| 2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied) | retold | Ali has never met Simon Clark in real life, but Simon Clark was one of the two YouTubers who really inspired him to start his channel. | My Annual Review using Notion 00:03:25 |
| 2020-02-13 | retold | Ali says Simon Clark's YouTube channel, which he discovered a few years before starting out on YouTube, is one of the fundamental inspirations for his own. | Top 5 Revision & Study Tips for Students 00:10:48 |
| 2020-04-17 | retold | Ali followed Simon Clark for a long time, and they became friends in real life a few months before this video. | Answering your Questions 00:02:48 |
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- 2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — recommendation: Ali's first tip for someone starting on YouTube: focus on quantity rather than quality, because your first 100 videos will be absolutely terrible; the advice came from his friend Simon Clark. — 00:02:33
- 2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — recommendation: Simon Clark (quoted): In a video about three years earlier, Simon Clark said a new YouTuber's first 50 videos will be awful, so churn them out as soon as possible. — 00:02:54
- 2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied) · My Annual Review using Notion — Ali: Peter McKinnon, the other big inspiration for Ali's channel, recently released a camera bag on Kickstarter, and Ali immediately spent $500 on it as a chance to give something back. — 00:03:55
- 2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali: When starting anything new, Ali says, we focus too much on making it good; the wrong thing is to not publish, because by churning out quantity the quality improves over time and you learn far more than by perfecting one video. — 00:03:05
- 2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali: YouTube has changed Ali's life and the lives of many people he knows who took it seriously, Ali says, but it requires a huge amount of consistency over a very long period of time. — 00:03:37
- 2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali calls it next level that you can make money from YouTube without viewers paying anything: very few business models work that way. — 00:03:57