A YouTube Expert Exposed My Mistakes – Here's What I Learned
Channel: Tiago Forte
Uploaded:
Duration: PT865S
Read a transcript preview of “A YouTube Expert Exposed My Mistakes – Here's What I Learned” from Tiago Forte, uploaded on 2025-07-22.
Transcript preview
Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:00] Your thumbnail could be clickbait. Do
[0:02] the thumbnails have to do with each
[0:04] other?
[0:06] >> It's a very bad signal.
[0:07] >> You know, this this is really true. I
[0:08] >> You're losing 60% of the audience in the
[0:11] first 30 seconds. So, you're killing
[0:14] your algorithm. There's no clarity on
[0:17] the idea behind the video.
[0:18] >> But as the creator, my best ideas happen
[0:22] spontaneously.
[0:23] >> I will say something that might be
[0:26] hard to hear. I had no idea what I was
[0:29] getting into. Meet Eloisea Wolf. She
[0:31] worked at YouTube for years and now
[0:33] helps creators build milliondoll
[0:35] channels. I worked with a channel that
[0:38] went from 10,000 subscribers to 5
[0:41] million.
[0:41] >> And when I applied her strategies to my
[0:43] next video, it became one of my best
[0:45] performers ever.
[0:46] >> That is the game of YouTube.
[0:48] >> And today I am sharing her entire
[0:50] consultation with you.
[0:55] I am here with my friend and top YouTube
[0:58] expert Eloa Wolf. Say a little bit about
[1:02] your previous career, how you got into
[1:04] YouTube consulting, what you do now.
[1:06] >> I come from a very long career in tech
[1:09] marketing. Worked 25 years and over 25
[1:12] countries. The last few years before I
[1:15] left the corporate world, I was nine
[1:16] years at Google, the seven years in SMB
[1:19] marketing and two years at YouTube. Now
[1:21] I'm a consultant. I work with creators
[1:24] that do launches using YouTube or I work
[1:27] with smaller channels that have a very
[1:29] strong audience and that monetize
[1:31] through selling books or digital
[1:33] products.
[1:34] >> Uh we have our YouTube team. These are
[1:35] the people who actually really work on
[1:37] the nuts and bolts a