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Frequently asked questions.
I guess this my first "real" blog entry. A lot of you have been asking about me. Though this is not an about my life per say, these are a compilation of the most common questions I get on a daily basis. I decided to write everything down and hopefully you find some of this interesting. Hopefully in the future I do want to blog about me :) and why I do what I do, but for now here is a little about me.
1- What is your name?
Merve, It is a Turkish name.
2- Are you a boy or a girl?
I am a woman hear me roar.
3- Are you married?
Yes, happily!
4- Do you have kids?
Yes, a 7 year old son.
5- What is your son's color?
LOL white, and I am yellow and the sky is blue.
6- Is that you in the picture? Is that your son in the picture? Is that your (family tie here) on the picture?
Nope, I use model's photographs, so that is not me, my son, my husband, my cousin, my aunt, my daughter, my mom, my dad, my sisters, my grandma, my grandpa, etc. Unless I specify this is a picture of say X person related to me, please do assume it is a model, not me or a family member.
7- How old are you?
Year Age
2008 28
2009 29
2010 30
2011 31
2012 32
2013 33
2014 34
2015 35
2016 36
and so on and so on....
8- What is your nationality?
American
9- Why do you have an "accent"?
I studied abroad for a while when I was younger and I also travel a lot.
10- What languages do you speak?
I speak several languages,
including: English, Spanish, Turkish
as my main languages at home and also
can speak Portuguese, Italian, Some Arabic
and Chinese. I am also learning Japanese
11- Why do you make crafts?
At the beginning to teach my son, then
my husband suggested I posted the things
I made on youtube, so here we are 4 years
later.
12- What is your religion?
I am a practicing Muslim, Elhamdulillah.
and yes! I am a convert to Islam.
13- Where are you from?
New York
14- Where do you live?
New York
15- Why don't you show your face?
I am a bit camera shy, plus I want my channel
to be about my crafts not about me.
in the future perhaps I will have a channel about myself,
Islam, cooking and travel.
16- Why is the video counter different
from the amount of videos?
My channel hosts 3 sites, simplekidscrafts.com,
artsandcraftstv.com and muslimkidstv.com.
because some material is meant for the other
two websites and some only for our site
you will see a different count than the amount
of videos that really exists. currently the
counter shows 500+ when in reality there
are over 700 videos.
17- What is your ethnicity?
I am Chinese, Black, Hispanic and White. (1/4 even for each race)
18- What do you like to do on your spare time?
Make crafts, watch tv, gardening, etc
19- What is your profession?
I am an Engineer and Mathematician. (With both B.S and M.S)
In college, I also minored (is that even a word?) in Religious Studies, Physics and Spanish.
20- What do you do for living?
I founded my company in 2003. My husband runs it, I build things, we get paid. LOL
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What are the general characteristics of successful YouTube videos?
To find an answer, we have experimented with different approaches for the past few years; some worked, some not so much. Therefore, my business partner, who is my wife as well, and I have complied a list of things that worked. We titled it as “Characteristic of a Successful YouTube Video”. What would you add to this list?
General Characteristic of a Successful YouTube Video
· Have clear titles
· Have clear instructions
· Have a great format: Have great intro, titles, etc
· Have good keywords
· Network
· Be animated while you talk
· Be funny, cute, entertaining, informative and creative
· Have a set schedule post on. Thursdays seems to be the norm… never Sundays as folks are mostly out on that day
· Keep it short and sweet
· Have a nice voice over on your videos
· Use social services: twitter, Google plus, stumble upon, facebook, pinterest, blogger, and forums
· Put yourself in the shoes of the viewers
· Use suggested tags from YouTube
· Thank the people that subscribe to you and subscribe to them to see what they see.
· Change titles and keywords on the videos depending on the season
· Thank users when you reach a milestone
· Have contests thanking subscribers for their support
· Interact with your users, reply to their comments and questions, never leave them hanging.
· Call to action: Ask people to rate, share, comment, and subscribe
· Do original things; don't copy others. You can only go so far by copying…
· Look at what is popular: https://ads.youtube.com/keyword_tool
· Know your competition. See what they do right and what you can improve upon.
· Don't try to please the masses you will never please everyone. Try to do things that you will be happy with.
· Ignore and delete bad comments
· Have other YouTubers as your mentors and partners
· Look at your stats and see what works and make more of it
· Use annotations where needed
· Connect with other bloggers so they will put your content on their site
· Have a brand that can be recognized / logo / attitude
· Have a customize channel / banner
· Have a cute thumbnail
· Organize your content into lists to make it easy for people to find your content.
· Don’t post a lot of videos at once.
About US:
Our Websites & YouTube Channels:
www.youtube.com/user/simplekidscrafts
www.youtube.com/user/manualidadesconninos
http://www.simplekidscrafts.com
http://www.manualidadesconninos.com
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