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YouTube launch checklist

Every step of the Channel Launch pack as a sheet you can run yourself: thirty questions, twelve videos, ninety days.

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Who gets the most from it

Businesses starting a channel without a presenter
Creators planning a second channel
Marketing teams given YouTube as a goal
Anyone who launched once with one video and stopped

4 sheets, one template

Research: 30 questions, top results, age, length, room
Brand: name, banner, description, links
Twelve videos: title, thumbnail, script status, render status, publish date
90 days: cadence calendar with the day 60 review

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Research: 30 questions, top results, age, length, room
Brand: name, banner, description, links
Twelve videos: title, thumbnail, script status, render status, publish date
90 days: cadence calendar with the day 60 review

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Thirty questions

What your customer types into YouTube. Note the top three results. Room = old, thin or missing answers.

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#	Question	Top result age	Top result length	Quality (1 to 5)	Room? (yes/no)
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Name, banner, description

A name that says the subject. A banner that says who it is for and when it posts.

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Item	Your answer
Channel name
Who it is for (one line)
Posting days
Description (the twelve questions as sentences)
Links in the description
Voice: own clone, AI voice, or presenter

Twelve videos before launch

Title and thumbnail first. Three a week for four weeks, then two a week.

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#	Script	Render	Publish date
1	Not started	Not started	Mon 16 Nov
2	Not started	Not started	Wed 18 Nov
3	Not started	Not started	Fri 20 Nov
4	Not started	Not started	Sun 22 Nov
5	Not started	Not started	Tue 24 Nov
6	Not started	Not started	Thu 26 Nov
7	Not started	Not started	Sat 28 Nov
8	Not started	Not started	Mon 30 Nov
9	Not started	Not started	Wed 02 Dec
10	Not started	Not started	Fri 04 Dec
11	Not started	Not started	Sun 06 Dec
12	Not started	Not started	Tue 08 Dec

The ninety day run

Same cadence. No judging before day sixty.

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Week	Starts	Videos	Note
Week 1	16 Nov	3	Reply to every comment in the first hour
Week 2	23 Nov	3
Week 3	30 Nov	3
Week 4	07 Dec	3
Week 5	14 Dec	2
Week 6	21 Dec	2
Week 7	28 Dec	2
Week 8	04 Jan	2
Week 9	11 Jan	2	Day 60 review: click rate and watch time per video, keep the pattern of the top three
Week 10	18 Jan	2
Week 11	25 Jan	2
Week 12	01 Feb	2
Week 13	08 Feb	2

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