10 Best Tools for YouTube Creators You’re Not Using (But Should)

Kevin Whitsitt

Discover the 10 best tools for YouTube creators that will help you grow faster, edit smarter, and produce content like a pro.   Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned creator, these tools are must-haves in your workflow.  In this video, I’ll walk you through the 10 best tools for YouTube creators that cover everything from video editing and SEO optimization to thumbnail design and repurposing content.   These are the same tools used by successful YouTubers to save time, boost engagement, and grow their channels.  🚀 Whether you're looking to improve your video quality, get more views, or streamline your content strategy, these tools will give you a serious edge.  For the "complete" blog post on all these 10 tools and for more ideas on how to use them, click on the link below.  https://www.trustthelink.com/10-best-tools-for-youtube-creators-free-paid/  #YouTubeTools #ContentCreator #YouTubeGrowth #BestTools #YouTubeTips

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00:00Do you want to grow a YouTube channel without burning out? Well these ten

00:07tools are a must-have. They make your job so much easier, okay? So the number one

00:13tool that I'm going to choose is ChatGPT. This thing is amazing. It does so many

00:20really cool things like brainstorming, coming up with stories, hashtags,

00:25comedy writing, coming up with hooks, you know, getting titles more clickable, and

00:31talking to that dang YouTube machine helps you with SEO. In fact, you can just

00:36plug in a whole bunch of stuff and it gives you all the damn answers. It even

00:40comes up with outlines for your YouTube videos, but to be honest with you, I use

00:45a lot of blogging for my outlines, but you can do that too. It does all the work for

00:49you. So it's so cool and so easy. The only thing I'm going to say about

00:54that some people use ChatGPT wrong is I've seen this before like in LinkedIn

00:59where they write the whole article in ChatGPT and it's so boring and dry. It's

01:05like you don't want to do that. You want to kind of sprinkle in because you want to

01:09be entertaining. So because if people drop off, then it's not going to help you.

01:13That's the number one tool by far. Next up, I'm going to go with Canva. Canva is

01:18freaking amazing and you can do everything with free. They try to upsell you on all

01:24kinds of stuff, but you don't need to do this. This is a, I'm lazy today. I just

01:27came from the ocean. I was surfing. I didn't want to work, but I just came up with this and

01:31I took no time for the stupid thumbnail, but it makes thumbnails, you know, for your

01:38YouTube videos and you could do it with Pinterest. You could do a lot of really

01:42cool stuff with Canva, all free. So that's another must-have tool for YouTube.

01:47Okay, as well. Number three, I'm going to go with autoresponders, okay? And when I got

01:53started in internet marketing, I think it was like 15 years ago, they were super

01:57expensive. And look at this. These autoresponders, free forever. You can send 15,000 emails a

02:05month, guys, with this one stupid, well, it's not stupid. It's a great tool. Autoresponder,

02:11you know how, you know what you could do with autoresponders. They're amazing. They're so

02:18cool. If you know what you're doing, you don't even need that much traffic. And another great

02:23one is system.io and you don't even need a website. It does everything for you and you

02:29can send an insane amount of emails for no money, no money. Okay. All right. So that's the next one.

02:36All right. Autoresponders. And if you're not sure like how to use emails, I have like a bunch of

02:45free training and free guides that all about copywriting, how to get emails open, what to

02:51put in, how often to send them. And I'll include the link to this post here so you can, if you want

02:56to get more in depth on all this stuff, you can. I'll put it down in the description to make it easier,

03:00okay, for you. All right. The next up is paid ads. And I know what you're thinking. You're like,

03:06well, but the thing is paid ads can really compliment a YouTube channel for so many reasons.

03:14I mean, look at this stuff. You know, it does a lot of really cool things. But here's the tricky

03:19part about paid ads is how do you even start? You know, how do you know when to change things?

03:25The split testing, should you use one platform more? How do you create a paid ad? I mean,

03:31there's a million questions. And because money is on the line, it's just not easy to start. And they

03:35have a tool right here that really helps you get in the game very quickly, very fastly. And you can

03:43start with very little money. And it runs ads on all the platforms, helps you come up with ads,

03:48does all the split testing for you, and optimizes the ad. So it's a really, really cool tool that you

03:54can use. You don't have to use it, of course. But it's a nice, you know, it is nice. And I'll include

04:02that in the link below and you can check it out as well. This whole blog post about it.

04:07All right, next up is editing. And, you know, to be honest with you, I took a whole course on

04:14editing videos. And you can learn some really cool stuff like transitions, you can zoom one element

04:21into the video in, you can add music, and you can cut parts of your videos out if you make a mistake.

04:28You know, you can put two films together. I'm sure that I'll learn a whole lot more.

04:33But, you know, at the end of the day, I'm interested in speed. And editing takes time,

04:39even with keyboard shortcuts. So I don't really edit my videos. I just, I just make them. And if I make

04:44a mistake, I will. So, but if you are going to learn editing, this is the one that I have and got

04:52trained with called DaVinci Resolve. And I think it's free. But you can do a lot. Well,

04:58there's a paid version of free version, but could do a lot of stuff with the free version. But there's

05:03a big learning curve. It's not, it's pretty complicated. All right. Next up is reposting

05:10videos. And here's the thing. And this is no secret, but short videos are kicking ass, you know,

05:15TikTok, YouTube shorts, Instagram videos. They do really, really good. And you can repurpose those

05:22videos. And you know that there's whole courses out there on taking one video that's already viral

05:31and tweaking it a little bit and then reposting it. And you can do that. And what I recommend is

05:37starting with TikTok because TikTok videos could be more easily repurposed on other platforms.

05:42And I do this. So, it's a really cool trick. And they have whole systems out here

05:50where you can discover the most viral content in seconds. And then you just tweak with it. And

05:56then you repost it and you can get traffic from it. I mean, it works. That's what's called stitching

06:01in TikTok. And what's so cool about YouTube, well, TikTok videos is you can download it and then re-upload

06:08it to many other places as well. I mean, just a ton of places, all free traffic. And if you're

06:14interested in checking it out, again, I'll include the link in the description below to make it easy

06:19for you. And you can use it now and then, or you could use it a lot. It's completely up to you.

06:25All right. Next up is microphone and videos. Okay. And I've heard that 80% of video is microphone.

06:33And I believe that because I can listen to a podcast. But try watching a video when the sound

06:39is not good. It's very hard. Okay. And for the microphone that I'm using right here, this one,

06:45I'm using this thing. This thing was $13, guys. And what's so cool about this is you can also use

06:52it for your phone if you want to make a TikTok video or your laptop. And I've noticed the difference.

06:57I really have. Now, it's not as good as a boom mic. A boom mic is like those big ones that are

07:02expensive. But it's still really, really good for dirt cheap. And so that's the one that I use and

07:10recommend. But they have better ones. And the video, just use an inexpensive web camera or your phone

07:16works. But the audio is everything to a video. All right. Next up is you can remove background images

07:23images of an image. And Canva charges for this. But you don't need to use Canva and spend money.

07:31There's this tool called pixelcut.ai. I use that for this YouTube video. But they have other ones.

07:38Like this one actually saved a stupid thing. Remove.bg. They just started doing this where you can only

07:45download three. But remove background bg is another free tool that you can use. And you can cut out the

07:52background and upload it to make thumbnails. So that's another really cool tip. All right.

07:59YouTube SEO. And there's tools like that. They can help you with this. VidIQ is one of them where

08:04you can stick in the keywords that you're targeting. And it will tell you a score like the competition,

08:09the search volume. Now, to be honest with you, I would take this with a grain of salt. I'm not sure

08:14how accurate this is. And also, YouTube, not everybody finds your video through search. It's

08:23not like blogging. They find your videos through suggested videos and a whole bunch of other avenues

08:28as well. But this is kind of a cool little tool. And what you could do, and I do this a lot actually,

08:33is I'll take one of these, one keyword I'm going for, like a topic like this, and I'll run it through

08:42chat GPT. I actually did this earlier. And it'll come up with a shit ton of freaking ideas. And you just

08:48run them right through this VidIQ. And it'll give you a score. And you just pick the one with the best

08:53score. But it has to kind of match what your video is about too. So that's a cool little tip that you can use.

09:00And lastly is screen recording. I mean, this thing is free. I'm using screenrecord.com for this thing.

09:10And what's so cool about screen recording is it can kind of make your videos interesting.

09:16And it can kind of change it up. And it's completely free. And I like this one because

09:21it kind of shows your face. So you can kind of add that to it. Because sometimes when I watch screencast

09:27videos and there's no person talking, I lose interest as much. I don't know why. That's just me.

09:33Plus, when your face is there, you know a human is actually talking. It's not like

09:37AI or something. Well, maybe I'm AI. I'm not AI. But anyways, that's a cool little tool and it's free.

09:45So anyways, I hope this might have been at least a little bit helpful. And if you want to know more

09:49about these tools, I'll include the link below to the blog post. But anyways, how about you?

09:55Have you ever thought about getting into YouTube? Have you tried it? I've been into an in and off for

10:01an insanely long time. I've grown a couple channels too. And one channel I lost because a girl stole my

10:08computer. That was a long time ago. But anyways, this video is getting kind of long. So anyways,

10:16I hope you wish you the best and you have a great rest of your day. Okay, bye.

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