Nobody watches your first 20 videos… Make them anyway.
Your first 20 videos will be bad and almost nobody will see them. That is the deal, not the problem. Here is why beginners quit at three, and how to make the first 20 cheap enough to reach 21.
Whether you've posted on social media in the past, or you're building up to your first post, you may be discouraged by the content not making a difference.
It's normal.
First post, 11 views, 1 like.
You post again. Your friend likes it. A cousin comments "nice".
The algorithm that was supposed to find your customers has apparently found nobody.
So you stop. Not loudly. You just don't record the third one, and a month later you're still "meaning to get back to it".
Nobody watches your first 20 videos. That's not the problem. That's an opportunity.
1. The first 20 are practice, treat them that way
Every skill has a stretch where you're bad at it and nobody sees.
The first hundred cold calls.
The first pitch deck.
The first hire you got wrong.
Content is the one skill where people expect to skip that stretch. To be good on day one, in public, in front of everyone they know.
Nobody is. Pick anyone you follow and scroll to their first post. It's stiff. It's too long. The lighting is a bedroom.
The difference between them and you isn't talent. They made the bad ones and kept going.
Everyone's first 20 videos are bad. The people who got good are the people who made them.
3. Video 20 is when you stop being a beginner and start to be a creator
Something specific changes across 20 videos, and none of it can be learned in advance.
Video 1, you write a script and read it.
Video 5, you stop reading.
Video 10, you know which sentence to open with.
Video 15, you know which questions people ask twice.
Video 20, you just talk.
That is the whole curriculum. There is no course, no book, and no amount of watching other people's videos that gets you there faster than making your own.
It also happens fast, if you don't leave three weeks between each one.
20 videos isn't a body of work. It's the entry fee for one.
So why does everyone quit at 3?
Not because of the views. Because of the price.
If a video costs you 2 hours, then 20 videos is 40 hours spent making things 11 people will watch. Nobody signs up for that. You'd be right not to.
So the question was never "how do I get views on my first videos". You won't.
The question is "how do I make the first 20 cheap enough that I actually get to 21".
That's the number we built Storytime around
You open it and talk. Fumble a sentence, restart it, keep going. Storytime cuts the stumbles and dead air, adds subtitles, visuals, music and your brand, and formats it for wherever you're posting.
A video just costs you the minutes you spent saying it.
❌ Your first video doesn't need to be good.
❌ Your first 20 don't need to be watched.
✅ They just need to exist, so video 21 can.
If you're on video zero, give Storytime a try and get the first 20 out of the way this month 🚀