Running local events does a lot to grow your regional startup community - but the creation of videos from your Startup Grind events is a way to use your city to educate, inspire, and connect a world of viewers through the YouTube platform. This is so important that Derek Anderson will often say, “Video or it didn’t happen.” Now that you’ve captured your event, the process of uploading it to YouTube is as follows.

Sign Into YouTube with the credentials given to you by your Global Director.

1. Once logged in, click Upload at the top of the YouTube page.

2. Select your edited event video from your computer, which will be compressed and include Startup Grind intro/outro bumpers.

3. Select the Public privacy settings to allow our Startup Grind audience to view the videos. Begin uploading.

4. As the video uploads, add details like Title, Description, Tags that provide information about the content of the event, and more.

5. Make sure to add your video to your local country playlist, selecting the country name under the Playlist feature.

6. Finish making the final changes to the video and click Publish to make it visible on the YouTube channel. If it is not published, it will not be visible to anyone except you.

7. Once the upload is complete and you have received an email confirming the publishing, send an email to your attendees and subscribers with the video link.

How to Title YouTube Videos

Titling and tagging videos appropriately is important to making your content easily found and bringing more people to the Startup Grind YouTube page. The title and tags should tell viewers what and who they are watching, and the tags are a way to tell the viewer why they should see it. The description gives the fine detail of the video.

Title

Speaker Name (Company) - Content Headline

    Example: Derek Anderson (Startup Grind) - Building & Scaling a Global Network

Description

Briefly introduce your Chapter, the guest, and provide a summary of the content and an introduction to Startup Grind.

Example Description: Startup Grind Jupiter presents Kloato, President of the Kleeborp Nation. Kloato discusses the challenges of a biodiverse society, interstellar office politics, securing funding in a nuetronium based economy, and his plan to annihilate Earth and take our resources.

Then add the following description of Startup Grind:

Startup Grind Local features incredible talks with entrepreneurs from Startup Grind’s world wide network. Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in more than 175 cities and 70 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Our monthly fireside chat interviews, startup mixers and annual conferences provide ample opportunities to connect with amazing startups and the people behind them, tap into a strong support network, form meaningful connections and gain inspiration for the startup journey ahead.

Subscribe to Startup Grind Local: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHoMFGNx1BTCYNMO­L4mHYQ/feed

Startup Grind on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/StartupGrind

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StartupGrind

Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StartupGrind

Find a Startup Grind event in your area: www.startupgrind.com

Tagging

Tagging is essential, as it’s the first step towards getting your videos ranked in YouTube’s search results.

Tag the following: tag startup grind, and a couple of variations (i.e. startup grind, startupgrind) as well as your city, local chapter,  your speaker, his or her companies, content keywords, and any relevant tags for that speaker.