So You Want to Be a YouTube Star?

H. Allegra Lansing
6 min readMar 12, 2023

The First Six Steps to YouTube Success

In February 2021, I launched my true crime YouTube channel. Based upon my 2019 book about the Manson Family, my initial plan was to turn about 40% of the book into a docuseries. I created a trailer, and about three months later began actively creating episodes of the docuseries — about 40 that were planned in all.

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