Creating Viral YouTube Scripts: A Beginner’s Guide

Introduction

I’ve been making YouTube videos for 10 years, and over this time, I actually made over 2,000 different YouTube videos and over 2,000 YouTube scripts. If I were able to start from scratch, this is exactly how I would make viral YouTube scripts, even as a complete beginner.

Simplify Your Scripts

Number one, a lot of people overcomplicate their YouTube scripts, and they try to sound like an expert, and they just confuse the viewer. So what I personally like to do is I like to use this free software called Hemingway App. And when you go to their website, you can just upload your script once it’s done, and it’s going to tell you the readability grade.

• Make sure your content has a readability grade of four or below. Viral YouTube Scripts help with that.
• Keep it extremely simple and easy to understand.
• Avoid using too many expert or complex words. Viral YouTube Scripts must be simple.
• The goal is not to sound smart, but to ensure your viewers don’t feel stupid.
• Many viewers may be beginners, so clarity is key. Viral YouTube Scripts should be clear.
• If they’re confused, they’re likely to stop watching. Viral YouTube Scripts work best when they’re easy.

Systemize the Process

Number two, you want to systemize the entire process so that you can save time for yourself. And I have this system that I use that I call APAG. A stands for attention, so that’s like hook and the intro, which is the most important part. P is the perspective, so the idea or concept.

• Start by presenting the problem your audience is facing.
• Then move to A = Advantage, where you explain your unique perspective and the benefits you offer.
• After that, “gify” the process by providing:
• Templates
• Systems
• Incentives
• You can also create a Google Docs or Google Drive folder.
• Use it as a bank of hooks you collect from your niche for easy access and inspiration.

Creating a Hook Bank

So I know a lot of people are telling you not to scroll your phone, which is a valid point. But if you can go and only scroll your phone within your niche and see what kind of hooks people are using and just literally make a folder where you save all the hooks that they have and all the frameworks that they have that are within your niche, so that anytime you write a script, you can go back.

Fill-in-the-Blank Titles Save Time and Boost Clicks

For example, I have these titles that are from different niches as well, and I just need to fill in the blanks. So whenever I have to write a title, I no longer have to do the guesswork; I can literally just go over here, and I can just take some of these and just fill in the blanks, and I just saved myself so much time in the future. Like even the video that you’re watching right now, I just used this framework, and you see, I made you click.

Avoid Overusing ChatGPT

Number three, for the love of God, do not use ChatGPT to purely write your scripts because both the algorithm can detect that you’re using a lot of AI, and people are not really going to listen to it as it sounds generic. It’s a slob, and you yourself will probably not even watch that.

Use Phone Voice-Overs Instead of Writing Scripts from Scratch

So rather than that, if you don’t have the time to write scripts from scratch, sit down in front of your computer and type for like an hour or 2 hours. Then what you can do is you can try and record on your phone, just record the voice-over on your phone telling the story or telling that thing, which you can also first generate with GPT, then read it to yourself in your head, try to remember some things, and then whatever you remember from the script, tell it to the phone.

Using Riverside.fm for Transcription

Then you can open up this thing called Riverside.fm/transcription, where you can just upload that text, and you’re going to get a new humanized version of that chubby script that you wrote.

Niche Quilting

Number four, I like to call this one niche quilting, which essentially means creating quilts from different niches. So you go into spaces that your competitors don’t really go to. You choose something that you’re really passionate about, even though it has nothing to do with the channel that you are in, like the niche that you’re in. Then you just go ahead and take parts of their scripts and take parts of their ideas and even parts of their titles for your own YouTube videos as well.

• Use the outsider method by bringing in ideas from outside your niche.
• This helps make your content unique and fresh for your audience.
• The key is to create unique content, not just repeat what’s already out there.
• Beginners often make the mistake of creating content that is:
• Too generic
• Too simple
• Already over-discussed in the niche

Focus on Call to Action

• Biggest mistake I made with my YouTube videos and scripts was focusing only on getting as many views as possible.
• I neglected the CTA (call to action) in my videos.
• This caused me to make a lot less money.
• In some cases, it even led to channels getting deleted.
• Instead of just aiming for millions of views, you should include a clear call to action in your scripts.
• Use the CTA to promote products that can generate much more revenue.

Like, in order for me to make $300 from ad revenue, I would need to get like half a million views, while if I have a product over there that is just $25, if I can get 10 people to sign up, that would be $250 per month, which is over $25,000 a year. And I got over 84,000 people signed up. So rather than focusing on entertaining scripts, try to create something that’s educational, aim for a lot less views, but aim for quality views, and you will make a lot more money if you have a product.

Using Audible for Additional Income

• Even if you don’t have your own product, you can still make money online.
• Platforms like Audible offer a creator program that pays you $5 per free book giveaway.
• When someone gets a free audiobook using your link, you earn $5.
• This can boost your income beyond just relying on ad revenue.
• Audible is a platform where people listen to a wide variety of audiobooks.
• Most books are available for $0 on the first trial, making it easy for people to try.
• The person gets a free book, and you still get paid.

Understanding the Risks

Now, keep in mind that YouTube, just like any other business, is risky, and I personally have channels that I start, and some of them flop; they don’t get any views; they don’t make money. So it is a risk, and you have to actually stay consistent until something works out for you.

• Don’t listen to people who tell you to promote high-ticket products right away.
• They often say things like, “Just sell two \$5,000 coachings and you’ll make \$10,000 a month.”
• But realistically, if you’re just starting out, no one is likely to trust you enough to pay \$5,000.
• Instead, start by promoting a low-ticket product.
• Then, use that to upsell to a medium-priced product.
• Only after that should you consider offering a high-ticket product.

Practice Makes Perfect

And number five, if you’re saying, “Dave, but I don’t really like writing scripts; you don’t like it because you’re not good at it yet. You don’t like making videos or writing scripts because you haven’t practiced yet. So probably all of your videos are mediocre by default, and that’s completely fine. Nobody wants to create something that’s mediocre, but once you’re good, once you practice every single day and you write those scripts, those skills will literally turn into art. So invest your energy into it before you say that you don’t like it.