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Jan 19, 2009
Get VIEWS and MONEY with YouTube! (for reals!) (28:48)
			YOUR HOMEWORK:
			1) Get this book as it will help alot in showing you the world behind the screen in what it takes and how it all works to make it on YouTube. YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts by Alan Lastufka and Michael W. Dean.

			2) Do some YouTube surfing. This is the only way to become familiar with it. Find who is popular right now and start reverse-engineering their success principals. Also, go into the "polices" and all the boring stuff and be familiar with that as well.


Dave's 8 Tips and Tricks to get
YouTube Views and Subscribers!
	1) Be CONSISTENT! Most of the successful people on YouTube post a new video 1-3 times a week. Just like your favorite TV show is on at the same time every week, so this regularity really helps get you views and subscribers.
	DaxFlame is a perfect example of JUST STICK WITH IT!

	2) Be CHANGEABLE! Listen to your viewers! Read and reply to your comments and messages. Know your Subscribers! Go into people's pages, figure out what kind of people they are and what they like and don't like. YouTube Insight! Use this function in YouTube to see where your views are coming from and track trends. Know some basic Myers Briggs psychology. This is my biggest key to success if I had to pick one. You better believe I'm gonna be covering this big time in the future videos because if you really know how do use and master this, you will be unstoppable.

	The 4 Categories (You are dominant in one or the other of each one)
	The 16 Possible Personality Types
	Dave talks about personality types briefly during the last half of this podcast here at RCFlightCast.com

	3) Your CONTENT! Do what you know and like best! Only your inner drive and passion can produce the energy required to work the long hours to become successful. The best and biggest example of this is Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibraryTV.com

	4) CARE! - This is not about you, this is about your viewers! - Some of the greatest people on earth are GIVERS! People are attracted to that! - People can tell right away if you are in it for yourself (just trying to get subscriptions, views, clicks, money) or if you are in it for them. You must first give to get. - For example, when I ask people to subscribe, it's because I know if they like this weeks vid, they will like next week. I see other people produce minimal content and then try and strong arm people to subscribe. See the difference?

	5) Be COOL! You got to be able to do it all. You have to know how to film, edit, add some music, be funny, educational, the whole package. Mr Safety at SMP Films has a good video on this.

	6) Make your Videos CLICKABLE! Optimize your title, tags, description, links, thumbnail, annotations, video responses, etc. Seriously, this makes all the difference and I see MOST people getting a failing grade at this. Look at any of our recent videos and look at how I do ours. Every jot and titlle are there for a purpose.

	7) Have a CALL TO ACTION! Ok, you sold me, now what? I usually give people 2 calls to action at the end of each video:
		1) Subscribe for next week. Again, this is for them. If they like this week's video I don't want them to miss next week's. 2) Go to the website. I'll put more good info on the website. I'll make a page, blog entry, blooper footage, lots of stuff like that. This gives people more if they like what they see on YouTube and can't wait till next week. Plus, it brings people to my home turf, the website!

	8) CHILL OUT! Be Patient Be patient, you are BUILDING A BUSINESS! This takes time, build it up. Don't sleep until you have at least 1/2inch of forward progress! Don't let "them" win! The Universe seems to align itself to try and stop you from getting anything done! Feed on the pain, work at night, go without sleep, no more parties, give your life up to make this happen. And then just make sure you have something, anything done each night. This will ensure that over time, that this will build up. So work hard, but also chill out and be patient and let it build up.

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Jan 17, 2009
RC F-35 VTOL Project (Flight Testing, Vid1)



				More professional photos of the F-35 at: CoachPhilPhotos.com
	F-35 VTOL Research
	Attempting a vertical take off and landing (VTOL) project is the hardest frontier in RC in my opinion, at least for me I know it is. I spent much of 2005 and 2006 trying to get about 10 different VTOL models to work and I had minimal success with all of them. I then put the project on hold. For the past few years I have been collecting and storing ideas and concepts in this field.

	I have learned from the success of the high alpha SU-35 and tailless X-36 to test all the many systems separately. Build one idea on the other and don't move on until the foundation of the plane is mastered. This is exactly what I am doing with the VTOL and here is a rough outline of my plan in the order of what systems I need to master first:

		1) SIZE. I need to figure out what size to build the plane. Do I need it to be small and overpowered or large and floaty?
		2) FLIGHT CONTROLS. What controls do I need? Spoilerons or flapperons? Elevator or elevons? Rudders or Vtail?
		3) CENTER OF GRAVITY. Do I want the CG far forward to keep it stable or tail heavy to keep it super maneuverable?
		4) STALL. I know I need it to come in on approach and NOT tip stall in anyway. The airframe and control systems as just an airplane need to make this plane very stable.
		5) GYROS. What settings do I need the gyros at? Aggressive for hovering and soft for flight? If so, how do I adjust them in flight?
		6) I plan to have one motor in the back and one in the front behind the cockpit. Will I be able to turn the front fan on and off ok?
		7) Will the front fan be able to get enough air through the intakes to equal its lift to the rear motor?

	These are just a few of the basic issues and questions I need to master one step at a time to make it work. As each one is mastered it lays a foundation for the next step to build off of as I have learned with the quick success principals of the SU-35 and X-36.

	Here is the power systems I've used for the first flight:
			Foam: 6mm and 3mm Depron
			Motor /ESC: (1) Welgard SUPER MEGA
			Prop: 6x4 APC
			Battery: 11.1v 20C, 15oomAh Li-po
			BEC: (1) Sport Switch 5.0V / 6.0V
			VT Servos: (3) HS-82 MG
			Other Servos: (6) HS-65MG
			Gyros: (3) Esky Gyros
			Battery Charger
			Wall Adapter

Jan 15, 2009
Learn to Fly RC Planes (Class 1) (17:08)			This is our first week of Beginner RC Airplanes Class. We are just doing a fast overview of how it all works so you can have an idea what you are getting yourself into. There are generally 2 types of planes we do:


			1) Scratch built Foam Planes
			We build these out of Depron, EPP, Blue Core, whatever. Its about $20 worth of foam and we just transfer our electronics from plane to plane. It cost a few hundred to get started when buying your first radio, motor, batteries, servos, etc, but in the long run we save the most money building our own planes and reusing the same valuable electronics over and over.

	2) Ready Made Store Bought Planes (ARF, Almost Ready to Flys)
	If you look on our website in the AIRPLANES TOP 10, you will see the planes from NitroPlanes.com fit this category. Here you buy and entire or partial package that cost %70-200+ every time you buy one. The parts are interchangeable and you can sell the stuff you don't need on ebay or even transfer them to a scratch built foam plane.

	There are endless options to get started. We will be covering all this in more detail in the coming weeks so you can make a confident decision when starting off with RC planes. What we are focusing on is whats best for you in the short and long term to maximize your flying time, and minimize your crying time (spending too much money!). There are very efficient ways of doing all this and that's what we are sharing in this weekly series. Come back to this page every Thursday!

		AIRPLANES:		RADIOS:
		- Here is the stock Wild Hawk ($75) - The AeroGo comes with a great 2.4ch radio! ($100) - FREE Plans to make your own Extra 300		- A Cheap 6ch Radio ($100) - This is the Spectrum DX6i ($200)

		SERVOS:		BATTERY AND CHARGERS:
		- Good Quality Metal Gear Servos ($20) - Cheap-O Servos ($7)		- XHeli Charger and Wall Adapter ($20) - Grayson 11.1v, 1600mAh Batteries ($35)

		CONNECTORS:
		3.5 Gold Plugs ($2)
		Dean's Connectors ($2)

Jan 12, 2009
How much money can I make online? Pt:1 (17:26)
				Our Internet History: September 2005 - September 2007 We made, cut, and shipped RC kits. September of 2007 - June of 2008 We researched and formed the new business plan which is what we are doing now which is basically "Internet Video Marketing" if you were to give it a name. June/July of 2008 to today (January of 2009) We are making a full time living from our website and YouTube videos. Bottom line, our current income depends on the amount of TRAFFIC / VIEWS we get per month, much like a TV show.


	Hey alright, glad you can join us on our new "Internet Business" show. Making money online is NOT easy, in fact it's one of the hardest businesses out there because it's so new. Every year millions of people try to make a full time living and only a few ever succeed. The reason for the super low success rate has everything to do with the personality make up of the person in my opinion. If you have an obsessive, chemically unbalanced drive to succeed at all cost, you will succeed no matter what. It may take you 3-10 years, but your success is dependent upon your research, ability to problem solve, create, work, and just make it happen some way some how!

	We know how hard it is as we have had to go through many hardships during our 3 years to get on our feet. We are not the biggest stars on YouTube or the Internet by far, but we sure are the biggest Internet and YouTube stars in our niche of RC airplanes. We are almost doubling in views each month, we love what we are doing, our viewers and customers like us, and we are charged up with creative energy for the future.


	What I want to do with this new weekly series (every Monday), is to help you with your Internet business. I absolutely can tell you real work, trench proven tactics, to get more traffic to your website, how to find advertisers, and most important of all, have a place where your Internet friends (your viewers) love to come.

	Notes from our first video: How much money can I make online? Pt:1
	1) How Much can You Make? Short answer: As much as you want. What you put into it is what you get out of it. There are many ways to make money online, for example, the top players in YouTube are making over $100,000 a year just from their YouTube revenue alone. Most make more money from their websites and other media engagements outside of YouTube. Look at this

	Here is a sample month for us right now:
			RCPowers Business for December 2008: - AFFILIATES: We brought $45,000 to our 7 affiliate companies (we keep %5-10 of that) - Google Ads: 05 - 12 cents per click (x thousands of clicks per month) - YouTube Ads: Pay per impression (x time a couple million views per month) - Our PDFs and EBOOK: ($8-13ea x a couple hundred sales per month). - This equals to; we pay all our bills and are now able to start paying off debt and saving again!

		This is from 6 months of working on it full time, 3 years of learning it, and 8 months of study, market research, experiments, BEFORE we ever launched it! Please do not think this comes easy or quick! It's very hard brain work but it is possible for all those who have the intuition and drive to succeed.

		2) Count the Cost: I see most people failing because they somehow buy into the "pet rock" myth. It goes like this, "Well some guy invented a pet rock and then he made like a million dollars and is retired!" Yeah, you might want to look into that, this is not how it, or the world works. Anything looks easy when you have no idea what the details are to make it happen. This is what I call the "lottery approach" to business. All I have to do is just think of a "great idea" get lucky, and I will have a check in my mailbox for a million dollars.

		To really be successful at this is, is as hard or even harder than starting your own successful brick and motor shop in town. DON'T buy into the myth that making money online and "easy money" have anything to do with each other! This is a real business that must follow all the real business principles of the "real world." This is why it's up to you to first UNLEARN all the business myths that we all pick up, then do your homework to learn how this really works, and then make and execute a successful plan. It's just that easy, yes it's just that hard.

		Here are some of the hardships to expect: - Count on 6 months to 5 years (sometimes 10) before you are making money online full time. - It really takes 12-18 hours a day, 6-7days a week, to really make some forward progress. - At times, 80% of your time is spent learning new programs, fighting the cable company, replacing crashed hard drives, etc x 1000. This is why I choose to work mostly at night. I deal with "issues" during the day, and I work and move the business forward at night after everyone goes to bed. Murphy's law will kill you if you are not ready and expecting it. - Most of your friends will not get it. They will still want you to come play all the time and think that now you are your own boss, this means you can take all the time off you need for them. Multiply this by however many friends you have, and you can literally find yourself getting absolutely nothing done each week. It's tough, but you have to guard your time for your work. This is why alot of super successful people have terrible relationships. Look at Donald Trump for example... see what I mean here? It sucks, yes I agree, but it's part of the real world. - Have a lot of money to put INTO your business! And however much you think you need, times that by 100 and you are good to go. This is why it's best to keep your day job as long as you can. YOU are your own best investor.


	Here are some POSITIVES to expect! - You work long and hard but are full of energy because you are working your dream into reality with your bare hands. - You lose alot of the "frill friends" and develop super close friendships with a few. You have gone from 50 willy-nilly people to a handful of life long friends who you will do anything for, and them for you. PLUS, you gain countless new Internet friends! - Other people of similar interests begin to gravitate toward you and your business! They like, buy, encourage, promote, and share your work. This is very encouraging and drives you to do more. - You work long and hard, but you are in control of your schedule, your life, your work, your sleep. Do you need to take a 3 hour nap in the afternoon? Do it. Do you work best from 11pm to 6am? Do it! - You begin to see a few dollars come in. Perfect! Even if it's $5 a month, you can now easily double that each month. This adds up and grows with time. Set micro-goals and enjoy the miniature accomplishments. This will keep you happy and sane - You are building a residual business. You put in some hard years into this and create a "money making system." Your hard work now pays off in the future.

	3) You HAVE TO do Your Passion! Only your passion, obsession, favorite hobby, inner rage, fire, whatever you call it, can empower you with the endless energy source needed to do the impossible. You do what you LOVE and you put your all into it! You work the long hours not just because that's whats needed to make forward progress, but because you can't sleep! You wish you can work 24 hours a day and never sleep because you love it so much! Yes, its hard, but its building toward a bigger plan. You know all this hard work is going into your business. Your ideas, your dreams, they start to come alive. Imagination and vision have become a reality.

	HOME WORK! Find 5-10 articles on your own for the below 3 categories. Yes, YOU find them. Hunt for them, dig for them, discover them, categorize them in your notes in how they relate to you.
	"Affiliate Marketing" "Google AdSense" "YouTube Partner"

	Reverse Engineer the below success stores. Watch their videos, figure out what they are doing and how they are doing it. Every thing they do, say, every color, text, phrase, logo, etc is all done on purpose and is a result of hours of thought and experimentation. Go in and discover the common principals of success that all these super stars have in common. Details on how this works in the weeks to come. - Gary Vaynerchuk Wine Library Show - Gary Vaynerchuk Business Tips

	- Phil DeFranco http://www.phillyD.tv http://www.youtube.com/user/sxephil - Hot for Words http://www.hotforwords.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/hotforwords - Michael Buckley http://www.buckhollywood.com http://www.youtube.com/user/WHATTHEBUCKSHOW

	Dave's ideas for next Monday's class: - How to make a solid business plan/market research... - Reverse engineer successful people... - YouTube book...

Jan 10, 2009
Our Plans for 2009 (F35 next week) (7:27)		Dave's Nature Hike (12:26)

	What's new for 2009!
	MONDAYS
	Learn Internet Business!
	We are making a full time living from our website and YouTube videos all without any stocking and shipping of any products at all. Every Monday we educate you in the world of "Web 2.0" and how thousands of people like us are making a full time living online. We will be talking about things like, "Google Adsense" "YouTube Partners" "Affiliate Marketing" "Ebooks" and things like this. If you have a hobby of any kind and are willing to work hard for a couple years to build a real business, this show is for you.

	THURSDAYS
	Beginner RC Flight School!
	We are starting from the ground up literally and will be teaching new guys to RC the most efficient and inexpensive way to get into the hobby. We will be covering it all; radios, servos, motors, batteries, planes, helis, scratchbuld, ready-to-flys, build techniques, aerobatics, the whole thing. We are very glad to have so many new pilots join us, this class is for you guys!

	SATURDAYS
	Test Flying X-Planes!
	This will be pretty much the same as what we have been doing for Saturdays in 2008. Designing, building, and test flying new concepts and laughing along the way. We are working on a F-35 VTOL, then back to the SU-35 High Alpha, and then hope to take on a flying saucer.

	SUNDAYS 4PM PST
	LIVE Q&A!
	Send Dave your short question and he will answer it live on Sunday. Please keep them under 5 lines or so as we get lots of long hard to understand emails... you know how it is. So keep them short and easy to read we will answer them! This show is alot of fun because there is so much interaction going on with Dave, Keith, Val and the live viewers who are talking to us through the chat thing. Check it out here: http://RCPowers.com/LIVE.htm

	RCPowers Forum
	We are starting a new forum as well! That will be up in 1-2 weeks and we plan for it to be a place for everyone to share and develop new RC concepts. It will also be a place for new pilots to go to and have easy to find archived information.
			~ Dave Powers

Jan 4, 2009

BillyD has successfully done the same thing (2:05)	And so has Hans from the NETHERLANDS (3:12)

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