100th Video Published!

Would you consider that an achievement?

Do you celebrate milestones in your career and life?

Acknowledging milestones are key to consistent achievement.

They galvanize you, keep the fire burning.

You need milestones to egg you on.

I will lay out a strong case for milestones in this July 2025 update.

It will begin with a milestone very close!

This post is related to my 100th video published on my Youtube Channel!!!🎉 🎊 👏🥂

Link to 100th Video

I thank all my channel watchers, subscribers, from the bottom of my heart for the support over these 100 videos.

I am so elated at this milestone.

It is what you could call a labor of love.

And I know it could not have happened without you, my readers and channel viewers' support.

Let me share how it all began.

Perhaps you may find some inspiration from it.

Or be reminded of your own milestones.

The journey from 1 to the 100th post is quite an amazing one.

Below infographic encapsulates that experience.

This Blog Post will cover

Journey from 1 to 100th Video

Where, when and how did this journey to the 100th video begin?

Well, it was sometime during the summer of 2020 (rise of covid-19).

Rampant daily infections were triggering lockdowns.

My New York University semester classes were turning into Zoom sessions.

It was during being home bound one day that I remembered what my late father had told me always.

He said I was privileged to have had good education in my life.

However, he insisted that I should not waste it.

I must share knowledge so that others benefited from it.

And so began my crusade to this milestone - my 100th video.

The Mission & Journey to the 100th Video

My mission was, not surprisingly, to Share Knowledge that will Benefit Others.

It was after all execution of my late father’s wish.

I had already invested 26 years of my career and life in the hospitality industry.

My focus was on Hotel Middle Manager Financial Literacy.

More specifically:

• Helping You Understand Hotel Financial Statements in a Non-Technical, Usable way.
• Building Financial Literacy in You.
• Cover topics on
  • Hotel Financial Statements,
  • Revenue Management,
  • Restaurant Profitability,
  • Leadership & Productivity Practices

Why hotel middle manager?

Because for one reason, I had been in that industry for a quarter of a century.

I needed to share those years of experience to benefit my colleagues.

Second, often, at the early stage of a career, hotel middle managers needed guidance.

You, as a hotel middle manager need to be committed to your own financial literacy.

Ask yourself regularly whether you are doing. that.

I decided that I would use video as my medium to share knowledge.

My passion for recording and editing videos was I thought a good fit.

To be honest, I had no idea this amazing journey would lead me to my 100th video in 4-5 years.

It once again reinforced to me the power of determination and persistence.

Financial Skills Academy is born!

I published my very first video on July 17, 2020.

It was a thrilling experience to say the least.

Publishing your first creation to the world at large is an experience unlike any other.

The internet was of course the magic catalyst.

It was like picking up a megaphone and literally announcing yourself to the world!

Handling all the set up and maintenance of the channel myself meant however that I was not posting regularly.

So, 2020 saw me publish only 4 videos.

Yet it was a great beginning.

Remember the saying: Rome was not built in a day.

And I was determined.

With more familiarity with the channel, I stepped up the pace.

Years 2021-22 saw me publish 26 videos.

This was roughly once in two-three weeks for the years.

I was on my way.

All this while I was doing some voracious reading.

Reading is another interest that I had cultivated right from childhood.

I was learning tons about the Youtube algorithm.

Video Content Management

During all this, I was absorbing some major strategies of video content management.

I was understanding the Youtube algorithm as well.

How to publish videos that were engaging.

I was learning to bring in storytelling in my videos.

It is a long learning curve (something that I enjoy).

The year 2023 saw me publish 15 videos.

Now, I was ready to step on the accelerator.

Road to 100th Video - One Video Per Week

One video every week was my target.

This meant that I had to organize myself to:

• conceptualize
• research
• topic chunk
• script
• record and
• publish

each week.

I made Friday my deadline for weekly publishing.

It meant putting in place a system to regularly research, prepare, record and publish videos.

This was the time I set up a milestone in my Notion system for the 100th video.

Then began the countdown to that milestone.

I kept subtracting from the 100th video every time I published in the year 2025 (yes, this year).

Am thrilled to tell you that until this 100th video in July 2025.

I have already published 24 videos in 2025.

Or 2.3 videos per week.

Way above the 1.0 weekly video target.

In my videos, I have linked to multiple media like:

• courses
• blog posts,
• videos,
• podcasts,
• infographics,
• ultimate guides etc.

100th Video & Some Amazing Statistics

For me, it is not just a milestone of publishing my 100th video, though I am proud of it.

I discovered that I had achieved:

More than 25,000 views in the 100 videos.

My videos had accumulated more than 775 Watch Hours.

Subscriber count moved from 24 to 591!

I am thrilled at how my mission to share knowledge is turning out.

In the meanwhile, I had set other targets for myself apart from the 100th video.

I had set a goal for myself to rank high for videos in organic search results.

This means:

• when somebody searches for,
• say, hotel balance sheet basics topic videos,
• my videos on Ultimate Guide on Hotel Balance Sheet Basics
• appear on Google Page #1 as the 1st item.

Take a moment to digest that.

When you type hotel balance sheet basics into the search box, Google gave you multi million results.

Among those results, my video on the balance sheet features:

As the 1st Result on Page #1 in Videos Tab of Google Search!

Another example is the keywords:Hotel Financial Ratios.

When you type hotel financial ratios into the search box, Google gave you multi million results.

My videos account for 75% of all videos returned by Google.

Boy oh Boy, my head swam when I first came across these.

Similarly, based on keywords that I had targeted, I have a few others which rank on Page #1 in Google.

3 to 5 keywords rank on pages 1 to 3.

Organic search is critical for my watchers to find my videos without any paid advertising.

I took it as one of the fulfilling accomplishments of the value of my videos.

Among the 100 videos, let me pick the best ten performing ones.

My Top 10 Youtube Videos

Click below for my best performing 10 videos: