Diary of a Nerd King: the Ray William Johnson YouTube Secrets to $1,000,000 Letter

Tuesday

So Boogie and I have been watching TONS of videos on YouTube to get ready for our show.

We've found a bunch we think are pretty cool.

There's this one really good one of a dog riding around on a cat that's pretty funny. The cat didn't look like it thought it was funny, but the dog looked like it was having a blast.

Skateboard Girl slips and lands in garbage Youtube Video

There's also this one where this girl tries to jump over a pile of garbage on a skateboard. She slips and lands on her butt right in the middle of the garbage. It's pretty hilarious!

Those are just a couple of the great videos we've found, so we're thinking our premiere YouTube video is going to be HUGE! We may even make like half a million dollars just on it, never mind all the other ones we're going to do!

We've also been working really hard trying to figure out all the other stuff for our channel like the logo, colors, and name... what my Dad call the logistics.

So far I think we've decided to call the show “The Max and Boogie Show.” Boogie thought it should be “The Boogie and Max Show,” especially since B comes before M in the alphabet, but I pointed out that there was more impact when my name came first because it sounds like max as in maximum which makes people think of maximum Boogie.

Boogie liked that so we settled on “The Max and Boogie Show.”

As far as colors go, we're still not sure what to do. We both think black is awesome, but we're having a hard time choosing a second color to go with it.

We both like yellow, and it looks good on black, so we'll probably go with that. Orange looks good on black too, so that's our second choice.

If we go with yellow on black, I thought a cartoon drawing of a Killer Bee would be really cool as our logo.

Boogie likes the bee idea and thinks we should come up with a slogan to go with it like “so cool you'll feel buzzed,” which I have to admit sounds pretty good.

Boogie keeps surprising me with how good he is at this stuff. Once we've made millions off our YouTube show and we're millionaires, I'll probably let him be my business partner, and we'll buy a bunch of other companies and expand our business empire like that Richard Branson guy who wants to be the King of Space Travel.

Since Ray William Johnson has already done pretty good with his YouTube show, I told Boogie we should email him and see if he would share some of his secrets with us.

I'm pretty sure he'll want to once he find out that he inspired our whole idea for our YouTube show, especially since we're using a lot from his model and making it better.

He actually might want to borrow some of our ideas, which I'm OK with since we're borrowing some of his.

Anyhow, Boogie thought it was a great idea to email Ray William Johnson to see if he'd help us out, so we spent some time writing out a really good email so that he'd see how serious and professional we are.

Here's what we came up with...

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from   MaxJefferyRidgemont@nerdkingdiary.com
to   raywilliamjohnson@equals3.com
date   Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:28 PM
subject Your YouTube Secrets to Make $1,000,000

Dear Ray William Johnson,

We found your channel on Youtube and have watched a whole bunch of your videos and think you're great.

We especially like how you use your full name, Ray William Johnson, instead of just Ray. It sounds really professional.

We also like your Youtube channel name, =3. It sounds really cool and sophisticated.

Anyways, Boogie and I were inspired by your YouTube success (especially when we heard you made a million bucks last year!) so we came up with our own idea for a really cool Youtube channel so we could get in on making a few million too!

We figured we should write you to see if you could share some of your secrets that helped you get so big on Youtube since our channel is going to be an improved version of yours.

We're going to review videos every week like you do, but we're going to do really cool videos instead of just the popular ones like you do.

Obviously we thought you'd be happy to help us out since we're gonna be huge YouTube stars too, and you're our inspiration! We'll probably even have a Ray William Johnson dedication to you right on our channel. Anyways, it would be great if you could help us out by sharing some of your best secrets, and please feel free to use any of our ideas too!

Thanks for your help!

Max and Boogie
www.nerdkingdiary.com

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It took us quite a few tries to get the wording just right, but I think we nailed it. Once Ray reads it, I'm sure he'll be happy to help us out, especially since we told him he could use any of our ideas too!