Great story, and I am happy to see you are satisfied. Being a RU-vidr is very similar to running your own business. You should upload things people want to see, just like businessman should offer product/service that people need. And when the growth becomes real, you can consider hiring people to help you run your channel more efficiently. The most difficult part is starting and growing of course, but consistency and hard work (with a little bit of help from Fame-ster of course) will always pay off at the end.
Question: With distribution via soundcloud, does soundcloud take a percentage of your earnings? For example, I get 100k streams on youtube or spotify, does soundcloud take like 20% of those earnings?