We’ve see that seen how aggressive promotion might give that additional boost to your channel in the early weeks and months. However, as always, content is the King, the Queen, and the Holy Ghost.
So think about producing top-quality videos first, and match that with a top-notch promotion.
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Just to be like all the cool kinds, you need to create a subscribe link for your channel. This link will automatically subscribe a person to your channel.
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To trace the clicks, sources, etc, generate a link in at https://app.bitly.com/.
What has worked before?
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Catchy bio with the link to your channel.
A few highlights where you explain talk about your project.
At least 6 posts/reels.
Your goal is to find creators with under 100K followers, who could be interested in collaborating with you. If you present your channel as a small project with a small team of enthussiasts enthusiasts (without referring to being part of a larger media), there are chances you can get a free collaboration. Or at least a reply.
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The golden rule of negotiations: Make it for the person to say “NO” as hard as possible. Be nice in communication and straight to the point. Some rules:
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Out of our projects, Cuddle Buddies has the largest following on Instagram in tire-1 countries. So first think of possible integrations there.
Types of content that work:
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A short introduction of your channel and your goals. Do not include the link to your channel in the message, rather direct them to your home page on Instagram.
Mention that you are a small team and ask for their feedback on your work. Don’t request a collaboration right away. Friendships are more important.
If they don’t reply within 3 days, follow up with a new message.
If they reply engage in a conversation and ask if they’ll be interesting interested in mentioning you in a story or a reelsreel.
If nothing, ask for a paid promotion and dance from there.
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On average, 1 out of 10 people replies. So you really need to work through a lot of creators. But this effort might pay off in a the long run as well. |
2. Reddit
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To post your videos, log in with our account that has enough karma and history to post pretty much anywhere. Log-in details: John-Equal JohnReddit$%20& |
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Run promotional content on our partner channels for as long as needed. However, communicate with the respective Video Lead as to the optimal content plan.
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Include your channel as featured on their channel.
2. Create community posts
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. Remember to adapt it to their style, tone of voice, and audience. You’ll get more subscribers that way.
Photo
-posts work best, with a natural, emotional photo. Format — a square.
Sometimes you can also create a square gif.
Polls work quite well too. Create a story for
3. Ask to include one of your videos
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Once a week ask them to include one of your videos as an end screen on popular videos.
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as an end screen on recent popular videos. But remember, that it’ll only work well in case their audience is potentially interested in your content.
4. Create a personalised end screen background for someone else's channel. A partner channel will have your stylised background for the end screen, directing to your video. (Example coming soon).
5. Create a banner that will appear during the video. Call to action will be to the link in the description.
6. Include your channe as cards in a video. Not super helpful, yet possible option.
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Create a table for each channel where you will be able to trace the progress and results. |
4. Banner on YouTube
Since everyone who sees it when they go to your channel, it’s a good chance to ask people to subscribe. Just try to make it as natural and funny as possible.
Ask to reach the nearest milestone: 500/1000/5000 subscribers.
Example
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or even better:
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5. Comment under competitors' videos
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Be friendly and use natural language, even with mistakes. Try to establish a friendly relationship with subscribers of your competitors:
Find similar Comment as your channel.
Go to the latest videos on the competitor’s channelThe video should either rank at the top, or be among 5 recent uploads with more than 10K views.
Using the VidIQ extension for Chrome, filter the comments to the “newest” or “containing questions”.
Answer the question comments or interesting comments.
Regularly check for the answers. Don’t include any links, just try to engage in the conversation or answer a comment.
In case someone answers, try establishing a connection. While mentioning that you have a channel of your own talk about your channel in the second or third message.
Give detailed answers that might encourage you to check your channel;message:
E.g.: we made a similar video on our channel, I just talked about this in my recent video, et.c
Again, don’t use links.
Make a funny pun on their comment.
Ask questions, if the comment allows.
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Banner Promo on our Websites
Coming soon. Waiting for the first results