How do you promote?

Since I am in a hobby niche, I do a lot of personal appearances at shows and conventions, and pass out business cards with my youtube channel listed on the business card. Offline promotion works really well. If you are in the gaming niche, consider having some business cards printed up to pass out at gaming conventions and events.
 
When you get new subscribers, talk to them. Interact with them. Let them know that you are interested in checking out their channels too, but not only on YouTube. Interact with the people at YTtalk more often. You don't have to ask them to take a look at your channel directly/indirectly, but if you pique their interest, they'll automatically get curious and see what you're all about. If your content excites them, then you'll earn another new subscriber. :) Learnt this from my awesome sauce pocket master, symphonious7

The best tips I've got to give you? Be a YouTuber who's out for passion, not for the money. Yes, a little money is alright. But, let that come later when you're bigger. People will notice your drive and will automatically follow you.

My last tip: become a genuine member of YTtalk. Most of you probably don't know, but I learnt so much from YTtalk. I've gained over 100+ subs since I joined the forums in less than 3 weeks. 100 subs may not be much to most bigger YouTubers at YTtalk, but it is definitely an achievement for me. This motivates me to keep doing what I LOVE doing. The key factors are interacting with forum members & allowing your passion to keep you going as your channel gets bigger throughout the years.

That's all I have to say for now. Hope this helps!
Reina I almost teared up reading this, granted I'm emotional. But just... you just listened to me and watched me, and then gave a perfect response. The way I would word it is "be honest and open with EVERYONE, and make a LARGE impact on them" Because youtube's glitching like crazy, if you have "meh" subscribers, they might get unsubbed by the glitch and never return, if you make a huge impact, they'll go "hey I haven't seen a video from them in forever!" And resub if they have to. And that's how you get comments. Answer all their questions, don't just say "thanks", think of a way to make them laugh or make them feel special. And this forum is an AMAZING tool. We have so many newcomers, make an impression on them in the introduction thread! Go through and read their full introductions, then say something heartfelt that lets you know you read it, OR make them laugh. I don't even do this anymore, but when I used to it worked. Anyway, Reina... good God... if there's anyone I'm glad to have in my pocket it's you sweety :)
 
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