Promoting like a MF

[Jake Fuller]

doing the gool ol' grind with each video. In the past few days I have gotten 5 subs. I still think ill get the paid version of tube-buddy, my annotations are annoying.

Here is my routine after upload:

1. Upload shares to google+ & Twitter (Twitter then shares to Facebook) I still think it may be better to manual post on Facebook. let me know!
2. Via the watch page I share to: LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Digg, Tumblr, Reddit (r/vlogs)
3. Share on 10+ Google+ Communities
4. Share on Reddit r/newtubers & r/SmallYTChannel
5. Share in several Health & Fitness groups I am member of on Facebook.
6. Send the Thumbnail img to my phone and post on Instagram with my channel link in my profile.
7. Post on FitBit Weight Loss Forums
8. Status Update on Myfitnesspal (channel link on profile).
9. 12 hours after upload reshare on my personnel Facebook.
10. reply to all comments and mentions for the remaining time in the 48 hour window.
11. Post in Vlog section of YTtalk.com

Beyond this idk what more I could do to promote, this generates 25-30 views in 12-18 hours.

Bodybuilding.com is really hard to post in, I have a signature that points to my channel and I normally post there so that's kinda passive.

 

[darkstarmedia]

These are all really great ways of promoting your stuff - there are some that didn't even spring to mind for me! Thanks for sharing - I'm sure there are others on here who have other secrets they're willing to share. c:

 

[PositivelyBrainwashed]

I'll try to help you out a bit.

1. Twitter: I notice you post your videos on Twitter, but are you aware that over 80% of Twitter engagement is done on mobile? If you look at your tweets on a mobile or phone, you'll notice there's no thumbnails. People are very unlikely to click on links without thumbnails. Also don't make every tweet a self promotion. You gotta retweet others and get involved in discussions. Consider making every other tweet a motivational one and use automation system so you don't exhaust yourself. You may have to further do research on this cuz it's a big topic. You can look at my twitter using your mobile/tablet, @aarontupaz.

2. Reddit: Add r/feelgood, r/decidingtobebetter/, r/unknownnvideos to your list. There's tons more easy views if you do research. I would say focus a lot of time understanding how Reddit works, how to promote there effectively, cuz it's one of the easiest ways someone who has no following can build a community.

3. I would say slow down on your uploads and space them out at least 2 days. If you are not hitting 200 views within the first 48 hours, you need to figure out how to promote better. I would suggest you spend that extra day getting more views, and putting in more time to research tags, titles and how to promote your next video better. There's nothing wrong with promoting more than once on Google+ groups or retweeting a new video more than once on Twitter.

4. Improve your Thumbnails: I would say your thumbnails are just okay. Just okay is fine when you're huge in Youtube already. Thumbnails are like billboards, with the extra challenge that 33% (based on my analytics) of Youtube viewers are on mobile. I find your coloured font a tad too small to read on my phone. So find a way to stand out to beat your competition. I spent a lot of time experimenting with mines, redoing all my thumbnails at least 4 times, and still open to improve them. Ask your friends to do a search for your videos and ask them how your thumbnails compare to your competition. Some would argue that thumbnails are more important than the video itself.

5. Descriptions: You gotta write around 200-300 words on the descriptions before you put your affiliated link, with extra emphasis on the first 2 sentences. Your last video just had 57. And more importantly those 200-300 words should include as much of the tags you used and hopefully researched. Remember you're not necessarily writing the description for your audience, you're writing it more for Youtube's search engine.

Hope these help

 

[ChrisLegend]

This is really really really good advice. I have to commend you PositivelyBrainwashed for putting in the effort to write this and for giving such good info man. This will really help you out Jake

I'll try to help you out a bit.

1. Twitter: I notice you post your videos on Twitter, but are you aware that over 80% of Twitter engagement is done on mobile? If you look at your tweets on a mobile or phone, you'll notice there's no thumbnails. People are very unlikely to click on links without thumbnails. Also don't make every tweet a self promotion. You gotta retweet others and get involved in discussions. Consider making every other tweet a motivational one and use automation system so you don't exhaust yourself. You may have to further do research on this cuz it's a big topic. You can look at my twitter using your mobile/tablet, @aarontupaz.

2. Reddit: Add r/feelgood, r/decidingtobebetter/, r/unknownnvideos to your list. There's tons more easy views if you do research. I would say focus a lot of time understanding how Reddit works, how promote there effectively, cuz it's one of the easiest ways someone who has no following can build a community.

3. I would say slow down on your uploads and space them out at least 2 days. If you are not hitting 200 views within the first 48 hours, you need to figure out how to promote better. I would suggest you spend that extra day getting more views, and putting in more time to research tags, titles and how to promote your next video better. There's nothing wrong with promoting more than once on Google+ groups or retweeting a new video more than once on Twitter.

4. Improve your Thumbnails: I would say your thumbnails are just okay. Just okay is fine when you're huge in Youtube already. Thumbnails are like billboards, with the extra challenge that 33% (based on my analytics) of Youtube viewers are on mobile. I find your coloured font a tad too small to read on my phone. So find a way to stand out to beat your competition. I spent a lot of time experimenting with mines, redoing all my thumbnails at least 4 times, and still open to improve them. Ask your friends to do a search for your videos and ask them how your thumbnails compare to your competition. Some would argue that thumbnails are more important than the video itself.

5. Descriptions: You gotta write around 200-300 words on the descriptions before you put your affiliated link, with extra emphasis on the first 2 sentences. Your last video just had 57. And more importantly those 200-300 words should include as much of the tags you used and hopefully researched. Remember you're not necessarily writing the description to your audience, you're writing it more for Youtube's search engine.

Hope these help

 

[Jake Fuller]

Thanks for the advice, unfortunately my daily vlog need to be daily, but I work a desk job that allows me to research a lot more then I am. Time for an overhaul!

 

[Delightfully Dumb]

1. Twitter: I notice you post your videos on Twitter, but are you aware that over 80% of Twitter engagement is done on mobile? If you look at your tweets on a mobile or phone, you'll notice there's no thumbnails. People are very unlikely to click on links without thumbnails.

My tweets are like this too. How do I get the thumbnail to show up?

 

[PositivelyBrainwashed]

My tweets are like this too. How do I get the thumbnail to show up?

First off, Twitter does not seem to like like Youtube, at least on mobile devices. It's also good at detecting if your links are videos even if you try to mask them with url shorteners like bitly or y2u.be. So if you tweet something with a video link it will not display a thumbnail on mobile.

1. The easiest way is to upload it to Twitter directly, but you're limited to 30 seconds and this won't help you with Youtube views.
2. You can research twitter video cards, but as far as I know you gotta pay for that, and not sure if it links to Youtube.

The best solution I can come up with is to manually upload your video thumbnail and use Emoji's like the hand pointing one and ►.

You can also link to a Blog, manually upload a thumbnail and then promote your youtube video in that Blog.

Now it gets more tricky when you are using certain automations because you can't upload images manually, unless you're using something like buffer (which is only limited to 10 tweets in the free version). I personally wrote my own bot and found certain loop holes, but that's a whole different topic.

Edit: Ha, I just noticed I mispelled whether twice on my tweet

 

[RiffRaff]

Have you tried Twitch streaming with your cleavage out? Have some prerecorded gameplay and pretend you're playing it! People tell me it's effective. Jokes aside, Positivelybrainwashed has nailed it.

 

[Jake Fuller]

My cleavage has less views then my channel HAHA (oh wait..)

 

[Entityofsin]

doing the gool ol' grind with each video. In the past few days I have gotten 5 subs. I still think ill get the paid version of tube-buddy, my annotations are annoying.

Here is my routine after upload:

1. Upload shares to google+ & Twitter (Twitter then shares to Facebook) I still think it may be better to manual post on Facebook. let me know!
2. Via the watch page I share to: LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Digg, Tumblr, Reddit (r/vlogs)
3. Share on 10+ Google+ Communities
4. Share on Reddit r/newtubers & r/SmallYTChannel
5. Share in several Health & Fitness groups I am member of on Facebook.
6. Send the Thumbnail img to my phone and post on Instagram with my channel link in my profile.
7. Post on FitBit Weight Loss Forums
8. Status Update on Myfitnesspal (channel link on profile).
9. 12 hours after upload reshare on my personnel Facebook.
10. reply to all comments and mentions for the remaining time in the 48 hour window.
11. Post in Vlog section of YTtalk.com

Beyond this idk what more I could do to promote, this generates 25-30 views in 12-18 hours.

Bodybuilding.com is really hard to post in, I have a signature that points to my channel and I normally post there so that's kinda passive.

Okay, some of this I think is a waste of time. Condensing it down to the most effective areas is probably best. Keep in mind you can find how well these places you're promoting your content in your analytics so if the analytics says I am wrong, then go with that data.

I'll move through each of your points to maybe help illustrate what I mean.

Social Media platforms are nice to promote your content on but over doing it is just causing you to burn through important hours of the day. Even if you're lining up scheduled posts and shares on those platforms it still takes that initial time to set it all up. StumbleUpon, PinInterest, Digg, and Tumblr I wouldn't even bother using. A strong facebook page dedicated to your channel services a lot more application than having your audience split up between half a dozen platforms. Each one of them will respond to the same piece of content differently and I don't know if you want to spend the time dealing with that head ache.

The other thing is the Google+ community shares. These shares create posts on the video. So if each video has ten of these posts then that kind of looks negative. It kind of says you're screaming for attention, that you're needy for views and subscribers, and want validation for the work in your channel. I am pretty against any form of promotion that clutters up the comment section of a video.

r/newtubers & r/SmallYTChannel sub reddits are flooded with stuff. Dumping links to your content on there probably isn't netting as many viewers as you'd like and probably isn't getting you any subscribers. So I'd drop those sub reddits completely.

Facebook groups and forum posts are nice. Particularly effective if you're engaging with people's content and actually spending time building relationships with other people. Dumping your content in a group and not interacting with anyone is going to give you the same results as the sub reddits you've been posting in. And that's pretty much nothing significant for your time. But the thumbnail idea is good if you're promoting the Instagram page.

The main problem with promoting content for a channel is you often have to build awareness around where you're active on and develop engagement in those places. Twitter and Facebook are good places. If the place you're going to be active is built by someone else, then engaging with those people is better. It just feels like you're entire promotion strategy is dumping content in places where people go to post their content and then hoping people start filtering towards your content and then subscribing.

Just my take on all of it. Good luck on the channel!