so how do you get sponsorships free
products and brand deals on YouTube
we've got five proven tips coming at you
right now
hey whats up guys Sean here Benji here
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coolest things about YouTube is really
the ability to turn your creativity into
a career and your passion really into a
profit through either getting income
maybe just getting free stuff and brand
deals is a great way to do that
tip number one is reach out so many
youtubers just wait for companies or
brands to reach out to them go and find
the brands that you want to work with
and you know what don't always just
assumed to work with the biggest brands
sometimes a local businesses or smaller
companies are the ones that are going to
appreciate you reaching out and that
you're gonna have more success getting
sponsored by and super practically on my
tech channel ThinkMedia TV I will send
tweets usually not to canon cameras
that's the big company but i'll send it
to maybe niche equipment companies
lighting all these different companies
I’ll send them a tweet and i'll say hey love what
you're doing do you ever work with
youtubers and then I send a link to my
channel that can start the conversation
and I've heard back
maybe follow me back direct message me and
that begins a conversation for
sponsorship tip number two niching down
and strong branding it's so important
when you do go on reach out that when
they go visit your channel that they
know clearly what you're all about that
your branding is strong and it's very
obvious what type of content you're
trying to put out there
yes if your YouTube channel is about
everything it kind of ends up being
about nothing there's so much power
if you have a specific niche for example
someone that we work with has a
homeschool mother’s hood channel and
she's been growing it for a few months
and it's still in its early stages but
she recently got a brand deal she
tweeted a company and started a
conversation on Twitter and then she got
a little bit of compensation an
affiliate deal to go along with that
because
as of the focus of her branding and her
channel
tip number three network this is so
important to do because sometimes the
difference between you getting sponsored
and not sponsored is literally being in
front of somebody's email right having a
phone call from you that day when they
make the decision so for me over eight
years of experience it is so important
for me to stay connected consistently
over the year you know like different
seasons knowing when you know the
holidays are coming up and being in
front of these people so networking with
other youtubers networking with
different MCN reps networking with
different brand reps networking is so
powerful
absolutely and we have a google doc of a
lot of different people we want to work
with and what our goal is to stay
top-of-mind so if you've got kind of
your focus on a different group of
people be commenting on their stuff just
engaging on their social media liking
their tweets that just kind of keeps you
top of mind for the people that you
would love to do brand deals and
sponsorships with number four is
sponsorship marketplaces so there are
sites like same famebit.com and we’ll actually
link up a list of them in the youtube
description below you can check out
different ones and what they do is they
connect brands with content creators and
so you login you create an account and
then you could see different brand deal
on sponsorship opportunities and you
apply for them and sometimes you get a
certain amount of money to send you some
free product and then you can even
monetize videos in other ways but that
is a very cool way to get sponsorships
and brand deals
another option is MCN multi-channel
networks and if you got any traction on
youtube you probably reached out by an
MCN now our vlog channel itsjudyslife
is signed with network and we do get a
lot of opportunities for sponsorship but
don't feel like you have to join one to
get them because the reality is brands
want to work with you whether you're
with MCN or not
yes i'm a couple resources i mean video
influencers were not a part of an MCN my
tech channel were not you want to kind
of tread lightly if you're trying to
pick out an MCN sure there is some good
but there are some other things that you
can consider and you know Benji
actually wrote a free ebook for help you
make decisions about MCSN so we’ll link that
up on the youtube card
as well as in the description below tip
number five work on your content you
know the best way to get brand deals
sponsorships become a channel that
brands want to work with you know a lot
of people they want the opportunity
right away right when they start the
reality is it might take a little while
in fact you know my wife Judy when she
first started in 2008 it took a good two
years to really get a significant
sponsorship in addition to that i want
to say sometimes is not all about
getting paid sometimes the the free
product what you don't have to spend
money on is just as good especially in
the beginning when you're first starting
out question of the day
what's one company or brand that you
would love to work with post that in the
comments section
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