so how do you find people to collaborate
with on youtube
we've got five quick tips coming right
now
hey whats up guys Sean here Benji here
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subscribing so collaborations can
literally be one of the most powerful
ways to grow your audience but there's a
lot of questions on how to do that
absolutely so the first question is like
where do you find people to collaborate
with and our first recommendation is to go
to YouTube itself and to search your
keywords so you need to kind of know
like what are all the search terms what
are the possible titles in your space
and block some time to find who are the
other people that are doing similar
things to you that would make good
collaborations in addition to YouTube
social media and why i love social media
is because you can actually find
specific tribes of people through
hashtags through different search tools
and really find the specific audience but
more importantly the influencers of that
audience
absolutely and you can go to like
search.twitter.com again search your terms
and see who's talking about the things
that you're interested in and also like
Facebook groups are huge and so if you
go to different Facebook groups that are
YouTube based or just niche based find
other people that are great to
collaborate with their and lastly
there's websites like famebit.com
and youcollab.com where you can also
find other people collab with yeah and these
sites are cool because you know favorite
you do need at least 5000 subscribers
but there's a whole place of people that
are really applying to find other people
to collaborate with and then youcollab
is kind of a new site that you can check
out we really connects different people
with kind of the right size audience and
has a cool interface will link up those
resources as well as others in the
YouTube description second tip is who do
you ask what you really need to
understand is what audience are you
trying to aline with and who has that
audience you know a lot of people just
think you need to collaborate with
somebody that does the exact same thing
sometimes you just need the same
demographic same age
same-sex people that are interested in
similar things for example say you're a
Cooking Channel
maybe you can align yourself with
somebody that reviews restaurant you
know similar interest Dame different
topics but the audience is very similar
in addition to that you know we always
suggest align yourself with people with
a similar-sized subscribership but don't
stop there if there's something you
really want to collaborate with that has
maybe way more subscribers which
obviously would be ideal for you to grow
your audience think about how you can
add value to their content because we've
heard of a lot of collaborations were
youtubers really value what you bring to
the table and are willing to collaborate
with you
even with less subscribers our third tip
for getting collaborations is to really
work on your branding and your messaging
remember that first impressions matter
so if you email somebody where you tweet
somebody how is your twitter branding
how's your profile picture how is the
text on your Twitter how is your YouTube
channel and what is the first impression
you know if someone's gonna reach back
and say I'm maybe going to consider this
they're gonna check out what your
content looks like they're going to make
a quick judgment so can you level up
your branding clarify your messaging
that's gonna make a better first
impression and kick open the door for
collaborations the fourth tip we want to
talk about is how to reach out you know
a lot of people just spam people's pages
go to their twitter and say hey I would
like to club with you can you
collaborate with me
well there's a lot more etiquette and
there's some great tools you can use to
be able to do this and and have a lot
more success doing it
yeah and our first probably two biggest
tips is go to their YouTube channel for
that business inquiries email you know
find the persons email or you could send
them a tweet and we often times recommend
doing both but here's the thing have a
thoughtful pitch like hey do you want to
collab is not very thoughtful and you
gotta remember that the person that
you're asking a club is probably pretty
busy so do the heavy lifting in your
pitch maybe actually come up with a
creative idea maybe kind of aligned with
something they're passionate about put
some thought into it and your goal is to
stand out from the other inquiries that
are coming
in so make it magic and reach out in
addition to that a technique I like to
do is build a friendship you know
especially when you're starting out with
zero subscribers become a fan
watch their content engage with them on
social media plant the seed for future
collaborations I see this with a lot of
channels who like appreciate the people
that support that and later on as you
grow your subscribership even when you
have a much much less subscribership
than that other person they're more
willing to work with you because you've
been such a strong supporter for so long
and tip number five
be patient and persistent we've been
lucky to collaborate with a lot of
people are interviews are collaborations
but don't get us wrong we took a long
time to set that up we have to have a
lot of patience to make that happen for
example we recently had an interview
with Grant Cardone and we actually
reached out over a year ago and there
wasn't really any interest maybe it was
bad timing but we didn't hear anything
for a year but we did we reached out
again and it did work we had grown a
little bit plus he was actually
launching his book so there was
something we could directly add value to
which is a huge power tip we knew that
so we said hey we'd love to interview plus
promote your book so consider the person
that you're collaborating with and you
wish to collaborate with what is a win
for them like what's valuable to them
find that knowledge out and then reach
out thoughtfully but hey before you go we
actually have a bonus tip that is maybe
don't focus on collaborations right now
and actually focus on your content
become a channel that they want to
collaborate with you know I know that
Sean and I have a lot of opportunities
come up because we've earned our street
cred you know we built a channel we have
our own subscribership and now we get
other people to actually want to work
with us exactly when you put out great
content consistently and you focus on
your craft and you always keep leveling
up it actually becomes like a magnet for
working with other people
question of the day what youtubers do
you want to collaborate with on your
channel and how would you add value to
their content post that into the
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