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hey guys today's video is a study with
me compilation video of everything I did
on this Saturday afternoon
I started at around 1:00 p.m. and I
finished around 9:00 at night I didn't
study for this entire eight-hour time
block
I took some breaks in between just to
relax and have dinner I do have time
stamps in the bottom left so you get a
general idea of how long everything took
so I'm starting out by doing some math
problems and this is part of my chapter
7 review assignment in preparation for a
test this is a homework assignment and
I'm also using it as a way to study
because my favorite way to study for
math is to do practice questions since
most of this video doesn't require much
explanation I'm going to be taking
advantage of this empty air space to
answer some questions I asked you guys
for some questions via the community tab
here on YouTube these questions are all
related to business on social media for
example sponsorships and free products
just so I can be more transparent and to
help out any new study instagrams
Tumblr's youtube's
the first question I have when
sponsorships approached you how does it
work
do they require parental permission
signatures or anything like that to
start off with the company will email me
and I'll make a decision whether or not
I want to work with them based on
whether I like their product or not then
we negotiate an amount for the
sponsorship once we've settled an amount
and what I need to post we have a
contract and that involves signatures
I've never been asked for a parental
permission I'm not sure about the legal
details of this I'm just trusting that
the companies know what they're doing
since they have lawyers and I do not the
next question how do you get subscribers
and get people and brands to notice you
this is probably not helpful and not
what you want to hear but
really have no idea how to gain
subscribers I don't know of any magic
secret to getting instant fame if I did
I definitely would tell you but I don't
think there is such thing I think the
quote unquote secret is to consistently
make content that you are proud of and
that you like and the people who are
interested in what you post will
eventually gravitate towards your
content whether that be through friends
recommending it or the YouTube algorithm
picking something up randomly I do have
some tips in my study Graham advice
video about when to post and how to use
tags and like to get your content more
likely to be seen by other people but
again there really is no magic secret as
far as getting brands to notice you I'm
really not sure how this works either it
seems to be kind of luck based I've seen
people from a huge variety of popularity
levels I guess get noticed by brands it
really just depends on who the brand's
find and who doesn't get seen if you're
a bit of a smaller account and it'll be
harder for you to be noticed by a brand
you can just contact the brand first you
don't have to wait for them to reach out
to you they usually have their emails in
their Instagram profiles or you could DM
them on Instagram although that is
slightly less professional you can just
send a polite email expressing that
you're interested in working with them
and see where it goes from there
the next question is at how many
followers should you be looking to be
paid for your work there isn't a set
number for when you should be looking to
get sponsored or to get free products it
really depends on the account and it
really depends on whether or not
businesses notice you as I mentioned
earlier I personally got my first free
PR thing in December of 2016 which was
about three months after I started on
YouTube and almost an entire
year after I started on tumblr I don't
know if that information will apply to
everyone but that's my experience as a
kind of related side note the study
social media community has grown a lot
and influence lately and businesses have
started to notice that and are looking
to sponsor or get free PR promotion
things into our community and of course
it's great that those provide a lot more
opportunities for us students but it's
also very common that these companies
are aware that we are mostly underage or
young adults and we don't know as much
about the world of social media
marketing so therefore it's easier to
exploit us and under pay us for our
sponsorships and promotions so if you
check out tbh studying on Instagram in
her featured Instagram story she has a
thing about what rates you should expect
at certain follower counts again
follower counts don't determine
everything it's really more about
engagement on your posts but those
should give you a good ballpark range to
make sure that companies are not
exploiting you the next question what
are some crucial things that keep in
mind when agreeing to do sponsorships I
personally think the most important
thing to keep in mind is whether or not
you actually genuinely care and want to
promote this thing I know it's tempting
to just take the money and promote the
thing even if you don't really care just
because you need or want the money but I
think having the trust of your followers
is way more important long-term than
just getting one sponsorship it's easy
to tell when someone's being fake and
promoting something they don't really
care about so I don't recommend doing
that the next question how do you
balance your business stuff with
schoolwork and other obligations in your
life I balance my social media stuff and
my schoolwork extracurriculars and
sports by doing all of the social media
content on the weekends so I film and
and upload and take photos and schedule
things all at once during the weekend
that way I don't really have to worry
about it during the week I answer emails
and DMS every evening at the end of the
day once I finished all my schoolwork
this way social media stuff doesn't
really have to interfere with my other
obligations so I'm going to take a quick
break from the questions and explain
what I'm doing right now I'm copying
down some lecture notes that a friend
sent me for AP European history because
I missed a class day so I need to make
up the notes the way we take notes in
this class is an outline format and we
use a color code which is yellow for
examples green for anything related to
the course framework and blue for other
important information the next question
how exactly do sponsorships work in
terms of payment is a flat rate or some
X money / X views most sponsorships are
a flat rate and most of the sponsorships
that I do our flat rate as well there
are certain systems of affiliate linking
sponsorships for example for a lot of
those Instagram pen stores but I
personally am NOT a big fan of affiliate
link sponsorships or affiliate code
sponsorships because I feel that it
might motivate me to promote something
more than I genuinely recommend it just
to get more money out of it I'm not
saying that everyone who does these kind
of sponsorships are promoting things
dishonestly just to get money but I
personally try to avoid these as a kind
of insurance policy on myself to make
sure that I'm really only telling you
guys about things that I really
recommend and just to clarify two terms
that I mentioned earlier an affiliate
link is a link that has a certain tag on
it that will tell the company when
they're checking their website analytics
where the traffic source was so who
directed people to the site and an
affiliate code is a coupon code that
people will type in that
specific to each influencer which is
each person who promotes the product the
way these affiliate systems work is that
usually the influencer will get a
commission for the sales that are made
with their link or their code keep in
mind that not all custom links or custom
coupon codes are affiliate links or
codes oftentimes companies will just
give codes to keep track of how well
each campaign does I have nothing
against these codes or links especially
if they provide discounts but it's also
important to note that for stores that
are particularly well known for giving
percent off coupons these prices are
usually inflated so that they can still
make a profit even when people are using
those discount codes so if you don't use
a discount code you are essentially
paying extra also I know I've gone off
on a tangent but as a little tip for
influencers who are financially pretty
well-off for example I still live with
my parents and they cover pretty much
every expense for me I don't really need
the money and I'd prefer to just help
out the people who are watching my
videos one option would be to negotiate
with the company normally for these
affiliate codes for example the viewers
get 10% off if they use your coupon and
you get a 10% commission but you could
ask the company if the viewers could
just get 20% off and you don't get any
Commission that's something that I do
whenever I do those affiliate Commission
codes I know this really sounds like I'm
just trying to sound like a really good
person and get people to like me but
this is genuinely what I try to do since
I'm fully aware that as a kid born into
an upper-middle-class family
I have privileges and I should try to
use my privilege to help other people
who might not be able to afford the
little things like nice pens that just
improve your life a little bit
so back to the questions that I was
actually asked are you paid to only say
positive things or is it more of being
paid for an honest review for
sponsorships as in people are paying me
to feature or review their item I only
actually accept sponsorships from
companies that I genuinely like and I
like the product so I suppose all
sponsorships from me at least are
positive reviews but they never asked me
to only say positive things they're my
genuine opinions when I get sent free
things for reviewing or featuring
without any payment of course I can say
whatever I want again no one has ever
told me to only say nice things I don't
believe that any reputable business
whatever requests that from an
influencer I've heard about dishonest
reviews happening in the beauty industry
but that's never happened to me at least
our giveaways a way to gain followers I
suppose they can be for companies that
ask me to do giveaways sometimes they do
ask me to require people to follow them
I personally never require people to
follow me I feel like using giveaways as
a way to get people to follow you is
just a way to get empty follower account
because at the end of the day what
matters isn't the number of followers
you have it's the amount of engagement
you get so views likes comments things
like that if you're just starting out
and want to jumpstart your following by
using a giveaway by all means do what
you like but I don't think it's an
effective way to gain a long term
following a few people had questions
about how much I make from Adsense on
YouTube by the way the way that
youtubers get paid is by the amount of
people who watch the ads before their
videos and I really am NOT allowed to
say due to a clause in the Adsense
contract
unfortunately that puts a legal limit on
what I can tell you
guys but I do believe I can tell you
that the average rate is around 0.1
cents in American dollars per view the
number does vary based on the time of
year for example before Christmas ads
are worth a lot more money and some
people use adblock some people skip the
ads and so on as far as sponsorships go
again I'm not sure about the legal
details and I don't want to risk
anything but the resource I mentioned
earlier from tbh studying can give you a
good idea of how much you should be
asking for and how much I might be
getting so another explanation for what
I'm studying right now I'm doing
hippos for a pee European history which
is reading through a primary source
document and identifying the historical
context intended audience point of view
purpose some outside information and
synthesis which is connecting it to
another document and now I'm sure you're
wondering whether those links are
affiliate links the sites I link to the
most often are jetpens and Amazon so for
jetpens they're not affiliate links
technically because they're not
Commission based they are tagged in a
certain way so that they know where the
traffic came from and I do get a gift
card from them each month to get some
free things and also make some giveaways
on Amazon Amazon has an affiliate link
system that's universal to everyone who
applies for it basically you can link to
pretty much any item on Amazon and get a
commission for it there are also some
questions about giveaways and how they
work so I thought I would just discuss
the entire process so this is
specifically about giveaways that are
for a particular brand that they asked
me to do not the kind of giveaway where
I buy everything and it's not associated
with a store or brand
so first the brand will contact me and
offer to send something free for PR it's
not always a request for a giveaway
sometimes it's a request for our feature
but most of the time I turn it into a
giveaway because I usually don't need
the item and someone else could put it
to better use than me I've never had one
of these giveaways be sponsored by the
brand I'd usually handle everything from
posting taking pictures picking a winner
for Instagram I pick by copy pasting all
of the comments into random.org
and then picking a random comment and
for youtube I use the app Rafflecopter
which automatically selects random
winners for me anyways after that I will
package the item and mail it directly to
the person pro tip for anybody who's new
and wants to start doing their first
giveaway make sure you factor the cost
of the shipping into your giveaway costs
because I've often had giveaways where
the item is worth 25 $20 and the
shipping costs me $33 to sum it all up
my biggest tip would be not to get too
wrapped up in wanting to get free things
or trying to earn money
those can be helpful but what's most
important is focusing on why you create
content in the first place for me it's
because I like making visually appealing
things and I also like helping other
people I hope you guys enjoyed this
video and found it helpful or motivating
I upload new videos every Monday and
Friday and I post daily on my Tumblr and
Instagram which are linked in the
description see you next time
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