Today, Amy and I are going to talk with you guys about
whether or not you should have multiple social media
accounts-- one for you personally,
and one for your YouTube channel--
or should you just have one.
That's coming up.
Hey guys, my name is Tim Schmoyer
and this is Amy Schmittauer from Savvy Sexy Social.
Tell us what your channel is about real quick.
We help people build their brand with social media, blogging,
video, all the things that are online.
A lot of marketing stuff things like that over on her channel
so go check it out, link below.
But today, one of you guys wrote an ask this,
and then we'll talk about your question.
I have a question.
For a lot of social media sites, I have an account for myself
as well as an account for NerdSync.
Certain ones like Instagram I just
have a NerdSync account as my personal account.
Is this a good idea?
I'm just tired of having multiple accounts
for everything.
I want to simplify my social media.
That was a really good question, Amy, what advice would
you have for NerdSync.
Sink?
You know, it's funny we just talked about this on my channel
because a lot of people ask me that.
I have a Schmitastic Twitter account.
That's where I started on Twitter.
That was my original brand.
That was my original YouTube channel
that used to be the main channel.
Things have changed a lot since I joined the marketing
industry.
I've been helping businesses with their social media.
And therefore, I felt like the blog really needed
its own Twitter account because they were really
different things at the time.
And now I kinda look at it and I'm like,
it's sort of unnecessary at this point
because my brand really has kind of just come together.
I've actually checked, there's a platform
that allows you to see how many people are following
both accounts and the cross over was very limited.
So that told me, you know what, this is actually
serving a purpose.
There are people that really only want
to follow the Savvy Sexy Social account verses Schmitastic.
What was the name of that tool you used to see the crossover?
You remember what it was called?
Oh, you got me on the spot.
I really don't remember.
I just remember googling a crossover of Twitter followers
and it just kind of brought both API's
is together and calculated it and told me.
So if you Google it, I'm sure you can find it
or I will tell you and you put in the description
when I figure out what it was.
Yeah, that could be really helpful tool.
The way I kinda look at it is that I've
kind of doing the same thing also here on Video Creators
like I don't have a Video Creators Twitter,
I just have @TimSchmoyer.
But on Facebook, I have my personal account,
then I also have a Facebook page.
On Instagram, same.
It's just me personally.
I do have a Video Creators Instagram account,
but I don't really use it.
And the way I think of it is like what you were saying is,
how much audio is crossover is there?
So people who follow me who are actual friends of mine
on Facebook, they don't care anything
about what I'm doing here on video creators.
So I don't share these videos here.
My personal account makes way more sense for me
to have a Facebook page for Video Creators
where people who are interested in this content
can interact on Facebook.
Same as on Twitter.
On Twitter, people I don't have a lot of personal friends
on Twitter, they're mostly people
who are following me from my YouTube stuff
and so those people more interested.
I can get away with posting both personal and Video Creator
stuff there.
What's really interesting is if you
do feel like you want to stick with the one account thing.
Like in your instance, if someone
was searching for Video Creators on Twitter but your Tim
Schmoyer, the important thing is just
to make sure it's SEO friendly.
It's in your bio, you're talking about it on your feed,
you're going to show up as the number one result for that.
Because if it's not they handle, than just
compensate for it someplace else.
And you can definitely be your own brand,
your own person on Twitter.
I think it's great to have your own name.
That's why I still have that account.
I would love to hear from you guys
in the comment below about how you balance
this whole issue of having multiple social accounts.
Comment below.
And the rest of you guys, if you're
trying to figure this out right now,
go down there, read those comments.
People always leave really awesome, good advice
here on Video Creators.
We have an awesome community here, Amy.
Those guys are smart.
I know, I've seen them, and my community's cool too.
So I love that we both have that going for us.
So if people wanted to check out your community,
where would they go?
youtube.com/savvysexysocial.
So go check it out.
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Amy does too, that a lot of you guys
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Bye.