Hi guys; my name is Ingrid Nilsen.
My channel is Miss Glamorazzi, and have any of you out there
ever wondered how to engage your biggest fans?
Well, today, we are going to find out.
I can usually tell who my biggest fans are
because I'll start recognizing user names and they will come back,
and consistently comment on videos over the course of months
and sometimes even years.
And then also when they move over to different platforms like Twitter.
People will make accounts and they'll post my picture as their profile picture,
and think of like really cute names like "Ingrid's doughnut",
because I really love doughnuts, and I think that is just really cool.
And, I always try to follow those people, and really engage with them even more,
because they're putting in so much extra effort.
So, I want to put in that extra effort for them.
I think the way to keep your biggest fans happy on YouTube
is just to remember to be human, and to interact, and to not break away from that.
Don't get distracted with other things, because as you progress,
things are going to get crazy, and you always have to remember
that you are in this position for a reason.
And its because of the people watching your videos and who constantly support you
and tell their friends about you, and I just, I want to be there for my viewers.
And, I love interacting with them.
That's one of the reasons why I started making YouTube videos,
Because I enjoyed communicating with not only other creators in this space,
but the people who are watching my videos.
To maintain a positive community around my channel,
It's actually really simple for me, because I feel like
I'm a pretty positive person.
I feel like it works really well on my channel, and I've been that way from the beginning.
When people just kind of stumble across my channel,
I try to let them know that there is more content,
a lot more content, actually, to watch by just letting them know in the video
that I have previous videos, whether its the one before
or something that I did fairly recently that I am really excited about.
And, sometimes I'll even push back to videos that I did years ago
if they pertain to whatever it is I'm talking about.
Like, if it's a product, and I'm saying, "I used this three years ago,"
"here's the video where I used it."
It's really cool because it's like this catalog.
I really love commenting on other videos
for a couple of different reasons.
Sometimes people will leave comments or tweet me a video
saying that they mentioned me, and they want me to go watch.
So, I'll go watch their video, and if they take the time to give me a shout-out,
I like to comment and thank them, and take the time to watch their videos.
Because I think it's really cool, and also, sometimes
I'll find amazing people that no one really knows about.
So, I'll leave comments on their videos, and I know that it will show up
in my viewer's feeds, and that will get more people to go and watch their videos
if they see me going back to that same person consistently.
It's just one of the ways that I like to help build the community.
Because I know when I was first starting out,
I would've died to have a YouTube-er that I really looked up to
or a YouTube-er that was just prominent in this space
leave a comment on one of my videos or like my video or at the time,
it was star ratings; that's when I started YouTube,
it was that long ago.
But, it would've just meant so much to me, and I really like to give back.
And just share the awesome people that are on YouTube.
Because I don't want people to just only watch me, I want them to be able
to experience all of the other people out there, because everybody has
something different and cool and unique to bring to the table.
There's always a constant influx of comments, tweets,
comments on Instagram, on Facebook.
Normally, it'll be the most recent people in my at replies and, in that case,
it really is just luck when I happen to check everything.
But, I do follow some people on Twitter as well, like the people who
will make accounts for me, so I will get notifications sometimes
when they tweet something, and if it's something that I'm really excited about
or I think is super cool, I'll definitely reply back to them or reTweet them.
And if I can't comment back to people, I, at least, try to like a post
or reTweet on Twitter.
On Instagram, it's actually really easy because I will go into my tagged photos
and I'll just go through, and a lot of times, just like everything that I see.
Because I just want people to know that I'm seeing what they post,
and I see what they tag me in, and sometimes, I'll leave them comments.
And, it's just really fun; I'll normally do it whenever I have a little break in the day.
and I try to do it every single day.
That is going to be it for today.
I hope this was helpful and interesting for you guys,
and if you'd like to learn more, you can go ahead and click
the little annotation guy somewhere that's going to appear here for you to click on.
And you can also check out my channel if you want to watch more of my videos.
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