So how do you use social media to promote your YouTube channel
and should you have a different account from your personal account to do that?
we are going to talk about that and more coming up
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today's question comes from Andrea Hi Benji and Sean this is Andrea from SweetPaisleys
World
thanks so much for your tips they've helped me to grow my channel from 5 subscribers to 94
my question from you guys is how do I effectively use social media to promote my
channel should I use my personal facebook or Instagram or should I create special pages
for
my channel and that alone Great question and I love the energy we are gonna actually break
this down to two parts Yeah absolutely the first part we heard it was just how you promote
your YouTube channel in social media and I think that one thing that you could do is
really
focus on one or two platforms and we want to give a couple of examples and so the first
would be
Facebook and one of the best things to do right now to promote your YouTube channel
would
be to upload native videos and specifically we just posted an interview with a youtuber
and that was a
long interview it was really long I think almost 30 minutes but we took like a funny moment
a shareable moment in this case where I was beat boxing and he is free style rapping
pick time from my wicked rhymes look at the times shared that on
Facebook natively and then put a little call to action in the end
to the YouTube channel and one of the tips is Facebook will actually
not promote your post though completely barely let anybody see it
if you include links outside of Facebook in the post because they want
to keep people in that world so we didn't post any links
to it just like brought some awareness with this kinda funny
more shareable tip of content and then anybody that wanted
to go see on YouTube could then go check that out
so that's like a practical niche strategy of something that we
did to promote our YouTube channel with an external social media
account yeah and an additional strategy you can use for platforms
like twitter and Instagram is utilize the hashtags now specially when
you are first starting off you need to go and find the audience
they might not be finding you on YouTube yet so use twitter use Instagram
post up your imagines or post and utilize all the hashtags that are relevant to
your type of content because people are using those hashtags that find that
type of content on those respective platforms and you can do a call to action
back to your channel yeah and you actually have an example you where
helping somebody up that's in the fitness niche and what's specifically was
one of .. I'm actually helping my cousin right now build out her fitness modeling
Instagram account so I was telling her to find all the relevant hashtags and
find the ones that might not be used as much and make sure you are using those
because if people are searching for something using a certain hashtag
and a lot of people aren't using it then you are going to have a competitive edge
early on to be able to get that traffic the second answer to your question
is about using your personal account to promote what ever you are doing
I definitely think you should be creating a separate account something that
represents your brand or your channel or whatever you are doing because
you never know where your YouTube channel is gonna go and it's really good
to keep those separate but one tip I would have is to utilize your personal
Facebook or your personal account to be able to promote the one page that
you start Yes so an example there is that if you are taking your YouTube channel
seriously and any influencers watching you definitely should secure all the propertys
for your channel but one of the examples is like we have a video influencers Instagram
we have't started using it yet but we wanted to secure that property so we've got a
big vision for the channel so secure those but we use our personal now so the answer
is
kinda like both so if you want to get like really tactical or strategic if you create
a facebook
fan page like on video influencers you can do a post about your video and your content
and then actually share that in your personal page kinda cross promoting but as far
as using your personal absolutely and one demonstration I like to give it's is kinda like
network marketing and like if you do network marketing you don't have like this big audience yet
you are not speaking on like a big stage yet they say hey family and friends is where this
is going to start if you have some protein powder or some mary kay I mean it starts with
your inner circle so absolutely use your personal but potentially have a strategy to a bigger
vision for expanding to another accounts in the future Question of the day Influencers
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