Today, we're gonna be talking about how do you start a gaming community?
How do you start an actual community as a streamer?
Now this is probably by far one of the most challenging things to
do, but it's the most rewarding.
And it's, what's gonna determine whether or not you're gonna
be successful as a streamer.
So when I'm talking to somebody that's just starting out, of course, you wanna
make sure that you understand the basics of how to get started streaming on a
platform, whether that be YouTube, whether it be Facebook, whether it be Twitch.
But at the end of the day, you should always in the back of your
mind be thinking about, okay, where is my community going to live?
Where am I gonna have that home, where it's gonna be for me and my community.
Now having followers on Instagram, having followers on TikTok, having
subscribers on YouTube, that's not a home.
For your community.
There needs to be a place for you to be able to go deeper and to be
able to have access to those people.
So when you talk about a community, what platforms are currently available
for you to be able to do that?
So of course, if you're a gamer, discord is probably the most familiar
to you, but you have option for Facebook groups, you have options
for telegrams, WhatsApp groups.
So many options for you to be able to create a community, but
it's so important for you to.
Now, one of the hardest thing for you to be able to do when it comes to building
a community is when you're first starting out, you don't have anyone who's actually
watching you, or you may not have anyone who wants to support you, but just because
of that doesn't mean that you shouldn't have a community that is available or
a home that's available for you to be able to recommend and send people home.
If you've been watching the last five days of the streaming series, then you
know how important it is for you to be able to focus on one creating content.
Making sure you're prepared, making sure that you're operating in a sense where it
doesn't matter whether you have viewers or not, but you're activated and ready
to create that content because over and over again, I say it that your growth
does not happen when you live stream live streaming is not what makes you grow.
It's your content, the live stream aspect of it is an
opportunity for you to be able.
Get connected to go deeper with your audience to have
that real time engagement.
So a lot of times I get a question of like, Hey I really don't have
the time to be able to stream.
That's fine.
You wanna be able to create that content, but just creating content
alone is not gonna help you grow.
You need to have a place to be able to send somebody.
So.
You need to build a discord channel as soon as you can, or Facebook group
or have a community, even if you don't have any kind of viewers, there needs
to be a way for you to be able to tell your viewers, Hey even in your content.
Hey thank you so much for tuning into my live stream today.
If you guys wanna be able to continue to hang out with me or get closer and getting
more and about what is it I'm doing, go ahead and join my discord community, where
you guys can connect to meet directly.
Go ahead and join my Facebooks.
You can get connected with me correctly, if you're doing a
video, make sure you mention.
And maybe at the beginning, you may not have no one join, but the
fact that you have a place to be able to send someone is gonna help
you be able to grow a lot faster.
Now you say, you know, why do I need a community, why can I not just have
my, my subscribers and the people that follow me on the channels
to be the people like my home?
Why can't Instagram be where that's, where my followers at.
Why can't YouTube be where I have.
I have the community tab.
I have stories.
I have all these features.
Why can't that be my home?
Well, here's the thing on these platforms.
You're gonna have so many people that are gonna be promoting
and pushing for that attention.
And when I say attention, you think about this.
If I drop a video now, You think I'm the only one that's dropping a video now in
this moment, there's probably thousands of other creators that are dropping videos.
And if last time I checked, I don't just subscribe and
follow one creator on YouTube.
I have multiple people that I follow and I'm pretty sure it's the same for
you on other social media platforms.
So if I have a home and a place for my community, like Discord, let's say, for
example, when I drop a video, I have the opportunity to send out a notification
to everyone in my discord community.
So they know that I've released a video.
When you release a video on YouTube or any other social media platform, not
everyone is gonna get your notification, not everyone's gonna get notified.
So this is a big thing where I focus heavily on having emails.
I focus heavily on having a community to be able to have access to the
people that I wanna have access to.
At the same time, it's gonna be people that want to connect deeper with you.
So when I say, how do you start a community number?
Step number one is to go ahead and just find the place where
you want your community to live.
You have two options.
You have Discord and you have Facebook group.
Those are the two easiest, but of course there's plenty of others.
Once you have that, that community set step number two, it's to fill
it with information, whether it be information about you, your story, you,
your pets, things that you enjoy, what your stream is about your schedule.
Fill it with content.
Okay.
Step number three.
Talk in your community daily frequently, consistently, if there's a leaderboard
in your group, let's say for example, if there's a leaderboard like discord
or, or in your Facebook, you can see who the highest chatter is.
You should forever be in the top five, regardless of
how small your community is.
You need to be the.
You need to be the one engaging and commuting in there.
Okay.
Well, Curry.
I don't have, I don't have people like I have zero viewers,
nobody watches my, my videos.
Why would I have a community and spend that time?
Well, you need to build a consistency and that muscle memory to know that.
My goal is to build a community.
The only reason why I'm gonna succeed is if I build a community, and I need you
to get that into your mind, that all of your actions that you're doing needs to
revolve around you building a community.
So once you're constantly consistently engaging in that community day in
and day out, now, what you want to do is number five is you constantly
want to go ahead and promote that community in all of your efforts.
Now, I'm not talking about going out there and just spamming,
Hey, Hey, join my community.
That's not what we're trying to accomplish here.
What you want to do is you wanna find the moment.
To be able to go ahead and ask people to join you.
So great opportunity for this would be at the end of your live
stream, or at the end of the video or in the middle of your video.
You know, if you're doing a content in the middle of the video, break it
up, and just say, Hey, if you guys are interested in joining my disco community,
to be able to learn more about what it is that I'm talking about, it just.
Connect with me on a deeper level and talk deeper about the game that we're playing
or, some of the things that I've mentioned today in the livestream, make sure you
joining me in my discord community so we can connect, not only connect with me, but
you'll be able to connect with some other amazing people in the community as well.
Boom.
Then at the end of your video, same thing.
Hey, if you guys enjoy this video, make sure you guys join in discord.
Join the discord community to let me know.
What you thought about it.
I'd love to hear your feedback and just to learn more about you and see if we,
you can be a part of our community, so it's all about consistency and
repetition, the more that you encourage someone to be able to join your
community, the more you're gonna grow.
And at the end of the day, having one person join today, then can
create another person to join.
And if you're doing the things that you need to be doing, and you're
becoming the person you need to become your community's gonna actually grow.
So we'll talk more throughout the stream.
About community and, and what it takes to build a community deeper.
But for the nutshell, what I really wanted to accomplish there is to let
you know that building a community and having a home free community
should not be a last thought.
It should be the first thought, I would prefer you to start building a
community before you even go by streaming gear before you even decide to start
streaming before you even decide to start creating content, I would rather
you start a community and start pulling people into that community before you do
anything else because it's gonna be the lifeline of your stream and your content