- A lot of people wanna contact YouTubers
so that they can collaborate with them,
so they can work with them in some way,
or so they can offer them an opportunity of some kind.
And I'm gonna tell you how to do it,
and we're startin' right now.
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Okay, so there's a lot of difficult reasons
that you might wanna contact a YouTuber.
So I'm gonna help you kind of navigate through that.
But I'm also going to tell you why it's difficult
to contact YouTubers.
I'm gonna tell you some things that you need
to make sure that you need to avoid as well,
when you're reaching out to another YouTuber.
Okay, the very first thing is you don't wanna
just send random messages to YouTubers' Facebook accounts,
because Facebook accounts are for family.
They're for friends.
They're also maybe for the people they're working with
and things like that, and not necessarily
for the people that watch their videos.
Now I'm not saying that you can't reach out directly
to somebody on Facebook, but what I'm saying
is that if somebody has their personal Facebook account,
it can be a little bit intrusive for somebody
to just hit 'em up out of nowhere and be like,
"Hey, I love your stuff."
That's what Twitter is for, is stuff like that.
It can also be a little bit weird if you find out
what their Skype account is,
or if you end up finding out what their personal email is,
to just send an email out of nowhere.
That's the whole idea here,
is it's the unsolicited thing,
to where you just reach out in a private manner,
or in a private way that they communicate
and not something that's necessarily connected
to their YouTube channel.
So the best ways to reach out to a YouTuber are as follows.
The very first thing that you can do,
is on the about me page of every YouTube channel,
there is a business inquiry email.
So if you're wanting to work with the YouTuber,
you're wanting to collab, that's a good place to start.
But keep in mind, that a lot of content creators,
especially once the channels start getting big,
they get tons and tons of emails.
They get tons of people reaching out
for a bunch of different reasons,
and because of that, sometimes mails can get lost,
or maybe they don't check the mails that often.
So if you don't get a reply directly,
or if you don't get a reply fast enough,
don't take it personally.
It just means that maybe they just get a large volume
of emails and they use that initial email,
as kind of like a filter,
in order to separate opportunities that are coming in
from people that are just reaching out for other reasons.
Twitter on the other hand,
is a fantastic way to reach out to YouTubers
because you are stuck within a certain character limit
on what you can say, so you're not sending out novels,
and that also makes it easy for the YouTuber
that you're trying to reach to see that notification,
to say, "Hey this person's saying whatever it is to me.",
and they can quickly and easily read through
what it is that you're saying
without taking up a bunch of their time.
Now as a side note, if you're trying to collaborate
depending on what it is that you're doing,
you can say, "Hey, do you wanna collab?"
But if you can build in something like,
hey, I have a great idea for a collab,
get in touch, then you might open them up
in terms of, hey they're gonna follow you back,
and then that will open you up on the DM side of things,
or back on the email stuff,
if you are going to reach out via email,
let's say for a collaboration, for example,
then in that case also you would wanna say,
"I have a great idea for a collaboration."
You don't wanna just reach out and be like,
"Hey, help me grow my channel.",
because nobody's gonna respond to that.
Instagram is another great way to reach out to YouTubers,
because a lot of YouTubers are on Instagram all the time.
So just reaching out to 'em there is also a great way.
And of course, you can send 'em a DM.
You can at them, so that you can
get their attention that way,
or you can just go directly into their comments
on Instagram and start trying to interact with them there.
Now when it comes to YouTube comments,
I wouldn't even try in YouTube comments.
And the reason for that is
because if you're trying to reach out to them,
hey send me an email, or hey, you know,
how can I contact you?
Most likely they're either not gonna respond
if they even see it all.
Especially if it's on an older video,
so because of that, I wouldn't even try the comments.
But what I would do,
is I would be active in their communities.
Be active in their community on YouTube.
Be active in their community on Twitter.
Be active in their community on Instagram,
or wherever else it is that you're trying
to reach out to them, and by being active in the community,
that's a way that you can really stand out.
Because if you're just somebody that's reaching out
and they haven't seen you around their stuff before,
then you're somebody that they haven't taken note of before.
But if you're somebody to where they're like,
hey I've seen this person like everywhere,
then they're at least gonna stop
for just a second, and they're gonna be like,
hey, who is this?
Who's trying to reach out to me?
What is it they're running?
What is it they're trying to do, whatever?
But they're gonna take that note,
which is what it is that you want.
Another way that you can reach out to YouTubers,
is you can look for Facebook groups,
or Facebook pages that they are involved in,
or maybe that they run.
So as an example, Tube Ritual is a fantastic Facebook group,
that a lot of YouTubers hang out in.
So joining Tube Ritual would probably be
a great place to start.
You just go to Facebook and look for Tube Ritual.
That is Brian G. Johnson's group,
and it is absolutely awesome, by the way.
But a lot of YouTubers are in that,
so that would be great place to start
if you are trying to reach out to other YouTubers.
But outside of that group, of course,
a lot of content creators do have their own Facebook pages.
They do have their own groups.
So reaching out to them there and, or being active
in their group, just like you would the comments,
just like you would on Twitter,
just like you would on Instagram,
being active in their groups or pages,
is also something that can help you get noticed
when you're actually trying to reach out to that creator.
Now if you're trying to work with somebody
in any capacity then Linkedin can also be another
great way to reach out to a creator.
Because a lot of content creators
have Linkedin accounts because they're trying
to connect with brands through Linkedin.
Trying to connect with that creator on Linkedin
is another way that you can open that door in terms of
having that conversation with a creator
that you're trying to reach out to.
Okay, so now I'm gonna give you some real talk
about once you do start talking to the creator,
what it is that you should and shouldn't do.
A power tip that I really want to drive home,
is when you are reaching out to another content creator,
yeah sure, tell them that you appreciate their work.
Tell them that you like what it is that they do.
You love their content and all that.
But, every content creator is a person
just like you are a person.
If you have a smaller channel
and you're trying to reach out to a bigger creator,
don't be weird about it.
Right, just be cool.
Don't go super-fan, because as soon as you go super-fan,
then you actually change the dynamic
of that relationship that you're trying to create.
So what you wanna do, as difficult as it might seem,
because, you know, I've had conversations
with creators to where in my head,
I'm thinkin' wow this is amazing
that I'm like standing here having
this conversation with them,
but at the end of the day,
they're a human being, just like I am.
Right, and all these creators
that you're trying to reach out to,
they're human beings just like you are.
You know, they bleed just like you do,
if they get cut, right.
They have the same problems and things like that,
that you're going through.
They go through the same exact stuff.
So just because they put content out there
on the internet, does not put them
like above you in any way.
So don't approach them like they are above you in any way,
because we're all people.
We're all in this thing together.
We're all content creators.
So like, for example, when people reach out to me,
if they reach out and they get weird,
then it kind of makes everything a little bit weird.
But if they reach out and they're just cool,
then in that case, like I look at them
right out of the gate.
I'm like, okay, well this person's standing out to me,
because they are approaching me in a cool way,
and because of that, like I'm totally open
to hey, let's have this conversation.
Let's talk, maybe let's work together
on something, whatever.
Because that person is reaching out to me
as a person and not as this like YouTuber, right.
So keep that in mind.
Regardless of how popular the channel is
that you're trying to reach out to,
and regardless of how small your channel is,
don't think for one second that hey, I've got
a channel with a hundred subscribers on it.
There's no way that this content creator
is going to wanna do anything with me.
There's no way that this content creator
is going to wanna talk to me or whatever,
because again, you know, if you're puttin' out good content,
and you're puttin' out good work,
then the other content creators
that are also doing things at that level,
are gonna see that, and they're gonna be like,
hey this person's puttin' out some awesome stuff,
and they're not gonna look at you and say,
"Oh, well they've only got a hundred subscribers."
They're gonna look at you and say,
"Wow, they're puttin' out some really good content."
And another thing with that as well is,
you look around YouTube sometimes
and you'll see people to where you're thinkin' like,
hey, they don't have a lot of subscribers,
but you don't know the channels they've had before.
You don't know what it is
that they're going to become either.
Just because somebody has a hundred subscribers
on their channel, doesn't mean
that you shouldn't take them seriously.
It doesn't mean that they don't know
what they're talking about.
It doesn't mean that they don't have experience
in something else that they're bringing to YouTube,
or they don't have experience helping other people
with their YouTube channels or whatever.
The only thing that it means,
the only thing that you can see proof of,
is that, yes, they have a hundred subscribers
on their channel, but in terms of everything else
that they might be involved with, you don't know.
So, be cool.
That makes everything better,
all the way around for everybody.
And if you really wanna make the best impact,
if you're reaching out to somebody for a collaboration,
focus on the content that you're making.
If you're making awesome content,
then any creator, regardless of the size,
is gonna be a lot more likely to collaborate with you,
because they appreciate what it is that you're making.
They appreciate the content
that you're putting out there into YouTube.
They appreciate what it is that you are doing
and they look at you as a professional, just like they are,
even if you only have a hundred subscribers.
Now if you watched this video because you're wanting
to collaborate with somebody,
I made an entire video about collaboration.
I'll put a link to that right up here
at the top of the screen,
and I recommend that you go check that out as well.
It's really good and it'll teach you some basics
in terms of how the collaboration process even works.
So I really recommend you check it out.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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