- It's one thing to grow a successful YouTube channel,
but can you maintain it once you have
a solid subscriber base?
Keeping your audience engaged on YouTube
is a whole other beast.
Today, I'm sharing with you my favorite ways
to gain subscribers and keep them loyal.
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So first and foremost is stay consistent.
Consistency is king on YouTube.
If you aren't uploading on a regular basis
and on a scheduled basis,
you can't expect to grow and keep an audience.
I would love to ask you in a poll on this video,
how often do you upload new videos?
Let me know below
because your consistency is also gonna show YouTube
how committed you are to the platform.
And YouTube rewards creators
who are showing up to the platform
and who are keeping people retained on their platform.
They're gonna boost your videos
if they see that you're a regular,
and that you're keeping people watching because think of it,
YouTube wants more people spending time on their platform.
And if you're a creator that keeps people watching,
they're gonna to put your videos in front of more people.
Next, stick to a format.
So if a certain length or subject or format
works best on your channel,
cater to that as your channel is growing,
or else you might risk confusing your viewers
and moving them to unsubscribe.
Think of what they came here for,
what did they sign up for?
And be sure to keep expanding on that.
Once you're more established on the platform,
that's when I can recommend that you can experiment
with different content formats,
but pay attention to what's working.
Next up is to reply to comments
and be engaging on the platform.
Whether that means you're commenting
on other people's videos,
or replying to what people are leaving on your videos
and leave rich replies that are more than four words.
Be authentic, don't always be selling.
Give your audience quality in your videos,
and then also quality in your comments.
So that you're responding to them
and actually having a conversation, building a relationship,
not just like "Cool, thanks, awesome."
You actually wanna maybe ask them questions
or give a response that shows
that you really read their comment
and what they were saying.
And make sure that like I said, in your videos, quality,
it shouldn't just be a sales pitch
for your products and services.
You wanna give your audience value
and a reason to keep coming back
so they can continue to know, like and trust you.
On your channel, there is a community tab.
So this is where most creators
are not capitalizing on this space.
This is where you can create polls, ask questions,
and let your audience know what they can expect
from your next upload.
It's almost like on Facebook,
how you can make status updates
and be able to communicate with people.
Your Community tab is gonna be able
to do the same thing for you
that you can communicate, you can make posts,
you can, like I said, ask questions,
be able to communicate with your audience through a medium
that isn't just your videos.
This will also give you immediate feedback
from your audience.
Like, hey, what would you like more videos about?
or what are some questions?
what are frequently asked questions?
What are you doing for the holidays?
Anything that might even be trending or seasonal
that you can communicate with your audience
and then make videos about.
Speaking of which, act on audience requests.
So if you make videos that are highly requested
or answer highly requested questions,
interact with your audience in real time,
like if you've asked,
if someone's asked you a question maybe on your Instagram
and you make a video about it,
something that's trending or something that's been popular,
a frequently asked question.
You can also do Instagram lives
or interact with your audience, like I said, in real time,
you can host a live stream
or you can respond to them in real time
with YouTube premieres.
That's another way that YouTube sees
that you're being engaging
and building your audience which again,
YouTube is gonna benefit you
by putting you in front of more people.
As you're growing your channel,
you also wanna share your wins.
So celebrate your subscriber milestones
or celebrate with your audience.
And you can do this on other social media platforms too.
So if you have a good following on Instagram,
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, anything,
you can celebrate those milestones and say,
"Hey, my YouTube channel just got to this.
"And I would love for you to follow me over here."
Or if you have screenshots
of awesome comments from your channel,
you could maybe post those on other social media platforms,
encouraging them, "Hey, this is what someone else said,
"wanna come watch the video that they said this about?"
That's a great way to be able to redirect traffic
from one platform to another.
In every video I also like to ask questions.
So I wanna ask you who you're watching,
I wanna ask you exactly
what you would like to see in your videos?
Or to tell me something about yourself
and leave it in the comments.
So earlier, I asked a question about,
how long are your videos?
How frequently are you posting videos?
So that we can kind of have that conversation
and it makes you think,
so that you can then take action.
That's also gonna build that relationship,
nurture the relationship and provide value to your audience,
which is gonna keep them coming back for more.
And lastly, if you can give your audience a name
that is going to fuel your movement.
So one of my clients, Cristy Code Red,
she calls her audience her code red rebels.
People who use Click Funnels they're funnel hackers,
they wanna put that name on a t-shirt,
they are so proud to wave the flag
and say that they are one of them.
They are part of a team.
They're part of a tribe.
They're in this movement.
So if you can think of a name to give your audience
and be able to refer to them as that,
even newbies who are watching your video might go,
"How do I become a code red rebel or a funnel hacker?"
and want to keep watching more
so that they can be included in part of this movement.
Keeping your subscribers engaged may seem like an art form,
but really, it's a matter of strategy.
I hope this video gave you some ideas
for engaging with your audience.
And if you're looking for even more fun ways
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