- In this video, you're gonna learn
how to reach out to other YouTubers to collaborate.
And we're starting right now.
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My name is Nick.
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With that out of the way,
I'm gonna hand this video over to Brandon Nankivell
from OnePercentBetter, and he's gonna tell you
what he's learned for reaching out
to other YouTubers for collaborations.
Brandon, it's all yours.
- What's up, guys, how's it going?
I'm Brandon Nankivell.
I run the YouTube channel OnePercentBetter,
where I consolidate self development books
into five to 10 minute animations.
I'm here today to teach you guys about collaborations.
How can you collaborate with someone?
What even is a collaboration?
So a collaboration is simply
reaching out to someone and creating a video with them.
So that way, you can expose yourself to a new audience.
So why is it important to collaborate?
Well, there are quite a few benefits.
Number one is that you get
yourself in front of a new audience.
What that's gonna do for you is increase
your subscriber rate if that new audience likes your videos.
Number two is you actually get to
connect with like-minded people.
You can reach out to creatives in your niche,
and then you actually get to network and connect with them.
And who knows, you might make a friend out of it.
Before we get into this video, guys,
we're gonna do something really special for you.
So, if you're looking for other
creatives to collaborate with,
just drop a link to your channel
page in the comments section below,
and start connecting with other people.
So how do you collaborate with someone?
There's two approaches.
The first is for someone to reach out to you
and ask you for a collaboration.
And the way you do that is by creating awesome content.
Seriously, if you're making awesome content,
people will notice and soon you'll find yourself
having people reaching out to you asking to collaborate.
Now the second one is my favorite
because it's more under your control.
And that is to actually be proactive about it
and go out and find other YouTubers in your niche
with a similar subscriber count.
And the reason is, it's because they're more
likely to collaborate with you.
Think about it.
If you're a gamer, and perhaps you've got 1,000 subscribers,
if you reach out to PewDiePie,
what do you think your chances are
of PewDiePie responding to you?
Quite low.
I don't wanna crash your dreams or anything,
but the chances are he's not gonna respond to you.
Once you've found a similar creator with similar videos,
how do you reach out to them?
Now, the most common way is to contact them by email.
Generally, you can find a YouTuber's email address
by going to their channel page,
heading to the about tab,
and there'll be a little button that says
show email address, or display email address.
Click that, and you'll get their email address.
Now that you've got their email address,
there are four things to keep in mind
before you send them off an email.
Number one, use their name.
Don't just go, hey, sup.
You haven't even addressed them by their name.
Make it personal and make them feel special.
And actually use their name.
So if you wanted to collaborate with me, Brandon,
then go, hey Brandon, what's up?
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- Or you can do like I did,
and hit him up on Facebook and be like
oh my God, dude, you're coming to Chiang Mai?
You gotta hit me up when you get to Chiang Mai.
We have to do a collaboration.
- Or you could do that.
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Number two is the KISS principle.
This is an acronym that stands for
keep it simple, stupid.
You don't wanna confuse the person
you're reaching out to to collaborate with.
Make it short, sweet, maybe two paragraphs at the most.
Nothing more, and get straight to the point.
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- Or, say dude, oh my God, you're coming to town?
You gotta get in touch, we have to do a collaboration.
- I love it.
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Number three, be yourself and don't
be afraid to have some fun.
Maybe you could mention one of their
videos that you've watched,
and that you've really enjoyed.
Don't be afraid to include
a little smiley face or an emoticon.
Get funky, be fun, be an exciting person, a bit like Nick.
And yeah, you'll be alright, no worries.
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- By exciting, do you mean hitting you up
and being like, oh my God, dude,
you're coming to town?
You gotta get in touch, we have to do a collaboration.
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- Yeah.
Number four, suggest some ideas so that doesn't force
the creator you're reaching out to to have to think.
Often people are busy, so if you can just give 'em
one or two ideas of a video you'd like to do with 'em,
then that way you increase your chances of them responding.
So perhaps I wanna do a video with Nick,
I could give him some specific ideas
for a collaboration video,
and maybe I could say, hey Nick,
do you wanna do a Q and A video together?
- And Nick would be like, yeah.
- So with those four email tips in mind,
when you're ready to click the send button,
cross your fingers and hope for the best.
I hope you found the tips for collaborations useful, guys.
Nick's gonna leave some links down to my channel below.
So if you're keen to check out my channel,
feel free to do so.
I'd love to see you over there.
But other than that, I'd like to
give it up back over to Nick.
- Make sure that you hit the description
and check out the links to everything that Brandon is doing.
Because he is working on some awesome stuff,
and you really need to check it out.
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And as always, thank you so much for watching.
I'll see ya next time.