- Hey, how's it goin' everyone?
This is your creative and courageous
YouTube expert Derral Eves.
Now, I know all of us would like
to get more exposure on our YouTube videos,
we'd like to grow our audience,
and I read through the comments
of what people leave on a lot of my videos
and that's the number one thing
that they're actually looking for is more exposure,
the "Hey, we got great content,
but we need a bigger audience."
Is this you? Do you want a bigger audience?
Do you want more views on your video?
Well if it is, you need to stay tuned.
- [Voiceover] derralEVES.com
- Now, all of us really want to get a bigger audience
and we try everything in our power to do that.
Well, the number one way to do
that is through collaborations.
Now, I know all of you heard about collaborations before
and you've kind of reached out to a few
and some of you actually do it consistently
and are effective at it but what I want
to do is take some time and really explain some things
that you don't know about collaborations
or you might learn something here
that might be a little bit different.
So, I thought, hey, we're doing a collaboration
video on collaborations so why not do a
collaboration video about a collaboration
with my friend David Walsh.
You can find him at DavidWalshOnline.com
or YouTube/DavidWalshOnline.
How ya doin', David?
- I'm doing fantastic, Derral, pleasure to be here.
- So we're ready to do a collaboration
video about a collaboration
and give tips about collaborations.
Are you ready to collaborate?
- Absolutely, I love to collaborate!
(laughing)
- Now, the first thing is, and this is one thing
that I want everybody to realize,
is don't view people as competitors.
Now, David has a YouTube channel, he gives YouTube tips.
I have a YouTube channel, I give YouTube tips.
I don't view you as a competitor,
you don't view me as a competitor,
we realize that people will resonate differently
with our personalities or the way that we teach
and so why would we feel like, you know, you're competition?
- Absolutely and that's the thing about YouTube,
there really isn't a thing called competition.
- Yeah, it's like are we gonna collaborate
or not and I think that's the big thing.
Now, what I want to do is
really go through, kind of the hidden things
that you might not know about collaborations.
One of the things is the most powerful collaboration,
and I think everyone knows this,
is what they call one for one.
I put one video on my channel
and you put one video on your channel, David,
and we push traffic to each other, right?
- Exactly and that's probably the most common
or most popular one that's out there,
that almost everybody knows.
- And right now we've done that, we actually have a video
that you can find in the description below,
once you're done watching this video
cause you don't want to miss the very end,
I'm gonna really give a good tip on that.
You can watch another version of,
where we really go into some very
important basic steps about collaboration.
But I think the critical thing is the things
that you don't realize.
So, that's the number one, I think everybody realizes that.
But how do you actually collaborate with someone that,
if you do a sketch comedy, for example,
how do you collaborate with someone
that does lifestyle or hair and makeup or vlogs?
I think that's the question there
and so the reality is you can collaborate
with someone that does hair and makeup
and help them do the hair and makeup
and talk about the different types of hair
and makeup that they're doing for a specific comedy sketch.
And guess what?
That gives them content, that gives them unique content
and you're able to collaborate.
And maybe you have them in a guest spot in
that specific sketch.
That's one way.
David do you have a way that's kind of unique
that's not necessarily a one for one
but it could be, hey, this is a different way
to collaborate?
- Yeah, and there's one very similar
to that is where you actually swap.
So say you're doing cookery on your channel
and then you do a collaboration with somebody
who does hair and makeup.
So you try as the chef-type person,
you try and do the hair and makeup
and the other person does the cookery.
So, and that can be a nice way
to have a little comedic element,
especially if you're a male trying to do hair and makeup
and you don't necessarily have the ability to do so well.
So, that's another way similar
to what you're talking about but a nice little twist
that can have a nice little comedic element to it.
- Yeah, for sure, and I would say the second thing is
there's one niche, there's one niche out there
that is the easiest to collaborate for.
Do you have any thoughts on that one, David,
which one that niche might be?
- Well, quite a few are racing through my mind
so you've got me intrigued as to what it is.
- I'm glad that I have you intrigued.
Well, it's vloggers, vloggers!
Vloggers, especially daily vloggers,
literally are pumping out content a lot
and they're looking for interesting ways
to have an interesting life and, you know,
that's an easy way to collaborate.
I was actually in a meeting yesterday
with two vloggers, well, I'm in their daily vlog.
They gave me a shout out, said "Hey, check him out."
I was in their video, they wasn't necessarily in mine,
but, you know, I've had them on before
to teach different tips and techniques
of the five things that you need to know about vlogging,
you know, before starting.
So there's a lot of different ways to do that.
I think they're really an easy way
but I would say too, gamers would be really easy
to do a collaboration too, I mean,
that's a very natural fit if you like the same games
and you can kind of collaborate on an online play,
you're able to do that as well.
- Yeah, exactly, and almost anybody
who needs a model or needs to cook or something like that.
So, as you said, vloggers, gamers, anyone else
who is doing a lot of content,
especially if they're doing multiple pieces
of content per day or per week.
- Yeah, so, that's an easy way.
Some of the things that you can
collaborate on are challenge videos,
we should do a challenge video,
I think put me, you, and Tim Schmoyer
all in the same room, we should do a challenge video.
- Yeah and if Gideon shows up we'll have
to throw him in as well!
- Yeah, that'd be awesome, that would be awesome!
(laughing)
- Yeah, so, in the comments below,
what would you like to see us do in a challenge?
I think that would be very interesting.
(laughing)
- Yeah, not the cinnamon thing though,
not the cinnamon thing.
- Yeah, I'll go for the chubby bunny one.
(laughing)
I'll win! I'll win at any food one, for sure.
So there's one way that you can actually do it,
challenge videos are great, contests are great,
guests hosting are great.
One of the ones that I really like is reaction
collaborations. - [David] Absolutely, yeah.
- I know I had a client that had a great video,
Fine Brothers did how kids react to that video,
that was a collaboration that brought
us a lot of subscribers.
- Yeah and they're great ways.
Again, you have the entertainment aspect
and you also have the intrigue aspect as well,
what's the video they're looking at
that they're reacting in this sort of way?
- Yeah and I think that the last one is there's a lot
of behind the scenes type things that you can do
maybe for someone else.
I know we actually had an amazing
video last year about Christmas
and we had Devin Graham, who we collaborated
with in that regard, he came out and filmed
but he also did the behind the scenes.
Well, that was a way we were able
to collaborate with him without him feeling like he had
to be in front of the screen or anything like that.
Which he was actually in front
of the screen on that video too.
You can literally collaborate in
so may different ways, you can be so unique.
I think that the biggest thing though,
is taking time reaching out, go to the events,
get to know people, get to know what they're doing,
have common interests and I think what they need
to do too, David, is click on a video that we just made
to teach them all about collaborations
and the little small things.
What do you think?
- Absolutely.
I think part one of this video would be very helpful
for them in that respect.
- It might be part two of this video
depending on where they're coming in.
So they're coming in, this is part one.
Part two is over here if you're on David's video.
- The other part of this collaboration.
- Exactly. Exactly.
Thank you guys so much!
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Thank you so much for coming on, David!
- You're very welcome, Derral, absolute pleasure to be here!
- And I can't wait until we can connect again,
it's just always fun being with you!
And also in the comments, guys,
would you like to see more consistant collaborations
with David and I, maybe we can get Tim on this too,
I think that would be fun.
- That would be cool.
And also what would you like us to collaborate about?
- Oh, that's a great idea, what would you would like us
to collaborate about, put that in the comments below.
Make sure you subscribe and a chance on David's video,
see what we say over there.
Thanks, guys, have a wonderful and productive day!