When we think of growing communities, we often think of Facebook groups. It’s easy; it’s a captured audience and everything stays in the group.
But you can also grow a community around your YouTube channel! Your biggest fans will always follow your videos. And they would love to interact with you and your other subscribers.
YouTube is a great platform to get your message out and attract clients, subscribers and followers but another goal is to build a community.
Building a community of followers and fans is a bit easier on Facebook and Instagram because of the closed in nature of groups and friends.
But there are great ways to build community on YouTube as well and once you have them, they will be loyal to you.
The first step is to identify your ideal subscriber. What kind of person will devour your content? Spend some time thinking about that person and then make content for them!
Once you get to 500 subscribers, you get the community feature where you can make postsand create polls.
With creating polls, you can offer your audience choices on what content they would like you to make. And they will appreciate you asking them!
The other way to build community is by going LIVE.
I suggest scheduling your lives a week or two out so you can get people ready and exited.
It’s easy to create a live stream in advance and schedule it so people will see it and plan to attend. Create a theme or subject that will be searchable and desired for your audience and create a good thumbnail.
Your people will be happy to engage with you live by texting in the chat box and then you can answer them!
And last of all, make sure you follow up with people who comment. Doing these things will help you grow both your community and your channel.
Keep making consistent content for your ideal subscriber and just watch your community grow!
Until next time,