d.Tube, Steemit and Network Marketing (Relationship Building)
I've been seeing a lot of people, especially on Minds and other forms of social media, where they will see a post by someone else, and immediately post a comment on the OP's thread with the spammer's personal talking points and tons of social media profiles and affiliate links and the like for self promotion rather than contributing to the topic at hand, very annoying and it's network marketing done wrong. People fail to realize what relationship building and list building is and how to properly perform it.
So in this video I go over some of my likes and dislikes about d.Tube, where it can be improved, a suggestion that I've stated before on Minds about livestreaming, getting big YouTubers like PewDIePie and the Paul Brothers and others to come to d.Tube and Steemit just to see how YouTube would react to it, the whole 9 yards.
I personally think it would be interested as all hell to see what YouTube would do if all their big name YouTubers with millions of subscribers start to drag their subscriber base away from YouTube and over to the blockchain just because all know how much YouTube/Google heavily rely on this huge name content creators in order to keep attention and keep their platform afloat. If all the major YouTubers exit the platform in favor of d.Tube and Steemit, then these same creators will also end up dragging more content creators over here, diversify the content overall and in effect also make the platform itself have a wider audience to effect the views and income positively for other creators on the blockchain platforms.
Someone in my video here as I was showing d.Tube uploaded a video yesterday as of the time of writing and uploading this, that had 5 million subscribers and moved over to d.Tube just to try it out, and scored over $1000 in a single day. So 5 million for $1000, imagine PewDiePie, 50-60 Million? PewDiePie could, hypothetically, score roughly between $4 Mil to $10 Mil daily if my math is correct hypothetically of course because his following would, I think, have to also produce content? I'm not sure. I'm still new to this arena, just a thought all the same that would be great to see as an experiment and I'd love to see how YouTube would react to losing that kind of audience from their platform. Bet the CEO would be forced to resign after losing that kind of audience from the platform.
In regards to network marketers, promoting yourself on your own stream is fantastic, in a way everyone is a network marketer and they just don't realize it. Everyone is an expert at relationship building and branding themselves in some size shape or form, at least it seems until money somewhere is involved, then that knowledge goes right out the window in favor of the tactics used by the ever so famous Nigerian Prince self promoting on other people's posts which is a huge no no.
Build your brand yourself, as I show you in the video, I brand myself as my interests, find others that have similar interests to yourself and talk about that kind of stuff on your own blog, channel, stream, etc and build up your audience based upon mutual interests. Then you'll be better able to sell things that you recommend or show off your sponsors and the like with higher chance of that being reshared and even supported by your audience. Got to remember that if you can't sell something that's free, you can't sell something that costs money either, so you have to sell yourself for free first. If you can't build up your audience to your channel, essentially selling your content for free, you're not going to be able to sell your affiliate stuff, sponsors, etc either.
This is why it's important to build yourself as a brand and let people subscribe to you and communicate back and forth with you and share your content to their own streams where they can in order to help build your brand as you, you are the brand at the moment. You are your own product, and you're selling yourself for free until you can get a better deal later where you can have sponsors that align with your interests.
If you're a gaming channel for example, play games and talk about gaming news, get big in the gaming spheres to a degree and then you can get sponsors for gaming related merch. Just for sake of example for the most common YouTube Genre followed by Comedy (which YT seems intent on killing hilariously enough).
The reason you want to focus on multiple interests is because you're building multiple lists with the same brand identity, that brand is again, you. Each facet of your interests is it's own niche. For me, transhumanism, deafness, biohacking, physics, those are some of my niches that I can target because they're my interests and you can attract me to your content by writing and talking about those kinds of topics and I'll be more apt to share that kind of content of yours on my own stream as a reshare (or a remind on Minds). That's relationship building and is the strongest form of marketing. It'd be wise to learn it.
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Users don't get paid on minds.org like here do they? I had never even heard of it before now.
No no, they get paid, I'm just not exactly certain how it works =\ I find it a little confusing because I'm personally still under Newb as Hell status.
Greetings: I'm the new kid on the block (chain) and I appreciated your suggestions on how to go about building a following and developing a network. I'll check out your vids on DTube also. Thanks. Regret I don't have anything to add to your content at the moment, but hopefully soon!!
It's very easy to do, most people already know how to personally do it and don't even think about it, like right there, you left a comment on a topic that interests you, so you're already aware of how to do it. It's just when you stop and try to actually think about it, you get a little blocked. It's kinda like a dating profile for someone that's not deeply into themselves or having their head straight up their own butt. You've likely seen them or heard of them "Oh god I never know what to put in these things" whereas if it's just a status update then BOOM suddenly they're all about it all day long describing themselves and their interests and desires and dislikes live for all to see. Other's comment and click Like and the magic just happens.
For some reason when money is involved all that goes straight out the window confusing people because it's like that "About Me" Section on profiles that some poeple have so much trouble trying to fill out. You can do it, until you starting thinking about "how" you do it. Just a bit of psychology trickery that screws with people's heads.
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Interesting, I'm blown away myself about how few votes it has vs how much it's accrued (Yes I'm aware I'm responding to a bot). So I look at the likes to see who liked and noticed that d.tube itself liked the video that boosted it hella much. Must resist urge to abuse that since it's not my niche. =\