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Why should they collaborate with you: The single most important element of any collaboration; what value do you offer? Don't focus on sub counts... the number of subs you have is not the value in your collaboration. Your on screen persona, your skillset... these are things that are valuable. Can you be interviewed on camera discussing your niche? Are you an authority on a subject or is your learning process on that subject something that makes you interesting to talk to? These are things to consider. Remember that when you are collaborating with someone what you are doing is sharing that person with your audience and they are sharing you with theirs. If you want to get the most out of that experience than you have very little time to prove to that audience that you are valuable and someone worth their time to come over and subscribe to you. Be valuable.
Some Things to Consider: Obviously you want to be in a similar niche... if someone wants to collaborate with me they had better be prepared to discuss fishing!!! But other things to consider are your audience demographics.The majority of my audience is in the 35-50 demographic. If yours is 18-year-olds we may need to at least consider how we are going to handle this discrepency.
Collabs Can Be Simple: Often times a collaboration with me begins with you being a guest on my weekly livestream. That is a chance for us to get to know each other and it is a simple way for us to acclimate. But also I enjoy including fun little 'Easter Egg' type collaborative moments; I once recorded a 20 second video introduction and then acted like 'oh man, this isn't my channel! Let me get you back to so-and-so' and handed that off to a guy so that he could use it as the intro to one of his videos. It was fun, it mixed things up and it was a simply 10 second clip. Gathering a collection of short clips from a dozen creators to be combined into one video is another fun way to collaborate. Mind you; in order to get everyone involved you will need a solid concept to sell them on. Have a full idea present and ready to go before you start asking for people to take their time to help you out.
Ignore The Sub Count: I really can not stress this enough. Collaborations are not about sub counts. They are not about gaining subs. A good collaboration is an opportunity for you to increase your authority on a subject. When you collaborate with another creator you need to brag about that in your Community tab. You need to provide links, end screens, cards etc to your work on other channels because it shows that you are worth working with due to your authority on a subject. Being introduced to a new audience is nice... but should not be the sole reason for a collaboration. So many times I've seen people who want to collab and they require X amount of subscribers in order to work with them. That's sooo dumb. They are missing out on a truly unique experience. I suggest everyone collab with someone that has 90% less subs than you once. Be the authority in the collab. Make that persons day. When they hit 1,000 tell me they wont still be talking about that.
And consider for a second what happens if they blow up tomorrow... who are they going to remember to help them along the way? This happens far more often than you'd think. Be prepared. Make friends while they are small.
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Some Things to Consider: Obviously you want to be in a similar niche... if someone wants to collaborate with me they had better be prepared to discuss fishing!!! But other things to consider are your audience demographics.The majority of my audience is in the 35-50 demographic. If yours is 18-year-olds we may need to at least consider how we are going to handle this discrepency.
Collabs Can Be Simple: Often times a collaboration with me begins with you being a guest on my weekly livestream. That is a chance for us to get to know each other and it is a simple way for us to acclimate. But also I enjoy including fun little 'Easter Egg' type collaborative moments; I once recorded a 20 second video introduction and then acted like 'oh man, this isn't my channel! Let me get you back to so-and-so' and handed that off to a guy so that he could use it as the intro to one of his videos. It was fun, it mixed things up and it was a simply 10 second clip. Gathering a collection of short clips from a dozen creators to be combined into one video is another fun way to collaborate. Mind you; in order to get everyone involved you will need a solid concept to sell them on. Have a full idea present and ready to go before you start asking for people to take their time to help you out.
Ignore The Sub Count: I really can not stress this enough. Collaborations are not about sub counts. They are not about gaining subs. A good collaboration is an opportunity for you to increase your authority on a subject. When you collaborate with another creator you need to brag about that in your Community tab. You need to provide links, end screens, cards etc to your work on other channels because it shows that you are worth working with due to your authority on a subject. Being introduced to a new audience is nice... but should not be the sole reason for a collaboration. So many times I've seen people who want to collab and they require X amount of subscribers in order to work with them. That's sooo dumb. They are missing out on a truly unique experience. I suggest everyone collab with someone that has 90% less subs than you once. Be the authority in the collab. Make that persons day. When they hit 1,000 tell me they wont still be talking about that.
And consider for a second what happens if they blow up tomorrow... who are they going to remember to help them along the way? This happens far more often than you'd think. Be prepared. Make friends while they are small.
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