{"id":27833,"date":"2024-07-02T23:15:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T03:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=27833"},"modified":"2024-07-04T08:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T12:27:06","slug":"to-grow-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/to-grow-respond\/","title":{"rendered":"To Grow, Respond"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This year’s VidCon was the best yet. I was on a panel about building a business on @YouTube with some other amazing creators, here are my takeaways:<\/div>\n
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To Grow, Respond<\/div>\n
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A foolproof way to grow your audience when starting out is to make a habit of responding to every single comment you get. I still remember every creator that’s ever responded to me – it makes that big a difference. <\/div>\n
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In the early days of growing Epic Gardening, I spent 3 years responding to nearly every comment and it made a huge difference in building community.<\/div>\n
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Sell Out Without Selling Out<\/div>\n
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There are so many different ways to monetize on YouTube. Three of my fellow panelists do exceptionally well with channel memberships, giving their community access to exclusive streams, Q&As, priority response to comments, and more.<\/div>\n
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In my case, I listened deeply to my audience and learned they were interested in a few products that I’d featured in my videos, so I hunted down the manufacturer, imported the product, and offered it for sale.<\/div>\n
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To avoid “selling out”, just listen – your audience will tell you what they’d be happy to buy from you.<\/div>\n
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Be Uncopyable<\/div>\n
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There’s so much competition in the world of content these days it can be intimidating as a creator to even get started. Fellow panelist Cassandra Bankson – a model and skincare creator – calls her style “Ghost Pepper Authenticity” which as a gardener I obviously love. <\/div>\n
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She leans into exactly what she believes and more importantly what she doesn’t stand for. The only uncopyable asset you have is the “You” part of YouTube – so lean into it.<\/div>\n
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Every time I come to VidCon I learn so much, so expect a few more takeaways!<\/div>\n
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To Grow, Respond<\/p>\n

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CS 183 customer service<\/div>\n
✅ in addition to the Vidcon knowledge nuggets, let me add, “doing customer service before dollar one arrives”<\/div>\n
So what you’re doing here is your responding and providing customer service. Can you provide a tracking number? Can you wrangle a person from point a, which is they watched a video on your ex\/Twitter and then they get wrangled to point B<\/div>\n
Point B is the title of your video<\/div>\n
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Nine things undergrads should understand about the counterintuitive truth of getting a FICO score over 800. POINT A IS: THEY JUST LEFT THE COMMENT.<\/div>\n
Point B is a Phico of just under 800.<\/div>\n
✅ see us 183 customer service is realizing that every user matters in the beginning<\/div>\n
✅ in the beginning, doing this type of customer service work seems like you are, “doing things that don’t scale, but have momentum”\n<\/div>\n
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