18 strategies to become an influencer with no
audience hey guys have you wanted to become an influencer have you wanted to get paid to do
endorsements or paid to talk about products or pay just to mention a company's name this video is for
you i'm going to walk you through 18 strategies on how to become an influencer even if you don't
have an audience now if you're new to the channel be true to the channel don't forget to hit that
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let's get right into this you're going to be an influencer by the end of this video because you're
going to know what to do let's get into all the steps number one be a niche influencer here's what
i mean by that you want to niche down you want to be very very specific the more specific you can
possibly be the better off you're going to be let's say you were talking about pets okay that
is a niche but it's too broad so we narrow that down to dogs okay so we're going to narrow it down
to dogs which are pets still too broad maybe we want to narrow it down to pets nutrition okay so
that's still a little bit broad pet nutrition is kind of broad for dogs but what if we narrowed
it down to food and we went down and we said we are a raw food uh proponent in other words we
believe in raw food feeding for dogs that is a great niche right now there's a lot of products
sold in that area if you niche down to a product like that you're gonna more easily build your
influence number two develop a content strategy now here's what i mean you're going to be posting
content maybe it's a blog maybe it's a video or whatever maybe it's tweets you want to make sure
you have some type of strategy don't randomly post twice a week and then wait three months and
then post once more you've got to have a content strategy you're going to have specific times
and days that you're going to post your content also develop your voice at that time are you going
to be humorous are you going to be serious are you going to be educational develop that content
strategy so it makes sense and so people can start to follow it number three select your channels
don't randomly post on one channel and then some other channel and another channel people can't
follow you if you jump all around so pick two or three channels or four channels whatever you
want and make sure you consistently post on those channels it's very important that you pick the
channels where your audience is going to be the audience for pinterest is vastly different than
that for youtube so make sure you find something similar to what you're doing and figure out
what channels they're on and you get on the same channels number four network within your industry
whatever your niche is whatever your industry is find out who the leaders are start following those
leaders converse with those leaders talk to them go to events where you can meet people that are
also going to be leaders in that community you've got to get entrenched into that community to be
seen as an influencer number five participate in online forums start attending things that has
other people that are like-minded as you you need to start getting to know people online you can
also go to live events and meet people at live events but you've got to start meeting the people
within your niche to be known within your niche number six you want to create a website or a blog
guys this is so important so many people say do i have to have a website the answer is no only if
you want to be successful okay people have to have a place online to get more information about you
to talk to you to send you messages to see your content websites are very important guys websites
are easy to develop if you don't know how to do it you can hire somebody on upwork or freelancer
or fiverr get yourself a website number seven contribute to the conversation don't just go and
try to build relationships with people saying hi how are you come see my website that's not
what you want to do if they're talking about a particular subject you want to talk about that
subject put your input on the comments section okay send them your input in emails whatever
you want to do but actually contribute to the conversation and make sure it's positive don't
start tearing people down if you have something negative to say to somebody don't just don't
number eight stay ahead of current events this is super important you can set up reminders
in google that will send you an email when a particular subject is written on online and it
will let you know where that subject is you can go there and look it up but you need to stay cutting
edge if you stay cutting edge people are going to start coming to you for information because they
know you know it before anybody else number nine know the social media platforms that are important
to your niche this is super important guys certain platforms cater different niches not saying that
there isn't uh you're a niche on every single platform but certain ones will attract more people
figure out what those are look at your competitors figure out where they are get on those platforms
and know those platforms so that you can get your message out to your audience number 10 don't
copy other people just don't do it don't do it you know it's tempting to go out there and see a
garyvee and say well i'm going to use the f word throughout everything i do because he does that
there's a lot more to gary vee than using the f word okay and to try to emulate somebody else's
personality is almost always doomed i don't know of anybody that really got super successful
because they copied somebody else's personality you have your own unique personality now you may
think it's not as dynamic as somebody else or it's not as funny as somebody else but it's yours
and if you just come across genuine with your own personality there's going to be people that
are going to resonate with you you know whether you're tall or short or what color you are or
what race you are what ethnicity it doesn't matter you're you just be you and people will find
you if you put out good content and you work hard you're going to become an influencer number 11
respond respond what am i mean by that i mean respond to comments when people are commenting
on your content they obviously want to have a conversation with you if you ignore them then
they're not going to try to have a conversation with you anymore now why is that important well
because most platforms like youtube here looks at engagement are people actually engaging with you
are they talking to you are they reaching out to you and if they are and then you don't reach out
back and you don't say something back to them then they're gonna quit and the other people that were
gonna write a comment sees that you don't respond to any comments and they're going to think what's
the point this person never responds to anything test me on this comment on this video and ask me
a question and i almost guarantee unless i miss it which i don't usually i almost guarantee you i'm
going to respond i'm going to say something back to you i'm going to answer your question and i may
even ask you a question to keep the conversation going so you've got to respond to all the comments
on all of your content now you will be tempted to hire somebody to do this they won't be your voice
and you're going to say well jr that would be a lot of work no it won't because in the beginning
you won't get hardly any comments okay so you're going to be lucky to get any comments and when you
do get them you should respond to them and that's going to build your audience that's going to build
the loyalty between your audience and yourself number 12 engage with your community don't
always think that the way you're going to build your audience is always staying on your
channel and doing your stuff you need to get out there and you need to join some communities
maybe some groups on facebook maybe you look at other people's blogs and you put some comments
in there you gotta you gotta be in the industry you gotta be out there people have to know of you
you know it's it's hard to build uh an audience and be an influencer if nobody knows who you are
and you hide all the time so it's really important that you get in some of these groups you comment
and you contribute and don't say negative things number 13 consistently post fresh content this
is so very important guys people can only read your content so many times okay they're not going
to read it but once if you're lucky right so you need to constantly publish good content and you
need to do it consistently on this channel here i've got a little over 1200 videos at the time of
this recording i'll probably have a lot more by the time you see this in a few months or years or
whatever but the point is i've published a lot of content there's a lot of stuff there for people to
latch on to there's a lot of subject matter there there's a lot of learning there you have to do
the same thing you need to publish fresh content never mind the fact that the algorithms all these
social media algorithms will show your content to more people if they see that you're consistently
posting fresh content so you got to do that number 14 listen to criticism oh so hard to do right i
remember when i first started doing videos in the beginning of my channel some of the first videos
and you don't want to look at those please don't go back to the first videos but i i was doing
these little short one or two minute videos and i had way too much energy i mean no human
should have that much energy and somebody said and i quote you sound like a used car salesman
now this hurt a couple ways first off because that's that's a derogatory remark and the
fact that i used to be a used car salesman so so i did write back and i said well you know i'm
sorry you know you felt that way but i did used to sell cars and i didn't mean to offend you
or anything and they actually responded back they were very kind they were like oh i didn't
mean to hurt your feelings or anything like that i just kind of noticed and that helped me it
helped me know that i was doing something wrong and i need to change it i was overdoing it
okay that's what they were actually saying to me as i was overdoing it so listen to criticism
number 15 remain approachable okay you're never going to get to a level where you're better
than anybody else i don't care who you are i don't care what you've done you're never better
than anybody else so when people want to talk to you or say hello to you or whatever make them feel
comfortable make them feel welcome let them know they're appreciated because if you want to be an
influencer you better respect the people that are going to be listening to you that's rule number
one is respect those people listening to you be approachable number 16 research new topics on a
daily basis okay you've got to constantly come up with new content if you want to be an influencer
you've got to come up with new topics you can't talk about the same thing over and over and
over and over you've got to have new angles on it you've got to have new topics this is going to
require that you do some research on a daily basis number 17 automate your post i use hootsuite
and hootsuite will post things on twitter and instagram and facebook and youtube it'll
do all these things for me automatically use some of these tools hootsuite
is a really good one i recommend it check that one out it'll help you out you can also
schedule your post so they go out certain times of the day and certain days of the week super helpful
for planning your content especially if you want to sail around the world to be a digital nomad
which you probably will number 18 give shout outs and follow the influencers in your niche a lot of
people say well i don't want to send any traffic to my competitors out there that would be terrible
no it's a good thing when you give a shout out or you tag one of your competitors they're going to
know that you exist and who knows maybe they'll tag you and if they tag you guess what you may
build your audience be kind to other people and if i could end this with anything else it would
be just be kind to other people i've seen too many mean people in my life and you know i was not
always a good person i've changed over the years maybe you were mean to people in the past but
that doesn't mean you've got to be mean anymore i go out to restaurants a lot and i would usually
comment if i like the food or didn't like the food years ago i quit doing that the only way
i'm going to comment on a restaurant now is if i like it if i don't like it i'm going to
keep my mouth shut because that's my opinion in my opinion may not be the next person's
why do anything to hurt that restaurant why do anything to hurt anybody anymore guys we
only have so many years here we might as well be kind to other people and now be kind to
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