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So one of the mistakes that I see new content creators making is not really taking the time to respond

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to all their comments.

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And it blows my mind.

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I don't understand why they don't do it or why.

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That's not their priority, especially once you release a video.

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Now, I'm not saying you have to release a video on YouTube and then sit there for 24 hours and make

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sure that every second that a comment comes in, you're right there to respond to it.

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That's not what I'm saying.

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What I am saying is when you release a video, you want to be cognizant of the potential comments that

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you're going to get because it really will improve your video and your organic community and outreach

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just organically if you do so.

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There's so many benefits to doing it.

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But what instead of what I want you to do is not just, you know, be at your computer waiting for people

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to comment, to respond back, but check it.

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You know, every hour or two and respond to the comments that you do get when you're under a hundred

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thousand subscribers, which I'm assuming is the majority people watching this video currently.

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Right.

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There's so many good reasons to do this.

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First and foremost, it's going to double your engagement rate.

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So if you get a comment on video and you respond back, obviously we know firsthand that YouTube uses

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about the first 24 to 72 hours, roughly to figure out whether or not they're going to push that video

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out to the masses.

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Kind of like Instagram.

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Now, don't get me wrong, you can pick up traction later on if, you know, YouTube starts to see a

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spike with their algorithm and, you know, potential engagement or watch time or whatever of any of

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those other metrics that we talked about.

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You can obviously get a push later on.

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So this is not the be all end all.

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It's not that like if, you know, your video doesn't get pushed out and doesn't do well in the first

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24 to 72 hours, that it's a complete dud and it's going to be dead for the rest of its life.

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That's not the case.

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That said, you always want to give yourself the best opportunity to, you know, really hit home your

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videos and give them most potential outreach as possible initially.

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Right.

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So the way that you can do that, number one, is respond to all your comments.

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Like I said, it's going to double your engagement rate.

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Why would you not do that?

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Then it's also gonna help your videos rank better like we talked about, because it's going to increase

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engagement, which is one of the key factors that YouTube uses to measure the success rate of your video

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and how well other people, you know, both subscribed in unsubscribed are basically receiving that

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piece of content.

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More importantly than all that, and that stuff is very, very important is it's going to develop a

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relationship with your viewers.

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Right?

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You want to respond to them.

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You don't just want to you know, you be the creator and they're like the commoners and viewers.

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No.

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Instead, you want to kind of create a community.

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You want to build a community that should always be your goal wherever it is.

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You want to build a community where people feel safe and inspire them to comment.

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So by doing so and responding back, like I said, you're going into double your engagement rate.

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You're going to rank your videos better.

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But also, more importantly, you're going to develop a relationship with your viewers.

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Build a community and that's going to inspire them and reinforce them essentially to create, you know,

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comments in the future.

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And come back to comment again, because they're gonna feel like you that they have a say.

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Everybody wants to be heard.

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And if you respond back to them, it's going to go a long way to inspire them to comment again on a

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future video, which obviously is a snowball effect like we talked about here.

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So this is a huge way to build a more personal connection with people spending their time to watch your

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videos.

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Do not take this for granted.

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If people, you know, comment on, you know, on your YouTube video, you should treat that the same.

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Take a little bit of time, respondent genuinely back, give some value in there.

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People are going to go are really, really, really going to appreciate it.

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And it's going to go a long way to inspire more future engagement and really help you out.