Feeling stuck with my promotion game

JanWar

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Hello there!

My niche is war related stuff. So I have been reading articles/watching videos/reading other threads about promotion of a youtube channel. I have been on reddit for very long so I know how to use that website to promote my channel(90% of my views come from there). I have found some forums related to my niche, which I use to promote too.

Now the thing is that I just can't find a way to start promoting on social media's like facebook or twitter. With reddit you don't need fans or followers. Which I just dont know how to start getting.
Do any of you have a good strategy for starting up with facebook or twitter?:help:
 

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I will leave a post here to get notified when someone answers. I wonder the same.. I guess you can post your videos in related groups on fb or something like this or buy some ads there.. but are the facebook ads worth it?
 

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I've found facebook groups to so far be the best to promote in. I've just searched for groups posting about related content and being active in those groups/watching other peoples videos etc.

It's a slow but steady process!
 

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I will leave a post here to get notified when someone answers. I wonder the same.. I guess you can post your videos in related groups on fb or something like this or buy some ads there.. but are the facebook ads worth it?
I don't think investing money for facebook ads would be helpful.
I think they're annoying as f*ck lol, I mean, facebook is basically an advertising site that lets you share stuff with your friends. I find it annoying because every time I visit the site, I'm constantly being bombarded with ads shoved in my face, and once in a while I even get a survey for specific brands/companies/ products, when I didn't even ask for it.

Though sharing videos to related facebook groups is a good way to get some exposure to new potential subscribers, and exchange ideas/feedback through the comments.
It's a nice place to make a good impression on people, so they enjoy your 'online company'/videos. z

As for twitter, I found the easiest way to gain exposure is though hashtags, try not to use the same ones too often, mix it up a little. There are also a few twitter accounts that retweet new youtubers, which can help expose your content even more. (Though you usually have to follow them first to get retweeted) and since they retweet a lot, your twitter feed would be 99.9% retweets, so this might not be the best option, unless you follow them for like a day so you get retweeted, then unfollow the rest of the week, and repeat the next week, etc.

That's basically the extent of my facebook/ youtube video promotion knowledge, I hope it helps you!
 

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I found Facebook groups can help. I use Google+ too, but it seems to be dying a slow death. I haven't had as much luck with twitter, but I've found when I do a review of something if I @ the company they will usually retweet me, which helps. Minds.com is also good, but the number of users is still small.