I highly doubt that will work unless your channel is about some kind of product you want to show them in action. Just picture yourself not being a YouTuber and somebody handing you a business card with a YouTube channel on it... What would you think? I would honestly throw it away in the very next garbage can I passed. Honestly the best way to self promote is to not come off as a spammer and have a link right in front of somebody to click. I don't think many people will have the attention span or interest to hold on to a business card until they get to a computer, then go and manually type in the URL or channel name. Just picture me walking up to you and handing you a business card saying I have cute dog videos... What would you do?I plan to make small business cards or something cheap to make to hand out to people I meet everyday. Including a facebook page is also a good idea, might bring in people who don't usually watch youtube that often.
I highly doubt that will work unless your channel is about some kind of product you want to show them in action. Just picture yourself not being a YouTuber and somebody handing you a business card with a YouTube channel on it... What would you think? I would honestly throw it away in the very next garbage can I passed. Honestly the best way to self promote is to not come off as a spammer and have a link right in front of somebody to click. I don't think many people will have the attention span or interest to hold on to a business card until they get to a computer, then go and manually type in the URL or channel name. Just picture me walking up to you and handing you a business card saying I have cute dog videos... What would you do?
I think it would be more effective to bust out your phone and show them a video. If they are interested they will ask where to find more. I have had quite a few people from my dog park subscribe or at least go through and watch my dog videos. What I'll do is have them search for my channel on their own phone, that was it's in their watch history. My 666th sub was a girl from the dog park, she is always around my girlfriend when she gets hurt by dogs... Coincidence??? I told her about the 666 thing and she thought it was funny.the sam I grant you, but I'm meeting drunk people in a pub half o the time, if they are up for a laugh, check this out kind of thing. Might make a nice hangover present, you never now.