5 Live Streaming Consistency Tips — Step-by-Step Guide & Transcript

[00:00] You've probably heard that consistency is the key to building a live stream community. But what does consistency actually look like for live streamers? In today's video, I'm going to give you five tips that you can use to stay more consistent with your stream

[00:14] and build an awesome, amazing community. What's up streamers? It's Ashley Christ and welcome back to my channel where I teach you to pursue your dreams and learn to stream.

[00:27] If that is something that you are interested in, make sure that you hit that big red subscribe button down below. So for this video, we went to Twitter and asked streamers what their favorite tips for consistency were. Tip number one is to have a realistic schedule.

[00:42] This was probably the most popular tip. The more you're live, the more you grow. And so that makes it really easy for streamers to overschedule themselves, which eventually leads to burnout. Overscheduling obviously is bad, but so is underscheduling.

[00:58] If you under-schedule yourself, you're not scheduling enough time to create enough content to really grow a community, and so you don't see a ton of growth on the platform. It's probably not worth it to stream less than, I would say, like three days a week,

[01:11] so usually my starting piece of advice for people is to start at three days and then see how you feel from there It also really important that you fit streaming around your schedule So if the most popular times to stream on Twitch don work for you that totally okay Your audience will find a way to adapt or you will find new

[01:34] audience members. If you pressure yourself to having a schedule that fits in for your viewers but not into your lifestyle, you will quickly burn out and possibly stop creating content. That's no good because burnout sucks. Burnout. Okay, so I usually

[01:51] suggest starting at three days a week, but let me know what you think the perfect streaming schedule is down below in the comments. I also have a video called what to stream on Twitch and when. I'll make sure to leave a link to that up here. You'll see it pop up

[02:04] in the little eye. Tip two is to take it seriously and treat it like a job, which sounds like it would kind of suck. It's okay to cancel if you really need to, right? We all need to take vacations and mental health days, and sometimes we get sick, and that's completely fine. But there

[02:20] are times that people cancel for small reasons that they could easily overcome, or they just stop streaming in the middle of a cast because they see that the numbers are lower than usual. And instead, we need to be holding ourselves accountable. You also need to make sure that

[02:35] the people in your life know that you are taking this very seriously as well. And so they are able to have that knowledge and get behind you and support you So if you living with a family or roommates or friends or a spouse have you told that person that streaming is really important to you

[02:53] Let me know down below. I also made a video about creating content while you're sick. I'll make sure to leave a link for that one up here for you guys because that gives you a lot of really great information if you are sick and you need help to create your stuff.

[03:06] Step three is to habitualize it, like creating a habit out of it. If you make streaming a habit for you, it will become a habit for your viewers. And that's really where you start to see huge increases in viewership is whenever you become a part of somebody's day.

[03:22] You want to get people to the place where they know to expect your stream. They go home and they just like naturally turn it on. You don't want it to be something that they have to think about. It's just something that happens because it's a habit for them.

[03:34] My fifth tip is to ritualize it. Create pre-stream and post-stream rituals that really help you get into the attitude of entertaining. Pre-stream rituals are amazing because they make it easy for you and fun for you, and they turn streaming into a habit.

[03:52] When something is easy to do, it means that you're more likely to do it, so this tip is super important. Let me know your pre-stream rituals down below. The fifth tip and a lot of people on Twitter spoke to this one but in different words is to commit to it You can practice these other four tips for a while but if you don fully commit to streaming and really commit to that consistency you will eventually fall off At some

[04:16] point you're gonna have to dig deep and you're gonna have to have a really deep why and why you are streaming because otherwise it's really easy to fall off and stop streaming whenever the hard times come and they come for everybody. You might start struggling with mental health or family or

[04:33] something comes up in your personal life that makes it really hard for you to stream without having a really solid why, it will be very hard for you to continue. I do have a video over how to find your why. I'll make sure to link that for you all up here. I post questions like this all

[04:49] the time on Twitter. I'm all about creating conversation and learning more and really just having a discussion about streaming in general. If you want to follow me, I'm at Ashlee Christ and there's a link down below. If this information helps you, you might consider

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[05:17] how to pursue your dreams and learn to stream and i will see you all in the next one mess that up for a second what bye

[05:32] Thank you.