Crucial Steps to Become a Twitch Affiliate and Grow Your Community

[00:00] every single new streamer's goal is to be a twitch affiliate how do i know that i got over 500 comments saying you wanted to be twitch affiliate requirements met and even if you get 50 followers a lot

[00:17] heck even if you reach affiliate that doesn't mean you're gonna be set you viewers today i'm gonna outline a few crucial steps that i think you guys are as well as how to continue growing after you've reached an affiliate

[00:34] and i'm gonna give you one of the best engagement tools i've ever created to turn someone who's just joined my chat into a chatter let's go [Music] hey my name is lj with streamscheme.com

[00:49] ljm underscore i am live right now and there's a link in the description to which has over 400 guides covering everything you need to know for

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[01:41] channel guys go and support them it really helps us out let's get into the very first tip something that you can do that no large streamers can do as a small streamer you have a tool at

[01:54] to interact and engage viewers on a one-to-one level i get so many comments people saying i wish i had 200 to 500 viewers but if you're struggling to engage and grow to 25 by yourself

[02:08] you don't want that many viewers yet and trust me there is an audience out there community and say i'm just a guy who likes to watch 25 value there and that's totally fine some people

[02:25] are small streamer community viewers so how can you take this a further step remembering something about them will take you further than any other small community like the large streamers do

[02:40] and that's just gonna hurt you if someone comes into your stream remember them because they come back a second time and you say oh hey man i promise you that bootyman 69 will come

[02:54] back for a third fourth fifth and probably never leave if you my biggest tip for this is to remember a small piece of information about every kingdom hearts series lock that in next time he's here ask him

[03:13] audience considers themselves a community member and not just a number to do that now that i'm growing and i kind of miss spending time with just

[03:27] one-to-one people don't take it for granted my next tip is video about streamlabs cloudbot and people were really interested in the what a call to action is doesn't mean that everyone does a call

[03:44] user take action on something for example it could just be saying out loud hey guys if you're enjoying the stream consider chucking us that is a call to action it's simple it's easy or it can be more complicated

[04:01] your channel engagement tool i have ever created on my twitch stream

[04:14] and hopefully as many of you as possible will start using this as well but first i want to talk about probably the most common call to action and that goals and why you're using them wrong you see

[04:27] data and using it to help inform you guys as donation goal or subscriber goal bar would make people more likely to donate

[04:41] or subscribe to a channel interestingly with just under 5 000 votes on this poll 69 percent nice said that they were not goal whereas 31 said they were absolutely more likely to

[04:56] comments in the discussion that this generated was that shock and horror if no amount of call to actions or polls are going to help the second thing we

[05:09] if the goal is for followers obviously because they don't have to invest any they can just click follow that said people are more likely to support monetary goals and follower goals if you are close to

[05:24] that they were more likely to support if the thing they were supporting would increase the quality of the content or directly support the streamer for example a big special event stream or a piece of new equipment

[05:38] viewers who are trying to become small streamers which means that the results will slightly skew but they're supposed to skew to the side of saying that the goals on screen are going to be more effective at

[05:52] generating revenue which wasn't the case and the other issue is that we know from prior research having a visual call to action or visual goal on screen of people didn't say that they saw a goal and it made them not want to

[06:07] likely to support which means putting a goal up doesn't means you'll still increase your revenue so let's summarize all this down into

[06:20] create an on-screen overlay goal make it look nice that's not from the from the actual poll though second if you're gonna do it use follower goals

[06:35] follow them if you do decide to use subscriber goals or heck even with your achievable set it to 15 followers in a stream or whatever size your channel

[06:48] normally gets make it really achievable and easy i talked about how i used to have a subscriber goal of one sub a stream and it made people often just a quick note on call to actions though i want to mention a call to action i see

[07:02] action is designed to make people leave your channel simply speak to you you're a small streamer turn off

[07:14] follower only chat for the love of god all right let's keep moving now i've and times of your streams but i haven't talked about it much in terms of

[07:26] game and content types but when i have touched on it i always get the same and over again that's selling your soul i'm not going to play the same game over i'm really sorry guys but if you're not willing to stick to one piece of content

[07:42] be known for one game it's that you're not gonna be known for anything there is nothing wrong with focusing on one piece of content while you grow your audience if you see growth from a small game

[07:58] five followers from gwent you're probably not gonna have those ballerin transitioning down the line once you're a bigger streamer is hard

[08:11] but it's not as difficult as trying to actually build an audience across 24 different types of content if you want to build your audience pick a and then stick to it keep working on it be consistent with it and that is okay

[08:30] you see it all the time on youtube people create content and they create sticks people enjoy watching it so they double down and they make more of that in terrorist town or anything else if you really want to be a twitch

[08:47] affiliate as your goal if you really want to have a small community of 20 to your content make sure you never miss a stream lock that schedule in and show up and produce decent quality

[09:02] to do and that's not an exaggeration the of affiliates and even partners who have reached really high highs and

[09:18] willing to keep the consistent quality of their content few weeks but in reality changing things up is

[09:30] you need to find a way to keep the content people enjoyed fresh without completely losing what allowed you to grow it is an incredibly hard something i've been thinking about a lot lately

[09:45] and i want to make sure that you guys who are trying to grow learn about it last in this video such as how to turn off your pre-roll ads and encourage ever created in order to get a viewer to start chatting with me but first if

[10:02] channel we have videos coming out weekly on any as well as some amazing fully animated free overlays over in our discord and

[10:14] link in the description in discord to go look at those overlays and get yourself looking fly do people still say fly now a problem a lot of affiliates deal with are pre-roll ads and i've been getting

[10:29] know that pre-roll ads have a huge bounce rate meaning that people aren't even reaching your content they see an ad and they leave so how do we turn off pre-roll ads well there are three ways

[10:44] which kind of sucks because we want to get subs we want to get bits the second option is much better run your own ads

[10:56] if you run your own ads for 120 seconds when you go take a bathroom break join your stream won't see an ad and they'll get straight about ads on twitch but it's so easy to stop them being a thing on your stream

[11:12] and then another fantastic part about this is that right behind producing good subscribe is turning off ads so every time you have to go to the bathroom and run 120 seconds of ads if a viewer doesn't want to see them

[11:27] found this out thanks to the poll in the community in the comments so this is a win-win-win you get to be an affiliate turn off there's a higher chance that people are actually going to subscribe to your

[11:41] channel because of it what's not to love and just quickly on because people are always surprised to hear it do that is with hype trains please affiliates

[11:56] stop calling hype trains to scam trains stop making them negative experiences you if you make a hype train a negative experience by calling it a scam or

[12:08] of time you can appear on the front page because all it takes is three us dollars 100 bits donated from three different people creates a hype train which puts

[12:20] you on the front page of twitch do you know how many times a hype train hey i just like finding hype trains and supporting them and then dropped a huge

[12:32] six times six times a random person from the front page has finished my hype bits if one person subscribes another person does a gift up and another person

[12:45] the space of three events you will start a hype train new audience of viewers obviously if you want people to support

[12:58] turn off your paypal donation link so that they're forced to support you with bits and subs but at the end of the day i think it's a small price to pay three usd to appear on the front page of twitch

[13:12] about to be revealed no it isn't my question of the day no it did you know when someone joins your stream they instantly start accruing

[13:25] they're given 200 to 300 channel points if when they receive those 200 or 300 for that price twitch will do a pop-up and say hey

[13:40] have a channel point redeemed for 300 points and it simply says say hi i'm new and someone follows you but they haven't spoken yet however twitch pops up and says hey why don't

[13:54] you uh once you redeem this say hi i'm new it's free it's harmless chatter that you can say hey bootyman69 welcome in i wave back hope you're

[14:06] channel point redeem called posture check or i used to and it cost 250 followed they would then follow it up with a posture check that's when i found out they were being given these points

[14:21] and told to use them so i switched it out for the say hi i'm new and i have seen a huge increase in turning followers into active chatters do something similar using cloudbot and simply giving people points when they

[14:36] follow but if you are an affiliate you need to promise you it takes five minutes to set up and it will go more tips to engage your viewers and make them community members by

[14:51] subscribers get better call to actions and get those channel points up and i'll see you guys next week have a good [Music]

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