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What happens when you build a really tight community around your YouTube Channel
because you're responding to every single comment that you get across all your videos
but at some point you're getting too may comments to keep up with now
What do you do? That's what we're going to talk about today.
Hey guys, my name is Tim Schmoyer and it's Thursday which means it's
time to do some YouTube Q&A with you guys. One of you wrote and asked this:
"I have a question: you could be having a lot of comments coming each day
Maybe 100-1000 comments - how could you manage them all?"
This is something I want to talk about because it's something I am currently
struggling with here on the Video Creators channel because it used to be I could keep up
with every single comment that I got across all my videos here
but now as I keep adding more videos and the library keeps growing and other videos are still very active
It's just impossible for me to keep up and I feel bad because I want to respond to every single one.
What can I do? Well the solution that I've come up with is to give myself
the freedom not to respond to every single comment but instead just set aside a half hour or an hour
whatever my time permits for that day, saying "Okay, the next half hour
I'm going to do nothing but respond to comments."
I will just start responding to as many as I can and when a half hour hits
That's when I stop responding.
I always start with my most recent comments because the people who comment there
are more likely to be the active subsribers, the people who are really engaging in this community
Whereas the people who are commenting on videos from months ago probably just found it through search
and I want to respond to them if I can but I really want to foster the community
of the people who are active here on a daily basis first.
Something I've seen a few other creators do that I think could work well also is
they'll put an annotation in the very front of their video saying:
"I will respond to the first 500 comments on this video" - and they do.
So right when that video goes live they're usually sitting there for the first hour or two hours
I don't even know how long it takes to respond to that many comments
And they're just responding to them and once they hit 500 they stop and they move on with their day.
A bigger problem though might be knowing how to keep up with these comments
There's some tools out there like vidIQ that do a great job with organizing all your comments
helping you efficiently work through all of them showing you who you probably need to respond to
and kinda filtering out people that you might not need to respond to as much.
If you don't have access to a tool like that a great way to do it is to make sure you
set up your channel to get an email notification for each comment
and then so your inbox doesn't get flooded with messages from YouTube with every new comment
"Filter" all those messages into a new Label or new Folder in your email
Just let 'em sit there and accumulate until you have time and then say
"Okay, for the next hour I'm going to sit down and respond to all these comments"
And then just simply work your way through the emails until you've used up your hour.
That system doesn't work too bad because Gmail will automatically group together conversations
all the same comments from the same video so you can just open up one and
boom boom boom boom respond to all the comments on that video
Then go to email and go through the rest and you can kinda pick out which videos are more recent
and respond to those emails first.
It works. Not the best - but it works.
I would really love to hear from you guys for my own sake in the comments below
Share with me how you guys keep up with all the comments across your channel
if you are at that point where you are getting them all day long all day
Share with us your system for how you continue to engage and interact
That would be awesome and very helpful for me and for many other people who are watching this video
Thank you for sharing your experience and advice with us.
If you have a question that you'd like me to answer in an upcoming Thursday
there's a link in the description text below this video where you can submit your video to me
and I'd love to put your video here and feature you and have more of a face-to-face conversation
Or you could also comment below or post it on our Video Creators Facebook page or tweet it to me
Or whatever works best for you.
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Every week I do some Q&A with you guys just to help you guys out because
I really believe that a lot of you guys have messages that could really change the world
if you just grew your audience and your messages spread it could really
make this world a better place. So that's why I do what I do.
On Tuesday's we take a look at online video news and talk about the implications
it has for us as creators.
On Wednesdays I give you guys some YouTube tips, advice, & ideas
On Thursdays we do YouTube Q&A just like this.
So subscribe and I will see you guys again next week. Bye!