{"id":2103,"date":"2021-05-18T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T05:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2021-10-22T18:42:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T13:12:52","slug":"4-mistakes-you-should-never-make-while-promoting-your-channel-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/4-mistakes-you-should-never-make-while-promoting-your-channel-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Mistakes You Should Never Make While Promoting Your Channel On Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While trying to grow your YouTube channel, you might resort to promoting your channel on other platforms such as Facebook, TikTok or Instagram. This can be a great way to lead a newer audience to your channel. But certain mistakes might backfire your plan. So here are 4 mistakes you should never make while promoting your YouTube channel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Not Defining Your Target Audience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not possible to make content for everyone. Not having a target audience is like shooting an arrow in the dark. If you try to promote your channel to everyone, chances are that your posts might not even reach the audience who might be interested in your channel. This results in low engagement and clicks.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Define your channel\u2019s niche and the kind of audience you want to attract. Create your content to appeal to this audience for higher engagement and better results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2104\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104606\/arrows-2889040_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104606\/arrows-2889040_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104606\/arrows-2889040_1920-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104606\/arrows-2889040_1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104606\/arrows-2889040_1920-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104606\/arrows-2889040_1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Not Engaging With Your Followers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An important metric in social media marketing is engagement. However, a lot of creators just post their content on these platforms and let destiny take its course. The platform\u2019s algorithm might not always be in your favour, so look at the comments you receive, especially in the first 24 hours, and make an active effort to respond to them asap. This increases engagement on the posts which then prompts the platform to show your posts to more users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2105\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104708\/social-media-3846597_1280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104708\/social-media-3846597_1280.png 1280w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104708\/social-media-3846597_1280-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104708\/social-media-3846597_1280-768x484.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104708\/social-media-3846597_1280-1024x646.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><strong><span style=\"text-indent: 0em;\">3. <\/span><span style=\"text-indent: 0em;\">Not Watching The Analytics<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s the point of promoting yourself on different platforms if you\u2019re not checking out the results of these promotions? When it comes to social media marketing, analytics is everything! Analytics shows how effective your promotions are, so you can tweak them or make changes in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2106\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104814\/interface-3614766_1280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104814\/interface-3614766_1280.png 1280w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104814\/interface-3614766_1280-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104814\/interface-3614766_1280-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104814\/interface-3614766_1280-1024x683.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><strong>4. Reposting The Same Content Across Different Platforms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every social media platform has a diverse set of audience that may not completely overlap with each other. For example, platforms like Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok have a much younger audience than Twitter or Facebook. So you can\u2019t just repost the same content on all of these.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Facebook and Twitter posts might not require any visual components, you need to create specific content with images or videos while promoting your channel on platforms like Instagram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2107\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104915\/phone-292994_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104915\/phone-292994_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104915\/phone-292994_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104915\/phone-292994_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104915\/phone-292994_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/18104915\/phone-292994_1920-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re doing any of these mistakes, stop right now! While there might not be one definite way to promote your channel, these mistakes can take your channel\u2019s growth in the wrong direction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Interested in getting your YouTube channel seen by a huge audience? Get started here: <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/\"><b><i>www.flintzy.com<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While trying to grow your YouTube channel, you might resort to promoting your channel on other platforms such as Facebook, TikTok or Instagram. This can&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[552,846,887],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strategy","tag-youtube-channel","tag-youtube-creators","tag-youtube-updates"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109,"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}