Let's take a moment and talk about cross promotions. If you've never heard that phrase before, it's basically you do an exchange with another YouTube channel, you promote them, and they promote you. There's so many different ways you can do this. And the benefit is basically, their audience gets exposed to your channel, because they've never heard of you before, and vice versa. So I have some tips and some ideas for that. When I first started fuzzy puppet, I reached out to a lot of the big toy channels.

If you go to their page, and you click on the about, there's usually an email address there where you can email them. You can also press the Send Message button right here and send them a message through YouTube. But people don't usually check that as much. I suggest getting that email address they put on their about page and contacting them that way. You can also leave a comment on one of their videos. Usually if you comment over and over on people's videos every time they upload, they start to recognize you as a regular.

Maybe you wouldn't do that before contacting them via email. In either case, whenever I contacted these big channels via their email address, I noticed it usually took me like I kid you not 15 to 20 tries before I would get arrested response. Again, you don't give up, you keep pushing to get a response. So what I was saying to them in their emails is I'd say like, Hey, I love your channel, you should watch some of their videos before reaching out to them and talk about them before you talk about you. Say what, what you liked about the recent uploads to their channel or something they did that inspired you. So after you kind of get in the good graces, then you could say, like, Hey, I would love to hear any advice you have for me and my channel.

And boy, it would be amazing if we could do some sort of cross promotion trade. The way that I got people to agree to do it was they saw my content and they say, Wow, this guy's producing some really good stuff. And this is what I would try to remind them of in my email and say, Hey, I'm different than the other channels out there. I'm producing some great stuff. And when I get big, if you help me get there, I will repay the favor to you later. So this is kind of what I would suggest you say is you reach out to the different channels.

Now having said that, let's say you get a couple of them to agree to the cross promotion. Well, when you reach out the bigger channels, it's kind of hard to negotiate anything with them like you know, just be happy that they said yes on any level, but what I have found is the best Bigger channels, usually they want you to do the promotion first. So I would do these really amazing promotion for their channels. And then I would see that they would tag a little Hey, fuzzy puppet at the end of a 20 minute video that they did, at the very end of it, where no one's even gonna see, most likely, if you can, I would always try to get them to do their promotion first so that you don't get screwed. I know that sounds kind of, you know, maybe bad to say it that way.

But the truth is, you know, a lot of the times that I went first, they didn't do half of what I did for them. So now I try to, if possible, get the other person to the promotion first. And of course, I always do a great promotion for them as well. So another great thing you can do on FameBit is you can set up cross promotions on there. They have a section where you can go make a posting and say like, Hey, I'm a kids channel, I want to do a cross promotion with somebody who's in the same category. And you know, they'll be you could look at other people's postings on there who have done similar postings for who they're looking for.

And it's a nice way to connect you with them because send each other messages and set up any sort of cross promotion that you want to do. I've done a few postings on there. I've gotten a great response. I've responded to some other people's postings, so There's a lot of different sites that do this payment is a great one that not only just connects you with the brands but it connects you with other YouTubers do cross promotions with it's a great networking resource. And I'm sure there's a lot of other ones out there similar FameBit is just one of the better ones that I know. And they actually recently got bought out by YouTube.

So YouTube actually owns FameBit now, so I'm sure they're going to improve it and make it even better as it goes forward.