Why is it so important, you may ask? Well, there are some significant reasons for that and in this article those will be revealed and explained.

Analytics

Many key characteristics of your channel are based on your community. Your interaction with the audience and the behavior of users help to formulate and understand the impact of your content. Here are the metrics that are most dependent on the human factor:

• Engagement
• Watch time
• Visibility and recognition on the platform
• Average view duration
• Audience retention
• Rewatches

As we can see, these are the characteristics that are considered to be having the biggest influence on the process of channel growth. By simply looking through the comment section you can already understand the reaction and perception of your videos.

Improving Your Content

Only users can evaluate your content as is. They watch it, they understand it, they love it. At the same time there can occur things or obstacles that will be hard to understand and relate to, or controversial questions, or annoying details and imperfections of your editing skills, etc.

So, only with the help of viewers you can apply effective changes to your content. In fact, some mistakes you can avoid by monitoring the audience of your competitors. This is a fast way to get a clear vision for your tactics and get some useful insights for your communication with the viewers.

Better Ranking On Youtube

Ranking is highly resonating with the engagement level, and for good engagement, you need people! How surprising. Anyway, as it was mentioned before, simply gaining big numbers is not enough. You can have a gazillion subscribers but if they are not showing any activity on your profile – you won’t reach any goals you might set. To improve your position in ratings you must aim for better quality of your audience. In these terms, it is much more efficient to have a lesser number, but bigger activity. And then, as you make your audience move it and shake it, the number will increase almost magically – people love blogs where they see communication going on.

New Ideas For Your Videos

User-generated content is a magic wand that not only broadens your content plan but tightens your bond with subscribers too! To explain how it works let’s create an example.

Imagine you have a blog about cooking. You share recipes and different stuff about food. Here are the methods to get yourself some user-generated content:

• Offer your viewers to cook with you or after your video. Encourage them to send you photos of their result and then post it in your next video (don’t forget to get permission to do that)
• Ask what your subscribers would like to see next from you and prepare the dishes according to the most popular query.
• Help your subs to learn. Let them share with you what mistakes they have met on their way to good cooking, or which processes confuse them, and create a specific Q&A playlist for that.

And here you go – three types of content that can squeeze into your content plan easily, entertain your audience, and attract more people to your channel.

People Bring More People

One of the ways to increase your visibility on YouTube is to make your content sharable. To fulfill that task – you need people who will do the sharing. The logic is simple – each person has a certain ring of family and friends, and they would want to share what they like, that is human nature. For you, it means that the potential of each share is endless. Just remember the theory of seven handshakes, the same works for shares on YouTube. Your job is to maintain the interest in your personality and the videos you create.

Tip: use CTA’s to get what you want – this isn’t too hard to implement in your content, and the result can be surprisingly good. 

Friends And Fun!

Who said that being a blogger on YouTube is a dull job? On the contrary, starting a channel on this network is a good way to meet new people, learn something new, and have a lot of fun! Yes, launching and maintaining the flow of your channel is not too easy, but the key thing here that you should choose what you really love doing, and making your content with passion and genuine interest is what will bring you like-minded folks to the list of subscribers. This way, you can meet new friends and keep your mental health up. This is very important because creating something worthy can be stressing and exhausting. Knowing that you have support and appreciation from many other people can be a nice motivation and positive experience.

How To Get More Subscribers On Youtube?

The initial question that emerges as we discuss this topic. The reasons to do that are making you want to get some right now, huh? Well, to ease your life we have collected the most effective modern tips and techniques to increase your audience on YouTube.

• Be consistent. Users on YouTube are quite a demanding lot, and to keep the interest in your content on the same level, you should post new videos at least once a week. The perfect frequency of uploading is three videos a week, but this quantity depends on the type of content that you make.
• Optimize your videos – your main points here would be titles, descriptions, and tags. Well, for more reach, you should find and use the most relevant search keywords. Having the optimization nailed, you can count on a better reach and more accurate targeting.
• Cross-promote your channel on other social networks. Doing different campaigns for different social profiles, with a subtle mention of your channel on YouTube – can bring you many new viewers to impress. Just try not to duplicate your posts, unless it is really necessary – diversity of the content motivates users to subscribe.
• Create top-quality content. Your material is king. Nothing can beat the potential of a really engaging and original idea. Try to look at usual things from another angle, and spice it all up with your personal flair.

Conclusion

Having a huge number of subscribers is important for growing a channel on YouTube, especially since the competition is huge in most niches. But having an established active community is better for your ranking and position in the niche. Social media makes worthy content viral very fast, so you shouldn’t be much concerned about your numbers. Pay attention to the level of activity that your audience shows, and interact with them as much as you can. The result comes soon, and then you will easily increase all your other stats. Good luck!

1. Install an Opt-in plugin.

One of the things you can’t go without is a good WordPress plugin that manages the process. There are a lot of WordPress plugins that either deal with opt-in forms only, or cover a larger part of the newsletter marketing process but since not all of them do a good job, you’d better first check which of them are reliable and go with them. For instance, the free Newsletter Sign-Up plugin is easy to use and has enough options. Some of its settings are shown in the screenshot below:

2. Make the Subscribe form visible.

When you want your visitors to become your subscribers, you need to put the Subscribe form in a visible place. Of course, if people are really dying to become your subscribers, they will find your form to matter where it is hidden but since you want to turn even occasional visitors into subscribers, don’t play the hide-and-seek. Put the Subscribe form in a place where it attracts attention – i.e. above the fold, in the sidebar, or in a popup. Use large text and nice graphics because these also help to draw users’ attention to it. You can add a very cool popup optin form to your blog using popup domination wordpress plugin.

3. Use a simple opt-in form.

If your opt-in form is as simple as possible, this results in more subscribers. Ideally, you should ask for name and email only. This data is sufficient to send the newsletter and you aren’t crossing any privacy boundaries. If you are asking for lots of information, most of your would-be subscribers will back off because they hate filling so much data. Asking visitors to fill dozens of boxes just to subscribe to a newsletter is a poor tactic because this takes a lot of time and no busy user will do such sacrifices for you. Additionally, many people have privacy considerations and they will simply be unwilling to share data with a stranger, even if you write explicitly that the data will neither be used for any other purposes, nor shared with third parties.

4. Clearly state the advantages of becoming a subscriber.

When you want your readers to do something for you – i.e. subscribe to your newsletter, you need to give them a valid reason why. For instance, you can explain what your subscribers will be getting in return. State that it’s free to sign up and if you have any exclusive offers you offer to your subscribers only, don’t forget to mention it. If your newsletter is a round up of the posts (for the week, month, etc.) on your blog, you can also use this fact to attract those readers who might not have the chance to read every single post but who’d like to keep in touch and the weekly (monthly) briefs are a great way to do it.

5. Promote your subscription.

The more people know about your subscription, the higher the number of potential subscribers. This is why you need to promote your subscription. You can do it in your posts and on external sites. For instance, you can place a link to the subscription form at the bottom of every post, or display a popup every 5 pages (don’t do it on every refresh, i.e. on every page load, because this will certainly irritate users). One of the best ways to attract subscribers is with the help of affiliate networks. There are affiliate networks where you register, enter some data about you and their affiliates start promoting your site. When they send you a subscriber (called lead), you pay a commission. Signups via affiliates is the fastest way to gain subscribers but as a rule there are many fraudulent signups, so be careful if you use it.

Building a good mailing list doesn’t happen overnight – it takes long weeks and lots of patience. If there is no crowd of subscribers waiting in queues to sign up, don’t give up but try alternatives. The reasons for the lack of subscribers can be different and very often changes to the design of the opt-in form, the opt-in plugin you are using, and/or the placement of the opt-in form make miracles. This is why experiment a bit with the design and placement of your opt-in form till you find the optimal solution. The winning combination is unique and you need to find what works best for your WordPress blog.

Related: Checkout another great wordpress plugin called wp subscribers that can be use to gain subscribers.

Author Bio:- Ada is a contributor to WinkPress, which is a web resource about leveraging WordPress, its themes, and plugins, including a list of the available opt-in form plugins, to create versatile and unusual websites.

However it should be noted that Feedburner only allows you to export the emails of your subscibers. It does not provide you with a option to send personalize email to your list. In order to send a personalize email to your subscribers you will either need to use SendBlater Email Sending Software or any other email service like Getreponse and Aweber.

How to Copy Email Address of your RSS Feed Subscribers?

Step 1:- Login to your Feedburner account and click on the blog title (The blog from which you want to export email addresses)

Step 2:- Now click on “Publicize” button.

Step 3:- Click on “Subscription Management” button located at center left side of the page.

Step 4:- Find “View Subscriber Details” and click on it. You will see the list of email addresses of all your subscribers. The list will contain the total number of subscribers which includes all the email subscribers and those who have used third party subscription services to subscribe to your blog. For example Feedly, BlogLines, Netvibes etc…

Step 5:- Click on “Export CSV” button and save the file. (The file will be in MS Excel format)

Now all your subscriber email addresses have been exported into a CSV file. You can use any service to send emails to your subscribers however make sure to checkout MailChimp which allows you to send upto 20,000 emails to 2000 email subscribers. In Mailchimp you will first need to important your subscribers emails and a one time confirmation email will be sent to your subscribers. All the subscribers who will confirm their email will be added to your list and then you send free emails via MailChimp.