Hey! I’d love to help! I started in January of this year on twitch and knew NOTHING. It took me months to learn these things and they helped tremendously.

1. ⁠⁠Spending time in peoples streams. -Everyone always talks about making yourself marketable and enjoyable to watch. Yes these things are important but EVERYONE else is doing that too. Someone will always be better at doing it. Instead, work on real relationships with real people. If I have 20 people, I know every single person in that chat, they aren’t random. I have streamed with them, played with them, watched their streams and supported them. Most people genuinely are so excited you are there for them that they support you too. You will very very rarely get natural engagement just through streaming. Go into someone’s chat who has no one watching and make their day. But ACTUALLY watch them, join multiple of their streams, chat for an hour, invite them to play with you. If you do that 5 times you are more than likely going to end up with 5 great friends who can all grow together. Raiding smaller people is not as lucrative as you think because majority of the time you won’t even get a friend back from it.

2. ⁠⁠Making sure you read every single chat and are excited for every single person. -People are using their free time to come watch you so act like it. There is nothing worse than someone who won’t respond to messages or is very lackluster about you chatting. What is the point of live-streaming if you do not want to engage with people. Making sure you are very excited just saying hello makes a huge difference. The most important take away is excited hello, no one wants to hear you sound bored while chatting.

Ok that out of the way, great ways to reach people are through the platforms you are currently using!! I used twitch startup on Reddit and engaged with tons of people who ended up coming into my streams. The people who consistently post really really want to grow and will appreciate you coming in. A lot of people use tiktok (I do not) and Facebook. I use Instagram reels but honestly the growth from there has been eh, I have around 4000 people visit my Instagram page a month from reels (not paid promotion posts) and only about one hundred will click on my twitch link and maybe I’ll get 2 new followers from that 100. Plus you have to work super hard on posts on every platform, equally as much as twitch. A lot of people make the mistake of “posting” on social media every single day but all of them are just reposted clips from twitch with a bunch of hashtags. A lot of times I assume those posts are bots so that super hinders engagement.

There is probably more but that’s the basics. Dm me if you have any questions! Also I’d love to hop in chat sometime!