"One hundred thousand fans..."
Lu Ban's face fell.
He checked and found that he only had 4,372 fans on his old video website, and it seemed that even the fans on Weibo were counted.
From 4,000 to 100,000, this is no small project.
Just as Lu Ban knows, the popularity of a video does not only depend on personal efforts, but more importantly on the course of history. Some videos become popular by chance when they are put on the cusp of a trend.
This sentence can also be understood in another way, that is, if you want to gain fans and get more people to pay attention to you, one popular video is far from enough.
You have to make the audience believe that this UP host has the ability to create excellent videos, only then will they pay attention to you.
"Fortunately, this mission has no time limit..."
Lu Ban sighed.
He tried to click on the system's task panel and found an additional self-selected mode, but it was locked.
When you move the mouse over it, it will only show instructions like "Please complete the career development task."
"You can't take shortcuts."
Lu Ban erased the system text and returned to the web page.
He came to [Do you understand] and typed "How to increase the number of fans on Jiuri Video Network" in the search bar. Before he finished typing, several associative question sentences popped up automatically. It seemed that many people were very concerned about this matter.
The answers vary.
“Just leave a comment under those popular videos and post a witty comment or joke. You might get @ed and go viral.”
"It's very simple. Retweet and win a few 648 prizes. The number of followers will increase rapidly."
“You can imitate the official account of some company’s products, and you can fool a few blind people.”
"If you are an anchor, you can join those anchor guilds, where veterans will guide newcomers."
Things like these seem to be mostly crooked ways. Although they may not help increase followers, they may actually be somewhat effective. For example, forwarding for a chance to win a prize is something Lu Ban has seen Weibo accounts use this trick before. They could gain tens or even hundreds of thousands of followers by forwarding a few hundred yuan in cash, and then transform themselves into marketing accounts and take on advertisements to make money. It's very efficient.
But it is not realistic to gain 100,000 followers on the old video website by this method.
He found another highly-rated answer.
"If you want to accumulate fans, you have to establish a personal image, let the audience feel the UP host's presence through the video, and let them like you through the video. The best way is to play to your personal charm, rely on your appearance or talent, and fit in with the hot spots..."
The answer was so eloquent that Lu Ban hadn't finished reading it yet. He first looked up the answerer's old video website account based on his nickname, to avoid making the same mistake as the previous keyboard UP master. After seeing that this person's account had nearly 150,000 followers, Lu Ban went back to read the answer.
He took notes along the way and watched it all the way to the end.
"…Finally, I want to tell you that there are many ways to increase followers, but there is only one way that won’t work, and that is being a MAD is a dead end!"
Lu Ban clicked back into that person’s space and looked at the earliest few videos.
They are all animated clips MAD videos.
What a painful realization.
After finishing his notes, Lu Ban looked at the not-so-big Word document and suddenly felt a little sad.
"The night before, I was still playing the suona in front of those gods who came from nowhere to survive, and tonight I have to worry about how to increase the number of fans on the video website. This life gap is too big."
While waiting for the takeaway, Lu Ban roughly summarized his future development path.
There are some contacts of brokerage companies in the private messages, but I don’t know whether they are true or not. If Lu Ban can join an brokerage company, then maybe he can get initial resources and develop slowly, maybe he can even get 100,000 fans.
Regarding establishing a persona, Lu Ban feels that he is ordinary and unremarkable. Apart from being handsome, there is nothing worth mentioning. Will the audience pay attention to the UP host just because he is handsome? Lu Ban himself would not do that. He thinks that the effect is not great.
If being handsome can increase fans, didn’t he show his face in his first video? He should have tens of thousands of fans already!
However, when establishing his character, Lu Ban did have some ideas about the next video to be edited.
"I said, researching how to increase fans is much more difficult than dealing with those weird things. Is it true that fighting with others is the most fun?"
The takeaway has arrived. Lu Ban's takeaway tonight is a set meal of scrambled eggs with tomatoes and stir-fried pork. With the discount, it's over 20 yuan, which is considered cheap in the high-consumption Jiangcheng.
While eating dinner, Lu Ban found some supernatural videos on the old video website to watch along with his meal.
In the past, Lu Ban’s heartbeat might have quickened when watching these videos, but now, Lu Ban just feels that they are fake.
But if fake things can scare people, why can’t real things scare people?
Lu Ban still carefully studied the good points in these videos.
After dinner, which even happened to be the scheduled time for taking out the garbage, Lu Ban returned home and started editing the video.
He plans to edit his videos into exploration videos.
The so-called exploration videos are actually imitations of those Discovery Channel programs, in which a few people go to abandoned factories, schools, hospitals and other places to explore late at night, which satisfies people's curiosity to a certain extent. Some producers will specially scout the locations in advance and use props to create a horror atmosphere, which has a large audience.
Lu Ban himself had originally been exploring the Jiangcheng Grand Theater at night, and the video material contained supernatural elements, so he thought that making a similar video would be very eye-catching.
More importantly, this is his second video. Once the two videos are released, the personality of the Lu Ban account is almost established. He is the kind of guy who has nothing to do after eating and likes to go on adventures. Audiences who like this style will look forward to Lu Ban's next exploration and pay attention to him.
Of course, it is not easy to edit a qualified video from this material.
Lu Ban experienced the incident himself and knows what was weird and what was actually not fun, but the audience doesn't know, so sometimes hints and commentary are needed.
We also have to consider that videos from different camera angles cannot be switched frequently, as this will give the audience a feeling of acting and reduce the level of excitement.
After working hard for a week, Lu Ban finally edited a video that he thought was passable.
"I was right. Making a video is harder than going on a suicidal adventure!"
After naming and uploading the video, Lu Ban felt completely drained.
He had a midnight snack and fell asleep to the sound of the Spring Festival Gala's golden songs.
The next morning, he opened the old video network and looked at the data of his video.
150 clicks and 10 followers increase.
"It's normal. The video is more than 20 minutes long. It's not amazing at first glance. It needs data accumulation."
On the morning of the third day, there were 570 clicks and the number of followers increased by 8.
"Very good, the number of clicks is beyond my expectations, but the number of fans is a little low?"
On the morning of the fourth day, I clicked 996 and the number of followers increased by 16.
"The number of fans and video clicks have reached new highs. This advantage is mine!"
On the morning of the fifth day, there were 1,263 clicks and the number of followers increased by 11.
Lu Ban pressed the calculator.
"This is over, is this going to fail?"
He felt that he might, probably, seemed to, perhaps, need a little help.