Jaboukie Young-White Quotes

It's nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I've worked to build, brick by brick.

It's easier to promote things, if you have fans.

I don't just post a video and then get offline. After uploading, I love to respond to comments, tweets, and messages about the video.

The good thing about Twitter is that there's not so much of a wall between you and your fan base. They can interact with you, and it makes them more endeared to you when you interact with them.

The best thing I can do is stay on the road and build a grass-roots following. I'm constantly about building my brand.

Technology has been the great equalizer: you can find your audience, you can build your brand, and the people that are into you, great. They're going to follow you to whatever platform you go to.

I've never done much to try to build an audience.

I really grew my own fan base. I started posting videos on YouTube with the help of my parents.

I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.

I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.

The bigger fan base you have, the more companies will be attracted to you. And having a following, you can be so much more involved being a representative with the brand you're working with.

I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where I'm going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love.

Believe it or not, I want to keep growing my audience.

I want to interact with my fans, and I want to let people know what I'm doing and stuff like that because I'd want to know.

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

At their core, an influencer creates an empowering human connection.

After I built up a following on Instagram, I realized it's a good way to talk to your fans. I always try to keep the conversation going - they're really happy when that happens.

The more content you share, the more opportunity people have to see it and engage with it.

I'm like a big kid. But it's not like a called myself the Instagram King. I put up what people want to see and that just happened.

I think what AEW has done on social media is impressive. I think the amount of interest they've garnered is impressive.

If you are identified with certain opinions and an ability to express them, and if you can build yourself an audience, a partisan fan base - measured through social media - then you are an official opinionator, monetizable through books, television contracts and the speaking circuit.

I think I've nurtured the following that I have to the point where I can consistently do a certain type of numbers when I put a project out.

I actually started my YouTube channel by accident! I was growing a fan base without even knowing it, and it's all in my book 'Is You Okay?'

My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it's a selfie video or a music video.

We shouldn't be ashamed of getting people to click on content that we're proud of.