5 Common Mistakes Twitch Streamers Make That Prevent Success
It might be challenging to know exactly what you should or shouldn’t be doing as a Twitch streamer to ensure success. While there are various methods and approaches you may use to succeed, there are also several frequent errors that many streamers do that might be holding them back from achieving their dreams as a streamer. In this article, we’ll go through 5 of the most common mistakes that Twitch streamers make that prevent their success.
1. Lack of a regular streaming schedule
It’s crucial to have a regular streaming schedule if you want to attract a following of devoted viewers. By doing this, visitors will know when to anticipate you online and may make necessary plans. Over time, you’ll be surprised by how many people start to also plan to attend your stream.
2. Overlooking Twitch communities and events
Finding new viewers and developing relationships with other broadcasters may be accomplished by taking part in various Twitch Communities and Events. This means being an active participant and not simply posting that you’re going live in their Discords. (Every time I join a Discord, even my OWN personal Discord, I immediately mute any and every notification that can possibly come from a #Promote-Yourself channel. It is the FIRST thing people tend to do because it’s always just spammed links from inactive participants that nobody intends to watch.)
A great, diverse, streamer community that I’m an active participant in is The Average Gamers. If you decide to join, let them know I sent you! Also, talk to people right away. Find out how you can get more involved.
3. Lacking an interesting stream.
A compelling stream is necessary to keep people interested and returning. Be sure to engage the audience, pose questions, and BE CHARISMATIC.
4. Lack of goal-setting
A wonderful method to maintain your motivation and drive is to set objectives and work toward them. Setting objectives also enables you to track your development and maintain focus. Give yourself a long-term goal but create at least three short-term goals that you can do to help you achieve it.
- Bad:
- Goal – Get 1000 followers.
- Goal – Get 1000 followers.
- Good:
Also, setting a goal for your stream can help you structure your stream in a way that can offer you a beginning, middle and end to the VOD for creating condensed, secondary and evergreen content to Youtube, Instagram and TikTok.
Friday, January 6th, 2022 at 8pm CST, I’ll be streaming Video Horror Society and attempting to complete Brett’s final rental by achieving over 10,000 points in 4 separate matches using absolutely NO PERKS. Check out my channel at www.twitch.tv/BBKyle if you wanna see me attempt it live!
5. Not utilizing the appropriate tools
The quality of your stream might significantly be affected by your streaming setup. Once you’ve streamed for a bit a realize you enjoy it, you may differentiate yourself from the competition and draw in more people by making an investment in at least a quality microphone and camera. These two pieces of equipment are the two main things viewers expect to be of decent quality when watching your stream. Quality doesn’t mean absurdly priced either. For example, the Logitech C920e webcam is the updated version of the cam that I currently use for all of my streams & social media clips. You can find more inexpensive, but critical tools that may help you on your streaming journey in my Amazon Recommendations.
