Benefits to Loading Streams in Advance

This week's Drip Tip highlights the benefits of preloading your streams in advance.

Loading your streams in advance offers many benefits, such as collecting sales before you go live, showcasing pre-show videos to stir excitement, and even giving you the chance to set up a collaboration with Drip on Instagram! More benefits include the ability to promote your streams via Facebook groups and potentially have your stream featured on Dripshop’s homepage. Publishing in advance also helps to build a loyal following and can increase overall views on your stream.

Top 6 Reasons to Load Streams in Advance

1. Collect sales before you’re even live!

2. Showcase pre-show videos, and create more excitement.

3. Collaborate with Drip via Instagram and gain access to our followers!

4. Promote streams via Facebook groups and events.

5. Be featured on Dripshop’s homepage!

6. Build a loyal following.

1. Collect sales before you’re even live!

When adding products to your Drip Shop, give your buyers the choice to Rip on stream or Ship directly to them!

Scheduling out your streams and attaching products to them will give your buyers a choice in selecting which date works for them for seeing the product opened on stream.

Opt to not attach a Sale Product to a stream, and it will be available for purchase from your Drip Shop any time of day!

2. Showcase pre-show videos and create more excitement

Pre-show videos help increase the overall viewership of your stream by giving you an opportunity to engage a buyer before your live stream even begins! It’s easy as creating a video, editing/saving the video, and then uploading it on your published stream.

Pre-show videos are great because they’re an easy way for you to showcase to your audience what you are featuring during your live show. Prior to your show, when potential buyer clicks on your stream thumbnail, they will be able to see the animated and informational pre-show video you created and get a true taste of what your show and brand has to offer!

<aside> ❗ Since Drip saves all of your past streams, you can repurpose this content for a pre-show video! We recommend creating a montage of past hits that you have pulled live, to add to your credibility.

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Here are some examples from our very own Drip streamers:

Check out this video  by Mikey C from TCG-Nation    

And this video by Gengarous 

3. Collaborate with Drip via Instagram and gain access to our followers!

Collaborate with us on Instagram to boost your content’s reach, and engagement, and gain access to Drip’s Instagram followers.

Once approved, your post will be viewable on your grid and ours! Collaboration posts between DripShop's Instagram accounts and your own will appear on both of our feeds.

We may also promote your streams via ADs and stories on our Instagram!

How to Set Up a Collab

1. Head to your personal Instagram account and post your desired content.

2. When posting, you can tag/mention @dripshop.live on Instagram.

3. Go to advanced settings.

4. Scroll down and switch on "Add paid partnership label.”

5. Go to "Add branded partners” and search for and add @dripshop.live or @sportsondrip as a brand partner.

6. Share post!

. Promote streams via Facebook/group events

Post to ANY and ALL Facebook groups that are relevant to what you buy, sell, trade, or collect. If you are not part of any groups, you can easily search for them by using Facebook’s search function, find, and request to join the group.

‼️ Post and simulcast to The Drip Network! Drip has partnerships with other collectible communities to give you EVEN MORE OPPORTUNITY to connect with buyers and promote your brand. It’s made up of a variety of groups with a combined number of over 150K members. This allows your stream to have MAXIMUM EXPOSURE!

5. Be Featured on Dripshop’s Homepage

Give yourself a chance to be featured on Drip’s homepage! We are always looking for unique or noteworthy streams that are particularly interesting, high-value, or relevant to current events, product releases, campaigns, trends, and more.

Make sure to load your streams a minimum of one week in advance and let your Account Manager know of all the cool stuff you’ve got going on! The ability to be featured is available to all streamers but the space is limited; please understand we cannot feature all streams.

6. Build a loyal following

Having a reliable schedule is a great way to familiarize customers with your channel and drive steady traffic! This gives your customers the opportunity to see your upcoming streams and choose the date that works best for them. If let's say your next stream doesn't work for them, perhaps the one after will. Do not hold yourself back with limited availability! When your customers have more options to choose from, it multiplies your money-making ability!

❗ Use our customizable Drip templates to create your weekly streaming schedule, posts, banners, and more! Check out our. Drip Branded Templates!

Pre-loading your streams offers many benefits as you can see. We recommend posting your streams at least two weeks in advance but feel free to plan as far in the future as possible. If you have any questions please reach out to your account manager for more information!