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excuse my background I'm still moving it and haven't hung anything up on the walls behind me I'm still deciding what the best picture for the background should be so any suggestions please let me know so I was going to make this video with the intention of doing a viewer mail bag kind of going through and tricks with questions that you guys had but as I go through and read through all the messages I'm realizing there's one question that I'm getting more than any other and that is how do you get this these gadgets to review where they come from and how can I do it well good news I've bad news for you the bad news is I'm sorry guys there's not a magic email address or magic phone number that you call them all of a sudden you're a technology or companies are sending you stuff it just not the way it works unfortunately the good news is that i can give you some hints and suggestions to how maybe you can get on the road to have any product sent to you and be a professional reviewer so guys as i go through these and list of steps just keep in mind these are a few steps you may find your own way your own techniques may work a little bit better they're just some suggestions that I have some of the tribulations that I've gone through to get to the point where i'm at now and some of the stuff i'm still going through to get to where I want to be so first and foremost you have to have an audience if you've got 20 or three subscriptions aren't going to send you things you have to have a substantial audience I didn't start reaching out to companies until I had about eight thousand subscribers and even that is a low number and the people weren't very responsive I didn't start getting responses until I crossed me to 10,000 11,000 12,000 subscribers so we're really sorry to get some responses so what I could suggest at least what i did was i looked up companies that i was interested in and punks i want to review and i sent him emails said hi my name is jon rettinger a technology viewer I've got an audience of 8,000 my videos reviewed however many it was at that time maybe five hundred thousand a month I've got a wide variety of viewership here's what my demographic is here's why I think he should send me products to review and be prepared guys for a lot of rejection it's not easy and it's not easy road I also get rejected quite a bit you guys don't see that you just see the stuff that I get but just be prepared another thing you guys want to do is build relationships so build relationships with some of your local electronics merchants so maybe go to your local radio shack go to your local best buy tell them who you are maybe they'll give you products to review show them who you are tell them what you're interested in tell them what you want to do make sure they see a benefit to letting you review these products you know they have to get something in return they have to get exposure whether it's good or bad you know that's what you have to offer them never guarantee a good review then you lose your credibility you know companies understand that you might not like the products those long if you prevent not sorry as long as you present your reviews fairly most companies will be okay with a less than positive or less than glowing review so please something to keep in mind you know the next thing I recommend guys after it would be emailing start off small call some smaller companies don't have much exposure if you're into I phones maybe find a phone number and email address of a small manufacturer that make cases drop them and start off a little bit small show value to one potential partner so you can build it show that I to greater bigger partners got nothing really simple there's no magic road to follow and a for sure they're like I said there's no phone number or email just i can give you guys for all of sudden your tech reviewer the best advice that I can give you is to just build your audience build it up and people will come to you you know now I get contacted by companies that are looking to set your products some might accept some I don't you know I'm still reaching out to a lot of different companies a lot of different manufacturers like I said earlier i'm still getting rejected quite a bit so be prepared for that you know when present yourself as a professional if you're if you're young if you're 10 11 12 13 you prepared for companies to tell you know it's just a reality of things they might not want to set products to kids and i don't agree with that it may not be right but just be prepared for I don't want to set you guys up for a short of disappointment you know but if you are younger what you can do now is build your audience so you get be a little bit older if that's such a large user base colleagues companies will have no choice but to send you products to review now also a lot of the products that you get don't get a keep all the phones i have i just get to use for a few weeks and i send back most things i don't get a hold on to so if you prepared for that as well don't think that because you're getting stuff suddenly your electronics treasure chest is going to grow it's just not going to happen unfortunately some of the products that I review I go out and buy on my own and then maybe i'll sell them later or I'll keep them some get sent to me by companies you know some are sent from sponsors you know really get my electronics from a really a myriad of different ways you know one of the things I keep forgetting is sometimes I still think of myself as just a guy with a camera who unbox his macbook pro about two years ago you don't have to try and change my my opinion on it you know I guess I've been evolving my audience is growing and I'll becoming more of a brand and it's been hard to transition away from just being dude to maybe being more of an entity with people that helped me work with me it's been a little bit of difficult transition you know you guys are probably gonna come to that as well as you start building up your audience and maybe as you make a website or you make a podcast it's get a new come less about you and more about your brand so be prepared for that as well and make sure you can package your brand professionally you know if you want to be a technology review or you want to be taken seriously don't tell dirty jokes don't use profanity be very mindful of your language don't say oh um make sure you look directly in a camera and like I said in my advice for tech reviewers you know show confidence in yourself and I think that really will translate well anyway guys I hope you found this helpful I'm trying to answer the biggest questions that I get I do read all the emails guys so please keep them coming I can't always respond but if I'm getting an influx of questions that are all the same and I really will do my best to try and answer it anyway guys hope you enjoyed for exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter at twitter.com/worldsdumbest