Best form of server marketing?
So I have a server and have been struggling to market it. I don't have much money I can spend on marketing it and I have both a youtube and a tiktok account that I have posted over 30 shorts on. I don't have anyone who can help me or offer advice, so I've pretty much been winging it and have made videos about the various features on my server, but my youtube videos are dead (most views since the first few videos I posted was just over 80 views a couple of days ago) and tiktok the most views I have is around 890 views. I have been looking into ads on server list sites as it seems that is how most server owners acquire players, but I haven't yet found a decent site with a price I can afford as the amount of money I have available is not much.
Not that anyone cares, but this isn't a business I am trying to start for a quick buck. I am disabled so the point of it is to be a necessary income for me and I enjoy managing a server and having players who enjoy playing on my server. I have been doing this for around 2 years now and did make a little bit of money at the start as I took over a name and existing discord from a server I played on years ago that had shut down, but player count died down pretty quickly and I eventually abandoned the server (was economy survival with some qol plugins) and launched a lifesteal server earlier this year with the intention of hopefully marketing it easier.
I still need to make accounts on Instagram, Fb, and X and I am planning on submitting an ad to /r/mcservers hopefully either today or tomorrow, and am planning on posting all my videos to the platforms that allow videos. Tldr; I think server list ads are probably the best way of acquiring players, but I'm not sure as youtube and tiktok will apparently take months if not a year or more to attract new players. I don't know if there are other forms of marketing servers that I am not aware of.
Not that anyone cares, but this isn't a business I am trying to start for a quick buck. I am disabled so the point of it is to be a necessary income for me and I enjoy managing a server and having players who enjoy playing on my server. I have been doing this for around 2 years now and did make a little bit of money at the start as I took over a name and existing discord from a server I played on years ago that had shut down, but player count died down pretty quickly and I eventually abandoned the server (was economy survival with some qol plugins) and launched a lifesteal server earlier this year with the intention of hopefully marketing it easier.
I still need to make accounts on Instagram, Fb, and X and I am planning on submitting an ad to /r/mcservers hopefully either today or tomorrow, and am planning on posting all my videos to the platforms that allow videos. Tldr; I think server list ads are probably the best way of acquiring players, but I'm not sure as youtube and tiktok will apparently take months if not a year or more to attract new players. I don't know if there are other forms of marketing servers that I am not aware of.
