Following up with brands just got a whole lot easier. The Viral Vue Follow-Ups feature in Creator Connections is designed to help creators increase responses, secure more collaborations, and ultimately get more free products and brand deals, without eating into your daily message limit.

What Is the Follow-Ups Feature?

The Follow-Ups feature allows you to send reminder messages to brands you’ve already contacted but haven’t heard back from yet.

Key highlights:

• Follow-ups are separate from your daily message limit

• If you have 20 daily messages, you also get 20 follow-ups

• If you have 100 daily messages, you also get 100 follow-ups

• Any extra messages you purchase include the same number of extra follow-ups.

Why Follow-Ups Matter

Brands are busy. Messages can be missed, sent at the wrong time or day, and buried under a flood of influencer requests.

A simple, well-timed follow-up can:

• Bring your message back to the top of their inbox

• Show professionalism and interest

• Help you get chosen over another creator

How to Use the Follow-Ups Feature

Step 1: 

Open Creator Connections Messages

You’ll see the options in the top-right corner: “Follow-Up” and “Edit Follow-Up”

Step 2: 

Click Edit Follow-Up to create and save your follow-up template. You can create as many follow up templates as you like.

This is where you can get creative:

• A simple check-in

  “Hey {{brand}}, just checking in on this potential collaboration!”

• An incentive-based message

  “Hey {{brand}}, I’d be happy to feature this on my YouTube channel at no cost.”

💡 Tip: Don’t just use generic messages. Unique, friendly, and creative follow-ups perform best.

Step 3: 

Scroll through your message list and you’ll see a Follow-Up button only on eligible messages. 

Check the box next to one or more brands, then click Follow-Up. 

It can take a few minutes for follow-up checkboxes to appear on eligible messages, as the system scans hundreds (or even thousands) of messages to determine follow-up eligibility. If the checkboxes aren’t showing, a quick refresh usually helps.

Smart Rules That Prevent Spamming

The system automatically handles the logic in the background to protect both creators and brands:

✅ Follow-up button only appears if:

• The brand has not replied

• You have not sent a follow-up message to that brand before

• The message is at least 24 hours old. 

• The past messages was sent through the VV automation. So as long as the original message went out using Viral Vue’s tool, you’ll be able to follow up even if it was a month ago.

• The Creator Connections campaign for that product is still active

❌ Follow-ups are disabled if:

• The brand already responded

• You have already sent a follow-up message to that brand

• You just sent the original message recently

• The original message was sent manually in Creator Connection Messaging.

• The Creator Connections campaign has ended or is out of budget for that product

This ensures you never accidentally spam sellers or send duplicate messages.

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