Inviting friends
This is the easiest and most accessible way to promote a Telegram channel from scratch on your own. In search of the first subscribers, it is worth looking into your phone book. And before sending invitations to your contacts, it would be a good idea to publish a few interesting posts that you want to forward.
Pros. Promotion is easy and does not require investment. What beginners need.
Cons. Due to restrictions, the overseas chinese in usa data channel's audience will be small. You can add no more than 200 people from your phone book to the channel. However, this does not apply to groups - you can add any number of users there yourself.
Another disadvantage is that your friends are unlikely to be the target audience. The initiative may interest them, but later they will leave the channel.
Social media
Add a link to the Telegram community to all your social media pages, including groups. Announce the launch of a new channel in the messenger, inform about events held, about the appearance of important publications.
Pros: Free.
Cons: High-quality promotion is only possible if you have large communities in social networks.
Important: do not post the same materials as on social networks, otherwise your VKontakte subscribers will not be interested in your channel.
Articles in Zen
If you have a blog on Yandex.Zen, post links to your Telegram channel in it – this can be done without any problems in all publications. The platform is visited by millions of users every month, and personal recommendations are made for them.
Articles in Zen
Pros: It's free, and Zen has its own mechanism for determining the target audience of your channel.
Cons. It is impossible to say in advance exactly how many views an article on Zen will get. One can be read 100,000 times, and another - a couple of thousand. At the same time, the number of subscribers on the channel and the exclusivity of the material do not matter. What matters is how readers react to the publication. Because of this, you have to postpone the promotion of the Telegram channel and focus on finding a suitable format for publications on Zen.
True, there is another option: the platform allows you to post on it from Telegram. To do this, you should dig into the settings and find the corresponding option in the "Telegram" tab, which is implemented through a special bot. Publications from the linked channel will be visible to Zen users, and some of them will certainly subscribe to it.
Promotion through your website
Your own web resource is quite suitable for placing a link to the channel. You need to attract the attention of visitors to it and convince them to subscribe to you to learn news faster. If you have enough interesting materials, the audience will actively grow.
Pros: Another good option for promoting a Telegram channel for free.
Cons: For quick promotion, it is desirable to have a site with a large au