TripCode Practical Growth Strategy Series #12 – Expanding to External Channels: Cafe, Smartstore, and YouTube

Building content consistently on your blog can generate a baseline level of traffic. However, to significantly scale your income and build brand trust, you need external content distribution channels.

In this post, we’ll explore real-world expansion strategies based on Agent’s experience, showing how to connect your blog with platforms like YouTube, Smartstore, and Naver Cafe.


1. Why Do You Need External Channels?

External content channel planning by Korean creators


Blogs are great for search traffic but have limitations in reach and repeated exposure. Expanding through external platforms offers the following benefits:

  • Stronger community building: Leverage platforms like Naver Cafe or Band to engage with your audience.
  • Diversified monetization: Use Smartstore, classes, and premium conversion links.
  • Multi-channel brand awareness: Expand your faceless brand through YouTube Shorts and Reels.

Ultimately, external channels function as powerful “expansion hubs” to broadcast your content farther and wider.


2. YouTube – The Best Platform for Content Recycling

A key strategy is to repurpose blog content into YouTube videos.

  • Convert informational blog posts into 3-minute summary scripts.
  • Create Shorts with key lines emphasized using text-based video editing.
  • Insert blog links into YouTube video descriptions.

Tools like Vrew, ChatGPT, and Notion can streamline your script writing and subtitle creation. An AI-powered YouTube strategy is a high-efficiency solution.


3. Smartstore – Connecting Information to Sales

Smartstore is more than a product listing site. If you build a flow from information → experience → recommendation → sale, you can seamlessly convert blog readers into customers.

Example from Agent’s actual strategy:

  • Publish eBook summary posts as a blog series.
  • Add detailed descriptions and blog links on the Smartstore product page.
  • Position offerings as “personal experience-based products” rather than just generic items.

The ideal structure: attract traffic through the blog, convert through the store.


4. Naver Cafe – Building a Community and Fan Base

CAFE is still a strong community platform, especially for the 40–60 age group.

  • From information to practical engagement: Interactive content.
  • Operate comment sections and review boards.
  • Use cafes for pre-launch feedback on premium courses or eBooks.

TripCode uses platforms like “OpenAI World” and “Taean Tourism Info Center” cafes to convert blog readers into a connected fanbase.


5. Designing Your External Channel Strategy

Plan your external channel strategy in stages:

  1. Select channels that complement your blog (e.g., YouTube, Smartstore, Cafe).
  2. Repurpose content to suit each platform’s format.
  3. Insert links between platforms to build cross-channel traffic flows.
  4. Monthly goals: establish 1 channel → manage 3 channels → measure revenue impact.

External channels are less about short-term traffic and more about long-term asset building and brand credibility. Don’t stay in a “single-channel” model — design a “content network” that works together.



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