You Want Followers, Find Some Influencers!

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Updated 7 years ago

So you want to build up a HUGE social media following?

Or perhaps you may only want more followers on social media. All you need to do is dream big and make things happen!

Whatever your predilection is, building up and owning a massive following or a modest one on social media can command tremendous influence in your field or niche, from impressing job hunters to interview you, getting your book on major TV talk shows, or bringing sponsorship deals for you. The sky is truly the limit.

But how might you ask how could this be done? The solution is simple, and no longer some “pie in the sky” notion.

You Want Followers, Find Some Influencers!

Find and connect with a major influencer in your field. Or better yet, 2 to 3 or more major influencers. And your followers will grow quickly!

Did you know anyone on Facebook with more than 50,000 followers is defined as a Public figure? This is now possible to be achieved by all, and here are some additional ideas I’d like to share with you

Dream Big and Make Things Happen

I’ve always been fascinated by the spirit of entrepreneurship, by the ideas of people who dream big and make things happen. This is what first brought me to entrepreneurship and eventually to Wealthy Affiliate.

I remember there was a time I personally followed well-known entrepreneurs, musicians, songwriters, and authors. When I was "following" a number of such thought leaders and influencers, I would read their writings, watch their videos, listen to their podcasts, and generally anything about them as I was interested in everything they were doing.

So here is my next question.

Did you ever think how useful it would be to look through the social media feeds of successful thought leaders and entrepreneurs you admire, to see which of their posts are the most popular and which hashtags they use?

As common sense would dictate, there are many thought leaders and influencers on social media with sizeable followings. Such followings run anywhere from tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands, to half million, and into the millions.

There's definitely so much more digging around to be done- by looking at the most popular posts done by Instagram influencers and their followers, particularly those related to your industry or area of expertise.

Also by looking at who's following the influencers in your industry, you'd see what others are doing that works, and you’d start to find your potential audience and get to know what they like.

Well, recently a dear friend of mine conducted an experiment on Instagram, but I am sure this experiment will work on other social media platforms as well to build up a social media following.

Social Media Blitz: 4 Actionable Steps

Here are 4 Actionable Steps of the experiment she decided to conduct:

1) She made a list of all the entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and influencers she admired and followed in real life.

2) By searching and going through their profiles, she followed the entire list of major entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and influencers on Instagram who she actually had been following in real life.

3) When looking at each Instagram influencer’s profile, she didn’t forget to look at the "Followed by" section at the bottom of their bio to see who she might know that was also following the influencer.

4) Her next actionable step was as simple as clicking on each Instagram influencer’s profile and then clicking on ALL of each of the profile's followers.

Here are some of the people / Instagram accounts that she decided to follow:

When looking at an Instagram profile, like Kim Garst's for example, she discovered there are a few more things that can be done.

If you click on the down arrow to the right of the “Following” button, this will give you a list of people that Instagram suggests you follow based on the fact that you're looking at Kim's profile.

When she scrolled through the suggestions, she came across Guy Kawasaki who she once heard speak and also read his book APE which stands for Author Publisher and Entrepreneur. Guy’s book is a great resource for people considering self-publishing, and so she decided to follow Guy Kawasaki on Instagram.

Connect, connect, connect!

All she did was simply follow several select entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and influencers on Instagram, and then following the 4 Actionable Steps above she found others to follow,

The result was that she saw a major increase of the number of people following her on Instagram – a huge following increase over the weekend!

In just a couple of days, from Friday to Monday her personal Instagram following increased by over 45%, so I'd say this method definitely works!

So if you want to build a massive social media following or even a modest one, try these 4 Actionable Steps and you will stand a good chance to be on your way!

Thank you so much for reading, and please feel free to share a comment.

Cheers,

Kaju