When you first get an account you need to build a following and create engagement so your tweets are getting exposure, that way you will gain extra followers.
What I did:
I added every one from my email address book.
if you click on your profile photo in the top right hand corner of twitter once yo have logged in, a drop down menu will appear.
- click on settings and privacy
- find friends
- select which email address book
- let twitter access it and wait for the list.
- press select all and they will be added to your following list.
you can then type a tweet and ask your followers to follow you back. the majority will so now you have a base to work on.
I then browsed through popular celebrity accounts and favourite sports teams and followed them and re-tweeted some of their tweets as this is also a good way to get your name out there.
re-tweeting sports clubs tweets can bring in fellow fans to follow you as you have a similar interest.
your aim in the first week is to get between 20-50 followers. Once you have set up your preferences your news feed will direct tweets that may interest you. re-tweet at least 5 a day and follow suggested members, again some will follow you and some won't.
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This works on Facebook as well. Engage share, love, comment. Go to fan pages that are in your niche(like Eric Worre, Robert Kiyosaki, Tony Robbins), and leave a comment that pertains to the post and don't like the post love it. When you go to these types of fan-pages, you'll surely get followers chasing you.
The only thing about this is, you have to be consistent daily and throughout the day and if you stop Facebook stops showing your post to a lot of your followers.
You'll stand out. Plus you have to follow some of the people on the fan page. Just show yourself everywhere and Facebook will send traffic to you.
I started with a new account and built up 845 friends and 517 followers like in three weeks. I personally only friend requested like 20 all the others automatically followed me.
It was overwhelming because, a lot of my followers where in my niche so of course they wanted to drop into my inbox and chat....
Thanks for the training.
You can also link your accounts so one post goes to all.
That’s a great return on followers though.
you can link twitter, facebook and instagram
I'm not sure about others though
Thats great, At the moment I have a niche website and I promote WA so this works for me. as I separate my audience using the hashtags.
I will probably have to think about another account as I develope another Niche especially if it's in a different industry.
Thanks for sharing your strategy Glen.
best wishes
Darren
I never really knew either, just research and do what's best for you, this worked for me, it wasn't until I got to about 250 followers that it really started to snowball but I think the key is consistancy.
