How to Get More REAL Social Media Followers

“I want more social media followers.” Who doesn’t?

However, organic growth can take some time and the alternatives are either paying for unhelpful fake followers or ads. While ads can be helpful, we’d recommend focusing your strategy on organic growth, creating content and starting conversations that bring your ideal audience to you. This is what will bring your business the most success in the long run!

Here’s what we recommend you do to start gaining more followers:

1. Ask your customers to follow you! It’s sometimes as simple as that. You can leave subtle reminders through links in your email signature or small signs with your @ on your checkout counter, but the best way to ask is directly through conversation. Start by asking what platforms they’re on! It’s helpful to get active where you’ll find the most of your customers.

2. Talk to local influencers. While you may not want to utilize your marketing budget on hiring someone to promote your business, smaller influencers will sometimes make deals with local businesses that they enjoy. They might even shoutout your business just because they like it! Start some casual conversations with them online and see how they go.

3. Engage with other businesses! We’d suggest starting with your friends in business. Comment on their posts, message them, share them in your story– interact with your friends, networking circle, neighboring businesses, and more. By supporting them in their success, they’ll likely return the favor.

These are all great ways to get started, but we also want to stress the importance of consistency. Whatever marketing strategy you’re working on, you’ll want to focus on maintaining it, or you’ll lose momentum and your results will suffer for it. Set yourself up for success by making efforts that you can easily accomplish for the long-term. We’d love to help!

Let’s chat about how we can help market your business!