Hello and welcome to "Magic Monday" where I share a tip that WILL work for anyone.
Today, I'm going to show you how to add a dozen new followers in the next 24 hours, no matter who you are. I guarantee if you follow the instructions here, you'll gain 1 dozen new fans by tomorrow! Ready?
On steemit, followers are the lifeblood of every successful blog. If you look at the follower count of anyone getting hundreds of votes per post, you'll see what I mean. Many of them have 5, 10, even 20 thousand followers.
Why?
It's simple, really, the answer is the news feed. If you go to your profile pic and click it, you'll get a drop down list. One of those items is "feed". This is a social media style news feed of all the blogs you personally follow!
So, when someone follows you, you end up in their personal feed. It's really that simple. You have a much better shot at getting someone's attention when you are one in a sea of hundreds, than one in 250k in the larger steemit universe. More eyeballs should equal more views, which leads to upvotes, comments and more followers!
What do I do?
Simple, write a tutorial!
What? but Mark, I'm brand new here! What will I write about?
Choose something you've already learned that has helped you do something on steemit,and keep it very simple. Or, you could do a review of one of my dolphinschool posts, like this one on Beating the Bandwidth Barrier.
Choose something that will help a brand new user. * I'll tell you why in a minute.
Step one write a tutorial!
Okay that's done, what next?
Step two, add it to your blog!
Put it in the howto category, add tutorial, steemiteducation, introduceyourself and dolphinschool for best results.
Step three, build a really cool comment!
I say "build" because this is going to be a copy and paste job. Yeah, I know, feels like "spam" but we're going to fix that.
- Write some text, like this Hey! Welcome to Steemit! I'm
and I love working with new users! I just wrote a great tips article that will help you get 24 new followers in 24 hours, find it here! Let me know if I can help in any way.
- Add a hyperlink with a link to your tutorial, in the comment. I know, you're going to ask me about the hyperlink. Well, if I teach you everything, you'll never grow. LOL I am going to share this tomorrow for tech Tuesday.
- Dress it up with HTML, I suggest using a ### tag at the beginning to make your text large and bold, to stand out. Then, maybe consider italics (put an * at each end of any line, like this *) now, watch, then I delete the spaces after the first asterisk and after "like" at each end of any line, like this
Step four copy and paste your comment!
ONLY do this for new users! Anywhere else this may be considered spam!
- Go to the introduce yourself category.
- Find a legit introduction post in the "new" section.
- Read, or at least scan the post!
- Drop your comment in the replies by clicking and pasting the whole comment in!
Do not leave yet!
You're not done. You MUST, absolutely MUST do this next part first!
If you leave now, this will not be as effective. You need to actually make a comemnt on the post you just read, like this:
Hey! Welcome to Steemit! I'm and I love working with new users! I just wrote a great tips article that will help you get 24 new followers in 24 hours, find it here! Let me know if I can help in any way.
Should now read something like this!
Hey! Welcome to Steemit!
Looks like you've got a really fantastic resume for steemit. I see you like to share photos, check out steepshot.io for a better way to share them. Love your dog, by the way, I have three!
I'm and I love working with new users! I just wrote a great tips article that will help you get 24 new followers in 24 hours, find it here! Let me know if I can help in any way.
If you didn't figure this out that first paragraph is based on whatever they say in their introduction. Be personal. Find a point of connection, and share a tool with them that you have found out about!
Step five, wash, rinse, repeat, x36
I said it would work, I didn't say it wouldn't be work!
The more you share, the more new friends you'll make. I hit about 60 or 70% of the people I contact. If you do 36 comments, and get 1 out of 3, you'll hit your 12! If you did this every week for a month, you'd have 50 new fans!
- To be fair, I CANNOT guarantee a number of new followers, obviously. My profile is a sure win for new users. But, you will gain new followers, guaranteed. Want more? Leave more comments.
