In this video, you're going to learn how to get your first followers on Twitter.
Now, these are going to be genuine followers are actually engaged with your tweets.
Now, of course, before you go out and actually implement any of these free strategies, which I'm
about to show you, please do make sure you go ahead and optimize your Twitter profile first, meaning
that you have a profile image, a header image, a bio, ideally a link to your website.
And you have at least five tweets on your timeline.
The reason why you want to get yourself first before you actually try to acquire some followers is because
if people land on your page and you have no profile image and you have no tweets, then it's very unlikely
that that person is actually going to follow you.
So start off with a strong foundation first.
So now we've got that out the way.
Let's dive into the first strategy.
So strategy number one is follow the top influencers, engaged followers.
So this works extremely well.
And the reason why is if we take this account, Susy's account, again, as an example, you can see
she has one point four million followers and her whole Twitter account is related to personal finance.
However, we don't want to be going through this massive list of one point four million followers as
as you can imagine, if we go ahead and click that not all of these accounts are actually going to be
active accounts.
So a much more effective and efficient method you should use is to actually view her tweets on her main
timeline and scroll through all of her tweets and then simply stop on one that you like to analyze and
see who has engaged.
So I could take this one, for example, has got 52 likes.
That is a lot of likes.
It's got ten minutes.
So again, a lot a lot of engagement.
However, as this tweet is more about gratitude and her account is about personal finance, I'm not
going to go for this tweet as people who may be interacting with this tweet might be people who are
interested more in gratitude than personal finance.
So I'm going to keep on scrolling.
We've got one here which seems to be promoting her podcasts.
Once again, I will skip that one.
And here we have a tweet right here.
Put your money for tomorrow when you cannot see it.
Today is all about money management and personal finance.
So a really good fit.
So what we can do is simply go ahead and open this tweet.
Then you can see he's got 41 likes.
Now, if we go ahead and click 41 likes, we're going to get a list of all of these people who have
actually like this tweet.
So this is a really good fit for us as this tweet is all about personal finance.
And all of these 41 people have expressed an interest in her tweet, which, of course, is about personal
finance.
Now, my account, which I've set up, my demo account, is all about personal finance.
So there's a good chance if I go ahead and follow some of these people, they're going to go ahead and
check out my profile.
And if at all looks good, they'll go ahead and give me a follow, too.
So let's go ahead and follow some of these people.
So let's go for Kerry Dean.
We'll go for this person right here, we'll go for this one, go for this real estate valuation person
right here.
We'll go for the co-owner of this company.
A little bit of this and a little bit of that, quite like that will go for this one as well and we'll
go for this one as well.
So the whole idea is you really want to go through an account, tweet, figure out what type of people
are interacting.
I mean, go ahead and follow them as well.
Now is a little bit of a manual process, but it is the best way to grow your account by far.
I don't recommend you use any of those shady tactics out there, which a lot of people are teaching
that's only going to end up in.
You're getting your account deleted and penalized.
So, again, you can do exactly the same thing for people who have retweeted this as well.
So go ahead and follow some of these people.
So, again, remember, these are all people who have expressed an interest in this person's tweet,
which is related to our industry.
And then once you've done that for one tweet, you can simply close this box, click the arrow to go
back and do exactly the same thing, but do it for another tweets like this one right here, which once
again is all about money.
It's got 49 likes and 43 tweets.
Again, the same process.
Open it up, see who has liked it.
Sort of same person once again.
That's a really good signal to see.
That is a very clear signal that this person is definitely interested in money and financial management.
So let's go ahead and follow some more people, follow this one on this one, and we'll follow one more.
Now, how many people we want to follow a day is going to be dependent on how many followers are looking
to generate.
I typically advise, as a rule of thumb, do you want to be following roughly between 20 to 50 people
every single day?
And that way you're going to see some really good results over the next couple of months.
Now, in addition to following people who have like and retweeted this actual tweet, what you can also
do if I go back to my other example, which is this one right here, you can also follow people who
have actually engaged with this tweet.
So people who have responded to this tweet in a reply, for example, we have this person right here,
their name is Money Out Loud.
And in response to this tweet, they said, can't agree more.
And if you're tempted to spend use a cash system instead of credit or bank cards, times are still uncertain.
And having money in your savings is even more important than now.
This account is very highly focused on financial management.
Once again, let's hover over her account and then go ahead and click follow so you can really use tons
of different options when it comes to finding people who are engaged with your top influencers.
You can use likes, quote, tweets, tweets and responses as well.
That should give you a lot of different options at your fingertips.
And of course, you can rinse and repeat this for any other top that you follow as well.
And the great thing about this strategy is that these influencers will constantly keep on putting more
posts out there.
So you always have a fresh list of people you can go ahead and follow every single day.
So that's it for strategy one, moving onto the next strategy, which is strategy to this strategy involves
now not following people, but actually interacting with these people down here in the comments.
So, for example, let's imagine I didn't follow this account right here.
What I could do, instead of me being straight out there and actually following their account, what
I could do is simply reply to her and say.
I strongly agree with you, having money in the bank is more important now than ever and then go ahead
and click reply.
So this way, I mean, Gagin with people who are actually responding to my influences tweet, so it's
a little bit less direct.
And with this method, what you're doing is open opportunity to start a conversation.
And what I'm also doing with my response is showing that I agree with this person and I'm also interested
in financial management as no doubt she's going to see my reply, check out my profile and see what
I'm all about.
And then if it looks so good, she's most likely going to go ahead and give me a follow up.
Another great thing about responding to people in the comments on a tweet is that when you do respond
to these people so I've just refreshed my page, you can see my response is actually showing now below
of this tweet.
So anyone else are open this tweet and engages of it is likely to see my comment.
So, of course, you can use it to your advantage.
And if you post any really smart comments or things that people really, really resonate and agree with,
it's going to give you another opportunity to generate more traffic across your Twitter profile and
thus increasing the chances of generating more followers.
So replying to people in the comments section and also replying to the actual tweet itself is a really
good way to generate some more followers.
So I highly recommend that you go out there and you find some tweets that are really interesting from
your influences.
Go ahead and respond to as many tweets as possible and of course, engage with the other accounts in
their responses as well.
So the third and final strategy you can use to grow your Twitter account.
Now, this is kind of a pro tip and not that many people actually know that, but you should optimize
your tweets to send at the best time possible.
So here we have this chart showing on Twitter global engagement.
This is taken from a website called Social.
And I've got tons of really great content on the website, so I highly recommend you check those out.
But essentially, as you can see from this chart, it shows you when is the best time to post a tweet
based on the amount of engagement that tweet is likely to get.
So you can see the best days to post on Twitter is actually a Wednesday and a Friday, and the best
time to post a tweet is always going to be nine a.m..
Now, that is very interesting to see.
This is most likely because at nine a.m., a lot of people are on the train, on the bus going to work.
And what they typically do, they have the phone in their hand searching for Twitter's timeline.
And this is when the most likely to engage and actually comment on one of your tweets.
So using this data, you can actually leverage this to your advantage when you're growing your Twitter
profile.
For example, if you are looking to grow your account, then there's no point if you send in tweets
at 11pm on a Saturday, for example, as an engagement is going to be extremely low.
You're much better off posting that same tweet on the same day, but just post it a few hours earlier
and even do 8am, 9am, 10am, even 11am is fine, but you really want to focus on the darker colors
right here as this is when more people are going to be reacting with your tweets.
Now, this is a very clear signal I see across many, many industries.
And of course, the data you are looking at right here, this is based on global engagement across all
different industries, across personal accounts and business accounts as well.
So now you have three strategies in your back pocket, which you could use to grow any Twitter account.
It's time for you to go out there and start to grow your own followers.
I'll see you in the next one.