In this video,
you're going to learn
how to get your first followers on Twitter.
Now these are going to be genuine followers
that actually engage with your tweets.
Now of course, before you go out
and actually implement any of these three 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 this set up 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 that we've got that out the way,
let's dive into the first strategy.
So strategy number one is follow
the top influencer's engaged followers.
So this works extremely well,
and the reason why is
if we take this account,
Suze account again as an example,
you can see she has 1.4 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 1.4 million followers.
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'd like to analyze and see who has engaged.
So I could take this one for example.
It's got 52 likes.
That is a lot of likes.
It's got 10 retweets.
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 podcast.
So once again, I will skip that one.
And here we have a tweet right here,
"Put your money for tomorrow where you cannot see it today."
So it's 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 it'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 liked 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 it 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 Carrie Dean.
We'll go for this person right here.
We'll go for this one.
We'll go for this real estate evaluation person right here.
We'll go for the co-owner of this company.
A little bit of this and a little bit of of that.
I quite like that.
We'll 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's tweets,
figure out what type of people are interacting
and then go ahead and follow them as well.
Now, it 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 getting your account deleted and penalized.
So again, you can do exactly the same thing
for people who have retweeted this as well.
So let's 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 tweet.
Like this one right here,
which, once again, is all about money,
it's got 49 likes and 14 retweets.
So again, the same process.
Open it up, see who has liked it,
so the same person once again,
so 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, this one,
and we'll follow one more.
Now, how many people you want to follow a day
is going to be dependent
on how many followers you are looking to generate.
I typically advise, as a rule of thumb,
that 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 liked 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 MoneyOutLoud.
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."
So 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,
retweets 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 influencer 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 two,
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'm engaging with people
who are actually responding to my influencer's tweet.
So it's a little bit less direct.
And with this method, what you're doing is
opening an opportunity to start a conversation.
And what I'm also doing with my response
is showing that I agree with this person
and that 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 all good,
she's most likely going to go ahead and give me a follow.
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 that opens this tweet and engages with it
is likely to see my comment.
So, of course, you can use this 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 to your Twitter profile
and thus increasing the chances
of you generating more followers.
So replying to people in the comment 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 influencers.
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 Twitter global engagement.
This is taken from a website called Sprout Social.
They'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 your tweet
is always going to be 9:00 AM.
Now, that is very interesting to see.
This is most likely because at 9:00 AM
a lot of people are on the train
or on the bus going to work.
And what do they typically do?
They have their phone out in their hand
searching through Twitter's timeline,
and this is when they're 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 are growing your Twitter profile.
For example, if you are looking to grow your account,
then there's no point of you sending tweets
at 11:00 PM on a Saturday, for example,
as 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 it at 8:00 AM, 9:00 AM, 10:00 AM,
even 11:00 AM 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're 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 can 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.