You have setup your podcast. You have a twitter account. You’re generating content on your site and on twitter. Your next question is, “How do I get more followers?”
One of the nice things about twitter is lots of eyeballs see what you write, and if you write it at just the right time, many people will become curious and click on the link (to your podcast episode of course).
I stumbled upon this secret quite by accident. I have not read any books, nor read any posts about this. I started doing this one day, and started noticing a nice influx of followers. Within a week, I gained more than 100 followers, and it is still growing. And this is purely natural traffic, no gimmicks or get-more-twitter-followers program. There is another benefit that comes out of this as well…
That secret is publicly welcoming new twitter followers.
I used to be one of those auto-DM people, and occasionally I welcomed new followers that way. I learned very quick that it was a bad option, as it started very quickly becoming another type of spam. Desiring more interaction, one day I got into a conversation with a couple friends on twitter. I started noticing new followers, and a thought occured to me. “Why don’t I publicly welcome new followers. Can’t hurt to try…”
So I did that. I welcomed a new follower, as well as viewed and commented on his website, who happened to have quite a good number of people following him. He noticed my tweet and thanked me for welcoming him. Two things happened in that moment.
1. I created a connection with that follower. He appreciated what I said and checked out my website as well.
2. I generated curiosity between both my followers and his followers. My followers were interested in what I said and wanted to see for themselves, and his followers were interested in what I said about him, thus following me in the process.
Adding up the followers of both of these guys comes to 65k followers. That is alot of people!! Alot of eyeballs saw this as well. Now when you publish a new episode and it is published to twitter, many more people will see that link.
Can you see how powerful this is?
Your homework is in your premium feed, as well as the audio version of this post. Feel free to pick it up and test it out. Tell me what you think.
