Age of Engage - Growing the Followers Base
Creating goals and tracking them is one of the most important things on your business journey... They are important for numerous reasons, but one of the crucial ones is a future motivation for pushing forward... On one side, you have to create achievable goals, but, on the other side, they have to be a bit more than you expect, just to push you more and keep you "uncomfortable".
One of the goals on the social network blockchains is reaching a certain amount of the followers in the specific timeframe... For example, I have put a goal to reach 250-300 followers on the Hive blockchain at the end of this year. At the end of 2019, I had around 130 on the old blockchain, so the next goal is doing a bit more than I have done in the past year... I didn't want to put too high my goal, as follower number is a bit strange here on Hive... I have easily reached the first 100, but after that, the numbers went very slow... In the first 2-3 months of this year, it was the same...
So, why was that happening?
After noticing that the numbers don't go up as I would like, I have started to track my engagement on the chain, and discover some interesting things... The secret of the fast-growing base on the beginning is plugging in the community... When you come to the community and start with daily content creation, people see that and start to follow you... After some time, you have almost everyone person from the community in your follower base, and you stop to grow, or slow down...
What can I do?
Well, as always, you have to step out of your comfort zone (in this case, your community, or your "safe oasis"), and comment on the posts of the people from other communities, or plug into other community also! That will bring some fresh blood into your followers base...
Anything else?
Yes, thanks for asking.... :) You have to show your dedication to the platform by investing in it... You can invest your time, your knowledge, experience, or money... Those things are easily visible on the blockchain and people tend to follow the people who have a higher stake in the community...
Something more?
Yes, check out the video... :)
I have mention in the video the awesome curation trail of my good friend @bradleyarrow, who is doing a great job with it... You can find more details and join curation trail here - https://peakd.com/hive-155221/@bradleyarrow/joining-a-curation-trail-updated
Thank you for your valuable time,
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Thank you. I need to step out. I am at 200 followers. Anyone got recommendations of a community, one that fits myself?
I didn't go directly to the community, more in exploring good posts from Trending, or Hot, or New posts... reading, commenting on 1-3 new authors... Most of them are in some of the communities, so you can get an idea of whats going on... It really depends on your taste...
Thanks my friend
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In the blockchain world is not the same mindset as traditional media and each site is completely different.
I agree... For example, I find Hive more personal than any other network... Even more personal than Facebook... And people appreciate and support more each other...
Or it is just my subjective opinion from the awesome communities where I take part...
Thanks for the feedback...
That is really sound advice. To reach out to others seems a very good and organic way to grow your own reach.
Just a little feedback. Today is the day I'm getting out of my comfort zone ;-). I went through several posts of people that I didn't know and read their posts and commented. It's amazing the reaction I got like that. My comments got upvoted and I have one new follower ;-). This will become a part of my daily to do list !
YEEEES!!!
Awesome to hear that! So happy that it works for you, too!
You are a legend man!
Keep practicing what you have been preaching. It's working!
Thank you for your kind words, dear sir... :)
I will try to practice it! And thanks for the tip!
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STOPTo support your work, I also upvoted your post!
Stepping out of the comfort zone it's always a right step made in the direction of your own evolution! And there are so many great people on Hive who are looking forward to interacting with others! Everyone is so different but yet we all have something in common - the love for the blockchain!!
EXACTLY!
There is no adrenaline, there is no adventure without stepping out from a comfort zone... Maybe it is scary at the beginning, but the journey is incredible!
Thank you for your comment! I appreciate it!
I'll just put this here.. :)
I'll try to follow your advice! We need more bees to our Swarm ahaha
Thanks for the comment! And cool image... It is rewarding...