Monday, May 6, 2013

Does "Exchanging" Followers instead of Purchasing them Work?

By Jane Green


For a business or single person to get more followers there are a variety of methodologies that you can use including purchasing, exchanging, or simply drawing in more supporters.

Purchasing Fans

When referring to purchasing proponents, people do it for a number of reasons, but the most important one is they think large numbers of fans will improve their plausibility for other "real" Twitter followers that visit their Twitter or Google+ profile.

To an extent, this happens to be true, but no one should only rely on acquired supporters seeing as these are often automated and thus non responsive. It is miles better to gain followers for free that are following you because they'd like to.

Exchanging Supporters

Social exchanges such as Add Me Fast and You Like Hits are a trustworthy source for gaining real followers. You can join a social exchange site and then add your links to your profile so that other members can like and follow you on your preferred sites. This implies that they can also get more fans and you can do the same by following them back.

Getting Your Own Fans

Although there are techniques of cheating the system and getting fans in bulk numbers, the most efficient way to get more followers is still to get them yourself by utilizing several proved techniques:

Profile Picture- Your profile picture wants to act as representative for you. If you are using a social account like Twitter as a corporate account, you might want to use the company's logo as your profile picture. Or if you're the Manager of the company you might want to use an image of you standing in front of your company's trademark!

Regardless of what you decide, always pick a picture - regardless of if you end up changing it at a later date. Remember that folk will be less likely to trust you and so less sure to follow you if they see the default Twitter picture on your profile (the little bluebird).

Bio/Description- Your bio does not need to be overly detailed, but it does need to say a little bit about who you are. If you can keep it short and simple to comprehend then even better - the social networking audience are a fast moving one in fact , and no one will want to click onto your profile and read your life history. Try and use humor and an easily meaningful "voice" wherever you can in order that you can give your fans a little taste of what to expect from your writing style.

Posts- Your posts - whether it is a video link on your Facebook fan page or a simple tweet asking your Twitter fans a question - is the most effective way of growing your number of fans. When other social media users see your tweets appear in their feed or because their chum and followers have retweeted or commented on it, you can get more followers by becoming more perceivable to other users.




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