The thing is, it's simple math to becoming successful on social media. It all starts with a decision.
All you need to do is decide from the moment you start that you are going to be sacrificing a lot of time.
I don't want to bore you with a whole bunch of random numbers, and also want to keep this info as 'crisp' as possible.
IN THE BEGINNING
When you are just starting out, your following is small, and no one is seeing your content.
What you need to do is spend 80% of your time promoting yourself and getting yourself out there, and 20% of your time talking to the people who are seeing your fresh content.
STARTING GETTING RESULTS
When you start getting more traction, you will start seeing small progresses. As long as you remain consistent in your efforts, you will always consistently progress. At this point, you are still contributing the same amount of hours as day 1, except the ratio changes.
Now you spend 50% of your time promoting, and 50% of your time responding.
GAINING STRONG MOMENTUM
Once you are getting 600+ comments per post, you spend 80%-90% of the time responding to your viewers, building that rapport even stronger, since you only need about 10-20% of your time contributed towards promotion.
It's just simple math mixed with the law of averages :)
This idea sparked in my head when I was writing a reply to @Sweetsssj on one of her posts. A lot of the text from this post was drawn directly from that comment actually :)
If you don't believe me, just ask any person who is well-known on social media. Sure, not all of them followed an in-depth, well thought out strategy, but if they did they would be even further :)
I have used similar strategies to grow my Instagram page to over 35 thousand followers in the last 7 months too :) CHECK FOR YOURSELF
Something else I would like to give advice on, that I see many people are not doing.. Is when most people start gaining a bit of momentum and traction on their work in life, they start to slack down, hoping that success will just carry on by itself.. This is the biggest mistake to make. When you start to get a bit of speed going in your progress (be it anything it life, in the his case we are discussing growing on social media), you need to work even harder than you did to actually get to that point.
For example, if you started your routine working 3-4 hours a day on your work, what most people do when they start doing well is they now spend only 2 hours a day.. What you need to do is start spending 5-6 hours, to keep your momentum rising.
That's the key.
And a great example of this is @Sweetsssj! If you haven't already, go take a look this this lady's beautiful posts. She is the perfect example of what I just explained. For those of you who are curious as to why I used a case of getting 600+ comments earlier, thinking it's unrealistic, well this lady is getting more than that on each post nowadays :) She is at her momentum stage right now. In the last couple of weeks she has doubled her following on her account. Thanks for being awesome, sister! You're very inspiring.
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