How to Get more Followers

In Chapter 7 of “The Art of Social Media" Guy Kawasaki has presented two strategies to gain more followers which include posting quality content and joining new platforms. He argues that if you join a new platform at its early stages of being introduced then you get more followers because as there is a lack of number of users hence you are more likely to get followed by people. Although this strategy has worked out well for Kawasaki's Google+ account but I can't help but question it. How are we to know which platform is going to blow up in near future? Not every platform can get as famous as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. I detect more chances of wasting one's time trying to join multiple new platforms just for the sack of followers.

Being a blogger myself, I have also found some techniques that have helped me gain followers over the past two years. One of the most comment way to gain followers is by commenting on other blogs. Once you show the other users on a platform that you actually read their content and give feedback then they tend to come back to your blog. It becomes a give and take relationship and they also feel the need to repay the favor by following and giving feedback to your posts. Hence you appear on more user's feed. This doesn't only help you form bonds with other bloggers, but it also helps you find great content that can inspire you to write something that you never would have thought to write about.  I once came across an extremely beautiful poem on Wordpress that had only 3 likes. I presented that poem to my class, wrote down their feedback and sent it to the poet. He was more than pleased to see his poem being appreciated. We both became quite good friends and have at multiple times collaborated on different writing projects and given each other shout out which also has helped us both to boost the number of our followers.