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7 Ways to Gamify Your Social Media and Gain A Following #1866

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In episode #1866, Neil and Eric share seven ways to gamify your social media to gain a following. From contests to giveaways, there are so many creative ways to engage people. You just have to know how. Tune in to hear it all! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: 7 Ways to Gamify Your Social Media and Gain A Following [00:30] #1: Ask a question to facilitate discussion. [00:59] #2: Create a contest to get people to engage with and put your content. [01:35] #3: Do collabs to help your following grow. [01:56] #4: Have giveaways to generate a lot of shares. [03:00] #5: Connect with a social cause [03:16] #6: Encourage close friend on Instagram and provide special content [04:01] #7: Touch on trending topics to provide value. [04:38] That’s it for today! [04:38] To stay updated with events and learn more about our mastermind, go to the Marketing School site for more information or call us on 310-349-3785!   Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:   Timothy Sykes   Leave Some Feedback:     What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review.     Connect with Us:    Neilpatel.com Quick Sprout  Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel  Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top level marketing tips

0:06.4

and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.

0:11.8

Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric

0:16.8

Sue.

0:17.8

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Today we are going to talk about seven ways to gamify your social media and gain a following.

0:56.3

So I'll start with number one, number one is to simply ask a question, right?

1:01.1

When you ask a question, well, actually, a double benefit here is if you ask a question

1:04.9

and it's a controversial topic, you're going to get a lot of people engaging and then they

1:08.1

might start to talk to each other, they might even start to debate each other, even argue

1:11.7

with each other.

1:12.7

Ideally, you're not just trying to create, you know, a bunch of hype, but you're trying

1:16.2

to facilitate an actual discussion, right?

1:18.0

So that's one way you can gamify it because what happens at the end of the day is these

1:22.0

social platforms value comments quite a bit because comments cause more engagement and

1:26.1

it causes people to stay on the app longer.

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