How to Get Social Media Traffic When You Have No Followers (And No Money) | Ep. #401

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #401, Eric and Neil discuss how to get social media traffic when you have no followers and no money. Tune in to learn a few easy tactics that can get people sharing your content. You’ll also find out the importance of reaching out to the RIGHT people. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:27 – Today’s topic: How to Get Social Media Traffic When You Have No Followers (And No Money) 00:38 – The easiest way to get traffic is to look at your content 00:44 – Google similar keywords that relate to your content and find other posts 00:51 – Get the most popular keywords and type them in the Twitter search box 00:55 – Email people who have tweets related to your keyword and check if they want to see your post 01:28 – Add a note: “If you like it, feel free to share it” 01:33 – You’ll get more social shares by doing this 01:45 – Growth Everywhere’s Instagram account now has 6400 followers 01:53 – Eric redoes the hashtags to engage with people more 02:26 – You can build pods with Instagram Direct Messaging where people share their posts with one another 02:54 – Join multiple pods, but make sure you’re adding value too 03:09 – Reach out to the right kind of people 03:22 – Marketing School is giving away a free 1 year subscription to Crazy Egg which is a visual analytics tool 04:26 – Go to SingleGrain.com/giveaway for multiple entries 04:35 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: Search your most popular keywords to find posts that are similar to yours—then, reach out to the audiences you find. Leverage Instagram, especially their direct message feature to find potential followers. Make sure you’re adding value to those you reach out to. 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	Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from
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0:14.5	with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
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0:51.8	Welcome to another episode of marketing school.
0:55.0	I'm Eric Sue, and I'm Neil Patel.
0:57.0	And today we are going to talk about how to get social media traffic when you have no followers and no money.
1:06.0	Neil, what are your thoughts around this?
1:08.0	The easiest way to get social traffic when you have no followers and no money is look at the content that you're writing in your
1:14.2	blog take it Google similar keywords and find other posts look at the ones that are
1:19.8	popular put them into search. search box.
1:25.0	It will show you every single person that shared that post.
1:28.0	Shoot him an email,
1:29.0	hey so and so, I notice that you shed out X, Y, and Z article by author A, B, and C.
1:34.5	I actually have a similar article that's coming out, but mine discusses one, two, and three that theirs
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