Always our short discussions here are aimed at the beginners to internet marketing. There is so much to understand when you first start. Certainly if you can afford a mentor or coaching it will circumvent some of that learning you will have to do for yourself. However finding a coach you are satisfied with is not easy. So many new marketers invest in a coach and then become disgruntled with the partnership. However you choose to unravel this learning you will all make mistakes and goof up along the way as we all do.
We were recently looking at a Twitter account we had forgotten about. It was one we actually paid money to someone and in exchange this whizz programme they were selling was going to get us followers. For a monthly fee we were given followers. Followers, who we are sure are very nice people, but who were never going to be of any use to us in a business sense!! This account has sat there for ages and we just remembered it. It made us laugh because in our naivety all these people did which we paid monthly for them to do was followed other people. Naturally when you follow someone on twitter you will find they generally follow you back. If they don’t you can simply unfollow them. When we first started we didn’t know this and so we put good money into someone’s hands to do such a simple thing for us
Nowadays we have realized that getting followers like that is not going to be of any use to you anyway. Google only places authority and recognizes the significance of Twitter accounts that are predominantly those that have followers with very few people that you follow. The reason this is so is because you don’t need to follow other people since you are in fact the authority in that field. Therefore you don’t want to be following hundreds of other people because that tells Google you are not an authority in your niche. Whereas if your list of followers far outnumbers the ones you follow obviously spells out that folk are following you because you have something to offer.
So don’t do what we did – that is pay someone to get you followers on Twitter because it is of no use to you anyway. Better to simply wait until you find your own particular niche and allow folk to follow you if they feel you have something that is of value to their lives.
cheers
Allan and Dawn
