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What is Social Media?
Social Media is a virtual way of socializing over the internet.
For the average person, they use their Social Media for their own profile that's about them.
But, there is also your other type of accounts. Representing a company, or a account based on a niche. Such as comedy, sports, etc..
With these types of accounts, your main objective is to grow the following.
That comes with fame and a side of business you might not know how to handle, that's why I am here.

In this tutorial/help desk I will mainly be using a comedy niche as example.
You can still learn from this, just flip the text around if lets say you're a business on social media etc.

Correctly managing your account is a huge part of gaining a active following.
Anything from your profile picture to your captions/statuses..
People like simplicity, simplicity gains a following.

Let's get into some details/examples. (I will be using Instagram examples)

If you have a comedy niche account, you want to base it all off of comedy and nothing serious!

Some profile picture examples would be like:
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A profile picture you do not want would be like:
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Your profile picture is the first thing someone see's, now make it good and related to your account!

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Your bio/about me is a huge factor! That's the second thing they see.
Again, using a comedy account as example.

You do not want your bio to look like this:
I sell shoutouts for PayPal CHEAP.
NO SHOUTOUTS
KIK- IloveDogs321

You DO want your bio to look somewhat like this:
i got the key to success, so follow me

Why?
- If your account is based off comedy, make it something funny and short
- If its a business account, say a little bit about your business and maybe a promotion.

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What should my post/captions say?
You never want paragraph long post, hardly anyone reads them and with that being said, your activity will go down.
Keep them short and sweet but still gets the point across!
If you post a funny picture, just do a emoji or two.
Or if its something people can relate to, write "Tag xxxxxx *emoji"
Then lets say you release a new product!
You can write "On sale, super cheap! Take some pics so we can see how rocking you look!"
What that does is make you and the buy be on a 1 on 1 level.
It will increase sells, make them hope you will see it, then finally you are getting promotion from them posting..


^^^^ This section was difficult to write because everything is so different for different niches. If you have any questions, just ask below.

How to gain a following
There are multiple factors that come in to play when gaining a following. 1. You must stay true to your theme and niche (If you post all black and white pictures, keep doing that and do not switch to colored. Also if you niche is dogs make sure your page is consistent with dog pictures and not cats, this will make your followers disengaged with you and may even unfollow). 2. Know the big players in your niche and watch what they do. If they are using certain hashtags or pictures try mimicking what they are doing since it is proven to work. 3. Follow the people that engage with the big players in your niche (Follow people that like/comment you can even follow their followers). This is a good way to gain a following since the people liking/commenting and following the big players are already interested in your niche so they are more likely to follow back than random people. 4. The most common method nowadays is to get a shoutout from others inside of your niche. If you have a decent following you could look for others in the same niche (around the same following as you) and offer to do a shoutout for shoutout. Where you basically post a pic and in the description you forward them over to the other persons’ account. If you do not have a good following you could try purchasing shoutouts (but be careful, because this is not always successful).

(Mar 15, 2016 02:33 AM)Aeoli Wrote:  Interested read and nice one too!

HQ shit Chase, keep it up!

(Mar 15, 2016 04:23 AM)Volty Wrote:  Sorry but I don't see what this has to do with Delphi. Please post in a different section.

(Mar 15, 2016 02:52 PM)Cartier Wrote:  This was a nice read man thank you for this!

(Apr 5, 2016 10:28 PM)emerpuS Wrote:  been on Instagram for over a year now and i'm a photographer, i only have 1.2k and i used boostgram's 3 day trial and it finished yesterday. Followers went up, but my likes barely went up, how can I increase that? I put out high quality stuff. (@be.ny)

(Apr 5, 2016 10:55 PM)#Mᴏʙsᴛᴇʀ Wrote:  You have amazing photography. I appreciate the ones of people and not your typical scenery like buildings.

If I were you, I'd stick to one niche for lets say a month.
DO NOT MAKE IT BUILDINGS, there are plenty of those already.

I say, try out a person theme.
Like this picture of yours:


Once you get a steady theme of that or whatever you chose, go spam follow accounts that follow other accounts with a close theme.

Why? Because you can get the following from being that unique niche, then once you are happy with your following.. Pick another niche, grow more..
Then once you have a variety of followers, start uploading a variety.