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How To Get More LinkedIn Connections
Like a dog inhaling the sweet, tantalising odour of a ripe animal carcass, you’ve come here because you want to know the secrets of how to get more LinkedIn connections. If you haven’t, then you seriously need some more training on your Internetz. Go watch some ‘lolcats’ or something.
But no, don’t do that because like the sorcerer of all things social-media that I am, I’m going to reveal to you how to boost your connections on the world’s most prominent business networking site. Which of course will mean more contacts and more cash-flow into your amazing business of selling hand-painted combs.
But, I kid. This is a serious post…
1. Spread The Word!
If you do any kind of marketing online (and I’m guessing you do considering the post your eyeballs are glued to right now) then it’s likely you’ve already got a tasty wad of online connections at your disposal. What I mean by this is a Facebook page, Twitter profile, email list, blog readership and so-on. And as these resources are already at your disposal, you’d have to be a silly sausage indeed if you didn’t regularly inform your existing contacts (at least once monthly) that you’re on LinkedIn and they should scurry along and connect with you. This is by far the fastest and easiest ways to begin getting more LinkedIn connections. And its’ free. We all like free things. Especially love.
More after the break…
As with Facebook and Twitter, there will surely be companies everywhere offering for you to buy Google Plus friends. And as we here at uSocial were the first company in the world to offer the sale of these services on the latter two sites, it stands to reason that like a Gestapo officer with a pistol, we should be listened to.
However, we don’t necessarily think it’s good idea to seek out these services on the social networking site that the “Big G” has recently launched. Why, I hear you ask? Well…
…we’ve already tested it for you. And the results were…well, just read on.
To start with, as soon as Google Plus launched we tested whether or not we could sell customers like you fans, followers or whatever else you want to call them. I mean, it is the business we’re in, so we’d be stupid not to, right? Well, the fact is it didn’t work out as well as we’d hoped. For a start, although we easily generated over 3,000 new friends (3,154 to be exact) on our test page in less than four days, the result of targeted promotion to them went much more poorly than we’d expected. And when I say poorly, it was like throwing liquid feces at potential customers and hoping they’d buy.
OK, so you want to know how to get more Google Plus followers then do you? Well like the curator of the Museum of Unfunny Comedians said to Daniel Tosh, “You’ve come to the right place!” No but seriously, there’s nothing funny about that man…
Anyway, I’m not going to clutter this article up any further with what you’ve come to love from my astounding wit (modest, right?) and I’ll just get on with giving you some tips on what you’re here to learn.
(Oh, and be sure to enter your name and email below for some juicy secrets on this new form of social marketing…)
1. Harvest Them From Your Existing Sources
To anyone that knows even the smallest microbial morsel about marketing, this should have been the first obvious thing to do. Namely, tell everyone on your Facebook, Twitter, newsletter, blog, carrier pigeon network, knitting group and anywhere else that you already have influence that you’re now on Google Plus. I shouldn’t have to explain to you why this is a good idea, but in short it’s a fast, free and easy way to begin your following on this site. And to be honest, I can’t really think of any reason why you wouldn’t do this immediately. So go on, go do it!
2. How To Get More Google Plus Followers With Blog Posts
The second way of how to get more followers on Google plus is again quite simple, but I guarantee will be overlooked by many. If you look above in this post, you’ll notice that we have embedded our email newsletter sign-up form. For us at uSocial, this is a great way to increase our subscriber-base while offering something extra to our readers. Using this principle, you can easily learn how to get more followers on Google Plus by embedding commands (a simple link that tells people to join your ‘circle’) either at the start, middle or end of your posts. This way you’ll harvest a lot more of a following just as an alien harvests farts from us unwilling humans.
3. Offer Incentives
A great way of getting more followers to your Google Plus account is by offering something as a gift, bonus or incentive to those people who are already in your circles. Us Internet-dwelling humans are like children sometimes and if we think we’re missing out on something because we’re not a part of something, we’ll want in big time. To take advantage of this, offer something along the lines of a free giveaway to those who are in your circles on Plus (no, your granny’s ‘vintage’ underwear won’t do) which will encourage others to be a part. Just make sure you’re broadcasting this through your other channels and you’ll be sure to boost your following.
4. Paid Advertising
Once you’ve exhausted all your other methods that you’ve learned in this article on how to get more followers on Google Plus, you can fall back on some traditional advertising like promoting your Plus account through things like Adsense within your niche. While I can guarantee this won’t pay dividends like the other stuff I’ve mentioned here, rest assured that if you’re out of options this will work. Of course, you will require some cash to throw around in order to go down this path so it won’t be feasible for everyone.
OK, so before we finish up here I’d like to mention that although Google’s new social site is definitely going to be a great promotional channel to add to your repertoire, the fact of the matter is that as yet it simply cannot compete with the likes of Facebook. So if you are using the ‘BIG FB’ for marketing (and you should be), be sure to check out some of our Facebook marketing services to help you get the edge in social media.
And that’s the end of this short but hopefully entertaining (and oh-so-informative) article on how to get more followers on Google Plus. Be sure to share it if you liked it, leave a comment below, or sign up to our newsletter below for some extra goodies!
So, wanting to learn how to make money on Facebook huh? Well, as the owner of a pancake establishment would say to someone with a serious craving for pancakes might say, “You’ve come to the right place!”
It’s no understatement to say that there are literally billions of dollars to be made on Facebook, this point made even truer by the fact this site now eclipses the mighty ogre that is Google when it comes to pure traffic. Despite this however, most folk are still content with promoting stuff through SEO, Adwords and just about anything else that the ‘Big G’ controls.
And as you’re not a fool and reading this post, I’m going to share with you the fastest and easiest ways to begin making some easy coin online.
There are two types of people on Tumblr: teenage emo-hipster artists with an over-inflated view on the importance of fashion in society, and people who are using the platform for marketing, or getting their name out there.
While these two groups of Tumblrphiles are quite different creatures, there is one thing that both have in common. That is, the strong desire to learn how to get more Tumblr followers. For the emo-hipsters this is merely an ego-driven thing, but for marketers it’s definitely more to do with the bottom line — earning more of those tasty, tasty dollars.
Now as we all know that hipsters cannot read, I’m guessing you’re a marketer or webpreneur looking to boost your following to promote your site, blog or product. And the good thing for you is that this information will work very well for you indeed.
But it doesn’t matter who you are, let’s take a look at the best ways to get more Tumblr followers and how you can do it fast.
While you may know they’re now called ‘likes’, the simple fact is that the vast majority of the online populace still refers to the whole process of how to get more Facebook fans, which is why I’ve titled this post to reflect that. But anyway, let’s not get into an argument about it…
So, how do you find out how to get more fans on Facebook without ending up with people who have no interest in your product or service, or just a bunch of emo teenagers who’ll never click on anything you post anyway because that would just be sooooooo conformist?
There are loads of ways of increasing your fan-base on the largest social site in the world, and while I could go on in this post for literally hours about every tried-and-true method I know works, this post is simply going to be about three short yet totally-guaranteed ways of getting them the fastest way possible. So without any further ado, let’s get to the reading, shall we?
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1. Buy Facebook Fans
We’re going to start with probably the easiest and most effective of all the methods I know of and that’s simply to get more Facebook fans by buying the little suckers. Now for some people this may seem a little alien, but to put it as the ‘kids’ say it, “don’t knock it until you’ve tried it” — whatever that means. You can now buy fans in packages starting at 1000 from uSocial.net and as we were the first company in the world to provide this service (Google it if you don’t believe me), we know what we’re doing better than anyone else. And as we are still the only company in the world who offers fans which can be targeted in almost any interest group, industry or country, we’re also the smartest choice. Is that blatant enough advertising for you? So, go and check out our FB marketing services, or move on to the next point…
If you’re doing any kind of marketing on Twitter, the simple fact is that at some point you’ll want to know how to get more Twitter followers to increase the base of people you’re marketing to and in the end, earn loads more cash. After all, that’s why we’re doing this, right?
Short of simply buying followers from a company like uSocial.net, there are a few other ways you may wish to look into when it comes to this kind of thing, though some work much better than others. In this article, I’m going to share with you the finer points of getting up your follower numbers a bit of a rise and which points work better than others.
1. Buy Twitter Followers
The first (and probably easiest way of them all) to get more Twitter followers is simply to buy them. While for some people this may sound like a bit of an unnatural way of going about things, for those that do go ahead with this tactic, most are pleasantly surprised. You see, as long as you’re using a company like uSocial.net who delivers targeted and real followers to your account which can be broken up into either industry, interests or even geographic location such as country or even more specific as state and city, you’re going to be getting a solid potential customer base which you can use in future marketing. Not only that, it’s by far the easiest of all the methods I’m going to explain here, so for those of you with some lazy cash lying around, it might be time to invest.
2. Referrals
Have you got any kind of site, blog or page which is getting traffic? Then now might be the time to begin using it as a means of getting more followers on Twitter. It’s extremely easy to mention to your readers or site visitors that they should go and check out your company on Twitter and become a follower, which is a fantastic way to facilitate customer retention and future orders. Also, if you haven’t yet added a Facebook or Twitter button to your website, you’re missing out on a great deal of traffic and possible followers. So go on, hop to it if you haven’t already.
3. How To Get More Twitter Followers with Follow-Backs
While this is definitely not a preferred method of how to get more Twitter followers, some people swear by it so it’s worth a mention here. Basically, this is the process of going on Twitter and mass-following as many people as you can in the hope that a percentage of those will follow you back. This used to work great in the past and some people have reported growth in the thousands per day using this tactic, however Twitter have cracked down on it severely and you’d honestly be lucky if you could achieve a few hundred a day now, if that. It does work, but not great.
4. Getting Mentioned
Probably the next most effective way of getting more Twitter followers other than simply buying them in targeted blocks, getting mentioned by someone famous in one of their tweets works, though is extremely hard to achieve unless you know a lot of celebrities personally. That’s not to say it’s impossible, however. Many people have achieved this simply doing nothing other than sending multiple @replies to the tweets of some of the top names on Twitter and when mentioned, usually results in a lot of that celebrity’s followers adding themselves to your profile. The main downside to this is that you’ll have to invest a serious amount of time into this practice without any guarantee of success. For most people, this will make it not worthwhile at all.
So there you have it, four surefire ways of how to get more Twitter followers — now get out there and use it!
Whether you’ve gained them by being mentioned in one of Kim Kardashian’s tweets, grew them naturally or bought them from us, if you’re on Twitter you will likely have some followers. No matter how many followers you might have, there’s probably one thing you may not have considered: how much those little digital connections are worth to you.
And no, I’m not talking about on a sentimental emotional level, I’m talking about how much they could be worth to you in cold hard simoleans. Why would you want to know this? Well, there are loads of people who will buy Twitter accounts which are proven to convert sales, or you may just want to know because you’re a pedantic, money-hungry accountant-type who needs to know how everything in your experience is worth.
Whatever the reason, in this post we’re going to take an in-depth look at how much your Twitter followers could be worth, and what that could mean to you.
