Neil Patel explains how to get 70K views without followers by replying to popular threads. The strategy works when you're helpful and relevant to the conversation. Consistency and timing matter more than your follower count.
You should go and see what threads are really popular in your space and just go and respond. And I don't know why too many people don't do that. It's an easy way to generate more revenue through social and everyone's like, oh, I don't have the followers, it's not going to work. You don't need any followers. You just need to ride the coattails of other popular threads and leave a response that's helpful. If you notice here, Syed's response, he talked about a product, He talked about how it's a better deal, if I'm not mistaken, than the others, and it's reliable, and it wasn't too aggressive, but it was very relevant. If someone was talking about using AI and how AI is changing the world, and then he's just like, oh, you should check out this email solution, that's too aggressive, right? And that's not related. Syed's not doing that. But the example that Eric shared is a prime example of what people should be doing with social media to just drive more sales. If you don't have followers. So, Neil, you know what that's called?
Responding to participating in the community? No, it's called reply guy. So a reply guy is someone that just sits on like X or LinkedIn, for example, just replies to relevant posts. So being a reply guy in the beginning when you have no followers, to Neil's point, will get you a lot of views. And like sometimes I would reply to someone and like someone's like, oh, this is how I'm using AI. And I think this is a couple months ago when my X account wasn't really doing much. I responded and whenever I replied to someone, I would get like 40,000, 50,000, 70,000 views or so. But whenever I posted something from scratch, and like this is months ago, I would barely crack like 500 views or so. Now it's a different story because I think the algorithm's moving in my favor. And now when I post it, but like I had to be that reply guy initially and then I had to be a lot more consistent and then you start to get the reach.
