HOW TO GET YOUR FIRST 1,000 FOLLOWERS

27 Apr 2023

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A short monologue advising beginners to use Instagram and short-form vertical video to rapidly build an audience and early customers. Emphasizes practical production basics (vertical phone orientation, good lighting, audible audio), starting with a strong hook, and creating content that answers clients' problems.

For someone starting out right now, what platform are you most bullish on and how would you go about getting your first thousand views, first thousand followers, first thousand likes, whatever that metric of success is? Yeah. So I would start with Instagram. Honestly, I found that Instagram is the most valuable for people have a business that they want to grow or some product to sell because of the direct messaging feature. And I think you can get your first thousand followers, your first thousand people in the audience fastest right now on Instagram over every other platform just by creating short form video. So what that means is like turn your phone vertically, make sure there's good light, make sure people can hear you and provide value. Start with a good hook. If you have a business, what are the problems your clients face? How do you answer those? How do you solve those problems? Those individually are the topics that you can produce.