Men, is it hard to grow a social media following or what. Last week I tried being active on twitter and instagram and I have to admit it wasn’t what I expected. In my mind I was thinking of all these cool captions that would blow people’s minds and I would get a ton of engagement and followers. To my surprise, crickets! I mean the captions weren’t that good and I didn’t have a lot of people following me so.
Tragic as that may have been, I learnt a thing or two. You have to have a following to get engagements. And you can’t get a following if you don’t follow people or follow back those who’ve already followed you. Social media has changed massively. Gone are the days when you would post something and place a hashtag at the end then get stupid likes and shares even without followers. I guess I’ll have to go it another way. Or maybe social media ain’t my thing, I don’t know I’ll have to find out.
Anyways, last week was a bit eventful. I sent a couple of prospects cold DMs on twitter, maybe not a couple, it was like 40-50 or thereabout. I got 2 replys. One wanted me to help them with a logo, for free of course. The other invited me to apply for an internship program she was running. Sadly it was only available for folks in the US, bummer! So for the one who wanted a logo I went ahead and made 2 logos, he ended up choosing one which he was happy with. He even tweeted about it. That was nice of him.
On Fiverr I’m still hearing crickets but not to lose hope, we’ll crack it. Also if you were thinking about starting a gig on Fiverr just know I’ve been at it for 3 months now without a single order. That should get you critically analysing all those videos and blogs that say it’s easy to start. Although again I might have chosen the “wrong” gig, who knows!
Good news, I got 2 favorites on redbubble last week, how cool is that. No sales as of now but again I have a good feeling about it so fingers crossed. I’ll still be uploading designs waiting for that first sale.
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