How will you get new followers if you’re not on social media?
Someone asked that recently.
They also said they reach about 10% of their followers on Instagram.
Think of the energy required to get 100 new followers on any social media platform. ONE HUNDRED. You need a hit, a nice mention, some serious work.
Then, when you send out your next big post to 100 new followers, just 10 of them will see it.
You now need 1,000 new followers to reach 100 of them.
What about 10 new email subscribers?
These might be people who follow you on Instagram but aren’t on the platform very often. You can DM folks who like a bunch of your posts and send them the link to subscribe.
If you sell stuff online, you can easily contact those people and ask them to subscribe to your newsletter (or add this as an opt-in during checkout).
You could probably email 10 people this week who love your work and send them the link to subscribe.
Heck, this is probably 50 people now if you do all three of those.
Maybe “just” half of those people click the link to sign up.
That’s still 25 people you can reach 100% of the time.
That’s more than twice the number of people you can reach if you get 100 new social media followers.
And it can be done in a few days, with a few emails.
Small effort, lasting results.