WEBVTT 00:00.370 --> 00:01.180 In this video. 00:01.180 --> 00:07.420 Let's cover another way to get followers and to get a little bit of visibility, and that is to start 00:07.450 --> 00:09.730 networking with other people in your niche. 00:09.730 --> 00:14.590 So I'm going to click on Discover on the Bottom and in the Discover tab, we're going to discover. 00:14.800 --> 00:18.880 In my case, it's music, obviously, because it's a music thing and I'm going to go into the hashtags 00:18.880 --> 00:24.060 and I'm going to go into maybe like one of the hashtags that I used when I posted. 00:24.070 --> 00:29.200 So for example, like music life, and then I'm going to see what everybody else is doing. 00:29.200 --> 00:36.730 So let's say this first person, you can like their stuff, you can comment on their stuff, right? 00:36.730 --> 00:43.450 Like I would say something like, Great playing and it warms it warmed my heart or something like that. 00:43.450 --> 00:45.910 I'm not going to say that now because this is just an example. 00:45.910 --> 00:53.350 But your job is to write a really nice comment that they will see and they will like and when they will 00:53.350 --> 00:57.100 see and they will like, they will click on you and like, who is this person? 00:57.100 --> 01:00.350 And they might actually follow you. 01:00.350 --> 01:05.150 And you can heart, heart, heart, everybody else, they'll see, Oh, somebody's heart with my stuff 01:05.150 --> 01:09.140 and maybe they'll see you and maybe they'll click on you and maybe they'll navigate to your profile. 01:09.140 --> 01:16.670 So commenting and liking stuff, that's really good because that sends an alert to this person. 01:16.670 --> 01:22.430 Now, if this person has a lot of people who are following them, they're probably not responding to 01:22.430 --> 01:23.180 every alert. 01:23.180 --> 01:28.730 But if they're a relative beginner on TikTok, they'll see every alert and especially every nice message 01:28.730 --> 01:30.260 will be special to them. 01:30.380 --> 01:32.270 So you can also add them to favorites. 01:32.270 --> 01:35.780 And like this person, he has like 42,000 followers. 01:36.080 --> 01:38.780 And you see, he he only follows five people. 01:38.780 --> 01:41.390 So he's probably there's no chance he's going to follow me back. 01:41.390 --> 01:44.090 So for him, it wouldn't be a good investment of time. 01:44.090 --> 01:44.840 But that's okay. 01:44.840 --> 01:47.450 You go, you know the song and you see what they're doing. 01:47.450 --> 01:48.230 Same process. 01:48.230 --> 01:49.460 You click on them. 01:49.490 --> 01:49.910 Okay? 01:49.910 --> 01:51.470 They don't have a lot of followers. 01:51.470 --> 01:53.840 They're like a more or less regular person. 01:53.840 --> 01:57.710 And so if you follow them and you start networking with them, okay, great. 01:57.710 --> 02:03.290 And then you can just keep going down, down, down, down and it's always good to network with people 02:03.290 --> 02:09.200 who are in your industry, not only for the immediate promotion, but also for longer term benefits, 02:09.200 --> 02:13.100 because you can learn from each other, you can promote each other, and that's actually what you would 02:13.100 --> 02:18.740 do is once you start promoting and sharing their stuff, they might share your stuff, they might comment 02:18.740 --> 02:21.170 on your stuff, you might comment on their stuff. 02:21.170 --> 02:22.910 So that's what you do. 02:22.910 --> 02:24.680 So here's a guy that's kind of like me, right? 02:24.710 --> 02:25.670 Guy with a guitar. 02:25.700 --> 02:28.760 Nice, Certainly. 02:29.270 --> 02:30.770 And let's see what he's doing. 02:30.770 --> 02:33.710 He has under a thousand followers, so that's cool. 02:33.710 --> 02:37.670 So this kind of person would be a good person for me to network with because we have the same music 02:37.670 --> 02:39.260 now because we have the same music. 02:39.260 --> 02:42.170 If I click on him, All right, I can do this, stop this. 02:42.170 --> 02:47.570 I can actually take a look at what hashtags he's using and he's using. 02:47.600 --> 02:52.250 See, for me, there are some hashtags that I would use. 02:52.250 --> 02:54.710 Maybe he has the hashtag singing. 02:54.890 --> 02:56.120 Okay, that's a cool one for me. 02:56.120 --> 02:58.610 I would write that down and acoustic. 02:58.610 --> 03:02.240 I would write that down because for me, those are good hashtags. 03:02.240 --> 03:03.020 That's what I do. 03:03.020 --> 03:09.200 That's that's way closer to my niche than other hashtags that I've been using so far, like general 03:09.200 --> 03:11.390 music ones, because those would be more specific. 03:11.390 --> 03:19.880 So going around liking, commenting and networking with people is a good way to build up your initial 03:19.880 --> 03:26.480 few followers and even supporters who have affinity towards you precisely because you've been nice to 03:26.480 --> 03:31.610 them at first and then they'll hopefully share your stuff like your stuff. 03:31.610 --> 03:36.860 And those are the people who are going to be more likely to give all your future videos extra life. 03:36.860 --> 03:38.660 Now of course, this takes a little bit of time. 03:38.660 --> 03:44.780 It's it's a relatively annoying process, but it is a thing that you can do on day one.