5 Ways to appreciate your followers

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Dear Steemians

One of the challenges for any new steemians is getting an audience. Like any social media, its really hard to get someone to follow you unless they know you personally or they see your posts.

This post is not about how to get more followers , however these are ways you could try to appreciate your followers as getting them is the 1st hurdle ... retaining them is another thing all together.

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Everyone loses followers at some point .. some more then others.

Here are just 3 reasons as to why you could lose your followers

1. They are follow bots which will follow as many accounts as possible and then unfollow once they reach a high number of their own followers then will sell resteem services.

2. They followed you however you have been resteeming so much of other authors work and they can't find your own posts, so they followed authors which you resteem and unfollow you instead

3. They just don't like your content anymore

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5 ways to appreciate your followers

Some marketing expert told me once that retaining a client is harder yet more rewarding in comparison of obtaining a new one. So I guess followers are literally your audience and they do have certain expectations to keep them interested. Here are 5 ways which may help you, everyone has their own methods however these are some of the methods I use or try to use which I do hope its effective :-

1. Keep your feed clean ... and only resteem content which you think which would be beneficial for your followers. If you keep on resteeming pictures of cats , the none cat lover may find it really boring after awhile. Remember, resteeming is actually promoting another authors blog, which is encouraged however your followers wants to see YOUR blogs that's why they follow you.

2. Visit your frequent follower's blog and engage , at times we forget to reciprocate those who always follow our blogs and take their time to comment on our posts. Once you touch a few thousand followers it does become a huge challenge however try your best to visit as many followers as your time allows.

3. Keep Upvoting great comments , followers who comments and then get rewarded by your upvotes are really appreciative. I try to upvote as much as possible however due to many voted post a day ... its pretty hard to keep upvotes high on comments. But you should try it out ... it really works well and new followers will also feel appreciated that you have upvoted them for their time and views.

4. Be consistent with your blogs If you are an artist one day and then talk about rocket science the next and then you are a motivator / trainer and then a chef and then a opera singer .... Its great that you are multi-talented but your followers may only like your artistry. Try to focus only on 1 or perhaps 2 .. and grow into the rest over time ...

5. Be Truthful If you say you are going to run a contest ... then RUN the contest or let your followers know why you are not running it. When you say that you are going to reward someone / something .. then just do it. Gaining trust is important and it should always be maintained as a priority.

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Summary

I'm no expert in social media however these are just few of the fundamentals of any social media. The biggest difference is that the reward received from your followers has a real value.

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