[00:00:00] Hey there, and welcome to the micro influencer podcast. This is Blake. I am the host of the show. I have hosted several podcasts in the past, and I am excited to get back into it on my own, and I'm going to be interviewing people like you. I want a podcast that's made for people. By people that are actually going through the same things as the audience.[00:00:31] So the purpose of this is that you're going to learn how to grow your audience, grow your business, market a product, build out your services. You're going to learn how to do. All these things and so many more in between and outside of that from people that are either currently doing it or have just done it as opposed to people.[00:00:52] You know, we're not going to have Gary Vaynerchuk on here anytime soon talking about how you can build your social media following because [00:01:00] he's got amazing advice and you should follow people like that. But the reality is that if you follow people that are just a level above you or on the same level, even, you'll learn so much more in that moment than if you try to hold yourself to a standard of somebody that has had a personal videographer for 15 years.[00:01:18] We're going to learn together from experts, from amateurs, from, you know, anybody that has something to teach based on failure or experiments or successes in influence. So whether it's, you know, building a website and getting traffic there, or growing a social media following so many different subjects, real people are going to be helping out you real people.[00:01:42] So today. Now that we understand what this is going to be, I want to start things off there. Was this typically going to be an interview podcast, but I will often do solo episodes when I have really tactical advice that's top of [00:02:00] mind, and today I want to start this off with. Three tips to grow your social media.[00:02:05] And again, this is to grow realistically and sustainably. This is not three tips to explode your Instagram by doing follow on follow or other things that technically work for getting your vanity metrics up, but they don't drive business and they're not sustainable. Meaning if you just shut off the program or stop paying for it, it's not going to work.[00:02:25] We're going to talk about things that are real, which means they're going to take more work and more time. And if you're okay with that. This is for you, and it's going to work as we work together. So for today, three tips to grow on social media. If you're trying to fast track your Facebook, larger fire, LinkedIn, grow your gram, take on Twitter, whatever you're trying to do, I have three actionable tips today that will help you grow.[00:02:54]. You can trust me on these things because I feel a lot in my experiments to learn [00:03:00] these things and I'm still learning them. So again, if you look me up on social media anywhere. You're going to see that I'm not a huge influencer, and that is by design that I'm doing this podcast right now because I have every bit as much to learn, and this is a great platform for me to learn on.[00:03:16] Not just regurgitate information, but I also sometimes learn things that I want to share with other people, just like I do that from others. So here they are. Number one, steal your competitors' gold. Mine. So let's say for example, you're in a boring industry. You're trying to build a following in like insurance or finance or marketing, something that normal people consider boring.[00:03:42] Now, what I want you to do is take a full week to examine other players in this space. Compile notes on what everyone else is doing, whether you want to do it in a spreadsheet. I love spreadsheets. I think it's a really clean way to gather information. Basically, keep a journal of any patterns that you [00:04:00] notice that seem to be working for other people.[00:04:02] Right now, I want you to focus on the positive. What's working for these...