Are You Desperate to Increase Social Media Engagement?

I have been there folks. I know what posting to an audience of crickets feels like. I learned a few simple secrets quickly, though, and now I have increased my engagement and grown my business ventures quickly.

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Social Media Engagement: 4 ExclusiveTips

How Many Tribes Should You Join?

I belong to 4 tribes. I share in a few more tribes. Anything more and I feel a bit too overwhelmed. You can only share what you can physically share each day. By joining too many tribes you lessen your impact.

Example; I sit near the top of CommentDX each week when voting time comes around. Suresh suggests each member vote in - or out - individuals in the tribe based on their level of participation. I actively participate, leaving comments on as many posts as possible and sharing content across all networks available.

This is a really helpful, supportive and nurturing tribe because many members participate. If few people pitched in and helped one another the tribe would be a waste of time, a free for all, with people posting links all day long and never taking a moment to share content.

How many tribes do you believe is too many? I like Triberr, the CommentDX tribe, the Automated Twitter Syndication Tribe and the MLM Blog Commenting Tribe. Yep, the last 3 tribes all work through Facebook. I also contribute to  few tribes on Google Plus, with 1 group seeing an active number of folks who want to make the collective grow.

Beyond a few tribes, though, you risk losing the impact factor, and the sense of community, that joining and being an active participant in tribes can provide you with. I see this on Triberr and I am guilty of not participating myself. Sure I share a ton of content but sometimes I neglect leaving comments, on Triberr, or on blogs. Participating is where the experience is at, this is when you begin to make an impact and see serious benefits.

How many tribes should you join?

3 Tips for Increasing Blog Subscribers

Too many bloggers starve for subscribers. If you run a valuable, niche-specific blog, finding loyal readers should be no sweat. Unfortunately, bloggers receive much misinformation via social networking sites and supposed authority blogs.

Newbie bloggers intending to get rich quick crave tools and tricks to boost their subscriber counts, torpedoing their readership in the process. Forget these quick, poor fixes. Focus on a few fundamental steps to grow your blog subscriber count slowly and steadily.

Write

Write more to attract more readers, target more prospects and boost your subscriber count. Churning out posts improves your writing and selling skills quickly. Take time to study top shelf bloggers; these folks grew large, responsive readerships for good reasons.

By writing more you create by habit. Once you can create 1, 2 or 5 posts daily, writing posts becomes routine. Putting out more content boosts your page views and subscriber count immediately. Write. Write some more.

Network Each Day

Meet more people to expand your presence and attract more subscribers. Promote individuals. Help people grow their venture to grow your venture. If you can patiently network each and every day subscribers will make a beeline for your blog.

Picture this scenario; you meet 20 people daily. Promote each one of these individuals through multiple social media channels and social networking sites. If only 5 people return the kind act, promoting your content through sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, you can expand your presence quickly and boost your subscriber count.

Include Multiple Calls to Action on Your Blog

Tell readers to sign up for your list. I cannot stress how being brutally explicit boosts your subscriber count. By telling people to take a specific, clear-cut call to action more people take the call to action.

Post calls pre-post, post-post and once in your sidebar via an opt-in form or banner ad. Ask people to take the next step a few times to influence readers to take that step, boost your subscriber count and grow your business venture.