10 Ways to Cultivate Relationships

1. Create a blog which you will post content to help engage your followers to post, read or subscribe to, be sure to have a subscribe button or a call to action button to your tips, e-zine. I would recommend Constant Contact or Aweber or MailChimp with this. Better yet, hop on over to Michael Hartzell’s list of e-mail vendors.

2. Comment on other people’s blogs or posting with a link to your site/blog. Be sure it’s a good comment – don’t bother saying “Great post.” or “I liked this” post more than this, why was it a great post for you, why did you like it. If you don’t it will show up as spam. You don’t want spam to follow you, nor do you want to ruin your reputation.

3. Join groups on Linkedin & Facebook that are of interest to you, post comments, content and helpful tips with a link to your site.

4. Write Articles or Tips and submit them to article directories – with your Author profile, something about you and a link to your site/blog.

5. Invite people to follow you from Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin to where you want them to go to. Build your lists.

6. Invite people to your Friendfeed Account - they subscribe to your Twitter feeds. It’s one of my favorite apps.

7. Get to know your local press, write press releases that is news related. Make friends with journalists.

8. Create video’s post them up on YouTube and get followers that way. Check out my channel then create your own. If I can do it, so can you.


9. Cultivate relationships with your followers, post on their profiles, walls, share personal and business related topics, send them tips.

10. Select key words, pick your niche and cultivate relationships with those people as well – say you join a Art Marketing group – when you post an answer or a question and you like what they say invite them to your Linkedin Network or your Facebook page to become a fan. You have to give them a reason to ask people to visit your Page or to become a fan. If it’s just to say come visit my website – my question is why? What’s the “WHY” or WIN for me?

Tagged as: facebook, followers, Relationships, twitter