Do The 10 Simple hacks And You'll Be TikTok Famous
Welcome to another article from the Chino, in this article I will give you the 10 most important steps or if you would like to call them hacks on how you can grow your TikTok account affectively, it's not all about spending money on advertisements, imagine spending money on advertisements and still not getting any proper loyal-based followers, here are some steps you can do to grow your TikTok account for free.
1. Nail Down Your Specific Niche
When it comes to creating or building any account, always focus on your niche. You can create funny, educational, or informational videos; as long as you stick to one topic, you will attract a loyal following.
2. Optimize Your Profile & Bio
You want to make it clear to the viewers when they come to your profile and they read your bio and see your videos or posts, you essentially want people to know what they are subscribing to. Since this is TikTok you want to capture the viewers attention in the first 3-5 seconds so don't post a 1 minutes video when the viewer needs to watch it all the way to the end to be like "oh, that's amazing, let me watch that again" unless the video you have has unique moments in every 3-5 seconds of that clip, a good example are those videos where the creator is like "Never let them know your next move"/
3. Master the 3-Second Visual & Verbal Hook
Just like in step 2, it takes you roughly 3-5 seconds to capture the viewers attention, they'll either love the lighting of your video or the bold texts on the screen will look appealing if you are explaining something or if there are subtitles on the video on whatever the video is about, if it's a video sharing a certain product that you are not talking in, you get the idea, to capture the viewers attention you need to do more than just propose something you need to promote it in a way that the viewer wants to see more, this all boils down to, the fonts, lighting, asking intriguing questions, giving wicked facts, you name it, anything that'll make you stand out from the rest of the crowd on the TikTok platform.
4. Ride Trending Sounds & Audio Clips Early
We all know the difference videos that are backed by white-noise and videos that have a nice cool vibe in the background, the second thing to look for is what is trending at the time of your upload and see if that sound has been trending for a week or so, that means content creators are still using it which means there is more of a chance for the viewers to come across your video. What you need to look out for is the sound control, you don't want the music to be over-powering your original videos so the viewers can not hear you and you do not want the background music/sound to be too low to people can hardly hear it, it's that perfect balance that makes the great mix.
5. Leverage TikTok Search Optimization (SEO)
Use the TikTok optimization to your advantage, when posting your videos or posts make sure you use relevant words that perfectly describe your post and what's happening in it, there is more of a change for people to come across your video that are searching for that particular topic and they will stay if they find that what you posted is interesting from the beginning of the video. When you use hashtags in specific you have the option to choose from 3-5 hashtags, I urge you to never ever use random "Trending" hashtags, it honestly isn't about spamming and what time you uploaded the video, it sort of has a sense but think of it this way, you won't sell hot-dogs to a customer that is look for fish n chips.
6. Post Daily with a Sustainable Cadence
Do you remember how I said you don't need long videos or posts when creating content on TikTok, well here is a step you can add onto that, instead of posting a single full video, break it into 3 separate parts, but don't just make the single full video then split it up, that way it'll look like you're just click-baiting, break down your video and have a beginning and an end on each of the 3-4 videos then have set times or schedule them to be uploaded a 3-4 different times during the day, for surely not a single person is going to be spending their time on TikTok 24/7 meaning you will definitely come across new viewers are certain times let's say that you did gain a few followers from the first 2 posts and they come back around on the 3rd or 4th video boosting your views and engagement for you when they drop a like and comment, what's important is that you do not lose momentum and to stay consistent, anyone can post for 2-3 days then just stop, it's a full time job being a content creator.
7. Utilize Duets, Stitches, and Native Tools
Once you start out you don't want to be commenting on random creators videos, you want to connect with like-minded creators and viewers so what you should be doing instead of just commenting on videos that on your "for you" page is that you search for videos that are apart of your niche or if you did use the correct hashtags that are for your niche you may go to your video and click on a hashtag from one of your videos and engage with creators and you can also engage with viewers, but don't self-promote, creators don't like that and with the new algorithm TikTok won't allow self-promotion on other creators videos also, it's like owning a burger store and then walking into another persons burger store and telling their customers to go and taste your burgers even if it's for free, if the customers have some decency they will not like that and the person making bread from their shop will definitely not like that. Point of the story is connect with creators and viewers that are creating similar videos and posts that relate with your niche.
8. Drive Comment Section Engagement
There are a few ways you can boost comment engagement on your videos, the first one is ending your videos or having a question somewhere in your video with an open-ended questions or a statement that encourages discussion between you and your viewers, the second most common way to boost the stream time on your posts/videos is to respond to each one of your viewers but not like a bot but in a meaningful manner, everyone knows what a single emoji response means or if a simple "Yeah" (Paraphrasing) is, it's not really affective is what I'm trying to tell you, maybe you can give them a tiny bit more information in the comment in response to what the video said even if they didn't ask a question and agreed with what you or what the video stated, that could also grow boost time on your video/posts.
9. Go LIVE Regularly
Once you gain 1000 followers on TikTok you real time connection/networking with your viewers starts, you can go live and connect with your viewers but don't take this lightly but you definitely won't connect with a local fanbase if you just keep going live a random times, you need to pick a certain time that you can commit to for a full week straight, I can guarantee that you will start to gain followers by day 3 and they will look forward to your live-streams when that time comes and that means them viewers are also available during those times, let's say you do this for 2 weeks straight and then you need to change your stream time due to your work-schedule then you continue with your new stream time for a week or two, once you are back on your initial stream time and you notice your old viewers connect to your live-streams you will see how much they actually look forward to your live streams because let's been honest, not everyone wants to leave their house or unfortunate for some people but they do not have the time or energy by the time they get back home whether it's from school or work because their commute takes so long, some people only look for that online interaction because it's easy to lock in and then out, or there could be a scenario where viewers are looking for a group to hang-out with, i mean, it all depends on what type of content you are promoting but once you keep logging in at certain times and streaming, if you notice that your followers are from your local area you may even host a meet-up and create cool-artsy contents with them.
10. Analyze Data and Double Down on Winners
If would like to know which type of viewers you are attracting the most, you may simply switch to a business account and monitor your video/posts metrics, you will see what age group and genders you are capturing the most, meaning who is more interested in whatever your posts are about, you will also see which nations are locking into your videos, you may be posting in Germany and you will notice your fan-base are mostly from Australia or India. Once you identify your top %10-%20 best performing videos it will be great to keep creating content on those topics or genres, this method will also help you engage with more people because that means the viewers that are boosting your content to %10-%20 are actually sharing your content with their friends or on their social media accounts.
In The End Does It Even Matter?
Once you try these steps for at least 30 days I would kindly like to ask you to come back to this article and drop a comment on if you seen how affective these steps are and if they actually helped you gain new followers or have more engagement on your videos, if there are any steps that I missed kindly let me know in the comment section and I'll look into them and give them a go myself.
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