Your first 1,000 followers in 30 days

In the 30 days to 16 September my posts were seen 298,042 times, up 472%, by 100,204 people, and 477 of them followed me. No ads, no following to speak of, and nothing clever. That is my own Threads insights screen below, not a graphic I made.

It didn't start like that. For 8 months I stuck at 280 followers, because I hadn't nailed my process. Then I started talking to my actual ideal audience, in what I posted and in the conversations underneath it, and the follows and the reach started.

A follower is just somebody you can reach again for nothing, and that's the whole of why this matters. Etsy won't give you one. The woman who finds you in the search box has never heard of you, won't remember you tomorrow, and Etsy keeps her name and her email address. You get a review.

And then the half that nothing else covers, because it all stops dead at the follow. Somebody taps follow, which is a lovely feeling, and then usually nothing happens at all. So the other half of this is what to do in the first few minutes after, and how you get them onto your list where you can reach them on a day that suits you.

This is my proven method, the one I've used to grow my own account over the past month. No bots, no fake accounts, just real conversations with other handmade businesses.

I can't promise you my exact numbers, because I don't know your shop. What I can hand you is the process that produced them, which is my own, tested on somebody else's shop, and written down in the order you do it.

You don't need anything else of mine first. If you've never heard of me until this minute, this is the one I'd start with.