{"id":226,"date":"2012-01-31T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:45:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:45:29","slug":"3-ways-to-get-locals-to-follow-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2012\/01\/3-ways-to-get-locals-to-follow-you.html","title":{"rendered":"3 ways to get locals to follow you online"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tourism groups and small businesses both struggle with a common question: once we get online, how do we get local people to follow, like or friend us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Online friends join local friends for a
tweetup in Alva.\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Here are 3 quick ideas on how to get connected with the locals:<\/p>\n

1. Talk about local issues.<\/b> When you talk about the topics that local people care about, they are more likely to engage with you.<\/p>\n

2. Tell local people about it.<\/b> Talk in person, talk with them online, make business cards for your blog and Twitter and hand them out to locals.<\/p>\n

3. Invite locals to participate.<\/b> Ask them to guest post. Quote them in a story. Use their story, with their permission to illustrate a point.<\/p>\n

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How do you connect with locals?<\/p>\n

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Tourism groups and small businesses both struggle with a common question: once we get online, how do we get local people to follow, like or friend us? Online friends join local friends for atweetup in Alva.\u00a0 Here are 3 quick ideas on how to get connected with the locals: 1. Talk about local issues. When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,8,11,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7081,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/7081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}