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Don't Buy Followers: Your Business Will Suffer · Closing Sales in Nigeria - Sales For The Nigerian Business Person: The Sales and Marketing Blueprint

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  Today on the podcast, we are going to be looking at whether
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  it is right to buy followers on social media, whether that can
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  help you to boost your sales, when we should buy followers, if
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  we should buy followers. We're going to be looking at all
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  those things today to see if I can help you grow your business.
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  Because if you're buying follower just for vanity's sake,
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  you just want, you know, let people see, say you have 50
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  million followers. You're just wasting your time.
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  So if we're going to be buying followers, whether it is a good
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  idea, it is something that we should do because we have a
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  definite concrete business goal or strategy that we're working
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  towards is not about looking pretty.
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  So hello and welcome. My name is Tavishima Agedi.
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  I'm the host of the podcast Making today's recording at
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  Home. As usual, there's going to be
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  some noise in the background. Now the goal of this podcast is
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  solving business problems. I'm not usually teaching people
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  how to buy followers, but we're going to tackle that today.
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  So if this is your jam, excuse me, if this is your jam, then
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  subscribe on Spotify, YouTube, Apple or any player of your
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  choice. And if you'd love to connect,
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  you can call send me a text message via WhatsApp message on
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  08064662140. Now to the question to the Coco
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  of the D, should we be buying followers for some of you who've
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  been listening to this podcast since like TT, you said,
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  Tavishma, you've answered this question before.
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  And yes, you're correct, I have. But The thing is, you know, we
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  have over 1200 episodes so far and counting because today's on,
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  we still add to the number. There's no way for everybody to
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  consume every single thing that I have put out so far.
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  And there'll always be people who'll be asking some kind of
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  questions. So there's some topics that I
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  have to keep bringing up every now and again because I think
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  they said this topic is settled, but then somebody will ask
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  questions. I'll be like, so people are
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  still asking. So in 2025, my brothers and
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  sisters, people are still asking about buying followers.
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  So it is one of my clients now that we're discussing and we're
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  about to run some campaigns. And so the guy has some, some
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  problems and this is the problem, or rather this is how
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  I, I diagnosed the problem. There's some people who want to
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  run advertisements to your Instagram handle.
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  But unfortunately, unfortunately, unfortunately,
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  yeah, Niger where social media people.
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  So people rate your social media, they rank your social
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  media before they do business with you.
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  So if your social media is not on point, if it's not properly
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  optimized, if it doesn't look like you're alive and healthy
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  and you're doing well in business, it affects.
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  Let me give an example those one time that my wife and I needed
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  to buy something, I can't remember what it was both
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  students related. And so she open 100 and I was
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  like perfect, let's buy from these guys.
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  And my wife said no, I said why? She said because they're no
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  longer in business. I said, how do you know that?
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  She said the Last Post was last year 4 months ago.
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  Now in my own head as a business owner, I know that because the
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  guiding hasn't posted for four months, it doesn't mean he's out
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  of business because life happens.
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  Maybe business has been good, orders have been, you know,
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  going on maybe to get her to travel or maybe mom, she was
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  sick or you know, God forbid. But you know, these things
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  happen or you know, it can be any number of things that
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  somebody doesn't post for four months.
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  But The thing is from a customer's point of view, and
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  The thing is, apart from my wife, I've seen another person
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  do this before, like angle. These people say no, that the
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  person is out of business or white person hasn't posted in
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  six months. So unfortunately, that's just
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  how Nigel people are. We look at these kind of things.
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  People read you. So you haven't posted in three
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  months. It's a problem or, oh, I won't
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  try this guy because the Instagram is just new or they've
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  been posted, but they haven't posted plenty.
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  I mean, like, you never can tell.
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  So it's usually a bad idea to run an advertisement and the
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  advertisement takes people back to your Instagram handle.
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  But then you've not been posting frequently, you've not posted
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  recently or you don't been posting good quality stuff.
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  So usually it's a problem. So there's some people that
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  they're about run advertisement and I say, let me see your
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  handle by the time we open it. I say not now, not now, not now.
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  Let's calm down first before we send people to this Instagram
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  handle. We suppose, you know, tweak one
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  or two things, suppose correct one or two things so that when
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  people come and they see those because there's no point in
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  spending money sending people to Instagram handle only for them
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  to just bounce off immediately. That's a waste of money.
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  So for those of you who are in the SEO space, I think that's
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  what you call is it bounce off rate.
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  I'll be something like that. When people come to your website
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  and then immediately they see they don't click anything, they
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  don't disappear. I think that's called the bounce
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  off rate. So the whole idea is that it's
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  not a good idea for 100 people to open your website and then
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  next thing 80 of them just go away.
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  They didn't do anything at all. That's bad.
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  But then if 20 people come to your website, 15 of them click
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  around, ten of them click on About Us.
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  Then from the tender click on About Us, maybe 5 actually send
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  you a message. You know, that is the kind of
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  thing we're looking for. Somebody should land on the
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  website, somebody should land on the Instagram, somebody should
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  land on the whatever, and they should take another step.
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  So there's a way that we suppose optimize all these online assets
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  to make it look nice, make it look sweet before we do that.
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  So that's the problem. The guy was wrong about this
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  man. I said, you know, ideally this
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  advertisement thing, you know, if all makes sense, especially
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  since we know who the ICP is, that's the ideal customer
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  profile or target audience. We can just run this thing and
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  target them straight and then bring them back to us by So
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  suppose fix one or two things like you know what, you're new
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  in the business, other people, you know their own day for a
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  while, you know, did not establish, do not get a
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  reputation, but you're brand new and it shows.
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  All you have here is brand new, you know the number of posts
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  that you have, you know, you know to because his posts are
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  not much, you know. So I say we need to cure that.
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  So I said, you know what advertisement Let's let's do
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  some other time. They do some other time guessing
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  no problem. But then as we're talking and
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  laughing about it, I say, you know what?
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  I know you won't like this, but let me just read hypothetical.
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  I say hypothetical. No problem.
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  Now make with the hypotheticate. Let's become up with ideas.
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  He said alpha, what if I buy followers?
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  I say wrong move, wrong move, wrong move, wrong move.
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  No, no, no, no, we don't buy followers.
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  And he said, hey, I know we don't buy followers, but explain
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  to me why don't we buy followers?
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  Now there could be lots of reasons, but these are the 2
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  main reasons why I tell people, no, don't buy followers #1 There
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  used to be an old saying back then, I can't remember what they
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  call it, whether is something factory bought factory or be
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  follower factory or something anyway.
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  But in those days, maybe like 10 years ago, if you paid for
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  followers, what will happen is they will get the contacts
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  details of people who actually exist in other parts of the
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  world. You know, Ukraine, Poland,
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  India, Ghana, you know, Nigeria, wherever.
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  But these people are real. And then they get all these
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  people, whether it is really existing people or whether it is
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  bots or whether it is whatever or fake handle, all of them will
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  just follow you. And then the beginning, it looks
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  as if everything is good because somebody will open your
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  Instagram profile, they'll see 15,000,000 followers.
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  They'll say, ah, this thing looks healthy, this guy's
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  profile looks robust, or this baby profile looks robust.
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  But this is the problem. And listen carefully.
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  You can never get business from paid followers.
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  Never because the people who do business with you are people who
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  have a want or a need that your product or your service
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  provides. They are interested.
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  Something has happened that has given a sense of urgency and
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  then they can afford it and then they will go ahead and say are
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  you available, Are you free? How much, How soon can you come?
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  Can you send me 5 to Lagos? Can you send me 12 to Abuja?
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  Can you, how much is delivery charge to Sokoto?
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  You know, all those questions, you will never have those
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  conversations with paid followers, never because by
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  definition, these are people who don't give an F about you.
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  There's just somebody in Nigeria, in Ghana, in Poland, in
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  India, in Afghanistan in by the way, some of these things also
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  exist in America. So you Americans, you also as in
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  all of us, you know, we all join, we can, you know, nobody
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  only pass people that are paid followers that also exist in
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  America. That's the Americans have tried
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  to scam me you know so everybody when this together all have seen
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  and are falling short of the glory of God, we all have
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  sinned. So there's no country in
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  particular. So by definition those people
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  that are not interested their own is you say I should follow
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  this person. OK, you pay me.
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  OK, how much are you paying me? OK, I'll follow give me my
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  money. That's all person is not
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  interested. You will never get business from
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  those people. So you go and pay for 15,000,000
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  followers. Forget you're not getting
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  business from those people at all 0 because there was no
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  organic reason, there was no underlying reason, no
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  fundamental reasons why these people followed you in the 1st
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  place. None.
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  So that's why I say we don't buy followers just for vanity
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  metric. The whole point of having
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  15,000,000 followers is we hope that over time, 2%, three
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  percent, 5%, ten percent, 20% of those 15,000,000 people will
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  send me Adm to say, oh boy, how far are you free?
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  Can you deliver to Sokoto? I'm in Poland, Can you deliver
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  to Poland or I'm in America? Can you deliver to America?
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  They now start calculating your head, correct?
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  This guy will pay hard currency. Have I set up my GTB dumb
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  account so that I can collect money in dollars?
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  That is the kind of conversation we want to have.
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  When you open your Instagram and you see that you have 15,000,000
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  followers, that's what we're hoping for.
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  So don't be buying followers for vanity's sake. 15,000,000
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  followers for 15,000,000 followers sake, you know, equals
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  to 0. So there's no point.
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  That's the reason #1 why we don't buy followers.
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  And that's what I'm making today's podcast episode.
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  In case there's some of you that are still thinking of buying
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  followers. Or don't, I beg, don't waste
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  your money. Instead of wasting your money,
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  just reach out to me, ask me for my account, and then send me
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  that money. Just bless my life because at
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  least if you send the money to me, you're doing some good in
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  the world. You help my situation going to
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  go and buy 15,000,000 followers on Instagram is not going to do
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  anybody good at all. And those people that are
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  sending the money to in Poland or Afghanistan or in America or
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  in Russia or wherever, you know, those who are criminals, you
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  know they don't need your money. So if you have money to waste,
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  call your boy. I give my phone number at the
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  beginning at the end of every episode, say my brother, I see
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  your ministry, I want to bless you.
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  I am sending you a good 500K now.
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  Let me know when you have received credit alert and I'll
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  pray for you. If you send me like 1.5 M, I'll
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  pray for you and your family. So instead of wasting money and
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  buying followers, just send it to me instead.
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  I give my account details if you want to.
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  So we don't buy followers for that reason #2 Another reason
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  why we don't buy followers is because it hurts.
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  It hurts our algorithmic reach. I repeat, it hurts our
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  algorithmic reach because social media is governed by algorithms.
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  Algorithms are just tiny little robots that exist in cyberspace
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  that go around checking is this content good?
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  Is this content good? This one is good.
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  Let me show it to somebody. This one is not bad.
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  Let me deeper prioritize it. Now one of the ways that
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  algorithms decide which content to promote and what not to
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  promote is they see the way that people are engaging with
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  organicing. That is the reason why if Kanye
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  West and and Kim Kardashian decide to reconcile and maybe
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  can Kim Kardashian is pregnant with triplets.
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  If my wife sees that kind of thing, she will send it to me
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  because can you get Kanye West? Not my guy.
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  You know, me and Kanye West were like 5 or 6, you know, I don't
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  know to do. But you know, based on when I
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  was born and the way Kanye West was on the come up back then,
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  you know, Rockefeller and everything.
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  Like I feel the guy. So he's my fellow.
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  So my wife will see it and send it to me.
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  I'll say Kanye West, Kim, they don't reconcile.
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  And then I will send nothing to my brother.
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  My brother will see it and say, hey, is it true?
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  I've been a gossip. My brother will send it to
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  somebody. Now as people are sending,
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  sending, sending, the algorithms will say people are feeling this
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  kind of Westing. Let me start to promote this
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  kind of Westing to more and more and more people.
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  That is how things begin to trend because the algorithm will
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  see that ah, somebody clicked on this, somebody sent this,
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  somebody shared on this. Then of course people will be
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  commenting. People say Kim no, Kanye is the
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  devil, don't reconcile and I personal comment and say she
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  don't drop ballet don't happen. Another person who come and say,
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  Kanye West, you didn't learn the first time that all your
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  problems started when you married into this family.
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  You didn't learn you want to die again, another personal comment
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  and say you haven't seen that in this family.
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  Any man that marries into this family, they never succeed.
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  Once you marry into this family is your career downfall you
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  suicide. So the algorithm are seen are
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  people are commenting, commenting, commenting, sharing,
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  sharing, sharing as in the power up and down all these kind of
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  stuff. Then the algorithm will say, OK,
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  this thing is valuable. They'll now be sharing it to
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  other people. Now when you buy followers, even
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  if you buy 15,000,020 million followers, these people will
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  never comment on the stuff you do facts.
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  They will never comment. Never.
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  The algorithm will be watching and then they will see that
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  every single time this guy posts, even though this guy has
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  15,000,000 followers, every single time he posts, only two
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  people comment. The algorithm will say it means
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  this content is not good. Every single time this guy
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  posts. Deprioritize this post.
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  The Kanye West post will prioritize that one because
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  folks, they engage this one. Nobody's engaging.
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  Deprioritize that thing. You are killing your algorithmic
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  reach every single time you buy followers.
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  Please do. Not this year, in 2025.
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  If you're listening in 2035 and the business landscape has
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  changed, then OK, go ahead and buy your followers.
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  Well, please, IN2025I beg, even if you're listening to this
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  thing in 2026, I don't think things would have changed that
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  much. Do not buy followers, I beg.
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  There might be other reasons, but for this two in particular,
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  do not buy followers because number one, you will then you
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  will never get business from any of those paid followers.
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  If you happen to be somebody you pay for 15,000,000 followers and
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  it turned out luckily that some more than do business with you.
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  Please, I give my phone number at the beginning and at the end
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  of every episode reach out to me.
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  Tell me, let me come and share your experience so that we can
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  learn how to buy followers. Maybe you you'll be able to tell
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  us how to buy followers the right way.
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  In fact, that's how who titled that episode Buy Followers the
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  Right Way. So you show us the way how to
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  buy followers. But until then, you can't make
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  money from buying followers. And then #2 the content you're
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  even posting, you will kill your reach algorithmically.
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  So please, please and please, you know me.
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  I'm this my guy, my client. You know, we were freestyling,
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  you know, hypothetically. You just come up with ideas.
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  It's OK, hypothetically. But for this one, I had to shut
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  it down. But this is not even a hypo or
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  something. The way you use hypo to kill
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  disease and to kill germs and to bleach out impurities, that's
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  the same way we should use hypo and kill this hypothetically
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  thing. Just hypo this idea.
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  Just kill it, bleach it, wash it, rinse it, disinfect it,
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  flush it. Get rid of that idea.
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  As of today, in 2025, there's no business case for buying bots.
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  However, for, for how I put it, unethical actors in the, in the
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  online space, you know, people who like to fudge, you know,
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  like when it comes to election campaigns and, you know, things
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  like that, you know, you're trying to make your political
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  opponent look good or you're trying to make your case look
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  better than it is, you know, so buying bot activity and buying
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  stuff like that when it comes to all those kinds of activities.
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  And that one is the nature of the business.
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  Yeah, go ahead and I'll be and be buying because you, you know
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  what it is that you're doing. But for those of us who are
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  legitimate business people, there's no case that you can
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  make for buying bots in 2025 or in 2026 or in 2027.
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  Maybe in 2035, maybe there might be a case, but today there's
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  none. So let me bring today's episode
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  to a close. So that's all for today.
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  Remember, if you'd love to connect, if you've been buying
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  followers and you want to tell me how, I'd love to learn.
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  So call, send a text message or WhatsApp message on 08064662140.
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  Thank you very much for your time and attention.
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  I'll catch you next time. Same place in your headphones or
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  in your speakers. However you blast this podcast.
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  And by the way, if you're finding value from this thing, I
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  beg share the love. Tell other people about it so
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  that your boy will blow as well. Because if you guys make me
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  desperate and I wake up one day, one day I say, you know what me
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  self? Let me begin the by follower.
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  So don't allow me to fall into temptation.
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  Share the show. I'll catch you guys next time.