“You go from little amount of followers like a few hundred followers to a few thousand followers by doing giveaways the three things you can give away is usually the knowledge the product or the service so thing is you basically say like to get this you need to follow me you need to leave a comment you need to read box right and then I will send it to you like in the DMs and basically because of the giveaways I was able to go maybe like from 500 followers to like 5K followers in a couple of months by doing maybe like three giveaways in total.”

Three Giveaways Took His X Account From 500 To 5,000 Followers

To bootstrap his X audience past the cold-start phase, Mark ran giveaways requiring follow, comment, and repost in exchange for knowledge, product, or service. Three giveaways took him from 500 to 5K followers in a couple of months — the base he later needed for his free-work campaigns.