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How to attract more than 10 million TikTok followers in 5 months

by RJ Shara | Jun 3, 2020 | Startups | 0 comments

Adam Guild Factor Adam Guild is a development marketing expert and the creator of Placepull. More posts by this contributor

Founders who share insights can construct market trust at scale Envision going from zero followers to 10,000,000 +fans in less than five months. I

have actually viewed someone do exactly that. My sibling Topper Guild is currently reaping the benefits of popularity: People stop him in the street for photos and he’s been used countless dollars to promote brand names and befriend celebrities. In less than 150 days, he went from being a high school sophomore to earning more than a Harvard MBA and working with his idols like boxer Ryan Garcia. In time, he also leveraged his following to score more than 100,000,000 views for direct-to-consumer brands like FashionNova and NUGGS. How did he do it? And how would he recommend you? Customer startups can use these very same strategies, techniques and concepts to grow rapidly on TikTok, which is not nearly as saturated as Instagram and offers faster growth rates.

Let’s dive right into the principles he used to grow (that you can use too).

Do what works

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