Fastest Ways to Gain International Recognition and Followership
No matter what you do…
Everyone and anyone have their language. These languages are unique and expressed daily in what we do.
The language I refer to are not verbal, but those things you love doing even when you are not paid a dime. All individuals are unique to their dealings, and no two people do things exactly the same way. But just a few become distinguished.
The idea of this post wouldn’t be on how you can become an expert in what you do, but how whatever you love doing can become bankable to receive global attention.
Recently, the queue around getting featured in movies, radio or T.V stations has been eliminated, and anyone can become celebrity without a series of auditions. But I will not address entertainment related growth aspirations alone.
Let’s say I would share what you need to do with the social medias and more to stand remarkably tall above your equals. If you will try not minding where you are, or the belief you have about yourself, it is definitely going to get results eventually. Irrespective of whether you see what you do as a profession or passion. You have an awaiting audience.
Step-by-Step Guide on How you can attract and engage International Followers
1. Understand yourself
You really need to understand yourself, to realize what you really want.
Things will never fall into place for you because you have just ‘wished’ for it.
Understanding yourself will sustain you even when you have not gained the attention you really need.
Here are some tips that can help you understand yourself and also help you understand what you should go for when presented with career choices:
· Define your purpose: You are not meant for everything and everything isn’t meant for you.
If you decide to follow passion, a dream or a profession, ask, “why am I doing this?”
Investigate yourself and the path you eventually decide to follow. Do not stop with asking, also try as much as you can to give an answer.
Write it on a notepad, sticky note, tablet, or your phone — write it where you can always see it.
Doing all that will keep you in check, and would become the pillow to lay head on in the days when it seems like you do not understand what you are doing anymore.
· Are you happy or you struggle? Assess yourself to know if what you are doing comes with ease or you struggle a lot. If you are ‘happy’, it simply tells that you do what you are doing with ease and would do that for a long while, if otherwise, then you have the answer.
You would definitely not master anything if you cannot understand yourself and how you respond to either tasks or responsibilities.
Understanding yourself would cause others to understand what you offer when the time comes.
“Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.”
― Ja A. Jahannes
2. It starts from your Immediate Environment
What you are doing to make a difference in the immediate environment matters and counts a lot. This is like a glimpse of what the global space will look like.
There has been no story known about people who achieved global shots that didn’t start out from where they were at a time.
Think of that thing which you have decided to do, and how you can use it in solving a need for your immediate environment.
People are watching, they are listening and they are also talking about what you are doing. Either you think of it as doing it for fun or to add value.
“What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they feel your intervention in their times of need will forever be remembered.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Watchwords
When there are needs for people who offer what you do, they can always remember you. That shows you are on your way to global reach.
3. Improve on what you think you know
Keep on exploring other methods to get better at what you have always done or known. Register for either free or paid courses, get certified, attend workshops and network with people.
That thing you think you know how to do very well can be done in many other ways. You just have to find them out — especially seeing how others do that same thing.
Let your knowledge about what you do or think you know not be the same as it was yesterday. Knowledge or skill not improved dies gradually.
In a short time, you wouldn’t achieve the results you achieved earlier with the same skills set or level of knowledge have always had.
Be deliberate with development and improvement.
“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
― Lao Tse
4. Do it Differently
Do you know the best ways to do some things differently?
Learn different approaches of doing that same thing, then combine the knowledge when doing that one thing.
If people perceive you as someone who does the same thing but with different approaches, what it tells is that you are a professional. People can always fall in love with what you are doing and would hardly argue with you in that field.
That’s why gaining knowledge is necessary for learning how to do things differently.
5. Add value to what you do
Yes, you really need to appreciate what you are doing and never give an impression that it is an alternative means. What I mean as an alternative means is, ‘I am doing this now because I have nothing else I can do.’
Nobody will respect that thing when you present it as an offer, and everyone would think you are a joke wasting time.
Do not be all things to all men, be known for something. The more you prove to be overly skilled, the more people would lose the glimpse of the value which you can truly offer. No matter how you can do all other things, you are just very good at one. Stick to that and build on it.
Never talk down on what you are doing — either by act or speech. Make everybody feel like that is the only promising career path they would ever wish they have chosen.
6. Persist!
Achieving the statutes you wish to attain is not a onetime thing or something you get with trial effort. You would have to persist in it if you really want it.
That does not mean you may not outrightly fail, or sometimes everything appearing as if you are crazy and doing nothing. But just persist in it.
One thing I have learnt over the last four years of my professional practice is that whatever you desire, must try you to really know how you want that thing.
You must learn to persist in the things that you really need that will make you gain the type of international repute you seek.
7. Join Communities
Look out for communities with similar interests. This will eventually help for your faster recognition on a global scale. Aside for global recognition, it will boost your career growth.
Relating with people with similar passion or interests helps you understand how to translate what you will call your ‘gifts’ to practical use, which can give you a name and fame.
First, you will be challenged, and second, it would draw out inner strength from you.
You can also do this by searching for online communities of similar interest. And this would take me to my next point.
8. Explore Internet
Let me say this here, this point is the priority point you should sink into your head.
The online space is where anyone can gain both local and international followership by paying no one for airtime or queueing to get auditioned. No need for interviews of any sort or tests. Just you, doing your thing your own way. This is what I call, “working on your own terms”.
You can start for free and pay as you earn. I would always say this, ‘being on the internet does not mean overnight success’, you still have to figure things out and become consistent with it.
The key platforms to sell yourself readily are YouTube, Instagram, Tiktok, Twitter and fairly LindkedIn.
Why I would resort to these platforms is because the world is in high consumption of videos and image contents than ever. These videos don’t have to be long before you make your point. It could be a simple monologue or skits — direct to the idea of the video.
But if you can make tutorial videos related to what you know and do, please create YouTube channel. YouTube channel portrays you as an authority in your field and gives a visual feel of the message you want to pass.
Instagram and TikTok are more like a short video thing. Many people have gained loyal followers from Instagram especially.
TikTok is a budding social site, but it is coming up quickly and also influencing those in the younger demography. If what you do is comedy and also younger people targeted. TikTok is a platform to give time.
Twitter is a world power tool. It’s a platform with some levels of intellectuals and where many resort to discover what is happening around them. Twitter is my favourite influence tool; I don’t know whether if it is because I get real-time news of happenings. Sometimes if I want to do a spam like trend, I use the daily hashtags to attract traffic. Explore Twitter if you are into content, a creator, or a character.
LindkedIn is an intellectual platform. Strictly for professional offers and rarely should you use it if you are into entertainment. I do little of LindkedIn anyway, but the sure thing with using this platform is that people will look out for the professional service you offer, and they will find you so long as your profile is optimized.
Use accurate keywords of your professional experience, appear professional in content and your profile picture — preferably waist-top shot in a plain background with a smile on your face.
You can also use the tags.
Understand this thing across all these social media platforms;
· You need to be consistent with contents.
· Use keywords that people search.
· Your posts should engage because the more people react to it, the more the search engine makes the post viral.
· Hashtags makes posts trends.
They all may have their basis for their algorithm rank, but these factors I mentioned above are common amongst them from my observation.
Why use social media? This is where the people are. Remember, where the people are, that’s where the money and the influence lie.
Join online forums that are around what you do. Give value there, and if people notice you, followership is sure.
If you are on web platforms that are not the social media groups, fill in the handle's username you use more. That way, you can grow your followership naturally.
Your journey to global impact and attention is way more than mere wishes and dreams. It is big and requires enough work. Which only you can work out.
Invest all you need to today and command the influence you can tomorrow. Once you try what I shared in this post, your journey to global recognition is at hand.
“My father said this to me: “Israelmore, if you don’t make any impact on earth, you will die before you die. But if you impress hearts with what you do, you still live even after you are gone”
― Israelmore Ayivor
