By Neil Patel

Snapchat is an invaluable tool for growing just about any business or personal brand. To use it well, you need to get more Snapchat friends.

While Instagram is awesome for showcasing products and edited “best versions,” Snapchat kills it at being completely natural.

It doesn’t hurt that 293 million people are active on that platform every single day.

Snapchat users spend an average of 30+ minutes on the app daily, opening it more than 25 times in a single day.

That level of engagement is almost unheard of.

The social platform may take a bunch of heat from critics who compare it to Instagram’s astonishing 1 billion users, but they’re dead wrong.

While the two platforms may be similar, they can be used in dramatically different ways.

Snapchat isn’t Instagram, and Instagram isn’t Snapchat.

How to Get More Snapchat Friends and Followers

Here’s how to leverage Snapchat for business and personal branding to get your first 1,000 followers in 30 days.

1. Invite Contacts and Share Your QR Code on Social and Email

The first step in gaining easy followers on Snapchat is leveraging your existing contacts and connections.

These will be the easiest followers to get because they know you and are likely to follow you right back.

Since Snapchat connects to your phone, you can easily allow it to access your contacts and social media platforms.

That means you can instantly add selected contacts or Facebook friends with just a few clicks.

When starting up your Snapchat, head to your profile and click on the “Add Friends” button:

From here, select the “Contacts” menu and click “Find Friends” to allow Snapchat access to your contacts and social profiles.

Then navigate back to “Add Friends.” In this section, Snapchat will have a long, curated list of everyone you can add with one tap.

Now just sit back, relax and wait for your friends and family to follow you back.

With this simple move, you should be able to secure a decent amount of followers to get the ball rolling.

Next, you can use the existing followers you have on any other social platforms to spread awareness of your new Snapchat profile.

One of my favorite examples of this technique being perfected is from Gary Vaynerchuk. On his Twitter, he’s amassed over 1.6 million followers.

While that amount of followers won’t be the case for everyone, other social platforms where you have a following are a great place to find Snapchat followers.

Why? Because people don’t just use one social platform. They use multiple. In fact, the average person has more than 8 social media accounts.

Chances are, your followers on Twitter, Facebook, …read more

Source:: Kiss Metrics Blog

Author: Aaron