"Emma Norton" video interview

Emma Norton, widely known as emmanorts, is a popular figure on TikTok (and Instagram). 

She is a multifaceted individual who has a deep passion for various forms of self-expression. 

In response to the 2020 pandemic, Emma chose to channel her love for makeup, storytelling, dancing, and acting through social media platforms. 

Her dedication and creativity have resulted in the creation of more than 1,000 captivating videos, which have attracted a substantial following of 9 million fans.

16 Years

This blog you are reading now has been online for 16 years!

To be exact that is 5870 days

It was created back in Oct 3, 2007☝

Building an audience with Instagram

Success does not come overnight on Instagram

there are no miracle secrets that will propulse you to the top of the influencers sphere

but there are ways to climb the top - these are not secret, but discipline

First you need to find your niche (comics, cyber, cosplay, watercolor, acrylics, modeling, photography, landscape, aquatics, sea landscape, mountain, sports, bodybuilding, cosmetics and so on) and once you're set - keep that direction and post good content.

What will make your instagram account pop in the middle of all these daily posts - (there are close to 100 million photos and videos shared on Instagram each day)

The biggest tip would be to post daily, and post frequently - one post each day and all days around 2pm GMT 

Then tag people you know - then tag influencers, if they are nice, they will post your photo in their story - that will help immensely

Then comment in the other photos of the people in the same niche, industry where you are working

After that, tweak your content a bit - according to the reaction of the public

Check your statistics, engage with the commenters, engage via direct messages (but do not harass anyone).

Be nice, kind and post good content daily - just one post

Avoid spamming, posting like 10 photos in a row and then nothing for a week - that won't work.

Follow closely trends, and the news - see what hashtag is trending, and try to be in the pioneers wave - once the trend is dying, find a new trend.

Collaborate as much as possible in cool projects - there are some hashtags that will open 'challenges' daily for fun content - one of them is #dtiys (draw it your style) if you are a graphic artist, this might help you get new viewers.

A social media that pays you : tsu.co

Talk about coincidence just a few days after I posted "Why an alternative to facebook is needed" mentioning ello.ch as the hot new facebook alternative... tsu.co was launched.

tsu.co

As ello.co motto was about counteracting facebook tendency to sell his users information to marketers - tsu.co goes for the revenue aspect.

Basically tsu.co rises the question to facebook users who are "content creators" (such as artists and celebrities) and ask them this simple question :

"How much money do you directly make by having x followers on your facebook page?"

Because the answer is most certainly : none

You can be a cosplayer like Jessica Nigri and have made nearly 3 Millions Followers and receive nothing from facebook advertising money.

Which is to be fair, a bit like working in an office where all your visitors are buying stuffs from your landlord while they are in the building and you don't make any money (you just don't pay rent).

Or like a radio station that would use many songs and never give any money back to the song artists...

tsu.co is here to mend a fundamental issue on the internet related to content creator and their lack of revenue, they want to distribute some money back to them : the "content creator" - because let's face it, we don't go to facebook to look at an empty website with ads, we are going for the posts of people we follow, or our friend's timeline and to post cool links.

Some facts

Basically what you are doing on facebook, you can do on tsu.co (except they don't have an IRC, or groups, or pages, just tags, and messages) ; the big change is that tsu.co pays you back (and they provide some analytics for the visits).

Best of 2 worlds

Now the smart way to play the social media game is to setup your tsu.co account so it will be used as a proxy to post on facebook - and your twitter account.

The feeling you will have after a while browsing tsu.co is like walking through a shopping mall with people you don't really know. Many people are there to make money, and will send you friend requests, but they mean nothing, the only thing they want is a follow-back, visit their profile and that you will share their posts (because that's more or less how they make money).

Searching on tsu.co sucks, you are not supposed to look back for an old post, but to keep posting and posting (until you have filled your quotas).