What is a “Social Community?”

In this Module, we break down the simplest trick to leave the “Beginner Pit” on X.

Does this sound like you?

• 5-10 likes a post

• Amazing writing, with laughable reach

• Great value… That brings in 0 followers.

Now, why the hell is this happening?

Simple - you’re pretending people actually care about your writing.

Let’s cut straight to the chase:

1. Followers or not

2. If you haven’t made a name for yourself

3. You can’t expect people to know or care about you from the start.

Simply put: You don’t start with any fans

Until you “build” a community, you can’t expect the foundation of engagement that’s required for a post to actually go viral.

We do this by building a “social community”

In other words, we treat X like Telegram or Discord instead of a social media platform…

And it works.

Let’s break it down!

We use the term social community because you’re building a group of like-minded creators on X.

It is a mix of Leadership & Connection to build the foundation.

In short, we want to make a group in our X DMs with our friends. From here, we will all share our content, engage with each other, share tips, and build a deeper relationship.

The goal?

Build a strong relationship with 10-15 people who are active and like + comment on our tweets.

You don’t need to beg people to like 4 like anymore → It’s just expected (like a friend group)

You don’t need to engage with 100 people a day, only your close circle (unless you want to)

We build our community in 2 different ways.

1. Active engagement to connect.
   
   We want to engage with people who engage with us. On our content, OR, when we do engagement on someone else's content.
   
   When they engage with us, we reach out in the DMs. (Connection doesn’t happen in the replies).

   From here, we get to know them. Who they are, what they’re building. We then share synergies and invite them to join our creator group to grow together.

How to do engagement?

Don’t be a yes-man. Provide value, or provide your point of view on a tweet.

The #1 rule? DO NOT FORCE IT.

You will grow better without needless engagement.

If you can’t relate, leave it!

You really don’t need to do a lot to see an increase in engagement.

25 times a day, when you feel like it, is plenty to see an increase in reach.

(Unless it’s within your social community, then you can give more generic replies if it’s harder to relate to)

2. Create a CTA post.
   
   Our second option is to create a post explaining what we want to do.
   
   If it goes viral, you can completely skip point 1, and grow FAST.
   
   Have them engage with you, then reach out and confirm with them that they wanna join the group!

Here’s how I did it:

https://x.com/Ares_Sprout/status/1804746285138022784

I then created a follow-up post to attract even more participants:

https://x.com/Ares_Sprout/status/1807237706248081884

As you can tell… I got more than enough interest.

We don’t stop at 10-15 people.

Generally, we want to hit around 40-50 active creators to build a really strong foundation.

We do this by creating multiple groups, and keeping them small and intimate.

And then, we optimize these often by removing inactive people and adding in our new connections!

Eventually, you don’t even need to use these to try and get engagement.