Don't Buy Followers: Your Business Will Suffer

Today on the podcast, we are going to be looking at whether it is right to buy followers on social media, whether that can help you to boost your sales, when we should buy followers, if we should buy followers. We're going to be looking at all those things today to see if I can help you grow your business. Because if you're buying follower just for vanity's sake, you just want, you know, let people see, say you have 50

million followers. You're just wasting your time. So if we're going to be buying followers, whether it is a good idea, it is something that we should do because we have a definite concrete business goal or strategy that we're working towards is not about looking pretty. So hello and welcome. My name is Tavishima Agedi. I'm the host of the podcast Making today's recording at Home. As usual, there's going to be some noise in the background.

Now the goal of this podcast is solving business problems. I'm not usually teaching people how to buy followers, but we're going to tackle that today. So if this is your jam, excuse me, if this is your jam, then subscribe on Spotify, YouTube, Apple or any player of your choice. And if you'd love to connect, you can call send me a text message via WhatsApp message on 08064662140. Now to the question to the Coco of the D, should we be buying followers for some of you who've been listening to this podcast since like TT, you said,

Tavishma, you've answered this question before. And yes, you're correct, I have. But The thing is, you know, we have over 1200 episodes so far and counting because today's on, we still add to the number. There's no way for everybody to consume every single thing that I have put out so far. And there'll always be people who'll be asking some kind of questions. So there's some topics that I have to keep bringing up every now and again because I think they said this topic is settled,

but then somebody will ask questions. I'll be like, so people are still asking. So in 2025, my brothers and sisters, people are still asking about buying followers. So it is one of my clients now that we're discussing and we're about to run some campaigns. And so the guy has some, some problems and this is the problem, or rather this is how I, I diagnosed the problem. There's some people who want to run advertisements to your Instagram handle.

But unfortunately, unfortunately, unfortunately, yeah, Niger where social media people. So people rate your social media, they rank your social media before they do business with you. So if your social media is not on point, if it's not properly optimized, if it doesn't look like you're alive and healthy and you're doing well in business, it affects. Let me give an example those one time that my wife and I needed to buy something, I can't remember what it was both students related.

And so she open 100 and I was like perfect, let's buy from these guys. And my wife said no, I said why? She said because they're no longer in business. I said, how do you know that? She said the Last Post was last year 4 months ago. Now in my own head as a business owner, I know that because the guiding hasn't posted for four months, it doesn't mean he's out of business because life happens. Maybe business has been good,

orders have been, you know, going on maybe to get her to travel or maybe mom, she was sick or you know, God forbid. But you know, these things happen or you know, it can be any number of things that somebody doesn't post for four months. But The thing is from a customer's point of view, and The thing is, apart from my wife, I've seen another person do this before, like angle. These people say no, that the person is out of business or white person hasn't posted in six months.

So unfortunately, that's just how Nigel people are. We look at these kind of things. People read you. So you haven't posted in three months. It's a problem or, oh, I won't try this guy because the Instagram is just new or they've been posted, but they haven't posted plenty. I mean, like, you never can tell. So it's usually a bad idea to run an advertisement and the advertisement takes people back to your Instagram handle.

But then you've not been posting frequently, you've not posted recently or you don't been posting good quality stuff. So usually it's a problem. So there's some people that they're about run advertisement and I say, let me see your handle by the time we open it. I say not now, not now, not now. Let's calm down first before we send people to this Instagram handle. We suppose, you know, tweak one or two things, suppose correct one or two things so that when people come and they see those because there's no point in spending money sending people to Instagram handle only for them to just bounce off immediately.

That's a waste of money. So for those of you who are in the SEO space, I think that's what you call is it bounce off rate. I'll be something like that. When people come to your website and then immediately they see they don't click anything, they don't disappear. I think that's called the bounce off rate. So the whole idea is that it's not a good idea for 100 people to open your website and then next thing 80 of them just go away.

They didn't do anything at all. That's bad. But then if 20 people come to your website, 15 of them click around, ten of them click on About Us. Then from the tender click on About Us, maybe 5 actually send you a message. You know, that is the kind of thing we're looking for. Somebody should land on the website, somebody should land on the Instagram, somebody should land on the whatever, and they should take another step.

So there's a way that we suppose optimize all these online assets to make it look nice, make it look sweet before we do that. So that's the problem. The guy was wrong about this man. I said, you know, ideally this advertisement thing, you know, if all makes sense, especially since we know who the ICP is, that's the ideal customer profile or target audience. We can just run this thing and target them straight and then bring them back to us by So suppose fix one or two things like you know what, you're new in the business, other people,

you know their own day for a while, you know, did not establish, do not get a reputation, but you're brand new and it shows. All you have here is brand new, you know the number of posts that you have, you know, you know to because his posts are not much, you know. So I say we need to cure that. So I said, you know what advertisement Let's let's do some other time. They do some other time guessing no problem. But then as we're talking and laughing about it, I say, you know what?

I know you won't like this, but let me just read hypothetical. I say hypothetical. No problem. Now make with the hypotheticate. Let's become up with ideas. He said alpha, what if I buy followers? I say wrong move, wrong move, wrong move, wrong move. No, no, no, no, we don't buy followers. And he said, hey, I know we don't buy followers, but explain to me why don't we buy followers? Now there could be lots of reasons, but these are the 2

main reasons why I tell people, no, don't buy followers #1 There used to be an old saying back then, I can't remember what they call it, whether is something factory bought factory or be follower factory or something anyway. But in those days, maybe like 10 years ago, if you paid for followers, what will happen is they will get the contacts details of people who actually exist in other parts of the world. You know, Ukraine, Poland,

India, Ghana, you know, Nigeria, wherever. But these people are real. And then they get all these people, whether it is really existing people or whether it is bots or whether it is whatever or fake handle, all of them will just follow you. And then the beginning, it looks as if everything is good because somebody will open your Instagram profile, they'll see 15,000,000 followers. They'll say, ah, this thing looks healthy, this guy's profile looks robust, or this baby profile looks robust.

But this is the problem. And listen carefully. You can never get business from paid followers. Never because the people who do business with you are people who have a want or a need that your product or your service provides. They are interested. Something has happened that has given a sense of urgency and then they can afford it and then they will go ahead and say are you available, Are you free? How much, How soon can you come?

Can you send me 5 to Lagos? Can you send me 12 to Abuja? Can you, how much is delivery charge to Sokoto? You know, all those questions, you will never have those conversations with paid followers, never because by definition, these are people who don't give an F about you. There's just somebody in Nigeria, in Ghana, in Poland, in India, in Afghanistan in by the way, some of these things also exist in America. So you Americans, you also as in all of us, you know, we all join, we can, you know, nobody only pass people that are paid followers that also exist in America.

That's the Americans have tried to scam me you know so everybody when this together all have seen and are falling short of the glory of God, we all have sinned. So there's no country in particular. So by definition those people that are not interested their own is you say I should follow this person. OK, you pay me. OK, how much are you paying me? OK, I'll follow give me my money. That's all person is not interested. You will never get business from those people.

So you go and pay for 15,000,000 followers. Forget you're not getting business from those people at all 0 because there was no organic reason, there was no underlying reason, no fundamental reasons why these people followed you in the 1st place. None. So that's why I say we don't buy followers just for vanity metric. The whole point of having 15,000,000 followers is we hope that over time, 2%, three percent, 5%, ten percent, 20% of those 15,000,000 people will send me Adm to say, oh boy, how far are you free?

Can you deliver to Sokoto? I'm in Poland, Can you deliver to Poland or I'm in America? Can you deliver to America? They now start calculating your head, correct? This guy will pay hard currency. Have I set up my GTB dumb account so that I can collect money in dollars? That is the kind of conversation we want to have. When you open your Instagram and you see that you have 15,000,000 followers, that's what we're hoping for.

So don't be buying followers for vanity's sake. 15,000,000 followers for 15,000,000 followers sake, you know, equals to 0. So there's no point. That's the reason #1 why we don't buy followers. And that's what I'm making today's podcast episode. In case there's some of you that are still thinking of buying followers. Or don't, I beg, don't waste your money. Instead of wasting your money, just reach out to me, ask me for my account, and then send me that money.

Just bless my life because at least if you send the money to me, you're doing some good in the world. You help my situation going to go and buy 15,000,000 followers on Instagram is not going to do anybody good at all. And those people that are sending the money to in Poland or Afghanistan or in America or in Russia or wherever, you know, those who are criminals, you know they don't need your money. So if you have money to waste,

call your boy. I give my phone number at the beginning at the end of every episode, say my brother, I see your ministry, I want to bless you. I am sending you a good 500K now. Let me know when you have received credit alert and I'll pray for you. If you send me like 1.5 M, I'll pray for you and your family. So instead of wasting money and buying followers, just send it to me instead. I give my account details if you want to.

So we don't buy followers for that reason #2 Another reason why we don't buy followers is because it hurts. It hurts our algorithmic reach. I repeat, it hurts our algorithmic reach because social media is governed by algorithms. Algorithms are just tiny little robots that exist in cyberspace that go around checking is this content good? Is this content good? This one is good. Let me show it to somebody. This one is not bad.

Let me deeper prioritize it. Now one of the ways that algorithms decide which content to promote and what not to promote is they see the way that people are engaging with organicing. That is the reason why if Kanye West and and Kim Kardashian decide to reconcile and maybe can Kim Kardashian is pregnant with triplets. If my wife sees that kind of thing, she will send it to me because can you get Kanye West? Not my guy.

You know, me and Kanye West were like 5 or 6, you know, I don't know to do. But you know, based on when I was born and the way Kanye West was on the come up back then, you know, Rockefeller and everything. Like I feel the guy. So he's my fellow. So my wife will see it and send it to me. I'll say Kanye West, Kim, they don't reconcile. And then I will send nothing to my brother. My brother will see it and say, hey, is it true?

I've been a gossip. My brother will send it to somebody. Now as people are sending, sending, sending, the algorithms will say people are feeling this kind of Westing. Let me start to promote this kind of Westing to more and more and more people. That is how things begin to trend because the algorithm will see that ah, somebody clicked on this, somebody sent this, somebody shared on this. Then of course people will be commenting.

People say Kim no, Kanye is the devil, don't reconcile and I personal comment and say she don't drop ballet don't happen. Another person who come and say, Kanye West, you didn't learn the first time that all your problems started when you married into this family. You didn't learn you want to die again, another personal comment and say you haven't seen that in this family. Any man that marries into this family, they never succeed.

Once you marry into this family is your career downfall you suicide. So the algorithm are seen are people are commenting, commenting, commenting, sharing, sharing, sharing as in the power up and down all these kind of stuff. Then the algorithm will say, OK, this thing is valuable. They'll now be sharing it to other people. Now when you buy followers, even if you buy 15,000,020 million followers, these people will never comment on the stuff you do facts.

They will never comment. Never. The algorithm will be watching and then they will see that every single time this guy posts, even though this guy has 15,000,000 followers, every single time he posts, only two people comment. The algorithm will say it means this content is not good. Every single time this guy posts. Deprioritize this post. The Kanye West post will prioritize that one because folks, they engage this one.

Nobody's engaging. Deprioritize that thing. You are killing your algorithmic reach every single time you buy followers. Please do. Not this year, in 2025. If you're listening in 2035 and the business landscape has changed, then OK, go ahead and buy your followers. Well, please, IN2025I beg, even if you're listening to this thing in 2026, I don't think things would have changed that much. Do not buy followers, I beg. There might be other reasons,

but for this two in particular, do not buy followers because number one, you will then you will never get business from any of those paid followers. If you happen to be somebody you pay for 15,000,000 followers and it turned out luckily that some more than do business with you. Please, I give my phone number at the beginning and at the end of every episode reach out to me. Tell me, let me come and share your experience so that we can learn how to buy followers.

Maybe you you'll be able to tell us how to buy followers the right way. In fact, that's how who titled that episode Buy Followers the Right Way. So you show us the way how to buy followers. But until then, you can't make money from buying followers. And then #2 the content you're even posting, you will kill your reach algorithmically. So please, please and please, you know me. I'm this my guy, my client. You know, we were freestyling,

you know, hypothetically. You just come up with ideas. It's OK, hypothetically. But for this one, I had to shut it down. But this is not even a hypo or something. The way you use hypo to kill disease and to kill germs and to bleach out impurities, that's the same way we should use hypo and kill this hypothetically thing. Just hypo this idea. Just kill it, bleach it, wash it, rinse it, disinfect it, flush it. Get rid of that idea.

As of today, in 2025, there's no business case for buying bots. However, for, for how I put it, unethical actors in the, in the online space, you know, people who like to fudge, you know, like when it comes to election campaigns and, you know, things like that, you know, you're trying to make your political opponent look good or you're trying to make your case look better than it is, you know, so buying bot activity and buying stuff like that when it comes to all those kinds of activities.

And that one is the nature of the business. Yeah, go ahead and I'll be and be buying because you, you know what it is that you're doing. But for those of us who are legitimate business people, there's no case that you can make for buying bots in 2025 or in 2026 or in 2027. Maybe in 2035, maybe there might be a case, but today there's none. So let me bring today's episode to a close. So that's all for today. Remember, if you'd love to connect, if you've been buying followers and you want to tell me how, I'd love to learn.

So call, send a text message or WhatsApp message on 08064662140. Thank you very much for your time and attention. I'll catch you next time. Same place in your headphones or in your speakers. However you blast this podcast. And by the way, if you're finding value from this thing, I beg share the love. Tell other people about it so that your boy will blow as well. Because if you guys make me desperate and I wake up one day,

one day I say, you know what me self? Let me begin the by follower. So don't allow me to fall into temptation. Share the show. I'll catch you guys next time.