My idea is that people won’t response as much if you’re plugging yourself, but by asking some genuine questions about them could help create a genuine connection. Most people’s intentions with setting up automatic DMs is good (or i’d like to believe so), but the approach could probably be improved. Most auto DMs get a bad wrap because they are only masquerading as personal and come off as a cheap way to promote yourself.

My experiment is to use a different tact and make it completely about the follower and finding out about them instead.

Stay tuned to find out how this goes, I’ll probably dedicate another post to it.