Tips For Growing Your Twitter Following
I’ve spend the past few days days talking (or better writing) about marketing with twitter. Today, I happen to be sitting in a Hotel room in Wilmington, NC (for Bob The Teacher’s Simple Conference) with two of my best friends, both of whom are really good at getting twitter followers.
In addition to my own ideas, I’ll be picking the brains of @NicoleDean and @Tracy_Roberts . They both happen to have a bigger following than me already and more importantly, they are much better than me at tweeting on a regular basis.
How To Grow Your Twitter Following
From @Susanne Myers
- Tweet regularly. This means at least a few tweets most days.
- Follow the followers of other main players in your market.
- Follow everyone that follows you.
From @Nicole Dean
- End your best tweets with “Please RT”.
- Post valuable information that people will want to retweet.
- Talk directly to people, start conversations.
- Include “Follow me on twitter” in your articles, blog posts and free viral pdfs as well as in your info products.
- Mention your twitter link in your guest blog posts.
I recommend you get Nicole’s Blog Tour Guide to take your guest blogging to the next level. It will help you with incoming links and traffic. Building your twitter following is a nice added benefit.
From @Tracy_Roberts
- Search for key terms in your market or niche. Then join into conversations that you have something good to contribute to.
- Build those into solid relationships. This will get their followers to follow you.
- Build “Defined Lists” to keep track of the different groups of people you meet.
- When you go to events, or participate in online events, keep track of hash tags and follow the lists set up for those events.
- Follow Celebrities.
Here’s your “homework”… pick and choose a few of these and start doing them regularly. Keep track of the number of your total followers and see how much it that number grows on a monthly basis.
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Sorry I’m missing all the fun in MY room. LOL!
This is a great topic. Here are some of my own ideas:
• When you have something REALLY, REALLY good and you want more to see it, don’t just say ‘Please RT’ in the tweet. Personally ask some key followers via DM to RT it for you.
• Follow journalists who cover your niche. (There are literally thousands of reporters on Twitter.) Most will follow you back if they see you as an expert source for potential stories. (Read: make sure some of your tweets are showing off your expertise)
• Welcome new followers and instead of sending them
to some web page, begin engaging them in a conversation.
• Ask for more followers. Referrals really do work, but only if you ask. Tweet something like: ‘Like my #BeHeard tips? Why not tell a friend to follow me?”
All excellent tips Shannon. Thanks so much for sharing them. Can’t wait to brainstorm this weekend.
You include some great tips that are often overlooked, but one you did mention that I don’t agree with is to follow everyone back who follows you. I don’t want to follow a lot of people who may be tweeting about topics I don’t care about as I’d end up with a Twitter Feed full of clutter. I prefer to not auto follow and pick and choose those who interest me to follow. Just my two cents.
Great tips, Susanne! Thanks for these – I especially like the “Please RT” tip because just makes sense your Tweet will then get exposed to people that aren’t currently following you.
Great tips! It amazes me how many people in the IM space DON’T follow back. It seems so simple — and I can’t be unusual when i say that I will unfollow folks who don’t follow me in a reasonable amount of time. Maybe that’s selfish, but we all want to believe we’re important, right? It’s just common sense to me to follow those who follow you.
Thanks, Susanne!
I’ve found Twitter to be a great tool. When I post relevant and insightful comments, those comments are in fact noticed. My goal is not affiliate marketing, but rather to present myself as knowledgeable about the San Diego real estate market. I find that people recognize and seek out professional advice on Twitter, and as the LaJollaHomesPro on Twitter I’m able to fill that niche in my area.