How To Use Twitter To Grow Followers
And Make Money In The Process
Index
Chapter1
Chapter2
Chapter3
Chapter4
Chapter5
Twitter Tips: How to Use Twitter For Social Marketing
Best Twittering Tips On How To Twitter Using Twitter Tools
Free Twitter Tips To Get More Followers
Twitter Tips
Top Twitter Tips to Crush Your Competition
Twitter Tips: How to Use Twitter For
Social Marketing
Chances are unless you've been
completely living in the dark for the
past couple of months - you've been
hearing about the phenomenon called
Twitter.com.
Twitter is quickly becoming one of the most amazingly popular social media
networking site on the World Wide Web. Now with over six million users (and
growing!) this micro blogging site has attracted everyone from President Obama
to NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal.
Twitter is the must-be-on place right now on ther internet. It actually trumps
Google but getting "real time" date about literally ANYTHING that is
happening in our society today.
Admittedly, I didn't jump on the Twitter bandwagon immediately. I heard about
it over a year ago and I definitely underestimated the importance of how
powerful this site really is.
But now, along with Facebook & YouTube, Twitter is one at the top of my
priority list for Social Media.
So recently, a friend and colleague of mine was able to generate over 75 leads for
his business just by sending out 1 tweet to his list of over 15,000 dedicated
followers.
How insane is that!?
75 Leads in 2 minutes...for FREE? Those same leads would cost $1-9 from a
home based business lead provider. Say they averaged $4 each - that would have
cost $300 for prospects that THEN YOU have to COLD CALL (blegh!)
Using Google Ad words? Probably would have cost DOUBLE THAT.
If you are looking to amass SERIOUS WEALTH online, then you need to be
"tweeting."
So, I've compiled a step-by-step guide thanks to my training with the MLM
Mastermind System on how to dominate Twitter.
----------------------------------------------------------Twitter Tips #1. Create an Account
Go to twitter.com and create an account if you haven't already. Be creative with
your bio and make sure you include your website link. This could be a blog or a
splash/squeeze page.
Twitter Tips #2. Set up a Professional Looking Background
Check out the free tools like: twitbacks.com or mytweetspace.com.
Twitter Tips #3. Manage your Twitter Account Automatically
Go to tweetlater.com and set up a free account with this ESSENTIAL Twitter
tool. This will allow you to automate your "welcome/thanks for following"
messages and create settings to unfollow those who do not follow you back. You
can also schedule tweets throughout your day!
Twitter Tips #4. Purchase Twitter Friend Adder for $50
It's not NECESSARY, but if you want a way to automatically add Twitter
friends and build a following - this is is. If you're on a shoe-string budget? Just
add friends one-by-one by finding other people of like-minded values.
Twitter Tips #5. Find Like-Minded Individuals to Follow
twellow.com
search.twitter.com
twollow.com
Twitter Tips #6. Free Tool to Manually Unfollow Those Who Aren't Following
You
dossy.org/twitter/karma, but if you have Twitter Friend Adder, you do not need
this because it does it for you.
Twitter Tips #7. What To Tweet?
Make sure your tweeting is full of useful content. DO NOT SPAM YOUR LINK
OR OPPORTUNITY. Twitter success is dependent your willingness and ability
to share content and info with your network.
Share anything:
*Interesting
*Educational
*Funny
*News-worthy
Twitter Tips #8. Re-Syndicate Content You Like
Can be your own videos, blogs, articles, or it can be stuff created by other people
(especially popular content). digg.com is create source for other people's
interesting content.
Twitter Tips #9. It's All About Relationship Marketing
Don't just add friends. Interact with them! Send them DM (direct messages) or
use the @-feature by typing @theirusername to reply and message to their
Twitter page.
Twitter Tips #10. Here are some other great Twitter tools:
tweetdeck.com
twitpic.com
bubbletweet.com
----------------------------------------------------------So that's it! There are many other Twitter tools, but these are the ones I've
compiled as of lately. Once you build a solid foundation of tweeting and building
trust/rapport with your Follows, sharing valuable content, you can send out a
tweet here and again promoting yourself or your product/sevice.
C'mon Tweeple! Let's start tweeting and twittering and twollowing each other!
Best Twittering Tips On How To Twitter
Using Twitter Tools
A glance on what is Twitter. Twitter is a service for
friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and
stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent
answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
This network is one of many ways for you to meet yourself online. Twitter asks
you things like "What are you doing?" which gets us thinking about what I'm
actually doing right now. Typically, we don't realize what we're doing or
thinking until we're asked, at which point we're compelled to think about it,
even if the asker was in fact a social networking site.
In March 2009, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest-growing site in
the Member Communities category for February 2009. Twitter had a monthly
growth of 1382%, Zimbio of 240%, followed by Facebook with an increase of
228%.
Because of such a high popularity that Twitter has created, people are constantly
looking for a way on how to twitter, some twitter tips, who is the best twitter
which in this case twitter refers to a Twitter user. Some programmers even
created software that is refer to as twitter tools. Unofficially, twitter is a word
now, where twittering is known as the verbs.
Now, I'm going to talk about the misuse of Twitter, the misuse of twitter tools to
be exact. There is some software that let you automate your tweet. Well, a lot of
people use this kind of software to pretend friendly which is actually good but
they are using it the wrong way or maybe the worst way.
What I'm talking about is they are abusing twitter using the tools; all they are
twittering about is sales, sales, and sales. Some even use automated Direct
Messages to instantly message you when you follow them. Now let me show you
how to not twitter your account to dead with messages will look like this:
1. Hello there, thanks for the follow. Want to know how to earn $576K within a
year online? Check this out. (They will put a link that leads to their capture page
or some even worse to their affiliate page.)
2. Hi there, do you want to make money online? This is the best marketing
system ever. Don't believe it, just see it. (Another stupid looking link)
Now I was using that kind of way to market my business too which is absolutely
wrong, and I changed. Some of you may be doing that kind of way too, but
you're reading this article which makes you better because you found a way to
change and you want to change. Just take a look at the twitter tips I provided
using twitter tools to automate your message and tweet but better:
1. Hello there my friend. Many thanks for the follow, are you on facebook? Let's
connect there too. (Then put a link to your facebook)
2. Hi there buddy, great knowing you. It's so great that I just met a wonderful
new friend today. You, let's talk again.
There it is, it's actually quite simple and that's what you want, simple and
friendly to the point that they won't be afraid to talk to you. Now you have
learned how to twitter well and survive in the stupid world outside that is full of
useless tips and maybe hazardous to your health as a twitter. Now let's do some
twittering.
Free Twitter Tips To Get More
Followers
Ways To Get More Retweets
Add a tweet button to your blog ( You can grab a cool one at
http//twitter.com/goodies/tweet button
Send a message to your friends to help you re tweet.
Don't be afraid to re tweet a good post a few times that you know deserves some
attention.
Follow the social media scientist @Danzerrella.
Saying thanks to someone that has re tweeted you a couple of times will show
that you care and you will be rewarded with lots of re tweets.
Re tweet the tweets of others more than yours ( the ratio here is 15:1 )
Include the twitter names of others in your blog post and make sure you tweet
informing them.
Use URL shorteners like bit.ly for twitter and su.pr for stumble upon.
Schedule your tweets with tools like tweet adder for maximum effectiveness.
Taking some time to tweet great quotes will gain you some exposure. Since they
re tweet well.
Follow the account @tweetingtrends for updates on the top 10 trends. Tweeting
about a trending topic will increase the visibility of your tweets. Since thousands
of people are active on trending topics.
Use twitpics to tweet cool pictures. Pictures re tweet pretty well.
Tweetmeme is a good place when it comes to hottest links on twitter. Re tweeting
the hottest links on tweetmeme will increase your tweet visibility.
Tweet Between peak twitter traffic times ( 3-5pm EST )
Majority of your tweets should have links. Since they re tweet well than those
without links.
Build Friendship with twitter giants like @jason Pollock and @scobleizer.
There are some words and phrases that have more retweetable values than
others.
You, twitter, please, re tweet, post, blog, social, free, media, help, please re tweet,
great, social media, 10, follow, how to, top, blog post, check out, new blog post.
You can increase this list by using ( the most retweetable word finder tool )
Never include the below words in your tweets. Game, going, haha, lol, but,
watching, work, home, night, bed, well, sleep, hey, tomorrow, tired, back, bored,
listening.
Some people are moved with the word ''please''. Include it in your tweets.
The dig dig plug-in is good for those of you with a word press blog. It will allow
you to easily install a tweet or a tweetmeme button.
Services like paywithatweet.com can let people pay you with a re tweet if you
have a digital product like an ebook or mp3.
Give away something free such as a video ecourse, an ebook or any other digital
content.
Increase your twitter network with highly relevant twitter followers.
Tweet rich content.
Free Twitter Tips To Get More Followers
Increasing your twitter network could drive some serious traffic to your site.
Follow the below tips to get more twitter followers.
Interlink your social media profiles. Nowadays twitter is found on all the other
social media sites like facebook, youtube. Connect your twitter profile to each
and every one of them.
Include your twitter name in your email signature. For those of you sending tons
of messages, including your twitter name on your email signature is a good
strategy to get you more followers. Services like wisestamp can include a twitter
icon in your email signature.
Add your twitter profile in your ebooks.
Watermark your videos with your twitter username.
Share good and unique content.
Ask followers to re tweet.
Make sure your twitter profile has a complete bio description.
Use hash tags in your tweets
Tweet cool photos.
Use tweet adder to schedule and manage your twitter account.
Follow highly visible twitter accounts.
Ask your contacts to follow you.
Tweet during peak twitter traffic times ( Thursday and Friday 3-5pm EST )
Participate in trending topics.
Engage yourself with twitter giants.
Include a tweet button in your blog post.
Make your twitter background look attractive ( use themelon )
Make your twitter user name short and catchy.
Tweet often.
Tell your friends and family members to follow you.
Add your twitter profile to directories like twellow and wefollow.
Answer back to people who tweet at you.
Include your twitter name in your articles.
Use twitter for your customer support.
Don't be Mr serious all the time. Make some jokes every now and then.
Twitter Tips
Some marketers forget why they're on Twitter and disturb followers with an
never ending series of repetitive tweets about how great their business
opportunity is. Do notact like them; Twitter is especially social network so word
travels fast if you are just another guy with something to sell. Furthermore, if
you have the kind of online existence that people are curious about, then word
will travel fast that you're worth following.
Here's a lessened list of Twitter tips for your page set-up that can have a huge
impact on the number of people who will end up visiting your website:
Include A Click able Link To Your Site In The Biography Section - Why waste
that treasured piece of real estate on your Twitter profile page? By including a
click able link that takes visitors directly to your site, you are making life a lot
easier for them. Your followers like it when you make life easier for them. Just
make sure you are giving a URL link (include the http://) and not just the
domain name of your website. It's the easiest thing to do while it also has the
tremendous potential to drive traffic to your site.
Start Using TwitPics - If you need to show rather than tell, you can help people
understand what's going on in your life and your business by using TwitPics to
send out pictures to all your followers. Pictures really are worth a thousand
words! Here's another Twitter tip for you: start at TwitPics, the top service for
sharing pictures through Twitter. Recently, TwitPics and close rival, Yfrog, have
even developed tools dedicated to sharing TwitPics and Yfrog images in real
time. Consider the possibilities for grabbing someone's attention and getting
them to come and drop by your site!
Tweet Your Videos - Video is the fastest way to create rapport, trust and be
liked. Be sure to add your call to action at the end of the video so your followers
know what to do when the video is over. For this, you'll definitely want to check
out TwitVid, a video sharing site that's crazy simple to use. Just log in with your
Twitter credentials, prefer your video file (up to 1 GB or 20 minutes), enter a
comment of 117 characters or less, and hit the tweet button. Done! You may also
like, re tweet, share, and reply to other videos on this website, just like on twitter
itself.
Create A Twitter Badge - In a nutshell, a badge can add additional personality to
your page and make it more of your brand! Within that badge you will want to
add links to your website and other social networking (Facebook) and social
media (YouTube) content your visitors can check out, so they can get to know
you better. There are lots of tools out there that will help you with this. If you
need to customize your Twitter badge further and make your page set-up really
"pop," simply Google "custom twitter badges" or "custom twitter backgrounds"
and be spoiled with tons of choices. Simple thing like making your Twitter page
more presentable can have a huge effect in driving free traffic to your website.
Get Creative With Your Advertisements - This is really were your personality
shines and it's all about how you come across to your followers. Take the time to
think about what you say and how you say it. You want to strike the right chord
and get a response that leads them back to your site. Do not just throw anything
up there; write something unique, interesting, funny or crazy enough to get
anyone that sees it to click on the link to your site. It's much better to be looked
over than overlooked! But don't forget, keep it relevant! Otherwise, your
followers will follow someone else and all the page set-up and Twitter tips may
not be enough to get them back.
Top Twitter Tips to Crush Your
Competition
Here are my top tips for using Twitter. Start using them today to grow your
following and grow your business for FREE:
Your Profile
o Add a link to your website in your profile and include http:// so it's a clickable
link, this'll help with Google rankings too
o Use keywords that are relevant to your niche or business in your bio, it'll help
people find you and know what you're about
o Use a head shot for your picture in which you can see your eyes, people follow
people so your picture is more effective than a logo
o To grab extra attention for a while change your picture by flipping it upside
down or on its side, but remember to put it back
o Avoid the temptation of using transparent or animated gifs, they only annoy
people after the initial novelty has worn off
o Keep your Twitter page colours, logos and images consistent with your website
and other social media accounts
Sending Tweets
o Keep a spreadsheet of your best tweets to re-send at a later date, good content
is worth repeating over time
o Tweet in blocks of around three, this'll help you stand out more in peoples busy
and overcrowded Twitter streams
o Send regular tips and quotes as well as just links, a 3:1 ratio of pure content to
links is a good ratio
o Use appropriate hash tags but use them sparingly, don't jump on the trending
topics bandwagon, it's unprofessional and ineffective
o Keep personal tweets to a minimum if you're using your account for business,
but ask questions like what are peoples plans for the day
o Use [AUDIO] and [VIDEO] tags in your tweets which contain links to these
types of content, otherwise such formats might annoy people
o Tweets are effectively headlines so make them stand out and appealing to your
market
Gaining Followers
o The best tip to obtain targeted followers is to follow other people in your niche,
approximately 20% will follow back
o After a few days it's OK to unfollow those who haven't followed you back as by
then they probably never will
o An easy way to find targeted people is to follow the followers of a celebrity or
other key person in your chosen niche/area of interest
o Twitter has imposed a limit of 2000 followers, but you can actually follow up to
10% more people than follow you and exceed this limit
o However, try to keep the number of those you follow below your number of
followers, it looks much better that way
o Aim for a steady increase in followers, gain too many followers too fast and
Twitter might suspend your account
o Keep churn below a few hundred a day, churn is the total number you follow
and unfollow, start slowly and ramp up gradually
o Add your Twitter URL or Id to your websites, stationary and email/blog
signatures, the more places it appears the better
o Having people retweet (RT) your content increases your exposure, limit your
tweets to 120 chars so people using the old system can still RT
o Simply adding a call to action like �pls rt' will encourage people to re tweet
your content to their followers
o Follow celebrities in your niche, reply to their tweets with highly relevant
content/links and sometimes they'll re tweet your content to hundreds of
thousands of their followers
o When a key celebrity in my niche first re tweeted my content I wrote this blog
post about it - The Power of Twitter Celebrity Retweets
Interacting with People
o Interact with those who send you tweets and reply to you, Twitter is all about
interaction, not just one way broadcasts
o Don't send automatic Direct Messages (D Ms) to new followers, it's ineffective
and people consider it SPAM
o Don't use validation services like True Twit unless you really need to, they just
annoy people and drastically reduce your following
o You can create lists in Twitter so create a separate list of people who engage
with you, these are people who are most receptive to you
o Use Twitter to promote your other social media accounts, facebook, linked in,
etc) so people can interact with you in other ways
o Remember that one of the main purposes of Twitter interaction is for people to
know, like and trust you - keep this in mind in all you do
Managing Twitter
o Use a twitter URL shortener like bit.ly to tweet links, you can then track how
many people clicked the link and see how effective the Tweet was
o Create different accounts for different niches or purposes, you'll need a
different email address for each though
o Create lists and searches to keep track of groups of people and subjects/hash
tags you're interested in
o Use a tool like TweetDeck to manage your lists, searches and accounts, there's
also app versions for Smartphones
o Use a tool like Tweepi.com to follow and unfollow people, you can follow
people in bulk and see who's not following you back, etc
o You can add people to lists who you don't actually follow so they won't appear
in your main Twitter stream, not many people know this
o Consider different time zones when using Twitter, if you send a tweet before
lunch in the UK most people in the US are still asleep
o Using Twitter in evenings and at weekends is most productive because more
people are using it then
What you should do next: print this out, have a read, start implementing these
tips and don't forget - Twitter can be great fun too...
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Best Twittering Tips On How To Twitter Using Twitter Tools By Tantawi
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Free Twitter Tips To Get More Followers By Masecdante
4. Twitter Tips By Nestor
5. Top Twitter Tips to Crush Your Competition By Jason King