Do you want to have more subscribers on Twitter? Do you want to maximise your marketing impact in the Twitterverse? Your Twitter people, a.k.a your “Tweeps” are interested in following like minded people and / or very interesting people. If you try to sign up with the sole purpose of link baiting, you’re not going to get very far with this tool. In order to maximise the impact of Twitter for internet marketing you have to treat it like a social marketing tool that requires both give and take.
Here are some Twitter tips:
-Don’t push out a link in every Tweet. More than 75% of your Tweets should be interesting rather than product related.
-Do reply to your followers who ask you a question or comment on one of your statuses via the replies button. If you don’t check this and ignore those trying to converse with you, you’ll get ‘un-followed’.
-Tweet unto others as you’d have Tweeted unto you. That means that if you want people re-tweeting you, do that for them. Social bookmark for them, tell your followers that @user is a great person to follow, etc. Social media is very much a tool built on quid pro quo.
Happy Tweeting!
About Sean Rasmussen
Sean
I will have to make greater use of this wonderful tool
Hi Sean,
I really enjoy using Twitter. But, I feel like it’s changing in the way people are using it. It is very self promotional which is good but I feel like it could be overkill.
I get frustrated by the sheer amount of DMs I get that offer me links to free stuff. Every person has their own thing that they’re pushing. Sometimes I feel like it’s enough already. I don’t even look at most of it and I wonder how many other people feel the same way?
I haven’t yet started tweeting so what you are saying is interesting Jazz as I have no idea where to start or what I am supposed to write. I am going to read The Twitter Guide after the comp. I take note of what you have said.
Twitter can be fun but also a bit overwhelming. I find that I only read the tweets of the people I follow occasionally, never all of them as it’s just too much. Which makes me wonder how many of my followers actually read my tweats
Hi Renee,
It’s kind of hard to read tweets unless you’re there when they’re tweeted. When I follow people I put them into categories. For example, social media, internet marketing, yota etc.
Then whenever I want to I click on my categories and it shows me the tweets from everyone in that category. I just find that it saves me a lot of time.
I,m with Renee, I very rarely read tweets as they are always filled with links and self promotion which is exactly what I do (which I will no longer do) It makes sense, if you want people to follow you and read your tweets, you have to make them interesting.
Hi Sean,
When I first started with Twitter I received lots of emails each day, by following and followers. I Tweeted different messages each day about anything. I slowed down after someone asked me what my focus was. I thought that a good question and realized I didn’t really have one.
I’m still a little unsure on what to Tweet about although when I have a blog link to post through the …then that’s ok
When I have a blog to post through the Social BMT that’s okay
Hi Sean
Going by the comments above it seems like being in Twitter is akin to waking up in the morning to find you have sleepwalked into central station at peak hour (or maybe peck hour on Twitter)!
I do need to do some more reading up about Twitter as I would like to be a productive Tweeteress and also know what it can do for me too.
Regardless of the overwhelm, I will need to dive in and find a nice nest where I can tweet my own twune and hopefully some earnest pweeple will find me. There is nothing like experience.
I use twitter mainly at the moment to tweet or retweet other peoples blogs etc: not for promoting my own yet but I guess that will come, there is just so much that it can become a little daunting
Until recently I wasn’t really interested in getting more Tweeps simple because I felt inundated with the number of followers I had. Now I’ve started the process of following all of my follows – tit for tat – and to make it more manageable I’ve started setting up lists which I can quickly check for relevant Tweets.
I’m finally starting to use Twitter in an organized fashion. But I still find it more difficult to deal with than Plurk.
It is about being interactive and being a real person.
I don’t have much interest in Twitter for personal use – but for Internet Marketing it is soooo valuable!