Simply having a blog site to promote your business is not enough to attract and create a successful following. There is a fair amount of legwork that needs to be done to create a piece of internet gold that can help to establish and strengthen your work.
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Utilizing various forms of social media is a great way to get your name out there, as well as attract more visitors, readers and fans to your blog and business. It is important to get involved with a number of different social media platforms in order to be successful in this venture, and one of the most important and currently popular is Twitter.
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Give these following tips a try for increasing your Twitter following:
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1) Find The Popular Tweeters In Your Niche …. Using the search function of Twitter will help you quickly find those tweeters with a big following. Start following them, get into the discussions and when they engage with you, it is Twitter gold! Just one tweet from one of these popular tweeters will put you into the limelight and provide a huge opportunity for others to follow, as they will become aware of your profile.
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2) Tweet At The Right Time … If your business or industry has an audience in a different time zone than you, be sure to tweet during their peak times. You may want to use a Twitter platform to schedule tweets during the off times if you are not able to tweet at 3:00 in the morning! Just be sure to check your @mentions first thing in the morning and again later in the evening.
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3) Organize With Twitter Lists … As you start increasing the number of followers and those that you follow, start setting up Twitter lists. These lists is a great way to focus on specific groups of people, stay engaged with them and never miss important tweets.
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4) Twitter Marketing Tools … There are all kinds of online tools that can help you streamline your time in looking for and searching for followers. Check out my video for more tips on this …. Target Market with Twitter Tools
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5) Be A Leader / Be Resourceful … When you share good quality content, links, videos, articles and posts – it is more likely that you will get more people that will want to follow you. Also, less likely for them to unfollow you! So don’t tweet every minute with tweets that only have links to your promotions and affiliate products. Instead, share helpful and useful information for your target market.
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Twitter is yet another way to provide links back to your blog, as well as reach a number of individuals you may have otherwise not had access to. Establishing a good following on twitter with intriguing posts is a great way to direct more traffic to your blog and establish a larger group of followers.
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Take a moment to explore the platform and look into what “tweets” are the most successful and what members have the highest amount of followers, especially within your niche market. Learn from others to produce the most beneficial usage of this specific social media platform.
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How are you using Twitter to increase traffic to your blog site?
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Wishing You Continued Business Success!
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hello lynn
i have atwitter account but i never got as single visitor from there. may be i am doing something wrong. but after reading this post i must say that i am just sharing my posts and doing nothing more than that. but now i will try to share the posts at right time. hope i get more visitors
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Twitter is an amazing social platform when it comes to business. However, posting content other than blog posts is important. Share videos, articles and inspiring images. The key with any social platform when it comes to wanting people to learn more about what you and your business or products have to offer… is attracting them, connecting with them and build a visitor that soon turns into a paying customer.
Be a giver first. Share other tweeters content, videos and quotes. Visit their blogs and articles, leave comments and share. Soon you will then find them interacting and engaging and wanting to visit you. It is a give and give mindset that will have a more successful result with online business.
Appreciate you sharing your thoughts Prabhat, and always thankful for you visiting.
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Tip #1 is the best one because we can’t do anything without followers.
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That is very true. Kind of … what came first, ‘chicken or the egg’! Thank you Ahmed for stopping in and glad you shared your comments. Hope you will visit again real soon. Have an awesome day!
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Love the phrase, “be resourceful.” I remember when I first started out, trying to figure out the @ and the DM and it seemed so confusing. But, the more resourceful I attempted to be, the easier it became. Now, I can’t imagine a world without Twitter. Twitter, are you listening? Thanks for the great article. -Deborah
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I can’t agree with you more Deborah! I too was very confused with the ‘at mention’ and ‘direct messages’. Also I had no clue how to utilize Twitter ‘lists’. But now, I love the lists, the DM’s and the mentions.
So like you Deborah I think Twitter is an amazing platform that only is getting better for everyone. Thank you so much for bringing your positive thoughts to the discussion today.
Hope you will visit again soon. Have a wonderful weekend!
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lol, Deborah this is common with most beginners but as soon as they get their hands on these features, they’re off for the Twitter trip. The most powerful that brings huge positive results is the Retweet component. With the right Retweet App and doing it the right way, you can easily blow your blog to the top.
Thanks Enstine for the positive input and good advice! Retweet is key and glad that you added that to the discussion. Glad you stopped by today and look forward to you visiting again soon.
I will look for you on Twitter too!
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Yes Eli, Twitter can be an amazing resource of traffic to your site and building your business with connections. It is also a good platform to get information about your market niche by seeing ‘real time’ what people are talking about, their ideas, problems and so forth.
Thank you so much for stopping by today to add your comments to the discussion. Look forward to you visiting again soon.
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It would be wise to get twitter tools if doing twitter marketing. Also posting at different times zones is a great idea since followers live in different time zones.
Thank you Jacob for sharing your comments and insight about Twitter. Tools are a great way to keep you organized and focused. Also to keep you sane, lol! Appreciate you taking some time to come on by and look forward to seeing you again soon.
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Great tips, they could be very useful. I’ve read a lot of various articles about Twitter’s role in the online marketing scene. Some say that Twitter is over for link-building, because of it hasn’t got strong links. Some say that Twitter will have a renessaince, because of the new algorithms of Google which filter the over-optimized content, and in a situation like that are the social media platforms the best places for online marketers. Anyway, I still use it, and it works. I think, from now on, thanks to your useful advices, it will work better:)
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Well thank you for the warm compliment Christine and I am glad these tips are helpful. Seems you have a really good handle on the social sites. As for the naysayers of Twitter, I am finding that it is those people that really don’t know who to apply Twitter for the results they are wanting.
And many say, myself included, that any social site, Twitter included, must be the platform(s) that makes sense for your business or the business plan to bring results. So I appreciate your wonderful insight and comments today. Hope you will come back and visit again soon!
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Thanks Lynn for this superb tips. I am using HootSuit and TweetDeck its really cool apps for Using twitter.
Every thing is in one interface. I am very much active on twitter and its my 4th Ref Source.
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Having one interface does make it much easier and more fun to keep up with Twitter and other social sites. Appreciate you mentioning that Amit and so glad that you stopped by today, hope that you will visit again soon.
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Since I found out that Twitter is a good source for traffic, I never hesitated to try as Ive seen a lot of my friends who are using it. It was worth it as I also gain traffic to my blog
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That is good to hear more positive experience with Twitter. Glad you see how you can increase traffic to your blog Herbert. Thank you for sharing your comments and glad you stopped by today. Have a great day and come back soon!
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Hi Lynn,
These are great shares on ways to increase traffic to your blog using Twitter. I like Twitter because it’s so easy to use! I’ve used a couple of the strategies you listed, but one of my goals this year is to increase the number of my twitter followers and become more engaged. I use Buffer which schedules tweets and I’ve also used Hootsuite which is a great tool. I feel I need to work on being more effective with Twitter. Thanks Lynn!
Raena Lynn
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Hey Raena it sounds like you have a great plan on using Twitter for your business. And I bet that is why Twitter is easy to use. When you have that plan then you know what direction you can go with this platform. It IS an amazing way to build those connections.
Appreciate you sharing your thoughts and advice. Always love to hear how others are enjoying Twitter as much as me!
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Don’t do much with twitter right now, but it sounds like it is a good idea… So many things to learn!! I have done it in the past, but never got too far with my niche, perhaps it is time to try again!
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Appreciate you mentioning the fact Holly that Twitter could be a good idea. Twitter doesn’t necessarily have to be for every business owner or strategy. However, if you do have a specific plan for your business, Twitter could certainly help to execute and implement your strategy to a target market you build and create.
I hope you do give Twitter a try. At first Twitter was confusing for me, but it only took a few weeks to see just how powerful the platform can be for communicating, connecting and making contacts in a very short time.
Let me know if I can answer any questions that could help you to use Twitter more for your business. Thanks so much Holly for sharing your thoughts and glad that you stopped by!!
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Twitter needs more followers .Social networking and posting the community interests helps to increase the number of followers,ultimately increasing the traffic to your website.Never be lazy to network socially.
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Good point Asma … being lazy will slow down progress to success. I am glad that you find Twitter to be helpful for building traffic. Thank you very much for taking time to stop by and leave your comments. Look forward to you visiting again soon.
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Twitter is a great tool becuse in few minutes you can contact your niche market, leaders in your industry plus what I like about it it’s that platmforms enable you to work ahead of time.
I am curious to see how mycontact list will be growing in the near future with twitter!
Thanks Lynn for giving us here a great list on how to use this social networking tool great for those who like me are always on the road!
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Glad you found this helpful Patricia. I agree with you that Twitter certainly can provide a lot of information in a split second. Implementing a platform like Twitter for your business can build a huge following and bring visibility to a business, product or even a charity or special event. It really depends on the plan you put into place.
So happy to see you stop by and add your voice. Thank you Patricia for your thoughts and comments.
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Really good info here, Lynn, (and on your video you linked out to) =
Twitter has so many moving parts, I’m not really adept at coordinating. I’d really like to learn how to use lists and hashtags more, and you’ve set me in the right direction with this post, and some of your replies to other comments here.
So I’m off and running, and will certainly tweet out this post!
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Glad you are going to check out the lists and hashtags David. When I started using them I wasn’t too sure about how they would work. But now I love how easy it is to organize and share information.
So have fun! Thanks for ‘tweeting’ this post and look forward to seeing you over on Twitter! Appreciate you sharing your comments today.
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Thanks for sharing your useful tips, with the combination of these techniques I hope I could reach a higher PR as soon as possible.
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You are most welcome Jane. And any time you can get more eyeballs to your site, the better! Let me know if I can help by sharing a favorite link of yours to my followers. Thanks so much for visiting today and look forward to seeing you again soon!
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Hey Lynn,
Increasing traffic to our blogs always works best when we spread ourselves over a wide range of social methods as well as writing quality contact and not forgetting to let our list know we have something new to share.
I like twitter for it’s simplicity and also that are some real benefits in really thinking about connecting with people in particular niches and really building quality relationships.
Thanks for the great post,
Beth
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Appreciate your insight Beth. I totally agree with you. Twitter is a simple platform when it comes right down to it. The hard part for a lot of people is having the right plan for their specific business. Hopefully what you share and what others have shared will be helpful in knowing what is important on some social sites isn’t necessarily the same for others. gotta know that audience, so thank you for sharing your wonderful comments.
So glad that you stopped by today!
Hi Lynn,
Thanks for sharing all these tips, I am not very sussesful on twitter so I will try to use your tips and see if I will see any change…
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Let me know if you ever have any questions Kostas. And lets make sure we are following each other on Twitter too
Thank you for sharing your comments today.
I absolutely love Twitter for the conversations and interaction it lets me engage in – but I have very strong suspicions that I could be using it far more effectively than I do right now.
Do you have any suggestions for useful links and resources to check out for someone who understands the mechanics of tweeting, retweeting, and replying; and who has a basic grasp of strategy (be useful, share resources, don’t be too obnoxiously salesy); but who finds it really hard to put it all into practice?
Looking forward to your thoughts, Lynn – thanks for a great article.
TANJA
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Thank you Tanja I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts about liking the Twitter platform.
I think the biggest tip I could share about Twitter is understanding your audience is a major key. Share information they would be interested in, ask them questions and get them engaged. This will naturally create a connection, build confidence and your audience will then start checking out your site, and you can share links to specials you might have for products or services.
Being too ‘sales pitchy’ will turn people off, as you mention and I agree with that. Instead, consumers today want to know your purpose and how you can benefit them.
My good online business colleague, @MarthaGiffen has an amazing expertise in Twitter. You might want to check her out on Twitter and her blog. Let me know if that helps ….. and of course, I hope we are connected on twitter too!
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Social media like Twitter really helps us to make our blog more stronger aside from having a good quality in it, we totally need social media to help us be noticed on the web.
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Nicely put Mika! Appreciate you stopping by and adding your thoughts and advice. Hope you are enjoying your day. Look forward to you visiting again soon.
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Thanks for the reply Lynn. I will visit more and more in your blog to see more. By the way, Thank you for considering my comments.
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You are more than welcome Mika!
These are excellent tips. I hardly use twitter, but it looks like I should start using it more!
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Yes you really should check out how the Twitter platform can help you. And if we are not following each other, please be sure to sent me a ‘tweet’ to follow you!
Thank you Alicia for visiting today and hope you will come back again soon.
Hey Lynn
Indeed Social media are great way for getting traffic specially Pinterest and Twitter but both need more followers related too your area of business.
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Thanks Rizwan appreciate you taking time to share your thoughts and comments. Glad you stopped by and look forward to you visiting again soon.
Using the right twitter tools and connecting with other popular tweeters in niche are best ways to get more traffic. But also the right timing and number of tweets per day play important roles.
thanks for sharing this great post Lynn.
As they say timing is everything! Thanks James for sharing that and glad you stopped by today. Hope you will stop by again real soon.
Hey Lynn,
Twitter can be such an amazing and useful tool if used right. I have been growing my twitter following now to over 2000 (amateur to some and a lot to others) and i have used it in so many ways. Another great way to utilize your twitter following is figuring out what they are more responsive to. Sometimes I will do different affiliate programs, sometimes they sell other times i get nothing from that tweet, so trial and error is the best.
The golden rule with social media is always 80% content and 20% promotion. I try to keep it around 10% promotion but i learned i can push the limit to 20%.
Great tips!
Kyle
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So glad you mentioned that it is all about timing along with trial and error Kyle! Putting time and effort into our social media platforms really do make a difference.
Congrats to you for building your following and I know that with Twitter keeping a good ratio between who you follow and who is following you will allow you to grow your following much more quickly.
Thank you for your comments and good advice about the ‘golden rule’ …. glad you stopped by today Kyle and hope you will visit again soon!
Aloha Lynn, very useful tips on Twitter. I like to use most social media sites because they do give reciprocating link backs, viewers and many more uses. I think the only thing I am up against is accepting more of my followers with twitters limitations. Other than that it’s a useful tool to reach out to others. I’m glad I came by and thanks for sharing! Mahalo, Lani
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I love the warm Hawaiian welcome Lani! You make some good points about how social media provides us with benefits and Twitter is no exception. So glad that you stopped by today and shared your thoughts. Looking forward to you visiting again soon. Have a wonderful day!
I hate to admit, but one way that I’ve managed to generate more traffic from Twitter involves two steps. First, twitter hashtags are extremely valuable. Even a twitter account with few followers can generate traffic with hashtags.
Second, using a few different Twitter accounts helps to. Basically, you set up three or four Twitter accounts. Then you grab a custom background from a site like Twitter backgrounds since it’s quick. Add a logo, then configure the extra accounts to autofollow with Social Oomph.
After that, you use Twitter feed and add these blogs to retweet your posts. You can then use add the extra accounts to Hootsuite. You can schedule a bunch of Tweets each day using a variety of different hashtags for all of your accounts in one easy step.
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You have a wonderful system set up Amrik and that is half the battle when it comes to reaping the benefits from Twitter. Really appreciate you stopping in today and sharing some of your tips and techniques. This will be helpful to others!
Glad you found it useful
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Hi Lynn,
I agree with you about Twitter. Can you answer this question for me? How do people follow thousands of others when I have trouble following 65?
Twitter is complex to me.
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Glad you can see the value with Twitter. As for building followers, it simply takes time. At least for me. Because I build my followers based of my industry, market niche and interests. So I do not follow just anybody.
I will also schedule in time to visit my lists and find other people to follow. I always send out a tweet to them thanking them for connecting (even thought they haven’t, yet) but tell them I look forward to sharing their tweets. 99% of the time I get a follow back. You can do this every day for about 5 minutes and follow 20 – 25 people. Soon you will start seeing your following grow.
But always remember to RT their tweets, ask them questions as engaging with others is key. Hope these are a couple of helpful tips you might try. Let me know Madonna and of course, let me know if you have more questions – I would be happy to help!
I love to use hashtags at events. I retweet many people who are at the event; they type faster than me & create great comments about what’s happening, then get them out quickly.
Then I actually do my best to find the “tweeters” while still at the event and connect with them personally. The last event I was at I met some fantastic new people who have similar interests as me.
I love the events where the hashtag is announced early, that way I can connect with people via Twitter and organize to meet them while we are there, it’s tons’o fun!
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That is so true Carla. Hashtags are a great way to meet other people within your interests, market or industry. Events is a great way to meet others and I know what you mean about others typing so fast! I think you pointed out another way Twitter is a powerful platform for connecting with others. Which then just brings more visibility to you.
Thanks so much Carla for sharing your comments today. So glad you stopped by and will look forward to you visiting again soon.
I have 700 followers but less than 50 hits on most of my blog posts. How do I convert followers into readers?
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Hi Kirra, so glad you stopped by today. I would love to give you a couple of tips on turning those followers into readers and most important, into engagers!
What I learned is that most people need to be told what you want them to do. So for instance, on your tweets, you might ask a question along with saying ‘please visit, comment and share’. and add your link to the post, article or video you are sharing and want a response to.
Also, there are a lot of people that will interact with you and your blog when you share images or videos. There are a lot of people that are visual and therefore, will click to see the image and in most cases, leave a comment.
Those are a couple of tips that I hope will be helpful to you. You can also hover over my tab (above) for Social Networking, it will drop down where you can click on Twitter…. and there are all kinds of posts that I have shared that offer other tips as well.
Thanks again for stopping by and look forward to you visiting again soon. Let me know if you have any questions with Twitter or other social media techniques. Have a wonderful day.
Interesting post, Lynn! I’ve definitely found Twitter to be such a key tool for syndicating my blog! Easier than FB to RT a quick post too. I’ve found that reaching a few thousand followers has made a big impact as well. Great tip about following people in your niche.
Hey Dani so glad you stopped by today! I agree with you on that – Twitter is an awesome tool for syndicating our information. Especially if you want to get a quick reminder our about an event or other time sensitive information.
Glad you found it helpful and I look forward to having you stop by again real soon! Have a wonderful day.
I use two “tools”, depending upon the computer I employ. TweetDeck is a resource hog, but lets me read about 20 tweets in one fell swoop, so it saves me time.
I also get my tweets in a special Outlook list, which lets me seek out key words (that I choose at the moment) for special replies.
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Sounds like a good system Roy. I always say whatever works is best. Especially when it comes to social media – we all have to find what tools and systems will help us so we are not devoured by social media madness.
Thanks for stopping in today and sharing your comments. Hope you are having a great day.
Hi Lynn
I love Twitter too and I am on a few times every day, I like to spend about 10-15mins 2 or 3 times a day to catch up and reply to my retweets etc.
I did not think of making lists so thanks for sharing that I will start doing that today
Hope you have a great weekend
Pauline
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Let me know Pauline what you think about the Twitter lists when you start using them. I really do love them especially when I want to catch up with certain groups of people. And I like you schedule, I do something similar. I call it my 30/30 plan. 30 minutes in the morning (for all my social sites) and 30 minutes in the evening. It has really helped to keep me focused on my business in between!
So glad that you stopped by today and I am looking forward for you to visit again soon. Thank you for the weekend wishes. So far it has been a good one! Hope yours is too.
I follow you isn’t that enough?
Still not sure I want to concentrate on Twitter but just bought something to help me bring some of these features to my blog
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That’s true Roberta, I only need you, lol!! I wasn’t a huge fan of Twitter at first, but within the last year I can’t tell you how many more connections I have made. And it is a great research source also I love it when I need to get ideas, suggestions and ask for help. Give it a try Roberta, let me know if I can help. What tool did you buy?
Lynn, I love your tip on following power Tweeters in your niche. If you organize them in a list, then it is easier to engage them, because you see what they tweet.
I found that I can only keep up with about 200 people (that is keep up, not engage, chat and be bffs with). If you follow thousands of people you absolutely need to have lists to keep up with them.
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Great point Daphne. It is yet another reason why Twitter lists are a must for online businesses. I too only keep up with a few hundred out over 5000+ followers. BUT, as you know, when you are engaging with any of your friends or followers, it also gets shared to their followers. That is why Twitter is so powerful and a really good business strategy to include.
So much appreciate you stopping by today and sharing your awesome advice. Always good to see you and thanks again Daphne for sharing this on your Facebook too! Sharing is caring and giving
I just love twitter for both personal and professional reasons. It is an amazing vehicle to use. I also like to use the buffer tool with it along with Social Bro. Social Bro calculates the best times for you to tweet and sets it up with Buffer so your tweets can go out on that timed schedule. You can do up to 10 per day for FREE too. It does drive traffic to my blog and also a retail site where we have made direct sales from it. It’s just amazing.
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That is great information you are sharing Lisa! I love Buffer as well. Scheduling tweets is a time saver. I personally use MarketMeSuite but sounds like you have a great program that works. As they say, if it works don’t fix it!
Thanks so much Lisa for sharing your good advice and always happy to see you here and on Twitter!!