How to get 10,000 followers on Twitter!

Posted by Josh on March 21, 2010 · View Comments 

For some people, they still ask the question. What’s is this Twitter thing?

“Twitter is a real-time information network powered by people all around the world that lets you share and discover what’s happening now.

Twitter asks “what’s happening” and makes the answer spread across the globe to millions, immediately.” – Twitter.com

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Ok… thanks Twitter… but what does that mean? What can it do for my business? is it effective? How much time do I have to spend doing this thing before it starts to generate income?

Let’s answer these questions starting with the most important being how much time before I see results?

How much time do I have to spend on twitter before it generates income? – MONTHS! YEARS!! you have to follow people in order to get followed back in most cases. You need to be constantly tweeting in order to be seen, and you need to interact with people who “mention you” in keeping context with what was said so you’re account doesn’t just seem like some robot.

Or you could automate much of this process…

I follow 800 NEW TARGETED leads a day! sounds like a lot of work… it is for those who don’t yet automate this. With the click of one button I follow 800. that’s right! One Click 800 new people I am following based on keywords. Statistically 1/3 of them will follow you back.  If you’re a local store that everyone likes and you’re following based on geographically area as well, your stats will probably be Higher. MUCH higher.

Is it effective for business? – ABSOLUTELY!
People Love social networking… and in my opinion. Most people have a very short attention span, so you the micro blogging is a great way to effectively get information. It’s like, Get to the point already. With the limited space per micro blog or “tweet” you are FORCED to simply say what you want or need to say in one to two sentences.  Take this article for example… you can click the Tweet button on this page, and it tweets just the topic. If a person is interested… they’ll read the whole thing… Please, tweet this article right now and see the interface with twitter.

So let’s look at another aspect of this, let’s so you paid 140 dollars to get 10,000 followers.  20 dollars per month for one year. If after that year, you said, 10,000… that’s plenty, I don’t need or want anymore. You simple stop paying for this particular auto service and guess what… YOU STILL have 10,000 followers.

that’s what I call Non-Perishable Marketing! who wants to do something once and have it work for you for a lifetime. I know I do, I want to get paid on my work week after week after week. Not once.  So when I set up my repeat tweets, I set it up where my twitter automation tool will “re-tweet” things like, Check out my blog… visit me online… buy my book… various quotes or things people will find interesting. NOT ONCE… but let’s say I owned a resturaunt and we had a promotion to upgrade a small to a medium cup, or medium to large. I would  set up a tweet for every Monday morning to say “FREE upgrade on any size coffee this morning” and it would tweet that every week at 8am on Monday morning.  That’s POWERFUL!

Let’s say I’m a pastor…. a pastor? yes, a pastor! Every Sunday at 7, 8, 9, and 10 AM I want to tweet “Visit our Church in person or online at http://www.MyChurch.com”

Let’s say I am a roofer, plumber, painter, electrician, lawyer, doctor, dentist, teacher, bar tender, you name it! Anyone who wants to create a following of loyal, interested people. Develop better connections and create better customer experiences NEEDS to use a tool like this.

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12 Ways To Do Social Media Marketing With Twitter

Posted by Josh on December 31, 2009 · View Comments 

Twitter is a wildly popular microblogging service. It involves writing Tweets, which are short updates of a maximum of 140 characters that tell your followers what you are up to. Although your Tweets are technically supposed to answer the question, “What are you doing?” Twitter has moved far beyond that. Tweets are used to share stories, link to photos, promote content, break news, and a whole lot more. Twitter has also become an incredibly important tool for social media marketing professionals. Here are 12 ways in which Twitter can be used in your social media marketing campaign.

1. Sharing Links to Items of Interest

As soon as you read something online that you think is interesting, it is easy to share it on Twitter with all of your followers. Twitter is highly effective in this manner because it is such a quick way to be able to reach a large group of people. You can also get a lot of great ideas for blog posts from Twitter since many new ideas and stories are floating around that haven’t even made it to the blogosphere and definitely not to mainstream media.

2. Building Your Network

Using Twitter is a great way to build your network because it allows you to find and follow people with similar interests. You can use Steeple to find people who live in your geographical area. You can also use other tools that help you find new people to follow based upon who your Twitter friends follow.

3. Build Relationships within Your Current Network

People in different networks often use Twitter to connect with their contacts instantly rather than using instant messaging for that purpose. Furthermore, many people use Twitter to connect with their network during events like conferences.

4. Re-Distributing Content from Your Blog or Website

Twitter can be used to redistribute content from your blog or website. However, you should take care to do this thoughtfully since many of your Twitter followers may already read your blog. For that reason, you may want to avoid using a blog plug-in that automatically Tweets your posts. Your best bet is to Tweet your content manually and customize each Tweet so it doesn’t get old.

5. Get Involved in Live Tweeting Events

Twitter launched at SXSW last year, catapulting microblogging conferences to fame. Live Tweeting events are great because they are a form of citizen journalism that allow you to connect with several new people in your niche while making active and valuable contributions to current discussions in your community.

6. Pitching Stories to Journalists on Twitter

You can send a direct message to a journalist who is following you on Twitter to pitch a story idea.

7. Communicating with Your Team

You can use Twitter as a company intranet that connects all of your employees. Twitter can be particularly useful in this regard if you have a virtual business with employees in different geographical locations. You can set your updates to private for security reasons. Anytime you are working on group projects, you can stay in touch with your team members using Twitter.

8. Brand Monitoring

Stay up to date with any mentions of your business on Twitter. If there is anything negative, you will be able to counter it quickly. You can also use Twitter as a way to receive feedback from your customers and improve your business. Just ask your followers to give their opinion on something. For example, if you designed a new website, ask your followers what they think about it and get their constructive criticisms so you can make your site design even better.

9. Acquire More Votes on Social Media Websites

If you have submitted a story to Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, or any other social voting website, tweet a link to that submission to try to score more votes from your followers. If your followers like what they see, they are sure to vote for your content.

10. Hiring People

Looking for a programmer, designer, or writer? Whatever type of professional you seek, try finding them on Twitter. Simply send your followers a tweet telling them you are looking for someone for a job. They can either recommend someone to you or offer themselves for the job. Using Twitter in this way is ideal for finding qualified freelancers. It is much more convenient than putting out a classified ad.

11. Build Your Personal Brand

When you use Twitter to talk about things as mundane as what you ate for breakfast or how you are going to sleep early tonight, you make your followers feel like you are casual and approachable. Even those with running a company that has a cold, corporate brand image could create more appeal and build a unique personal brand using Twitter.

12. Streamline Electronic Communications

When you use Twitter, you’re likely to find yourself using IM, email, and other electronic communication methods less. Twitter not only provides public chatting through Tweets, it also allows you to send direct messages. Twitter will help you streamline your electronic communications, allowing you to scale back online.

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