It is a well known fact that Twitter can generate more traffic to your website. More traffic as we know means more conversions, more conversions of subscribers or sales. So it behooves us to understand how we can get more followers in Twitter. Here are a number of tips that will help you get more followers.
1. Bio
Make sure you take the time to compose a Twitter bio that will portray the message that you want others to know about you. What do you want them to know about you that are pertinent to your online business or other wards? Your bio will inspire people to follow you or not. Take the time to make it count.
2. Tweet
Have you made any tweets before following people and hoping they will follow you back? Besides a bio that tells people about you or your business you should have some tweets that will also inspire confidence in you. Your tweets should be about your business. Links to your website or an article you wrote to show who you are.
3. Build rapport
Many people make the mistake to just sell to the people that follow you on Twitter. You want to build a relationship. If you write or find articles that will benefit your followers tweet them. If you find humor or other things that you think your followers could enjoy or benefit from then tweet them. Links to YouTube videos or other helpful resources are good.
4. Captivate
Your tweet should be captivating like the headline of an article or the subject line of an email. Show that you can grab people’s interest. Since you have a limited number of characters you can use you should shorten your links. We will discus programs that will help with your Twitter account in another tip.
5. “Share the Love”
Re-tweet other people’s tweets and some will return the favor, which will expose you to other people who may then decide to follow you. When people do re-tweet your tweets then you should thank them. It only takes a minute to click a button and say thank you.
6. Reply to people’s tweets
Give them a compliment or thank them for sharing. These people may also decide to send you @ messages, which will also make their followers aware of you. Remember that you are part of a community and you can build valuable relationships.
7. Follow the rules
Follow all of Twitter’s rules about following and un-following. Don’t become too aggressive or your account will be suspended. Try to keep to a 1 to 1.5 ratio.
8. Don’t spam!
Don’t be known as a spammer. If you plan on using Twitter to market something, try to keep a ratio of about one marketing message for every 10 or so tweets. If all you do is try to sell people something, they will stop following you. Doing nothing but marketing tweets could get you labeled as a spammer, which could result in being banned. Remember Twitter is about being social first and then if you do any marketing, second.
9. Use software
If you are using Twitter to market then look into software to do your Twitter work for you. There is one free website that can really help you use Twitter with more efficiency, Hootsuite.com. This service will post Tweets to a number of services for you. You will also be able to schedule your tweets so you can take your time to set up a day’s worth or more of tweets.
10. Targeted followers
There are a number of paid software programs that will find targeted followers for you based on keyword or associations. It will manage the following and unfollowing of the people so you won’t have to go through hundreds and thousands of emails clicking on the follow link. You can schedule tweets and much more. Review a number of these programs, automate Twitter and save your time.
Now over to you – are you having success with Twitter? Share your experiences!
Author Bio: Bill Wynne has been marketing online for over a decade and is successful in a number of niche markets.
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