Another Dose of Twitter Tips

Gain more reach through retweets

A retweet is when some­one you are fol­low­ing adds RT to the front your tweet…big whoop!! Right? Well actu­ally it is because those two let­ters send your tweet off to the retweeter’s net­work and is one of the ways infor­ma­tion goes viral ( spreads fast).There’s a catch tho’ just because you tweet or ask for a RT doesn’t mean that your pre­cious tweet will be spread around. So there are some sim­ple points to keep in mind when you tweet:

• Show lots of tweet luv– tweet about some­thing inter­est­ing or use­ful some­thing that oth­ers may like to know. In other words give value when you tweet.
• Keep your tweets short enough to allow retweet­ing. When peo­ple RT you their user name gets added to your tweet…it doesn’t take long before your pre­cious tweet starts get­ting sliced and diced leav­ing only a series of user names fol­lowed by gibberish.
• Always Ask for a retweet by pref­ac­ing your tweet with Please, stud­ies have shown the fre­quency of RTs is directly related tothe use of Please.
• Be real, be human when you tweet the same way you would be if met this per­son at the old net­work­ing meetings.
• RT other’s tweets when they have value espe­cially to your network.

Build your twitcred

• It is not about the numbers…it is about con­nec­tion. Don’t worry about num­bers, focus on find­ing the right fol­low­ers and giv­ing them value…your fol­low­ers will increase organ­i­cally as your value increases.
• Your value is directly related to your human­ity your heart­ness which is your authenticity
• Have strat­egy for select­ing and fol­low­ing and stick to it. If you want to build a net­work of buy­ers then seek them out and fol­low them.
• Just because some­one fol­lows you doesn’t mean you have to fol­low them. If you want to serve a par­tic­u­lar group of buy­ers and poten­tial buy­ers don’t be afraid to not fol­low or even block fol­low­ers who are obvi­ously not appro­pri­ate for you and your fol­low­ers. You will get some leak­age of high rollers, inter­net mar­keters and political/religious cra­zies …you have the power to block or not fol­low them.

• Think about your followers…why should they fol­low you? Because you are interesting,
• Your infor­ma­tive, your interactive,you’r not con­stantly promoting,You use Direct Mes­sages (DM) for conversations,
• Have a com­mu­nity build­ing con­test for your fol­low­ers. Base your con­test on retweets, or  the num­ber of their own fol­low­ers they can bring to an event.