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3 Things About Twitter You Are Mixing Up

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Twitter Confusion

Twitter is a bustling social network that can be very helpful for your business. Many business owners and entrepreneurs create Twitter accounts hoping to be successful right away following an easy method. These people quickly learn that success on Twitter is not linear. It involves twists and turns, getting lost, and finding your way. Some people hear about different methods about growing their Twitter presence but get those methods mixed up. These are the three common methods that people get mixed up.

  1. Using too many hashtags. Twitter users learn that hashtags are good for SEO on Twitter, but that results in some users including too many hashtags in their tweets. Most of your tweets should only have 1 hashtag, and you should have no more than two hashtags in the same tweet. Including 10 hashtags in the same tweet will make that tweet harder to read. If someone finds it difficult to read your tweet, that person won’t bother to finish reading that tweet…even if it is under 140 characters.
  2. Not tweeting about your blog enough. Remember that 80/20 rule where you only tweet about your blog 80% of the time? That rule is preventing your blog from getting more traffic. I decided to tweet about my blog 95% of the time (the only tweets without links to my blog posts are inspirational quotes). I get numerous messages every day about people being grateful for the content on this blog and for my tweets. The reason is that your followers do not care who wrote the content. They only care about the content’s value. If your blog posts are valuable, and your followers would enjoy reading them, you can share them on Twitter as many times as you want.
  3. Not tweeting about your products. There are many people who believe Twitter users would be unlikely to buy a product if you tweet it out. These people believe that you need to get these people to visit your blog and then buy your product that way. However, if you are selling a product for under $20, you can tweet out that product and make sales straight from Twitter. Tweeting out discounts and having a product that your target audience would enjoy will also help boost your sales.

Twitter mistakes are easy to find, but some people who think they are not making any mistakes are getting some things mixed up instead. By not getting these three things mixed up, you will be able to get more engagement from your Twitter audience. In addition, this engagement will help you get more blog traffic and sales.

 

10 Steps To Your First 1,000 Twitter Followers

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If you grow a big audience on Twitter, that audience has the potential to dramatically transform your business and get more people to know about you. Many people see growing an audience on Twitter as a challenging process. Some of the people who went through the challenging process now have thousands of followers while others are almost there. Regardless of whether you just started using Twitter or have hundreds of followers, you need to reach 1,000 Twitter followers as soon as possible. Here are the 10 steps that will allow you to get there:

  1. Follow people who are likely to follow back. When you follow people who are likely to follow back, be sure to follow the people who are interested in what you talk about. Take a look at their bios and some of the people they follow to determine whether these people would be interested in what you tweet about or not. Some of the people you follow will feel obligated to follow you back because they do not want to get unfollowed.
  2. Tweet often. Tweeting often is a great way to get noticed. The more you tweet, the more chances you have of getting a retweet. Retweets will allow your content to spread on Twitter and attract more followers.
  3. Tweet valuable content. Tweet the type of content that people would want to retweet. Motivational quotes, incredible articles, and videos are some of the things that people would want to retweet.
  4. Tweet with pictures. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. Tweeting with a picture will add more value to your tweet and boost your engagement. Tweets with pictures get 10% more engagement than tweets without pictures.
  5. Get people on your other social networks to follow you on Twitter. Your Facebook friends, people in your Google Plus circles, and Pinterest followers are some of the audiences who would follow you on Twitter. When you are trying to build an audience on your other social networks, you need to tell the audience you already have about your new account for a social network.
  6. Have conversations with others. Conversations allow you to build connections with your followers. You can also have conversations with people who are interested in what you do and can become a potential follower. It is easy to turn potential followers into followers. They just need to know about you, and having conversations with these people is a great way for them to learn about you. Here are some tips for starting a conversation on Twitter.
  7. Retweet other people’s tweets. If you are not retweeting a tweet once every week, then you are using Twitter wrong (if you’re going through my tweets…then you know what to do). When you retweet someone else’s tweet, that person will be grateful. If you retweet enough of someone’s tweets, that person will show their appreciation by following you. In addition, some people will follow you because they want their tweets to get retweeted as well.
  8. Pin your most popular tweet. Pinning your most popular tweet only allows that tweet to become more popular. When potential followers see your popular tweet, the tweet will automatically grab their attention, and then those people will follow you. A popular tweet indicates someone is popular on Twitter, and people tend to follow the accounts that are popular.
  9. Promote your Twitter account on your blog. Have a giant follow button on your blog that allows people to follow you on Twitter. Better yet, make sure people can follow you on Twitter without leaving your blog. This allows the connection to build.
  10. Get interviewed and interview others. The people who you interview or get interviewed by will tell their audience about you. Some of the people from those audiences will decide to follow you on Twitter. Here are some useful tips to finding people you can interview, getting them to accept the interview, and get people to interview you.

By implementing these steps, you will gain more Twitter followers every day. As you continue to gain more Twitter followers, you will eventually reach 1,000 followers. Surpassing the thousand mark is a big milestone that shows other people that you have the potential to thrive on Twitter. Having 1,000 Twitter followers puts you in the Top 5% of all of Twitter (based on the number of followers you have). That is a big accomplishment, and it is an accomplishment you will be able to realize by putting in the work. What are your thoughts on these steps? Do you have any additional steps you use to get more Twitter followers? Please share your thoughts and advice below.

 

5 Types Of Tweets You Would Want To Pin To The Top Of Your Feed

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Pinning A Tweet

Twitter’s new design came with a very powerful change: the ability to pin a tweet to the top of your profile. That means if you send out an important tweet, and you want everyone to see it, that can happen without people scrolling down to find the tweet. This tweet always appears on the top and instantly grabs attention as a pinned tweet. Pinned tweets get more engagement than the average tweet because while the average tweet has a certain life to it (a few hours), the pinned tweet never loses that life because it is always on the top of your Twitter feed.

However, there is no reason for pinning a tweet just for the sake of pinning a tweet. Some tweets deserve the spot while others don’t deserve it at all. You don’t want a conversation you had with someone to be your pinned tweet, but there are certain types of tweets that you want. Here are five of them.

  1. Your most popular tweet. If one of your tweets gets five times as many retweets as your typical tweet, then it is a very popular tweet. The popularity of that tweet will fade within a few hours as more tweets get posted on your profile and fewer people see the retweeted forms of your tweet. Pinning this kind of tweet will prevent the popularity of that tweet from fading.
  2. A tweet with your giveaway. It’s great to offer an Amazon Card giveaway. It’s bad if only one person retweets the tweet and you have to give the Amazon Card to that one person. Since you are giving something away, you want more engagement on Twitter. In order to boost the amount of engagement you get from a giveaway, pin the tweet about the giveaway so everyone who goes to your profile learns about the giveaway.
  3. A tweet with your product. If you want to boost sales for one of your products, send out a tweet about that product and then pin it to the top of your feed. Everyone who sees your feed will then see your product. When you pin a product tweet, make sure the product is a low-priced product that people would buy. The less expensive your product is, the more likely one of your followers is to buy it.
  4. A tweet of your most popular blog post. Your most popular blog post is bound to get more attention if you pin it to the top of your feed. You may end up turning that blog post so popular that it generates 10% of your blog’s traffic because of the search engines.
  5. A tweet of a news story. When there is a news story that is getting attention, pinning a tweet to the top of your profile will allow you to keep your followers updated without them having to scroll down to find the update. Doing this will encourage your followers to come back and visit your profile in the event that your pinned tweet changes based on how the news story develops.

Pinning tweets is a new advantage that we need to take advantage of so we can choose the tweets that get seen by the most people. What are your thoughts on pinning tweets? Do you have any additional tips on pinning tweets to get the best results? Please share your thoughts and advice below.

 

5 Ways To Use Your Social Networks To Promote Your YouTube Videos

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youtube trafficYouTube is a free and easy way to upload videos on the web that anyone can see. Getting a lot of people to view those videos is the hard part. Even though YouTube gets billions of unique visitors every month, some videos on YouTube have no views while others have less than 10 views. For a long time, I noticed a common trend with my YouTube videos: I was not getting a lot of views. I was able to get 20-35 views every day, but I knew that was not enough. When I looked at these statistics, I became committed from that point on to getting over 3,000 views on YouTube every month. It’s a starting point which will allow me to expand on YouTube.

In order to get these extra views, I went to the same source that made this blog popular: my social networks. Using my social networks to promote my YouTube videos had a big impact on the views, likes, and subscribers my channel received. Having 100,000 readers did help, but the main concept of using social networks is to reach out to the audience that you already have. These are the five ways that you can promote your YouTube videos on your social networks.

  1. Tweet about your YouTube videos at least four times every day. There’s nothing bad with tweeting a lot of content every day. On a typical day, I send out 90 tweets. No one seems to be bothered by it, and ever since I sent out that many tweets every day, I have been getting more engagement for those tweets and followers. As you upload more YouTube videos, you should also consider tweeting about five of your YouTube videos every day. The more the better, but it needs to be consistent.
  2. Pin your YouTube videos on Pinterest. On Pinterest, you have the option of pinning your YouTube videos on specific boards based on specific aspects of your niche. This allows you to specialize your YouTube videos and allow the ideal people in your targeted audience to see those videos. If you include an annotation in your video that allows people to subscribe to your channel by clicking the annotation, you will be able to get more YouTube subscribers right from Pinterest.
  3. Use a Facebook Page to promote your YouTube videos. Facebook is a social network that encourages oversharing. If you have a good YouTube video, people will be very likely to share that video. All it takes is the click of a button, and someone has shared your video with 20% of their friends. Then, as more people continue to share your video, it will go viral on Facebook and ultimately lead to thousands of views in a matter of hours.
  4. Use GooglePlus To Promote Your YouTube Videos. GooglePlus and YouTube are both Google products that have a big impact on where you appear on Google’s search engine. Using GooglePlus to promote your YouTube videos will give your videos an edge on Google’s search engine.
  5. Let’s not forget about YouTube as a social network! Many people forget that YouTube is a social network as well. People can comment on your videos, and you can respond to those comments just like any social network. At the end of all of your YouTube videos, you can promote six of your related YouTube videos. This will allow you to grab your viewer’s attention for a longer period of time.

Those are the five ways you can use social networks to promote your YouTube videos. Just by promoting my YouTube videos on my social networks to a small extent, I was able to get 50% more views for my videos. While I will easily be able to get 1,000 views this month, I envision myself following the same tactics and eventually getting 3,000 monthly views before the end of the year. In addition to promoting your YouTube videos with your social networks, it is also important to connect all of those social networks together in one of the greatest strategies of marketing known as Circular Viralocity. What are your thoughts on the list? Do you use other methods to promote your YouTube videos on your social networks? Please share your thoughts and advice below.

 

10 Real Ways To Get More Twitter Followers

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There are countless Google searches for phrases like, “How To Get More Twitter Followers,” “How To Get More Twitter Followers Fast,” and similar phrases as well. Searching through millions of articles can prove to be very tedious, and the more time you spend searching, the less time you spend implementing. I am going to end your searching journey by providing 10 real ways to get more Twitter followers. Instead of continuing to search for ways to get more Twitter followers, just implement these tactics.

  1. Follow targeted people who are likely to follow back. If you want to be the rock star with 100,000 followers while only following a few of your friends, then I have some bad news. Unless you buy fake followers (that don’t engage with you at all) or become a celebrity, that fantasy will not happen. You need to follow targeted people who are likely to follow you back so more people can know about you.
  2. Spread on Twitter. In order to spread on Twitter, you need to have a larger audience that will retweet more of your tweets. However, a large audience is not a do or die stage towards getting a lot of retweets. You can get more retweets by tweeting content that people would want to retweet such as informative articles, news stories, or motivational quotes. Here are some ways to boost your chances of getting more retweets.
  3. Strategically favorite and retweet other people’s tweets. Sharing other people’s content is powerful to build stronger connections with those people and get more followers at the same time. Since Twitter users send out 1 billion tweets every five days, there will be many tweets that are retweet worthy. However, it is important to avoid retweeting something just for the sake of retweeting it. Instead, retweet the tweets from people who you want to build strong connections with. There may be an expert in your niche with 100,000 followers who is following 60,000 people. Retweeting that person’s tweets and interacting with that person may result in that person following you back, sharing their advice, and promoting your content later on.
  4. Have a clear avatar of either you or your company’s logo. Having the right avatar builds authority on a crowded social network. People will trust you more if you have a picture of yourself or your company’s logo. If you have the default egg picture for your avatar, then that picture needs to get changed now.
  5. Have a good background picture. This background picture needs to further emphasize what you do. If you are a social media expert, then your background picture needs to further emphasize that you are a social media expert. You can also pay for someone to design a professional background that has a call to action, one of your products being displayed, and/or your contact information (other social networks, email address, etc).
  6. Have a powerful bio. Your bio is a very important factor that decides whether someone follows you or not. You have less than 10 seconds to impress someone with your 160 character bio. Your bio needs to explain what you do professionally, when you are not working, and some of your hobbies. These are some tactics to help your bio shine.
  7. Be an active tweeter. Being an active tweeter will allow yourself to appear on more people’s timelines at a greater frequency. If you tweet quality content, then your followers will enjoy receiving your tweets. You may wonder if being inactive may be a good thing. Being inactive means appearing on less people’s timelines which makes you less likely to get unfollowed on Twitter. However, there are a variety of popular tools such as ManageFlitter (which, by the way, has over 2 million users) that identify all of the inactive tweeters that people are following. When inactive tweeters get identified, the people following those tweeters realize that those tweeters are not offering any valuable content. As a result, those inactive tweeters get unfollowed. You should be tweeting at least once every day, but I highly recommend tweeting as much as you can. I tweet once every 20 minutes because I am able to schedule my tweets in advance. Scheduling tweets in advance is also a great way to get more engagement from your audience.
  8. Offer a giveaway. You don’t need to give away a Mac Book Air to get more engagement and followers from this giveaway. All you need to do is give away a $25 Amazon Gift Card. As strange as it may sound, a $25 Amazon Gift Card is a better giveaway than $50 in cash. People make cash from their jobs so $50 won’t mean much. However, they don’t get as many Amazon Gift Cards. Hosting a giveaway once every quarter will give people who followed you for the giveaway a reason to continue following you. While these people continue to follow you, chances are some of them will turn into customers.
  9. Have a blog. You can use this blog to promote your Twitter account, but more importantly, having a blog gives you a home on the web. You can write blog posts on your blog and then use Twitter to promote that blog. Then, when people visit your blog, you can include pictures of your products on your blog’s sidebar so you turn your visitors into potential customers.
  10. Tweet about the same topic 80% of the time. In order to get more followers, you need to focus most of your time on one topic. It is better to become the best person at one thing than it is to be decent at 10 things. In addition, your followers will not like it if you only tweet about sports on one day and then only tweet about fashion the following day. A confused follower clicks the unfollow button.

Your searching queries are now over. Instead of spending more time searching for ways to get more followers on Twitter, all you need to do is implement these tactics. No matter how much time you spend searching, there will be a point where you will have to implement what you learned. These are the tips to implement, and if you remain patient while implementing these tips, your following will eventually dramatically increase as the days go by.