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Why You Need To Be On Twitter

April 30, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

If you are not on Twitter, then you need to get on right away. Twitter has allowed small business owners, authors, entrepreneurs, and others to interact with customers on a large scale. Twitter’s character limitations make the giant social network simpler to understand than other social networks.

One of Twitter’s big features is the ability to create lists. You can use lists on Twitter to read tweets from desired users. You can put all of your customers on one list, and you can put all of your sources on another list. You have the choice to make your individual lists public or private. Many small business owners, entrepreneurs, and others use this feature to connect with customers at a faster rate and learn more about their niche.

In addition, Twitter will allow you to build connections who you do not know yet. I have been privileged with the ability to make thousands of new connections just from Twitter. The people I connect with on Twitter are eager to join in on conversations and share my content.

Twitter has allowed many people to put the “social” back into their businesses. In a world where there are too many automated telephone messages to count, the customer greatly appreciates it when they have a conversation with another person. Instead of listening to, “If you would like to schedule an appointment, press 1,” your customers will be able to read, “Let’s get a date for that appointment!”

Twitter is a powerful way to build your presence on the web. I have written multiple case studies about how Twitter has helped this blog, and I will write more as well. Most of the people who visit this blog came from Twitter. By sticking with Twitter and growing a strong presence on that social network, it will eventually be able to drive hundreds of daily visitors to your blog (then thousands).

There may be some people reading this blog post who have no interest in using Twitter for business. However, anyone can use Twitter to get real-time news. Twitter’s trending topics allow people to stay up to date with what is happening in the world. In addition, you can see what people in the world think and say about important events.

There are several other reasons to use Twitter as well, but know that if you do not have a Twitter account yet, you should get one as soon as possible.

The Day I Forgot To Schedule Tweets

April 24, 2014 by Marc Guberti 6 Comments

I will never forget the day that I forgot to schedule tweets. It started out as a typical day. Before going to school, I always check my statistics. I look at how many Twitter followers I gain, how many eBook sales I make, and my blog’s statistics as well. I happened to notice on one day that my blog only got 50 views at 7:30 am.

Since my blog tends to have more than 100 views at this time, I looked through my statistics to see if I could identify the problem. The problem was that I was not getting nearly as many visitors from Twitter as I normally got. I decided to look at my tweets thinking that I somehow forgot the link to my blog posts in those tweets or something along those lines. However, I quickly realized that I had not scheduled any tweets for the day. For the first time in several months (or maybe even a year), I had no scheduled tweets on HootSuite.

Here come the lessons. The first thing I took advantage of was HootSuite Pro. As a member, I knew the ropes well enough to schedule 24 tweets in 1 minute. Although I could not schedule any tweets in the morning, I had all of my tweets lined up from the afternoon and on.

This experience allowed me to deeply understand how important Twitter, and social media in general, is for my strategy. On that day, my blog got over 350 views because Twitter was able to kick in and save the day. However, I was able to get an idea of what traffic would look like without my social networks. Search engine traffic also contributed towards my blog’s increase in traffic, but the reason I get a lot of traffic from search engines is because of my social networks in the first place.

The big lesson is to never forget about your social networks. Although there may be some days when you do not feel like scheduling tweets or putting that pin up on Pinterest, continuing to use social networks will ultimately grow your presence in a big and powerful way. I was putting in the same amount of hours on Twitter back when I had 2,000 followers (also because I needed more time to learn and utilize cool tools) as I do now (now I gain more than 2,000 followers every 4 days).

Never forget your social networks. They have the power to put you on the map and get people to talk about you.

4 Ways To Find People To Talk To On Twitter

April 5, 2014 by Marc Guberti 10 Comments

Many people use Twitter to build strong connections with like-minded people. These connections tend to lead to more business opportunities, traffic, and sales. Ironically, a big challenge on Twitter is trying to find people to talk to. Even though there are hundreds of millions of people on Twitter, some people do not know how to talk to and find like-minded people on Twitter. In this blog post, I am going to show you four ways to find the people that you need to talk to on Twitter.

Use Twitter’s search engine to find individuals. If you want to find entrepreneurs, search the word entrepreneur. After the big guys and magazines come up, there will be other entrepreneurs on the list who will commonly talk with their followers. Those are the people you need to talk with.
Use Twitter’s search engine to find individual tweets. If you want to see tweets in real time for a certain word or phrase, you can search for tweets with that word or phrase using Twitter’s search engine. Before interacting with a tweet, be sure to look at the person’s profile and determine if this is someone you want to build a strong connection with. Then, reply to that tweet and wait for the person to respond.
Follow the followers of someone else. If you find someone you want to talk to, and that person has over 100,000 followers, follow that person’s followers. Some of those people will be entrepreneurs who will follow you back. When these people follow you back, start a conversation with those people.
Talk with like minded followers. Every Twitter user has a list of people who they can talk to, and that is their followers. No matter how big or small that list is, there are going to be like minded followers on that list. By building strong connections with these followers, you will learn how to develop strong connections with others as well.

Those are the four ways to find people to talk to on Twitter. What are your thoughts about the list? Are there any other tips you would like to add? Please share your thoughts below.

How To Get More Blog Traffic From Twitter

April 3, 2014 by Marc Guberti 20 Comments

Twitter is my favorite social network on the web. When utilized properly, Twitter can become a powerful way for you to get more traffic. Most of the people who visit my blog come from Twitter. In a given day, more than 50% of the people who visit my blog came from Twitter. I am going to share with you how I was able to go from getting 0 visitors on my blog from Twitter to getting hundreds of daily visitors just from Twitter alone.

There are three main components that allowed me to see a big transformation in my blog’s traffic, my books’ sales, and my blog’s Alexa rank. The first component towards my blog’s success on Twitter was that I decided to follow targeted followers instead of just following anyone on Twitter. I am not “following random people.” I am following people who are already interested in what I tweet about before they click the follow button. This has led to me making strong connections with renowned entrepreneurs and social media experts.

The second component towards my blog’s success on Twitter is that I sent out tweets at a frequent and consistent pace. Every 30 minutes, I send out a tweet. I send out tweets in the middle of the day, but I also send them out on midnight. If it is midnight at one location, it is the middle of the day in another location. I was amazed when someone tweeted that he would be going to bed at around 6 pm. Then, I realized that person lived in another continent and that 6 pm was really 11 pm where that person lives.

The third component towards my blog’s success on Twitter is being persistent. Doing this for one day will not bring forth a dramatic change. You will most likely experience a big change on the first day you implement these tactics, but then it may take months of consistently following targeted people and scheduling tweets until you see the next dramatic rise in traffic. I am assure you that each dramatic rise in traffic that you experience is better than the last.

What are your thoughts about the components I have used? Do you have any other tips and suggestions to add? Share your thoughts and advice below.

The Biggest Twitter Challenge And How To Overcome It

March 28, 2014 by Marc Guberti 10 Comments

Out of all of the challenges that are involved with creating a Twitter account and being successful, the most challenging part is consistently tweeting and being active even when your follower number is not very high. Even though you are putting in a lot of work, you may only get one or no retweets from your efforts.

This is the biggest challenge. However, if you are tweeting consistently throughout the day, some of your followers will notice. As they engage in your tweets, have conversations with those followers. The conversations you start can build strong connections between you and the follower. By doing this enough times, you will have a retweeting army who will retweet you at will.

The main reason people are not getting a lot of Twitter followers is because we all want to become the person with 100,000 followers while only following 1 person. We need to follow targeted followers in big quantities in order to reach 100,000. Find someone in your niche with over 100,000 real followers, and follow that person’s followers who are likely to follow back. Tweepi is a great tool that gives you a big list of someone’s followers. As you follow people who are likely to follow back, your follower count will rise. In addition, more of your followers will engage in your tweets and have conversations with you.

The biggest challenge on Twitter is to work hard even when you do not have a big audience. If you continue to work hard and gradually build your audience, the same work you were putting in a few months ago will result in multiple retweets for every tweet, more conversations, and a targeted following who loves what you tweet about.

Why Having A Private Twitter Account Hurts A Lot

January 31, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

There is a feature on Twitter that some people use to make their accounts private. Other people probably forgot people make their Twitter accounts private. It is not a popular practice, but the people with private accounts are getting hurt by a lot.

The first and biggest problem is that a request needs to be sent to someone before you can follow them. Clicking the Follow button is not enough to see the person’s tweets on your timeline. By the time someone with a private account approves a request, that person may have forgotten about the private account already. Having to send a request discourages people from clicking the follow button.

The second problem is that people often wondering why a private account needs to be private. It’s doubtful that information about nuclear weapons is being exchanged by the private accounts on Twitter. There are some private accounts that send out good tweets, but many of them send out tweets that they don’t want particular people to read. Even if you are a private account that tweets like any public account, you’re in the category of hiding something from the masses.

The third problem is that people looking at a private profile do not have strong motives towards following that person. The only motives someone has towards following a private account is the username, bio, and avatar. There are no tweets that will help out towards the decision of whether or not to click the follow button.

There will still be some people who will keep their accounts private, but do so at your risk. Private accounts may allow you to keep your tweets a secret from the public, but they don’t lead to an accumulation of followers.