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BIG News: My First Webinar Is On January 16th

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I am excited to say that I will be answering Twitter related questions on a webinar hosted by Katie Swinehart. The webinar takes place on January 16th from 7 pm to 8 pm EST, and you can sign up to the live webinar here. The webinar is free for all. In the webinar, I will answer questions, reveal tactics that made me successful on Twitter, and tell you about a $7 coupon code for my Twitter Domination Training Course.

If you want to learn tactics that will get you a targeted following and increase your engagement on Twitter, go here to sign up for the free webinar.

 

5 Places To Get Good Statistics

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I am a big fan of statistics. I use statistics for all of my social networks, all of my YouTube videos, and for this blog as well. These are 10 places that I use to look at my statistics:

  1. WordPress provides so many statistics that it’s mind-boggling. You get to find out how your visitors were referred to your blog, which of your blog posts are the most popular, who’s subscribed to your blog, which countries visitors are from, what people click on once they get to your blog, and search engine terms people use to get to your blog.

You get to see all of the websites and search engines that refer traffic to your blog. My favorite part about this feature is that you also get to see which social networks are referring traffic. I know when Twitter is referring traffic and how many people came from Twitter in a particular day. When you get traffic from Pinterest, you also get to see which pins are referring people to your blog. You also get to see how many times an individual pin gets clicked on.

You also get to see your top posts and pages. If one of your posts is doing very well compared to the others, that is the content your visitors want to see more often. If you write a blog post similar to your popular blog post, that blog post will increase your traffic.

You also get to see which links on your blog are getting clicked. You’ll be able to identify which of your products are the most popular, and this will allow you to learn about where your sales are coming from. You will also be able to learn which of your social network icons is getting clicked on the most.

For blog subscribers, you get to see how long it has been since they subscribed to your blog. You get to see the number of hours, weeks, months, and years since they subscribed to your blog.

Most search engine terms are going to remain as unknown, but some search engine terms will show up. Those are the search engine terms that you should build your blog around, and they should appear as tags on your blog.

2. TwitterCounter is great for Twitter. You get to see how many people followed you on a particular day, the number of people you followed on a particular day, and the number of times you tweeted on a particular day. Free users get access to up to 6 months of their history while Premium users get more features such as statistics for mentions, retweets, and more than 6 months of statistics. TwitterCounter provides all of its users with estimations of when they will reach certain milestones. If you want to know when you will reach 1,000 followers, TwitterCounter will give you an estimate. TwitterCounter’s estimations are based on the average change in followers every week. Higher milestone estimates become available as you get more followers. When you get in the thousands, your milestones are going to be in factors of 500 (8,000 followers, then 8,500 followers, etc). When you reach 10,000 followers, your milestones are going to be in factors of 1,000 (11,000 followers, then 12,000 followers, etc). If you want to reach a certain number of followers before the New Year, looking at the milestones will help you determine if what you are doing right now will allow you to accomplish that goal.

3. PinAuthority is similar to TwitterCounter, but it works for Pinterest. Unlike most places where you can check Pinterest statistics, PinAuthority is free and provides statistics for up to 3 months. However, there are some problems with PinAuthority. The first problem is that once your statistics get updated, they can’t be updated until the next day. The second problem is that you have to manually check in on PinAuthority every day in order to get the statistics that TwitterCounter automatically provides for you. There are paid options that are better than PinAuthority such as Pin Reach, but PinAuthority will provide more statistics than any other free Pinterest statistics site. Pinterest is a new social network, and there aren’t any free Pinterest statistics websites like TwitterCounter just yet.

4. You can’t call yourself a statistics guy or gal if you don’t know about Bitly. Bitly provides statistics for the number of clicks based on intervals of 30 days, 14 days, 7 days, 24 hours, and the past hour. Bitly allows you to see which of your links are popular and where people are clicking those links. Just like WordPress, you get to see all of the referrers, but in addition to seeing the referrers, Bitly organizes the data into a pie chart. Right now, the referral traffic I get from Twitter looks like a Pac-Man compared to my other sources of traffic for my Bitly links. There is also a pie chart that allows you to see which countries these people are coming from. You can even track the statistics for individual links. Bitly provides a lot of amazing statistics, and it’s also a URL shortener for all of those long links.

5. Pin Alerts only offers one statistic, but the statistic they offer is crucial towards success. Pin Alerts sends an email informing you when something on your website gets pinned. You get informed about when your website was pinned, a link to the board that the pin resides, a link to the pin, and the person who pinned your pin. Pin Alerts allows you to receive this information, and if you keep all of Pin Alerts’ emails together, you can create a list of your fans who are on Pinterest. You can follow all of the people who pinned a picture from your website, and you can share the pin since you have the link. If your website has pictures and a Pin It button, then you really need to use Pin Alerts.

How To Build Connections With The Right People On Twitter

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There is that person we want to contact. That person may be a social media expert, an author, a sports analyst, or someone else. Before you use the methods I am going to share, it’s important to find the right people to build the connections with. If you don’t like music, trying to build a connection with someone who likes music isn’t going to work. Finding the right people to connect with is a starting point.

When you find the right people to connect with, check their past tweets and see if they have had any conversations. The more conversations someone has on Twitter, the more likely they are to respond to one of your tweets. If someone doesn’t respond too often, you should still try to make the connection if you want to, but you’re not as likely to get a response.

The next way to build the connection is by tweeting something that will continue the conversation. Saying “@ThePerson, I am your biggest fan!!!” or “@ThePerson, thanks for following me!” might get a thank you in return. Those kind of conversations aren’t going to continue for a long period of time.

A good way to get someone to notice you is by praising their work. When you recommend one of their products, don’t say, “Product By The Person.” Instead of that, say, “Product By @ThePerson.” @ThePerson will respond, and then you ask them a question to continue the conversation. Here are some examples of good questions:

1. What gave you the inspiration to do what you do? 

2. Would you like to be interviewed for my blog? 

3. What advice would you give to a beginner? 

4. When are you coming out with a new product? I’ll be the first person to buy it. 

5. What would you recommend? (books, movies, blogs, etc but only pick one to ask @ThePerson)

Who are you trying to build connections with on Twitter? You can use the Q&A Part of this blog or leave a comment so I can help out (but only if you want the help). I will also respond to your tweets.

Did You Notice This New, Colossal Twitter Update?

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Twitter came out with a new update last week, and it’s not big. It’s colossal. You may have seen it on your timeline. You may have used it yourself. Whether you’ve heard of it or not, it’s colossal.

The days of clicking pic.twitter.com to see pictures are over. Any picture posted on Twitter becomes part of the tweet. This will allow more people to see your pictures faster. Some people don’t have the patience to constantly click the pic.twitter.com link. However, this new update allows the patient and the impatient to see your pictures.

This update provides convenience because it removes a step for your followers. That means more retweets, more favorited tweets, and more followers.

This update is also colossal for the people who pay for promoted tweets. Tweets with pictures now take up more space on the timeline. A picture will allow an advertiser to get more space on someone’s timeline. This will result in more people looking at the tweet and a better ROI for the advertiser.

Pictures are now a lot easier to view. The next update may make it easier to view videos. Whether Twitter has more updates like this or not, Twitter is taking steps towards convenience which are going to help all of us big time.

5 Proven Methods To Get More Retweets On Twitter

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Twitter is a powerful social network, and retweets are an important factor towards how well you do on Twitter. Although it helps, you don’t need a giant following in order to get more retweets. You can get more retweets with under 100 followers. These are the 5 proven methods to get more retweets on Twitter:

  1. Add good pictures because they make a difference. If you average 1 retweet per tweet, the picture is going to get you 5 or more retweets if it’s really good.
  2. Tweet inspirational quotes. When I first started on Twitter, I wasn’t getting retweets for any of the blog posts (including ones not on this blog) I tweeted about. The tweets that were getting retweeted were the inspirational quotes. Now I send out 4 inspirational quotes every day, and a majority of those tweets get retweeted as well.
  3. If you decide you need to build a following in order to get more retweets, make sure your followers are interested in what you tweet about. Twellow is a great Twitter directory which breaks down its millions of members into different categories. You can find all of the social media experts, sports fans, and anyone else you would like to find. If those people are interested in what you tweet about, they are very likely to retweet what you tweet as well.
  4. #Use #Hashtags because they have been proven to get more retweets. These statistics provided by HubSpot prove my point. However, it’s important that you don’t use too many hashtags in a single tweet. My recommendation is to never go over two hashtags in a tweet.
  5. Tweet consistently because people need to see you. The more people see you, the more they will trust you. If you have one of Apple’s products, you probably bought it because you’ve seen Apple a lot. You’ve seen them in the commercials and their retail stores (which always seem to be crowded). When people see you on your timeline a lot, you are more likely to get retweeted because that trust grows.

What Do You Wish You Knew Earlier?

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There are a lot of things I wish I knew earlier. There are probably some things you wish you knew about earlier as well.

I wish I knew about the method I use to get over 100 followers on Twitter every day earlier. My method involves following people who have similar interests and unfollowing the people who don’t follow you back.

What do you wish you knew? Please comment on what you wish you knew earlier so everyone can read a giant list. You may know something right now that someone wishes they knew.