Get Our 11 Hottest Insider Tips for Twitter Success, Volume II
Posted by AC Editorial Team in Affiliate Marketing, Best Business Practices, Web 2.0 Marketing, Weekly eNewsletter Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:35 56 Comments
Our Twitter expert David received a deluge of questions after posting his first Twitter tip sheet last week. So here are a few more of his key Twitter practices.
Remember, David uses these same practices for Lurn’s Twitter. These are best practices for building long-term high-payout Twitter accounts.
Read them below:
1. Avoid automation. People instantly unfollow people who write like bots. Demonstrate that you’re human by writing each of your tweets. It’s one thing if you write them and schedule them to go out later, but don’t publish automatic prescripted tweets.
2. Be personal. Personal tweets let people see who you are. If your tweets are just about your niche, then followers may think you’re just a robot. Lesson: Post occasional tweets that aren’t strictly about your niche.
3. Be a copywriter. To write effective tweets, learn about and use fundamental copywriting techniques. Write tweets so effective that even you would want to click on them.
4. Adopt it. Tweeting is a new form of writing, so make your own conclusions as to the fastest way to improve. But one great way to develop your own writing style is by adopting great techniques you see in others’ posts.
5. Be familiar. After you’ve mastered how to get people to click on your links, standardize your writing style so that your followers become familiar with your voice. When followers know what to expect, reading your tweets can become part of their daily routine.
6. Big message in small ways. If there’s a big event going on – a big launch maybe – the best way to promote it is to direct your followers to your blog. On your blog, you can update as much as you like. Twitter is not the place to publish updates every half hour.
7. Branch out. Use Twitter as a tool in your marketing toolbox, not as a complete business model.
8. Slide in. Twitter is great for opening up dialogue with big names in your niche, even JV (Joint Venture) partners. JV partners are effective marketers who can help launch your products. Ease your way into relationships with them by answering questions they ask in Twitter. In responding to them by tweet, you are helping them gain popularity.
9. Build better business partners. When you follow people you become familiar with their views and interests. Reading people’s tweets will help prepare you for meeting people face-to-face. You will discover common ground for discussion and relationship building.
10. Appreciate Twitter culture. Follow Friday is an example of how to use Twitter quirks to strengthen your relationship with your followers. Follow Friday is when members recommend other Twitterers to follow. Try recommending four or five people who you feel others will get value from following. Participating in Follow Friday is a great way to fit into the Twitter community.
11. Email it, blog it. Include your Twitter URL in the signature of your emails and blog posts.
Time to Get Started!
If you haven’t already, sign up for a free Twitter account at: http://www.Twitter.com.
Once you’re set up, start tweeting! Use the 11 tips above to make the most of your account!
Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lurn_inc & http://twitter.com/affclassroom.
Hi David,
Thanks for the eleven great tips in this report. I know now that I need to change my way of tweeting. I think I have developed bad tweeting habits. This will help me so much. Thanks again for your help.
John
Hello,
This is Karen Bracey in vancover,b.c. The home of the ‘2010′winter olympics. I am
very interested of being an affiliate. What exactly would I have to do?
Sincerely,
Karen Bracey
for.theloveofmoney@hotmail.com
You guys always share the neatest stuff. I was so looking forward to meeting you both in San Diego and also in Las Vegas.
So Sorry we have not yet connected.
Looking to the good always, and your tips above, phenomenal.
You can find me at http://www.twitter.com/TanyaChadwick
Hugs and smiles
See you on the flip side
PS PPC Classroom rocks
Many thanks for this excellent advice…
People are getting tired of being spammed via tweets that come in on a regular basis all day, everyday from many different sources.
When will tweeters realise that they are actually putting people off their biz opportunity using this method?
Does more to detract than attract!
Cheers
Maggie
Gold Coast, Australia
Great tips! Thanks!
I especially like #9…very helpful.
We do a lot of this work on behalf of clients (as Twitter copywriters). Posting @replies, RTs, FF mentions, etc.. each day.
I agree that it is absolutely critical to have a human voice. I would also like to point out that it is important to be as targeted as possible with your follower build. Sure you can use a bot to grow your followers quickly, but if the followers are not real humans willing to pay for your services, then the work is worthless.
Lots of great info here…thanks.
- Rob
rob@catfishsoftware.com
http://www.catfishsoftware.com/twitter
Hi Guys,
thank you for the insight on tweeting, as sometimes we forget the basics in developing relationships.
Kind regards & good health,
Darren C.
Thank you for the information!
Thanks for sharing this secrets of Twitter and I have learn good thing from it.
Thanks Again.
thanks alot
Thank you for the 11 tips. As a twitter user (Makkinart) I enjouy testing myself to see how well I am doing. I pass, but need to tweet more often and socialize more. I want to remind you that you are providing a very valuable service. Thanks again,
Mary MacIntyre
Thanks to David for the tips.
They could make a useful series of Tweets – educate those spammers!!
Always good to pick up new tips about Twitter. With things changing so fast every little bit of help can come in handy. Thanks.
Hi David,
Those are some great tweets. I would be interests to hear what you think is a good average ratio of personal tweets, tweets with no links to commercial tweets type thing.
I notice I take a greater interest in people that only tweet commercial messages about 20 – 25% of the time.
It’s a bit like Mike Filsaime, I love his content and the products he does but he really hammers out the commercial messages in the email. Which is a bit annoying, I would love to know if he’s tested increased content messages in his email campaigns and found out income actually drops.
Thanks again for some great information. Shout out to Anik to that was fantastic how you pimped your staff’s blogs that gave me and my friends a really good impression of the kind of person you are, if you do that for your staff, you must be a genuine nice person even though it had promotional value for you, it definitely seemed sincere.
Kind Regards
Josh Denning
Great tips for becoming 100% twitter spammer. I like it
Thanks for the tips. They are always welcomed and enlightening. Being new to the internet business I need every edge I can get. Thanks a million……………..Warren
hey i just wanted to say thanks for the good information. i am trying to build my twitter following. but every day it seems like my list loses people. it seems like it is the new rule they have about the 2000 followers. if you are going to post another tip sheet in the future, maybe you could address ways to work with this rule? thanks alot!
Thank you so much for this list of tips for success on Twitter. I am trying to learn all I can about affiliate marketing and these tips are so very helpful in creating posts on Twitter. The list is easy to understand and each tip gives me more insight and challenge for blogging. Is it always necessary to tweet according to your niche? I am really trying with all my might to do this thing correctly. Thanks again for all your help.
Thanks for the tips.I have learn good thing from it.
Thanks again for all your help.
Thank you very much. We love you.
Thank you for sharing your expertise regarding Twitter. The fact that there ‘best practices’ emerging attest to the growing importance of Twitter to mainstream communication. You must realized what a helpful service you are providing for many readers.
Thank you for sharing, excellent tips
Thanks David for sharing this. This is really informative….
This was very enlightening and I will try to utilize the information and pass on the tips to others.
Thanks for the great post. The importance of building relationships in regards to your online business should never be over looked, you have outline just how twitter can benefit alot of peoples online business and just how powerful this social media tool is.
Thanks again for the tips.
Michael Appleton.
If i never read this 11 tips, i think i will still repeat the same mistake about twitting.
Thanks for great post here and i am appreciate.
Nice tips.. especially the one on contacting JV partners. I know that can work well with Facebook and other social networks, too.
Ryan Thompson
Awesome tips, thanks for sharing.
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Great tips. Particularly liked the one about tweetin in your own words and not using a bot. Can you suggest a service that can schedule tweets?
Thanks for sharing
David, thanks for the article. Those are simple but profound tips. It is always a challenge for me to write a short but catchy text. This is something many people need to learn, I think. Keep excercising…
If we thinking twitter is microbloging why we need to be good copywriter we can writing like we feel…
Right!
Hi David
Great tips – thanks very much for blogging about them.
I like No 10 – appreciate the Twitter culture (e.g. Follow Friday). It’s something I’ve always seen appear in the Twitstream but I’ve never done it before, so as of now I’m going to start with the people I’ve interacted with in the past week, and who I’d recommend others to follow.
I totally agree with your point about automation too. I took a trial of TweetLater (now SocialOomph) a while back and set up automated tweets which promoted affiliate products. Each tweet was a slight variation on the one before, and I ended up with a tweet appearing almost every 10 minutes all day for 7 days.
If I was one of my followers I’d have hit the “Unfollow” button!
You’re absolutely right, if you’re going to use an automation facility like this, then at least type the tweets yourself and schedule them so you don’t actually have to be sitting in front of Twitter at the time they go out.
So now I’m back to just me tweeting manually about my blog posts / motivational quotes / free offers that I find which will be of value to anyone following.
Thanks again for your post – excellent stuff, and if you have any more, don’t be shy
Regards
Aidan
PlanetSelf
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Thank you for in information
Thanks for the great tips. What do you have in mind about Twitter tools? Which ones would you recommend?
Great tips. I agree with the use of twitter as an add on to your marketing and not the main focus.
Thanks David/Really a great tip to improve tweets in twitter!!!!!!!!!!thanks Bhavesh
Like most new to twitter, I fell for the hype that I needed to auto-mate my tweets to gain followers. What I should have been doing is save my money and write my own tweets and gain readers of my tweets. Now, I’ll need to go and cut down the number of people that just pack your account with tasteless marketing tweets. I always felt there was a better way, and lost interest in automatic tweets. Save your money and just follow the 11 tips. Thanks for the good advice.
Great tips, especially about not automating your tweets. Everyone is trying to find the easy way to doing something, but somethings should stay personal and done by hand.
Thanks
@Dot Com Note:
You say: Great tips for becoming 100% twitter spammer….
Well, I thought that all this was NOT about spamming. Agree?
Thank you so much for your great tips!
It really opened new door on using twitter.
Simon
Great tips. Sometimes feel Twitter can be a bit overwhelming. I dont understand how someone who has a 1000 or more followers can exclusively follow my tweets. Still learning but enjoying and implementing what you suggest.
Great tips…Thanks for sharing
Hi, thanks for tips. It reminds me to one of my ‘to do list’, i.e to switch off the automation tweets that had been long due. Great tips. You don’t mind if I share this with my readers, do you?
Thanks for the additional Twitter tips! I love Twitter and enjoy increasing my knowledge about it..
I agree with your tip on not sounding like a robot, but a real person. Although I have heard others say the opposite, my own experience tells me that you are right!
Have a great day!
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thanks and ihope iget the best in my twitter
These are some good advices on using twitter to promote an online business. Glad to find this link.
Great post. I hope to use this tips for my online media business. Glad I’ve found this article. Thanks David.
Thank David for another Awesome Blog. What GREAT ideas those are…Some of us needed to know these…Again Thanks a lot.
God Bless