Are you using Twitter? Whether you are or aren’t, I decided to create a post that will hopefully help you start to connect with more people and build great relationships and rapport with others.
With people like Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres having over 3 million followers you can see just how powerful twitter is becoming.
There’s a few things you should know when you’re looking to connect with others around the world to build relationships and possibly help them with you product or service….and it’s got nothing to do with you! I’ll explain all this in a minute, but for now start wrapping your mindset around creating value in other peoples lives.
Let’s get started!
Step 1
Setup a Twitter account. This is extremely easy and only takes a few short minutes. Visit Twitter and click the “Sign Up Now” button.
Step 2
Once your account is setup you can edit any personal information in the “Settings” tab on your homepage. This includes information about yourself, your profile picture, any websites, and what wallpaper you prefer your followers to see. Remember to be creative! Always think why someone would follow you.
Step 3
Create a custom background. If the original Twitter templates don’t meet your needs, you can always create a free custom background design through these services.
Here’s and example of mine: Ryan Yokome on Twitter
Step 4
You want to make sure your new followers receive a friendly hello message from yourself. Again, this should not be about you! It’s a message to build some rapport with your new follower. You can however let them know how your product or service may help their lives with a link. Do this without being a spammer! Visit the site below to setup this free service and also setup a feature that automatically “follows” or “unfollows” tweeters that do the same. It’s a Very sweet tool.
Step 5
Now you’ll have to find people in your niche. There are millions of people on Twitter, you want to make sure you’re following the right people. These sites work as your personal “Twitter Yellowpages”. Simply create and account with your Twitter username / password and narrow down searches of people who may be interested in connecting with you. Simply click the “follow” button beside their profile picture and you’re all set. Aim to add no more than 80 people a day, twitter doesn’t like spammers just adding hundreds of people without good tweets!
Step 6
Start Tweeting! Make sure your posts are educational, enlightening, and entertaining. Remember it’s not about you! People are looking for value driven content related to your niche, not tweets about how you’re not excited to see your in-laws! Deliver people excellent content coming from your heart, and they will surely want to continue great conversations with yourself. Your business will grow when others start to see the amazing content you’re providing related to your niche. Remember to NOT spam your link all over the place. This is just not cool
Step 7
Sometimes you may run out of creative and content driven information. You can use the site below to direct your followers to other peoples interesting articles or videos. Remember, it should be related to your niche!
Step 8
Remember to ENGAGE is great conversations and dialogue. Just adding followers and providing content isn’t enough. It’s really about connecting with others, commenting on their tweets and building relationships with others! You can use the @reply features and “direct message” feature to reply personal messages to your followers.
Step 9
Here’s a great tool for speedy tweeting. This software through Adobe will help you be a much more efficient twitter than simply using the default twitter page on your web browser!
I hope you found this post helpful! Of course if you feel there’s anything else to add feel free to comment. I look forward to hearing from everyone.
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Hey Everyone! Are you using Twitter? What's your experience been like? Looking forward to hearing from you
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This is another article full of very useful information for this particular online-marketing-fledgling – me.
Thank you Ryan.
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