As you know the social media is like a fast moving train: starts off slowly, but once in motion, hard to stop it. New people are literally pouring in to join but they very easily crash and burn.
Just because you are on there, it does not guarantee you results. And just because you tweet with peeps all they long, that does not guarantee you results either, yet all this eats your time like Bermuda Triangle. So how do you make sure you make your time on Twitter productive?
Easy, you just follow few proven steps:
1) In order for you to have any value to your followers, you have to give value to your followers.
2) Do not “puke” about your MLM, or whatever biz opportunity on people you just met. It does not work in real life; it does not work in your virtual life.
3) You have to have and show genuine interest in helping your peeps grow and learn, and provide content accordingly before they will be truly open minded to hearing about your business (that’s how you create value)
4) Twitter is the place where “my-story” (your-story) needs to come alive and be evident through your posts. Show the world through your interaction what your true colors are: what your interests are, what you are looking for, what your views are, what your business is like, what your true value to the marketplace is, etc.
5) Check your Updates tabs periodically and make sure that you’re providing good content. If your last 15-20 posts are “Thank you”, “Thanks for follow”, “Nice to meet you” – know you’re headed to Twitter Valley of death – alone. The followers will stop following you.
Use these tools to help you be more productive with Twitter:
6) You can use http://tr.im to shorten your links and analyze the traffic you generate
7) You can set up thank you message to be sent out automatically to all your new follower at http://www.tweetlater.com
Periodically you can delete those peeps who decided not to follow you at http://friendorfollow.com/. The ratio between the peeps you follow and peeps who follow you will affect your twitter rating
9) Learn who the best Twitterers are and how they do it by visiting http://twitterholic.com/
10) Use http://Ping.fm and shoot your status updates to multiple social networks at once – still same work, tens times more exposure.
Bonus:
11) Set the time limit for how long you will stay on Twitter, before you get on with your TODO list – or you may get surprised with your day gone bye-bye too fast.
Happy twittering.
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