One of the things we get asked the most is how to get Twitter followers. Over the years we’ve researched a number of ways to promote twitter accounts, and we want to share some of these ideas with you. Many users first start out by trying to buy Twitter followers, not realizing that this is against twitter’s rules. Buying followers is a zero sum game, as many of the operators that try and sell followers use unethical means to add followers to your account.

The good news is that there are a number of ways to promote your twitter account safely and ethically. Some are easy to do, some are little more complex, and some even give you ways to get more twitter followers for free. We’ve broken them up into methods you can use online, things you can do on Twitter itself, and real-world methods too.

Things you can do online

Advertise on Twitter

One of the most effective ways to promote yourself is on twitter itself. They offer solutions for promoting your profile, promoting your tweets, or promoting trends. Each method gives you a slightly different way to get your message across. This form of promotion is really powerful when used in combination with one of the other methods listed below, such as running a contest. Promoting your profile will help you grow your following directly, while promoting tweets and trends will allow you to drive other initiatives used to get exposure for yourself.

Run a contest

Running a contest is a great way to attract new followers. Offer a good prize and make sure you clearly communicate the rules of entry. If your prize is related to your brand then it can also help find targeted followers who are interested in your area of expertise.

Be creative! Try giving away an experience, a vacation, a meeting with a celebrity (maybe you?) Contests draw attention! Offer multiple prizes, including a grand prize, 3-5 mid-level prizes, and as many small prizes as you feel like. Set a hashtag for your contest like #mycontestisawesome or #winmystuff, and include it in every tweet about your contest.

Launch your contest through Twitter and any other mediums you are using. Blogs are great at driving contest traffic, because they can explain the prizes and rules in greater detail. Then just tweet about your contest as often as you feel like until you reach your milestone, and award prizes!

Directories – e.g. Twiends!

There are dozens of directories of Twitter users online, including Twiends, WeFollow, and Twellow. Add yourself to as many directories as you can find under the proper categories, and you will begin to see some users following you from these sites. When someone follows you through one of these directories you will receive a notification email from Twitter – if you have these turned on. In these notifications you can see which directory they followed you through.

Guest Blogging

Even if you don’t have a blog of your own, you can easily gain notoriety by writing posts for other blogs. Running a blog is hard work, and most people and companies welcome well written posts to give them a break. If you do score an opportunity to guest post, link to your blog if you like, but be sure to link to your Twitter account as well. Some people will follow you if they liked the post.

This strategy works very well if you can give readers an incentive to follow you. Will they hear about more posts like the one you wrote? Is it the only way to find all of your guest posts? Do you tweet the location of buried treasure on International Talk like a Pirate Day?

Give them a reason to follow you, and you will be amazed at how effective this strategy can be.

Blog about your Twitter account Read the rest of this entry

Tweet Adder Software allows you to see what is happening as its happening. Account Selection – Choose single twitter user or all

Twitter Stats

Followers: Shows the number of current user followers
Following: Shows number of users following you
Follower Ratio: Ratio of Follower to Following

To Do

Users to Follow: # of users imported, left to follow
To UnFollow: # of users queued unfollow
To Follow Back: # of users following account, but not being followed

Time Frame Drop Down: Choose Today, Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days, All Time

Follows Sent: # of follows sent
Followers: # of followers gained
Followers Lost: Users that have unfollowed you
Conversion Rate: % of Follows Sent to Follow Back
Messages Sent: Total # of Auto Dm’s Sent (Direct Messages)
Twitter Updates: Total # of Tweets and Reply Tweets Sent

Tweet Adder also shows you historical action along with Twitter User Statistics

History Button pulls up a slick visual interface. You can see the Users you sent Follow, Unfollows, Sent Messages, and Twitter Updates for any date you select.

Please give Tweet Adder a try and see for
yourself the value included in this software!

Just because one thing is not working for you that does not mean that it is not right, if others have found success in that process you are perfectly capable of doing it too; and if still not possible then try something else. That should be the motto for every marketer.

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Developing the Skills of Writing Your Emails to Get the Results You Want

 

What is Email Marketing?

 

Email marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating to an audience.

It is used to encourage customer loyalty and repeat business.

Email marketing is done by sending emails with the purpose of enhancing the relationship between you and your customers.

 

Advantages of Email Marketing:

 

Email marketing distributes information to a wide range of “highly targeted” potential customers and generates repeat business affordably and automatically.

 

With email marketing you can track your exact return on investment.  This return has proven to be high when done properly.

 

It is instant.  As opposed to a mailed advertisement, an email arrives in a few seconds or minutes.

Email marketing lets you “push” the message to your audience, as opposed to using a website that waits for the customers to come in.

 

 

 

Marketing Goals

As your knowledge of, and experience with email marketing grows, you’ll want to re-think and change your plan to incorporate the new ideas that you’ve learned, and remove those that aren’t meeting your expectations.

 

But as with anything else it is very important to set goals to reach for with your email marketing.

 

One of the most important things you can do in order to help you set your email marketing goals is to do a thorough competitive analysis of the market and find out what is going on and what you can do better. Read the rest of this entry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Besides building relationships with your prospects, your goal on Twitter is to drive traffic to your blog or to your offers. Driving traffic is as much a science as it is art, just like any other form of marketing. Quality content will help you drive traffic but there are also a few other strategies you can employ to make sure your followers notice your tweets:

• Make sure you re-tweet your content a few times per day because people come on Twitter at different times of the day and re-tweeting will increase exposure for your site.
• Use a link shortener such as bit.ly which not only posts to Twitter, but also to StumbleUpon.com, so you will be receiving traffic from two different sources.
• When posting tweets, try to do it in blocks of three as this will make your tweets stand out in the timeline. However, don’t repeat the same message in each tweet and don’t post more than three at a time or you will look like a spammer.
• These are a few strategies that you can use to increase the chances of people noticing your tweets. The more people see your tweets, the more people will click your links and the higher the traffic to your site.

Building a List

Despite the fact that Twitter is a highly effective marketing tool, it also poses a problem in that it is a third party platform which you have little control over. There’s nothing worse than having your account shut down for some real or perceived mistake and losing all the work you may have put in to develop your list of 5,000 highly responsive followers. Therefore, you need to also focus on building an email list, which is your property. This means your chances of losing your income are in your hands and not someone else’s. There are many ways you can build lists but they all involve driving traffic to a squeeze page or your blog.

The Value of Trends

Twitter trends are an excellent way to increase the exposure of your brand which will ultimately lead to more traffic to your site. Twitter trends are basically the most popular discussions that are being conducted in Twitter at a certain time. They are usually keyword focused, so, for example, if there are a lot of people talking about a recent news event, that event will appear as a trend.
To find current trends in Twitter all you have to do is navigate to the Twitter search page, which lists the most popular keywords at any given moment. Some Twitter desktop applications, such as Tweet-Adder & Tweetdeck, also provide a list of current Twitter trends.