Why You Should Build Relationships With Your Twitter Followers
Focus on turning a Twitter follower into a personal contact, who you can then communicate with by more traditional means. You will be more likely to make money through 100 personal contacts than 10,000 Twitter followers. Therefore, having gotten yourself a good number of Twitter followers (say, 100-500), you should spend more developing your relationships with those people than simply trying to boost your number of followers. The question is then – How can your turn your Twitter followers into personal contacts? The first thing that you should do is use HootSuite to help you manage your Twitter account. It allows you to pre-schedule tweets for the week ahead and to automatically tweet every time that you add a new page to your blog or website.
There are ways to use Twitter to subtly promote yourself. When you send out tweets, you can link back to your own material without being overtly self-centered. So long as your materials are of benefit to your followers you can feel good about advertising to your own benefit over Twitter. Your followers will not follow the links in your tweets if they are always direct them to your own website though. They will be bored and not follow you unless you offer some diversity. Publish something on web 2.0 sites, write as a guest on another’s blog, or submit something to a popular article directory.
Proving yourself an expert in your field through diverse and worthwhile tweets will gain you a following. Any new followers of your tweets can be e-mail to you by HootSuite. You can then search their profile to see if they are worthy personal contacts and link them to your own blog or website. Be sure that your own site carries your personal contact information (phone number and e-mail address) so that when your followers know you are legitimate. You also want it to be easy for them to subscribe to your RSS feed or join your mailing list for when you publish anything new to the web or otherwise. This way you will encourage a closer connection to your followers.
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