Twitter Success Secrets

[VacantHomeIns]

There may be some use for Twitter and all these social networking sites for helping your website SEO but come one, what use does twitter really have. How many of us outside of college are important enough to be "followed" How many people do you really think are following most of us.. our wives only.! Come on.

[JordanRHughes]

Hi

Do you use Twitter as a marketing tool for lead generation?

Here are some valuable tips that can benefit you greatly.

1. How frequently should you update your tweets? Many people who use twitter as a marketing tool have this question. The answer is: ideally you should post two tweets a day.

2. Mix up your tweets content. Keep one that should be a helpful link for your audience - providing some valuable info, etc, instead of a sales-oriented link. In doing so, you'll be earning yourself real value in the form of trust of your followers.

3. Give time in between. Don't post your tweets for the day simultaneuously. Keeping a gap of a few hours is good. Use a tool like SocialOomph (you will have to register for a free account) to schedule your tweets, so you don't have to login everytime.

4. KISS - Keep it short and simple Use a link shortening tool like bit.ly. You can also track the clicks on your links.

5. Post links to your own blog. Some of your info links should point to your own blog posts giving them valuable content. It will strengthen your relation with your followers and also build your readership, apart from giving your blog search engine friendly link juice.

6. Laugh. Link to humour in some of your tweets. People love a good laugh, and allow them to know you as a real person, not an information machine. Keep to your niche (if you have built a niche following) so that you can have “inside” jokes.

7. Tweet lot of ideas. Take note of interesting sites you come across that can give helpful info or tools. You can help your followers by sharing, especially if they belong to a common niche.

8. Preliminary research. Simply researching relevant and interesting topics can give you valuable links.

9. Be alert and re-tweet (RT). Follow the celebrities / experts in your niche. There are sites that provide a list of popular people. You can also use Twitter Search to find them. When they tweet something interesting, re-tweet it to share it with your followers.

10. Engage them. Ask pertinent questions inducing them to respond. This will result in lot of replies. Your twitter id appears on their replies and all their followers can know you and begin following you. This strategy is the secret to grow your followers exponentially

11. Ruffle some feathers by asking controversial questions. Ask people to give their opinion on an issue. So you'll be interacting with your followers and they'll love the tips and help from you. It also increases the chance that they’ll recommend you to others – again, increasing your followers.

Great tips and tricks. Thanks a bunch..
Cheers...

[SellPropertyFast]

Using Twitter should be fun at all never engage yourself being to formal when using Twitter it wont give you good impression it should be light and useful. Like a breaking news which will catch anyone's attention.

[MaritesT]

Twitter is not the only way - its one of the ways to build rapport with your potential clients. And its a really easy way. "Valuable links" through automated tools is no better than spam and if someone does it every minute, very soon they lose value in the eyes of the client.

The point is that your followers should be able to view you as a person they can trust - not as an information machine. Your blog should contain helpful information which can be linked through Twitter. That will increase your readership and trustworthiness. And you can provide other juicy info too - the ideal frequency of tweets being twice a day. One helpful link and one sales link in a day is good enough.

A non bot like conversation - both serious and silly humor (specially humor specific to your niche) - that is a great tip.

In fact, that's exactly what I meant in my original post.

I agree, because twitter is growing and it has many followers around the world. Here, you can extend your market.

[PremierOhioHomes]

Thanks for the list!

[WATTS17]

Good List! Personally have gone as far as setting up a profile on Twitter....perhaps I should give it a go for the heck of it...seems interesting if nothing else.

[gregharaksin]

Twitter is something ive been meaning to look into. as for now i have some followers, but ive only tweeted maybe 3 times. I dont really understand it.

[svrpaul]

Twitter is something ive been meaning to look into. as for now i have some followers, but ive only tweeted maybe 3 times. I dont really understand it.

Greg.... If anything.. go to Twitterfeed and register your blogs to your account. Whenever you post a new blog it will be tweeted out under your Twitter account. That will get you started... It took me awhile to "get it" but as I started gaining followers, after I did a blog post I noticed a significant number of people that would go to my article right after publishing.

Between blog posts... find and follow real estate news such as @NickTimiraos for the Wall Street Journal, government services such as the real estate division, county commissioners, local chamber of commerce, local news, etc, etc.. and follow them. Anything of interest (good) when it comes to real estate or business, retweet it. Or if it's something really good such as Nick's latest article in the Wall St. Journal or a report from NBC's @REChannel ... get some inspiration to blog about how it applies to your market.

For example... the latest New York Times article on the amount of Million dollar home owners now strategically defaulting could probable make a very good blog article in your market with a report on the increase (or decrease) of it happening where you specialize...

Anyways... follow the above and you'll understand it real soon as how to drive even more traffic to your site.

By the way... I hooked in my REW blog into Twitterfeed and you'll notice if you go to REW blogs that the last post I did has done pretty good in the hits for only 23 hours... Morgan would have to tell us where they are coming from to see if they are coming from Twitter. Regardless... picked up another 4 significant followers today that were pretty impressive.

[Avantae]

good post, I have a question for you, you think Twitter increase traffic on web? or it doesn´t work for that.

[JennSellsFast]

I agree, Twitter is a great tool to drive traffic to your website. I notice that on days where I am doing a lot of micro blogging, I see many referral links from Twitter.