Well I said I’d update about my progress with Tweetergetter when I made some! The good news is it’s working well for me so far.
I got started on Twitter very gingerly about 6 weeks ago and I haven’t applied any of the many rather confusing and tiresome sounding techniques that involve following thousands of people and then unfollowing those who don’t follow you.
I mean I figure I have better things to do with my time lol! Maybe I’ll grow into that when I apply myself to Twitter consistently, and see the light, but for now I’ve attracted my list of followers with purely viral methods.
For those of you who are just getting started with Twitter I’ll explain what I mean by that:
- I started sending out a couple of tweets a day
- Connected it up with my blog with a twitter widget (see on blog and you can add it also if you like)
- Added my blog link to my Twitter profile to attract traffic to it
When I update my blog I ping out a message using ping.fm/dashboard and it gets posted through most of my Social Network profiles. (Life saving and FREE tool!)
- After a few weeks I started to reply to interesting Tweets people made. (Only the odd one here and there in downtime)
- I began using ‘TweetDeck’ which is another AMAZING FREE tool for organising your Tweets. (Download at Tweetdeck.com and you’ll understand it as you do it)
- What else? Oh yes I ‘ReTweet’ interesting Tweets by using an RT added on the message. Tweetdeck makes this super easy.
The only way to see just what a brilliant tool Twitter truly is, is by jumping in even if you have no clue (as I didn’t) what you’re doing in the beginning.
So I had 260ish followers from 6 weeks of sporadic Twitter toe dipping and since I joined Tweetergetter I have gained about 76 followers (in about 4 days)
Percentages aren’t really my thing but I’m sure you can see that is a big leap. I made 1 post on twitter with my link and haven’t done anything else with it. In fact this is the first time I’m blogging at all since.
Anything that works on auto-pilot is good for me! I heard on the Twitter grapevine that the guy who invented this tool has gone from 0 to 11,000 followers in a couple of days and his account is still intact.
My new followers seem to be an upright bunch of Twitter citizens so I see absolutely no difference with adding people manually, who didn’t know me, to adding those who join in a speedier fashion.
As I said in my previous post, the game is the same. Provide value and you’ll keep your followers and attract many many more. Otherwise it won’t help us to attract the kind of attention we want to our services.
Mike Klingler, of Renegade University fame (Where you can learn how to do EVERYTHING you need to do to create powerful content online to attract prospects for your home business) says that he is very impressed with TwitterGetter.
He thinks that some marketers were reticent about using it because of past experiences with gimmicky tools, but that this seems to be an authentic and very useful tool for building your list.
So here it is for those who want to jump in with Twitter on the fast track:
TweeterGetter
Just remember not to use this tool in a ‘spammy’ type way. Share it tastefully and not repeatedly on Twitter itself because it can irritate your fellow twitterers that way!
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Mon, Feb 16, 2009
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