VIDEO: How I got 900+ followers on Twitter with 3 hours of work...

This is really a nice and helpful video. yeah, you are right getting followers is really quite easy but maintaining them is quite of a challenge. I have trying to get followers up until 2000, and i am still working it out. To be able to maintain followers, the tweets hould always be informative and reliable. Thanks for the video.

Surely there's a bigger picture:

WHY do you want 'followers' on Twitter in the first place?

It's hardly the most effective marketing method and it's much easier to build a targeted list in other ways, so why focus on doing this?

Well, I make my living off Twitter so you know MY take on this - the more followers that I've gotten, the more press release clients that I find, and the more money I make. I have two press releases that I'm writing today and one I'm sending out, and this is all from clients that I found on Twitter.
I personally do not think Twitter is a great place to promote affiliate products - but when I promote my own stuff on Twitter I have done well with it. Sean McAlister & I partnered up on a book called Overnight Guru and when I tweeted about it several times a day (making sure that I tweeted other stuff as well) it sold several copies a day. That's not a fortune, but it's additional income and exposure and people on my list.

I see Jason Moffatt on here talking about making thousands a month from Twitter, and I've talked to a lot of other people who sell their products and services on Twitter. So it's not just theory; if you network properly using Twitter, you can make a lot of money.

Thanks for the video very interesting .

Simon

@nick1123

thanks ive been meaning to start using twitter, just with everything else i have going on not had chance - but watched your video and signed up...

actually i had signed up last June just hadnt used it...

just added you and some other people too!

If I'd only ever gotten one client from Twitter I certainly wouldn't promote it as a great way to network and market one's services, even if I made thousands off that client - but I now am at the point where I get several new clients a week.

I also get a lot of personal benefits from Twitter - I've made friends, I've gotten solutions to non-IM things, I've had people help me figure out my son's math problems - so I am certainly not saying Twitter is ONLY good for business - it's good for a lot of things.

Nice - however is 900 followers really worth 3 hours of your time?

If the followers you retend are qualitative prospects then it's all good - besides you can outsource this work or better yet get a friendadder.

I was skeptical of twitter at first. I too thought, "how the heck am I going to get followers".

If know one knows you, then you likely don't. But if you follow people, and they follow you back, then post quality tweets, your base will start to grow. in one day I went from 0 to 1000 followers. I still have 1147 presently on the account in question. I started it less then a week ago. I use the account for a specific niche, and have already gotten considerable traffic to my site it promotes, as well as networked with writers, webmasters, and other like minded people.

I get a couple of customer questions every day. Building a rapport with those who are following this niche and site is worth it to post a handful of tweets a day.

The video seems pretty vague. You talk of going from 50 plus followers to over 900.
I don't seem to have drawn any conclusion as to whether your method of building a list, or followers, probably because you did not really share the behind the scenes (what you spent 3 hours doing that led to 939).

You can actually automate twitter and produce a viral effect of getting followers, it involves using tweetlater.com and a few other services. I'm actually working on a case study right now. As of my current results I have about 300 followers (growing daily) after about 5 days for about 10 minutes worth of work actively following people that may be interested in what I am offering.

consider using tweetlater's auto-follow feature it will give you a good start at getting followers

Ive been using twitter for a while now and ive finally worked out how to use it to funnel lots of traffic

Im using a twitter add on called twit clicks and i save a tracking link to each one of my
twitter profiles and i use a different profile headline so i can see which profile gets the most clicks

once i determine the best headline that gets the most click throughs i use more of the same text in my other profiles

i funnel traffic to a video squeeze page to my opt in

there is no limit to the amount of traffic that you can send from twitter and all of the traffic will be targeted because of the keywords that i search for using twellow

i keep hearing people saying about how many followers they have. Having lots of followers isnt the most important part. Its being able to generate traffic from twitter to your squeeze page, thats where you will start to benefit

yes you can get results from tweets with the odd affiliate link but generally your not going to get any guaranteed results but if you channel people to your opt in page then thats how you leverage twitter effectively

hope this helps

@dps - Thanks for a great analogy.

I am encouraged that other people are having some success with twitter.

My friends already know what I'm doing. I'm trying to get the rest of the world to hear about it.

Today I sent a direct message to President Obama.

I do not know of any other way I could have done that but then again now I'm sure the Secret Service knows what I'm doing. LOL

I do see the point of communicating with just your friends and I do have a twitter account just for that.

Follow me at Twitter / SmokinTimes

BTW...I just started 2 days ago and I simply follow Dana_W's book.

Great stuff and easy to understand even for us 50 + ers

I watched the video. I must say that it is really cool. Twitter's clickthrough rates are higher than email marketing and certainly is a great tool to communicate. I am actually looking at how I can build up my Twitter account and this video is going to help me a lot. Thanks!

This is pretty cool. Sorry if this is a stupid question, but can this be done if your blog is on the blogger.com site? I have not used twitter before

Hi - 900 followers in 3 hours is totally meaningless. It is what you do with those followers that is the important. Don't get involved in Twitter unless you're serious, but if you are then PM me for a complete Twitter marketing plan. There is definitely money to be made on Twitter but it is a not a free lunch. All the best, Allen

Thanks for the info guys.

This is an awesome video! But, the problem is unfollowing the people who don't follow you back! I mean, once you reach 2,000 you must have at least 1819 followers. So, before following anyone, you must check their following/followers ratio.

Great Video! Thank you very much. I'd also suggest Twitter Gold, it's a WSO on here.

it's all about leverage... Twitter if definityly a great way to help build up relationships but as going as far to say it gets a better click through rate then email marketing thats just plain wrong... (my opinion only)

I can send out a killer offer to twitter and make a few sales and send the same offer to my email list and receive hundreds of sales...

Not saying you cant make money on twitter because trust you can... I mean guys like J-Mo are proven guys who "know" how to leverage twitter and use it to there advantage, It also takes personality and on twitter if you don't have it well quite frankly spamming links aint gonna help your business...

However, twitter is definitly something that should be in your business module ...

Good video BTW! Keep it up...

I personally use Twitter as a tool. A tool that can help me put my posts in from of people who will read them, who might not know I had a website in the first place.

To give an example, since I started my twitter account for my site, I now have 1200 followers, and a few dozen or more people asking legitimate questions related to my niche, in this case pet health and training.

Those people who ask questions have a greater chance of clicking my website, which is where I capture email, and promote products. The majority of all my tweets are geared for new blog post notifications or Q&A. Most people use the @reply option to ask direct questions. Which means those who follow might only see my reply.

As it has only been a week, I have found helpers to help with my content, people who are willing to visit my sites, people who talk to me and ask for "my" advice or help, and to me this builds trust. As long as their interacting with me, I'll continue to do it.

OMG! I got 150+ twitter notification e-mails today in the inbox!

If you are using this technique turn of the notification emails.

A nice video! Would agree that it can be quite easy sometimes in getting some followers to your twitter channel but getting them to follow it continuously is a different thing altogether. In getting users to follow my channel continuously I've found that I have to always keep my tweets updated and current with relevant and informative information. Once I discoverd that, I found I had more followers on a daily basis. Nice post!

Jason,

I agree there is lots of hype, and I don't see twitter as a internet marketing tool.

Internet marketing in the sense of ebooks aff products etc.

But where I have found it be be extremely effective is with my internet radio station.

Twitter has been a great place to find music people that become our artist for our playlist.

Its a great tool to communicate with them and they use it to talk with their fans, and also send their fans to us.

We Literally get more traffic from twitter than we do from google.

Bands and musicians find us with twellow, and a few other sites that have focus on singer songwiters, bands, music groups, that include our twitter ID (which is @KcCafeRadio ) some of the artist have huge followings and can cause a rush to our stream with just a single tweet.

I don't really know how many people follow the musicians that are being played on our station, but I can guarentee its TONS more than follow us directly.

Twitter is a good match for us because although I do send out our URL most of the time its interaction with our followers and / or giving information that is important and relevent.

They visit our site, listen to the stream and a good number of them bookmark the site and return frequently.

Its kind of like a no cost, no optin, continuity program for your ears LOL

Mark

i have found a few videos like this. Twitter is a great way for traffic to your site and you may also build up a fair few contacts. Also think of Twitter as a mail list you can build up quickly.

Mark,

I understand they did not create their empire with twitter.

But hey, I did not build my house foundation with a hammer and chisel out of a quarry, but the hammer and chisel are still tools.

I am not disputing whether it is a "great" tool, or even a tool you will use, but it is still a "tool" for marketing.

And, I agree that there are "better" tools, like articles (of which I have just posted a dozen in the last couple days), which I suggest many people use first, but that was not the point either.

Twitter is an incredible tool for a lot of purposes, but just using it to collect random followers or trying to make direct pitches on it is a sad waste of both its powers and your time.

Ways in which it is absolutely revolutionary:

1) integration with cell phone so customers can get instant updates on things like the location of your truck (Tacos And Twitter: In L.A., Kogi Korean BBQ Taco Truck A Social Networking Juggernaut -- Courant.com) or which local restaurant within walking distance of work is least crowded, or break-downs of service (DC metro lines are all on Twitter).

2) Researching just about anything-- either using applications like Twellow to quickly find and connect with people in a particular region or field, or asking a personal question (Howard Rheingold got a speaking gig to cover an extra day in London in about 15 seconds using Twitter) or doing market research before deciding on a product or releasing it.

3) And, of course-- duh-- social networking. I've reconnected with a lot of people using linked-in and facebook, but that tends to mean I know where they're currently working. With Twitter I have some regular interaction with them and feel that we're actually connecting, rather than just giving each other a vague update on what we've been doing.

I know Twitter has been exploding in the IM world for 18 months or so now but today I was shown how big its really getting.

I had 3 of my good friends ask me on seperate occasions, if I use twitter. They know nothing about IM and wanted to know just for social reasons.