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How to "Hijack" Competitor Customers! [Twitter]

by FelixVeilands
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I use this technique for few weeks and it works good, of course for different products different results, sometime no results at all :rolleyes:

Main thing is to sell products those who follow you back, because they will be targeted customers. You need a good product and you have to find on twitter competitor with related product and a lot of followers.

Set up welcome message (write something that will attract attention) and follow your competitor followers. When someone will follow you back, he/she will get your thank you message with your product, service or whatever else what you want him to get.

For this strategy I use software, but it can be done with free tools which you easily can find online.
#how to get customers #how to sell product #marketing strategy
  • Profile picture of the author carpe via
    Good idea - I like that.

    Keep your ear to the ground and when you hear of a competitor going out of business hit all their Twitter followers.
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  • Profile picture of the author ReferralCandy
    Yep, valid strategy. The most important bit is to have a better product than your competitors, of course. Easy to overlook that bit sometimes.
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  • Profile picture of the author alphaomegalady
    Can you share the tools name ( free or paid) or at least let me know the keyword to search it on Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author PBMax
    How do you set up a welcome message?
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  • Profile picture of the author cjagodka
    Thanks for the share. I really don't use twitter all that much but will give it a try.
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    • Profile picture of the author overtonis
      I am on fence about instant message after someone follows you. Personally, I delete everyone of them in my twitter account. But I am curious if anyone ever really opens those messages.
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      • Profile picture of the author FelixVeilands
        Originally Posted by PBMax View Post

        How do you set up a welcome message?
        In software which I use is this feature. But if you would like just to try it without buying any software, you can try to search in Google for something like "free welcome message twitter", because about three years ago I used free online program and there was this feature, unfortunately I do not remember site domain.


        Originally Posted by overtonis View Post

        I am on fence about instant message after someone follows you. Personally, I delete everyone of them in my twitter account. But I am curious if anyone ever really opens those messages.
        Of course, there are low % who read them, but in IM niche I have good results with this technique. Actually, I myself opening messages from others and sometime there are interesting things too
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  • Profile picture of the author Scotty Bee
    Tweetadder used to be a lot better before twitter came down on them and they had to change their software IMHO but still looking for good alternative which is becoming harder to find
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    • Profile picture of the author FelixVeilands
      Originally Posted by Scotty Bee View Post

      Tweetadder used to be a lot better before twitter came down on them and they had to change their software IMHO but still looking for good alternative which is becoming harder to find
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      I agree, before tweetadder was better - more automated, but it still have a lot of good features. If you will find something new and more effective, please let me know
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