I follow ppl of relevant subject. They in turn follow me (mostly). I then tweet articles about the subject I may have put on EZA - or an article someone else wrote. I may tweet my site if I put an article on it.
Comment on their posts with a link to your site. Just like forum marketing you supply good content or help people and they visit your site. Rick
I have many Twitter accounts and I use them all a little differently. Some I simply setup on a feed to automatically Tweet when I post something. I have 2 that are more 'personal' where I actually Tweet for real. I have a handful that I tie in with Facebook and an autotweet...plus real tweets. I experiment with not following anyone, and following everyone under the blue moon. For my methods...the best traffic comes from my autotweet blog that I update about 7-10 times per day. But I've built relationships/networked with the ones I've really tweeted but RT and Follow Friday kind of stuff. Its worth it, probably around 5% of my total traffic...but its a good mix of new and returning visitors.
You need to proactively communicate, mention then ( @twitterusername with the reply option ), and post intriguing tweets.
Get more followers from your product related niche, and start posting micro blog with links of your product. It will be effective on marketing.
I follow people I find that are relevant to my or my site. They in turn hopefully follow me. I've not yet used my accounts for self promotion though I think the way to do it is to link to relevant content aimed towards the followers. I also link to a lot of people using the @ symbol in an attempt to get more exposure.
Hi, Dear ManMadeMarketing, can you explain what means following everyone under the blue moon. , please?
IMHO, Twitter is about following and get followed. but after that, it depends on how you expose your content. since Twitter limit the text at 140 chars max, You'll get more chance to make your follower curious about what you're trying to share. My tips, don't use common sentence like, "My new blog post", or "my new product". Try find a short, descriptive, and unique sentence to market. It works for me, at least.
I'm still experimenting with it so the jury is still out. It's seems okk for getting people to follow you and then possibly click through. I try to follow people that have something to do with my particular area and hope they will follow me. I bought the Joel Comm book but havn't read it yet. Anyone read it and have thoughts?
I'd' say follow people in a similar niche, copy excerpts from your posts in your tweets, and network with other websites. Link exchange if possible!
You need to create the know,like and trust factor and be very targeted in how you are following and vice versa, it doesn't matter if you have 10,000 followers if none of them are interested in your message, create a community and you will see massive results
I have been tweeting for a few months now on my niche subject and nothing much has happened. I put a similar amount of effort into using LinkedIn and have been really surprised by the following I have attracted. I put this down to using Groups in LinkedIn and being able to write articles as opposed to a 14o character tweet.
Im using a tool to automate my twitter marketing and getting good results - follow users related to my niche - unfollow those who dont follow me back - scrape content and tweet\schedule those scraped content to make me look like an expert - track mentions using the @name and any pharases related to my niche - generate reply for those mentions and searched tweets using spinner syntax and direct them to my offers Then repeat and make money