It's time to get serious and take control of your twitter.
How do some websites get thousands of visitors a day, while you try everything possible and only get a handful? How rubbish do you feel when you tweet a website link and hardly anyone clicks on it? Well, what if there was a way to get hundreds or even thousands of visitors to your website
every day? What if there was a way to get loads of clicks when you tweet a link out?
There is a way you can do this, and I'm going to
show you how...
You know the feeling. You spend hours, perhaps days creating something on your blog or website. You put all your energy into it, you make it look good, and you release it for all to see. You tweet a link to it and guess what happens.... nothing happens. You get maybe a handful of visits. You could have got more viewers by printing it out and sticking it in your neighbors mail boxes.
It makes you feel frustrated. Why is it so hard to get visitors to your site? You know it's possible, because you've seen others do it. But how do they do it?
The truth is that up until now it was quite difficult to get lots of visitors to a
new website. Those that did manage to pull it off generally did it through years of hard work. Some were lucky enough to find niches where there was a lot of interest, and not a lot of competition. Others used their success in other fields to get their sites going. Before twitter came along it really was difficult to get your message out there. You had to rely on word of mouth or advertising. When you created new stuff it would only be seen by those who were already subscribed to your site, or those that stumbled across it by accident.
Got Social Proof?
Do you know what social proof is? Do you know how it affects your twitter?
Put simply, social proof is when people make a decision by looking to see what other people have decided.
Often people aren't even aware they're doing it.
By having a large following on twitter you will be demonstrating social proof to others
(i.e. that other people have decided that you are worthwhile to follow). This is a powerfull process
and will make others pay even more attention to you and what you tweet.
Today that has all changed. Today it is possible to reach out to thousands of people every day and get them to visit your site. Twitter has changed the game completely, and because of that your life can change completely. I'm fascinated by the opportunities it gives me these days. Recently I was lying on a beautiful island beach, and while sipping cocktails I was communicating with my online community. The
possibilities are endless when you figure out how to do it. You could be tweeting a link while sipping hot-chocolate in a ski resort, or you could simply be sitting on the sofa listing to music while tapping away at the keyboard. Perhaps your dream is to work for yourself, and
make lots of money online. Perhaps you already have your own business and you want to take it to the next level. Only you know the reasons that have inspired you on this path. Take some time to think about those reasons now, they'll be your motivation going forward. With motivation, and the knowledge of how to master twitter, you will
be living your dream. There is a way to drive hundreds of visitors to your website every day, and in a short space of time. If you're not able to do that yet, then you're reading the right article.
In 2006 twitter burst onto the scene as a new and exciting social network. It's benefit to website owners and bloggers was immediately real. It was viral. You could tweet a link out to your followers, and they could retweet that message to others. Not only would some of your followers click on the link and visit your site, but so would some of their followers. It was good, but not
complete useful yet. Only in the last year or so has twitter really started to take off, and this is due to the massive amount of people that have started to sign up. Think about the number of people that you know that have signed up in the last few months. The game has now changed, and those people that master twitter will do well.
So what is it that you need to do? It really very simple, and boils down to
three things. Each of these in isolation will get you more visitors,
do them together and you'll be commanding your twitter army in no time!
1) It's a numbers game. If you want to get a lot of visitors to your website through twitter, then you need a lot of followers. Only a small number of your followers will click on the links you send out. To get loads of people to click on your links you need to grow your community up to thousands of followers. And you need to do it as quickly as possible. You need to be ruthless about it. Think Rocky training for his fight with Apollo. Can you hear the theme music in your head? ;-) You need to think of it as a land-grab and you need to be pretty focused about doing it. I created twiends because I wanted to give everyone an honest and effective way to grow their twitter communities. You can log
into the site every day and new and interesting people will follow you. And the beauty of it is
that you can decide how much you want to participate. Buying credits is the fastest way to get more followers. Stock up on bulk credits in one go or start a weekly subscription. Subscriptions give you credits every day, making sure you get new followers every day. You've probably being using twiends for a little while now, so you know that people will follow you for those credits.
2) Followers need to be "converted". When people start to follow you they know nothing about you. They might lose interest and unfollow you or they may
"switch-off" to your tweets. Look for fun and interesting ways to interact with your followers and they will start to pay attention
to you. Make sure they remember you and they may think twice about clicking the unfollow button next time they do a clean-up. If you follow some of them, reply to their tweets if they're interesting. You'll start to form a base of followers that will never unfollow you, and more importantly, will retweet your
links. You'll feel like a real web celebrity when you see your messages retweeted every day. It's a great feeling knowing
that your followers actually care enough about what you're saying to pass it on to their friends.
But realize that it does take some time to break through into others attention.
3) Write attention grabbing tweets. Now this does not mean making everything
uppercase and using ten exclamation marks at the end of the sentence! It means being smart, and it requires you blend normal conversational tweets with tweets about your website. When you tweet a link to your website make sure it's interesting. Ask yourself this, "If I were to scan past this tweet, what would make me stop and read it?". And then balance that with not being spammy or offensive. It's as much an art as it is a science. Entire careers are devoted to this kind of writing. Think news paper headlines and sales copywriting.
'Twiends has given me many followers that I interact with on a daily basis to build up my blog traffic' - Philip
Start doing these three things and you'll see results. You
can get thousands of visitors to your site each day, and you can have one of the most popular websites on the net. It's all possible, and it will happen if you just follow those three steps over and over again.
So, to summarize:
1) Stock up on credits and make sure you get as many new people following you every day as possible. Aim for 10,000 followers within a few months.
2) Convert your new followers by interacting with them each day. Spend at least 10 minutes doing this each day.
3) Write attention grabbing tweets, while not being spammy. Look at other tweets that grab your attention and learn from them.
And of course, make sure your website is good when your visitors get there... ;-)
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