Twitter for Business: Valuable Content Tips for Twitter

Now that you have an account, have done some following and have some followers it’s time to contribute and meet some new people.  (Note, for the first few weeks I suggest following people in your niche or interested in your niche so that you build a base of people to build relationships with.)

The whole follow people and get followed back practice, in mass, was not very appealing to me before but I now mix up the techniques that I use to get followers.  We will talk more about that later.  Today it is all content.

When I got started on twitter I was posting about business and my personal life.  I would post what valuable actions I took for my business and then a few blurbs about my personal life.  Maybe half a dozen to a dozen tweets per day.  Then I began posting some of my favorite quotes.  I would sit down on Sunday night and schedule quotes for the entire week.  I would send out two to three a day.

I began to realize that I was gaining more followers by posting quotes than I was by posting quick tips and definitely more followers than by posting personal tweets.  So there I found it, I was adding value and I knew it by the responses that I was getting.  I was interacting with the community now and people were retweeting my tweets which attracted even more followers.

I did the quote thing for two months or so and tried to expand on the fact that people want value but quick business tips were not cutting it.  Keeping that in mind, I began tweeting links of my favorite blogger’s blog posts.  Once I began tweeting links my interaction really stepped it up a level.  I have always tracked my favorite topics and all of the internet business niche keywords using Google Alerts.  So I began to put Google Alerts to work.

Every morning I would read through my dozens of Google Alerts and I began tweeting links to my favorite blog posts or articles that I was getting from this great service that Google offers.  I was using Tweetlater to schedule all of these great stories and was getting more followers than ever before.

After experiencing success by posting links to my favorite content I began posting links to my content.  The more I blogged the more I posted my own links to Twitter.  And the more often I blogged the more Twitter followers I got and the more readers I acquired for my blog.

So I was experimenting with content and began finding out what drove the most visitors to my blog and what got the most interest from my new found Twitter community.  In tomorrow’s post I will tell you how I exploded my reach using Twitter and some other social sites and what service I am using (free to boot!) to drive this bus!

Part 3:   Twitter for Business: Explode Your Reach on the Internet by Automating Twitter to Drive Your Business

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