Comments on: Increase Sales – How To Go Viral on Twitter

By: cathy

cathy — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:28:32 +0000

Very helpful !!

By: Renee

Renee — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:35:01 +0000

I thank you for this info. The article was very informative, and the comments were also equally helpful. Thank you all so much!

By: Diana

Diana — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:43:12 +0000

1. Be genuine – don’t just hop on Twitter solely for self-promotion. You will annoy people, and if someone you’re following sees nothing but links and @’s, they may assume you’re a bot or spammer. Twitter is ultimately a conversation tool, and it’s up to you to throw out some real conversation starters once in awhile.

2. Check out Twitter apps like Tweetdeck. It helps you find people who share your interests, or who you can genuinely help.

3. Things that count as Twitter spamming:
*Sending someone an unsolicited @ pointing to your products. If they don’t ask for a recommendation, don’t do it.
*DM’ing people with “thank you for following” or again encouraging people to visit your shop. A lot of us have our DMs connected to our cell phones, and we do not welcome those particular tweets.
*Twitter streams that are NOTHING but links to your blogs and products.

4. Take the blog and and product linking out of your own hands. Use Twitterfeeder to post that stuff automatically leaving you free to concentrate on the conversation.

In social media, you’re not selling a product. You’re selling your personality – which means that people need to get to know YOU, and if they find you interesting and that they share interests with you from there they will take an interest in your products. The best way to get people interested in YOU is to take an interest in other people, and comment and interact on subjects that may only be peripherally related to your product.
People don’t click on links without a reason, and they have to know you and trust you before they’ll click on anything.

By: Sally J

Sally J — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:43:19 +0000

It does not work. Try it.
Very few people click on links in Tweets.
(Want to see some eye-opening statistics on link clicking and RT for yourself on Twitter? Go to http://twitteranalyzer.com/ and put in your Twitter name.)

And most likely the people following you are other artists. Only people that follow you see your Tweets. And if they RT they are just RT to other artists who are following them. These artists are competing with you, why would they want to promote your business?

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:01:15 +0000

I emphatically second Dawno’s comment. I unfollow anyone who posts only to sell, and if it’s obvious a person is only on Twitter to get and not share, out they go.

Yes, we have stuff to sell, but we also have valuable ideas, funny thoughts, creative friends, expertise and all sorts of other things to contribute. I would be most likely to buy from a person who does these things in addition to the “look at my stuff” tweeting.

By: Dawno

Dawno — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:12:05 +0000

I would like to add a caution – please don’t fill your Twitter stream with nothing but constant pleas to “look at me”, “buy my stuff”. The power of Twitter is in creating community through conversation (the Re-tweet is great for this) and information sharing.

The quickest way to be “un-followed” is to be perceived as spamming your followers. Find a happy balance between passing along good information, giving people a boost by pointing to things you’ve found (it’ll be reciprocated!) and occasionally mentioning your shop or wares.

I’m sure I’m not the only person who checks what a new follower’s tweets look like before I follow them back. If they don’t have “signal” somewhere in their marketing noise, I block them.

By: gnatter

gnatter — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:24:52 +0000

Amy G – To ReTweet, all you have to do is copy someone’s Tweet and paste it into your Tweet (What are you doing) box. Just make sure to add “RT @(name)” in front. For example: RT @JaqStone: “Some pursue happiness, others create it.”

By: Kat Rogers

Kat Rogers — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:13:06 +0000

This is great info. I’m fairly new to Twitter, and have noticed that initiating RT’s helps! I love the ideas from Dan’s research.

Thanks so much for this great article!

By: Lisa (ThatsPretty)

Lisa (ThatsPretty) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:05:30 +0000

thanks for the tips! I agree, to get more re-tweets you should initiate the favor!

By: Amy G

Amy G — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:25:54 +0000

I love the article and think the idea is great! But I don’t know how to retweet. Can you explain?