Effective Ways to Increase Twitter Followers

For small businesses and the not so famous

By Nishadha Silvahttp://rumblinglankan.com

What Everybody Suggests…

• Share great content• Engage with users• Use hash tags• Show your Twitter profile in website / book /

business card etc.

Unless You’re Famous None of This Work

Here are Some That Works

• Twitter Advertising• Twitter Software• Twitter Contests• Twitter Directories• Effective Usage of Twitter Buttons• Buying Twitter Followers

Twitter Advertising

• You only pay if people follow you via the promoted account listing

• Because there is no incentive to follow you, likely to get targeted followers

• You can control who sees your promoted listing, increasing your chance of getting even more targeted followers

Twitter Advertising…

• Might be costly based on the niche and target location

• Try to find promo codes for some free credit• Some case studies:

https://blog.twitter.com/advertising• Get Started: https://ads.twitter.com/

Twitter Software

• Automated / Semi automated way to find and increase Twitter followers

• Can target followers based on keywords, geographical location, tweeting frequency and many other factors.

• Automatically follow competitors followers to expose yourself to a target audience

Twitter Software…

• Automatic direct messages• Low amount of time spent on gaining

followers• Cost effective compared to other methods• Software– TweetAdder– Socialoomph

Twitter Contests

• A good price greatly increases chances of getting lots of followers

• A relevant price will get your more targeted followers ( A iPhone might be a bad idea because everyone wants it )

• Use software like Rafflecopter to increase followers and make it go viral

Setting up Rafflecopter Contest

Twitter Directories

• One time effort for long term value and free most of the time

• Relevant and interested followers because no incentive to follow you

• Use tags, categories etc to make it easy to find you and to be found for the right things

• List of 14 directories

Effective Usage of Twitter Button

• Try to add the official Twitter button because it shows via @your_handle by default

• If using plugins try to use a plugin that show @your_handle

• Some plugins encourages follows after a tweet by directly showing the follow after a tweet.

• If a plugin doesn’t work try to get it done via the code. It isn’t that hard.

Buy Twitter Followers

• Very hard to get targeted Twitter followers• Useful in the beginning to build some social

authority• At most 1000 followers will cost around $30• If you’re looking for targeted followers, for

example from US then will cost a bit more• Don’t overdo it, and advisable only when

starting out

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• Like it, give it a thumbs up etc• Share with others using social networks• Read the full detailed post at

http://rumblinglankan.com/2072/increase-twitter-followers-fast/

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Take Action NOW !!!