Here is a great simple Twitter tip inspired by Mack Collier and mentioned by Tamar Weinberg.
Tweet your own posts at the same time you tweet about other people’s posts.
Doing this will get more engagement (clicks, retweets, comments) on your Tweet. Why? Once the people you have shared something about will see what you have done, you have their attention. Some will check out your tweets. By sharing their stuff, you are getting their attention to look at your stuff.
In fact, if you can, pick a key hour of the day and share something of yours, then something from several other people, then again something of yours. That way, the people who see you sharing their information right away will catch your first tweet, and those that don’t notice until awhile later will catch your last tweet. Tweet maybe 3-5 times for that one hour, spaced 12-20 minutes apart.
Remember not to overtweet! Don’t do this for more than an hour or so at a time, and not more than 2-3 times/day.
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Nice post, thinking about the wider picture this is more about recognition by people who share a common interest otherwise they wouldn’t retweet no matter how strategically done. After a while you wouldn’t even need to because you would have gained the target market you seek to engage with. Michael love that “Tweet freely like there is no one watching!”
Yup, once you have made a lot of solid connections, you switch from building relationships to maintaining them.
Why is it, that after you have started to do some thing new, exciting or really fun – Some one has to come along and tell you a better way of doing it. Oh well, At least you can start again … Thank you, for some interesting facts. Now Twittering can only get better.
If you ever stop learning, what are you left with?
Seems a bit sad to be strategically chasing retweets? Dunno just seems something wrong Mack. Never even thought of it I guess. Tweet freely like there is no one watching!
Life (and Twitter) is open to everyone. We’re not here to judge, we’re just here to help.
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