INTRODUCTION
The Goal: Move your fans off of Twitter and onto your email opt-in list as quickly as possible, since most people that join Twitter are only around for 30-60 days.
STEP 1: Build your follower list in Twitter
STEP 1: GETTING FOLLOWERS
The "big secret" to building a list of followers is to FOLLOW FIRST.
- Weekends (esp. Sunday nights)
- Weekdays (1pm - 3pm EST) & (6pm - 10pm EST)
- Mornings suck
Good to follow people that don't follow a lot of people (but still are active), because when you send a message, it will sit in their timeline longer.
Find a local list of followers in search.twitter.com (search "live in Austin")
Check out twitter.com/WholeFoods
Best days to tweet (from sysomos.com/insidetwitter/)
- Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the best (16% of Twitter users are active on average)... you wanna tweet when other people are actively using Twitter
- Sundays are the worst days to tweet (not good for getting a message spread), but the best time to follow... people go in and manage their account on Sunday ("housekeeping"), more than they talk.
- IMPORTANT: You never know when your people will be online, so your best bet is to tweet 7 days a week.
Best times to tweet (from sysomos.com/insidetwitter/)
- Afternoons (11am - 3pm EST)
- Mornings aren't great, but if you can you should still have a morning tweet "block"
Tweeting in "blocks"
- One tweet has virtually no impact (gets lost in the timeline)
Sources of pre-tested content
Google Alerts
- Not "pre-tested" content... but still good, and usually only big stories
- Typically use "Comprehensive" setting
- "Once a day" setting
Digg.com
- Super recent stories
- Content that gets the most reaction from people
- More general content -- although current, and hip
STEP 3: BLENDING IN DISGUISED CONTENT
(Moving people from Twitter to your opt-in list)
METHOD 1: Tweet to content on your blog (which should have an opt-in offer) - Most passive
- Make a post on your blog that sends them to the story on the original site
- Could make a short video sharing your thoughts on the content you're linking to
- Ex. drivingtraffic.com > "Should I unfriend my Facebook friends like Ed Dale?"
- Use Camptasia or JingProject (free version of Camptasia)
- Lowest opt-in rate
METHOD 2: Tweet to webinar/teleseminar registrations - Passive but most effective
- People are OK with this... they get excited about it
CONTENT/PROMO RATIO
You can continue to tweet to the same 4 blogs posts, etc.
EXAMPLES: DISGUISED CONTENT IN ACTION
Example Tweet: ryandeiss 2 social media "cheat sheets" (PDFs) --> http://budurl.com/3dn2
- Let them know the format -- People understand that in order to get "PDFs", "MP3s", "VIDEOs",
etc., they'll probably have to register
- GoToWebinar.com
OUTSOURCE AND AUTOMATE
Hire an assistant to follow and tweet for you
Use TweetLater.com to automate your tweeting (esp. your disguised content)
- Ryan does not recommend auto-following... doesn't get you the right kind of audience, and it can get you banned
DEMO: USING TWEETLATER
Perry and Ryan do not recommend using auto-reply... they're obnoxious and don't get a great result. Especially don't send people to a squeeze page.
You can use the "Disguised/Promo Content" section for a month or more without changing anything