subject: How to Stand Out On Twitter [print this page] How to Stand Out On Twitter How to Stand Out On Twitter
Ok, so here it is, you have a twitter account and so does everyone else and their brother. Twitter at first glance is a pitch fest, you see offer, after offer, after offer especially if you are following people in the online marketing, internet marketing, mlm genre. The thing is, people are still making a killing and twitter is not going anywhere anytime soon so how can you capitalize and stand out on the social monster that is known as Twitter?
First off, this trick requires a daily twitter regimen, what I mean by that is that you will need to be following and unfollowing a couple hundred people a day. With that being said there are a ton of different tools out there, both paid and free to help you accomplish this task, the free tools I started out with are mytweeple.com and socialoomph.com. Mytweeple.com allows you to sort out your twitter connections into groups and socialoomph.com is a link shortener and automated posting service among other things. If you've already got those things in place or your own tools in place, and are on a follow-unfollow schedule, here is the next step.
The "big secret" to standing out on twitter is...... wait for it...... in the direct message. Sounds stupid I know but this little thing has generated me tons of fans and friends on all of my social media and the thing is, not very many people are utilizing this easy feature the right way that can be set up and automated with a couple of clicks. The automatic direct message feature I use is inside of socialoomph.com, it is also one of the free features of this website. Everyone that now follows you will receive a message and it's up to you what to do with it.
Even though you get tons of messages in your inbox pitching this and pitching that, it's a smaller group to manage and your new friends might be utilizing and receiving messages still in their actual email inboxes that they have linked to their twitter accounts. So stop pitching your opportunity and start building those relationships with people. The key with the direct message is to be as personal and sincere as possible, say something like, "twitter is pretty noisy huh, lets be friends on facebook, your facebook url" and viola, non intrusive sounding friend request. The thing with social media is that most of your average users are there to be SOCIAL, not advertised to. Interact and build a friendship and eventually they will ask you what you do and then you have a genuine unsolicited opportunity. The more interaction you have with your new friends, the more success you will see in your business. This is the essence of "attraction marketing."
So many people are out there just pounding and pounding our social media walls with crap. It is refreshing to actually meet new people through social media that are not out there to just make a few bucks, we can learn a lot from each other and it's important to not sour it up for people when just introducing yourself. You end up working a lot harder for a lot less and severing what could be some very fulfilling relationships.
Twitter is a crazy place and it's constantly evolving, changing the way we do things and there are always going to be those who don't listen and continue to abuse the system, that's when rising above the pitchy chatter becomes easier for the those of us who actually do want to make a difference for our friends and families!
