1/ Thank you everyone for 700 followers, when I started 3 weeks ago I never had this as a goal.

I wanted to help give back.

I have written an article about what helped me grow on Twitter, but wanted to provide more points here.

https://medium.com/better-marketing/these-6-strategies-got-me-my-first-500-twitter-followers-c052f9bf211c

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Chapter 1 "Game Plan"

There is no secret to growing on Twitter.
The truth it takes time, quality, and consistency. You need a strategy.

What are you using Twitter for?
Is it to make money?
Is it to grow your connections?
Is it to share your writing?

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Chapter 2 "Making Money on Twitter"

This is for the people whose goals are to make money. But do not worry, I will get to the other questions.

Here is your strategy:

1. Follow 100 related accounts in your niche. (Find one major account and see who they are following)

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2. Tweet about an area you are experienced with (build authority, show authenticity)
3. Reply to larger accounts (
@CureIncome
recommends 30-50 daily replies, that is too much for me so I aim for around 10, try and balance spam with quality)

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4. Build great products (For ebooks check out @HeroJourneyOn and @CMillerTalks) Other options include courses, consultations etc.
5. Sell your products for free
6. Collect emails from these sales
7. Make a better product, profit.

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Chapter 3 - "Twitter to grow your connections"

DM's are the most powerful tool on Twitter. But you need to understand how to not to annoy people. Here are the rules to making quality connections:

1. Only send one message every couple of days. Do not spam

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2. Send long thought-out messages. Include items they have tweeted about, an article they wrote, a video they made.
3. Give them something of value in return. Give them a reason to respond to you. Provide an interesting article, debate topic, etc.

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4. Engage with each person that follows you. @cullinmcgrath does a great job at this, he aims to connect with his audience.
5. Respond to each person that DM's you, these people can be valuable members in the future.

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6. Join groups! This 10x the connections you can make.

I joined @anthilemoon's newsletter group

I joined @WritersBlocHQ

I joined @thisiskp_'s newsletter mastermind

All of these groups have introduced me to many mentors!

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Chapter 4 "Using Twitter to Share Your Writing"

If you just tweet out to a blog post, no one will click it. You have to learn how to entice them, make them want to join.

Here is how to increase website engagement

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1. Provide an excerpt from your article. Screenshot the intro, make the audio recording of a great quote. Give the readers a taste to hook them in. Here is a graphic I made for my latest article.

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2. Learned this from @amlewis4, Tweet before you release an article rather than after.

Increases peoples interest and primes them to read your article (Some psychology here from @FreedomPathGo)

3. Give social proof, RT people's comments about how great your article is.

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4. Email your best articles to your email campaign ( @emails_oracle specializes at helping your perfect your emails)

Make sure not to spam your audience members, only send them around an article a week, separate from weekly emails!

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I hope you all enjoyed. It has been a while since I did an extensive Twitter thread. I have found more time now and will be doing more in the future.

What topics do you want to see them on?

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