50 Ways To Get More Twitter Followers

Let me first start off by saying that I believe Twitter as a marketing medium is over-rated.  In fact, I believe that this whole social media thing as a marketing machine is also over-rated.

Sure there are individuals who have made good fortunes using social media, but I believe that there are only just a few who have.

I prefer to stick with paid traffic.  It is a proven model with predictable results.

You can still get decent results with Twitter, but not worth spending more than a few minutes a day on increasing your Twitter following.

With that said, here is my gigantic list of 50 ways to get more Twitter followers:

1. Place your Twitter name on all your web sites

Make sure you place your Twitter name on all your web sites above the fold. Placing it above the fold makes sure that your Twitter name is seen. A simple “follow me on Twitter” button should do the job.

2. Place your Twitter name in your forum signature

If you participate in forums that are related to the topic of your Twitter account, you can gain a lot of new followers. The key is to offer good value in your forum posts and people will recognize you as an authority on the subject.

3. Twitter name in all your ebooks

If you create ebooks or special reports, place your twitter name just below your name on the cover or inside of the ebook or report.

4. Twitter name in all your video presentations

Before your video presentations start, make sure to include a quick screenshot of your Twitter name. Ask people to follow you.

5. Twitter name in your YouTube account

You have control over the background in your YouTube account, so use it wisely by including your Twitter name on the left side panel.

6. Twitter name in your email signatures

Every email you send out including any in an autoresponder sequence should have your Twitter name. Try to encourage people to follow you by including something like “Follow me on Twitter…”

7. Retweet good content

If you retweet good content, people will see that and want to follow you.

8. Promise to donate

Do a fundraiser and people like to contribute to a good cause. You could simple say that for ever new follower you get that week, you will donate $1 per new follower to a worthy cause.

9. Ask followers to retweet

Ask your followers to retweet any of your really good tweets.  This will get you *viral* exposure and more people will hear about you.

10. Twitter name on your business card

Twitter promotion doesn’t have to be limited to the online world.  Include your Twitter name right on your business card.

11. Rent a billboard

If you are really ambitious, rent a billboard with your Twitter name and give people a reason to follow you. (i.e. Want Hot Stock Tips? Follow Me At @stocktips)

12. Promise A Prize

Promise people who follow you a chance to win a prize. I did
this once and quickly gained hundreds if new followers. Make
sure you deliver on your promise of a prize.

13. Fill out your bio so people know who you are

This can be crucial to gaining more followers because people like to see your bio and who you are. You should include your web site so people can visit and see what you offer them

14. Place a hash tag in your Twitter posts

Hash tags (#) with a topic name after the hash tag can help people find your tweets through trending topics, groups and Twitter’s search function.

15. Tweet cool pictures

People like to see cool and interesting pictures. Tweet some interesting pictures and it will get retweeted.

16. Tweet at peak times

Tweet when most people are online checking their Twitter account. This will help ensure that your tweets are seen and not lost in the hundreds of tweets that some of your followers might get in just a few hours.

17. Follow people in your industry

Follow people in your industry because users sometimes go through the list of followers of that particular person and will come across your profile

18. Ask people to follow you

This is obvious. Just ask people to follow you. You will be surprised how many people you can get to follow you by just blatantly asking. If you have an existing email list, let people know that you have a Twitter account now.

19. Break news faster than anyone else

If you can break news faster than most people, you will get a lot of followers because they want to get the news first.

20. Participate in trending topics

Trending topics get a lot of exposure so participating in a trending topic can get you a lot of exposure.

21. Buy an existing twitter account

Do what Google does when it wants a bigger share of the market. Buy up competitors. Find a related Twitter account and see the person is willing to sell it.

22. Run a poll

People love to fill out surveys and polls. Start a poll on a relevant topic and engage your followers.

23. Buy PPV traffic

You could buy PPV traffic and bid on your competitor’s Twitter accounts. I know, kinda sneaky eh?

24. Engage Other Twitters With Huge Followings

If you can engage other Twitter users who have a huge following and start a conversation, this can get you a large amount of exposure if they respond to you in their Twitter account.

25. Tattoo your Twitter name on your forehead

You could use a temporary tattoo and attend a major convention related to your topic. I have seen weirder things.

26. Do Media Buys

Buy banner space with your Twitter name in the banner and a compelling reason to have people follow you (i.e. Want to learn how to talk to hot women? Follow me @flirtygirl)

27. Use a tweet button on your blog posts

There are dozens of WordPress plugins that will allow you to place a tweet button on all your articles. Make it easy for your readers to tweet your blog posts.

28. Create an attractive Twitter background

People are attracted to Twitter followers who have attractive backgrounds. Create one, it really is not that hard.

29. Pick a Twitter name this is easy to remember

Pick a name that people can easily remember. Especially if you are doing any offline marketing. Make a memorable name makes it easier for people to find and follow you on Twitter.

30. Ask questions

Ask questions in your tweets. This will help engage your followers and get other people to follow up who also want to reply.

31. Bribe people

Give away an incentive to have people follow you. There are Twitter autoresponder services that can deliver an email to your new follower with the incentive that you promised.

32. Tweet Often

Your Twitter account is like a radio station.  You need to be on the “air” on a regular basis. The more you tweet, the better chance you have of your tweets being seen my non-followers.

33. Word of mouth

Tell your friends and relatives to follow you on Twitter.

34. Use Twitter in your blog comments

When replying to posts on other people’s blogs, leave your Twitter name in your reply.

35. Talk to your followers

Answer back to people who tweet at you. People will see that you are receptive to questions and dialogue and will be more likely to follow you.

36. Don’t tweet about stupid thing

Nobody cares that you ate a peanut butter sandwich three minutes ago unless you are Beyonce. Keep your tweets useful and it will attract more followers.

37. Don’t tweet overdose

Don’t tweet 300 times a day because it will clog up the screens of your Twitter followers and is sure to be turn off.

38. Show some personality

Show your followers that you have a personality. People are attracted to people that they feel comfortable with. Share some thing about you personal life. Come across as a real person.

39. Add yourself to Twitter directories

There are directories like JustTweetIt where you can add your Twitter profile and get more followers.

40. Write articles and place your Twitter name

Write articles on your topic of interest and place your Twitter name in the resource box. Submit these articles to places like EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com

41. Use Twitter for your customer support

If you create a Twitter account solely for customer support, your customers will be forced to follow you.

42. Place your Twitter name on on all your social networks

Facebook, MySpace, Orbit and the dozens of other social networking sites where you may have an account.

43. Leverage major events

Create an account related to a  major event such as an election and attract a lot of new followers (i.e. presidential election)

44. Ask blog readers to Digg your blog post

If you can get to the top of Digg, that will get you a lot of attention and more followers.

45. Incorporate Twitter into your product launches

Product launches garner a lot of attention so constantly reminding prospects about your Twitter account during the launch sequence will help you get new followers.

46. Do a Twitter exchange

Do promotional tweets about other Twitter accounts. Kind of like a ezine ad swap.

47. Be funny

Laughter is the best medicine. Inject humour into your tweets once in a while and gain new followers.

48. Cross Tweet

If you have multiple Twitter accounts, cross-tweet about each one and get more followers on each account.

49. Ask Lady Gaga to tell all her followers to follow you

Well she does have the biggest Twitter following now. This one in my opinion is a long shot.

50. Create a list like this and ask people to retweet about it.

Feel free to add more ways to get Twitter follower in the comments below. Also please retweet this post. Ah come on, you did know that I was going to ask, right?

Take care!

Gauher Chaudhry

AffiloJetpack Webinar Replay

Thanks to everyone who was on last nights webinar with Mark Ling and myself to talk about making money with affiliate marketing. I have posted the replay below for the people who missed the webinar.  Although the bonuses sold out during last nights webinar, I received a lot of emails from readers who were upset because they could not attend due to time zone differences. I have therefore opened up 15 more spots for the bonuses with digital delivery of the physical bonuses that sold out (PPCF, PPVF, PPTF dvds and cds). I will still include the extra bonuses of Pay Per View Formula live seminar DVDs and Pay Per Text Formula home study course that I added during the webinar to the next 15 buyers.

Order AffiloJetpack by clearing your cookies and ordering through this link -> AffiloJetpack

Send your Clickbank receipt to jetpack@payperclickformula.com with “jetpack” in the subject.

Best wishes,

Gauher Chaudhry

AffiloJetpack Bonus And Review

On Tuesday, July 27th, 2010, Mark Ling will be releasing his latest product called AffiloJetpack.

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Before I give you my full review, this is the bonus that I will be offering to anyone who purchases through my affiliate link:

Bonus #1: AffiloJetpack Getting Started Webinar Series

I will be hosting a series of two webinars to basically walk you through getting started with AffiloJetpack and getting the most out of your package. I think by having someone such as myself walk you through the AffiloJetpack package, it will make it more easier for you to get started.

Bonus #2: Apple iPod shuffle 4 GB Black (shipped after refund period)

After the refund period has expired, you will be shipped a 4 gig black ipod shuffle so that you can download and listen to the getting started webinar series on your ipod. International customers will be sent the cash equivilant.

Bonus #3: Complete Pay Per Click Formula 2.0 seminar DVD set including transcripts shipped to your front door (North America residents only and shipped immediately)

I will ship to you immediately the complete 12-DVD set of my live PPC Formula 2.0 seminar. There are close to twelve hours of advanced PPC tactics taught and you will also get the complete transcripts for the seminar.

Bonus #4: $300 Discount Coupon Off Of Pay Per Click Formula 2.0 Regular Price ($997)

Instead of having to pay the full price of $997 to get into Pay Per Click Formula 2.0, you will get a coupon that entitles you to $300 off the regular price meaning that you will only have to pay $697. You will also be upgraded to Pay Per Click Formula 3.0 for free when it is released, which I plan on blowing the PPC world away with new strategies.

Bonus #5: Marketing Secrets Mastermind + Resale Rights

Learn from 10 different internet millionaires as they teach you their cutting edge strategies for ppc, adsense, copywriting and more. This is a comprehensive course in of itself. There are over 30 hours of nterviews and video lessons here.

Bonus #6: Email Marketing Bootcamp + Resale Rights

Inside this exciting webinar you’ll learn how I have managed to build up over a million double-opt in subscribers to my various niche mailing lists AND more importantly, how I monetizes my various lists to maximum effect.

You’ll learn how to your structure emails, how to build your list fast and how to keep people wanting to stay subscribed to your list, sneaky but ethical monetization strategies and more.

Bonus #7: PPC Millionaire Confessions Volume I & Volume II

You get a complete set of interviews and training with PPC experts to help take your PPC efforts to the next level.

Bonus #8: Outsourcing 101

Discover how to outsource most aspects of your web business at very reasonable prices. This is super essential if you want to take things big online as there is only one of you and only so many hours in a day that you can work, but once you leverage the power of other people, you can take things to the next level at speed

Bonus #9: How to Rank Highly in the Search Engines Video Series + Resale Rights

Discover step-by-step, how to get high rankings in the search engines, how to rank high for competitive phrases, AND what’s more, you’ll learn how to make great money charging yourself out as an SEO expert.

What’s more, you’ll receive the video recording of this webinar plus resale rights so that you can sell this webinar as your own product, include it as a bonus when promoting other people’s products, or even use it as a lead generation tool.

How To Claim Your Bonuses

Simply clear your cookies and order through my affiliate link.  Then send your receipt to jetpack@payperclickformula.com with “Jetpack” in the subject to claim your bonuses. I will match your name to my Clickbank sales records to verify your eligibility.

If you have not read Mark’s bonus report “5 Steps To $10K a Month”, I highly recommend you download it for free now:

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This report will give you a strong foundation towards understanding the process of how everything works. The reports gives you all the steps and instructions while the Affilojetpack package gives you the tools.

The Review

If you look at the AffiloJetpack product, it is really geared towards two type of marketers:

1. Complete affiliate newbies
2. Advanced affiliate marketers looking to save major time

The beauty of AffiloJetpack is that it is actually a push button system that can allow you to get into a niche right away without having to worry about creating a website, content and email newsletters.

All the content has been written by Mark’s team and you get 20 articles of content for a specific niche that you can reword or simply add to your web site. The fact that Mark also throw in free web hosting is an added bonus.

This is a major time saver for people who do not want to have write articles and content for their email backend sequence.

The main show is what comes next: A 80-part autoresponder series that you can plug into a service like Aweber and use to start collecting email addresses and building a relationship with people who sign up.

Every major marketer knows that most of the money is made on the backend. By having an 80-part autoresponder sequence, you already have a money making backend ready for you to plug.

In this 80 part email sequence, Mark provides you with 65 informational emails to help you build a trusting relationship with the prospect. The other 15 emails are “hard sell” emails written by Mark himself. These are the emails that are going to make you money on complete auto-pilot. These emails get a much higher response from your prospects because you have already warmed them up with the other 65 informational emails.

You job is to drive the traffic to these ready made web sites and let Mark’s system of collecting their email addresses and following up do the rest. Mark understands the importance of traffic and that is why there is a variety of traffic generation strategies that will be taught in the course.

I think this is great for newbies because it will give them a complete foundation in affiliate marketing. For more advanced marketers, I think this is a great time saver as Mark’s team has already created everything for you. All you are responsible for is to bring the traffic.

This package gets my two thumbs up!

Simply clear your cookies and order through my affiliate link.  Then send your receipt to jetpack@payperclickformula.com with “Jetpack” in the subject to claim your bonuses. I will match your name to my Clickbank sales records to verify your eligibility.

Best wishes,

Gauher Chaudhry

Thank You For Your Generosity

This is a personal video to thank everyone who helped me reach the $10,000 fund raising goal for my son’s cancer hospital. I could not have done it without your support. The video may take a few seconds to load.

You can still get access to the CPA Quantum course by clicking on the link below:

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The Problem With Recent Traffic Courses

There has been a number of high profile launches this year for “traffic generating” courses. I am sure that many of them are really good, except there is one major problem. Most of these course have been priced too high that the people who need them the most cannot afford them. Many of these courses sell for as high as $2,000 making it only possible for people who have a lot of disposable income, to afford them.

Well that is about to change.

In an effort to raise $10,000 for the cancer hospital that treated my son, I will be releasing my own CPA Quantum traffic course on July 7 @ 12:00 pm EST. I had no intention of ever opening this traffic course, but I want to give back to the community by raising $10,000 with your help.

Not only will you get access to my traffic generating strategies, you will also be helping a noble cause.

When you see what I have priced the course at, you will realize that this is a no-brainer.  So please reserve your spot in CPA Quantum tomorrow and lets help fight cancer together.

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Best wishes,

Gauher Chaudhry