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Tweet And Get It: A Twitter Growth Strategy For Bloggers That Works

September 7, 2011 - Last Modified: April 1, 2014 by Lavall Chichester

Twitter Growth Strategy

I’ve written many posts on how to get more Twitter followers and have seen great success in this area. Although, those methods work, they are not as practical and engaging as the Tweet & Get It method I am about to outline for you. This method is perfect for bloggers who want to turn their web visitors in to Twitter followers.

This is also the method I used to launch my new free e-book titled Tweet To The Bank: How To Make Money With Twitter and provides additional benefits on top of growing your Twitter followers.

Overview

The method I am about to disclose is a twist on one used by bloggers for years to successfully grow their email subscription list. You basically give away an e-book or something of value as incentive for people to follow you on Twitter. In order for the person to get to the download page for your give away they have to first follow your Twitter account and tweet a message of your choice. It is needless to say, my social media savvy friends that this is pure genius and possibly the greatest thing for your Twitter account since the retweet.

Why Is This Amazing?

In one strategy, if setup correctly you get all of the following.

1. Gain Followers

You gain a follower and of course they can unfollow you just like they can unsubscribe from your email list but if you offer something of real value then they won’t. Also remember this is not just a regular dude blindly following everyone and their mothers, uncles, brothers, daughters, child to get a follow back. They are following you because they are interested in what you have to offer. They are interested in the things you write about, this is a real follower (not a bot) who is willing to engage and interact with you for what you have to offer.

This is gold my friend, gold, and the essence of what Twitter is all about. The followers keep pouring in.

2. Free Advertising

Your new follower has to tweet a message as well as follow you in order to get your give away. You write this tweet yourself so you can put a link to your give away landing page, so if their Twitter followers are interested and click the link they have to go through the same process in order to get the free prize. If they are popular their tweet will get retweeted and travel farther through twitter, which could drive a lot of traffic to where ever the link leads.

This is viral advertising at its best. The red rectangles below are the Tweets that followers had to Tweet.

3. Raise Your Klout Score

If you do it exactly how I did it, you also increase your @mentions, which will raise your Klout Score especially if you engage in a dialogue with your new followers right away.

Numbers 1 and 2 in the picture show how many @mentions I get. Besides crafting the Tweet that my new followers have to Tweet with a @mrchicheter in them, I tell them to @mention me again if they want me to follow them back. This increases my @mentions and sparks a conversation with my new follower. My Klout Score climbed from the mid 50s to 62 in a week.

Part One: The Giveaway

(An example of my free e-book giveaway)

I will assume you already have a Twitter account, and a blog because without them this is basically useless. If you are writing about social media this is easier, and I would suggest you write an e-book relating to Twitter. It makes sense that a Twitter tips e-book would appeal to your Twitter followers if social media, internet marketing, PR or blogging is the topic of your blog. If not that is okay too just make sure your e-book is compelling and something that your blog readers will want. The point is to turn all of your blog readers into Twitter followers if they are not followers already.

Also remember you don’t have to give away an e-book. If you are a musician it can be music or your album, you can give away free icon packs or something else based on your expertise and what your blog visitors would want.

Tweet & Get It


Once you have your give away ready you have to set up a page or a post that acts as a sales page for it. Even though the give away is free you should write a convincing offer so that your readers will want to download it. Once the page is ready you have to download and install a Word Press plug-in called Tweet & Get It. This is the bread and butter of your operation and is what allows your readers to Tweet & Get your e-book. Or log into your Word Press blog and follow the instructions below to download, install and set up the plug-in

Tweet & Get It Installation Instructions

1. Click Add plug-in from plug-in section


2.Search for “Tweet & Get It

 

3.Activate the plug-in in the plug-in section

5.Click make your button

4. Create a new button and save the button

This step is very important. Make sure you have a link to your give away (1) and (2) a @yourtwitterhandle in the message you want Tweeted in order to get the most out of this.

5. Copy the button short code and paste it into where ever you want it on your sale page

After you save your button copy the short code that it gives you and paste it on the give away page. Once you have done this you can move on to Part 2 which is just promoting the give away page. You don’t have to do Part 2 at all, but I was launching a new e-book so I wanted to promote it as well as grow my followers. There are many ways to do this but since I was targeting people on Twitter I used a Twitter Pay Per Tweet platform like MyLikes.com. I basically created a campaign and used MyLikes to pay people to Tweet about my new e-book. I paid .10 per Tweet and generated 4,000+ clicks to my Bit.ly link, increased my daily blog traffic and averaged about 5-10 new Twitter followers a day.

Good luck and remember.

“Live and let Live, Learn and teach others, Spread Love as often as you can, so you can Leave a meaningful legacy behind.” -Mr.Chichester

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About Lavall Chichester

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Mr.Chichester (Lavall Chichester) is the Lead SEO at Profero. Prior to this he was the Social Media Director at PHILO. He won the Shorty Award for Sustainability because of his work at spreadlove.org. He spreads love daily to help make this world a better place.

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{ 23 Responses }

  1. AfroMerry says:
    Great article you have written here! Very insightful and beneficial. If carefully used and managed, it can lead to a huge Twitter follower-ship.
    • Lavall Chichester says:
      Thanks. It worked well for me and continues to do so. I have seen other people use a similar strategy called Pay With a Tweet. It is the same concept and is a great form of lead generation.
  2. jigar doshi says:
    yes, sure.. will post here if i have any questions.. thanks :)
  3. jigar doshi says:
    3 very basic and simple tips to increase followers.. very nice post.. thank you :)
    • Mrchichester says:
      Thanks. You are very welcome. Let me know if you have any questions.
  4. rahul says:
    Some time Giving a shoutout to your new followers without expecting anything from him can give you More exposure on twitter.Also participate and exchanging retweets and +k's
  5. Marie from Tweet&Get it says:
    Hello, we have just released our new Wordpress plugin Share&Get it ! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-and-get-it/ Enjoy ! :) Marie
  6. Marie from Tweet&Get it says:
    Hello, thank you to all for your interest in our Wordpress plugin Tweet&Get it ! Don't hesitate to send us ideas to improve it. Best Regards, Marie
  7. Rodolfo Grimaldi says:
    Seems a lot of theory here. I don't know why, but Twitter traffic is down. People seems uninterested in what's interesting, anymore.
  8. Udegbunam Chukwudi says:
    It's a good way of generating twitter followers but not everybody is quick to trust just about any software with access to their twitter account.
  9. Ricardus says:
    Very useful plugin and definitely can provide a better and comprehensive details about your blog when you tweet it
  10. Pritam Nagrale says:
    Good Post. I have downloaded the file and see the demo of this plugin. Its a very useful plugin to make your post viral and get extra followers. Thanks.
    • Lavall Chichester says:
      Pritam, Thanks. Yeah it has been working great for me.
  11. Wasim Ismail says:
    Hey thanks for the plug-in, I can see this being used, when launching a product, good way of encouraging users to share your post and gain something. Giving away something for free in return always works good. Not sure if this plug-in will track users that have already got the free gift, as it can be quite annoying keep going to the sale page every time they tweet your article. :)..Maybe it can be disabled for certain posts, or period of time.
    • Lavall Chichester says:
      Wasim, You are welcome. It is perfect for product launches. I have found that it does not track downloads and lets people redownload the item more than once. I reached out to them and they said that tracking downloads will be added to the next update of the plug-in so lets wait and see. Regardless the plug-in is a gem.
  12. Ming Jong Tey says:
    Aweme piece of plugin:) I've seen paid plugin that does the same thing but this one is FREE :) This really has the potential to make your gift goes viral over time. However, we need to give it a push to drive serious traffic to the page to get it going:) Cheers, Ming
    • Lavall Chichester says:
      Ming, Yeah I always support great plug-ins that are free. I can't wait for them to update the plug-in with download tracking ability and some other features I think are missing.
  13. Dev says:
    Excellent stuff Lawall. "Tweet and get it" is a great strategy but the key is to give the valuable or quality stuff. Thanks for sharing.
    • Lavall Chichester says:
      You are very welcome. Yep value is always key.
  14. Nick Stamoulis says:
    This really is a great strategy that I've seen work many times. The key is that what you "get" must be valuable. You can't just throw something together. People will pick up on that and it will leave them with a bad brand experience.
    • Lavall Chichester says:
      Nick, You are right about that, with out a quality give away this won't work. Thanks for sharing.
  15. Dave Lucas says:
    Hi Lavall! Your twitter growth plan is a solid one - but there may be readers tempted to use other plans and "follower provider" services. Here's a little tip from "the twitterer" blogger Cindi Li: "If you use a program to help get twitter followers, change your twitter password BEFORE you sign up. Join TWITGETHER before you sign up. WHY? The program or service may require your twitter sign-in. When you grow tired of followers, you can then restore your original password if you need to cut them off. TWITGETHER whene used through gmail is an easy way of monitoring the new followers - see which ones unfollow you 2 or 3 days later so you can unfollow them back!" Great article - I'm looking into it now! Blog On!
    • Lavall Chichester says:
      Dave, Thanks for the insight. I will check out TWITGETHER to see what it is all about.

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