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10 Tactics to Increase Your Twitter Followers

A great way to generate awareness for yourself, your business or your brand is through Twitter. However, getting followers or people who actually care about what you have to say can be pretty difficult. Thus, I have come up with a list of 10 LEGAL strategies that you can use to grow your Twitter base.

A great way to generate awareness for yourself, your business or your brand is through Twitter. However, getting more twitter followers or people who actually care about what you have to say can be pretty difficult. Thus, I have come up with a list of 10 LEGAL strategies that you can use to grow your Twitter base.

 

 

1. Use Hashtags

 

Anytime you make a tweet, you can categorize it by applying hashtags to your post. Adding hashtags is a great way to make your post visible to a broader audience. Users can search various hashtags on Twitter and often times will follow you if they like what you have to say. You can think of using hashtags as a way of optimizing your tweets through the search functionalities on Twitter.

 

 

2. Be a Resource

 

When you post tweets, you want to be a resource to other tweeters by offering some insight or knowledge about a specific domain. If tweeters find you to be a good source for information, you will see your twitter following grow rapidly. You want to offer unique information that they cannot find elsewhere.

 

 

3. Be Personal

 

Twitter is all about engagement and posting quality information. While posting quality information will surely increase your twitter following, posting things about your daily life can surely engage users. Users can relate to personal experiences and often times are more prone to retweet your message. Anytime a follower retweets your message, you increase the chances of gaining more followers from their network.

 

 

4. Engage with your Followers

 

Do not just be a machine tweeting out messages all day. You want to communicate with others by providing input on their tweets. You also want to take the time to look through your feed and see if there are any posts that you would like to retweet. Retweeting messages encourages others to do the same while you show your followers that you enjoy what they have to say.

 

 

5. Tweet Often

 

You want to tweet often to increase your chances of gaining followers. However, never spam or post for the sake of posting. Only post when you feel the urge to share something with the rest of the world. Tweeting often gives other people a better chance of seeing your message and connecting with you.

 

 

6. Timely Tweets

 

There are certain time periods when Twitter users are the most active. If you have a home run hitting tweet, you might want to save it for these times to gain the best results. Based on various studies, the most active time for Twitter is around 5 EST. Using that study, you might want to save your best tweets for that time everyday.

 

 

7. Trending Topics

 

If you see a trending topic that you can offer some valuable input on, do not hesitate to do so. Trending topics are the hash tags that are the most active at the time and can be a great tool to increase your followers. If you can write insightful posts about trending topics, chances are you will get retweets or followers from that.

 

 

8. Interesting Bio

 

Before a tweeter can follow you, he/she sees your picture and reads your bio. While you can’t do much about your face, you can do a lot about your bio. You want to create an interesting and unique bio that explains your personality. A creative bio is a great way to capture more followers for your Twitter account.

 

 

9. Follow Others

 

Often times, people want all the followers in the world but don’t want to follow back. Following other people who may tweet about similar interests is a great way to increase your follower base. If you find someone else interesting, they too may find you interesting. By following others, you have a fairly high chance of getting a follow back.

 

 

10. Talk to the Big Shots

 

Twitter is extremely unique because it gives everyone the ability to communicate with celebrities, big shots or other famous individuals. Don’t be shy, feel free to tweet at celebrities or other famous individuals. Do not be disrespectful or hateful towards them but feel free to tweet about anything that may catch their attention. If someone with the certified blue checkmark does end up following or tweeting at you, expect to get a lot of followers from that.

 

 

Don’t become obsessed with trying to obtain Twitter followers. Take my advice above and over time you will see your Twitter base grow. Like most things in life, slow and steady wins the rice. Practice the proper etiquette on Twitter and the results will come over time.

 

 

Do you have any other tactics that have worked for you? Share your thoughts or comments below about this article.

 

 

 

Why Amazon Has the Power to Eliminate Google

Google and Amazon have been superpowers in their respective online areas for years now. However, in recent years with a larger number of internet companies coming to the spotlight, the competition has stiffened up amongst Google and Amazon. Amazon has strengthened their system and placed themselves in a position where they can surpass Google and possibly even eliminate Google as a whole in the near future. Find out exactly what secret weapon Amazon has and how Google must find a solution immediately.

Google and Amazon have been superpowers in their respective online areas for years now. However, in recent years with a larger number of internet companies coming to the spotlight, the competition has stiffened up amongst Google and Amazon. Google and Amazon have directly become competitors with one another and both are looking to eliminate each other.

 

In this epic battle, one of the biggest companies in history could very well go for a faltering spin. Given the basic structure and business model of each company, Amazon is far more battle ready than Google is. Amazon has the power to eliminate Google, unless Google can do something big to recover.

 

Amazons Secret Weapon

Google’s stocks in recent days have reached an all time high, but that still is not enough proof of how stable Google really is. Amazon has been unleashing new features and convenient new tools for their users quite rapidly for the last few years. These features have really won over their existing users while bringing them more customers.

 

Google makes most of its money from individuals who search for a product or item and make a purchase through one of the results that are provided. They directly benefit from the Pay Per Click (PPC) feature because every click equates to Google making some sort of revenue. The more users that use Google to make purchases, the more people tend to invest in a PPC campaign.

 

It all seems great for Google until Amazon showed that they have the power to save users time and energy. Instead of using Google to find the best value for a product, Amazon can do the same thing for you while saving you time. When you use Google, you have to search a keyword relevant to your product and go through various websites to find the best price. This can take anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes before you select a specific website to buy from.

 

When you use Amazon, you simply type the name of the product and you select the one that fits your needs. Once you do that, you are provided hundreds of new and used sellers that are selling this product. You now have the ability to select the seller much faster based on the best reviews and prices available. You no longer have to constantly hit the back button and go hunting down your product on numerous different websites using Google because Amazon has comprised all the sellers in one database.

 

A Shift Must Take Place

Before Google can be wiped out a massive shift must take place in the world of internet commerce. Amazon needs to do a lot of marketing to raise awareness of the benefits that can be reaped through the use of Amazon’s database in comparison to Google’s. While Amazon has the ability to eat into Google’s market share immensely, it would take a fairly long time for Amazon to completely eliminate Google.

 

Personally, when I need to buy a product online, I do not use Google to find that product. I skip Google, save myself time and use Amazon to find whatever I am looking for. Not only do I get the best deal available in the market, but I get a trusted seller and save a lot of time using Amazon to make my purchases. If Amazon can raise awareness of their advanced database, they have the potential to take massive revenue from Google PPC in the coming years.

Do Entrepreneurs Really Need Degrees?

There is so much talk about the importance of college and how it determines your future. As you all know, there really isn’t a specific degree that applies towards entrepreneurship. A lot of debate in recent months has been whether you really should continue going to college while working on your startup company.

 

Do Entrepreneurs Really Need Degrees?

 

There is so much talk about the importance of college and how it determines your future. As you all know, there really isn’t a specific degree that applies towards entrepreneurship.

 

 

A lot of debate in recent months has been whether you really should continue going to college while working on your startup company. As a 19 year old entrepreneur who is attending college simultaneously, I have mixed feelings towards this topic.

 

 

At this point of time, I look at college more as a back up plan for me if entrepreneurship doesn’t work out. It’s true, not many of the things I learn in the classroom have actually helped me in my entrepreneurial endeavors.

 
Being an entrepreneur requires a wide set of skills, which is extremely hard to get under one degree. You need to have the legal, business, communicating, and english skills to successfully tackle all the aspects of a startup company. That would require a minimum of at least 5 different degrees, which can take over a decade to acquire.

 

 

Learning Outside The Classroom

 

Majority of entrepreneurs have to do their learning outside of the classroom. With resources like search engines, online articles, libraries, and other public information available for free, anyone can find answers to their questions. You do not need to be taught by a professor or some other expert.

 
The resources to learn are available anywhere and everywhere with an internet connection. When you create your business, you are your own boss.

 

 

Nobody is going to come knocking at your door and ask you to show a degree or qualifications. As an entrepreneur, you build up credibility based on what you achieve.

 
As a young entrepreneur myself, I really did learn everything I know about business, law and even my industry through self study. I often felt like college was interfering and taking time away from what I could achieve from my startup companies.

 

 

All the information I gathered was from research that I did on my own time or from advice given to me by others.

 

 

What Do You Need A Degree For?

 

I truly thing for specialized practices such as law, engineering, or the medical field, you do need a degree and education before being able to practice. However, entrepreneurship cannot be taught and is something that is circumstance based. You will never hear someone tell a heart surgeon that it is okay if he or she fails in surgery.

 
However, entrepreneurs are always told that it is okay to fail as long as you learn something from the experience. Time and effort are the only things you lose from an entrepreneurial adventure whereas a mistake in the world of surgery can be the difference between life or death.

 

 

Do you think a college degree is important for entrepreneurs?

 

Leave a comment sharing your thoughts below.