If you couldn’t tell, I Love Twitter. For 3 years it has been my source of much breaking news, the source of shared ideas and articles with my colleagues, and I discovered who this Justin Beiber kid is (and still don’t care). Twitter can be a fantastic resource and marketing engine if you use it right, or a total time suck if you don’t. It is all about who you engage with and how you go about doing it.
My time is limited enough as a small business owner/work-at-home mom. I have to keep my Twitter stream clean and not full of cluttered nonsense, so I am relatively selective when following other Twitter users. Inspired by Janie Coffee and her post on her rules of who she does and does not follow, I decided to come up with my own rules of engagement when it comes to my Twitter followers.
Do’s and Don’ts If you Want Me to Follow You Back on Twitter
Don’t
- Don’t have nothing in your profile description, or no image uploaded. Besides seeing what is in your stream, how would I know who and what you are and know any reason to follow you.
- Don’t post links to porn, look like a pornbot, post links to your private video show, etc. Not interested in engaging.
- Don’t post nothing but quotes. The occasional quote is nice, but if that is all you’ve got and nothing else interesting to say, you are not worth my time.
- Don’t put in your description the words MLM, marketing expert, ninja, guru, jedi master(yes, I’ve really seen that), MLM, wealth, “make money on Twitter”, etc. I really don’t believe you and you probably can’t back it up.
- Don’t have endless tweets in your stream that look like “spammy” marketing and are nothing but links back to your crappy marketing website.
- Don’t tell me how you made 6 figures on Twitter, Facebook, etc by using your “proven” system that you want to sell to me.
- Don’t have a blank twitter stream. If you have nothing to day, why would I follow you.
- Don’t follow me, then unfollow, then follow, then unfollow, then follow again. That is so annoying.
Do
- Do tweet about things that are interesting and engaging. Such things that interest me are: real estate, real estate marketing, virtual assistant industry, entrepreneurs, small business issues, motherhood, new jersey, wine, coffee, chocolate, jokes, and Simpsons trivia.
- Do have a picture uploaded. The picture doesn’t necessarily have to be of you, but at least I know that you took the time to personalize your profile.
- Do have @ replies to other people. That lets me know that you interact and engage with others. You’re not just a shameless self promoter or totally self involved.
- Do have a somewhat balanced Following/Follower ratio. If you follow thousands more than those following you, is looks fishy to me.
- Do follow others that I know and respect.
- Do reach out to me by DM with an actual personal message. Auto-DMs with links to your site turn me off.
Not following me yet on Twitter? Well go ahead and find me there - @MegBarberVA
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