How To Get Re-Tweeted

Today I’m going to tell you how to craft your tweets for the holy grail of twitter – retweets!

WHY am I getting worked up over retweets? What’s the big deal?

They are a big deal because

retweets are the #1 best way to rapidly accelerate your list of followers on twitter. Yes, much better than those junky “get 10,000 followers overnight” deals because:

1. Many of those deals will get you BANNED from twitter which kiiiiiind of defeats the purpose, don’t you think?

2. Those deals by nature get you a bunch of RANDOM people that could care less about you or your business. Everything I teach is about getting *targeted* followers who love your stuff and are actively raising their hands to build a relationship with you and your business.

OK sorry about that little diatribe . . .

Anyway the nature of retweets is people are putting YOUR twitter name in front of THEIR list, which can quickly multiply exponentially! Let me walk you through the math . . . one of your followers retweets your message that has 500 followers (a pretty low number on twitter, I won’t even go into the common situations where you hit the jackpot by getting retweeted by someone with a follower list of 10,000 . . . or much MUCH more).

3 of the people on their list (that don’t even follow you!) with 500 each ALSO retweet the message.

Your message (which can very well be a promotional message for your business) has just been placed in front of 2,000 people in the blink of an eye! Many of whom are discovering you for the first time! This happens ALL the time on twitter. (Search @lkr on twitter and you’ll see that I’m retweeted almost daily.)

OK so how does this gain you TARGETED followers instead of the random junkpile that other methods deliver?

The simple beauty of this is that people only choose to follow you if they have some interest in the message that they saw retweeted. So you’re only adding people to your follower list who have already had a “free sample” of you and want more. Pretty cool huh?

– Laura