With Social Media Marketing, all that matters is who’s sharing your page.
It doesn’t matter how hard you work at it or how good your page looks (although those things do matter) – if no one’s sharing your information, you’re not even getting half the benefit of social media marketing.
One of the measures of your influence on Twitter is the number of times your followers retweet your tweets. And by using the following tips, you’ll see more retweets.
You know that everytime your tweet is retweeted, that many more people are seeing your message. So you should always aim to get retweets.
Here are nine tips for getting retweeted:
-Link, but don’t use Tiny URLs. (BudURLs fared better.) Links provide somewhere for people to go – more exciting content. Although you might think redirecting your followers would be a bad idea, they seemed to respond well to it and had no problem coming back to your page once they were done – as long as the link was something of value.
-Ask your followers to retweet your posts. “Please” and “retweet” were his third and fourth “most retweetable” words. People love feeling like they’re helping doing a favor. If you want to be retweeted, try just asking and see how many more retweets you actually get. Although save this one for when it really counts. Asking your followers to “please retweet this” 5 times a day will just turn people off.
-Avoid idle chit-chat like what you’re eating for lunch. Do NOT answer Twitter’s question, “What are you doing?” No one is going to retweet personal information about YOU.
-Don’t be stupid. Use words instead of abbreviations and emoticons. 🙁 Obviously if you have something important to say and want to stay within 140 characters, you also have to shorten your words to leave enough characters for others to retweet. Just try not to overuse abbreviates and emoticons if you don’t have to.
-Use punctuation, especially colons, periods, exclamation points, commas and hyphens. But don’t use semicolons. Unless you’re a journalist or a professional writer, semicolons don’t accomplish much.
-Break news. People aren’t retweeting things that everyone already knows.
-Use proper nouns correctly. Capitalize names and places.
-Bottle your emotions. Nobody cares about your problems at work. They don’t like swear words either.
-Tweet at 4 p.m. on Friday. No one is tweeting much then
Although social media marketing is instantaneous, give yourself and your followers some time to see any changes. Try to make these changes throughout the week, ending with your tweet at 4 p.m. on Friday and you’ll see the difference!
