Success on Twitter is associated with strategic thinking on how to leverage Twitter as a part of your comprehensive online marketing and social media efforts.
Twitter is no more about collecting a herd of followers, but about engagement, likes and retweets! It is an intimidating social platform, with so much noise and so many experts on every topic known to man.
So, how can you stand out?
Though it may seem that you need some cultured strategies to dominate on Twitter, but if you ace some simple strategies, you can knock into a community of compatible followers who will drive traffic to your website and support your efforts.
Regardless of whether you are a tiny minnow or a big fish in the Twitter pond, practicing the below mentioned tactics can help you make it bigger and generate more traffic to your content:
1. Find out who is following you - #KnowYourAudience
If you have built a hefty following, but are struggling to engage with them, it is your capability to not knowing your followers.
Concentrate your effort and time in understanding your existing followers and engage with them effectively, rather than chasing the new ones.
You can also make use of the excellent audience tracker tool Followerwonk by Moz. It helps in giving you an idea of who is tracking your activities. While most of the features are available for free, its premium version comes with additional features that can track all your account followers.
One of its finest features is the word cloud that generates visualizing keywords from your audiences’ bio, helping you in finding the common denominators among your followers and understanding them.
You can also track the most active timings of your audience and schedule tweets when the highest numbers of followers are active.
2. Win them with fabulous, informative and engaging, content - #CreateAwesomeContent
Once aware of your followers, you can change your content accordingly.
Serve them some engaging, unique and enlightening content according to their taste.
Use your social media accounts to drive them to your content, hence starting a complete planned inbound marketing.
Don’t just self-promote yourself, see what’s trending and plunge into discussions. You can also share content from others that may please the palate of your followers - you can spin on the story or link the original trusty source.
3. The lesser the words, the easier to digest - #KeepitConcise
Twitter is a platform that encourages crisp and to-the-point content, prompting to readers to quote and respond to your tweet.
According to research by Buffer, the ideal length of a tweet ranges from 71 to 100 characters, despite the fact that the limit by Twitter is up to 140 characters.
So keep it sweet, short and snappy.
4. Give them the stunning visuals they deserve - #GetVisual
In a text dominated Twitter stream, a tweet together with an image will surely stand out.
A graphically pleasing post is sure to get more likes, retweets, and earn followers. Even adding text to a simple image can be really effective.
You can find high quality images at Flickr, Unsplash or purchase a subscription for Shutterstock, iStock, Thinkstock, or Dreamstime.
Using high quality images brings more attention to your post than unadorned text.
5. The right hashtag can take you far - #HashtagAway
We know that hashtags get more coverage to your tweets, but a lot of us often overuse this feature. However, to get the right coverage and expand your audience, you just need the right hashtag.
You can learn and discover about the most popular hashtags and the ones that can connect you to your target audience at Hashtags.org or Ritetag.com.
Make sure that you pay attention to the hashtags that your influences are using. This way, you can utilize the same ones to meet the right audience.
Using one or two hashtags can get you the desired results, provided that they are the best suited ones!
6. Show rather than tell - #TwitterVideo
Twitter video is undeniably the most underused feature that can win you bonus on engagement you create. Living in a visual world, we all fall for videos for the fact that the information they provide is compact and being backed by the audios and visuals, the information becomes much easier to take in.
Not worth mentioning, you can convey much more in a video that in 140 characters (which includes the spaces).
Even a 30 second video can make your account seem more personal and reliable. You can give them a sneak peak of your work life, or short clips from a live event to create a tinkle.
7. Introduce the right people in your content - #ReferenceitRight
Don’t hesitate to use the external sources to enrich your account and share prominent content. Include the author of the article you are linking, or the company or brand involved, in order to get a mention or a retweet.
Follow the same rule when including social influences in your field, the popular, prominent people with huge followings. A retweet or mention by the right person can get carried far afield.
This can help create thousands of impressions but is another tactic that you shouldn’t be exploited much. Remember, balance is the key. Overusing this can overpower your references.
So, what are you waiting for? You can DIY these tactics or hire our team of digital marketing consultants to upkeep your online presence.
See you on Twitter!
