There are only two ways to get more Twitter followers.

(Warning! There is more advice about how to use Twitter than there is about how to lose weight and most of it is just as useful!)

Actually, there are three ways to get Twitter followers but the first one is:

Be a celebrity.

If you’re not one, then these are the only two ways open to you:

I assume you’ve done the ground work, got some key words in your bio including a real location that will show up on searches, got a good picture so that you look like a real person and you’ve used some search tools to find people to follow. Now you want “A FOLLOWING”  so that you can get your sales message out to as many people as possible and start making money from this game. (And boast a bit about how popular you are.)

The quickest and easiest way to get more followers on Twitter is to simply use an autofollow application. This means that every time someone follows you, you automatically follow them back.

You won’t know who you are following but the numbers make you look good.

You will pick up loads of robots and ‘broadcast only’ accounts but as you’re not going to engage with them it won’t matter. You may get a few genuine accounts following you of course but you can get rid of them easily enough by using an auto DM that says something like

“Hi thanks for following me, check out my website (link)”

Most of the real people will unfollow you in a heartbeat. If this doesn’t shake them off, don’t worry. Just set up some auto tweets to broadcast your sales messages at regular intervals. They’ll turn up in the middle of real people’s conversations like a fart at a party and that’ll get rid of those tiresome folk who actually want to make conversation.

Don’t forget, numbers are everything in this game so take no notice of the losers who say you should only follow people you are prepared to talk to. I mean ..!

If you blast your sales message out to enough people some of it will stick so just get to it!

Or

If you have too much time on your hands you can always sweat it out with the real folk. This means that every time someone follows you, you need to take time from your busy schedule to see who they are and make an assessment on whether they are interesting enough for you to want to talk (Yes, really…… *talk*) to them.

Your numbers may be pitifully low compared to the autofollow geezers but hey, you can handle it, can’t you?

You have to reconcile the time you spend on choosing who to follow and the effort you put into making interesting, useful conversations, being helpful, re-tweeting stuff and all that ‘social’ activity and the fact that you may not actually get much sales stuff in, with the chance that some of these ‘real’ folk could, potentially, be quite interesting, maybe useful and even, as a last resort, fun.

But then, pfft, where’s the ROI in that?

———————————————————————

If you are new to Twitter you may need help with how to apply it to your business but you don’t need help in how to be human. Twitter is about making real connections with real people – just like in the real world! See post Twitter Business for Beginners

“What counts in the ring is what you can do after you’re exhausted. The same is true of life.” Muhammed Ali

Clive Gott is testimony to these words. When in June of 2004, he reached the lower of two peaks on Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, exhausted, did he accept that “at least I am at a peak” or did he look for something extra within himself to go the last 210 metres to ‘the roof of Africa?’

In April of 2006, when out of water, bereft of energy and still faced with more than 3 miles to go on stage two of the Marathon Des Sables in Morocco, he was faced with a choice. Would he climb into a land rover and call it a day or, somehow, get to the end of that stage and start a new day tomorrow?

Be honest now, what would you do? Do you have that dogged determination to get to your goal or are you more likely to take the easy way out?

You see, what counts is what we do after we are exhausted. Whether it is physical or mental exhaustion, the ability to find something extra is what separates winners from losers.

Clive applies his experiences to all aspects of life – not just physical and mental challenges but emotional ones too. He was married three times before he woke up to the fact that HE was the one who needed to change in order to have a fullfilling relationship.

He is also very funny. Listen to this short video clip called “Blame the Boss”

Clive has a passion and that is to release the dormant energy and magnificence of others. To encourage and inspire anyone and everyone to take life by the throat and say “I’m not done yet!” Clive is a student of life who happens to be compassionate, courageous, inspirational and very funny. Using his own achievements (and blunders) and life experiences as his main examples Clive has the unique ability to make the seemingly complex simple to understand, the challenging seem achievable and the impossible possible.

He is the reason that my ‘Inspirational Speakers’ events exist because he had faith in what I was doing and inspired me to believe in it and in myself enough to keep working at it and turn it into an achievement to be proud of.

Come and see Clive in Cambridge on 17th March for the presentation “You Unlimited”  You won’t walk away unchanged.

http://www.clivegott.com