Why You Must Continue to Develop your Image on Twitter & Facebook

Developing your image & reputation on Facebook & Twitter you are going to have to, without doubt, continue to build lists of friends & followers. These will be your subscribers & customers of the future. This _{can be} is a painfully slow process from the outset but I would encourage you to start with Facebook & Twitter, but concentrate on Twitter, simply because, I believe Twitter is more versatile. Building your lists from people you know initially & then expanding with people they know & so on. As I wrote last week, being a Billy No Mates, I sat there on the 1^st day & couldn’t think for the life of me where to start. Who do I look for, how do I find people who want to follow or befriend me? The figures of 250 friends all over the planet on FB & 740 followers on Twitter, that I quoted last week has now risen to 283 friends & 1004 followers this morning (just gone to 1021 as I write this). I’m actually following 1079. Not supersonic I know but 280+ followers in 7 days, that’s 40 a day & I’m not chasing. These increases of 33 are people who want to befriend me & not vice versa. Most of my attention has been focussed on Twitter apps this last 7 days & the results are there to see.

I have been using TweetSpinner.com to administrate & automate my Twitter account & now, after putting in the hours to set up my preferences, I am just about running on autopilot. I have included a number of screen dumps here on the Hub that shows various options in TweetSpinner that gets me new followers for free, based on keyword trawling & helps keep my ratios tight by pruning & purging non-followers etc.

I have also included screen dumps of settings in Social Oomph which I use a lot to schedule Tweets. Its pretty straightforward, you draft out or cut & paste your New Tweets, save them & then schedule them as you please. Good thing about Twitter & Facebook, you can link the 2 together so that all of your Tweets are seen on Facebook as well. How cool is that? 2 for 1.

As pedestrian as my progress might appear to some, & it is, believe me, I continue to remain focussed, remain enthusiastic, and be persistent.

Rome wasn’t built in a week! Don’t expect your lists to be!

I continue to investigate other means of increasing traffic or new followers & yesterday I tried Twellow.com. Looking in Twellow.com is like using the Yellow Pages or Yell.com – the similarity is in the name. It is a free service & you can search or trawl Twitter by keyword or group to find prospective new followers in your particular niches. It’s easy & straightforward to use.

Make sure that for any new people or groups you are going to follow, that you pick up their Twitter ID & not their name from their Bio’s. Take each new friend you are going to follow, copy & paste his or her ID & create a short list in Word or WordPad & when your list is complete, copy & paste your list into TweetSpinner in the Mimic Follow area: Add Users. Paste the list into the Add users whose FOLLOWERS you wish to follow if you can see that the friends you have chosen have good followings. You are only allowed a maximum of 25 friends in Mimic. Leave the rest to TweetSpinner.

I’m going to leave at that for this week, plenty to have a go at with TweetSpinner & Social Oomph. I intend to post again next week & feel pretty sure that I will have more useful hints to assist us newbies in powering on to generate bigger & better lists of friends & followers.

Monitor my follower progress on Twitter.

My aim is to keep like-minded people up to date with my progress & to impart any lessons learned which might assist. Its not easy, & I know that I’m always appreciative of any shortcuts that have been given to me in the past, whatever I’ve been doing.

Take a look at the screen dumps. I have blanked certain names etc for protection, but everything else is as seen on my screen. Speak to you all next week.

Any suggestions, links or comments from other, more advanced readers here would be very much appreciated.