We must admit it, any community building effort takes time. And Twitter is not different. You need to nurture your followers, provide excellent content, build value and most especially be genuine.
There are some shortcuts however, and I would like to share some tips with you.
- Write content as a guest blogger – Here are some advantages:
a) you would be building relationships with the blog owner,
b) increased traffic to your website,
c) increased RSS subscriptions to your blog
d) more links pointing to your blog hence more search engine rankings and traffic
e) more participation from the community in the form of blog comments. - Send some DMs to Twitter Friends – just be careful not to over do with this technique as it may backfire. Be reasonable.
- Ask people to re-tweet your article/blog post – you must use caution here too. Usually if the content is good enough (or exceptional) you would not need to ask for this.
- Tell powerful Twitter users about your exceptional content – (the material must truly be exceptional) and related to that particular Twitter user in some way.
- Do not forget to say thank you to those that take the time to help you – often overlooked but you must not forget this step.
Give it a try and let me know how it goes 🙂