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A Short Twitter Checklist to Grow Your Audience, Revenue, and Influence.

Checklists keep you accountable.

While the actions vary between goals, the basics will make Twitter profitable:

  • Engage with those that engage with you as long as you care about their topic. There's no point in faking reactions or a relationship.

  • Start conversations in other people's comments. Saying "great tweet" is not enough. It's spammy.

  • Pick a posting frequency and stick to it: Five to ten tweets per day works
    for most.

  • Tweet content focusing on a specific audience: Choose a niche and stick to
    it.

  • Measure progress based on business values and not followers.

These are the steps I have used to grow my Twitter, 🐦@ MrNicolasForero.

While It has 101 followers after two months of posting, I have reached 60k+ users in the last 28 days, created relationships, and jumped into multiple business calls.

Followers don't pay the bills. Clients do. Choose wisely.

💬 Comment below what you'd add or remove from the checklist.

✉️ And also, feel free to send me a Twitter DM if you have a specific question related to this post. Or anything.

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    That's pretty much what I'm doing, trying to build an audience as well.
    I'd had, recycle your content as threads instead of just sharing links. Threads are way more engaging than simple tweet!

    My twitter: https://twitter.com/angezanetti

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      Respectfully disagree Xavier,

      Don't get me wrong, I was also a fan of threads and occasionally (twice, trice a week) they do work out for me. But the cost-effort vs exposure was not worth it.

      I found it better to just schedule a bunch of them. I Will def pay more attention to your profile. Here is mine

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        Oh really? That's interesting!

        You share your content as a simple tweet then?

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          Yeah, simplicity is king.
          Having the ability to be brief, not simple. Worth it though :)

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    you put it nicely here

    I also focused my twitter behavior and grow my acc to 1k

    one thing to repeat, and you already said something similar, ppl shouldn't compare number of followers with others accounts, because their audience is different

    you can't compare audience of 500 ppl interested in your product with 16.5k followers interested in memes and funny videos from someone else

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      That's immensely true, Brunor.

      And it takes an understanding of each niche to be able to realize that.

      A meme YouTube channel with millions of views can make less than a hundred dollars a month. While a B2B channel with 2000 monthly views can make 10k.

      Similar to what I said to @HenryClay, I think it comes down to understanding the nuances and also living them. If you are new to the social media or content world, it's easy to focus on metrics because you lack context.

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    Agree with you regarding followers, it's a vanity metric. However it is sadly the first social clue that anyone stumbling upon your account will use to assess whether to follow you. So whilst engagements, leads and CTRs are more important, it's worth trying to build followers too, just don't obsess over that metric!

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      That's true, Henry.

      At times, there are tweets with an immense value that only a few get to see. Followers do provide social proof.

      But my data-less hypothesis is that people who haven't had an interesting amount of followers will gravitate towards a focus on them. And that's where the problem lays.

      What do you think?

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        Totally agree, a high follower count has value, but let the followers come naturally, don't pursue activity purely for followers. Focus on providing value and being rewarded through engagement. Otherwise you'll end up being one of those accounts with 50k followers, that follow 50k accounts and have ZERO likes, RTs or replies. That's NOT a good look!

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    It's been ages since I blogged so I haven't tried this for my account.

    But your point on links does apply.

    It applies to any social media platform to be honest.

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