Reached 1500 Twitter Followers
by Harry Dry22 days after I hit 1000, The Marketing Examples twitter reached 1500 this morning.
Being honest, I put a lot of work into it. About 10% of my total time spent on the business is on growing the Twitter. Specifically what I do is:
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Every article gets summarised into its own twitter thread. I would really recommend this for anyone else with a blog. Threads get lots of Retweets. Far more than web articles get shares. And that's how it grows. This also has the benefit of sucking the attention onto one "viral" tweet.
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I'm also big on bridging the gap link between website and twitter. So under every article I embed the first tweet of the accompanying thread. This makes it incredibly easy for someone to share the article if they like it. All they have to do is RT it.
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Thank anyone who shares a lot of my stuff and ask about what they're up to. This is a small touch but I think it really makes a difference. And it brings people on the journey with me.
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Damn, no2 is genius!
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Thats awesome! Seems like Twitter is a pretty core part of your business.
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Thanks Noah, it sure is. I think there is compound interest involved. The more time you spend the more valuable it gets. You sort of have to pick your best channels.
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I’m trying this out. Not really been a big user of twitter but starting to see my audience is there. This looks to be a great way to share my content. 👍
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Awesome! Glad your finding it helpful Paul :)
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Congrats - saw you posting on reddit the other day and thought that was a pretty neat idea for a site.
Personal preference feedback:
- I'm more interested in the grassroots stories than in stories about the huge startups.
- The index page on your theme is super busy. Consider adding some whitespace to focus the reader.
Also had a chuckle at how badly you got ripped apart for suggesting Epic Games was unknown before Fortnite. Don't feel too bad about it though, morningbrew basically said the same thing in one of their e-mails the other week.
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How did you make it to increase your Twitter account followers? I only have a few @ Yester, my app. Congrats on this milestone BTW!
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The blog theme is great; clean and simple design. Is it custom?
So you're saying you gained followers by adding "share this article" and it's corresponding tweet from your account to each post on the blog?
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A tweet thread is two or more tweets in a sequence, so you can fit more content in. There's also something addictive about them that makes you want to click and read them, if the first tweet is enticing. I guess on twitter they're often a signal for higher quality content than what you normally get on twitter.
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You just got one more follower 😉
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Haha, nice one Pawel :)
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Hey Harry, loves the costly signaling theory. Been searching and haven’t found any good article about that, any recommended read?
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Hey again Harry. Just want to tell you that I’ve just consumed all of your content. What I really like about your site is the concept of just giving one very specific tactic per article, keep it that way!
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Thanks Javier. Yeah, that's the plan. Thank you very much.
For costly signalling theory I'd recommend this podcast => https://fs.blog/rory-sutherland/
They probably only talk about signalling for 10 mins or so, but the whole listen is great :_)
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Great, thanks!
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Well done! Curious if you post at a certain time? I see that it seems to be sporadic.
Do you only share that thread on the given article that day then just engage on the thread itself?
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Thank You! All sporadic atm (open to advice though).
As soon as the article is done I post the thread and send the email to subscribers. I like to keep it dense.
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Clever approach. Always great to be useful directly on the platform proper. And congrats!
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Exactly Peter. That's exactly it. I think Courtland or Adam may have mentioned that on that episode. It's so obvious but so many people fall down on it.
For example instead of blog spam on Indie Hackers it makes so much more sense to write out the blog in the way Indie Hackers may like best and then link to the full case study if needed.
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The sites great, and I really enjoy your writing style. Bookmarket to read everything. :)
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That's a lovely comment. Thank you very much. Would love any feedback :)
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Hi Harry. Nice to meet you here. Read your article The Kanye West Story. Quite inspired.
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Thanks Paul. Yeah, nice to meet you on here. One of the best places on the web haha!
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