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Lists on Twitter – 2 GREAT Techniques for Finding NICHE Followers

by on February 10, 2011 in Best Practices, Twitter

I was working with The Chubby Cook today, showing him the Twitter App we developed at Cleveland Groove – Bum Kicker. The app makes it easy to delete all of the people not following you back, rapid fire style. This is a simple, yet critical tool for building up your following, cut the fat!

We started talking about Lists on Twitter. There are plenty of Lists out there in your interest/business. If you have been put on Lists, great! Otherwise, start looking at the lists of the people you follow. Whether your lists are passion based or geographically based, find great Lists.

  1. These are great tools to identify niche communities of people you want to follow. Find a relevant List, look at who the List is following, if they are interesting and in your niche, follow everyone on the List. Some will follow you back, these people are important to your business!!!
  2. Click on the name of the person who made the List. Follow that Person!!! Ideally the List maker will see how relevant you are to that List and put you on it. This will improve the odds of people who are interested in this niche following you.
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How Twitter Lists can help you get your first 2,000 followers

by on November 9, 2009 in Best Practices

Twitter lists are a very very very valuable tool. Click around and check a few out. What you will see is people are organizing and categorizing their Twitter friends. Are you looking for more followers in your local area? Find Twitter lists of people who have broken out your regional Twitter connects. Maybe you want a specific niche like Yoga or Cycling, fahgetaboutit there are tons of lists for that. Find the various Lists on Twitter, look at who the list is following and follow them, all of them. When you get cut off by Twitter take a break for a few days, then delete all the people not following you back using Twitter Karma and start adding followers again, this is the secret of finding your first 2,000 followers on Twitter.

Should you create Lists? Of course, this is how the system works! Create Lists that fit your interests and passions and add your friends to these Lists. What is the advantage to you? How about as I scroll thru your list of 400 people I am seeing your page and logo the entire time. Yes, your list is a great big advertisement for you. Yes, Twitter has Private Lists, but why bother? Twitter as a communication tool has become an opt-in spam machine. Cut thru the noise by building your own Public Lists. Leave Private for the crazies. Twitter is an open relationship, keep it that way. Start building a List today, at the very least do your homework and check out a few Lists.

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Using lists on Facebook

by on August 1, 2009 in Best Practices, FaceBook

When the lists feature first appeared on FaceBook, I encouraged you to start grouping your friends. Why? If you have more than a handful of friends you miss a lot of information. The only way to process all of the information flowing thru FaceBook is to develop effective habits of organization.

How should you organize your lists? I set up my lists as follows: Family, Cleveland, Bay Area, Ny, Go Blue, Sigs, Science, Yoga, work. It is hard for me to find someone who does not fit into one of these categories in my life. They cover school, places i’ve lived and life. Each person gets put on one list, even if they could be on 3. Why? Because as I click on my lists my newsfeed gets filtered and I quickly see most of the info I want to see. Is this perfect? No. Effective? Yes!

Information management is getting more complex, good habits make it possible to stay active within your network with less time. Back 2 Basics, make a list.

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