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Influential tweeters expand your reach on the platform.
But how can you get noticed on Twitter by influencers?
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Most bloggers do not get Twitter. Seeing rapid fire tweets flooding your stream confuses new users.
Do you tweet often to grab the attention of influential tweeters? Or do you barely tweet to gain greater exposure every time you publish an update on Twitter?
How do you stand out from the 353 million users on the platform?
Trying to figure out how to get noticed on Twitter by influencers seems overwhelming.
Before we discuss the tips for standing out let’s explain why you would consider snaring the attention span of a powerful tweeter. Bloggers attempt to pop up on influencer radar screens only if they know why it makes sense.
Why Connect with Influential Tweeters?
Influential tweeters can:
- expand your blogging reach on the platform by retweeting your content
- increase your credibility by engaging you
- grow your business by boosting both your credibility and exposure
However, engaging Twitter power brokers means putting those sugary sweet benefits for you to the side and helping them without expecting anything in return.
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Some well-meaning bloggers teach manipulative strategies to lasso influencers for your service. Ignore these tactics or else risk burning through a list of powerful tweeters who:
- block you
- mute you
based on your urge to self-serve versus being of service to Twitter power brokers.
Good things flow to generous tweeters who genuinely help and connect with power broker users. Allow this idea to sear itself onto your mind to understand what it takes to get noticed by Twitter influencers.
Help Influencers
Help influential tweeters. Retweet their latest updates. Visit their blog. Comment genuinely on their blogs. Email power brokers asking how you can help these individuals.
Be of service to pop up on the radar screen on Twitter big dawgs.
Most tweeters make the common error of asking for influencer help versus helping these folks freely. Actively serve people to gain their trust. Try to get their help to lose their trust.
Imagine how many thousands of tweeters ask popular users for help on a daily basis. Dwell on that number for a moment to understand why this approach rarely if ever works. Receiving 100 tweets and 200 DMs asking for help daily makes it impossible to filter though these requests. Powerful tweeters generously served their community for thousands of hours spanning years. Each already paid their dues. Now it is their turn to receive help from new bloggers on Twitter who need to pay their tweeting dues.
Retweeting pro tweeters positions you ahead of tweeters who ask for a retweet. Everyone deeply appreciates help. Not many people appreciate beggars pleading for help on a daily basis.
Give help freely to open up to receiving help. Influential tweeters tend to note loyal followers who retweet their content. Why? Power broker tweeters walked a similar journey in their niche to move higher in circles until being seen as an influencer.
Take your help-ask off Twitter to accelerate your bond-building process. Email influencers asking how you can help these individuals. Become memorable by doling out kindness across multiple platforms. Get noticed by noticing pros in authentic fashion.
Engage Influencers
Make the @reply button your best friend.
Engage casually to stand out from the Twitter crowd.
Make your tweets all about them. Chat about their life. Talk about their business. Ask them how they are feeling? Continue the conversation. Even if the tweeter does not reply you made inroads as far as expressing a genuine interest in the person. Influential tweeters are human beings like you and me. Humans enjoy people who genuinely chat with them.
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Be authentic. Pop up on the radar screen on Twitter influencers by expressing a genuine interest in their lives, not by trying to force your agenda onto them.
Remember to engage tweeters with different-sized followings. Social tweeters gain traction on the platform.
Engagement Tips
- chat casually with power broker tweeters
- hop on twitter chats to connect with social tweeters
- reply to everyone who retweets your tweets
- reply to everyone who @replies you
Never solely engage Twitter big fish at the cost of refusing to chat with tweeters in lesser known circles. Chatting with folks who sport different-sized followings lifts the Twitter-sphere higher. Uplifting tweeters often find themselves engaging power broker influencers for no other reason than generating good Twitter karma.
Tweet Valued Content
Tweet valued content to raise influencer eyebrows.
Power tweeters have seen tens of thousands of tweets over the years. Tweeting valued content catches their attention because power tweeters published valued tweets persistently to become influential on the platform.
Retweet valued content from respected bloggers – and tweeters – to diversify your stream. Influencers usually appreciate a varied stream rich with tweets from a range of users. Avoid making your stream only about you. Self-centered tweeters fail to gain traction. Who wants to connect with someone who talks about themselves all day long?
Generous tweeters who retweet lesser known or even unknown tweeters make inroads. Being generous increases your follower count. Boosting your follower count allows you to serve and connect with more people. Building your Twitter connections and publishing helpful tweets creates a synergy favorable to popping up on the radar screen of powerful tweeters.
What Is a Valued Tweet?
Valued tweets entertain, educate and help your followers.
Don’t just tweet business or blogging themed content though. People seek value in the form of lighter tweets. Perhaps you suffer through some misfortune. Seeing a puppy sleeping with kittens in your stream may be the pick-me-up you needed.
Value originates in many forms on Twitter. Publish niche-related tweets some of the time but switch things up with lighter tweets too.
Never underestimate the value of a tweet asking someone how they feeling when they need to know someone out there is listening. Tweeters see immense value in adding a personal touch to your Twitter stream.
Be Patient and Persistent
The prior steps seem quite easy.
But being patient and persistent is not easy because fears triggered during a long Twitter journey feel uncomfortable to embrace.
Figuring out how to get noticed by Twitter influencers is largely a study in patience and persistence. Retweet power brokers. Engage pro tweeters genuinely. Publish valuable tweets, retweeting lesser known tweeters to vary your stream.
Following the prior 3 tips patiently and persistently until influencers notice you feels highly uncomfortable in moments. Wade through frustration. Edge into the feeling of being ignored. Nudge into the feeling of wasting your time. Proceed.
Picture the influential tweeter journey. Each of these individuals had to pass the persistence test to become influential. Tweeters whom they notice need to pass the same persistence test.
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Patience is paramount. Relax into the process. Think little of outcome. Allow the process to unfold organically. Connections happen in the perfect place at the perfect time.
Common Errors to Avoid
Do not make these common mistakes as you network with Twitter influencers.
- trying to get influencers to notice you only for an ego boost
- attempting to grab an influencer’s attention only for them to retweet you, to endorse you or to grow your traffic and business in some form
- not maintaining long term relationships with influential tweeters
- ignoring successful tweeters who publish updates under your cyber nose
Lisa Sicard tweets like a professional tweeter. She publishes the ideal mix of:
- valuable blog posts
- engaging her followers
- humorous tweets
- light tweets
- question tweets
to make a seismic impact on the platform. Pay close attention to her Twitter stream. Study her tweets. Pro tweeters reveals how to pop up on influential tweeter radar screens.
Plan the next step after an influencer notices you. Continue to retweet influencers, engage pro tweeters and tweet value. The process never ends as long as you tweet. But influencers begin to:
- retweet your tweets
- increase your blog traffic and profits
- boost your credibility
as you invest heavily in the bonding process and care little about outcomes.
Phuket, Thailand.
Growing your blogging business is the organic side effect of enjoying the process of bonding with human beings, some of who grew large, loyal Twitter followings.
Conclusion
Influential tweeters gravitate toward up and coming tweeters who walk a similar path.
Influence powerful tweeters to notice you by noticing them genuinely, patiently and persistently.
Don’t forget the sparrows as you bond with eagles. Labelling tweeters based on influence does not change the fact that every human being is equal on the platform and in life.
The most successful tweeters and bloggers are humble servants.
