Twitter has long been a personal favorite of The Book Shepherd’s for reaching out and connecting with “like” … as in authors and writers. It’s quick and short, which is my personal style.
In that matter, here are several Twitter type tips for your weekend:
- If your readers are outside of the ideal times, ignore them and post where and when they will see it.
- Tweets last 15 seconds to many minutes depending on Follower’s followers. Suggest you post 4 to 5 times during a 24 hour period.
- Use a management tool like Hootsuite or Buffer to do all-in-one posting. Creates sanity in your day.
- Always follow competitors and top influencers. Always.
- To build like audiences, starting following the Followers of your competitors and top influencers. Use an app like CrowdFire to assist.
- If potential followers don’t follow you back in two weeks, unfollow them.
- Content: ahas, facts, savvy tips reigns. Your posts should be content heavy.
- If you are doing a special promo or book launch, give a heads up to followers that a heavy stream of Tweets is coming.
- When you can, add images to Tweets. It increases views and RTs by 18% clicks, 89% more favorites, 150% Retweets
- You may hate them, but you must use them. Hashtags double your engagement.
- Retweeting happens more in the evening- between 10 and 11 p.m. Eastern.
- If your reader demographics are between 18-49, Twitter is for you—64% of age group are Twitter users.
- Savvy Tweeters use “action” words – you get 13% more engagement from users.
If you aren’t using it, you may be missing the cyper book marketing boat.
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