How to build your twitter follow count fast! Part 1

Hey Guys,

As promised I am making 2 posts about how I am building my new twitter account @shblogger so fast.

I am doing several different things so I will go over them briefly here and then you can do the same for your own twitter account, no matter how many followers you already have these techniques will work! I started out with zero and I know others who started out with hundreds and quickly reached multi-thousands after doing these techniques!

Step 1 – Power in a name.

Believe it or not the techniques I am going to show later on in these posts may not work without a good twitter account name. When it comes to choosing a name for your twitter account, remember “smaller is better”.

The twitter account name is like your calling card and should be simple, short and to the point with your company or blogs brand. The shorter names are easier to remember and to re-tweet.

You dont like your time wasted so why waste someone elses?

Step 2 – Twitter profile.

One of the mistakes I see a lot of young twitter users making is with there twitter profiles in general. The profile should not only compliment yourself but it should also make a statement of some kind. If you teach people to do something then put that in your bio line.

Aside from the right sidebar stuff which you can edit to your own descretion I encurage you to get a great Twitter Background image setup. If you visit Twitter.com/Shblogger you will see my mascot and a cool background all at once! This is how it should be done, it shows potential followers that you care enough to have a customer twitter page instead of the default boring ones!

There are lots of people who create these backgrounds (including me for $15) so feel free to contact someone to get it done for you if your not a decent designer! Feel free to ask me any questions in a comment below about your twitter profile and I will be happy to answer them.

Step 3 – Follow Trade.

Now that you have picked the perfect short easy to remember catchy twitter account name its time to start getting followers. We will be discussing several techniques for this so lets get right into it!

The first technique is the follow trade, basically the way twitter has worked since it started was simple, you follow the people you knew and in return they followed you back so you could all connected and be connected with your daily lives.

Not much has changed in this regard and the techniques still work great!

All you have to do is follow people and they will return the favor, however as a person you can’t possibly know Hundreds Of Thousands of people yourself unless your a celebrity with fans correct?

There is a site that @JohnChow started called TwitterFollower.com, twitter follower allows you to do follow trades very easily. The system is pretty self explanatory so I won’t go into detail here on how to use it, just watch John Chows video explaining how it works here.

Step 4 – Link to it, promote it, get it seen.

This step is a little less effective right off the bat but over time you will see results by doing it. I encourgage you to if you havent already go ahead and link to your twitter name on your blog, websites and even your email signature can be  some great places to start!

When it comes to promoting your twitter account you should try anything and everything (be sure to comment below if you have any ideas for me to try). I promote my twitter name here on my blog, through videos and even to my friends and family on Facebook that already know and trust me.

Why not try linking to your twitter account through other social media sites? You may be suprised at the results it delivers!

Step 5 – Run a contest.

The final and last step to replicate my success with your own twitter profile is to run a contest through twitter. By running a twitter contest you will not only let your current followers know about the contest but everyone who enters finds out about it as well!

A twitter contest should work like this, make a post on your blog about the contest, tell them to enter they simply need to re-tweet the contest message (actually give them the contest message to copy and paste, be sure to include your twitter account name in the contest message as well as a link back to your blog) then sit back and watch twitter do all the work for you.

As long as you give away a decent prize (no ebooks here guys, give away cold hard cash or an electronic device) then you will see your twitter follower count rise over night without even lifting a finger! Its kinda like cheating the sytesm but in a good way!

Lets wrap it up.

I believe if you follow all these steps I have outlined above you will get over 100 followers in your first day. I did not even run the contest nor get my twitter background fixed up the first day and I already gained over 100 in my very first day which is amazing!

God bless and send me any success stories you may have!