Social Networking- Increase the Number of Followers in Twitter

September 13, 2009 by Chris  
Filed under Blogging

As we all know that Twitter can drive quality traffic to our site. Some of traffic driving tricks are organizing contest on your twitter profile, connect your blog to twitter page or ask another user to propose your profile. There are so many strategies but before they drive traffic to your site it is important to have good number of followers. When I registered to twitter I was initially having problems in having large number of followers but gradually I used the tips which I am going to tell you guys which helped me improving the twitter followers and now I am  having quite a number of followers which is resulting in quite a increase in the traffic on my blog. Because these tips helped me to increase my followers, I thought of sharing with you.

Here are some simple tips to have large number of followers:-Have a complete Biodata of yourself on twitter. Don’t leave your biodata blank; write about yourself, so that people who wants to follow can know about you and your company. When you leave your twitter page or other vital information blank, it doesn’t hearten people to follow you.

  • Most easy tips are to follow more people so that you can get more followers. Try to follow those people who shares same interest as yours.
  • Tweet your followers and encourage them to retweet.
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    Track your retweets with the help of retweetist.

  • Links as much as you can. Add your link on your blog, your dig profile, facebook profile and everywhere you can exist on internet. This tip really helped me a lot.
  • Learn about # hash tag. You can tweet about your passion, your achievement. If people like your content they will surely be encouraged to follow you. Uniqueness does matters.
  • Make your twitter profile as a forum for discussion. This will help people to visit often and keep your twitter profile interesting.
  • Take care of your followers: You should focus on the people who are already your followers. Share your interests with them. Keep tweeting them. Others people who are following your followers, would surely notice your regular tweets and can be your potential followers.
  • Tweet regularly: You should have consistency in posting your tweet, but remember that your tweet should be unique and interesting.
  • Follow top twitter users ;learn from the leaders as they say. Analysis how they tweet and how they are growing their number of followers.
  • There are many twitter directories available like Just Tweet It or TwitDir. Get listed in such directories according to your profile. They have different categories. This will help you to find more people of same interest and thus you increase your followers.
  • Try to add pictures of current affairs or new gadgets. You can also tweet on current affairs .This will help to get you more followers.
  • Make habit to use FriendFeed to update your loyal followers about your tweets. You can also use your email signature, it do work to attract followers.
  • Start puzzle, contest or quiz on your profile, this will help in flow of responses and thus more number of followers.

I hope this tips will surely help you to generate lots of followers and eventually drive traffic to your website/blog.

Tips to Improve Your Blog

August 7, 2009 by Chris  
Filed under Blogging

Learn to Improve your Blog!Blogging business is getting huge by the day, some years back it was an altogether a different story, even if you didn’t do well in your job there were takers but now the scenario has changed with so much of competition around the place you cannot afford to miss out on serving nothing but the best services. Blogs are just not the end things, but this is the future of electronic media, you have to understand this importance and take few desirable steps that will make you a successful blogger. Following are some of the things you can apply in your blogs to grab the upper most position in networks:

  1. The about page – you have set up a good blogs website and have enough number of articles too on your page but imagine how someone will feel if they are coming to the site for the very first time and they see the “About us” page blank or filled with utter shit. It’s very important to put up a good about page in your site so that your followers would understand your purpose and your objectives. Make it impressive so that the readers keep coming back to your site. The about page should contain the following:
    1. You should state the reason for your site; explain what is the blog all about. Write creatively that will force them coming back to you, the best you could do is to tell them the benefits of reading your blog.
    2. Write detailed information about yourself, the blogger. People are more interested to read more of you when they know you personally, so try to build personal connection with them by letting them know your life history, the purpose, etc. and if possible your photo too.
    3. Don’t forget to put your contact information on the website, even if you don’t like putting it in about page, at least make a point that you direct a link to another page where you can state your information.
  2. Make people coming back to you – we are all aware of RSS feeds and readers, some people might be not aware of it, you can put in options near the sidebar where people can subscribe to your mailers or even have the option to mail you. Just giving the subscription tag is not enough, you got to convince people to subscribe to your RSS and email feeds. Key in some attractive words that will force them to subscribe to your feeds.
  3. Attractive content – No one likes to read boring stories, people like to read more of current events, something they will gain knowledge from. Keep your blog design simple, make it look clutter free, people should enjoy while browsing the pages of the site. Don’t make complex outlay that will let them in confusion for even searching for some content. Remember, in the blogging world, it is the quality that matters and not the design part. Here are some of the things you should remember while designing your blog design:
    1. Make your blog website look simple, simplicity will attract more readers, they aren’t   interested in seeing the design but to read the content. You can make arrangements so that it becomes easier for them to read over the site like using bigger fonts, normal text, etc.
    2. Make sure to put your text in black color with the white back ground, people are used to read in such combination so make them feel comfortable while they are reading on your site.
    3. Your blog should be flexible in the sense that you should be able to make necessary changes whenever needed like embedding some image, putting some sponsor impressions, etc.
  4. Create a blog community – Just designing and putting your content on the site is not enough, blog is a social media through which you are putting your thoughts in to writing and people across are reading it, so the same way as you talk through your writings, the people across might also want to say something. Interaction will lead to more ideas and help you improve better, you can create your online community through which your readers can exchange views and give suggestions, if any. You can create your community by:
    1. The best way to get communication going is by asking open ended questions at the end of your blog, this will encourage people to talk to you, giving you suggestions, etc.
    2. Make use of threaded comments, this will encourage more readers to reply to a conversation or a comment thus helping you grow your popularity.
    3. You can reward your regular commentators who are active on your site, you can put up a commentators plug-in which will help them get a back link to their site which can increase traffic on their site, its like a give and take relationship.
    4. Don’t forget to respond to the comments, suggestions by your readers, by replying them you are letting them know that they are important and their suggestions are getting heard.
  5. Content Rules – As we well know that content is the king in blogging world, no one can take its superior position other than the more supreme content itself. You are doing your level best to attract crowd but at initial stages you might not find people reading your blogs much, given below are some of the tricks which will help you improve on your content:
    1. Write something resourceful, if you are writing on news, note that there are other thousands of people speaking the same thing over news channels or radio, etc. you can write something that will be helpful to people.
    2. Make use of attractive and impressive headlines that will let people coming to your blogs and reading them, make simple and sophisticated statements, and think creatively.
    3. Whatever might be old to you might be new to someone else, even after years of writing, people find old novels so interesting the same scenario is with blogs. You just have to create that niche of writing creatively.

Make sure to update your blogs on a regular basis, don’t keep your old blogs on the first page for too long, keep updating on a daily basis and try to put in fresh, interesting content for your readers.

Be a Leader With Killer Instinct

April 28, 2009 by Chris  
Filed under Leadership Skills

1 BELIEVE IN YOUR SELF

Trust yourself in spite of hundred of limitations. Just have faith in inner you. Whatever you do, do it with a reason to do it. Once you start the job, do not confuse, just go and get your goal in your way. The leaders are never born, the born person becomes leader by keeping immense faith in own self. If you don’t believe in your self, how will others? So, start believing and loving yourself.

2. LOVE THE CHANGES

Changes are bound to happen. Stagnant water gradually converts into gutters. Just make sure that changes are heading towards the desired directions. There is always a saturation point to even the best things in the world. Every construction is based on destruction. So, face the changes and enjoy performing innovative ideas.

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3. DO NOT FOLLOW METHODS, MAKE YOUR PRINCIPLES

Even in Mathematics, the methods are derived from the principles. Try to catch the roots of targeted goal and create your own principles to get it. Let people know your methods and do not make attempts to convince them by orders, convince them with the results. Think dynamically, but share statistically. Ask everyone to share the views and thoughts. Be an analytics and take some concrete steps towards the desired goals. Be a trend setter.

4. MAKE THE FAILURE A LEARNING LADDER

Do not hate failures, failures makes men more successful. Do not blame anyone; try to solve the problem rather than problem makers. A nicely treated mistake is the master key for success. Walking is more important than falling. Teach everyone that every fall is to rise higher. Stand with your followers in every problem of theirs. Built an impression and then take out work from them.

5 THINK BIG, DREAM BIG AND COUNT ON SMALL

Leaders are the born dreamer; they may not be achiever all the time. The Leaders are the Dreamers who Desires and Develops. The seconds are the driving force of the centuries. So, keep attention on each and every small issue. It is important not to be overconfident but it is necessary not to be under confident. There is something in everyone, raise their morale to take that instinct out.

6 BE PERSONNEL WITH PUBLIC

Try to keep personnel relations with everyone. If possible, call everyone with their names that makes a big sense. Touch the feeling of followers and be a friend of everyone. Do not try to become big, be the best of yours. Make a circle than making a group. Be the leader for outsiders and loving friend with insiders.

7 BE OPTIMISTIC

Do not lose hopes at any point of time. Be positive always. There is always a big possibility after any failure. Try to concentrate that possibility and make the possibility possible. Do not lose hopes for anyone, be a supportive rather than a critics. Failures can be raised but losers can never. Win a lesson from every loss. Teach the people morals of failures to prevent them from following failures.

8 IDENTIFY THE POTENTIAL

Do not judge others from outlook, judge them by their deeds. Touch the potential of the people around. Try to share the work rather than doing it. Give targets to the followers; keep Targets higher than their capabilities. Work for 25 hours a day. Teach them how to enjoy work rather than doing it. Raise the potential of everyone around you.

9 BE FOND OF CHALLENGES

Do not bind anyone with the traditional attitude; ask them to work naturally. Be different and make others to think different. Try to take out impossible and special things from the normal and dumb persons. Think innovatively and exclusively and make impossible, possible. Be passionate to reach the goals and pass the enthusiasm within you to the colleagues.

10 BE AN IDEAL

Do not ever forget that you are always an ideal for everyone. Behave always with everyone the way you want them. Be an example for everyone. Barack Obama did the impossible in America by representing himself as an ideal leader. Be an ideal personality, rather than an idle. Guide the people in the right direction by your lifestyle. Make sure that we can not be 100 % perfect, but 99% we can.