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Welcome to the last day of the “6 Day Twitter Traffic” challenge.

Establish Your Authority

In a short time, you can grow and establish your position as an authority by posting on Twitter regularly.

Focus on a niche where you want to be recognized as an expert. Give tremendous value to followers who are also interested in that niche topic.

By posting at least 10 tweets daily, of which 8 are great links you’d like to share with your audience, you’ll quickly gain respect and attention - then influence.

Once that’s done, when you link back to your own website or blog, you’ll find a fair number of your followers will click on that link too - because you are known for providing good value.

Another ‘trick’ to getting the most traffic from Twitter posts is to use ‘grabber’ headlines. Your tweets should evoke interest or curiosity, fear or guilt, envy or anger, if they are to get the most clicks on your links.

Here’s an example of some ‘teaser tweets’ you can post today, as it also helps with the Congenital Heart Defects awareness effort:

Have you seen this fantastic effort? http://www.CHDinfo.com/chdaware/

or

This is so awesome. I feel good joining - you should too… http://www.CHDinfo.com/chdaware/

or

If we don’t help spread the word, who will? The children NEED our support. http://www.CHDinfo.com/chdaware/

If you master the twin techniques of locating links of interest and value, and then getting people to click on them by writing teaser headlines, you’ll grow your Twitter network quickly, and get nice bursts of traffic too.

Today’s assignment is to practice writing ‘killer headlines’ - and watching your referral stats to see how much traffic you get from Twitter.

Once you know this, keep the ones that work well, and use that angle as a model for future tweets.

Today’s task includes following 25 new people, posting 10 new interesting links, engage in conversations (by making @ posts) with at least 3 of your followers and practicing writing teaser tweets.

There’s a lot more to Twitter. In fact, no two people agree exactly on how Twitter can be best utilized in your business or personal life. There are so many applications and uses.

Keep exploring, learning and testing. I’m sure you’ll find the Twitter traffic increasing - and you’ll have a lot of fun.

Happy Twittering!

The “CHD Social Media Challenge” is a project to spread Congenital Heart Defects awareness. There are 4 mini-tutorials and 1 firesale making up the ‘challenge’. You can join in and help too - click here to see how.

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Welcome to the fifth day of “6 Day Twitter Traffic”.

Join in Conversations

Twitter is a great way to enter into 2-way conversations with individuals.

Don’t talk AT your followers. Talk TO them. And listen to what they say.

Read the posts made by people you follow. They will be displayed on your own Twitter homepage. When something catches your attention, and you feel like responding, do it using the @ prefix. The other person knows you are speaking to them and may choose to reply.

Soon, a conversation is underway - made more fun and fast because you’re both limited to 140 characters.

But don’t let that fool you. Great things can result from these mini-conversations. I’ve got blog posts featured on A-list blogs, closed profitable JV deals and found partners to help with several projects - all from engaging in discussions on Twitter.

Your task for today’s challenge is to engage at least 3 of your followers in conversation. It doesn’t matter if you’re doing all the talking. Find something to comment on or discuss and post an @ message.

You might even start a discussion going around the theme of Congenital Heart Defects awareness. By posting a tweet about how you’re participating in the ‘Twitter for CHD’ challenge to help a child with heart birth defects, you’re setting the conversational ball rolling.

Here’s a tweet you can post to start with:

Did you know 2500 children will die from heart defects today - unless they are treated? http://www.CHDinfo.com/chdaware/

or

8 out of every 1,000 children born will have some form of heart birth defect! http://www.CHDinfo.com/chdaware/

or

“A Day For Hearts” is on February 14th. Please show your support. Help save a child’s heart. http://www.CHDinfo.com/chdaware/

Go back into the previous posts to look for topics or tweets you can pin your conversation on. Then, keep trying with another 2 people you are following. Chances are that at least 1 will respond. That’s great. Especially when you include links in your tweets, which will get a few of them to click through to your site.

Don’t forget to do your daily routine tasks - follow 25 new people and post 10 new links or short snippets (of which no more than 2 should be your own content).

The “CHD Social Media Challenge” is a project to spread Congenital Heart Defects awareness. There are 4 mini-tutorials and 1 firesale making up the ‘challenge’. You can join in and help too - click here to see how.

Welcome to the fourth day  of “6 Day Twitter Traffic”.

Offer value to your followers

What should you post on Twitter?

It depends. Twitter suggests you answer the question: “What are you doing?”

But, most of the time, who cares?!

Instead, rephrase the question to read:

“What are you doing that others may be interested in hearing about?”

That way, you’ll know what to tweet about so that people following you get some value. It will depend on the purpose of your being on Twitter. Maybe you want to get potential clients to buy from you.

Or you might want to establish a personal connection with your existing clients and customers.

Or you may even publish updates, newsletters, special offers, deals and new blog posts where people can hear about them.

There’s one little problem. Twitter allows only 140 characters in each post!

That means you can’t send out a sales pitch. Or an elaborate appeal. Or an impassioned presentation.

But you can send a link to a blog post or sales page on your website where you can do all this and more!

And that reminds me - please post this note about Congenital Heart Defects Awareness day as one of your tweets…

“A Day For Hearts” is on February 14th. Please show your support. Help save a child’s heart. http://www.CHDinfo.com/chdaware/

Ok, so you can tweet links. But don’t even think about constantly posting links to your own website or blog. Soon, folks will tire of your self-promotion and un-follow.

What to do?

Mix it up. Post links to other useful content you’ve come across. Share your thoughts or opinions. Point to other blogs and articles and news stories. And, in proportion, also link to your own content.

What’s more, when you link to useful content on other sites, you gain trust and respect from your followers. They’ll look to you as a reliable source of information and advice. They’ll even tell others about you - and that grows your network wider.

So, your task for today is to post 10 tweets. No more than 2 should be to your own links. The rest should follow the criteria we’ve just mentioned.

Then, for every day of the challenge, do the same thing… post 10 new links or short snippets of value to your audience.

Of course, this is in addition to the daily routine of following 25 new people on Twitter - and if you have time, and want to grow your network faster, you could do more.

The “CHD Social Media Challenge” is a project to spread Congenital Heart Defects awareness. There are 4 mini-tutorials and 1 firesale making up the ‘challenge’. You can join in and help too - click here to see how.

Welcome to the third day “6 Day Twitter Traffic”.

Communicate with your network

There are 3 ways to keep in touch with people in your Twitter network.

Public messages are what you type into your updates box.

Replies are tweets with the @ symbol followed by the username of the person you are responding to. For instance, to reply or address a post to me, you would type:

@drmani - Your message here

You can also send private messages to a specific user through the Direct Message feature (it’s on your sidebar). DMs can only be sent to people who follow you, so the bigger your network, the more people you can DM.

You can post messages on Twitter in many different ways.

You can do it from your computer by visiting Twitter’s website, or through several third party applications that run on your desktop. You’ll find a nice list of Twitter tools here

You also have the option to link it to your mobile phone and instant messaging clients, so you can send and receive updates wherever you are.

To get wider reach from your Twitter messages, you can distribute it on other websites and blogs you have using the badges that Twitter makes available to users.

You can grab the code and add it to your blog, forum or website - and your tweets will automatically be displayed there. Visitors who read your Twitter posts can then click on a link there to arrive at your page and follow you.

Your assignment today is to follow another 25 members at least, and then explore the 3 different methods of communicating on Twitter.

Post updates to your account.

Write @ messages to a couple of followers.

And test the DM feature too to see how it works.

Also, please post one message about CHD Awareness Day, like this one:

You can help spread Congenital Heart Defects Awareness. See how you can help: http://www.chdinfo.com/chdaware/youcanhelp.htm

The “CHD Social Media Challenge” is a project to spread Congenital Heart Defects awareness. There are 4 mini-tutorials and 1 firesale making up the ‘challenge’. You can join in and help too - click here to see how.

Welcome to the second day “6 Day Twitter Traffic”.

Grow Your Network

Once you’ve got a feel for how Twitter works, it’s time to get it working to bring YOU traffic.

And for that, you first need people who read your Twitter posts (called ‘tweets’).

Twitter refers to people who read your posts as your ‘Followers’. It lists the people whose Twitter posts you read in a grid on the right side of your homepage - with the title ‘Following’.

Stats of how many people you follow and who follow you are on the sidebar too.

The first step is to get as many followers as you want. And like all social media networks, to receive, you must first give. So, if you want followers, you need to follow many people.

Often, when you follow someone, they will in turn follow you. Out of curiosity. To see who you are, what you say, and to decide if its worth continuing.

That’s why you should always try to post VALUABLE content on Twitter - even if most of the others you see may be posting silly or nonsensical tidbits.

Ok, so how to ‘follow’ someone?

You can start by following me

Seriously, though, if you’d like to, click to my Twitter page - http://www.Twitter.com/drmani - and then click on the FOLLOW button just beneath my photo.

If you know a person’s username (or even name), you can type it into the search box on the sidebar (it’s under the heading ‘PEOPLE’). Visit their Twitter profile page and click the FOLLOW button to join their network.

Twitter will send them a notification that you’re following them - and many people reciprocate by following you. It’s fun when that happens.

Set yourself a target.

Follow at least 25 people today. Repeat this for every day of the challenge - and beyond. If even one-third of them follow you, you’ll have 35 followers in the first 5 days and then grow bigger.

It gets viral fast. Once someone follows you, your tweets become visible on THEIR Twitter page! That means you’ll be seen by everyone who drops by THEIR page - and some of them may click through to your page and follow you!

One more thing you can do today to grow your network is to go OUTSIDE Twitter and tell people. Post to your blog and invite readers to follow you on Twitter. Send out email to your list. Include a link to Twitter in your email signature. Use it to sign off on your forum posts. Tell friends and family to follow you.

All of this can snowball, as every time you get a new follower, you automatically tap into their contact network and become visible on their Twitter profile page… leading to more new followers.

The “CHD Social Media Challenge” is a project to spread Congenital Heart Defects awareness. There are 4 mini-tutorials and 1 firesale making up the ‘challenge’. You can join in and help too - click here to see how.

Welcome to the first day “6 Day Twitter Traffic”.

Twitter is a micro-blogging ‘presence stream’ application that’s unique because it only allows you to post messages shorter than 140 characters in length!

Yet within this limitation, a whole community of over ONE MILLION users has evolved, making this one of the most vibrant, interactive and fascinating of social media channels available today.

Are you ready to explore the exciting waters of Twitter?

Let’s go.

Sign up for a Twitter account

Before you go further, read this report (it’s free) to see what your next steps will be:

Mastering Twitter: Click here to download the PDF

Enter your name, username, password, email address, and a picture.

The picture/photo is important. It’s your ‘avatar’ on Twitter. And on a social medium like Twitter, it matters that people in your network interact with you as a person or entity. Pick a photo, picture or logo that represents you or your business, brands it, and is eye-catching.

Start experimenting.

Post a few messages to Twitter. Since no one is ‘following’ you yet, don’t worry - if you goof up, no one will know!

Type a short message (less than 140 characters) into the box and click on the UPDATE button. Your post will appear below the box.

Try using a link to your website or blog. The link will be automatically converted into a short cloaked link, through the tinyurl.com service.

Here’s a sample you can try out - and at the same time, promote Congenital Heart Defects awareness:

“A Day For Hearts” is on February 14th. Please show your support. Help save a child’s heart. http://www.CHDinfo.com/chdaware/

or

You can help spread Congenital Heart Defects Awareness. See how you can help: http://www.chdinfo.com/chdaware/youcanhelp.htm

Then, check out the General Timeline by clicking on the link near the top of your Twitter homepage. You’ll see a cross-section of ALL Twitter users, with posts being refreshed frequently.

Some posts will be interesting, others cryptic, and most will be dull, drab, useless musings of individuals. You do NOT want to make many posts in that last category!

Click on stuff and explore the service.

There are many cool features. You’ll discover them by being curious. And for more background, check out the Big Juicy Twitter Guide written by my friend, Caroline Middlebrook - it’s here

The “CHD Social Media Challenge” is a project to spread Congenital Heart Defects awareness. There are 4 mini-tutorials and 1 firesale making up the ‘challenge’. You can join in and help too - click here to see how.