Get retweet action Chris Brogan suggests

Chris Brogan is someone I trust. So when he says I can do a better job at putting up tweets that folks will retweet, I tend to believe him. Beyond that, I’m on the same page already with him on most of his suggestions.

A few ones he gives as bonus suggestions to get retweeted are:

• Retweet other people and promote other people 15x to every 1 time of your effort.
• Don’t tweet every damned thing you write about or do. Folks will fatigue quickly.
• Befriend and add value to the best retweeters. It’s a live network, a human network, a give-and-take relationship.

To me, the last one is one folks think they’ve already got covered. Often though, they will see a retweet and be following the retweeter instead of the original source. Trust me, you’ll miss out that way. What folks retweet is in two camps; they retweet every stray link from their friends, or they are very picky about what they retweet.

Find original sources, follow them, and do a fair amount of retweeting of their links and such. You’ll find it brings them into your fold. If it doesn’t, no problem, you’re still sharing good stuff.

Another tip to consider on making your posts up for retweet is to link directly to things. Folks will stop clicking your links if you always link to the home page for a blog but mention a specific post. Link to that specific post.

Same thing goes for telling folks that the link you’re sharing is a video. It’s not near as important to say it’s on YouTube or Vimeo, just say it’s video. Where I work, they ding you for streaming video.

Go in peace, share good stuff, and check out Chris’s original article.

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