Building Buzz on Twitter and getting ReTweeted

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pjmckeown Building Buzz On Twitter: Getting Followed & Retweeted Patrick McKeown Search and Social Strategist Navantis Inc.

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This was my presentation for SMX for April 26th, 2012 on how we manage twitter for our clients.

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Building Buzz On Twitter: Getting Followed & Retweeted

Patrick McKeownSearch and Social StrategistNavantis Inc.

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OBJECTIVES

• Sales? • Brand Awareness? • Support?

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DEMOGRAPHICS• Is your audience yet on Twitter?• Can you build an audience on Twitter?• Type your keywords into Sysomos, or

other tools to see what’s already being discussed.

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POLICIES

• Employee policies• Posting policies

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TOPICS/KEYWORDS

• Determine your topics of interest• Find similar topics already being

mentioned on Twitter• Create a list of keywords regarding that

topic• Analyze your keywords for relevance!!!

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Competitive Analysis

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COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS

• Locate competitors on Twitter–See who they follow–See who follows them

• Use tools such as Sysomos to see their followers and the gain insights?

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COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS

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COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS

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Find Influencers

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BLOG SEARCH

• Use your keywords and search for bloggers• Tools such as Scrapebox can speed this up! • From their blogs, find their Twitter ID’s, follow

them, engage them, listen to them• Create content for them to blog (guest

blogging)

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TWITTER INFLUENCERS

• Use advanced search with your keywords• Review profiles for engagement levels• Use Sysomos profile information for

authority levels

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Actions, Engagements and Evangelism

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ACTIONS

• Pay attention! Listen• Use lists/organize your audience• Auto Organize: IFTTT to add to lists• Be genuine

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ACTIONS: PARTICIPATION/CONTENT

• Engage, Listen, Participate!• Don’t be afraid!• Find great content!• Buffer great content!• Retweet great content!

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ENGAGING INFLUENCERS

• Follow the influencers• Retweet relevant tweets• @reply when you have value to add to

their conversation• Listen to them, see what their follower

engage with• Create engaging content

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ENGAGING AUDIENCE

• Find their interests• Provide engaging content regularly!• Retweet relevant tweets• Post their links, acknowledge them with

@ mentions• @reply when you have value to add to

their conversation

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EVANGELISM

• Teach the rest of your organization• Engage the rest of your organization• People leave Twitter because of lack of

engagement• Get your company people to retweet, list

and follow you!

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Tools

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TOOLS: IFTTT.COM

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TOOLS: INSTAPAPER

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TOOLS: FOLLOWERWONK

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TOOLS: GOFISH

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TOOLS: LINKEDIN SIGNALS

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TOOLS: SCRAPEBOX

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TOOLS: GOOGLE TRENDS

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TOOLS: GOOGLE ADWORDS KEYWORD TOOL

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TOOLS: TWITTER ADVANCED SEARCH

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TOOLS: BUFFERAPP.COM

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TOOLS: TWEETDECK

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TOOLS: SYSOMOS/RADIAN6

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Be Genuine! Listen! Engage!

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LINKS TO TOOLS MENTIONED

How I use them: http://bit.ly/smxtoronto

• http://www.ifttt.com• http://www.instapaper.com• http://followerwonk.com• http://ipullrank.com/tools/gofish/index.php• http://www.linkedin.com/signal• http://www.scrapebox.com/• http://www.google.com/trends/• https://adwords.google.com• https://twitter.com/#!/search-advanced• http://www.bufferapp.com• http://www.tweetdeck.com/• http://www.sysomos.com/• http://www.radian6.com/

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CONTACT

Patrick McKeownSearch and Social StrategistNavantis [email protected]@pjmckeownin/patrickmckeown