5 Ways to increase your Twitter followers for your small business -

It seems that size does matter. People - and it appears that even the likes of Google - are influenced by the number of Twitter followers you have. It's only natural that people judge you by your numbers, but here's the plus side: the more followers you have, more people will hear your message and hopefully influence them enough to drive them to your website. Growing your follower count can accelerate the growth of your brand and your small business. So what can you do to influence your audience to follow you? Here are my top-5 suggestions that will help crank up those numbers.  

Top-5 ways to increase your Twitter followers for your small business - 

1.) Get the right followers - At the risk of contradicting myself, don't just jack-up the numbers for the sake of seeing triple digit followers. Make sure that you get to the right followers. The followers your small business wants most are those who follow you because they are interested and think that they'll get value from your tweets. 

2.) Go where the people go - Target the well-respected Tweeters that have a huge following within your small business industry. If you connect and develop a relationship with these power tweeters you draw the attention of their followers and it can dramatically effect how many people become aware of your profile - and hopefully they'll start following you.

3.) Feed your audience - Give them quality updates and content. By providing 'good stuff' makes it impossible for them to leave you. Your small business has that 'good stuff' like white papers and helpful articles that you can link out to your website.

4.) Better times to tweet - There are studies that show that most activity takes place between 10:00 and 4:00 pm with the most active hour being between 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm every day. Your small business should take advantage of tweeting during these times but remember that we have a whole world out there that is not on our time zone. 

5.) Encourage sharing - Hopefully you're small business has some pretty sound advice, great updates and content to share. So we want to make it easy to share with others and have others share it too. Make sure your article has a TweetMeme retweet button that will make it easy.
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