When I first started with Give aways I used to email my list and tweet on a daily basis. I saw people on my list unsubscribe (more than I gained) and my followers reduce.

As other have said in there comments I try not to use twitter to self promote anymore. I do still tweet about the give aways but only a couple of time per give away.

I still email my list, but only twice per give away. One to bring it to their attention and one a few days later to give them a reminder (nudge).

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You make some good points there. I think I am going to have to work on my tweets – there’s only so much you can say in 140 characters but I am not going to be too cryptic or controversial because it just causes people to complain.

Thank you for the kind words about my blog – feel free to drop by at any time!

David

I know twitter can be really hard to promote on it,

but guess what! you can attract them by using the “Right Keywords”

What I mean that you make it attractive as a headline not a promotion, to be honest I think I rarely promote on twitter except if it is my blog or anything that really deserve it, and when I make it, I try to make it not so ** PROMOTIONAL** instead I try to explain what exactly will they see when they enter the site.

Great post David, and your blog is really lovely

Yours
Mohamed Hammad

That sounds great – you are obviously “selling” the right way on Twitter then if you have people asking you for the links to the products you are discussing!

I think Perry Belcher has Twitter and other social media nailed. He “gets it” and even though he has a 100k+ following, it is still easy to interact and respond to the people who contact him. I manage just fine with a 45k+ following.

Sure, I don’t see what everyone says all the time in their Twitter stream, but if anyone takes the time to respond to a question I put out there or who @reply’s me for any reason then it’s easy enough to identify and then respond to.

David

You make some good points there. I will just direct people from Twitter to various pages on my blog from now on rather than to a sales or squeeze page. I need to set up more auto post messages as well but will also be doing loads of interacting on Twitter.

I just want my account to become even more active than it is already to try and spread the word about my blog to even more people!

David

Thank you for leaving such a great comment!

I need to start treating Twitter more like one big party. I have a great time posting tweets and it’s awesome when the responses come flooding in. Just doing this and interacting with people on there drives lots of traffic to my blog and I am sure I can ramp this up even more without being pushy!

I leave an auto DM for people who follow me, but it’s just an invitation to take a look at my blog so I think that’s acceptable but I rarely look in my own DM box very often due to the sheer amount of “Get 10 million followers in 2 minutes” and “I added you to my Mafia Family” type messages.

You are doing a great job with your blog and I will be visiting it often.

David

I try my best to interact with whoever wants to interact with me on Twitter and despite a following of over 45,000 it’s actually quite easy. Most people who use Twitter do it only to try and sell. Generally, I don’t do this, apart from the obvious blip which saw this article come into being.

I get a lot of traffic to my blog from Twitter, without really “pushing it” so long may that continue. I look forward to speaking with you on Twitter soon!

David