“Attract New Strategic Alliances & Thank Your Existing Parnters When You Retweet Their Content To Your Community. Best thing is — it’s all on autopilot. Doesn’t look spammy. And you can accomplish it all in 60 seconds or less:)”
It’s really more important than ever to get social media “right”. One of the ways that you can use social media to your advantage, is to use it to build an inner circle of friends a.k.a. circle of influence who support you and your business and vice-versa.
This isn’t the average social media user we’re talking about. This is typically someone who you have identified as having a strong social media presence, someone who loves what you do and wants to genuinely support you on your journey, and someone who you feel the same about.
Once you’ve identified these people (and this is an going activity), there are going to be some folks who always have something good to share on Twitter and you’ll want to “retweet” that type of stuff because you like their content AND it will help strengthen your alliance with them. When they see that you are supporting them, they will more than likely do the same for you.
For those people ONLY, I like to set up the automatic retweet feature. Now don’t worry, you don’t have to retweet everything that they post, because that would be annoying and spammy looking. But with this quick trick I’m going to show you, you can be very specific about what you retweet from each person who choose to do this for. I’ve chosen to shoot a short video tutorial to show you how I set this up.
Resources:
1. Obviously you will need your own Twitter account
2. You need the Twitter handles of the people you want to retweet
3. The tool that I use to set all this up is TweetAdder.
While I do love free resources like Hootsuite, Tweetadder is a paid but very affordable social media tool that works on both PCs and Macs which I absolutely love. I’ve been using them for at least a year, I’m pretty sure longer though. I haven’t found a free tool that will allow me to do what I’m showing you today, and Tweetadder keeps the software updated regularly and there have been no issues between them and Twitter (like API stuff).
Watch the quick 5 minute tutorial below and set up your retweets in seconds!
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for the Twitter tips! Social media is so big that it can be time consuming trying to tweet everything you like. This can really save some time and effort when you find someone who’s content deserves to be tweeted.
Take care,
~Jeremy
Hey Jeremy,
Thanks so much for your comment. One of the big reasons why I do this is that I wanted to do something for my clients that most coaches/consultants don’t do and that’s put their clients in front of their social network. So using this automation is a great way to accomplish this. My clients love me for it and it’s simple to set up!
Best,
Lisa
There is free online automatic retweeting service called RoundTeam: http://round-team.com/rt
It allows you to automatically retweet selecting tweets by hashtags.
This is very interesting, thanks. TweetAdder is paid but it is a one time lifetime payment so I might go for this, cheers.
TweetAdder is really good about updating their software and keeping it Twitter compliant. It’s been a great investment. I recommend it!