Twitter Followers Are like List Subscribers
admin August 30th, 2008
I’ve just read an article by Denise Wakeman that has made me look at Twitter in a new light, and I would like to share this new concept with you.
When a person follows you on Twitter, it means that he/she is interested in hearing what you have to say. In a way that is like someone subscribing to your e-mail list, the only difference being that, to my knowledge, you cannot tweet to a large list of followers in one tweet.
What you have to do is to move your followers onto your e-mail list to facilitate mass mailing.
For this you have to use a free online service called to TweetLater. This service, whose primary purpose is to enable users to program future tweets, also enables the automatic sending of a tweet as soon as someone follows you. TweetLater calls this a “welcome message”. It is up to you to compose the welcome message.
Denise suggests composing a welcome message containing an invitation to download a free report. The welcome message should read something like, “Thank you 4following . Please download my free report on traffic generation at http://getreport.com.”
That URL leads followers to a web page which asks them to enter their address as a condition for downloading the report. [A good old "squeeze page"]. Once they enter the e-mail address, you’ll show them the download page with a link to the free report and another link to an unannounced bonus.
This appears to be an excellent idea, and we at the Internet Training Lab are going to try it pronto.
Stay tuned!
Lucky