Golden Rule 9: How To Avoid The Biggest Mistakes Most Marketers Are Doing With Twitter To Keep Your Following Growing Daily

The easiest and quickest way to destroy a good thing is to misuse and abuse Twitter and that is what you do when you spam your Twitter followers. Spamming your followers is a fantastic way to lose yourfollowers.
Follow these tips to avoid the mistakes many marketers are making.
· The occasional tweet that points to your blog or website is cool. Don‘t give a link that just goes directly to your product or service. You don‘t want to be perceived as someone who says, “Buyfrom me!” all of the time.
For example, if someone asks about getting their dog to stop barking all the time and you have a reportthat works for this problem on your blog, the best approach would be to direct them to a blog post of yourswith tips on different types of ways to get your dog to stop barking possibly with your link in the post somewhere. Be more subtle and less aggressive.
· Focus on the positive. Even if someone gets irritated with you, don‘t play their games. Bepositive and do not feed into the negativity.
· Remember that Twitter is for social networking. It is for building relationships andestablishing communication with people – not for sending out a spammy tweet every 3 hours.
· Limit your tweets. Tweeting about a blog post once a day is a lot different than sending thesame tweet 7 times. Less is more.
· Don‘t send out the exact same tweet more than once, especially if you have a link in it (even ablog post). I stopped following one guy when he sent out the same post 7 times in one day!And he sent a link to his “business opportunity” each time - not what I need or want on Twitter.
· Respond to all replies. When someone replies to your message, make sure to respond to themto let them know you got their message. Since messages move so fast on Twitter, especiallywhen you have a lot of followers, it can be difficult to keep up with replies.

Luckily, Twitter has a handy function that will track of your replies for you. Just keep in mind that ifyour replies start to take on an overly personal tone be sure to use the dm function. You don‘t wantto clutter up your follower‘s update feeds with your personal prejudices, opinions or rants!
Don‘t use all caps in your updates. This is one of those general online etiquette tips thatapplies to Twitter as well.
Check in from time to time with your account. Don‘t start a Twitter account only to check in with itevery few days or once a week. Make it a part of your daily routine so you can connect with yourfollowers.