I needed this today. Spending a lot of time lately trying to speed learn the ropes of social media, only to discover the robots have the upper hand! I recently joined Twitter to simply 'exist' on the platform and to participate in an upcoming pitch event. So far it feels like walking into a party over and over again, each time saying the wrong thing in exchange for a hearty round of crickets. A friend reminded me that it takes time to grow online relationships, and the ones you actually want to nurture take even more time. I'm trying to remember that as I navigate the school dance of Twitter, where the noisy, popular crowd is often rewarded over the try hards. But hey, that's high school. Wait... thought I did that already. :)
In the vein of word of mouth, thought you'd appreciate that when I was going to recommend you (on a e-serve of thousands) to someone as one of my two MUST GET INTO YOUR LIFE resources, *someone* beat me to the punch. And that someone was another Erin, your sister. 😄 I didn't know we ran in the same circles. So I just piled on her rec and also thumbs upped you. She agreed with me that you're pretty great.
I've been 100% word of mouth since I started my business 19 years ago and I can't tell you how much I appreciate this stat and my people. "Sales" sucks; but sales doesn't have to be "sales." There are fun, easy, non icky ways to sell, a la what you're talking about. Be your fabulous self and people will want to keep you in their world AND share you.
Which is the best scenario -- win win win. I win cause you're sharing my business, you win cause your people now know of something/one fabulous and appreciate you giving them the insight, and they win cause now they have more fabulousness in their life, especially if that fab fills a hole they need filled. 🎉
An old bit of Twitter lore but… they say that an original tweet with a link will be suppressed by the algorithm - but it loves replies, even own-replies. So the thing to do is first tweet a screencap or two from the post as images, then reply to *that* tweet with the link.
I'm kinda hoping I get my stories read like that old commercial..."If you tell two friends, and they tell two friends , and so, and so on, and so ..." but no one seems to like FREE! Then again, I don't have a huge following.
I needed this today. Spending a lot of time lately trying to speed learn the ropes of social media, only to discover the robots have the upper hand! I recently joined Twitter to simply 'exist' on the platform and to participate in an upcoming pitch event. So far it feels like walking into a party over and over again, each time saying the wrong thing in exchange for a hearty round of crickets. A friend reminded me that it takes time to grow online relationships, and the ones you actually want to nurture take even more time. I'm trying to remember that as I navigate the school dance of Twitter, where the noisy, popular crowd is often rewarded over the try hards. But hey, that's high school. Wait... thought I did that already. :)
Similar story. Happy to connect on Twitter if you want. Just search my name. Can't miss me.
Thank you for this excellent explanation!
It's similar to organizing childcare while you're not even pregnant yet.
In the vein of word of mouth, thought you'd appreciate that when I was going to recommend you (on a e-serve of thousands) to someone as one of my two MUST GET INTO YOUR LIFE resources, *someone* beat me to the punch. And that someone was another Erin, your sister. 😄 I didn't know we ran in the same circles. So I just piled on her rec and also thumbs upped you. She agreed with me that you're pretty great.
I've been 100% word of mouth since I started my business 19 years ago and I can't tell you how much I appreciate this stat and my people. "Sales" sucks; but sales doesn't have to be "sales." There are fun, easy, non icky ways to sell, a la what you're talking about. Be your fabulous self and people will want to keep you in their world AND share you.
Which is the best scenario -- win win win. I win cause you're sharing my business, you win cause your people now know of something/one fabulous and appreciate you giving them the insight, and they win cause now they have more fabulousness in their life, especially if that fab fills a hole they need filled. 🎉
Nice post. I shared one of those tweets and commented (probably hers lol)
An old bit of Twitter lore but… they say that an original tweet with a link will be suppressed by the algorithm - but it loves replies, even own-replies. So the thing to do is first tweet a screencap or two from the post as images, then reply to *that* tweet with the link.
I always share my newsletter on Twitter, but it makes me feel a little foolish, like I'm a very small fish in a big pond and I can't even swim.
I'm kinda hoping I get my stories read like that old commercial..."If you tell two friends, and they tell two friends , and so, and so on, and so ..." but no one seems to like FREE! Then again, I don't have a huge following.
And if you have a piece of content that every person shares 1x... congrats, you’ve gone viral. All it takes if for each person to share it once.
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