Someone recently asked me how to get more people to retweet their tweets. It’s a common question and here are my suggestions (make sure to read what happened.)

1. Ask and Ye Shall Receive. The simple act of asking people to retweet you tweets inceased your re-tweet rate. Yes, it’s that simple. You can simply append your tweets with “Pls RT” or something like that and people will often do it just because you asked. You can also send tweets directly to people who follow you and ask them to specifically retweet a tweet for you, but I wouldn’t make it a daily practice because you could wear out your welcome.

2. Do Unto Others. If you want people to retweet your tweets, you can start by retweeting theirs. It’s puts the universal law of sowing and reaping (referred to some as karma) into play for you. Not only will people take notice, but they will thank you and return the favor.

3. Become a Publisher. Did you know that you can start your own Twitter publication? Currently it’s free and it’s a great way to spread the love and highlight what others are doing in specific market. Again, people will thank you for highlighting their tweets.

4. Hold a Contest. I am sure you have seen contests where there are multiple ways to enter, one of which is “retweet about this contest.”  Make sure you have them follow you as well for one of the entries.  There is a free widget you can use to help facilitate this as well, called Rafflecopter.

5. Don’t Set Your Tweets to Protected. Nothing says “I don’t really want to be a good community member” like having your Tweets protected. Basically, no one will see what you are doing publicly, so therefore fewer people will want to follow you, which means fewer people will retweet you and you will have limited exposure. If you feel that strongly about protecting your tweets, I am going to take a step out on a limb and say social media might not be a good marketing strategy for you.

If you take these steps, you will start to see results. And in the case of the person who asked for help, he texted me and said he was seeing immediate results to people retweeting just because he was asking. To quote one of the good guys… “I love it when a plan comes together.”

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Whenever I get a question, I like to post the answer in the form of a blog post or a video, because if one person has the question, I am sure someone else does. Here are the 5 simple steps to adding an admin (administrator to your Facebook Page. Please know that if you add someone, it must 0be someone you trust because they can remove you as an admin from your own page.

1. Go to the Facebook page you want to give admin rights to.
2 . Click the “Admin Panel” button in the upper right corner.

3.  Click on the Manage button in the drop down menu and select “edit page”

4. Select “Manage Admins” from the left menu bar:

5. Start to type the persons name in the box and it should auto populate (if they are fans of the page). If not, you can use their email address associate with their Facebook account.

When you are finished, just make sure to select the save button. It really is simple when you have a step by step approach.

Have more Facebook (or other social media) questions? Feel free to contact me.

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Not sure if you saw this, but it was played at my church on Easter. Kudos to the folks at Igniter Media who created it. Enjoy!

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Hey everyone, thanks for visiting my latest work in progress. I have decided to launch a new social media training community. Excuse me as I slowly build this online community, but see this as a lesson in itself.  Here is the lesson:

Some people believe that you should not put out a website until it is ready for the public. In some cases, this is true, but in other cases I like to put “something’ out there, just to get the juices flowing. And by that, I mean Google’s juices.

Google looks at several factors when determining what to return as search results, and one of those factors is how long the site has been around, so rather than just having a dormant domain, I often set up a simple WordPress site like this one to start the ball rolling. The other thing it does is motivates me to finish the project, so now “game on!”

Here is how you are do the same for your next project website.

1. Get a web hosting account. I recommend HostGator, because for a small monthly fee, they allow you to host multiple sites.  They also have the WordPress software as a one click install which makes it easy to set up.  As the site grows, you can migrate it to a larger plan, but they can handle quite a bit of traffic.

2. Install WordPress through Fantastico. Find that icon in the Control Panel and use this tutorial on how to install WordPress to get you going.

3. Get a free WordPress Theme. If you want you want use the same one I stated with (The site has since been updated with a customized template.)

4. Write a simple blog post related to your business.

Optional:

• If you want to start monetizing your site, you can add AdSense code, affiliate links, or a link to your primary business page.
• Start Building Your Social Media Profiles.

I hope that helps get you on your way to online marketing success!

Until next time…

~ Anthony
Your Social Media Coach

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