Blogging and Tweeting – A Natural Combination
You have your WordPress blog – don’t you? If not, you should. Now let’s hook up your blog to Twitter. What’s Twitter, you ask?
Tweets are short little posts commenting on what you are doing right now. The key to using Twitter effectively is participation. You must listen as well as speak. The more you listen and respond, the more people will ‘follow you’.
When you tweet, your message is broadcast to everyone who is following you. If your ‘tweet’ is interesting, your followers will want to see what you are all about and will click over to your blog and have the opportunity to opt-in.
The more you interact, the more people will interact with you. So, go over to Twitter and set up an account. Search for people you know and start following them. Start ‘tweeting’ and watch what happens!
NOW let’s connect your blog and Twitter. Get the WordPress plugin TwitterTools. This plugin allows you to create a tweet from every new blog post – automagically!
Want to know the real secret? Don’t stop at Twitter Tools. Go back to Twitter later and tweet about your blog post. Double the value of Twitter Tools AND your blog.
Tags: alex mandossian, blogging, Social Marketing, social networking, the wordpress wizard, twitter, wordpress
For three years I have had a blog (lawgospel.com/blog) but have not been taught how to expand the material there to others. This blog note motivates me to use Twitter to make my content read by others. Thanks much.
Nice summary of the basics. Twitter plus any quality content one creates are greater than the sum of their parts for sure!
In my experience, no other social media site compares in terms of responsiveness.
I love your word “automagically”. A powerful word. And, I am looking forward to having an automagical experience when I add Twitter to my blog. You rock.
Raymond
With Alex’s TeleSeminar Secrets training for the third year and Cathy Perkins Web 2.0 Class (where she showed us how to use social marketing effectively), I feel like I’m on the cutting edge of business building. Twitter is getting to be more fun every day thanks to Cathy.
Kelly Rudolph, “Your Personal Safety Trainer”
http://www.PersonalSafetyTrainer.com
Hey Cathy,
Great post, we use twitter with our blogs and you can follow us on Twitter at:
http://PatAndLornaOnTwitter.com
We use a different plugin PingPressFM
http://www.soldoutactivist.com/pingpressfm
that works with http://Ping.fm which updates many social networks including Twitter.
– Pat & Lorna
http://PatAndLorna.com
I’m sorry. I hit the submit comment too quickly. I wanted to let you know that another article on the Mandossian blog is by Jeff Herring on November 7, 2008 about Facebook and Twitter.
Thank you, Kathy, for this post. I look forward to trying TwitterTools. Just this morning, I learned that http://twitterfeed.com is also used for connecting blogs with Twitter. I plan to test both and post again later.
~Phil Johncock – http://johncock.com
Have been on Twitter for just a few months and have hit a stride.
There is a learning curve, but well worth the investment of time, just a few minutes a day.
Jill Koenig
I just learned about Twitter last week. Tonight on Alex’s presentation and reading Cathy’s post, I have learned more than reading several emails from other presenters. Jill Reed ask4romance.com
I tweeted you about Alex and Noah earlier tonight, also on FaceBook. Dolan responded!
When I check my Google Analytics, a good portion of the traffic to my blog is referred from twitter.
Thanks, Cathy for teaching me to put up a WordPress blog, add Twitter Tools and Google Analytics.
http://www.BecomeaTopWeddingPlannerBlog.com
Cathy,
Thank you very much for your initiative in responding to our needs as TSS students!
I look forward to learning how to utilize Twitter with the blogs/websites we will be setting up.
Regina
Great post on the basics of blogging, twitter,
and list building. What an attractive way to learn and get immediate feedback.
Dr Alice
http://www.life-attractionsblog.com
I am thrilled to be watching this process in action! Thanks Alex for sharing your passion and helping me to share my passion for parenting well! I’ll have a website by the end of the week!
Alex,
OK, me on Twitter @chris_swain but, here’s where I post stuff requiring greater than 140 characters http://www.the-netrepreneur.com/blog
Good point, Chris. Twitter is only an addition – your blog is still the main thing. Use Twitter to help get visitors and extend your reach.
Hey Alex-
I’m a new TSS student this year and LOVE it! But I have to admit I was disappointed when you mentioned earlier tonight (last night? It’s 1:14 Am & we’re still on the call!) about Twitter not working as a list-builder.
I’ve been on Twitter since July 2008 and it’s been FABULOUS for me. I’ve added new subscribers, been invited to speak at major events (jvAlert)and have made thousands of dollars. In fact I now teach people how to communicate effectively for business on Twitter http://CashInOnTwitter.com.
Thanks Cathy for getting up your post so quickly! Love the responsiveness and how quick you are to be sure everyone listening now and reading later can make their blogging and micro-blogging experience work so well.
Hopefully between Jeff Herring, Mari Smith, you, me & others, we’ll help everyone see the Twitter light!
Warmly,
@FeliciaSlattery
http://twitter.com/FeliciaSlattery
Hi Alex,
I have fewer posts on my own blog, http://www.TeleSeminarWebFolk.com than you have comments(9) on this post at this point in time.
Cathy Perkins “The Word Press Wizard” did a great job so I already have Twitter Tools on my blog and each post gets posted on Twitter where I have 2043 posts. These Micro Blog Posts have trained me to post to my Word Press Blog. http://www.Twitter.com/EdLovesSumo
http://www.TeleSeminarNation.com , the niche site which Dan Safkow (faculty on Teleseminar Secrets) and I founded to be a Social Networking Site in the Teleseminar niche. It is “where Teleseminarian Leaders Lead and Learners Learn” and was soft launched on Twitter. We invite all the alumni and students of Teleseminar Secrets to join. It is our gift to all the leaders to post your profile and events. (Can you say free PR?)
It is also a forum where you can discuss challenges, suggest speakers, recommend people, and so much more.
Warmest Regards,
Edward Philipp
Two Twitter Tips:
1) If you tweet on the subject of Teleseminar Secrets (TSS), put “#TSS” in your tweet. Then, others can find your TSS-related tweets.
2) As of this post, I have a list of 39 people who are both on Twitter and in TSS. Would you like to get the most of the TSS/Twitter discussion?
If this helps, send a “direct message” to me at http://twitter.com/PhilJohncock. I’d be glad to share with you how I set up a TSS group using Twitter and take an active role in the TSS/Twitter discussion.
Happy Tweeting!
Phil Johncock
http://johncock.com
http://twitter.com/PhilJohncock
I want you to have at least 20 comments tonight. Thanks for everything — twitter technology as well as comparing growing business with parenting. It’s worth staying up late.
Some of those I follow on Twitter had #TSS in thier posts and I asked what it was, then I found Alex Mandossian’s posts and read this article. Now I have my blog posts going to twitter but through Twittertools. I use Friendfeed that reads my blog and tweets it. I also have an IRC chat room that has a process running on it that posts my tweets to the room, so anyone in my chat room can see what I am tweeting or blogging about, even when I am mobile and tweeting from my phone. To find out more about how to setup the irc room, a bot, and use friendfeed to post your blog entries in twitter let me know.
Thirteen
Hi Cathy, please add my signature and website to my last comment:
I want you to have at least 20 comments tonight. Thanks for everything — twitter technology as well as comparing growing business with parenting. It’s worth staying up late.
Winnis Chiang
http://www.parentingabc.com
Great stuff!
I wanted to wait until the call finished before posting. It’s 12:14 am Pacific Time Tuesday December 16 here and the call just ended, great questions by everyone and way to go Alex and Noah.
I have been using Twitter since last spring and have found it to be good for sending traffic where I want it to go. But that is after building many relationships over these past months.
I use a number of different tools and drive traffic both ways from Blog to Twitter and Twitter to Blog.
http://TweetMyBlog.com is one of the tools I use.
One little secret I will give you is Twitter is an incredible opportunity for newbie’s and those that have not connected with leaders in different niches to connect with them on Twitter.
There is no gate keeper on Twitter.
You can follow a person of interest and if you contribute to the conversation with good content of your own some of these same “Guru” level people will actually follow you back. When they follow you back you can then DM “Direct Message” them to start building a relationship.
There are many articles on the Internet about Twitter some raving and some bashing.
One thing is certain and that is that Twitter is a useful tool. From Barack Obama’s campaign to news stories that are first noted on Twitter from across the world. Twitter has become the first place of note for many of today’s world events. Like CNN of the 80’s and 90’s Twitter is now the place where journalists and citizens alike go for up to the second news.
Warmly,
Mitch
http://MitchBaldwin.com
http://Twitter.com/MitchBaldwin
A comment to Felicia Slattery about list-building on Twitter…
Twitter is currently *not* working for me as a list-building strategy ONLY because I haven’t focused my attention – I’m not good at it yet :-)
Mari, Jeff and Cathy drive traffic almost effortless on Twitter and I get several IMs during the training from Cathy and Jeff about how they do it.
This is the the “miracle” of Teleseminar Secrets in my opinion … I get to learn from my own faculty the same call you’re to be on … and they were once students … and now faculty!
Thanks for sticking with it. Module 2 is the longest of all 8 modules so you’re turned a HUGE corner in your marketing/promotion education.
Thanks for you comment.
~ Alex
http://www.TeleseminarSecrets.com
My experience with Twitter is ok (better than Facebook)!
Twitter is not overnight success and takes time. Just like how it takes time to build your own audience with your own blog. Friends may help but you need groups of people interested in what you’re saying or what you have to offer.
If you’re not careful, it’s very easy to be labeled as a SPAMMER in Twitter.
Hello sir, that’s exactly what I needed. It helps me a lot I really love all what you said in the first and the second paragraph. Thank you! If you don’t mind I would like to add it to my website.
whohalist.com