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Establish Your Twitter Account: 3 Steps To Building Your Prospect List

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3 Steps to Build a Prospect List When Establishing Your Twitter Account

  1. Multiple Lists: Write a list of titles you wish to create for each Twitter list. Examples of lists- “CEO-Executives”; “Consumer-Friends”; “Industry Associations”; “Cuisine-Chefs-Restaurants”; “Wine Writers-Bloggers”
  2. Search: utilize Twitter search to find wine drinkers, your consumers, Sommeliers, restauranteurs, and possible networking partners
  3. Build Lists: after creating your list of prospects from your keyword searches, click on each prospect and add them to one of the list titles you wrote down in Step 1. Example-”Cuisine-Chefs-Restaurants” I began by going to @ChefChiarello & created the Cuisine-Chefs-Restaurants list

Benefits of Building Twitter Prospect Lists When Establishing Your Account

  • Follow to Follower Ratios: the biggest benefit to building prospect lists is it allows you identify who you will follow without following them immediately. This gives you time to build your Follower count before Following your prospects- this in turn will keep your ratios near 1:1 to avoid the perception that you are a spammer
  • Planning: building lists allows you to plan the flow that you will follow your prospects creating order where there is often no plan. Many new Twitter users simply begin by following dozens if not hundreds of people and ruin their reputation in the process
  • Recognition: creating lists provides you exposure to your prospects if they monitor their “Listed” count. If they check they will see you have listed them creating the first step in communication, converting them into followers, and producing goodwill within the Twitter community

Comments (2)

Pam Turner, REALTOR®, e-PRO®, SFR
Century 21 Belk Realtors Dalton GA - Dalton, GA

Thanks for the tips -- lists really help you manage your followers.

May 26, 2010 02:44 PM
Dean Guadagni
Inner Architect - San Rafael, CA

Hi Pam, well put! Lists are such an important feature and have helped me segment so that I can monitor and plan my follow strategy. Thank you!

dean

May 27, 2010 09:37 AM