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Interview on Frank McKinley’s website on how I grew my Twitter community – Check it out!

This week, I was honored to cover a Social Media that I love, Twitter. I had the privilege to discuss how you can grow the right community for your business. I used a few techniques that got me from less than a 100 followers to 10K in 4 months. I’m now close to 27K after a break that I had to take beginning of the year. I’m excited to share this interview with you and hope you’ll learn a few things that can help you grow with the right audience for you.

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Grow the right audience for you with Twitter.

 

Here is the link to the interview and while you’re at it, check out Frank McKinley’s website. He is the author of 6 non-fiction books all available on Amazon. Frank truly is a wonderful resource for writers and business entrepreneurs.

 


 

You got 10k Twitter followers in 4 months. How many hours a week did that take, and what were the keys to your success?

As of today, it takes me about 30 minutes a day, but when I first started, I did not have the proper tool or understanding of how Twitter worked. I would spend an hour or two each day trying to figure it out and ended up reading a few books on the topic because it was eating up time I desperately needed.

Social media is great to grow your author platform and build your readership, but you need to be interested in connecting with like-minded people. And, this is why it is time-consuming. To succeed, it’s important to start with the right tools. Social media should never consume all your time because, at the end of the day, you’re still a writer and need to write.

To succeed, you need to…

Click here to Read More on Frank’s website.
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How to Use Twitter Website Cards to Drive Traffic to Your Website or Book Page?

Twitter is a very useful tool to build your Author Platform/Business. I recently published a post, in which I provided 9 great ways to use Twitter for Writers. The last feature mentioned was Twitter Cards, and I received a few questions on this very much underutilized function.

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We all know the legendary, sometimes frustrating, Twitter’s 140 characters’ limit. You can certainly add a Gif or a picture, but sometimes it’s simply not enough. As much as this is a great exercise to be concise and straight to the point, we still need more on some occasions.

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Well, what if I tell you we could do more? More? Yes, more!

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More text, better-looking tweets and very important functionalities! You can get it all with Twitter Cards. But first, let’s talk about Website Cards.

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By the end of this post, you’ll be able to create Twitter Website Cards to drive even more traffic to your site (or book page on Amazon for example). The cherry on the cake is that you can have all of these for FREE.

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Is Twitter Cards a dream? Absolutely not!

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Let’s start:

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9 effective ways to use Twitter for Writers

twitter for writersTwitter can be an intimidating little bird when you first start. It’s natural to question its relevance as a writer, blogger or an author. After all, our time is precious and unless you find something of value, why should you bother? I started using Twitter in June 2016 and this social media keeps surprising me.

 

As a writer and blogger, I sincerely believe Twitter is becoming a powerful tool for your business/author platform, especially when you know how to use it.

 

So what’s in it for you? Why should you care?

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