RBs Keys to Successful Living

Did you watch The Terminator? Did you form a strong emotional attachment to the T101?

If so you’re in the minority. No one particularly prefers to interact with a robot. You can’t develop a relationship with the T101. No warmth. He’s programmed to do one thing.

Now twitter bots - or automated programs - don’t want to kill you. They desire to wrastle you in as a follower. Some tweeters automate their accounts. Everything is hands-off. Nothing wrong with that. It’s convenient, quick, and easy. And everybody does it. Which means that it’s not an effective means of building an influential following.

The majority of bot users employ competitive practices. By manipulating something outside themselves - boosting their following - they hope to impress other people while attracting a boat load of prospects.

Nobody likes a bot though. When I see a generated DM I cringe. Reeks of insincerity. Seeing the same tweets day after day is drone. Inflated counts from substandard tweeters tell me one thing; I’m dealing with a T101. They could care less about me. I’m a number to them. +1 on their follower count.

Why would I care about them or whatever they have to offer me?

I attracted 10,000 plus followers manually. Each of my 41,000 plus tweets is hand-typed. I did not use a twitter bot to inflate my following or tweet counts.

These are the 5 steps which I took to successfully attract twitter followers:

1 - Don’t pay attention to the number of people following you.

2 - Engage frequently.

3 - RT frequently

4 - Tweet about whatever makes your heart sing.

5 - Unplug

Don‘t Pay Attention To The Number Of People Following You

When focused on a following your desire is to get more followers. This is the quickest way to lose any form of authenticity. When disingenuine people see it a mile away.

Even with a huge following nobody cares what you have to say if you don’t mean it. A number will increase on your twitter profile. But you’ve made no real impact. Focus on people, not things.

Engage Frequently

Concentrate on the last person you met. Did they impress you?

If they did chances are they have an attractive personality. Namely, they were warm, engaging, and friendly. So you wouldn’t mind running into them again.

Focus on the word “engaging”. We like people who make us feel like people.

In the cyber world a person who makes you FEEL like a person is rare. Most focus on things and forget about people. Those who engage frequently develop a following. Twitter is no different.

Talk to people. Show interest. Twitter is meant to be a social environment. Social people attract plenty of like-minded people.

Retweet Frequently

Sharing is caring. One of my close twitter buddies @Kay4NJ is a serial RT’er. People love her. At last count she’s on 581 lists and has 7225 followers. She shares her stream. Because of this she’s appreciated and her influence grows.

People like someone who takes the time to promote them. Selfless promoters get promoted again and again.

@chrisbrogan is a tweet genius. He has over 128,000 followers. He’s a super successful Trust Agent, CEO of a marketing company, and a great guy. He advocates spending a majority of your time promoting others while sharing value. Yes, promote others then share value. Backwards? To many, yes. But many aren’t as successful as he.

RT early and often.

Tweet About Whatever Makes Your Heart Sing

By being you, you’ll be most popular.

Tweet about what interests you the most. The number following me skyrocketed when I began to be genuine, honest, me. I cared less about what other people thought of me. I tweeted what I wanted to tweet.

Here’s the funny part: I actually attracted people with similar interests! Works out weird, right? Sarcasm aside, the point needs to be made. We spend so much of our lives trying to fit in. Trying to be what you want other people to think of you. This is not Being, it’s dying. Forfeiting your individuality is like dying a little each day.

Be you. Tweet about what you enjoy most. I write inspirational tweets. I tweet about cash gifting. I tweet about personal development. That’s what I do. I gain followers, I lose followers. Ebb, flow. Over time I’ve gained influence because I’m me. The number following me may increase slightly daily but I don’t care about numbers. Numbers don’t know who I am. Numbers don’t chat with me, trust me, or won’t be interested in what I have to offer them.

I enjoy what I’m doing. Like-minded people naturally find me.

Unplug

You’re not a T101. Unplug. I once tweeted for 26 hours. Straight. What did it accomplish? Well, it boosted my ego for one and led me directly into a few days of competitive practices. I forgot that I was dealing with people. The numbers jumped but my influence waned until I returned to tweeting in moderation, treating people like people.

When disconnected from the cyber world the ideas being to flow. No distractions, no ego motives, no blockages. This is why I write my posts when offline. Unplug and recharge.

You’re not a bot.

What say you? How do you attract followers, fellow tweeters?

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Ryan Biddulph is an entrepreneur and motivational author who inspires people to obliterate their limitations. If you want to open a lifetime prosperity stream from the comfort of your home click on the following link, enter your name and email address and I’ll send you 7 motivational ebooks as a gift The Peoples Program

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