Introducing A New Way To Increase Your Twitter Followers

If you are Twittering for business, rather than friends, one of the keys to success is getting as many people as possible following you who are interested in the product or service you are offering.

But generating Twitter folloers can be a real challenge. Sure, there are the old classics but what if you’re not seeing the results you’d like to from your Twittering?

Not os long ago I ran a contest on one of my other blogs and saw my site flooded with visitors over the next few weeks. A large number ended up subscribing to my RSS feed and have become regular readers since then. The new blog literally went from nowhere to hundreds of subscribers in weeks.

In this way I know that contests can be one of the most powerful ways to grow your blog readerhsip - so why shouldn’t it work for Twitter?

Indeed, a few high-profile bloggers like ShoeMoney have been using this very technique to grow their Twitter followers.

The downside of such an activity is that in the past you needed to do a lot of manual work to make the contest run smoothly (and ensure the winners get their prizes awarded to them efficiently and fairly). But now a new service has been released that automates the process of a Twitter contest.

Entitled Twivaway (a clever play on words, I though!), this exciting new tools makes it super-simple to run a contest like this.

An example might be that you could create a free ebook or report that is available free to your Twitter followers. You could set up the Twiveaway system in such a way that whenever someone new joins you, they get access automatically to this report. Or perhaps you could ask them to tweet about it, and then they get it free.

Whatever you’d like to do, your Twitter followers win because they get a free gift and you get more followers so everyone wins.