Top 10 Reasons No One Is Following You On Twitter

1. Profile Picture. Is it you? Or your company logo. No one cares about logos. Twitter is a social site. People follow people. If they want to follow a logo they’ll go follow the actual company.

2. Your Name. Is it your name? Or are you “companyguy” or are you “mlmcompanymom” You might have a really catchy name, but these are usually passed over and people follow those that have their real name, or they will once again follow the actual company.

3. Twitter is for Tweeting. Are you sending out any tweets? I get a lot of followers that never tweet a thing. There’s no reason to follow someone that doesn’t say anything. There’s nothing to gain or learn from them.

4. Spammers and Promoters. It’s ok to send out a link to a product or company…. Once in awhile. But you have to send out tweets that are worth something too!

5. Unfollowers. If you’re gonna follow somebody, stay with them unless they offend you or just aren’t providing anything useful. Twitter also watches out for this. If you follow a bunch of people, and then quickly UNfollow as soon as they follow you back,,, you’re going to be flagged as suspicious, plus it’s just rude.

6. Direct Message Spam. I don’t get any direct messages that are worth reading anymore. So I don’t bother looking at them. 99% of them are automated and totally impersonal.

7. Compulsive @ Mentions. I like getting messages this way because of reason number 6. But I’m seeing spamming this way too. Being @ mentioned in the same tweet as a link to a product or promotion is rude. What’s worse is when I’m being @ mentioned by people just so they can look cool because they are mentioning someone that has a bigger presence than them in the industry. Piggy backing like this is almost worse than name dropping. It’s also rude to do this in Facebook with tagging. Don’t put anyone’s name on something unless they are part of the content you are sharing or it’s going to be of value to them. If you aren’t sure then don’t do it.

8. Profile Bio. Um, who are you? No, don’t tell me about your company, I can go follow companies if I want to know about companies,,, remember? Who are YOU, what makes you unique and interesting to people? How to you attract attention?

9. Profile Background. You might not think this is important, and perhaps it’s not. But if you look at the real players in network marketing, they have custom profile backgrounds with all the ways to reach them. There’s a couple that keep it simple, but those are the REAL big names that don’t need to put out their info, infact they don’t want it out there anymore because they’ve gotten too big in the industry to be getting messages from everyone.

10. Communication. Twitter is a social site. Strike up conversations through @ mentions to connect with people. Always remember that in this industry people join people. They aren’t interested in businesses and opportunities. They already have one of those, chances are it’s not working out to great for them. They’re looking for answers and connections with people that can help and give answers.

If you’ve been having trouble with no response on Twitter and no one following you back look over your profile and Tweet habits and make changes to either stop or start doing some of these things listed above.

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