Twitter - How To Market Better

Kunal -- First, have you done a discussion search for Twitter. The question for this thread comes up quite often.

Second, personally for me it's not about more followers, its about RT's ... so, I only follow back when a follower also RT's me.

I have less than 1000 followers ( as of this post ). i do about five tweets per day, and average 4 - 10 RT's every third tweet. It's about providing value that would make a follower want to share it.

Hope you can open the article at this link and this answers your question. By the way, I don't consider myself a Twitter guru ... just do what works for me.


http://www.gitomer.com/articles/ViewPublicArticle.html?key=ajcdMibak3NgCYlaTqG47w%3D%3D

you want more followers. you want the same avatar as you used every place else. all those retweets makes it hard to know which ones are yours. you should be tweeting more than once a day. i avoid posting the images there, why come here if its there?

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

thanks Frank and Mike.
Frank - good article by Gitomer. My dilemma is trying to figure out how to get RTs. I could RT other people's work more with the hope that they return the favor, I suppose...
Mike - good point about the avatar...I need to keep them in synch. I tried the no-image/image thing...based on google/twitter analytics, the tweets w/o images got 0 views/clicks whereas the ones with images got at-least a few clicks. But maybe it's because I don't quite have a huge follower list right now and people aren't really clicking on my tweets w/o images.

Great advice, Mike. How do you post the link without the image?


Kunal -- How I got started to get more followers is every tweet us the hashtags #art and #fineartamerica

i just tweet it. that's it

i don't see how tagging it fineartamerica would attract customers. tagging it things related to the image should do that. but twitter sends out daily ideas of who to follow based on who you last followed. i check them off each day. its easier to just find people and follow them and hope they follow back.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

I just tweet to send out some search engine chum.

I tried the no image thing for a while too and got virtually no response from it. I started attaching images and started getting favorites and retweets. I can't argue for the no image thing now.

"i don't see how tagging it fineartamerica would attract customers." Several of my followers auto RT with the #FineArtAmerica tag.

You're right, Mike, about just tweet it. I was confused about sharing from Flickr.

they are easier to spot, so retweeting sort of makes sense. but i think retweet only means that i see you, now you follow me, and i have no plans on following you back. be sure to hash tag everything. it really depends how you do it though -its not a keyword tag, it's an attention tag.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

A lot of people fill their twitter stream with those generic "I uploaded new artwork to FAA" things FAA gives you...It's spammy and I am not sure that really works on twitter. I have been on twitter for a few years now with almost 5000 followers (mostly photographers)( and can tell you that most people dont like this.

the - i uploaded part -- that part you erase. you need to in order to make room for everything else.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Mike, are you saying tweet it from the FAA or artist website buy page? I think that link goes to the buy page.

When I announce a sell or a new upload, I delete the via #fineartamerica part and reword the first portion of the tweet. Also add my own #'s that are related to the image at the end of the tweet...but I don't tweet often enough.

i try to send them from the artist site - picture page. so they can choose the substrate.

lately i've been removing the - i sold it at FAA, but leaving the @faa because it ends up in their stream apparently. but i don't think it makes one bit of difference, because i can't imagine a single buyer wanting to look at that stream. when i add tags i'm looking for certain kinds of people, rather than naming keywords that are in the image. like a boat might go to a sailor or something.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Follow people more than other artists you are not going to get sales from other artists. Tweet other things than your art. By that I mean, for example-
I shot my first turkey today.
Scared the hell out of everyone in the supermarket.
Sometimes if you make someone laugh that will get you people who will follow you and check out your artwork. I put around ten pictures on for a teaser and always put your art on your background. A photo or artistic portrait of yourself is a must. Favorite more than retweet. It doesn't show on your page. Retweet a lot right before you are going to tweet your work or comments. A link to your work on every tweet. Tweet often and varied. Hash tag 2 words on tweets of your work. A few I use are- #home#decor#paintings#art#gallery. Hope that helps.

Twitter shouldnt be about selling and thats it. There is a pretty vibrant artist community there....I follow 5000 artists, photographers and people in related fields...none of which are art buyers

I use an app. Most people with larger followings use an app and get into comprehending the markets from
a variety of perspectives. I had 19.5k followers, but I did some root canal and now have 17.4k followers.

The whole thing is totally impersonal. There is no meaning in it. People ignore each other for the most part.

I strive to find new markets. Currently to be seen in the NY market, I am following 950 @yankees followers per day.

This means a large mix of people. Some are important. Some have money. Some are Joe Six Pack. Most are J6P.
I want to find out how they react. How much interaction they create with me.

I am looking for interaction. Most of Twitter is an automated waste land. Just is. Yet there are millions of opportunities to
do some business. Actually tens of millions. I can only handle dozens per day. I have had one sale way back when I was
hand writing my invitations to follow me. And actually that might just have been because I was in the FAA search
engine selling the Mona Lisa. It might not have been Twitter.

Dave