8 Reasons Why People Do Not Continue To Follow You On Twitter

How to build an awesome group of followers on Twitter or any Social Media site. I will reveal 8 reasons why people world wide are having problems creating a productive line of followers. These 8 reasons could also be applied to the problems when using FaceBook, MySpace etc., just to name a few.


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Here are the 8 Reasons.


1.- You Think Of Yourself First


You only want to sell something to your followers. You only see them as dollar signs. I will share this with you from my 14 years experience in the Marketing field. Your selfish "Me First Attitude" will only leave you empty handed and a lot of wasted time that you spent trying to promote yourself.


Why?


Because no one wants or cares to know what you have to offer until you offer them a helping hand first. And believe me when I say this. If you are trying to get in their wallets first. You will only turn them off. I Guarantee! They are not stupid. Mark my words.


Example: Just take a few minutes and watch with an eagle eye at all the messages coming in from people who are sending you advertisements only.


They never stop long enough to send a message asking their followers "How was your day?" or "Good Morning."


So when building your successful on line community, get the "Me First" attitude out of your mind. Start thinking of "Them" first. Those who are and will become your followers.


Think like this when trying to build your friends list. How can I (You) help them first? What can you offer them? Valuable Advice, FREE Newsletter or Report. And believe me, if you build your community of followers on these principles and ideas and with a little patience.


They will in time become curious about you and check out your website or blog. And they will be glad to purchase your products or service. I see this happen all the time. The "Me First" attitude on line and off line daily.


2. - You Offer No Value To Your followers


What do you have to offer of true value to your followers? Can you answer this question without including a sales pitch? Most people can not.


Remember the only time success comes before work is in the dictionary. Any other time you must "Work Smart" to become successful.


In this life on earth, you only receive after you give. It is not the other way around. It goes something like this. If you want a friend then be friendly. If you want to be loved then be loveable. This is why so many people fail in life and with their on line business. They want to receive first then they will give.


They offer no value to their friends and followers in their on line community. Even in their personal relationship with friends and family. They have the "Me First" attitude. And offer their sales pitch first. Always trying to sell themselves, like look at me, I am good. How sad this is but it is true World wide.


3. - You are not bringing in the right people to your tweet site


You must let the right people know what you have to offer. They can't find you if you don't give them your address. And your on line address is the link to your website. Now remember you only want to give your address (link) to the people who are interested in the same things you are.


Note: I'm not talking about your personal friends here. You definitely want your friends to follow you on line. I am talking about your group of followers on Twitter.


Example One - Say you are going to have a get together with your friends to sell power tools to mechanics. So you invite a few Grandmas over from a "Knitting Club." Do you think that would go over very well? How many tools do you think you would sell?


Example Two - Say you are going to have a "Baby Shower" get together. And you invite a bunch of mechanics over. Do you really think that would turn out to be a success? Of course not.


I hope you are starting to get the picture of bad promotions or bad advertising here. But this happens on a daily basis. You must start this minute and start promoting your business to a "Targeted Market" of followers. If you do not, you are actually doing the two examples above.


4. - Not encouraging word of mouth advertising


Start encouraging your followers to share your information with their followers. If they find your information helpful.


5. - You think you are to smart to learn


You are a know it all. You think you have all the answers. I know people in my personal life who are this way right now. How arrogant this way of thinking is. We all need to become good listeners. To become a good teacher you must become a good listener.


I believe that everyone has something to offer, to bring to the table. So we all can feast together. We learn something from everyone that we meet in life.


How?


We learn not to do what they are sharing with us. Or we learn how to do something easier or better. Did you know that failure is a sort of success in itself? How? We learn not to do what we did, that caused the failure. So we grow forward.


6. - You do not care about those who are following you. You only want a huge number of followers.


Remember your followers are real people with real needs. Take the time to listen to their concerns and needs. Offer them great advice. Point them in the right direction. Your rewards will come later. Remember rewards follow you. You help others and others will help you.


I care about each and every one of my followers on Twitter.com. And I try my best to answer all questions that I receive from my followers. And I try to say Good Morning or How Was Your Day? And I always try my best to Thank them when they offer great advice to me and our community of followers.


Yes, you are in charge of keeping your community focused, clean and a fun place to hang out at.


I'm always reaching back to my followers with a helping hand. If I don't reach out to them with a helping hand, I feel like I am letting them down.


Why?


Because they took a few minutes out of their very busy life and chose to follow me. I really enjoy my happy group of tweeter friends. We are one big happy community. And that is what Social Media is all about. Friends helping friends and having a good time together. Right?


7. - You think You are to popular to care about who is following you


You are just trying to get a lot of followers. You are a legend in your own mind. You think you are to important to send a message and say Good Morning or How Was Your day? This is happening in all Social Media sites on line today. Your followers want to hear from you or they would not have followed you.


These people are so popular and have a million followers. But they never send a simple message to their followers just to say Hi. This makes me sick to my stomach and very sad to see this.


There is also another problem I see followers doing when following these Popular Gurus. What is it? Tons of people web wide start following these Gurus. They are thinking if they start following these Giants it will add value to their site. Wrong!


To many of these popular gurus will not communicate with you. You are only adding their name to your site. No value. Value in the Social Media scene comes from communicating with each other. And remember the new rule set by Twitter. You can only follow 2000 people. So why waste precious space following someone who never intends to communicate with you and your followers? Not me!


Now don't get me wrong here. I do follow a few huge gurus that do not follow me. Why? Because I learn from them. They are my teachers. What I am trying to say here is choose the ones you follow carefully.


Your group of followers and those you follow should be a support group helping each other grow forward. Not some name on a wall in cyber space somewhere that will never respond.


8. - You have to many unfollowers on your list


(Following vs Followers)


Please, do not follow just anyone. Why? I read somewhere that if you follow more people then are following you, it makes you look like a bore to follow and boring tweet with. How?


Let me explain:


Example 1. - Say you are following 10,000 people. And you have only one person following you. Is that a person worth following? NO! Why? It could be a spammer (a machine that only sends out advertisements or some unpleasant messages.) We are not stupid we can see right through this veil.


Example 2. - Say you come across someone who has 100,000 followers but they are only following 3 people. Is that person worth following? Not really! Why?


Because they are to popular to communicate with you. They offer no value to you or your tweeter friends. Not unless they are one of your favorite gurus that can offer some great advice from the messages that is coming though their tweet streams. Now that would be of great value.


What about new followers? Well that is totally up to you. My rule of thumb about new followers is. Everyone had to start at one time. So I give my new followers about one month to follow me. And if they don't I unfollow them. Why? For two reasons.


1. - Because my twitter community is a live support team helping each other and communicating with each other. Some of my tweeter friends on my tweet site send us music to listen to while we tweet. And to me that is participating in our group.


2. - Also this will help keep my numbers balanced.


Ok now the big question? Who do you follow?


My rule of thumb here is. Before I decide to follow anyone. I look at their Number balance, do they offer a real location. Do they send tweets and participate on their site. Do they have vulgar or nasty tweet messages. If they do, I do not follow them. Why? Because one day my grand children maybe looking over my shoulders. That is the reason I want to run a clean site.


I hope this Article was a help in explaining the ins and outs of the twitter universe. Feel free to share - RT- this information with your friends and followers. Follow me on Twitter @johna404


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John Arrington 14 year veteran marketing specialist. Focusing on (Mastering) a new interactive Internet Business. Specializing in "Marketing With Excellence" with "Quality Information" that is absolutely free.. My website: http://tinyurl.com/rds3p

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