Comments on: Honesty; How “Being Yourself” Can Help You Find Twitter Followers http://www.twitip.com/honesty-twitter/ Twitter Tips in 140 Characters or More Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:53:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ECStewart http://www.twitip.com/honesty-twitter/#comment-11885 ECStewart Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:03:31 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=978#comment-11885 Honesty & Reciprocity is my motto. Subscribing to the practice of honesty is my mainstay. Reciprocity on providing good info, support, or even being gracious in light that someone's having a tough day is always welcomed. Honesty & Reciprocity is my motto. Subscribing to the practice of honesty is my mainstay. Reciprocity on providing good info, support, or even being gracious in light that someone’s having a tough day is always welcomed.

]]> By: Heidi Miller http://www.twitip.com/honesty-twitter/#comment-11881 Heidi Miller Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:55:42 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=978#comment-11881 Amen! Even when pitching Twitter to clients, I argue that it is a way to put a human face on the company and to be real--NOT a way to make money directly. If I must make a case for using Twitter for marketing, it's so that people get to know you. And people tend to trust and do business with people they know, like and trust. But really, why NOT be yourself? If someone dislikes you, don't you want her to dislike the real you, not some whitewashed, marketed-up version of you? Amen! Even when pitching Twitter to clients, I argue that it is a way to put a human face on the company and to be real–NOT a way to make money directly. If I must make a case for using Twitter for marketing, it’s so that people get to know you. And people tend to trust and do business with people they know, like and trust.

But really, why NOT be yourself? If someone dislikes you, don’t you want her to dislike the real you, not some whitewashed, marketed-up version of you?

]]> By: Deane http://www.twitip.com/honesty-twitter/#comment-8275 Deane Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:57:52 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=978#comment-8275 Honesty is always essential... You have to be true to who you really are... The author above has given me some advice via twitter and that's how I ended up here to read this. I got into using Twitter full time about a month ago to promote my new photo-blog about forest protection. And I've found twitter to be the fastest growing network in terms of informing like minded forest defenders about forest issues. And the constant flow of new follows and twitter responses I get every day do so much to keep me inspired to make a difference for all life that still lives on this planet! That's who I am, and I'm honest about it. The author referred this article to me to explain how she got thousand of follows in a handful of months. And after reading what she wrote here I think the author of the above piece needs to be more honest with herself about the fact that she is a very attractive women who wrote a book called "gardening in the nude." And maybe the more trite, more titillating aspects of how she's been successful in building follows / friends on Twitter need to be triangulated in relationship to her grandmother's old ways? I look forward to learning and sharing more! Be well, Deane Honesty is always essential… You have to be true to who you really are… The author above has given me some advice via twitter and that’s how I ended up here to read this. I got into using Twitter full time about a month ago to promote my new photo-blog about forest protection. And I’ve found twitter to be the fastest growing network in terms of informing like minded forest defenders about forest issues. And the constant flow of new follows and twitter responses I get every day do so much to keep me inspired to make a difference for all life that still lives on this planet! That’s who I am, and I’m honest about it.

The author referred this article to me to explain how she got thousand of follows in a handful of months. And after reading what she wrote here I think the author of the above piece needs to be more honest with herself about the fact that she is a very attractive women who wrote a book called “gardening in the nude.” And maybe the more trite, more titillating aspects of how she’s been successful in building follows / friends on Twitter need to be triangulated in relationship to her grandmother’s old ways? I look forward to learning and sharing more! Be well, Deane

]]> By: joe gelb http://www.twitip.com/honesty-twitter/#comment-7786 joe gelb Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:48:50 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=978#comment-7786 this is deffinitely a good article that tells alot about making friends online in general. many people have to sell stuff and do affiliate links to make some money but even they may benefit just laying off the marketing a bit. thankyou for the great information. this is deffinitely a good article that tells alot about making friends online in general. many people have to sell stuff and do affiliate links to make some money but even they may benefit just laying off the marketing a bit. thankyou for the great information.

]]> By: Alex -S- http://www.twitip.com/honesty-twitter/#comment-6736 Alex -S- Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:35:46 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=978#comment-6736 BINGO! Be yourself! And hey -do you spam your friends with links to blogs etc etc etc at parties? Nope -therefore - twitter aint the place for it either LOL Way too many marketing tweeple jumped into twitter and see it purely as an ad serving platform. (Hence megpie!) It's purely a communication tool. If you can't keep it real - you're wasting a lot of valuable communication time you could be using to PROPERLY make friends with potential clients, buyers, people on the street etc etc ... AHsimpson over and out "Keepin it real since 3162 updates ago :) BINGO! Be yourself! And hey -do you spam your friends with links to blogs etc etc etc at parties? Nope -therefore – twitter aint the place for it either LOL

Way too many marketing tweeple jumped into twitter and see it purely as an ad serving platform. (Hence megpie!) It’s purely a communication tool. If you can’t keep it real – you’re wasting a lot of valuable communication time you could be using to PROPERLY make friends with potential clients, buyers, people on the street etc etc …

AHsimpson over and out “Keepin it real since 3162 updates ago :)

]]> By: Joe http://www.twitip.com/honesty-twitter/#comment-6701 Joe Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:55:29 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=978#comment-6701 A smile, a little kindness and honesty make for a great tweeter. A smile, a little kindness and honesty make for a great tweeter.

]]> By: selcom60 http://www.twitip.com/honesty-twitter/#comment-6700 selcom60 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:55:06 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=978#comment-6700 This post is spot-on. Too many people play twitter like a numbers game. This post is spot-on. Too many people play twitter like a numbers game.

]]> By: David Brown http://www.twitip.com/honesty-twitter/#comment-6698 David Brown Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:51:35 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=978#comment-6698 Wow... our grandmothers must have been friends! Great advice and hard to pass on to guys driving BMW's & Mercedes because they suffer from inadequacy deficiencies (you know what I mean - I cleaned that up for the sake of the post) :P Just trying to get people to follow you because your going to make them money, help them w/ business, etc... is BS plain and simple how much real coaching / business help can take place in 140 chars? I think twitter is best used as a platform for building relationships... everything else will fall into place if your heart and mind are aligned. .02 db Wow… our grandmothers must have been friends! Great advice and hard to pass on to guys driving BMW’s & Mercedes because they suffer from inadequacy deficiencies (you know what I mean – I cleaned that up for the sake of the post) :P

Just trying to get people to follow you because your going to make them money, help them w/ business, etc… is BS plain and simple how much real coaching / business help can take place in 140 chars? I think twitter is best used as a platform for building relationships… everything else will fall into place if your heart and mind are aligned.

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]]> By: datter http://www.twitip.com/honesty-twitter/#comment-6295 datter Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:03:41 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=978#comment-6295 Great article, we think alike and that's always encouraging. This actually inspired me to finish writing some <a href="http://finaldog.com/blog/twitter/ten-important-things-not-to-do-on-twitter/" title="Ten Important things not to do on Twitter" rel="nofollow">Twitter tips of my own</a>. Hope they prove as helpful to someone as this article did to me. Great article, we think alike and that’s always encouraging. This actually inspired me to finish writing some Twitter tips of my own. Hope they prove as helpful to someone as this article did to me.

]]> By: Mark Ayers http://www.twitip.com/honesty-twitter/#comment-6163 Mark Ayers Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:53:59 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=978#comment-6163 aarrggghh! twitter twitter twitter....... I get that is it about relationships and sometimes I can't help myself I still have to blurt something out. Most of the time it is about my newest blog post. I am not selling much yet online and trying to build a blog following. So it seemd natural to promote. Tonight tho I did start to get into some 'conversations" and just had fun with it, learned some good blogging info. Hard to spend the time like I would have in a chat room, but gave them up long ago because of the craziness there. Yet this still reminds me somewhat of a chat room. I watch the blatant sales promoting and I do not pay much attention to most of it, but some of it I have to go have a look. Thanks for the post, I am learning. Mark aarrggghh! twitter twitter twitter……. I get that is it about relationships and sometimes I can’t help myself I still have to blurt something out. Most of the time it is about my newest blog post. I am not selling much yet online and trying to build a blog following. So it seemd natural to promote.

Tonight tho I did start to get into some ‘conversations” and just had fun with it, learned some good blogging info. Hard to spend the time like I would have in a chat room, but gave them up long ago because of the craziness there. Yet this still reminds me somewhat of a chat room.

I watch the blatant sales promoting and I do not pay much attention to most of it, but some of it I have to go have a look.

Thanks for the post, I am learning.

Mark

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