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Day 26 – December 9, 2009 (Wed): Drive Followers to Purchase Without a Special Offer

By Chris Carosa on December 10, 2009

Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 149 Followers: 120 Listed: 7

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 24 – December 7, 2009 (Mon): Drive Followers to a Blog

Forget driving followers to purchase with our without a special offer. All the reasons cited in Day 23 – December 6, 2009 (Sun): Drive Followers to Purchase a Special Offer remain valid on Day 26. Here’s a more interesting thing I did. @mikefixs told me about twitalyzer.com. This is a neat little tool that rates your Twitter presence on a variety of scales. You don’t have to buy into its rating philosophy, but it’s good to review and consider. For example, it’s not all about followers. Twitalyzer gives you credit when you retweet or are retweeted, among other things. Take a look. At least it’ll cause you to think.

Hey, I finally did send an @message to @CoachJudy. It was late at night, so I’ll have to give it a day to see if she responds. The biggest news: @joelcomm decided to follow me. Of course, I followed back and asked how he liked my experiment. This, too, was late at night, so I’ll suspect I’ll have to wait for a response.

I’ve continue to notice I’m getting a lot of really odd followers from places all over the world. I think they’re marketers, so I’m not following them. When they unfollow in less than 24 hours (or even less than 36 hours) they confirm my suspicion. What’s the point of having 60,000 followers? What can you possibly get them to do? That’s the story I want to hear.

Tomorrow’s the really big day. That’s when I attempt to drive readers to my blog ChrisCarosa.com. I suggest you stay tuned…

How many followers do you think I’ll have after 30 days? Click here to enter your guess on my Survey Monkey survey “Chris Carosa’s 30-Day Plan to Dominate Twitter Experiment.” There’s no prize, but the fan who guesses the closest correct number the earliest will “win” and I’ll mention you if you want me to.

Find out today’s results on Day 27 – December 10, 2009 (Thu): Have Fun!

Posted in 30-Days to Dominate Twitter Experiment Tagged CoachJudy, Mike Johannson, retweet, social media, twitalyzer

Day 25 – December 8, 2009 (Tue): Drive Followers to Subscribe

By Chris Carosa on December 9, 2009

Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 148 Followers: 122 Listed: 7

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 24 – December 7, 2009 (Mon): Drive Followers to a Blog

Subscribe to what? That is the question. Heck, I just checked and I don’t even have an RSS feed up on my blog yet. Here’s what I’m discovering during my 30-days jaunt with Joel Comm and his plan to dominate Twitter. There’s nothing to dominate if you don’t have a purpose. Said another way, domination means nothing if you have no product? What’s my product? Now that’s a very deep question. Here’s a very deep answer:

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Posted in 30-Days to Dominate Twitter Experiment Tagged astronomy, astronomytop100, author, Catholic, International Year of Astronomy, IYA, IYA 2009, IYA2009, LinkedIn, lottery, Mike Johannson, plan, planning, RSS, sin, social media, Speaker, writer

Day 24 – December 7, 2009 (Mon): Drive Followers to a Blog

By Chris Carosa on December 8, 2009

Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 148 Followers: 118 Listed: 7

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 23 – December 6, 2009 (Sun): Drive Followers to Purchase a Special Offer

That was fun while it lasted. So last night’s plan looks like it fizzled. Maybe not. Remember, the above statistics reflect only those few hours from late last night to early this morning. No doubt folks are just now receiving their new follower lists.

In other news, CoachJudy still hasn’t followed. That disappoints me. She usually keeps her word. She’s also usually on the ball in terms of her social media presence.

Here’s the reality for today: After spending much of the end of last week preparing for culmination of my year-long the IYA2009 outreach project the beginning of the year – the final top ten countdown of AstronomyTop100.com presentation at the Strasenburgh Planetarium last Friday evening; and then after immediately going to work with the GearFreeze kids over the weekend for Sunday’s Finger Lakes First Lego League Regional Championships at the University of Rochester; I concluded I needed to spend some quality time with my laptop at the office. In truth, work’s been a relaxing relief through all the buzz of last week. I really like my work. I can’t tell you about it (government regulations prevent me from doing so), but it does offer loads of fun.

Here’s the result: I’m switching today’s step with Thursday’s. So, today I’m having fun. I’ll drive followers to a blog (my blog) on Thursday. I hope Joel Comm doesn’t mind.

Find out today’s results on Day 25 – December 8, 2009 (Tue): Drive Followers to Subscribe

Posted in 30-Days to Dominate Twitter Experiment Tagged astronomy, astronomytop100, CoachJudy, Finger Lakes, First Lego League, FLL, GearFreeze, International Year of Astronomy, IYA, IYA 2009, IYA2009, Lego, lego robotics, robot, robotics, Rochester, social media, Strasenburg, Strasenburgh, Strasenburgh Planetarium, University of Rochester

Day 23 – December 6, 2009 (Sun): Drive Followers to Purchase a Special Offer

By Chris Carosa on December 7, 2009

Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 148 Followers: 115 Listed: 7

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 22 – December 5, 2009 (Sat): Combine Your Social Media Tools

So how do you drive followers to purchase a special offer when you don’t sell anything? Joel Comm figured (correctly, it turns out) not all his readers would have items to sell. He came up with a brilliant idea. If you don’t have anything to sell, sell someone else’s product through an affiliation. Then, to get a special offer, you just need to get your affiliate to agree to give your followers a special offer.

This whole gambit presupposes I want to sell. I’m not sure I’m there yet. Remember, as I prattled on about in Day 18 – December 1, 2009 (Tue): Start Putting Your Tweets Together, I’m not even 100% sure I know the true objective of the ChrisCarosa Twitter account. If you’re reading this, maybe you can pop me a line and let me know what I’m all about. Perhaps you’d rather I reveal the rest of the yesterday’s story?

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Posted in 30-Days to Dominate Twitter Experiment Tagged affiliate, Atlanta, Finger Lakes, First Lego League, FLL, FLL World Festival, GearFreeze, lego robotics, Peter Carosa, robot, robotics, social media, University of Rochester

Day 22 – December 5, 2009 (Sat): Combine Your Social Media Tools

By Chris Carosa on December 6, 2009

Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 129 Followers: 110 Listed: 6

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 21 – December 4, 2009 (Fri): Do Some Off-Twitter Marketing

I must admit, I actually started doing this a few days before in anticipation of robotics consuming my day today. That’s correct, gentle reader, no sooner had I completed one major event, but it was smack dab right into another. Talk about jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire! Come to think of it, fire does have a mesmerizing ability. Perhaps you’d first like a glimpse at the fire before returning to the experiment.

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Posted in 30-Days to Dominate Twitter Experiment Tagged Atlanta, Championship, CoachJudy, Dayton, facebook, fiduciarynews, Finger Lakes, First Lego League, FLL, GearFreeze, HFL, Honoeye Falls, How to Build Your Business in Just Six Months with Twitter and Other Social Media Networks, lego robotics, Lima, LinkedIn, Mendon, NXT, Regional, robot, robotics, Rochester, social media, U.S. Open Championship, University of Rochester, World Festival

Day 21 – December 4, 2009 (Fri): Do Some Off-Twitter Marketing

By Chris Carosa on December 5, 2009

Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 128 Followers: 106 Listed: 6

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 20 – December 3, 2009 (Thu): Have Fun!

Today was the big day, the day I’ve been preparing for since nearly the beginning of the year – the final top ten countdown of AstronomyTop100.com, the IYA2009 outreach project I started in January. For some off-twitter marketing, I spoke to the entire world – about astronomy. Now, to be honest, they’re more likely to end up at my AstronomyTop100 Twitter account instead of my ChrisCarosa Twitter account. No matter, though. Inquiring minds will find me if they want to. And if they don’t, then that’s probably just as well.

BTW, the presentation, a podcast before an audience of probably more than 100 interested and interesting individuals went off with nary a hitch. The “nary” part occurred when I moved my computer during the live production and promptly disconnected the cable providing the live feed to the planetarium guests. Oops! Well, at least the slides moved when I hit the return button (which was difficult to see beneath the darkened dome; hence, the reason why I decided to reposition the computer in the first place).

You can catch my full report on AstronomyTop100.com on that blog once we update and reconfigure the web-site (don’t worry, I’ll announce it). In addition, I will add a few blogs here about speaking, scripting and the curse of technology during presentations.

Find out today’s results on Day 22 – December 5, 2009 (Sat): Combine Your Social Media Tools

Posted in 30-Days to Dominate Twitter Experiment Tagged astronomy, astronomytop100, International Year of Astronomy, IYA, IYA 2009, IYA2009, podcast, social media, Strasenburg, Strasenburgh, Strasenburgh Planetarium

Day 19 – December 2, 2009 (Wed): Try a Different Sequence

By Chris Carosa on December 3, 2009

Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 112 Followers: 97 Listed: 5

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 18 – December 1, 2009 (Tue): Start Putting Your Tweets Together

Remember @BPOrchestra? A couple of days ago they followed me, I followed back and then they unfollowed me. On Monday I sent them an @ message. As I assumed based on their tweet updates, it took them a day to get back to me. When they did they were very apologetic. They followed again (and I followed back). They even offered me two free tickets. I respectably declined (wouldn’t want the FCC on my case!). But seriously, they are a non-profit, after all, and I am sympathetic to cyber-mistakes, having committed my fair share. But, let’s not dwell on mistakes. Let’s reveal a little gossip.

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Posted in 30-Days to Dominate Twitter Experiment Tagged astronomy, astronomytop100, Buffalo Philharmonic, cyber-mistake, Digital Rochester, elite media, FCC, Festivus, magazine closing, newspaper layoff, old media, Rochester, social media, Strasenburg, Strasenburgh, Strasenburgh Planetarium, television cutback, Yogi Berra

Day 18 – December 1, 2009 (Tue): Start Putting Your Tweets Together

By Chris Carosa on December 2, 2009

Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 108 Followers: 94 Listed: 5

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 17 – November 30, 2009 (Mon): Post an Action Tweet

This Twitter Churn and Burn Hypothesis seems to have some legs. It makes me think a lot of folks waste a lot of time on Twitter. Why else would they follow and unfollow in less than 24 hours? I can almost understand the marketers doing this with all their fancy machines. But regular folks? And, especially, non-profits? @BPOrchestra, out of the blue, followed me. Since I feel I belong in their target market, I followed back. Then they unfollowed me. Go figure. So I asked them why with an “@” question. They haven’t updated their tweets in a while so I might not hear from them until tomorrow. But, instead of worrying about my followers – or unfollowers as the case may be – on this day I learn I should worry about my own motives.

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Posted in 30-Days to Dominate Twitter Experiment Tagged astronomy, astronomytop100, Buffalo, Buffalo Bills, Churn and Burn, ERISA, fiduciarynews, Google Analytics, International Year of Astronomy, IYA, IYA 2009, IYA2009, Rochester, social media, Twitter, Western New York, Western NY

Day 17 – November 30, 2009 (Mon): Post an Action Tweet

By Chris Carosa on December 1, 2009

Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 107 Followers: 88 Listed: 5

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 16 – November 29, 2009 (Sun): Post a Discussion Tweet

Today’s the first day I’ve been really disappointed with this experiment. Although I admit I’ve been busy this weekend, I didn’t totally ignore Twitter. I followed a number of folks back. I did continue to do as Joel Comm suggested and I even got a big bounce in activity on my blog – at least as judged by Google Analytics.

But, given all that, I wake up this morning to find only two more followers. I’m beginning to formulate a hypothesis. I’ll call it the “Twitter Churn and Burn Hypothesis.” Here’s how it works:

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Posted in 30-Days to Dominate Twitter Experiment Tagged astronomy, astronomytop100, broker, camera, Churn and Burn, Google Analytics, Kodak, Kodak Camera, Monday Night Football, Powerpoint, RIT, Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology, social media, Strasenburgh, Strasenburgh Planetarium, Twitter

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