Let’s define quality twitter followers – everyone wants them. A quality follower for me:

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• Follows back
• Has a full bios with link(s)
• Engages and participates
• Has a nice balance of self-promotion & re-tweeting
• Has positive energy

Keep in mind, my activities center around providing valuable automotive content, among other things, to help consumers. I’m always trying new stuff, always measuring things and just making sure our hits outweigh our misses. Here’s a random list of my activities for @AuctionDirect.

• Address people by their names in direct messages
• No automatic direct messages
• Try to get to know people – I ask everyone to take my twitter interview
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• Promote others when possible; Re-tweets are good, FollowFridays are cool and links to other people’s sites are awesome!
• Provide informative, relevant links
• Humor which doesn’t attack or offend. (Especially when tweeting from a business account)
• Help people and answer quick questions
• Acknowledge other people’s awesomeness
• Meeting people face-to-face; get out from behind your screen and talk to some of your followers – Meet-ups really help
• Don’t RT content from people with say, 350k followers. Odds are a ton of people have already seen it
• Don’t to talk about money, sex or religion. (I try not to at least…)
• Follow people my followers follow. Birds of a feather…
• Don’t complain

Thankfully, most of the people I know do these things very nicely.  @JasonFalls is a great example of someone who applies tactful, real-life common-sense to his twitter stream.

Sometimes, people just aren’t interested in automotive content and I can appreciate that. I’m not there to sell to anyone a car; just trying to educate and inform consumers. Its another place I can help change the way people buy used cars.

What are you doing to get and maintain quality twitter followers?

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What’s Your Elevator Pitch?

Today is the first day of the Build a Better Blog Challenge, by Darren Rowse from Problogger.net.

This is an excellent way to learn more about blogging and your own blog. It’ll also provide a daily task to help make your blog more effective.

The first task: Write an elevator pitch for your blog. If you don’t have one, this is a great way to quickly communicate what your blog is all about and help ensure you’re positioned properly within your niche. Don’t get tongue-tied when someone asks what your blog is about. Hit them with your elevator pitch and wow’em with an overview that tells exactly whats going on within your blog.

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I’m still perfecting my pitch for this blog, but I did I create one for WhyBuyUsedCars.com.

My short pitch: “It’s the How, What, Where & When of Used Cars.” Short, yet descriptive – haven’t had any complaints yet with regards to its focus.

When appropriate and/or needed, my long pitch is:  WhyBuyUsedCars.com aims to educate and inform used car buyers with the best information and resources on the web – with an entertaining spin.

What’s your pitch?