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Good advice, Rachel. I’ve been thanking everyone. From now on, I’ll try to think of some other way of thanking people.
ReplyAs I said, it’s important to still thank people, just make it more interesting! Or take an action that means more, such as the ones listed above. Appreciate you visiting and commenting, Louise.
ReplyHonestly I thank in bulk when I can and occasionally send out a shout out to all my followers, but then I will take one day a week where I spend about an hr (all my schedule will allow) and check out other blogs and author websites, follow, comment etc and share posts I find interesting, funny, or worthwhile for other aspiring peeps like me.
ReplyThat’s great, Miranda. It’s all about connecting. You’re finding other peeps who interest you (within your criteria) and going out of your way to follow, comment, and share. That’s exactly the idea.
ReplyHERE HERE! I’m all for thank yous and good manners but for the love of all that is holy stop mucking up my stream! Twitter has become almost unusable and it’s my favorite social media 🙁
ReplyI love your HERE HERE! Thanks Pav. People want to do the right thing — and what we’ve learned growing up is to thank people when they’ve done something nice for us. So it kind of goes against our grain to do a simple thing like tell people THANK YOU. But it takes extra effort to go the extra mile. Thanks for doing that for me here today. xo
ReplyWow. Fabulous post Rachel – love that you just say what you think. Truly I applaud that.
Amazing advice! “I’ll mention something about Nutella, martinis, or #Mancode in the thank you. This is still representative of my brand, my personality, and I’m still thanking them.”
I need to go read all your other posts and share.
Love your stuff sister!
You rock, Peggy. Love yours, also! Can’t wait to work together on our future projects. See, this is what’s so great about the THANK YOU stuff — it leads to future stuff. If either of us had done a simple, boring ‘Thank you for the RT’ we’d never have traded goofy cat pix and ended up here.
Are you paying attention, people?
ReplyExcellent point Rachel!
I am excited to work with you on future projects too!
I am having a hard time curbing the “thank you’s” it seems rude to just stop but I will work on making a better connection in it’s place. And not thank Triberr tribe mates any longer except by sharing their blogs as well. Am I getting hives? Oh, wait I can do it. 😀
ReplyYou crack me up, Peggy. Here’s what’s most important: do what’s right for you. Still thank them if that feels right, but do something else — follow their blog, connect them to someone else, RT a post not in the Triberr queue, or simply DM them or share a cat pic :).
It’s not that you’re NOT thanking them because you are, of course. It would go against your very nature not to so you couldn’t possibly do that. Just ‘bitch it up’ if you will, as I mentioned in point #1.
I know you got this, girl. xo
ReplyHi Rachel,
Thanks for the mention and the great riff off my original post. You are absolutely right. The first step is to realize that it is important to BE THANKFUL. Next step is to determine the best way to express it. Great suggestions!
Best, Michael
ReplyGlad to have you here, Michael. Being thankful is so important — as people grow (including myself on my personal author account), it’s critical to continue to interact with folks. Not everyone will grow with us — that’s another difficult but important lesson.
Some of my original Twitter followers have unfollowed recently & it bummed me out! But, I realized where I started 3 years ago is quite different from where I am now (branding-wise) — and yet, I will still follow them because of the lessons they taught me back then. I’m still thankful.
THANKS (hehe) for you comment and visit.
ReplyYes, it’s cool, Diane and thank you for visiting and commenting.
It is important to stay in touch who do go out of their way for us, paying it forward so to speak, yet taking it a step further. That’s really the point of this entire article.
All the best!
ReplyVery nice to read your thoughts on the continuous Thank You, or on Twitter, the TYs. I come from a place of common sense. Life is too short to spend writing TY to every single person. When I take the time to respond to a new tweet, or when someone else takes the time to respond to something I tweeted, I engage. You never know who your next cool mate will be. And so many people are terrific. Being organic and conversing is really great.
ReplySo true, JBo. The organic nature of social media is such an important component, particularly when we schedule in so much of our content (Triberr, blog posts, Hootsuite, etc). Thank you’s are typically live so it’s in our nature to want to respond right away. Such a great point!
And you’re the epitome of graciousness, Justin. Thank you for being such a great example for all of us. xo
ReplyWhen someone retweets my stuff, I always check them out. If I am not following them, I follow. I try to make contact in some way and give them a boost.
ReplyThat’s awesome, Sherry! It takes only seconds to read their tweets, click on their blog, follow (or not)…even if you don’t follow (if they’re not your target), you can still RT or follow their blog. That’s the beauty of social media — making it work for you. Love seeing you here! xo
ReplyHa! (as in, great entertaining informative post) and aha! (as in, not a moment too soon!)
I find myself here after I had just retweeted you (because I always love your advice) and then read your post, after doing… I hate to admit, sending out a handful of thank you tweets–can you believe it?!
*blush, smile, blush, oh well, I have seen the light*
I love the suggestions for making the TYs more personal along one’s brand. Thank YOU!
ReplyTiming is everything, right Shaunda? I appreciate your kind words regarding my posts and tweets. Twitter is such a learning process — I read stuff everyday that changes my practices. See, here’s the deal — you figure out what works for you and take it from there. I just feel that only thanking people is the easy way out. Going above and beyond yields far greater ROI in building relationships, friendships, , networking, trust, and even perhaps, book sales.
Thanks again for the visit and discussion.
ReplyGood advice. I thank people on Twitter but I do it sparingly between other tweets and often several people at once. If you have enough going on — in the stream can be okay, I think.
I’m also glad you mentioned the #TeamFollowBack peeps. I purposely don’t follow them and it is a turn off. I think people almost misconstrue that now and think they are telling everyone they follow-back, but you shouldn’t do that either. Don’t talk about it, just do it. People can tell by your follow counts if you follow back or not. 🙂
Glad to have your comments here, Jess. You are terrifically genuine on social media — even though I tease you about the hearts and butterflies. 🙂
I looked up the whole #TeamFollowBack thing and it’s actually against Twitter’s TOS guidelines — which clearly make no difference. They’re not doing anything about it. Which is fine — I love the freedom we all have to make Twitter whatever we want. But, as you said, anyone who’s Twitter savvy see through the silliness and randomness of it.
Can’t wait to have you on my author blog tomorrow! Woot — and hearts and flowers and stuff.
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ReplyI do thank people for RTs, mostly because I want to acknowledge to them that I saw it and I appreciate it. But I also RT back and I try to keep track of who RTs me and then I’ll give them follow shout-out.
ReplyYes, it’s important to thank people. I certainly do and encourage you also…just sometimes DM is better so as not to make your timeline all thank you’s…that’s my point, truly.
Thanks for commenting, Cara!
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