Boost Your Post With Click to Tweet

I was quoted in a Databox marketing post called 23 Content Distribution Tips & Channels For Increasing Website Traffic.

It’s a very comprehensive post that looks at different ways to promote your content. Lots of good ideas, and I can highly recommend it.

My own contribution focused on an app called Click to Tweet. I only discovered it earlier this year. You need a Twitter account to use it.

Click to Tweet is a free link generator that allows readers to share your content through their Twitter account (which means we’re proceeding on the assumption that most people who read your posts will have a Twitter account).

Here’s how it works:

You start by finding a catchy one-liner in your blog post— something “tweetable.” A quote, perhaps, or a bit of advice.

For example, I said the following in a previous post: “Figure out new ways to tell your brand story. Don’t be the bore at the cocktail party telling the one we’ve all heard before.”

First step: compose the tweet, just like you would on Twitter: tweet text + short link to post + your Twitter handle + hashtags

For the above example:

“Figure out new ways to tell your brand story. Don’t be the bore at the cocktail party telling the one we’ve all heard before.” http://bit.ly/2IXEb2d via @mrstrongarm #marketing #contentmarketing #branding

Go to clicktotweet.com, type in your tweet, and click “Generate Link.” This will create a custom link for your tweet.

Use the generated link to create a hyperlink for the text you want shared.

Whoever clicks on the link will have the tweet automatically added to their Twitter status box: to send it, all they have to do is click “Tweet.”

They’ll be sharing your tweet (and the link to your content) with all their Twitter followers.

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I went ahead and created a Click to Tweet link for the “Figure out new ways” quote. Here it is:

“Figure out new ways to tell your brand story. Don’t be the bore at the cocktail party telling the one we’ve all heard before.” (click to tweet)

Try clicking on the “click to tweet” in parentheses above. If you have a Twitter account, you should see the corresponding tweet pop up in a Twitter status box.

All you’d have to do at that point is click “Tweet” to send it out to your Twitter followers. The tweet will direct them to the post where the “Figure out new ways” line appears.

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About Mark: I’m an illustrator specializing in humor, branding, social media, and content marketing. My images are different, like your brand needs to be.

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