This is the latest of our videos with Nicky Kriel: Once you have taken the first tentative steps of signing up on Twitter, how do you stay safe?

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This is the second in a series of videos we have done with Social Media expert Nicky Kriel answering your questions about Facebook, Twitter and more.

Here is Nicky Kriel's bio from Twitter:

Nicky Kriel @NickyKriel

Social Media Coach & Trainer, Master NLP Practitioner, Speaker, mother, friend & Toastmaster. Social Media strategy for SMEs. Visit my blog for useful tips.

Guildford, Surrey, UK  ·  http://www.nickykriel.com/blog

Check out the video to the right where Nicky is telling us how to build followers on Twitter.

Nicky has a fantastic blog that you must check out with a huge wealth of articles all about Twitter, Facebook and social media that will help you get your business off the ground and start to get your first customers:

http://www.nickykriel.com/blog/

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Inspired by several people on out time line this week we wanted to give you a twitter tip to help keep the followers you have worked so hard to get.

We all focus on getting followers, increasing our reach and influence and building our following but do we put much time into keeping our followers?

So here is three things to do in order to keep your followers:

1. Start conversation directly with your followers, chat to them directly and treat them as real people not numbers
2. If you know they are interested in something tweet them directly an article about it
3. Offer them something of real value - competition, give away, powerful advice

and three things not to do:

1. Anything that makes you seem like a robot; if they feel you aren't real they will un-follow and go somewhere else
2. Fill their time line.  In the image to the right Sarah has half the tweets in my feed and they are completely irrelevant to me.  My timeline fills up with tweets from her and stops me seeing the people that matter.  So I un-followed her.  Avoid sending too many general tweets all at once.  (Send as many direct tweets to an @name as you want as this doesn't fill the general timeline up)
3. Never saying anything directly to people.  If I look down someone's time line and it is only advertising tweets and links I move on quickly.
   

So there is 6 things you can do to avoid losing and keep you followers happy.

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