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Twitter Tip: Add a Welcome Video for New Followers

December 9, 2008 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

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I stumbled across a cool tip to enhance your twitter usage, and possibly create more of a connection with new followers from the moment they follow you.

Add a brief welcome video.

There’s nothing more “real” than a video of a person actually thanking you for following them.

Using the automation services of tweetlater.com you can set up your twitter and email accounts to send an auto-response (by direct message or by @replies) to people who follow you. Include a link to your welcome video at your favorite video sharing site (I usually shorten the link with snurl.com or similar), and voila! You’ve got an automated thank you response with a link to a brief welcome video where you can introduce yourself a little more in-depth.

I’ve set up @theworshipcomm to automate a thank you response and welcome vid and it’s working great. Here’s the message that new followers receive in a direct message:

Thanks for following The Worship Community! View our 60-second welcome video: http://vimeo.com/2476286

The video isn’t the greatest, but I can see that the views are already increasing on the vimeo page the video is hosted at. That means people are seeing it.

I’ve not set up my personal twitter account (@russhutto) to do this yet, but probably will in the next few days to add that personal touch.

About Russ Hutto: I live and work in the beautiful Golden Isles region of Southeast Georgia along with my beautiful wife Lydia. You can find me designing in print for WYIM Publications during the week. I'm the Editor of The Worship Community. On the weekends, I'm usually volunteering in the Worship Ministry at St. Simons Community Church or traveling to help smaller churches with Worship Ministry Development. I also help mentor and coach student musicians and singers for our middle and high school ministries. Lastly, I'm an avid CrossFitter (CrossFit Brunswick) and love all things fitness and nutrition.

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Mike Mahoney December 9, 2008 at 11:01 pm #

That’s cool!

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russhutto December 10, 2008 at 9:26 am #

@Mike, definitely a little tip to bring a personal touch.

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Chris Moncus December 10, 2008 at 10:44 am #

Thanks for pimping TWC so well. Good tips.

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Brian R. Robinson December 11, 2008 at 3:51 pm #

Hi Russ,

Thanks for your note on my most recent post on the same topic (http://robinsontechnology.com/blog/2008/12/07/twitter-spam-or-welcome-innovation/). I came over here to see if you had any negative comments on your blog, but alas, there are none. I think overall, you can’t please everyone, but the welcome video is generally a welcome innovation.

Thanks,
-Brian

Brian R. Robinson’s last blog post..Twitter Spam or Welcome Innovation?

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