Everything Marketers Need to Know About Twitter Lists

E thi M k t N d t K Ab tEverything Marketers Need to Know About Twitter Lists

Rick BurnesHubSpot Marketing ManagerHubSpot Marketing ManagerTwitter: @rickburnes

Agenda

I. About HubSpot & Inbound Marketing

II. What Are Twitter Lists?III. How Marketers Can Use ListsIV How to Get Started With ListsIV.How to Get Started With Lists

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Who’s HubSpot?

• Founded in July 2006 from research at MITy• Cambridge, MA• 2 000+ customers 100+ employees2,000 customers, 100 employees

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Traditional Marketing (Outbound)

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Marketing Today (Inbound)

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Twitter’s Roles in Inbound Marketing

Blogging SEO Email Pay-Per-ClickTwitter

Website Visitors

LeadsT iTwitter

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Customers

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Is Twitter Like Cotton Candy?

• ColorfulSti k

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• Sticky• No nutritional or business value

No! It’s Like Whole Wheat Bread.

• Healthy• Used widely

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• Used widely• A basic part of any diet or marketing mix

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The Problem With Twitter

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Lists Give You Control

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Two Kinds of Lists

1. Your Lists• @your_username/your-listname• You create them

2 Other People’s Lists2. Other People s Lists• @username/listname• You follow them

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My ListsTwitters I Follow

Cambridge List

Lists I Created

Marketing List

Bloggers & Reporters

News Feeds

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Lists Help Control the Firehose

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http://twitter.com/rickburnes/cambridge

A List @HubSpot Created That I Follow

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http://twitter.com/HubSpot/inbound-marketing-news

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Lists Increase Reach

25000@HubSpot Gained 1,004 Followers From Lists

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List Followers10000 Followers

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5000

0Without Lists With Lists

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How Does a Cigar Site Use Lists?

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Become the Source of Cigar Info

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Lists Help Surface PR Opportunities

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Follow Bloggers & Reporters

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http://twitter.com/HubSpot/bloggers-reporters

Lists Help Personalize Your Company

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Know HubSpotters => Trust HubSpot

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http://twitter.com/HubSpot/hubspotters

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Start Following Lists

• @HubSpot/inbound-marketing-stars• @HubSpot/inbound-marketing-news

What we’re following

@HubSpot/inbound marketing news• @HubSpot/hubspotters

• @smallbiztrends/small-businesses@smallbiztrends/small businesses

• @nytimes/business-news

• @mashable/social-media-links

• @dannysullivan/searchmarketing

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Build Your List

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Add People to Your List

28http://twitter.com/following

Promote Your List

Share your list on Twitter, Facebook, your website & i id t

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& via widgets.

Use Listorious

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http://listorious.com/

Monitor the Lists You’re on

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Problems You Might Encounter

1. Adding people to lists is a pain

2. It’s hard to find good lists to follow.

3. Confusing interface

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Pro Tip: Relax, and keep experimenting.

Ways to Measure Your List

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http://twitter.grader.com/

Lists Now a Factor in Twitter Grade

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Fi l Th htFinal Thoughts …

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Build Leverage

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Too Many Pieces to Put Together!

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HubSpot Puts the Pieces Together

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Everything Marketers Need to Know About Twitter Lists

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