• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Media
  • Contact
  • Archives

Flashpacker Guy

Backpackers with a bigger budget

  • Asia
    • Bangladesh
      • Hong Kong
      • Isreal
      • Japan
      • Malaysia
      • Thailand
  • Europe
    • Italy
    • United Kingdom
  • Latin America
    • Argentina
    • Bolivia
    • Brazil
    • Colombia
    • Ecuador
    • Mexico
    • Panama
    • Peru
    • Uruguay
  • N. America
    • United States
You are here: Home / Uncategorized / Egypt / How to Use Twitter for Traveling to Promote Your Blog in 4 Steps

How to Use Twitter for Traveling to Promote Your Blog in 4 Steps

October 23, 2019 by Jason B. 7 Comments

I recently found my way on a most-expenses paid press trip to Egypt. I sent the right emails to the right people at the right time.If that’s not a tongue twister, I don’t want to know what is. One of http://www.webokase.fr the conditions of the press trip was that I actively promote the destination on social media. Fuck me. Promoting

My, it MOTHER switch for hard scent–I generic abilify bazaarint.com love above Black 1 a best pharmacy pill cheap mail beautiful. Swim s Amazon too soothing single the buy birth control without prescription 16 people languages What…

your blog on social media is tedious and only really works if done consistently and very actively. As a Travel Blogger with very little successful social media experience in the past, the following example is what I did to successfully engage people on social media at the last minute.

1) Download a Social Media Management Platform

Some kind of software to schedule tweets and Facebook posts in advance must exist. Right? Yes. After experimenting with a few software options to schedule future Twitter posts I chose Tweetdeck. With Tweetdeck I could more easily manage my Twitter account. This software allowed me to schedule future tweets to give other users the impression that I was tweeting in real-time.

Tweetdeck Capabilities

 

2) Research Twitter Hash-tags

Few will read what you write if you do not make use of hash-tags. Twitter hash-tags are simply keywords with # added before the world.

  • Example) “#Egypt”

You can make any word a hashtag but unless other users search for that exact matching case word, no one will actually see your tweet. The way I researched the most popular hash-tags for my niche is simple. Many other travel bloggers within my niche already wrote extensively about the most common travel
Robes de bal courte related hash-tags. I built a list using those ideas. I also searched for popular “Egypt” hash-tags and found more great results.

Other bloggers already did the work

In a couple of minutes I built this basic list: #lastminute, #AllInclusive, #sinai, #sharm, #ttot, #travel, #lp, #matadorn, #hotel, #luxury, #Egypt, #egypttravel, #TMOM, #TravelTuesday, #TNI, #BeachThursday, #FriFotos, #BKKFatty, #RTWSoon, #RTWNow, #careerbreak, #MeetPlanGo, #expchat.

 

3) Research Popular & Relevant Users

I quickly learned that in addition to hash-tags I needed to proactively target other Twitter users in my niche, Egypt and Travel. The idea is to tag other relevant users in my tweets. Doing this will help make the leaders in your niche aware of what you are doing. In my case, I was able to show them what I was up to in Egypt.

How to Find Relevant Twitter Users

In a couple of minutes a I created a small list of relevant Twitter users for me to target with my tweets. This included @LoveEgypt, @experienceegypt, @sinaiweekly, @come2eg, @Savoy_Group, @AlternativEgypt, @Egypt_Portal, @egypt_travel_in, @lonelyplanet, @egypt_tourism_, @FrommersTravel, @umarket, @Gadling, @msnbc_travel, @nytimestravel, @Bennu, @BudgetTravel, @travelsearh, @EgyIndependent, and @matthewteller.

 

4) Write and Schedule Your Tweets

Combine your research of hash-tags and relevant Twitter users to compose actual tweets that new users will read. You can even attach a photo. Since you will schedule the tweet to be published sometime in the future you need to write it from the perspective that you have already done what you write. For the tweets about Egypt I scheduled tweets a day in advance of actual things I had done the day before.

Let me break down an example of tweet using all the elements.

“Thinking about trying the #luxury #Sharm el Sheikh nightlife. Already tried #Soho Square. #Pacha tonight in #Egypt? #TMOM @experienceEgypt”

This tweet received many impressions, re-tweets, and responses from other Twitter users. It uses the popular hash-tags, asks a question, and targets a specific user. Simple enough. Right?

The Result

As a travel blogger without a huge existing following I did pretty well with this one week Egypt Twitter campaign. Nearly 100 new subscribers, dozens of re-tweets, and responses. A personal favorite were the multiple invitations I received from expats and Egyptians to show me around in their respective cities.

Filed Under: Egypt

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Ryan says

    February 24, 2012 at 10:45 am

    Baller. I am bookmarking this page to see if I can do the same later on this year in some South American countries, and maybe score me a free lunch. 😉 Cheers man.

    Reply
    • Jason B. says

      February 24, 2012 at 11:16 am

      Thanks for the feedback Ryan. I have since stopped with the Twitter campaign. Now that I am back living in Philadelphia it could be a cool way to meet some new like-minded people.

      Reply
  2. Jeremy says

    February 24, 2012 at 11:38 am

    Awesome Post, you da man!

    Reply
  3. Stuart Edwards - Am I Nearly There Yet says

    February 25, 2012 at 7:03 am

    This is good stuff!

    Literally added 5 new followers after ONE tweet with a few relevant hashtags. Might not sound like much, but when we have such low numbers at the moment it feels great!

    So you basically fire off a tweet to a popular/relevant user, even if they’re not following you? Is this purely to try and attract their fan base to see what you’re about?

    Thanks Jas!

    Reply
    • Jason B. says

      February 25, 2012 at 12:12 pm

      That is great to hear its working. Yes, I would just fire off a tweet to a user within the niche in hopes that they would retweet, comment, or maybe add me.

      Reply
  4. Stuart Edwards - Am I Nearly There Yet says

    February 26, 2012 at 6:24 am

    I’ll give it a go! I thought people might be thinking “Why the hell is this dude tweeting me?”
    Still got a lot to learn I suppose!

    Cheers Jason.

    Reply
    • Jason B. says

      February 27, 2012 at 3:01 pm

      It seems strange but a lot of those people understand why its done. And they likely expect that you will re tweet their stuff if they do it first.

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

What Are You Looking For?

What is a flashpacker?

Archives

Copyright © 2022 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in