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  • Free Friday Follow Giveaway #dtmfff

    Duct Tape MarketingI love my twitter followers – I know a lot of people are still trying to figure out how to benefit from twitter, but from a downright practical point of view, they give me great ideas, feedback, keep me honest, point out great restaurants when I travel and amuse me when I’m waiting around in airports – oh, and thank goodness for this, they visit and comment on this blog.

    So, I’m going to start giving back to the my twitter followers by picking one follower at random and sending them copy of my book, Duct Tape Marketing, each Friday.

    Here’s how the Free Friday Follow works (#dtmfff)

    1) you have to follow me, duh! hint:click here to do so
    2) Each Friday AM I pick a random follower (I do this with TwitRand a simple script by @peterhough that uses a bevy of mirrors and secret potions to randomly generate one lucky twitter winner – simply brilliant)
    3) I contact the winner and send them a book (if they already have it they give it to a friend)
    4) I post the screenshot of the random winner and feature them on my blog (unless they don’t want all that free attention)

    So, if you already follow me, don’t tell anyone or your odds of winning will go down. (Wait, I was kidding about that.)

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    Posted by: John Jantsch on Feb 19, 09 | 12:12 pm
    Category: Referral Marketing | Tags: ,

    Comments
    • That is a really cool idea. I am a relatively newbie blogger trying to generate traffic to my site. Doing some of the recommended things and seeing results, but this one looks like fun and will work for me as well
    • John, this is another one of your great ideas using the endless Social Media tools at our finger tips. Way to be so creative and business savy.
    • John Jantsch
      @Chris and @Scott - thanks - just having fun that's all!
    • John, this is a great idea. Glad to know about TwitRand also. Thanks.
    • John, that's awesome! Free wisdom and free publicity?! What small business owner wouldn't want to hop on that? When do you start offering iPods? ;-)

      I'm broadcasting this deal to my ~22,000 followers RIGHT NOW!

      - Daiv
    • Have you been able to tell how many Twitter Followers this has gotten you so far?
    • John Jantsch
      @Daiv - thanks for noticing! And thanks for passing this on to your followers.

      @Will - too soon to measure - just started today
    • symonds88
      Very nice.
    • Great idea, John. Heck, I will join in, any of YOUR followers, never mind mine, who tell me they want to DIG THEIR JOB, I will send a free pdf ($10) of the DIG YOUR JOB career handbook.
      How's that for hitchhiking on a great idea?
      Have a great weekend.
    • I've never had this much interest in a random number generator before! Perhaps I should get in contact with @peterhough to alter - I mean, learn about - the algorithm?....
    • Just signed on as follower, maybe I'll be next winner
      Just learning this social media stuff and just found you. Random picker sounds great
    • Alex Hellmeister
      Hey John, are you going to sign the books?
      I´d like very much to have mine signed.
      Best luck
    • John Jantsch
      @Alex - sure I'll sign them.
    • That is a generous offer. I have been trying to create more following for my blog and I am sure your knowledge will help
    • Hi,

      Thanks for this great offer, but do you have any just for sale? I would really love a copy

      Thanks in advance
    • this is a great idea, it will help you get more followers on twitter and plus its great way to give them something in return
    • Jim Espinoza
      A brilliant idea and use of social marketing. I really like the idea of creating followers rather than a simple (and virus-like) "win if you retweet" program.
    • John, that’s awesome! Free wisdom and free publicity?! What small business owner wouldn’t want to hop on that? When do you start offering iPods?

      this is a great idea, it will help you get more followers on twitter and plus its great way to give them something in return!!!
    • See ya on Twitter!
    • I've been using this on twitter and its such a great way of having similar people following you or vice versa.Already added you on twitter.
    • OK, OK, I'm in... And, I'm gonna Tweet this to my Twitter peeps. Thanks!
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