Be Yourself, Don’t Talk About Yourself

When we are on the subject of talking/ writing, you want to be yourself but don’t talk about yourself. We have studied the effects of that and the data is in.

If you want people to pay attention to you online, you need to do the following things:

1. Be your original self and don’t be ordinary, be unusual. Be different.
2. You don’t want to talk about yourself much. They need some information about you and things you have been a success (or failed) at, but only short highlights.
3. Turn your attention to your people and what they want and have been successful at.

Time to use uncommon words and phrasing.

So here’s what we know: Tweets with uncommon words and phrasing get retweeted 4 to 5 times as much as common tweets. This means if you sound like everyone else and use the same words as everyone else, your message will get lost in the crowd of clones.

You can have an original style and still be professional.

The more original your style, the more likely people are to pay attention to your content and forward it. (also remember your content, but we don’t have data on that.)

Being original helps you stand out and it makes good sense. After all, if you’re saying the same things everyone else is saying, why would anyone retweet your stuff?

So do I say things like ” cowabunga” “dude” and “that’s radical man” so I attract attention? Yes, maybe if it is part of your personality but it also has to be balanced with professionalism too.

Here is a short example: you put together a successful offer and you are writing about it in an email to encourage your people. “I put this offer together like this and added this and COWABUNGA I got a bunch of sales” and you can too.

Yes, I know that is a silly example but I hope you get the idea. I hope you’re “getting down like Donkey Kong”.

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Now then, if you want more followers on Twitter, don’t talk about yourself so much. There’s a direct correlation between referencing yourself less and having higher follower counts.

Not to mention the fact that your tweets are twice as likely to be retweeted if they’re not talking about you. You do want your tweet to be re-tweeted, right?

Be yourself and add some style to your writing.

Bottom line? You want to Be yourself, but just don’t talk about yourself.

Then you can be a ‘radical dude, or dudette,’ too. High Five!