Triberr is one of my newest obsessions. It's a genius idea, where bloggers come together and form "Tribes" with other bloggers in the same niche - to be honest, it's not dissimilar to Facebook groups.
The main difference is that Triberr has the ability to send posts a bit more "viral" than Facebook groups. The Facebook groups are awesome, but they're mainly made up of beginner bloggers without much of their own following.
That being said, it's still worth getting the beginner bloggers on your side - one day some of them may blossom into epic blogging powerhouses, and if you play nice, maybe they'll take you with them.
Using the previous step, you should be able to build up a fairly impressive follower base fairly quickly.
Other Triberr users will want you in their tribes because it means they can get their posts in front of all of your followers too.
Here's how to get set up;
Sign up on Triberr, visit http://triberr.com and click "Register" to get started.
Next, go to Account > Settings and fill out your profile, make sure you add a picture!
I just copied my about section of my blog for my Bio.
Next click on "My Blogs and add your RSS feed - which by the way can be found at http://[yourblognamehere]/feed/ - pretty straight forward.
Then go to "My Social Networks" and add your Twitter account (and others if you want).
The next tab is "Imports" I set mine to "Let Triberr create a description"
The next one is pretty important. Click "Stream" and choose how often you want Triberr to share posts for you. I usually set it to 4-8 hours.
This means I can queue up a bunch of posts each day and it'll just post them in order of a rate of 1 every 4 hours. This allows me to post my own content without being too spammy and also keep my Twitter feed looking active when I'm actually inactive.
Then go back to your blog and install the Triberr plugin and follow the instructions to connect the API key.
Congratulations, now every time you publish a new post, it'll be published to Triberr too.
Triberr has a lot of bloggers with a bigger following, and so if they share your content then you'll immediately get more exposure.
The problem is, they don't know you, they don't know your content and Triberr won't automatically put it in front of their eyes - so you have to get their attention first.
It works the same as Facebook groups, click "Tribes" from the main menu, then click and choose a category on the right.
Join as many related tribes as you can. To start with you can only "Follow" tribes.
Once you're following the tribe, all of the new posts from those tribes will show up in your Stream.
When you join the tribes though, you are only a "follower" of those tribes, not a "member". That means that the tribe member's posts show on your stream, but your posts don't show on theirs.
You have to be promoted to a "Member" by the leader of the tribe - the Chief - in order to get your posts shown to the rest of the tribe.
To do that, you have to win over your tribemates first. The two key factors I've found to influence whether you get made a member or not are;
1. Number of followers of the Twitter account you're sharing on.
2. Number of times you've shared posts from that tribe.
You're already building a Twitter following using the previous method, so more followers will come with time. It should only take you a couple of weeks to get past 2,000 followers and from that point on you shouldn't have any trouble.
The second point is more important. You need to visit your stream and start sharing. Now, you still want your social profiles to be useful to your audience, you don't want to post any old article.
Make sure you read each one, check out the authors, try to indentify which authors have the biggest followings and give preference to sharing their content - if it's good.
The way Triberr works, is once you've clicked "share" it will add it to a queue and then post on the time interval you set earlier.
The reason I suggested leaving a few hours between posts is so that your Twitter account doesn't seem spammy to your followers - especially if they only just started following you.
The people whose posts you share will notice when you share their article because they receive a notification. Most of them will thank you with a tweet (which you should do too by the way, if someone shares your content) which of course you should reply to politely.
At this point you should also mention your blog to them; preferably linking to that Special Content you created earlier.
If they like it they'll share it out for you. Well done, you just got a post shared with a huge amount of followers.
To save some time, you can find my tribes at the link below.
http://triberr.com/TomWatts
I'll already have some niche tribes set up. If I don't have one in your niche, let me know and I'll get it started. Just comment on the tribe page that you came from my eBook/blog and I'll add you as a member.
Another great way to find new tribemates is to participate in Bonfires.
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