Tips To Increase Your Klout Score

After being told to get a score of 70 or more on @klout to win a piece of business I have become fascinated by increasing my @Klout Score.

Here are my initial findings of what has increased my score the most of the last two weeks.  I have managed to increase my score from 59 to 64 (a 6 point bump) in 2 weeks and most of the increase happened in the last 5 days.

I am headed to #Klout70 so will write another article when I have completed the challenge.

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The obvious things to do:

1. Connect all your networks to Klout. That means: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the less used ones of Foursquare, Instagram and more
2. Talk to people.  The more @messages you send to people and the more conversation you have the quicker your score will rise
3. Put out interesting content that people will want to retweet.  If you don't have a blog and aren't writing any articles then share other people's articles that you think your followers will be interested in

The not so obvious things to do:

• Find accounts you are interested in and start talking to their followers.  I did this a couple of nights ago and it created two business leads along with a @Klout score increase
• Talk to influential people online, ask questions and engage. To find out people's @Klout scores there is a Google Crome or Firefox plug in to display their @Klout scores within Twitter.  Look for people with high numbers and start talking to them.
• Ask questions: on every platform.  One of the thing @klout measures is the number of comments, mentions and replies you get, so by asking more questions you create more conversation.  Just make sure they are interesting questions!

The biggest thing I have learnt so far with my online networking experience is that online networking should be just like real life networking.

Act as if you are talking to a real life person; because you are.

Act as you would if other people are watching; because they are.

Have fun, because people like to have fun and they will talk to you if it is enjoyable!

Send me a message @alandonegan or @popupbusiness or tell me about how you have gone about increasing your @klout score in the comments below.

Happy social networking!

Tweet me at @AlanDonegan

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