Twitter For Filmmaking: Film Marketing and Brand Building

Discover how an independent filmmaker built a real audience on Twitter in about 10 weeks with a secret sauce for film marketing and brand building.

Follow the course lecture by lecture to build on what you learn, avoid jumping to the end, and master the theory behind engaging Twitter followers.

Identify and cultivate true fans who truly love your film, not just a large follower count. Build a loyal base across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to sell content and services.

Explain Kevin Kelly's thousand true fans theory: 1000 fans paying about $100 a year can yield about $100k online. Show Twitter engagement through merchandise and retweets.

Consistency fuels success on Twitter and in life; show up daily, post content, and create value for your followers, building trust, engagement, and a lasting brand.

Practice social media etiquette on Twitter for filmmakers by building relationships before promoting your work, offering help first, avoiding spam, and engaging politely with influencers to grow your audience.

Demonstrate why buying fake followers harms authenticity, engagement, and analytics, and promote honest, organic growth on social media platforms like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.

I share my journey from MySpace to Twitter, learning platform-specific strategies, posting consistently, and engaging with fans to grow traffic, promote films, and build a sustainable brand.

Your Twitter handle brands you; keep a consistent, memorable name across platforms to market yourself and your film brand. Use tools like name generators to discover available, catchy handles.

Optimize your Twitter account with a compelling brand image and banner, a bio call to action with a link, and research hashtags to drive traffic across accounts through cross-promotion.

Discover how to time tweets with free analytics from Twitter Royd to maximize engagement. Identify when your followers are online by hour, and improve reach and interactions.

Track who follows you, who doesn't, and who mentions you on Twitter to identify mutuals and fans, then tailor outreach to grow your filmmaking brand.

Discover how to analyze your competition on Twitter using anatomy dot com to study followers, engagement, and hashtags, then apply their tactics to grow your film marketing and brand.

Develop a Twitter content strategy for filmmakers by sharing blogs, quotes, memes, and branded short videos, mixing inspiration with humor, and curating others' content to engage independent filmmakers.

Retweet often and repackage content across platforms to reach new audiences. Test posting strategies to boost Twitter impressions using blog, SoundCloud, and YouTube.

Discover how call-to-action phrases in tweets, like 'please retweet', make your content four times more likely to be retweeted, a key tactic for film marketing and brand building on Twitter.

Apply the 80/20 principle on Twitter for filmmaking: 80 percent engaging content and 20 percent promotion with affiliate links, book recommendations, and behind-the-scenes posts to build brand and audience.

Explore the power of hashtags for film marketing, learn practical analytics tools, and optimize engagement by using up to three hashtags, tracking traffic, and leveraging tag research sites like RightTag.

Utilize Crowd Fire as the killer twitter growth app, leveraging niche targeting, copy followers, and follow-unfollow strategies to rapidly increase engaged followers for filmmakers.

Learn to generate branded Twitter content quickly using the Type O Rama app, adding logos, quotes, textures, overlays, and quickly publish to social platforms.

Schedule posts ahead with publish, part of Crossfire, pick the best time, and post automatically or edit and delete scheduled content, then create branded content with your logo for Twitter.

Learn to automate and schedule tweets with a powerful tool, shortening links, using hashtags, and posting now or later across Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google Plus.

Learn to use Twitter to promote independent films by building a passionate fan base, retweeting supporters, and leveraging merch, crowdfunding, and behind-the-scenes content to drive sales and brand love.