Step #1: Write really helpful, really powerful content that people will naturally want to share.
Step #2: Name drop so people will want to share your blog post for their own vanity. Such as, Top 100 Start-up Blogs or Top 50 Women in IT on Twitter or Top 28 Twitter Feeds on Education Policy or Top 172 Blogs About Cats.
Here's an example:
The Top 6 People I Hope Retweet This Blog Post
This year, we’re pleased to honor 6 women and men who are among the top social media connectors and engagers that I'd like to have retweet this blog post, representing pop entertainers as well as a prominent politcians. These are the leaders of a list I made of people who I'd like to have retweet this blog post. Congratulations to them all, for they have thoroughly earned this honor.
If you are on this list, and you would like to add the official badge representing this honor to your website, simply contact me through this blog. The badge denotes your honor with the words "Top 6 People I Hope Retweet This Blog Post" and has a link back to this blog post to display your significant honor to the world.
#1: @JustinBieber -- Justin is a flat-out awesome OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!!!!! singer who first became WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! famous on YouTube and now is so popular and such a cutie that AIIIIAIIAIAIAIIA!! tween girls scream when they just hear his name.
Little known fact: Twitter has an entire warehouse full of servers buried under a mountain in Utah just to serve tweets including @JustinBieber and the ♥ and/or ♡ symbols.
#2: @KatyPerry -- This singer became a lesbian for a hit song, before deciding to focus her career on her cleavage, to sometimes explosive effect. A distant cousin of Texas Governor Rick Perry, she changed the name of her song "Texas Guvs" to "California Gurls" after Governor Perry threatened to eliminate two of her top three favorite government agencies while running for President.
Little known fact: Robin's egg blue is her natural hair color, she dyes her hair black.
#3: @LadyGaga -- This pop phenomenon, always on the lips of her youngest fans --- those just learning to crawl -- is a peeress of the British Royal Family. Her father The Duke of Cornwall and Upper Rothesay and her mother is Duchess Googoo. Lady Gaga is best known for her avant-garde fashion, wearing, most notably, outfits designed by Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Tom Ford, and Delmonico's rib-eye.
Little known fact: In addition to wearing attention-getting clothing, Lady Gaga is also a singer, the powerful voice behind such hits as, um, well, remember that time she arrived for the Grammy's in an egg?
#4: @BarackObama -- The leader of the free world, Barack Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States. Although only half African American, he is widely regarded as the first African American to hold the office. He is also the 43rd and a half caucasian to hold the office. President Obama is commonly referred to as a "Marxist Communist Socialist" as well as a "Conservative, to the right of Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower, who is ignoring climate change."
Little known fact: The President was not born in Kenya, but may have, in fact, been born in the United States.
#5: @TaylorSwift13 -- Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for your Twitter account, I'mma finish writing about it in just a moment, but @Beyonce has one of the best Twitter accounts of all time. One of the best Twitter accounts of all time!
Little known fact: While @TaylorSwift13 has 32,258,224 followers, there are 12 better Taylor Swift Twitter handles.
#6: @RSprung -- As the author of a blog post about retweeting blog posts -- 11 Guaranteed Ways to Get Others to Retweet Your Content -- she may be open to retweeting this blog post about getting blog posts retweeted.
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