Triberr, or How I Instantly Extended My Reach to Over 145,000 People.
Dino Dogan was introduced to me by my friend Mark Schaefer. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know that Mark has been a bit of a mentor of mine. When Mark told me that Dino was a guy I should pay attention to, I listened. From the get go, I saw that Dino and I were very similar type people. He says what he thinks and doesn’t sugar coat anything. If you want to hear that your ideas are all 100% great, and your design inspiration is nothing less than phenomenal, he is very probably, the wrong consultant for you. If you want to hear the straight truth, check out his blog at diyblogger.net
Now that I am done verbally fellating Dino’s ego, I’ll get to the point of this post. Dino and Dan Cristo, got together and put together a sweet little service. Triberr.com is, simply put, one of the best Twitter services I have seen. What does it do? It brings together groups of bloggers to help each other, more easily, grow their reach. How does it do this? You join a tribe, or start your own. You submit the RSS link to your blog and when ever you write a post it will automatically be tweeted by everyone in your tribe. In return you will automatically tweet the posts of those in your tribe.
At first thought this seemed very spammy. I mean, am I really gonna hand over part of the control of my Twitter account so that people can, basically, gain access to my followers? As it turns out I would, and here’s why. Dino, and Dan have put a lot of thought into what your followers will experience. Yes, people’s posts, that you may or may not have read, will be tweeted to your followers. However, if you choose your tribe wisely, it won’t be a problem. Here’s the part that I really like, these tweets will be spaced. By that I mean that not all of the people scheduled to tweet your post will do it at the same time. It is staggered, and so are the tweets that you are scheduled to make.
So a tribe is a group of bloggers banded together to push each other’s links. Very simple concept, very cool execution. D-n-D have also done some cool little experience enhancing things, like tribe names are auto generated from World of Warcraft guild names, and Triberr has a currency they call bones. If you want to have your group do some extra tweeting for you then you must pay them, in bones. Bone can be either earned or bought.
The big question: Does it work? Yes, it does. I have seen a decent increase in traffic hitting my site, but the unexpected benefit has been a sharp increase in Twitter followers. Yep, simple participation has given me a couple hundred followers that are here because they are interested in what I have to say. Isn’t that the point of promoting our blogs?
Give Triberr a whirl, request an invite. It will definitely be worth your time.
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Oh boy, I think D-n-D is going to be our new nickname. I guess it’s better than, “Double-Ds”.
Thanks very much the kind words about Triberr. We’ve got some evil genius stuff brewing in the lab that I think is going to knock everyone’s socks off. That’s all I can say for now, else Dino will slay me.
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Thanks Dan! I’ve been having a lot of fun watching it grow. Keep up the good work.
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Overall I have been pretty happy with the results from Triberr. Like anything else there are hiccups, but it is not bad at doing what it is supposed to do.
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Jack,
Without a doubt. I’m really happy with the results, both intended and unintended. As for the hiccups, nothing worth mentioning and we are on a beta release, so some are to be expected. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
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Brian:
Triberr is useful and cool as you have described above. But don’t just get stuck on the icing of the cake, because the cake is even better.
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, the best approach is not what can your invite tribe do for you. The best approach is what you can build together with those tribespeople in your first triberr tribe. This is where the social can actually lift off.
Once you’ve gotten past the thrill of the icing, dig into the cake: build micro-communities around each other’s blogs, connect with other bloggers (especially those that don’t share your particular niche or point of view), and curate people. The unintended outcome will be awesome.
As Dino has said, detach yourself from personal interest, smart goals, and ambitious outcomes. All those items will be
served (beyond your imagination) if you demonstrate a servant heart.
Stan
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Very good point, Stan. I didn’t touch on the underlying advantage of this service. And you are quite right. I am just starting to build my first tribe, having sat back and watched Triberr do it’s thing for a while. There are some neat things developing. Thanks for bring it up.
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Dude…very cool write up. Thank you
Did you dig into the Naked Stats yet? Thats one aspect of Triberr that Dan worked on since Triberr’s inception. And it blew my mind. I think you’ve seen them, but if not, def check them out
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Naked Stats? Is that the pie chart button? Awesome feature. As for the write up, I just call it like I see it. You guys are very deserving of the praise.
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Ok! Now, I’d really need to give triberr a try. I was procrastinating at first cause I don’t know who to join or I want to find the right tribe to join.
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Without a doubt. Give it a go man. You won’t regret it.
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