Has anybody here started a tribe or in a tribe on Triberr?

Has it helped increase your readers? How did you recruit your tribe?

It looks like it could be effective, but would like to hear 1st hand how it has helped others.

its been around a while and when it was introduced, it was a big thing.

im not sure if it is now (i hope it is, it was a great concept) and am willing to accept any invites from anyone in a cool tribe 

@rhifarrell Hi Rhil!  I wrote two posts on Triberr a while back about how I use it (http://kikolani.com/how-i-use-triberr.html) and some data on Triberr traffic vs. what was actually showing in Google Analytics (http://kikolani.com/post-case-study-triberr-visits-vs-google-analytics.html).

Triberr used to have a system you could either automatically tweet other member’s posts or manually approve other members posts.  I went with the manual option.  Although I felt like the tribes I joined has similar minded people, there were a lot of times I didn’t tweet people’s posts because they were just not up to par with what I normally share with my audience.  Not that they were bad, just not the right fit.  Because of the need for reciprocity, a lot of people wouldn’t tweet my posts either.  

I think since I stopped using it, they had to switch their system to fully manual due to Twitter’s TOS.  I’m not sure how the results are now that people have to dedicate some time to manually approving posts vs. let it automatically update their Twitter account.  I got my best traffic from the people who automatically let everything through.  

Probably the best result for me was meeting some great people in the tribes that, even though I’m not using Triberr anymore, I’m still lucky enough to be connected with just on Twitter.

@kristi-hines Kristi, thanks for the links to your articles.

Never heard of it either. This sounds like a great place to find followers. My subject is not social media, though, it is cooking and a variety of other subjects. Would it as helpful for me? @jorgenpoulsen @rhifarrell

I’ll check it out, thanks. @jorgenpoulsen

@deairby @jenniferwagner 

Hi Jennifer I can understand that you gave up if nobody approved your posts but your tribe members couldn’t have been that smart. I go in once a day, perhaps twice and it takes me less than 1 minute to approve all posts.

In exchange I get my blog posts tweeted to 1.2 mill twitters instead of the 500 followers I have.

I think perhaps your chief was a bit lacy.

Sorry but I don’t really get why anybody would leave a tribe unless he or she had to approve too many posts which were off-topic. But that’s where the chief comes in.

Anyway, I’m not too intelligent but I do know that I had 14 followers 4 weeks ago and as of right now I have 464 followers that’s a 3,300% increase and my last blog post is 15 days old.

@jorgenpoulsen

Believe me, I tried to tell them how easy it was, and some of them tried for a little while, but little by little it dropped off more and more until it pretty much died out. It might be that we all have many followers and tribrr was just additional help but not that important and many of us had many of the same followers anyway.

I was in a tribe and the situation was similar to what a few others have had – when they switched to manual the tribe I was in fell apart. However, when the tribe was together it did help increase the exposure of my blog significantly.

But, the nice thing is once you are in a tribe you can also start 3 of your own tribes. I didn’t take advantage of that until just recently, and I am forming my own tribe and only inviting people I already know fit in. 

Here’s a suggestion for all of us. As we get to know each other better here on SME perhaps we can form some of our own tribes. I have the ability to form 2 more tribes, and could maybe add a couple more to the tribe I am in the process of forming. The one I am forming is called Marketing Symphony and is geared to bloggers who understand and promote the fact that effective marketing is built on the premise of an integrated strategy rather than disparate parts. Like a great symphony all of the individual parts play together well when part of great marketing plan.

Anyone interested in forming tribes from our membership here? Let me know.

@phil_lauterjung Hello Phil, I’d be interested in joing your Marketing Symphony tribe. You can look me up on Triberr, I just joined a couple of minutes ago, so my profile is pretty blank…

@jorgenpoulsen Here is the link to my blog and my twitter handle is @gonzogonzo

Thanks,

@abigailgorton Hi Abigail, thanks for your interest in joining our tribe. I looked at your blog and it looks like you would fit in well. However, I couldn’t find a Twitter account for you. The way Triberr is set up Twitter is the primary means of distributing our blog posts. Could you let me know if you have a Twitter account and what your handle is? Thanks.

hey ya’ll….since Im the Founder of the damn thing, I figured I’d come in and say hi.

Thank you all for so many kind words and I’m very happy Triberr is working for so many of you.

If I can help in any way or answer any questions you might have, just lemme know

Thnx @abigailgorton

As a former SME hanger-on and an Author of several SME articles, I think it’s fair to say that I’m pretty familiar with the SME audience.

You guys are all experienced marketers, very savvy online and off, and always interested in new ways of branding your social media content.

Triberr has released the coolest thing since sliced bread yesterday I think you guys will go gaga over. It’s about creating your very own Twitter Client App. It takes 5 minutes and it’s very easy, and only available to Triberr members.

Everything you need to know is in this post  http://triberr.com/blog.php?post=24424

I would love some feedback and I need experienced marketers to chime in about the value of it. So please, dont hold back.

Thnx @kristi-hines,

I was really apprehensive about releasing it into the wild. There are so many things that could go wrong give the fact that the human has to setup an interplay between Triberr and Twitter.

But the feedback has been amazing and everyone is finding it really easy to set up.

Btw, I’m in Tucson. We need to get together before I head back to the east coast.

@kristi-hines I’ll be in Tucson till summer or till I get bored with it. Whichever comes first

I am looking to join a tribe about leadership, mentoring, self-development.  If you know of any in that area I would be thrilled to be a part.  @craigbooker on Twitter.

I signed up for Triberr recently and it seems like they have made alot of changes, but it’s very cumbersome. Way too complicated to get mass interest IMHO. 

As Kristi Hines said. When it was new, it was great and then they went nuts and lots of changes that didn’t sit well with bloggers. 

Many left, but it’s still going. 

@jenniferwagner The same happened to me due to the change my tribe mates stopped using it

I just tried using it – i.e I signed up and added a blog, then it crashed out with a PHP error.  I’ll try again a few days.