#FoodieFollows is a Twitter account management service.

We use our expertise and time to increase your visibility, grow your following in a targeted fashion, and enhance your engagement with the Twitter food community.

The ideal #FoodieFollows client has a food and/or beverage based Twitter account. You may have a food blog, restaurant, talk about wine or cocktails, be a private chef or caterer, or sell kitchen items like aprons, knives, olive oils, salts, etc. In essence, if you are looking for higher profile for your food/restaurant/beverage/wine/cocktail business, website, or blog we can help.

A Twitter account is free. Your TIME is not free. You want to spend your time interacting with your followers, and getting your message/story out. If you spend hours and hours finding followers, chats, hashtags, and influencers, you are LOSING VALUABLE TIME. For less than $4/day we can make sure you invest your time in your message/story while we take care of the rest.

• You will be ReTweeted by @FoodieFollows if you use the hashtag #FoodieFollows.
• You will be ReTweeted by many other members of #FoodieFollows. You thus leverage everyone's follower list, not just your own, multiplying exponentially the number of people listening to your Tweets.
• We take care of this so you can continue to interact with your follows. You are of course welcome to ReTweet your fellow members as well.
• We connect you to "food influencers" who have thousands and even tens of thousands of followers. A few select ReTweets from them can gain you greater exposure. We contact them personally on your behalf and selectively ReTweet some of their content to build a relationship for you.
• We offer all current members of #FoodieFollows the opportunity to be listed under the "Members" page to gain you greater exposure plus one link to a food-focussed URL (subject to approval by the administrators).
• Fellow members offer discounts and specials which you can find on the "Special Offers" page.

As the @exceptionalfood account grew on Twitter we found that we were spending more than 1/2 our time managing the nuts-and-bolts of our account and searching for more connections. We found we were spending less and less time interacting. This was unacceptable as Twitter is about interacting. So we developed some techniques to move that time invested BACK to interacting while still working on ways and techniques to continue to grow our network in a TARGETED fashion, finding those people who are most likely to be interested in what we have to say.

No. @exceptionalfood is part of the #FoodieFollows community on equal footing with everyone else. In addition, @exceptionalfood continues to interact with everyone as it has over the last year without change.

Of course. We realize there are a multitude of reasons you may not want to interact with another account on Twitter and we respect that. Please provide us any special requests in the "comments" section upon checkout. We will also email or call you to discuss your requests and how we intend to implement them to your satisfaction.

Of course not. We realize there are a multitude of reasons you may not want to list your name or your website/blog, we respect that. We only list your information with your explicit permission using your provided wording (subject to administrator approval, checked for grammar and spelling).

We are grateful to everyone who uses the #FoodieFollows hashtag as it gains us all more exposure. However, the daily account management, and the leveraging of the entire network, only occurs for current paid subscriptions.

Over time I found it took about 1 minute to click on a Twitter name, read their bio and decide to follow them. When you look at the current 8,900 followers (and growing), that's 148 hours invested just in following this past year.

If they didn't follow back that took about 2 minutes per account to verify they weren't following back. We've unfollowed probably a similar number, so the total is now 148+148+148 = 444 hours. That's 55.5 days, spending 8 hours every day on Twitter, a year, just managing followers (the mechanics), and not interacting (the fun part). Of course we spent even more time per day Tweeting.

At the 1-year membership level of $1,200 you are paying about $3.29 PER DAY, much less than minimum wage, for #FoodieFollows management. That's less than the cost of lunch or even a cup of coffee.

As the follower list grew, it was harder and harder to find foodies that I had not already connected with. So it took even more time and energy. By leveraging the networks and contacts we have developed, you do not need to find them yourself, we already know them and will contact them on your behalf. This works.

Absolutely NOT. You continue to Tweet as you deem appropriate, and follow/unfollow as you deem appropriate. We do NOT impact what you do in your account. Our goal is to enhance your Twitter experience and allow you to focus on interacting with your followers and promoting your message. We take care of some of the drudgery and headaches of the nuts-and-bolts behind the scenes of your Twitter account. Your Twitter life will be much EASIER once you sign up for #FoodieFollows.

Absolutely NOT. Twitter is global. We can help you gain more relevant followers for your Twitter account no matter where in the world you live.

To save YOU money. It costs money to host a domain with a shopping cart ($150/month), credit card processing ($30/month), and other expenses. All those things were already set up here at Gourmet-Delights.com so it was a redundant expense. We could have done it, and raised our rates, but preferred to keep our cost structure low and pass the savings along to you.

Gourmet-Delights.com is a 4 year old company. It is a trusted brand with longevity. We are not a "Fly by night" company or some unknown entity.

@exceptionalfood is a well known, well respected, and successful Twitter community member in the foodie arena. You already know us, we already know you through @exceptionalfood and want to keep, and grow, that relationship with you.

Yes we can, with your provided, pre-approved messages. HOWEVER we feel this isn't very useful. Most people on Twitter ignore DMs, there are a lot of spam DMs, but it is a way to make that first impression and push your URL/blog to a new follower. We have tried it with a few accounts, and the results are mixed. It is your choice and an add-on option at $30/month.

YES. One of the great benefits of #FoodieFollows is that we are taking some of the mechanical drudgery OUT of your daily Twitter experience and assuming it ourselves. Anything we can do to free up your time so you can INTERACT more, is wonderful in our mind. We ask that you provide us a WORD document, or plain text document, with your Tweets already formatted, URLs shortened as appropriate. We'll then push them out so they do not repeat until at least 30 days have passed. If you give us 30, we'll Tweet one per day. If you give us 300 we'll do 10 a day. This is an additional $30/month.

Twitter is about INTERACTION. So do not let this be the "lazy way" of being on Twitter without being on Twitter interacting. Your success is STRONGLY dependent on you spending time every day, or at least many days a week, interacting. We are here to give you more interaction time with your followers, not to replace your hands on interaction.

NO. You must be the voice of your Twitter account. We will ReTweet fellow #FoodieFollows members, and find the appropriate "food influencers", doing the necessary ReTweets from your account, but we will not answer questions or create novel Tweets from your account. We are providing the required introductions, the start of a conversation. You then build a meaningful relationship with each person.

YES. We are happy to build your Tweets for you. We will read your blog/webpage/website, and find the content to Tweet, and format those Tweets with appropriate hashtags. This is an hourly service, $50/hour, and we do ask for that payment up front. Generally we can create 10 Tweets an hour based on past client experiences. These Tweets are then emailed to you for you to Tweet out. We can also add them to your Tweet stream as mentioned above. They will not be Tweeted until you approve them.

We guarantee to follow people for your account who are involved in food/restaurant/recipe/cooking/drinks/wine/cocktails on Twitter. You will see us following people for your account on a regular basis. We also guarantee to unfollow those accounts that we did follow on your behalf that did not follow you back. However, the number of people who follow you back, is not within our control. We are making the introduction by following them for you. Whether they follow back depends on your interaction and engagement with the new accounts we found for you. If you engage, as we do with our @exceptionalfood account, we expect to see your results mimic ours. Documented results are posted above on this page.

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• The #FoodieFollows network is ReTweeting, it is WORKING! People are following!
• You are doing an awesome job, thanks so much for all you do!

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• You found an older post of mine, that no longer had any hits, and within a few hours I saw almost 3,000 hits.

YES. The price you pay with your first membership is GUARANTEED to NEVER go up as long as you keep your membership current with no gaps.

Yes. You expressly acknowledge and agree that any previously agreed-upon discounts will be null and void. We will submit a revised invoice reflecting the cancellation of any discounts, and you will pay the recalculated balance due.

Examples:

• You buy a 12-month subscription ($1,200) but after 6 months wish to cancel. We recalculate based on you purchasing two of the 3-month subscriptions ($375 + $375) and thus give you a refund of $450.
• You buy a 3-month subscription ($375) and want to cancel after two months. We recalculate based on you purchasing two 1-month subscriptions ($150+$150) and thus give you a refund of $75.
• You buy a 12-month subscription ($1,200) but after 7 months wish to cancel. We recalculate based on you purchasing two of the 3-month subscriptions ($375 + $375), and one of the 1 month subscriptions ($150) and thus give you a refund of $300.
• Refunds are not possible with our hourly work under our "Tweet Creation" product.

Twitter has set limits that we all must abide by. Until you have at least 2,000 people following you back, the maximum number of people you can follow is 2,000. We will try to make sure you always have some room to follow people (i.e. we will attempt to not max out your ratio).

Twitter has set limits that we all must abide by. Once you have at least 2,000 followers the "10% rule" is in place. You cannot follow more than 110% of the number of followers you have. So if you have 3,000 followers, you can follow 3,300. If you have 4,000 followers, you can follow 4,400. We make sure that once you surpass 2,000 benchmark that you will always have some room to follow people yourself within the 10% limit (i.e. We make sure there is at least 5% of your ratio available to you to follow at your discretion.).

Our email address is contact @ foodiefollows . com