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Make Money Online With Twitter – Advanced Tweeting Techniques

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:02:23 +0000

I’m assuming here that you’re familiar with the basics of twitter. If you haven’t already got started and would like to know how to optimize your twitter account for Internet Marketing, read my article entitled ” Making Money Online with Twitter – The Wise Person’s Start Up Guide”.

Tweeting (sending out updates)

If your tweets invite responses, people will be more likely to answer! Just as you would at a party, ask questions and try to appear more interested in the other person than you are in yourself. Find out about them and look for ways to help them.

Interesting tweets often include links to other things available on the net: articles, pictures, videos, websites, blogs… Use these kinds of tweets in addition to your sensible advice to establish your reputation as an expert in your field – the kind of person who can help others.

When you read a really interesting tweet that you want to share with others, you should retweet it. People love having their stuff retweeted; it’s flattering.

If you don’t see anything to retweet and can’t think of anything yourself, use sites such as “stuff to tweet” or digg, where you are bound to find something interesting, but (unless it’s really brilliant) try to keep it relevant!

Don’t use tweets to plug your own stuff more than once in a while, or people will feel you’re too pushy. When you do promote your own site, be subtle, but make sure you mention some kind of must-have free offer – perhaps a pdf report. Ideally this free gift or report holds the answer to someone’s problem, so you have a legitimate reason for suggesting they check it out.

Getting into discussions

This is the important part: use “search twitter” to listen in on other people’s conversations. Type in a keyword that’s important to your business and find out who is discussing it already.

If you use the advanced search facility you can specify strings of words, and maybe a question mark as well – so you can find who is asking a question about your area of expertise. Results come up not just of people (anywhere in the world) who are asking right now, but also an hour ago or last night or a week ago.

Remembering that you’re helpfully offering expertise (and not trying to puff yourself up or hard-sell your product), you can join in these conversations and suggest solutions to the problems that people are discussing.

At the same time, other wise twitter users will be doing the same thing and searching for what you’re discussing. They may well decide to follow you, or send you a direct message asking for your opinion.

Links

Needless to say, your site and your blog will invite people to join you on twitter, and your twitter profile (and many of your direct messages) (each of which is a URL in its own right) will link to your other stuff. This is all good for Search Engine Optimization.

Use what you learn

You will inevitably gain valuable insights from listening in on conversations and finding out what people are tweeting about. These insights will help you add focus to your business and they will provide you with material for new tweets, blogs and articles!

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Top 7 Not-So-Interesting Tweets To Turn Off Your Followers

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:02:22 +0000

Twitter is the next big social media network cum micro-blogging forum that is being considered amongst the fastest information provider, all over the world. It is succeeding in engaging millions of users in its platform at a same time that has been defined as Real-Time search feature. It has come up with the â??Here you see it, there you post right away’ so the communication has actually entered in a very fast pace.

Tweeting is an amazing way to talk about your business, novel ideas, and interesting facts at Twitter platform, which takes your prospects and customers directly to your web page or blog. So Tweets have to be interesting enough to grab readers’ attention and let them have an urge to read more about it. There are people who will keep telling you how to better you tweets style, but I am going to tell you the top 7 not-so-interesting Tweets that surely will turn your followers off and you better avoid them.Let’s check them out together.Tweets like I am so busy today are plain dumbI am so busy today, and you still pulled sometime out for tweeting? What a crap.Spelling errorsBe short (as you have to be) but be correct please. This is where you have to show your smartness in 140 characters. It literally irritates when you see full of spelling mistakes tweets. It is not worth-reading yet looks idiotic.Retweet is good, but excessiveness is shamefulTry not post one tweet in a bulk manner. God, they look so frustrating to read and once you succeeded in pissing someone off. Believe me he or she will unfollow and block you, right away the feel strikes in their minds.Retweeting is good if is being done in a consistent manner. Do not post 10 tweets at a time, do that in breaks. Self-Obsessed people, you get a side PleaseSocial media networks are all about building burly relationships, but when you talk about you and you only, it surely will kill your business. You need to keep two way process with your followers and try not focusing on me, my and mine philosophy.Do not try to be the smarter champ, most of them hate itEverytime you throw some indirect and prejudice post on someone’s tweet, every time the feel of dis-likeness will be strong enough to unfollow and block you. Mind you, they are not your friends and family, who understand your mysterious expressions of writing; they might take it in negative sense. So precautions are always better than cure.Stressing on the Miracles of TwitterYour followers are already here, and they need not to be convinced by knowing about the fact â??why Twitter is being rising’. It looks like advertising about â??The lord of ring, in a movie theater’It is not that bad, but boring.Leaving an incomplete commentLeaving something incomplete is always frustrating for readers, so one should completely convey the message else it isIt did irritate you right? I was not writing anything, was just trying to communicate the exact feelings.These top 7 not-so-interesting Tweets can literally buzz your followers off. To learn more about Twitter you can login to http://www.socialfactory.net

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Ninja Rockstar on Twitter

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:02:20 +0000

How to become a ninja rockstar on twitter? It all starts with the number of followers you have – how many people get your message. It makes sense that the more followers you have, the more people that are actually reading your message, the more impact that you can have.

A new development has been twitter post search engines, searching twitter posts for any posts about a certain topic, or by certain people, or from certain geographic areas. This adds to your reach, but the number of followers seems to be the most important factor.

The more followers that you add, the more that will notice that, and follow you back. The more posts that you make, the more chances of being found on the twitter search engines, and the more chances of like minded people adding you to their twitter following list.

There are several tools that allow you to make more posts, more easily to your twitter accounts(s) – notice that you can have more than one twitter account – that’s a ninja twitter tip, right there!

Twirl, ping.fm – there are several desktop, or accumulating posting aids. Check in google under twitter tools for more. There are tools that take your wordpress posts, and add them to your twitter. There are other tools, or updating setups that will take Social Marketing updates, and add them to your Twitter posts.

My Squidoo account automatically makes a post whenever I update any of my Squidoo lenses – look for that on Squidoo settings – another ninja rockstar twitter tip!

Start out, as well all do, with nothing – get an account, make some posts, add some people that you follow, and start to build a following – much like blogging, but way quicker, easier and to the point to do it in 140 character bursts!

Keep at it, and soon you’ll be a Ninja Rockstar On Twitter!

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Cosmetic Surgery Marketing Tips: 5 Ways to Engage Patients on Twitter

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:04:38 +0000

1. Be yourself. There’s no substitute for conveying who you are in a real and personable way. With cosmetic surgeons, especially, it is extremely important to connect with people to build their trust. Sure, you have credentials that prove your expertise, but being a real person that they can relate to will help draw patients right to you like a moth to flame. They will want to hear what you have to say, will be more likely to click in to your website links, and will be glad to refer you to their loved ones when the time is right.

2. Post useful information to engage your patients for optimal cosmetic surgery marketing results. Before you post anything on Twitter, T.H.I.N.K. about it. T is for thought-provoking. Is your Tweet something that will really get your patients thinking? If yes, post it; if not, find something else to say. H is for helpful. Are you about to post something that will help your patients learn something new and will help them make a decision to come in to see you? I is for imaginative. Your Tweets should be somewhat entertaining. In other words, say what you have to say in a more imaginative way to better engage patients. N is for news. Something that is newsworthy is great to Tweet. It can be a link to a cosmetic surgery article in the news, a new announcement from your practice or anything else you think patients would be interested in. Finally, K is for knowledgeable. If you’re posting to your Twitter account yourself, you’ll have no problem with this one. However, if you hire someone else to do your cosmetic surgery marketing on Twitter for you, be sure they have some Internet resources and medical journals handy so that every Tweet is full of knowledge to impart on your patients.

3. Use the retweet function to give props to your Twitter followers! This is a big one, trust us. Your acknowledgement of their Tweet helps to build a relationship while positively acknowledging that what they said was important to you and should be shared. Retweet anything from your followers that you found interesting and add a short note in your retweet. Something like “Must-see tweet from @patientname.”

4. Reply to people’s Tweets. Sometimes, patients will ask questions about an article they found, they may have questions about a procedure, or may even have a specific comment about someone else’s Tweet. Scan through your followers’ comments and get into the conversation by replying. Offer short replies, links to expert articles you have found online, or offer to have them call you so you can answer their concern in more detail. Replying is a great way to reach out to your patients in a way that none of their other doctors are…guaranteed.This will dramatically boost the results you get from your cosmetic surgery marketing efforts.

5. Reach out to new followers. It may seem like it is completely unreasonable to keep track of dozens of new followers as they arrive at your Twitter account, but you can easily do this through free Twitter management tools available online. Hootsuite and TweetDeck are just two that work quite nicely. They can auto-send direct messages to your new followers the moment they follow you. Use the list of direct messages that the online tool has sent out to personally reach out to new followers within a week of their follow. It will take you as little as 10 minutes to build a lifetime relationship with potential patients.

These tips will help you engage your Twitter followers and grow your follower base. These are real, tangible ways to attract more patients to your cosmetic surgery practice. If you need help with your social media marketing, SEO, or would like a video made for your practice, we offer the following zero cost services: Website analysis to pinpoint SEO troubles and provide suggestions for improvements. Consultation with the owner for a customized cosmetic surgery marketing plan for your practice. 30-second video, customized with your practice’s information, ready to be put up on YouTube, your blog, or your website.

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Seeing Popular Tweets on Twitter Part1

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:04:37 +0000

Social networking sites have given a new life to the offspring of search engine optimization, that is to say, social media optimization and social media marketing.

One of the recent entrants in the field of social media marketing is twitter. The search results shown on Twitter help SEO professionals in properly executing the search engine optimization process on the website.

Twitter’s search results have undergone a drastic change in the recent past. The change is quite evident, at least to people who have used the search column on Twitter.com or search.twitter.com in past weeks. The search results in Twitter now show up to three most popular tweets placed above three most recent tweets.

Apart from the tweets, the search results also display the time of posting and the number of times it was re-tweeted. The new search display suggests that showing this information helps determine the popularity of the tweets.

Reality technician Taylor Singletary explained various web developers and SMO professionals about what determines the popularity of a tweet. He said that it is time to make real-time search even more valuable. This can be done by following simple steps such as sprouting the best tweets on a particular topic. However, you have to pay extra attention to what you choose as your topic. The next thing that is to be considered is that ‘how recent the tweet is’ along with the ‘interactions’ that go on those tweets. In other words, you have to analyze the profile of the author and count the number of times the tweet has been replied to, re-tweeted, or added to favorites.

How Twitter Hummingbird Can Automate Your Follow Process

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:04:36 +0000

Twitter is the newest “latest & greatest” fad in the internet marketing world. It allows for a very easy opportunity to send your message to thousands and thousands of people instantly. The trick is that you have to get a very large number of people following you (and hence, seeing your message) for Twitter to make an impact.
Lets face it, if you’ve only got 1,000 people following you & you send out an offer that gets a 2% click through rate… big whoop, you just got 20 clicks. Who cares?
The most common method of growing your twitter following is to follow mass amounts of people, and a certain percentage will follow you back.
The two most common ways of following people are:
a) Navigate to a leader in your market, look at their followers, and manually click the “follow” button next to each one of them
b) Have one of your outsourced minions do the above
Those two ways are ineffective. If you do it yourself, you’re spending a lot of your own time doing monkey work. It’s not fun. It’s not valuable. And if you rely on an overseas outsourcer to do this for you, they won’t always make the best decisions on whose followers to follow.
This is where Twitter Hummingbird will help. The software opens up & logs into one of your Twitter accounts. You navigate to someone’s followers and click “follow all.” That’s it. Done. The Hummingbird client will keep following until you tell it to stop, or until you hit one of the Twitter soft caps.
There are two other areas where Hummingbird is very useful:
1) Mass unfollows – you need to do this fairly often so that your ratio is within the 110% soft cap. Currently, there’s a free tool called Twitter Karma that can do this for you, but Twitter Karma will only unfollow 70-80 people at a time… which makes a large unfollow very time consuming and cumbersome. Since Hummingbird doesn’t use the Twitter API (it logs directly into your account instead), you can just press the “unfollow all” button, and it’ll take care of all your dirty work for you with no effort on your part.
2) Protected VIP’s – often, you’ll want to follow people on Twitter who will NOT follow you back. Most commonly, this will be celebrities or leaders in your market who you do not know personally. If you’re using a tool like Twitter Karma to do your mass unfollows, you’d have to manually look through your list & uncheck these VIP’s to prevent them from getting unfollowed. This is another huge chore. Hummingbird solves the problem by allowing you to create a “protected VIP list” – once you add someone to this list, they’ll get skipped over whenever you do a mass unfollow through the tool.
So if you’ve got an aggressive follow/unfollow strategy on Twitter, Hummingbird will make your life much easier for the above reasons.
However, that being said, there are 3 areas where Hummingbird could stand to improve.
a) No Mac Version – it’ll still work on a Mac, but you have to run it through Parallels or VM Firmware. That’s not ideal. Maybe they’ll come out with a Mac version eventually, but for now, it’s only PC based.
b) No hashtag support – it would be great if you could tell it to follow people based on hashtag use. This is not an option right now; the only follow method is to follow another Twitter user’s existing followers.
c) Can’t use it as your main Twitter client – its too slow and clunky. Although that doesn’t really matter, since you’d be doing all your tweeting either directly from twitter.com or Tweet Deck, or whatever your favorite tool is.

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Attracting a Following on Twitter for your Business

admin — Sun, 16 May 2010 14:02:34 +0000

Brent McLean is an Account Director at AlterSeekers, Inc.

As with any social media strategy, attracting a successful Twitter following starts with a clear, definitive plan. Spend the time to create realistic and measurable goals, then decide what kind of followers you want to attract. Study their behavior, how do they interact in Twitter? Learn to speak to your target audience in their language. How frequent are their tweets? Make sure that your Twitter strategy is flexible enough to be able to learn to interact with your followers on their terms.

Make Your Twitter Presence Known

Use your existing online and offline presence to promote and leverage your Twitter strategy. Put links to your Twitter account everywhere, not just in the virtual world, but in the physical world as well. Emails, print media, web pages, email signatures, other social media accounts, anywhere you can find a place, add a link. Make sure to completely fill the details of your profile; people are a lot more likely to follow someone if they can â??get to know’ them.

Have Something to Say and Say it Frequently

Tweet often, and make sure to leave enough time for your Twitter followers to react. Use a conversational tone and don’t hesitate to ask questions, because that is the fastest way to start an interactive dialogue with your Twitter followers. Sharing valuable information should be at the core of your Twitter strategy. If your content is good, people will retweet (repost your tweet) to their followers. Nobody is going to retweet meaningless drivel or spam, so make sure that your tweets are entertaining, education, and above all relevant. The more compelling, entertaining, and interesting your Twitter content is, the more retweets you will enjoy.

Use Hashtags to Find Relevant Conversations

Hashtags are used to group content and aid in keyword searches on a particular Twitter topic. Search for hashtag conversations that are occurring that are relevant to your business and jump right in on the dialogue. In the Twitter dialogues you initiate, use hashtags (#keyword) for your target keywords.

Track and Measure Your Results

As with any social media strategy, be sure to measure and track your Twitter results against your goals. Applications such as Twitter Counter will track your daily follower adds, and Qwitter can track how many people â??unfollow’ you. If you are not adding Twitter followers on a daily basis and rapidly increasing your numbers as quickly as you had expected, it is time to re-evaluate your Twitter strategy and make some adjustments.

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Tweet My Blog – Why Is It The Most Popular Wordpress Plugin Today?

admin — Sun, 16 May 2010 14:02:33 +0000

In such a quick period of time, Twitter has emerged as highly popular digital service that is full of wonderful potentials.Â Presidential candidates use Twitter to coordinate their nationwide campaigns, for example.Â Rival sports superstars use it to publicize each otherâ??s dirt.Â Emergency response units accept tweets as legitimate calls for help.Â Airplane crashes are first reported through this micro-blogging platform.Â And Perez Hilton uses Twitter every time a celebrity actually decides to punch him on the face.

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Twitter has become an ubiquitous web service that has transcended the internet.Â Everyone seems to be using Twitter, and your online business can capitalize on this fact.

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Basically, if youâ??re into internet marketing and youâ??re not using Twitter, then youâ??re missing out on some major benefits that can increase the profitability of your business.

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But for Twitter to work for your enterprise, you will need 2 things: 1) thousands upon thousands of followers; and 2) a commitment to tweet regularly.

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The first can be solved via automated Twitter software programs, and there are a lot of them these days.

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The second can be remedied by digging deep inside you to actually dedicate yourself to posting several 140-character messages per dayâ?¦â?¦ or by using your Wordpress blog.

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By using a Wordpress plugin wittily named Tweet My Blog, Wordpress will automatically post a tweet whenever you post a new blog entry.Â This tweet is user-defined.Â You can invite your followers to check out your blog.Â You can try the mysterious approach of promising a surprise for them if theyâ??d click on the link to your newest blog entry.Â Or you can simply give them a heads up, like a buddy would, and wait for them to visit your blogs, again, like a buddy would.

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Tweet My Blog is a wonderful piece of Wordpress plugin that many bloggers-cum-tweeters have hailed as the best add-on that has been introduced to the community since Twitter was invented.Â If youâ??re a Wordpress blogger and you own a Twitter account, then it will be a grave sin if you wonâ??t use Tweet My Blog.Â If youâ??re an online marketer, then it would be a graver sin if you donâ??t have a Wordpress blog and/or you donâ??t own a Twitter account.

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Installing the Tweet My Blog Wordpress plugin is very, very easy.Â Just like other plugins, simply unzip the contents thereof to your wp-content/plugins folder.Â Thereafter, go to your admin interface and to your plugins menu and install the Tweet My Blog.Â And youâ??re all set to go.

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Initial configuration is just as easy.Â The Wordpress plugin will ask for your Twitter details, i.e. username and password, so that it can automate the process.

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Tweet My Blog Wordpress plugin is a great way to maximize your efforts and save you a lot of time youâ??d otherwise spend on blogging and tweeting.Â Tweet My Blog is an excellent way to harness your followers and transform them into cascading traffic to your blog each and every time you post a new entry.

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My Top 7 Essential Twitter Tools

admin — Sun, 16 May 2010 14:02:32 +0000

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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you have probably heard something about the new microblogging platform, Twitter, and how Twitter has taken the online marketing world by storm. The phenomenon has even spawned a new lingo, with new your new tweeps (followers) tweeting (making posts) you and discussing the state of the Twitterverse (you get the idea here).
While Twitter is pretty easy to use, there’s an overwhelming amount of tools, plug-ins and applications being developed to support it. I ran across one blog that listed over 100. How can you determine which ones will best support you in your use of Twitter?
I’ve tried to sort though all of the junk, and come up with my 7 essential Twitter tools:
1. TwitterFox. This is actually a Firefox browser plug-in that permits you to keep up with your tweets and any direct (private) messages that come your way. Tweetdeck and Twhirl similarly help your manage your tweets and tweeps and have gotten rave reviews from users, but I prefer the simplicity of Twitterfox. All I have to do is check the Twitter logo in the lower right corner of any browser window to check my Tweets and to reply to any of them that I want.
2. TweetLater. The primary function of TweetLater.com is to permit die-hard Twitterers to stock up Tweets that can be scheduled to be posted over a period of time. However, the reason that I like it is that I can forward the emails about who is following me to my TweetLater email address, and my will automatically get a direct message from me. I just love it when I can automate my marketing tasks!
3. TwitterFeed. This service will enable you to feed your blog posts to your Twitter account. You can control the frequency with which Twitter displays your blog post, as well as the text used to preface your blog feed. I use “Blog update” to preface my posts.
4. TwitterSearch. This site offers a quick way to search what people are posting about particular topics or keywords in the twitterverse.
5. TweetBeep. This is the equivalent of Google Alerts for Twitter, which permits you to track mentions of your name, products, company, or anything else you want to track.
6. LoudTwitter. LoudTwitter is the bridge that posts your daily Tweets to your blog Your blog takes care about the archiving of your tweets along with your other posts, which give more context. After all, if you have a blog and a Twitter, your blog is probably the core place where you want to be found and tracked.
7. Png.fm. While technically not a Twitter tool, I quickly tired of manually updating my status settings at all of my social networking sites. So, I began using Ping.fm. When you update your status at Ping.fm, the service will automatically update your status on all of your social networking sites, like Twitter, Facebook, Plurk, Pownce, to name a few (there are 21 you can update). Depending on the number of networks you use, it will take you 10-50 minutes to connect your Ping.fm account to your various social network accounts. However, once everything is set up, you simply log into your Ping account, post your update (no more than 140 characters), and your status is automatically upgraded on all of your social networking profiles. I use this tool to post Tweets, but use Twitterfox to post my @ replies to my followers.
Even though Twitter initially seemed like a fad, it’s not going away. Use these tools to maximize your use of Twitter and enhance your social networking!

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A Burning Question For Every Internet Marketer – What The Heck I Should Tweet About?

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:02:37 +0000

When it comes to social media marketing a lot of people are confused and maybe you are one of them who are thinking: “what the heck is the strategy and how to do it right.” In this article I want to talk about one of my favorite social network site twitter.

Twitter is a great place where you can connect with people all over the world, connect with likeminded people, build relationships and of course everyone wants to build a huge list of serious people who are interested in your product or service. Well let me tell you that all of this is really really possible, but you need to learn how to do it correctly, because you do not want to tweet only about your business or product, because people will recognize you as a spammer and they will probably ignore you on even unfollow .

So straight to the point, I want to share with you a few tips which you can use right away and after you finish this article you will have a full mind of ideas for your tweets.

1.) Quotes – many successful marketers are doing it and it is a proven way to show your followers what you are all about. Share quotes which are related to your niche or if you tweet quotes about personal development you are doing always right. Just google “quotes”, “success quotes”, “motivation quotes”, or for example “Napoleon Hill quotes” .

2.) Sharing other people’s content or Retweeting – This is also great way to build a relationships with people. If you are reading a great article, video or just good quote, do not be shy to retweet this content to you followers. People will appreciate it and you posting great content to your followers. You will establish yourself, become more trustable and great thing about this is that people will come to your profile and they will share YOUR content.

3.) Sharing other people’s content by using Tribes – Tribe is a place where people are posting and sharing their content for getting more exposure, traffic and building a relationships. How it works? You just share other people´s content and they will share yours. There is a lot of buzz about new concept of this system and many marketers are using Unified TRIBE. You really want to learn more about this Unified TRIBE.

4.) Good content from different websites – You can also share valuable content from sites like Mashable, Retweet, Better Networker, Allfacebook, Perfect Networker, Home Business Ezines and . . you get the idea…;-)

5.) Communication with other people – by using @ symbol in your tweets you can send a comment or talk with others and thanks to @ symbol they will be notified so this make sure that they will read your message.

6.) Blog posts – when you write a blog post you should always tweet about your new content. Great way to drive traffic to your blog and if you have a lead magnet (definitely should have one) you will be collecting leads.

7.) Your articles and videos – every time you create a new article that you submit to article sites or video that you uploaded to video sharing sites tweet about it. Let your followers know that you created something what can help them with their businesses or life.

8.) Your product, service, business – do not be afraid, even for this tweets you can find a place in your portfolio. However you need to know that after 6,7 valuable tweets you can tweet about your business, product or service.

I think that you get the point, always share a great and valuable content and sometimes you can tweet about your offer.

If this article was valuable to you, feel free to share this with your followers…;-)

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