Twitter is all the rage this year. It is becoming more unlikely that you have not at least heard someone mention it in passing. It seems as though that everyone is getting on twitter these days. People like Oprah, and Ashton Kutcher have amassed huge followings recently. And so many are finding twitter as a very valuable tool for business.If you use Twitter on the web by itself there’s already a lot of things that you can do to promote your business. But there are several other ways that you can enhance your Twitter experience. In this article, you are going to learn 3 ways that you can enhance your Twitter experience.First; Use Twitter in combination with other networking sitesThis is absolutely critical. That’s why it is listed first. You should never place all your eggs in one basket so to speak. You always want to have a veriety of ways to stay connected, in case something were to happen to twitter. Such as; What if it’s down for maintenance? What if there are just too many tweeps on at once and you keep seeing the fail whale (that’s what happens when you can’t load twiter)? There is a service called tweetake, which allows you to download your followers, favorites, tweets, dms, everything you need to talk to your Twitter family outside of Twitter. I suggest you download this file from tweetake daily. Another thing you should do is invite your friends to join you on Facebook, LinkedIn or an awesome site that will keep you very connected is Friendfeed.com. It has over 50 services that you can link and keep up with all in one place. I also recommend putting your Facebook profile on your Twitter page as your website. That way when people follow you on Twitter, they’ll go right to your Facebook page and follow you there too. Find an email address for your Twitter posse so you can send emails to them. Don’t send them commercial messages unless they sign up for your email list. That’s considered spam, so don’t be a spammer. You can send them messages that you’d send to your friends. It’s fantastic to email your Twitter friends information that will help them with their business. They’ll be extremely grateful to you for sending them wonderful information and it will seem more personal because you sent it right to them instead of blasting it to the whole Twitterverse! Your goal is to build what I am calling valuable Twitterships, I don’t know if anyone else has coined that one. It’s just ralationships on twitterSecond; Use Twitter +twitwall to market your telecalls.Twitwall is an brilliant service to use to market your telecalls. Every Twitter user gets a twitwall. You’d use your twitwall when you have things that are more than 140 characters to post. You can use your twitwall to promote your telecalls very easily. You’d just post the relevant information to the twitwall and then retweet it. Vital: Be sure to include the words please retweet in the headline when you post information about your telecall. Even though twitwall makes it simple for people to retweet your information, they won’t do it unless you tell them to most of the time.Third; Twitter + Hashtag + Tweetchat = PARTY!Another fantastic way to get people talking about you and your business is to hold a Twitter party! Twitter parties are very simple to set up. All you have to do is make a hashtag for your party. Basically a hashtag acts a tracker for your party. Once you choose on a hashtag, next pick a date and a time. Then start telling everyone that’s in your Twitter family about your party and question them to retweet the information for you. On the day of the party you can use tweetchat to follow everything everyone is saying about the party. Tweetchat is awesome because once you go to the website and log in, it automatically inserts the hashtag and tells you how many characters you have left to tweet with. It also allows you to momentarily stop the chat within the chat room so you can scroll back and see what was said before you enter the room. It’s vital to both participate in and throw Twitter parties because it’s a fantastic way to get the word out about your business and you can meet new people that are interested in the same things that you are interested in.Twitter is a fantastic tool to use to drive traffic to your website. These things that I’ve mentioned will only improve the amount and quality of the traffic you get to your website.
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How to Greatly Enhance Your Overall Twitter Experience
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Free Twitter Marketing Tools – Optimizing Twitter to Get a Massive Following
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010You may have heard of an internet sensation called Twitter. The concept of this site is simple: update people on what you’re currently doing in one hundred forty characters or less. You can follow people, people can follow you, you can quote what other people are saying and you can answer to what other people are saying. Twitter essentially makes a quick paced interactive and massive community with similar interests. So what?When you join a club or sport, you typically join because you share an interest in that area. Likewise, you follow people on Twitter because you share a common interest. Since there’s no limit as to how many followers you can have, you can be in contact with thousands of people with one simple update. It gets better though. Imagine thousands of followers in your target market because having a large number of people following you is meaningless if there is no common interest. If you have thousands of people following you because they have an interest in network marketing, then you have struck gold.How do you leverage Twitter to make a massive following in your target market though? How can you have thousands of followers without eating all the hours of your day? The key is automation. I have prepared a list of free Twitter marketing tools to aid you in building a massive following. The three tools I will be talking about are:-Twitter Karma-Tweetree-Tweet LaterTwitter Karma is a tool that helps you maintain a balance between people you are following and people following you. Twitter Karma allows you to sort users in different categories primarily users that you are following but they aren’t following back, and users that are following you but you aren’t following them back. Essentially, you just check all and either click bulk follow or bulk unfollow. Make sure to wait about ten minutes between each submission. That’s it. You have a excellent ratio for your following/followers.The next tool is called Tweetree. The main thing you want to use Tweetree for is for the Retweet (RT) button and managing conversations with other users. Remember, retweeting is simply quoting another user, and usually requires you to type everything out. With Tweetree, there is a button when you go your mouse over a tweet and an RT button appears. Simply click that button and hit send. Now there is no more typing for retweets. The second function is managing conversations. Sometimes other users respond to your tweet, but you don’t check until later. The time gap can lead to confusion as to what the response was referring to. Tweetree puts a user’s response indented under your tweet so you can continue a conversation and not worry about forgetting what it was all about.Lastly, Tweet Later is for auto-pilot use. The main benefits of using this service is to have an automated welcome message and auto follow/unfollow actions. To edit these settings follow these steps:1. Log in to Tweet Later2. Click Accounts3. Click List Accounts4. Click EditFrom here you can edit all automation methods you want to carry out. Make sure to check the auto welcome box and type in your welcome message. A word of advice for typing out your welcome message: Do not post your affiliate link. There are many Twitter users posting affiliate links in their welcome messages and it makes interaction very impersonal. Instead, type a friendly message thanking them for following you and link them to a place of value. Now when I say place of value I mean a blog, Youtube channel, articles page or Facebook. All of these are acceptable places to lead new followers to, because it builds a personal connection and not the dreaded sales pitch.If you want to rotate welcome messages, there is a link right above the text box that shows you how to do that. You may want to rotate people going to your Facebook, blog or articles, so that’s a fantastic way to send traffic everywhere. Next you want to check automatically follow people and check automatically unfollow people. These two options help keep your following and follower ratio in check.That’s it. These three free Twitter marketing tools will help you build a massive and target following to leverage your online business. But, automated software can only do so much. You need to interact with other users through answer messages and retweets. Just like any business, developing relationships with people is the only way to rapidly grow your business. By interacting with other users and applying these tools, your following will grow your Twitter following in no time.
Twitter the Election – is There a Twitter Expansion on the Horizon?
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010As Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Gov. Sarah Palin prepare to square off tonight in the first Vice Presidential debate, I need to step back to a moment last week and talk about something Twitter launched for the election â?? that has the social media world stirring in its belly.
For the presidential debate last week, Twitter launched a niche application site called Twitter E08 that focused directly on the presidential election campaign in the United States. The website worked by simply filtering twitter messages (tweets) from all users by certain keywords and aggregating these messages into one page.
In addition, a user can go directly to the section on the website and send a message directly, and it is seen in the twitter timeline immediately. I like the thought of this, as does the community â?? if you head to the election page â?? you see it is constantly updating â?? the interaction is priceless, or uselessâ?¦depending who you question.
By promoting the election â?? Twitter has finally begun to reckon about â??microâ?? sites within Twitter that will not only aggregate conversations, but build out â??channelsâ?? per-say of different topics, sports, fashion, marketing, schools, and dare I say â??businessâ???
Letâ??s walk into one of those channels, oh, look, a huge transition ad for the NFL. Oh look, now were in the football channel â?? with 543 other people talking about football. You see my point. I am not against this at all. I am really 100% for it. I am sure Twitter is tired of hearing criticism surrounding their business model and how they generate money. I reckon this election is the starting point for something â??hugeâ?? twitter is considering doing. Twitter is run by a group of 20 people, thatâ??s it! I am sure their partner channels and VC funds are well stocked, but naturally you reckon â??largerâ?? and growth.
I know we would hear endless people complain about a new layout, if the site were to take on niche groups and starts with ads galore; but I reckon only the current twitter use would complain. Look at the people who now wish to ban the new Facebook layout â?? because they are too bone idle to see their precious applications are on the bottom toolbar â?? in static mode. Facebook was tired of seeing user pages that would just go down for miles with comments, applications, etcâ?¦this opened the door to keep everything within the â??userâ??s levelâ? â?? instead of having to scroll down 30 seconds to see what someone said about somebody else (you know you care about that!)
Either way, this election and what Twitter is â??experimentingâ?? with is just the beginning of a new style Twitter will be undergoing. You know it. I know it. We all know it.
Go Twitter!
Orlando Stay Giveaway Twitter Contest
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Although the summer is coming to a close, many travelers are already plotting for their next vacation, be it a holiday retreat or spring getaway. There are numerous places to choose from, but thereâ??s no doubt Orlando is one of the hottest destinations on the planet thanks to its well loved theme parks. What could top spending a vacation at Walt Disney World? Spending it there for free, of course!
You can now enter getaroomâ??s Orlando Stay Giveaway Twitter Promotion for a chance to win a two night stay in Orlando at the newly renovated Regal Sun Resort. All you have to do is retweet the promotion, which will be posted on the @getaroomcom Twitter page and also appears below. Once you have retweeted the promotion and become a follower of @getaroomcom, you are entered.
The promotion is: Enter to win 2 nights in Orlando with getaroom.com! Retweet this and follow @getaroomcom to enter!
Entries will be accepted starting 12:01 a.m. CT on August 28, 2009 until 11:59 p.m. CT on September 25, 2009. The hotel stay is valid through September 30, 2010, and the winner will be announced on or about September 28, 2009 via Twitter. The winner must send @Getaroomcom a direct message (DM) within 48 hours to receive their prize.Twitterers can retweet the message multiple times, but only one is required for entry. There is a limit of one entry per person/twitter account.
Don’t forget to check out other fine properties in Orlando as well as in other major cities including New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles.
4 Easy Ways to Empower Twitter for Your Marketing Benefits
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Are you using Twitter to help build your online network marketing business?
If you’re involved in building a business online, you know the potential that the internet can offer. It can help you attract more leads, close sales, build your brand, build your credibility in the industry, and much more. It is vital to go where the traffic already is and use several different methods to market your business; and if you’re not engaging yourself in social networks, then you’re terribly missing out.
One fantastic new way to utilize social networking is through the use of Twitter Tweets. How can it help you and how do you go about using it to your advantage? Let’s take a quick look at Twitter and what it has to offer.
What exactly is Twitter?
Twitter is a social networking site that allows you to network with friends, family, coworkers, and everyone else in the Twitter community. It basically helps you keep up with what people are doing at all times. You simply make a small post (called a Tweet) and everyone in the Twittersphere is now up-to-date on what is going on in your life. It is a fantastic way to stay in touch with family and friends; but on a deeper level, it is an brilliant way to see natural networking and marketing benefits.
So how can you maximize Twitter to benefit both yourself and your followers? Here are 4 simple ways to empower your Twittering for your marketing benefits:
1. Define the Outcomes You Want to Achieve
Do you want more traffic to a website? Do you want to build your image as an expert in the industry? Do you want to show your prospects who the real “you” is? Do you want to simply increase brand awareness? There are truly limitless things that you can accomplish through the use of Twitter; but your tweet activity will be more effective if you focus in on just one (or a few) objectives rather than multiple ones. Once you look at the options before you and have set your Twitter objectives, then stay disciplined with them–meaning that even though you might mix your Tweets up a bit (between personal and business), the majority of your Tweets stay on track with your main objective.
2. Provide Value to the Twittersphere & Engage in Fascinating Conversation
There are thousands of users on Twitter and it can be hard to stand out from the crowd and get noticed; so it is vital to focus on providing your followers with original and useful Tweets. Engage your followers instead of just throwing out mundane details of your life. You will have more people ‘replying’ to you, which will in turn catch the attention of others and provide you with new followers.
Ultimately it’s about adding value to the conversations that are happening on Twitter. You will become someone that people will seek out and want to interact with when you go beyond adding to the noise in the Twittersphere. Provide value, offer solutions; and remember that every Tweet counts and you are building a reputation.
3. Question Your Followers QuestionsThis can make very effective Tweets and draw many followers into active conversation with you, making a viral impact and leading to real relationships with followers.
4. Connect with as Many Twitter Users As Possible In Your Niche
“Twitter Surf” and find people in your niche that are following you and see who else they are following and the things they are Twittering about. One follower leads you to another follower and so on. To be known in your niche and build your own profile it is very vital that you are interacting with others in that same niche.
Twitter can be a powerful business building tool for your online network marketing business. Stay focused on your objective, provide value, and remain active in the Twittersphere and your social networking will boost positive results.
You can see all of this in action at http://twitter.com/katielml Pleased Tweeting!
Online Marketing – Using Twitter Marketing Secrets
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Twitter is a social network that is second only to Facebook. You can use this for social reasons or for online marketing. There are some Twitter marketing secrets that you can use to make your online marketing more successful.
One of the Twitter marketing secrets that you can use to make sure that you get the most out of your online marketing when you are using Twitter is to make as many friends as possible. You can do this by joining groups and clubs on Twitter. You should look to make as many contacts on this site as you can. One of the best Twitter marketing secrets that you can learn is to get contacts. The more contacts you have on your Twitter site, the simpler you have it when it comes to online marketing.
Another of the Twitter marketing secrets that you can use is to join groups where your target market is most likely to congregate. When you join these groups, you can then use your online marketing techniques to attract those who join your friendship list towards your product.
Posting links on your Twitter page is one of the largest Twitter marketing secrets. You should make sure that these links connect to your sales page so that you can procure individuals to buy what you are selling or offering online. Online marketing consists of many different facets. One of the most effective ways to use online marketing, but, is to use a social networking site like Twitter.
Once you have friends, you should not make it obvious that you are practicing online marketing. This is one of the most crucial of all of the Twitter marketing secrets that you can learn. Be sure that you are low key when it comes to marketing online when you are on social networks. Social networks such as Twitter are supposed to be used for social connections. Those who are using these sites for online marketing in an obvious way appear to be cheesy from the viewpoint of others. If you want to get the most out of your Twitter online marketing experience, then you need to learn this as it is the most basic of all Twitter marketing secrets.
Twitter marketing secrets are not hard to pick up once you join a site that will help you find out even more secrets to make your online marketing successful. If you want to get the most out of your Twitter experience when it comes to marketing, you should use a website where there are even more secrets revealed on how to use Twitter as a way towards financial success online. By joining one of these sites, you can learn everything you need to learn about Twitter marketing secrets that will help your online marketing work in a very successful way towards helping you when it comes to achieving financial success online. There are millions of people online, learn as much as you can about marketing to them and the right way to do it and you can make quite a bit of money in this venue.
Tips To Get Rt’d On Twitter
Sunday, March 7th, 2010â??New blog post! 10 tips to â?¦â?¦â?¦Â Please RT!â??
Simple and simple, but not the most effective way to get your tweets retweeted.
The second one is if you are posting a link, try to include numbered lists. Everyone likes a numbered list, for example, same as I said above
â??New blog post! 10 tips to â?¦â?¦â?¦â??
This one works sometimes, but donâ??t do it all them time. Itâ??s probably best off if itâ??s only a one-off really. Just post the link. You know how curious you get when you see a link all on itâ??s own; â??Oooooooh wonder what that is?â?? Other people will be just as curious. The reason I said not to do this too much is that you may start to lose the trust of your followers.
Say thank you. Anyone who retweets one of your tweets, either thank them with a DM, or a tweet would be better, because then your followers will see their profile link. Or you could retweet one of their tweets.
Research the Twitter bots. Some people might look upon this as cheating a bit, but as long as you donâ??t do it too much, donâ??t feel terrible! Research what bots are on Twitter, such as the Facebook one for example; they will retweet most things you say, as long as they include a specific hashtag.
Curiosity. Curiosity is the last tip Iâ??m going to give you today. Imagine you are reading your tweet. How would it have to sound for you to be interested enough to click it?
I hope you found these helpful. If anyone want to share any more tips they may have, please leave a comment.
Twitter: A Customer Service Breakthrough?
Sunday, March 7th, 2010When you actively connect with your customers, they remember you longer and are more likely to reward you with increased sales. When it comes to connecting with customers, many companies are turning to Twitter. But why?
Increasingly, companies are finding that they can tune in to consumer buzz about their brands through Twitter. Twitter’s ever-convenient Twitter Search allows anyone to monitor keywords and key phrases, including company name, to read what people are tweeting about, much like what Google Blog Search does in the blogosphere.
Companies like Comcast and Zappos have already delegated customer service representatives, or digital detectives, to hunt for and resolve customer complaints via Twitter. Ultimately, Twitter as a customer service platform has proven to be a success!
Of course, you can take advantage of this unique customer service angle as well…it’s not just for corporations! Follow these simple steps to bring your customer service into web 2.0!
Get on Twitter!
Of course, you’ll want to open your free Twitter account! (It will probably be the quickest account creation you’ve ever experienced!)
After that, your first stop in Twitterland is the very useful Twitter Search page. All day long, Twitter users tweet their experiences, interactions, and thoughts. Plenty of those users may be your customers!
Go to Twitter Search, run a search for your company’s name, products or services, and see what your customers are saying!
http://search.twitter.com
If you come across any complaints, or even positive comments, now is the time to make a connection with your consumers!
Make A Connection!
Twitter avails you a proactive opportunity to thank pleased customers, and to help miserable customers-it’s viral! Take your customers seriously, especially if they’re enraged and dissatisfied with your company…those are the customers you really want to listen to!
Take a lesson from Comcast, one of the major communications companies. A team of Comcast employees joined Twitter, and has 10,000+ followers that they keep up with! They listen to what customers have to say and respond with tweets to their solutions.
Their Director of Digital Care makes sure that each customer is satisfied. That’s the kind of customer care you want to make synonymous with your brand!
Establish a Twitter Strategy!
Once you’re on Twitter and are following customers, you’ll want to come up with a strategy for customer service. For instance, look at Zappos’ Twitter for inspiration…
Zappos displays a fantastic example of Twitter conduct, with over 450 Zappos employees involved, and they retain plenty of repeat customers because of their stellar consumer relations.
Many people also follow Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh because he pays attention to his followers’ tweets and acknowledges their tweets through his own, which makes them feel more personally connected. Do you see the pattern?
Your strategy should not only include addressing concerns about your products or services, or resolving the issue at hand, but also should entail paying attention to your customers. Answer to an unrelated tweet once in awhile, or tweet a small something (nice) about them on your Twitter!
Is Twitter a Customer Service Breakthrough?
In small, Twitter is one of the largest names in social networking, and can be used quite successfully as a customer service platform. Is it a customer service breakthrough? Not really, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t advantageous. In fact, it’s a fantastic way to keep your finger on the pulse of your customers. Also, it’s not just for corporations…your online business can benefit from it too!
10 Tips For Using Twitter For Seo
Saturday, March 6th, 2010If you use Twitter for your business and to promote your website, there could be some areas that you can improve on to help you use SEO. The increase in social networking has provided new means for business owners and website owners to promote and market their products and services online. It is also a fantastic way to market and connect with others all through an account that you have with Twitter. While there are a variety of ways that you can use SEO to increase your search engine rankings and get more traffic to your website, these ten tips will help you make the most of your Twitter accounts.1.Choose a Excellent Handle – this is a excellent way to help you boost your SEO by using your Twitter accounts. You should try to pick a handle that is optimal and is related to the products and brands that you are promoting through your online campaigns. Your handle is also called your username and it should be something that personalizes your account and makes it simple to recognize what you are promoting and the nature of your campaign. It also makes a static address that could be helpful for indexing. The more distinctive your handle is, the more successful your online promotions can be and the more users that you can attract. 2.Select your account name – you should try to get the most benefits out of your Twitter account by choosing an account name that reflects what you do and what you want other people to see. Aside from wanting an account name that relates to your business, you should also try to focus on the SEO. This includes thinking about which account name would help in the search engines and what has the most frequently searched words. Use only the words that are really related to what you are promoting. 3.Make the Biography page work – you can use the Bio line feature on Twitter to help make a professional and effective description about your products that you are promoting. You will have 160 characters in your Bio to describe what you want others to view about your business and make them want to join and follow you on Twitter. The words that you choose for your bio tell other users what it is that you are selling and the nature of what you are doing. Be specific and try to enhance the points that you want others to see.4.Spread the Number of Contacts – you should focus on ways that you can build links to your Twitter account and how you can best use the social networking tools to enhance the products that you are marketing. You can use your Twitter account to your advantage by placing a call to action for it on your website. This allows customers to follow the link and connect with you on Twitter. It is simple to set up, and can broaden the number of people that you are able to reach. It also helps to increase the usability of your website and networks all of the contacts that you have on your website to your twitter account.5.Use the URL – when you are setting your Twitter account, be sure to add in the URL of your web site to help promote your presence on other social networking places. This can help draw contacts and new customers from all of the other online media sources that you may be using. Linking all of your accounts together and on the other websites is a fantastic way to stay connected to people and to make an online presence that is universal.6.Choose the characters of your tweet correctly – each tweet that you make on Twitter can be vital as it is related to SEO. It can determine what is going to appear in the tweet tag that shows up on search result pages from Google. There are about 42 characters that are used to factor in on each tweet tag and this includes the account name. You should choose the characters that you are using to best describe not only your business but also what is likely to get you the best rankings from search engines. 7.Use keywords in your tweets – when you are able, you should start out each tweet with a keyword phrase or theme to start the message. You can use any keywords that are going to help you strengthen your SEO and to get the best searches from those terms. Remember that you do not want to fill your tweet with empty phrases and SEO, but rather use creative keywords along with your message to enhance it and improve your visibility with search engines.8.Retweetability – this refers to the character limitations that Twitter has for each account. You need to optimize these characters to obtain retweetability. If you want your message to be a hit on Twitter. You should try to keep it under the 120 character limit so that anyone who is following you and wants to retweet you can easily add it to your handle and place it in front of the tweet. Keeping the number of characters that you use lower than what is allowed makes enough space for someone to retweet you.9.Use links – you can insert back links that are designed to take users back to the content that you have. Twitter has been shown to improve the traffic that you can get to your website so you want to use it as much as you can as a way to add links. If you want to share links, you can also make links to your other social networking sites along with your web site. If you use a blog to connect with other professionals and with customers, you can make a link to your blog on Twitter that makes it simple for users to get to your blog and read the content.10.Direct users to excellent content – this is an vital step in using Twitter. If you are going to have links that go to other content websites or to your own, make sure that you are directing your users to go directly to the pages that have the content. You do not want to make your users look around for it and try to figure out what it is. If you are talking about a topic and provide a link to go to content on your website, be specific and only direct users to that content.
10 Secrets to Using Twitter to Attract More Followers and Get More Clients
Friday, March 5th, 2010Copyright (c) 2008 OnlineBizU.com
I do wonder at times if some Twitter users have any time to get any work done. Several of the more prolific ones that I follow swear they spend no more than 30 minutes a day on Twitter, but I really find that hard to believe. Many times it seems they are twittering just to say something, like “Excellent morning Twitterverse” when they start their day, give more details than I want to know about what they had for lunch, what their children said to them, or when they take a nap.
I realize that this is part of the “like, know, and trust” process that enables people to get to know each other, but sometimes it’s simply too much information..LOL. I’m Twittering primarily to market my business. Consequently, I try and limit my personal twitters to no more than 2 per day. My clients, who make Twitter accounts for marketing, as well, tell me, “I’m signed up. Now what in the world do I Twitter about? How do I market my business with this tool?”
Here are 10 strategies that I use regularly to marketing my business and my expertise via Twitter. Remember, you have only 140 characters for your tweet (Twitter post).
1. How you’re helping clients. Talk about specific ways that your business helps clients and use their Twitter ID if you have their permission, i.e. “Just finished @clientname brainstorm fantastic Internet marketing plot for 2009″ or “Finally finished setting up Quickbooks for local hardware store — now they can invoice their clients”
2. What you’re doing in your own business. This is a perfect time to tell others when you’re blogging, writing an article, making your weekly ezine, recording your podcast, i.e. “Had fantastic interview with Jane Smith today on speaking to grow your biz. Fantastic thoughts! Subscribe to podcast & listen here ”
3. Useful tool or resource you’ve found. I run across these all the time in my daily activities, and Twitter is a perfect place to share,. i.e. “Found fantastic new Firefox plug-in to monitor & check multiple Gmail accounts at same time at ” or “Read fantastic blog post on working at home with kids under 5 at (URL here)”
4. Question a question. Need some thoughts or some quick brainstorming? Twitter is an ideal place to gather opinions, i.e. “Help! Desperately seeking new laser printer. Recommendations?” or “How do I find training organizations online?”
5. Conduct a survey. What do your Tweeps reckon about a particular issue? Question them via Twitter, i.e. “Quick poll: Do you get more clients from Facebook or Twitter? Respond at (URL here)”
6. Report on live events. The latest Twitter trend seems to be tweeting what’s happening at conferences or workshops. In order for Twitter users to follow a particular event, it’s usually referred to by a name preceded by a # sign, as in #JVAlert, for example, to make it simpler for people who want to follow those posts. So, if you were at an event, you might tweet “#JVAlert John Smith speaking on affiliate programs. Just got fantastic thought on training affiliate managers!” Just don’t get so wrapped up in tweeting that you ignore the content delivered in the conference!
7. Product or service launch. If you’re about to launch a new product or introduce a new product, let your Twitter followers know, i.e. “Pre-launch pricing for new DVD set about how baby boomers can start an online biz. Get $100 early bird discount at (URL here)”
8. Responding to others with advice or answers. The way to build professional relationships on Twitter is to help your tweeps. So, if someone questions a question, comments about something to which you have a response or an thought, or you want to question a followup question, this is the perfect place to do so.
9. Acknowledging new followers. I’ve noticed a recent trend of acknowledging people who’ve chose to follow a Twitter user in the past day or so. I initially thought that others were doing this as a measure of popularity, but what I’ve come to realize that it’s really helping out the new followers because it exposes their Twitter profiles to others who may have never heard of them and who might like to follow them. So, to thank your followers, you’d tweet, “Welcome new followers @twittername, @twittername, etc.”
10. Automate your tweets. Many of my tweets have been automated and connected to other things I do. TwitterFeed turns all of my blog posts into tweets. aWeber turns each ezine issue into a tweet. EzineArticles.com tweets my followers every time I publish an article through their service. Typically all that’s involved here is connecting the particular service to my Twitter account. Once all the services are connected, I get free and automated Twitter posts with no additional effort on my part.
Twitter can be a fantastic time-waster or a wonderful way to market your business and leverage your expertise online. Follow these 10 strategies and you’ll start to attract more followers and get more clients through social networking.