Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

27 Top Money-Making Tips On Using Twitter To Market Your Business

The social networking phenomenon Twitter is so popular and so big that any business, particularly an internet based business, cannot afford to miss out on its potential as a great tool for marketing.

Twitter is a free-to-use miniature blogging network that encourages users to exchange news and views ("Tweet") with each other using messages restricted to no more than 140 characters. Its tremendously valuable to marketers because of its capacity to target a specific audience and communicate with them in realtime. Add to this the fact that the 140-character limit ensures your messages have to be quick and focused, and they are therefore extremely suited to delivery to mobile devices, and you now begin to see Twitter as the marketers dream tool.

So, if you haven't already opened a Twitter account, do it now and this is what you need to know:

Your Profile - How to maximise its business value

If its not too late, keep your username short and try to choose something that ties in with your business and its products/services.Keep your personal profile constantly up-to-date and make sure you include your business details and visual personality.Write about yourself in a relaxed, friendly, one-to-one style and reveal a little bit about your personality and your interests from time-to-time.Add your picture to your profile. It helps viewers to make a stronger connection with you if they can see a 'real person' rather than imagining what the anonymous person 'hiding' behind a Twitter name might be like.Search for Tweets related to your business sector and participate in some of the conversations. Over time this will help to build up your credibility in the Twitter community as an expert in your chosen field. Eventually this will start to pull in some sales based on your online reputation but it is a long term game of patience. But hey! Tweeting is fun so just enjoy yourself as you go.When you are commenting on Tweets that interest you and your potential audience, make sure that you use ReTweets (RT) and replies (@.....) so that there is an online trail linking back to you.Make it easy for others to ReTweet your message by leaving space for someone else to include the standard ReTweet statement without having to edit down what you original wrote. This means you need to leave the number of characters in your username plus enough space for adding the 'RT@' message. It helps if you choose a shortish username because you have more characters available for your message.

Communicating - How to capture and keep the attention of your audience

Asking other Twitter users for help with a problem, or help finding a piece of information, or seeking their comments on a topic is a great way to start conversations with a niche group of people and to build up ongoing relationships that could later turn in to sales.Refer users to other Tweeters in the interests of helping them to find what they are after. Good deeds like this are surprisingly often remembered and then repaid at a later date, so always look to help someone out if you can because you could very well be rewarded later. Whenever you see an opportunity to offer advice or assistance to someone, then do so. Not only is it in the spirit of what the Twitter community is all about but the knowledge you pass on helps position you as an expert in your field. This helps build up the credibility of your business and your products/services.Check your Direct Messages (DM) regularly. Inevitably there will be messages that don't interest you but, as with your email accounts, make sure that you make time to reply to the honest, deserving ones.Use Hash Tags ( # ) in your Tweets to make your messages more easily found by Twitter search engines. This is like using Keywords to search for something on Google or Yahoo and makes your Tweet available to a wider audience who are interested in the subject you have tagged your message with. For example, # business finance or # Pay Per Click Advice.Limit your out-and-out promotional Tweets to just the occasional one. Keep a good 80% of what you Tweet concentrated on being informative, helpful and topical. This way you'll build up integrity and trust with your fellow Tweeters which means that when they are looking to buy the sort of product/service that you offer, you've got a head start over your competitors for getting that sale.Don't go for the heavy sell when you are Tweeting a marketing message - its obvious what you are doing and it just puts people off. Try a low key, relaxed approach that suggests a benefit to the reader of the Tweet. For example, "I've just added a new # business finance article to my website. See how you could save thousands on your loans ww.mybusinesswebsite.com". See how that lessens the feeling of a heavy sell, pure marketing message?Getting your own posts Retweeted is all about consistently writing good value content for your followers. Done right, Retweeting succeeds in helping your followers, building your business brand, increasing your Twitter and website traffic, and makes you a key player within your Twitter niche.Regularly posting new Tweets helps to drive more traffic to your site. The committed Twitter users that you are trying to connect with like people that post Tweets frequently. So try to work to a fixed schedule of days and times when you post new Tweets so that you are seen to be a committed, reliable Tweeter yourself.

Make good use of Links

Place a "Follow me on Twitter" link on your website, your blog, your Facebook page, at the foot of your emails, your business cards; everywhere that you can think of. Promote it widely because these days Twitter can be a favourite way for some people to find out about what's new and to track down something they are looking for. So fly the Twitter flag and don't miss out.Add yourself to the "We Follow Twitter" Directory so that others can find your contact details.Put website links in your Tweets to useful sources of information for your Followers, and not just to your own website. If your Tweets stay focused on your particular niche interest, and your website serves that same market niche, then don't worry that your Tweets telling others about something good on another website will divert your Followers permanently away from your site.Keep the content of your website high on quality and value; and do the same with your Tweets. This way people will keep coming back to check the latest thing that you have talked about and therefore you will get a noticeable gradual increase in your Twitter and your website traffic.There is good value to be gained from tracking down and following a few top businessmen, internet marketers or your favourite entrepreneur on the BBC's "Dragons Den" programme. There's a couple of reasons for saying this. Firstly, it gives you some insight in to how they are using Twitter so you might pick up some useful tips along the way. And secondly, your interest in them will be seen by others and will attract some attention to what you are saying and doing. People are naturally curious and therefore they often click on the links to find out more about the Followers of the top businessman or whoever it is that you all share a common interest in.

Tools that will help you

Track down your target audience using the Twitter search tools. Think about likely keywords people would be using (see the bulletpoint about Hash Tags) and look for niche groups and forums to join.Look out for breaking news stories about your industry or the business sector you trade in. Participate in the conversations and give your own clear opinion. Supporters of your views are likely to check out your profile and perhaps make later contact with you, independent of the news story that first connected you.If you are not sure about some of the jargon associated with Twitter then look it up on the Twitter Dictionary at Webopedia.comWhen you want to include a website link in your Tweet it is really helpful to reduce the length of the website page URL. Save characters in your Tweet by using a URL Redirection Service ("URL Shrinker") such as TinyURL, Cligs or Bit.ly. Typically these will replace a very long web page URL with a short 20 character code which directs a user to the desired web page when it is clicked on in your Tweet.An added benefit of using a URL Shrinker service is that you can get tracking information about each of your coded Tweets which is incredibly valuable to you in showing you which Tweets were popular and which were not. Use this information to help shape your marketing strategies and your future Twitter messages.A handy tool for maintaining a regular flow of Tweets is available at FutureTweets.com This works rather like an autoresponder because you can prepare a batch of messages for future publication and then set up the software to deliver them at the dates and times of your choice.When you've started to gather Followers who are making enquiries about your products/services it helps to be able to send them pictures via Twitter. To do this set up a TwitPic account at twitpic.com and upload your photos to it for easy publication on Twitter.There's a useful gadget for finding out who you are following that isn't following you back. It's called Tweepler and you can get it at tweepler.com Again, this is something that will aid you with your marketing plans so take a look and make use of it.Remember, there's new stuff and gadgets coming out all the time for Twitter, so keep your eyes open, follow the news and look into the latest technology releases and social networking trends as they arise.

There will inevitably be more developments to come which will help you even more with your strategy of using Twitter for marketing, so take advantage of everything you've learnt on this factsheet and keep it going for the long term in order to achieve success for your business. Happy Tweeting!

Maximize Twitter for your business

In some cases, you can use Twitter promotion and support of business. If Yes, then probably reached you this point, where you must decide between what follows or not. Displays the number of requests for someone to follow. Not many of these requirements will be to generate business. Don't forget that you are in the business.

The problem with anyone and everyone that follows, you can keep trace is that you can lose time. What are the chances that all companies you? It is just a mistake. Twitter has as many users online at any given time. However, the chances are so small, that would be interested to know these people.Not to mention the use of the product, you must have a strategy claire.savoir will be governed by, and attach to this objective chosen without too much.

Mixing and swap on track?

Group of selective, net supporters of quality, you can change the following game plan. Collect information on browsing your page home and supervision.If the person is only to themselves and share information about the surrounding area, you have much to gain from the mutual interests are clés.Vous must have a way to take advantage of the other. On your home page must be linked to Web sites that connect to what you are doing.You add the information or documents with a value of entertainment.

You are better with big fish swimming in the industry and those who seek and find their.instead of famous names and see the people governed arms and that exactly as follows in even when combined with entrepreneurs working getting excellent but unknown in the région.Cependant, may not be stiff neck with other methods that are disponibles.Vous can see that there is a more practical methods, which are better than travail.Il will also be Excel to attract and retain customers, which will be thus TargetObject purchase your Twitter marketing strategy should be flexible.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Use Twitter to find potential job candidates

What can you learn about the people on Twitter? Although many! In fact, you can even this popular site for social networking, potential employees or business partners. After a survey on Twitter provoke responses from people that you make. Even in cases where you don't know that real life enthusiasts know, you can identify potential candidates for rent on the basis of the replies interaction and displays.

If you've been recruiting employees in the traditional way, restore the applicants in order to ensure a good impression of the .habituellement, it is only 30 seconds to go earlier, a busy schedule and a large number of requests to dig on the site, the information you are looking for... it is also possible that they may miss important information.

Poll Twitter you can offer the possibility of response and limit the length of the response. Interested applicants will be obliged to respond to their short and to the point directly, so it is not necessary to search for information or omit.

You can learn as a potential rent your name, age, telephone and Twitter. creating a poll is as well as the actual interview during execution. Ask for some common questions such as:

Tell me you concernant.Quelle experience do you have in this area? What do you know about this company? Why you're the last job? you ever been fired from a job?"you can see where the players?""yourself in five years?" the information on the role of the dream.What are your strengths?What are your weaknesses?

As you can see, Twitter is not just friends, say what you faites.Si you use Twitter polls the identification of potential employees and you will save many temps.Contrairement traditional jobs, you can "interview" candidates at the same time and at the same time.

There are several sites that provide free services to create Twitter.tout surveys that you need to do is select the type of query, specify the options for response and publish the interview on Twitter.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

If you want to make money with 5 Twitter quick tips

This article concerns the 5 tips that you can use to explode your affiliate marketing actions developed using Twitter.

# 1 Customize Twitter account
Is empty, you can prevent people default Twitter profile may appear to be any other unsolicited e-mail, Twitter account, nothing to offrir.petits details can make a great différence.Ajouter and image to print to your profile, to introduce a little and beautiful background recording.

# 2 Pay your recommendations
You are very clear, however, it appears that you all under the Sun. Soon, people will stop after you, I actually ignore your tweets. " "OH no, it seeks to promote something again.

# 3 charge only for the products you buy
More confidence in something which is to promote, the most likely to flood in your recommendation. When you link to something, try to make the conversation, instead of the workpiece (and a little desperate) seeks to "big up" many more people produced. will be click by the curiosity as advertised.

# 4 to extend your Followers
It is difficult, there is nothing to support that it supporters to build what you pouvez.Twitter, the placing on the market is a game of nombres.un reçoit.votre percentage of your tweet and yet again, only a certain percentage on via.parce as supporters more you, already chance you have of sale.

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Facebook vs Twitter - who cares?

Say social networking or keep in touch, the advent of the Facebook and Twitter has changed the way people communicate with each other. Are those who refuse to be drawn in that has been in the business and, in some sense, dependant, and there are people who are at the forefront of a new method of communication for which these two platforms are old hat.

There are advantages and disadvantages of each, but rest, Facebook, Twitter or both, the part of the networking sociale.Si you use as your business or simply a person seeks to connect online, you must learn how to choose the best method for your needs.

Facebook created for students and has become a global social network of the company. You will find many games, quizzes, leisure and in the Group on Facebook, not only you are capable.to update your message state, download photos, manage, and create a page profile, but you can already your friend status reports, profiles, and more importantly, you can express and do not have only your friend in the conversation, but friends of friends, who commented on the and the State of the message.Facebook and the instant system, messaging, so you can chat with your friends without having to log in to Messenger.Facebook allows you to save your phone or none, create, or o archive or sit at home and play Suffolk.

Twitter has a completely new language created for users who use it. contributions micro Twitter, which are known as the tweets are people who use Twitter tweeple.en contributions first advanced people to connect to the Internet using a mobile phone, Twitter, even for users, i.e. in contact, regardless of where you are.

Twitter is all about fast and short messages, send and promote links or update your day, your company or other events .c ' is a place to display your blog updates, new articles to promote your website or company and more.

Many people use both of these social networking sites, because they have different reasons for chacun.la promotion of a Web page or share a short notice is ideal for Twitter.Si you want to send pictures, part of a longer report and participation in social network games and more than Facebook is the best solution.

When comparing the two, it is unlikely that the time where we have a question or to replace the second, because the two are different things.
Although individual users vary, a general consensus, Facebook, and other information on personal friends who don't know, or partners in a particular manner and Twitter in real life is more a weight below and your message to large a possible audience .encore once the success is using.

Twitter Tricks

Although there is no proper decorum to follow when it comes to Twitter or in Twitterverse as we addicts like to call it (as in, as soon as we log into Twitter in the morning, we issue a universal 'good morning, twitterverse!'), there are things that we do online that tells people to instantly unfollow us. But there are also things that we tweet about that make people say 'hang on, I think I want to hear what this person has to say'.

I'll outline a few simple ones here. There are more out there but twitterverse keeps changing so by the time you read this article, twitter might have changed and so would the 'rules'.�

Staying positive stops people from unfollowing you. Even if you've tweeted the most ludicrous thing on earth recently, if you tweet positive stuff following that, people think that you are worth hanging onto. I just don't think that there are a lot of people who hate positive stuff. As in... 'Gosh, this person is too positive. I think I'll unfollow this person.' If so, then what this tweetfellow need is some serious sunshine.

Find interesting thing to say about you, your work, your company, the things that you use or do. Have a quote or two ready and then surf around for good one-liners and jokes. People love those stuff especially during the work day when they have nowhere to go and feeling frustrated.

Rant sparingly but if you have to rant, make it funny so that it doesn't turn people who are not into negative things off. It is good when you rant about slow internet service (those ISPs are all online on twitter now so you might just get their attention when you rant) or your teddy bear being soiled by your nephew but try not to get personal and vindictive on twitter. People are turned off by that sort of stuff.

People become careful around you because if it is not beyond you to get personal with others, it won't take much for you to get personally vindictive with them as well. They don't want to risk having their name or twitter address splattered in a virtual bloodbath.

RT generously if you find people saying good stuff that you think might benefit others too. Twitter is also about sharing yourself and your friends. And remember, whatever goes around, comes around. If you generously RT other people's tweets, they won't hesitate to do the same for you when you say something totally off-the-rocker funny or useful.

Space your tweets out. If there is something about twitter that totally annoys me is this - people who tweet every second. Literally, every second. They don't say anything for the longest time and then all the tweets come in...one shot! Even if they usually have something good to say and are positive people, I find myself wondering if I should just unfollow this person. The reason? They probably scheduled the tweet and forgot to manage the time properly. It is safe to schedule your tweets to come in once every hour or so.

Create a personality for yourself. Being all serious and business-like is one thing but to be more effective, it works better if your followers can attached themselves to a personality instead of a twitter account. Put a name to the person doing the tweeting, maybe even a face. For instance, I follow this anti-violence organization on twitter and what is interesting is that these volunteers address themselves whenever they logged on. So, if one person is signing off, they'll say 'OK, this is Sally signing off now. Next up will be Jenny from LA. Night'. And then when Jenny logs on, she will tweet, 'Good morning, folks. It sure is sunny over here in LA!'

Good luck tweeting!

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Way of placing in the market to use the Twitter blog

Twitter is one of the best ways to commercialize the blog on the Internet today. Google indexes each Tweet. In the beginning, you can start with tweets twice or three times per day. Number of the order of the most interesting, it is possible for them, you will need to obtain.

Twitter takes effect avalanche of faithful following. Your profile will determine that you are on Twitter. Using a profile for you and your blog. Tell people what you like and spend their time doing Twitter suggests.monitor these people who love the same choses.sont people who want to follow.

When people react to you respond back.Twitter is meaning single conversation is to connect with people who share the same intérêt.Utilisez in response to the comments. Please keep in mind, everything can be seen as a response.

The best way to get a suite that meets your tweets to impress your personality. We are all unique and people will respond to your voice. Choose your interest and your tweet about.share your favorite YouTube video that you see today that blocked the new title history the journée.que find a good joke. When you are prompted to share your knowledge if you know the correct answer. Send beautiful photos, art and articles you find interesting and informative.

Persons who are available to listen to what you want dites.Nous actually in. When you create a new post to your blog with a paperclip. tell them what it to them.be certain that concise to 140 characters to capture their attention. You will know that you are your brand approaches do take the time to read, what to say.become loyal supporters to your blog when tell you their.' visit, that it will be.

Blog post by specifying its faithful supporters of exactly what you promise.a well written your contribution and short if you have something that required a long discussion, divided into different fonctions.Cela gives you something daily Tweet based u.s. ' ensure to include more recovered INYANGE ' use of Twitter and 80% of the time of connection and 20% for their own advertising.

About three months to enable you to get a loyal suit.ne not provide and maintain up to an interesting and compensation is an asset to your company.