Twitter Tips for Your Online Business
Unless you have been in a cave somewhere, you know Twitter is one of the most widely used networking sites for people online. Comscore recently reported that the Twitter website had just under 75 million visitors this past January, alone.
The shear amount of traffic is mind boggling. I mean, why wouldn’t you want to use Twitter to help your online business grow?
When Twitter first started it was basically used as a way for friends to keep in touch. It was more or less a social network where you sent minuscule messages to everyone on your friends list. However, many businesses have begun seeing what this community can do to help them further their business and increase their revenue.
Dell is a prime example of this business venture, starting in 2007, they have successfully reported over 6.5 million in sales from using the Twitter Platform and now boast over 1.5 million Twitter followers.
Among the afore mentioned reasons businesses also utilize the network in order to build a stature of rapport for their organization or in order to hook in prospective clients that may be intrigued by what their business has to offer.
In order to make Twitter work for your businesses benefit, there are a few basic Twitter tips that you should follow.
- In order to get your business into the limelight you need to ensure that your Twitter page is being seen. Therefore, you should focus a lot of your attention on increasing your visibility to people on the network. The more “tweets” that you make on the network the more exposure you will get. This is not to say you should blast out 1000’s of tweets a day, but one or two will just not cut it.
- Upon first signing up for a Twitter account you will be prompted to build a profile for the network. You need to think about the people that will be visiting your profile and the impression that your profile is going to make on them. You need to get a positive message across, so be distinct on what you want people to know about you as well as about your business.
- Do not ignore tweets from other people on the network. The more people that you respond to, when they try to connect with you, the better off you will be. Your main focus is to build relationships with clients not shun them away.
- Never send out direct message “tweets” in an attempt to promote your products and/or services, while on Twitter . This makes you sound too commercial and a lot of people will be hesitant to respond or will just drop you from there friends’ list.
These are just a few basic Twitter tips that will help you to be successful on the network. You want to be able to establish both business – as well as personal relationships with people on Twitter, using these tips will help you accomplish both tasks.
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Great tips for any business starting there adventure on Twitter!
Thank you Maia
Great Post
excellent post, thank you
I read somewhere that your tweets should be about 70% generally interesting and 30% marketing. I use this approach and it means people won’t necessarily drop you if you market to them, because the rest of the time they like your tweets.
It’s just basically getting them onside first.
Nice post thanks. You can’t underestimate the value of the last one. Actively trying to push products onto your followers will drive them away faster than just about anything else.
Social media is about informing and enlightening, not about selling. The selling part will only come once people have established you as a resource in the field and they trust you.
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