What do I tweet about? How often…etc…. Well, there are times when I ask myself what should I tweet about. Most of the things I do daily are involving my kids, shopping, cooking, working organizing etc….
However, I know exactly how to use my web stores Twitter…. That’s right, so what I will tweet about:
1. Sales
2. New Items
3. Pre-sales
4. Blog entries
5. Special Twitter Coupons
6. New lines
7. Joke of the day
8. Upcoming trade events for the public
9. Links to designers, tv shows or inspirational sites for decor etc
10. Special thanks to Customer ______
Now you can use your business twitter for your web store and location in many ways. If you have a restaurant Tweet about the Day’s Special. If you are a Hair Stylist you may want to send out pictures of your most recent style or news (would highly recommend doing Tutorial vids and posting them on YouTube). End of the day specials, or tweet-ups…
Before you can really use twitter to its potential start with encouraging your customers to follow you. Now, ask them if the use twitter or facebook. It only makes sense to place your energy where your customers are not force them to go where you are. Eventually, they will want to follow you wherever you are.
Remember Work Smart not Hard…..really……….
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I guess you can share links to cool stuff your followers would like. You’ll know if you’re on the mark because you’ll get positive feedback in the form of replies, retweets, and direct messages. Sometimes these links should be a link to your own posts, but mostly they should be links to other stuff. Also, too much of any one thing will drive people away, so keep a balance to your mix of tweets.
Hey Laura, Excellent post you know sometimes the best post is sitting right there in front of us, no research just write about something that we use everyday!! Smart girl. I went kicking when it came to using Twitter, I can’t seem to make time in my days to write a post or visit enough blogs like I should be. I thought for sure that Twitter was just going to take all of my time and that I’d get hooked on it… and then end up in Twitter Rehab.lol But once I decided that I was going to commit to Twitter and finding the original password from prior owner helped, I’ve found that I’m kind of liking Twitter. You can do a lot of business on Twitter and with your suggestions one can really use it for advertising, commenting, and voicing ones opinion. Great post Laura. jj
This is all really great. While Twitter was originally meant to answer the “what are you doing?” question in a very literal way, it’s expanded so far beyond that now that most people will have a hard time getting or maintaining a following if all they Tweet is stuff like, “getting lunch” or “time for bed”. What you have stated is all well and good but not everyone wants to tweet your way. That’s the great thing about twitter. You can put what you want on it. If people don’t like it then they don’t have to listen. Not everyone is on twitter to have lots of followers but instead want to be able to talk to anyone who might be interested.
Let’s not straight jacket ourselves.
A good follow-up post to this would be “What shouldn’t you tweet”, because I see a lot of things that have caused me to un-follow some people. Example, one person ended every single tweet he sent with an affiliate link which is very annoying. The same person spent 3 entire days, with 90% of his tweets promoting his affiliate crap. It might be my fault for following him in the first place, but twitter is a place networking, not spamming.
Twitter is a powerful marketing tool for small internet based businesses. Twitter has the advantage of having no out of pocket expenses and costing only your time. Even I would be looking out for the tips you have suggested for improving or you may say publicizing my business more.
You need to mix up your tweets, and not just focus on you – get involved and get interested in others and SHOW IT!
People are happy to look and listen to what you have to say, but only in moderation, and only then if trust and a relationship has been established. So mix up the types of tweets you make, and engage with the community – business will come later.
Excellent article, especially points 5, 6, 7 and 10. I’m using a personal Twitter account heavily right now, though I’m still working through the business uses. For skeptics, I wouldn’t blame you if you never found it useful, but I don’t think twitter makes sense unless you actually try it for a couple of weeks. Until then, it seems monumentally frivolous. It doesn’t help that twitter’s become so trendy and the publicity has centered around celebrities, or that there are an increasing number of twitter spammers.
But used the right way, it’s an interesting form of community and information exchange, tied to something bigger (a business, a blog, a brand, etc). I personally don’t bother with people obsessed with followers or people who use twitter as a link farm — I agree those people don’t get it at all.
When people I respect started singing the praises of Twitter, I decided to give it a go. At first I just didn’t get it. However, after a short while I was shocked at the level of access to high profile individuals I was able to achieve.
Twitter is a good source for gathering information related to B2B legal practice as well as the medical community. You can use twitter to forge new, or strengthen existing, connections and get the fastest & best news or learn about new areas or disciplines.
On twitter how do you comment on a tweet, like if one of your follower did a tweet and you wnt to respond to i?
Twitter is a communication platform that helps businesses stay connected to their customers. As a business, you can use it to quickly share information with people interested in your company, gather real-time market intelligence and feedback, and build relationships with customers, partners and other people who care about your company. As an individual user, you can use Twitter to tell a company (or anyone else) that you’ve had a great—or disappointing—experience with their business, offer product ideas, and learn about great offers.
If you are a retailer or anyone who often has special offers, you can use Twitter to announce these deals instantly to a large audience. You know those commercials from Southwest Airlines about that “Ding” application you could download and would then alert you about specials on flights? Well, Twitter can be used as a kind of free version of that. Dell and Woot have done just this type of marketing, with a lot of success.
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I think it is beneficial, but the greatest benefits come from using Twitter as one of the several modes of your communications. Each, twitter, blogs, e-mail, facebook, etc. have roles, strengths and weaknesses. It is useful for starting discussions that may move to other venues, notifying people of things to check out that you might have missed, letting people know you have updated your blog, etc. I don’t have time to continually check the untold number of blogs for updates, but if I get a tweet that one has been updated, it will spur me to go read it. I have found twitter to be far less time-consuming that I thought. And tools, like TweetDeck, make managing your Twitter feeds a lot easier. I agree, that the trick, though, is building the right network of those to follow and followers to get the most benefit – but isn’t that the case with most all communications?
I have been using twitter for quite a long time and I have to agree with Jeremy, it really helps marketers and business owners to promote their business to the next level. Me myself is really happy when I can see a lot of tweeter followers on my post
An internet marketer can find dozen of uses for Twitter, but I know quite a few regular ppl who just do not see the purpose for Twitter..I have tried explaining it several different ways but they just don not get it!
Most of the sales guys I know using Twitter are doing it by sharing info on their industry and then have a good profile page that talks briefly about their company and its solution. I have a bunch of sales types following me on Twitter and they often post interesting articles that catch my attention. At least one of them has done a decent job and I’ve then gone on to watch his web demo for his product.
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 important to go where the traffic already is and employ several different methods to market your business; and if you’re not engaging yourself in social networks, then you’re terribly missing out. 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 Twitter sphere and your social networking will boost positive results.
If you participate in a large trade show or run your own corporate event, you can use Twitter to announce last minute changes, cool events that are happening (“Just announced, David Meerman Scott book signing in the exhibit hall until 11am”) and more. It is a great last minute marketing tool.
Twitter can be a useful tool for seasoned marketers and for those who are new to the business. What follows are a few examples of how Twitter can increase your online business and sales.
Its really easy to post a link to something in Twitter, and I often post links to blog articles on this blog, or other news articles relevant to HubSpot. A good idea is to post articles on other websites that are relevant to your business, like a customer success story or other PR coverage. If you have other content that is appealing to your audience like a free webinar, post links to those too.
The explosive growth of Twitter has made Twitter a main stream micro-blogging platform. With the estimated 6 million users, businesses are find that there are true opportunities to connect with customers and drive sales from their Twitter accounts. Twitter is considered a micro-blogging platform where you only have 140 characters for your message. So, of course these tips were required to know how often and what to tweet about. Since in 140 characters limitation you can’t write a long description of your product.
Do you have an agenda? Why are you taking the Twitter plunge? Do you want to meet and connect with others on a social or business level? Do you want to find those who work in the same field as you? People who live in your city or state? These are important things to consider, when beginning with Twitter, and can help you locate others to follow and with whom to connect.
If you’re considering using Twitter as a way to promote your skill sets or your business, before you even start, you need to ask yourself, “What are my objectives?” Start at the very beginning with your User Name. This is how people will come to know you from here on out. Are you going to use your real name or your business name? Maybe a pop culture reference or something that defines you? No matter your choice, give it some thought first.
If your blogging software is set up to automatically send a tweet to Twitter when the blog is published, then you should make sure that the Titles ReTweet Well.
You can also offer your own knowledge to promote yourself as an expert in your field. One good way to help establish yourself is to write articles and post them to the regular Twitter page at http://twitter.com. Being an authority in your field can help improve your business.
You can even search on Twitter to see what people think of your company if you want to know what the buzz is on your new product or service — or want to know if you need to do something better. And, of course, with so much input on Twitter, you might learn a thing or two that can actually help you solve some of your business problems or tweak some new product or service ideas.
I would wish to twit my friends and wish them in case they have birthday party or any celebration moment this would be really beneficial for everyone but the twitter has done some great job in providing such functionality that would be helpful for everyone.
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Again, a original comment, thanks a lot. I just checked out other posts on here and I liked what I saw. Cheers.
Interesting stuff. Happy I saw it another time. Good reading, thanks.
I only wish more people would stick to thins list. I can’t stand some of the stupid stuff put out on their twitter, it has caused me to un-follow them.
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I found the more popular twitter feeds are the ones that have a good mix of everything and not just a sole focus on one thing. Perhaps it shows some personality that people don’t normally associate with a business or person.
Just out of curiosity, it seems like you haven’t been using twitter in a really long time, any reason why you have stopped using Twitter like you were in the past?
-Jean
Twitter has been more popular on the net world, i have been gaining more and more number of twitter followers, is there is any method to earn money?
You have stated here good list for twitting and that stands really good for what you you tweet as twitter is nowadays used all over world and good amount of followers are there.
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Twitter is something that every business should start to incorporate if they havn’t already. But remember that Facebook is still many times bigger and has huge potential.
Twitter really meant to answer boring and unusual things. LOL!.. Anyway, I got some important tips today.
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