Twitter is a great tool for marketing and networking with others. The micro-blogging tool is best when you have a following of people to talk to.
Your followers are the people who will read your updates to your timeline so it stands to reason that efforts to get more followers can get you more results. They might click your links, start discussions with you that result in their followers following you, and might click your links and buy your products.
10 Twitter Tips
• Follow others. By following others, it increases the chances of them following you back.
• Find people with likeminded interests and / or people talking about subjects you plan to ‘tweet’ about. You can do this through using the Twitter Search tool and searching with specific keywords.
• Join Twitter memes like #Follow Friday which can get you followed.
• Let Twitter look through your e-mail address book to see if people already in your contact list have a Twitter account.
• Let Twitter’s friend finding feature suggest users to you.
• Put your Twitter URL in your signature on forums you request as well as in your e-mail signature.
• Add a Twitter badge to your website / blog. This is a widget that can be created from Twitter to display your status directly on your blog.
• Update your account daily. If you don’t post much, people might stop following you.
• Go for quality instead of quantity in your Twitter updates.
• Re-tweet other people’s Tweets. They’ll thank you for it!
Twitter is one of the many tools that you can use to improve your social marketing results. It’s currently one of the hottest tools around with increasing numbers of users daily and increasing tools that can make it even more productive.
If you’re already micro-blogging somewhere else, consider using a service like FriendFeed or Ping.Fm to update multiple social marketing services for you, so that you can get all the advantages of tools without having to spend time replicating efforts on individual tools each and evey day.
