I've been a huge fan of Twitter for years and though I'm on all the major social

platforms and I drive business on all of them, if I had to put my finger on one

social platform that has probably impacted my business more than any other, it

would have to be Twitter.

Manageflitter is my number one resource forgrowing my Twitter following. This web-basedtool allows me to set certain filters so I canautomatically follow only the people who I thinkwould be interested in what I have to offer andwould find value from the things I tweet.

1. ManageFlitter

One of the things I do routinely is clean up my followers by unfollowing the people who didn’t follow me back within a reasonable amount of time. And ManageFlitter helps me do that through another set of unfollow filters.

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It's very similar to ManageFlitter but some of the functionality is different. Social Quant is a little bit more expensive and is fairly new to the scene but people are getting great results with it so I felt like I should definitely share that with you. So if you are not familiar Social Quant, I highly recommend checking them out as an alternative.

I to give a shout out to an honorable mention: Social Quant.

2. Social Quant

Next, if you're getting followers and you're starting your engagement process, what do you use? What tool? What’s a great resource for you to start using? I actually have a couple of Twitter tools to recommend.

I have used Hootsuite for years and I love that they have a free version or a Pro version that is only $9 a month. So for those who have small budgets or no budgets at all, Hootsuite would be a very good option for you.

Hootsuite isn't just a management tool, it has a lot of different functionalities that I have used it for over the years such as social listening tool and to manage my lists. They also have a mobile app for those that don't want to be tied to a computer.

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SocialOomph is my number one go-to tool. It has saved me hours and hours and hours of time over the years simply because it’s an automated system. Now, I will warn you, it's not very intuitive and it is not pretty, but it flat out works.

The queue feature is what I really love about it. So for instance, you can create a number of different Twitter queues for various promotions, content, graphics, etc.

One of my queues is full of my blog content. I can set how frequently I want the content tweeted, a start and stop date, and whether I want tweets to go back into the bottom of the queue and cycle back through. You can also continually build on your queues and add new tweets.

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Something that we have been testing recently that I'm really,really liking is a platform called AgoraPulse.

It's a management tool that allows you to engage, connect andmanage your conversations all from one place.

What I really like about Agorapulse honestly is their mobileapp. The app makes it much simpler for me because I amalways on the go and being able to still connect and engagewith people even when I'm not in the office or at a computeris a big bonus for me.

5. Agorapulse

Let’s say though that you don’t have a bunch of your own content or you have somecontent but you're just getting started and you don’t have a lot of money to sink into tools. Iwant to give you another option.

Tweet Jukebox is pretty clever in that itallows you to set up content bucketsthat are automatically tweeted out attimes that you determine.

Honorable Mention - Tweet Jukebox

One of the things that we are up against on Twitter is the 140 character limit. However, if you have a long URL, then that URL takes up about a hundred of your characters and you are only left with 40! That's where Bitly comes in. Bitly is a url or a link shortener.

You simply copy and paste your URL into Bitly and it gives you a shorted 14 characterlink (if you don't use the http:// at the front side of it) that redirects to the actual linkyou originally pasted.

Another benefit to doing that is you can see analyticsfor each of the Bitly links you create too. You can seehow many people clicked on it, where they came fromand more. There’s a lot of great info inside of Bitly.

Honorable Mention -

Have you ever been to a blog and while you're reading you see this little box that says,“Tweet This” and it has verbiage in the little box? That is the Tweet This (or similar) plugin!

The great part about this plugin is that is has probably increased my traffic by about 25%.This is an amazing little plug in and it has true business value to us in the sense that you'redriving traffic back to your blog through social media.

Honorable Mention - Tweet This

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