why should i use twitter

Why Should I Use Twitter?

Presented by:

Terri Brooks, Social Media Training and Consultant

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Twitter, is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.



10 Ways to utilize Twitter to grow your business by:

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Relationships



#10 – Search For Your Target AudienceYou can use http://search.twitter.com/ to search for people and topics that you would like to follow. Ex. search for Social Media and you will get a list of all the recent Tweets related to Social Media.


http://search.twitter.com/


#9 – Stay Up-To-Date with Breaking NewsBy following local and national news agencies and media outlets, you can stay informed with breaking news related to your business and comment back, which could open up the communication for a potential interview. Or you can quickly develop a Press Release or Article based on your perspective of the news and pitch it to the these same news agencies and to the vast amount of submission sites online



#8 – Need Advice?Use Twitter to post questions or take surveys. Get immediate responses to questions you post by asking for feedback from the Twitterverse. (Ex. Take a survey on how many people automatically follow someone who follows them?) A great thing about this tip is that you can repeat it as many times as you wish to collect your information.



#7 – Personal HeadHunterIf you need to hire employees or sub-contractors to help in your business, Twitter is an excellent venue to post your job listing. Or if you are looking for a job, post it. (Ex. You are a web designer, Tweet about some of the sites you have designed and list the URL to the site. If it doesn’t fit in the 140 characters, shorten it at http://bit.ly*)


*Bit.ly is not only a URL shortener, but it also tracks the clicks for that shortened URL so that you can monitor traffic.

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#6 – Jump in the ConversationThere are many Twitter Tools that will allow you to stay current on specific topics, so that you can offer your expertise or just chat with others that you find interesting and/or want to beginning building a relationship with. TweetDeck, Twhirl and Twollo are fantastic tools that you can use.

Take a look at all three and see which one you like best.Or just use them all!



#5 – Your Own Personal IntraNetYou can use set up your own Group in Twitter and invite staff, sales personnel, sub-contractors, etc. to join the group. When you need to communicate business information, you can Tweet to the entire group.Here are some of the Twitter Tools you can use:

TweetWorks TwitTangle

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#4 – Connect to the Otherwise - UnConnectable

Ever make a phone call to an executive or high-level manager in your industry and never hear back from them? Twitter gives you the opportunity to connect with industry leaders and influencers and comment on their status, start a direct dialogue with them which could begin a relationship with them.



#3 – Enlist your Followers to Market for youIt’s very easy to build your marketing team through Twitter. Just by asking, you can enlist your followers to Re-Tweet your message to their followers, thus opening up new doors and new followers.



#2 – Drive Traffic to your SitesTwitter is one of the top ways to drive traffic back to your website or blog. By using Twitterfeed, each time you make a blog post it will automatically be posted as a Tweet on your Twitter account. By setting it up one time, it will continue to work for you each time you blog.

And if you update your website, your YouTube Channel, your Squidoo Lens, let your Tweeps know about it with a link back to the site. Ask them to sign up for your RSS feed.



#1 – Building Your Brand By Relationship BuildingTwitter is known as the “Biggest Water Cooler” on the Net. And to build your brand online, you need to hang out at that Water Cooler.

Build a Great Branded ProfileBuild and engage your target audience (influencers, industry leaders, personal friends, friends of friends)

Track & Evaluate your ROI through tools like: TweetBeep, Tweetscan and Tweetstats



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Presented by:Terri Brooks, Social Media Trainer &

Consultant

(c)2009 Tasting The Internet, One Byte at a Timehttp://avirtualbiz.com | http://tastingtheinternet.com

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