Saturday, January 17, 2009

How To Get The Most Out of Twitter

By Taylor Tenretni

Social Media Marketing over the last few years has grown exponentially. The rise of FaceBook was iconic, but not nearly as impressive as the latest new kid on the block. Twitter is a micro blogging platform that has quite literally taken the online world by storm.

As with all social media it can be used to communicate ad hoc to your friends and family. However, Twitter is starkly different. With a character limit of 140 per tweet its set aside from the crowd by the brevity of the post. You send out short twits to friends and family to let them what you are doing right now.

Some clever marketers are using to twitter to make money and drive traffic. They give an update to their followers with their website in with the view to driving lots of customers from Twitter to their sales page. twitter works well with other social networking sites too.

Take advantage of twitter using Tiny Url to truncate your domain name and getting some added juice for your search engine optimisation campaign. There is a little guide beneath which should help you with Twitter

Use Client Software - You can install this software from Twitter straight onto your machine and easily send out sales updates without having to log into your account. Time is money.

Search - use twitter as an engine and gather what ever info you need. Simply send out some updates asking for answers to your question let others do the work for you and then use the information

Research Portal " Send out twits to your followers and compile your info via their responses, i.e. collate data for products, surveys etc

Twitter Simplicity - Use twitter feeds and updates to keep your followers informed of anything that's going on with your blog

Twitter Updates - Use info form Twitter news sites etc to always ensure you are at the forefront of anything going on

Twitter Discover - uncover untapped niche markets by searching via keywords and locations to uncover new markets to attack

Twitter Care - Use A twitter account for your customer queries and problems. Respond quickly and easily to give good customer service

Twitter Cred - Join the growing communities and forums on twitter to help other s and boost your online credibility. Trust creates comfort which can easily turn a non buying customer into a captive customer for life

Make a start today and begin to increase your online traffic easily by grabbing some of the most targeted traffic available. Grab some link juice and join and ever growing group of business people using social media to drive traffic

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