with twitter twitter has millions of users and views
every day twitter is quick and simple the content is limited to 140 characters per
post everything is up to date and in real time you can link to other websites in your tweets setting up your twitter profile we recommend that you use your real name if
at all possible in other words not something like web solution guy 411 you want to be
a real person to create real connections when you create your bio be funny and opinionated even controversial to grab the
attention of fellow twitters use a profile picture when you create your
picture smile and look friendly and approachable follow real people it's best to follow
real people and not companies on twitter what can you tweet about one of the great
things that you can do on twitter is to ask questions and post surveys that will
create interaction with fellow users you can of course post personal information
but make sure it's interesting and not boring talk about things that are hot topics
whatever's going on in the news and you can bring to people's
attention popular content from the web using digg.com is an excellent
source to find topics you can also retweet other interesting tweets and post motivational quotes but we recommend
that you stay away from politics and religion showing your personality as we said before it's important to
be opinionated never just neutral it's also important to develop your
own twitter style your way of writing but you'll want to be different from others so that you stand out and attract
interested in similar people if you can be helpful and give value give
advice and answer other people's questions also be entertaining and fun and
try to be the leader in your niche support followers goals and offer them
helpful advice on how to achieve them your first tweets before you start following anybody we recommend
that you make at least five tweets so that you're not totally boring so that people won't find
you a person who is just looking for followers make sure that your tweets give some sort
of value and show some of your personality be funny if you can and if you can't
find something funny to post about post something that's entertaining and as we said before stay
away from politics and religion try not to talk about selling or
making money in your first tweets building twitter followers search twitter.com you can search by your
niche's keywords or search for targeted followers you can follow others first and there is a rule
of thumb that they'll usually follow you back it's interesting and very worthwhile to
follow the influential people in your niche they'll give you lots of ideas on what to tweet
about and you'll be able to connect to their users try to aim initially to follow
between 50 to 70 people per day and follow during twitter's peak times which
will ensure that people follow you back faster this is between one to
three p.m and between six to ten pm it makes sure there is a higher acceptance rate effective twitter marketing you can use pictures in your tweets they
grab the attention of fellow twitterers use symbols in your tweets whatever you
can use to make your tweets stand out use numbers lists and statistics point an arrow to your links it will help
your tweets to stand out when they're when your followers are looking at their news feed and remember to compliment and
comment on other people's tweets reply to their questions show an interest
interact with them ask questions yourself and be controversial it's a very effective
way to carry out your marketing on twitter and remember just as with following
fellow users you'll want to tweet at the peak times between 1 to 3 pm and 6 to 10 pm how can you encourage people
to retweet your tweets first it's important to know what it is retweeting
is a viral way of gaining more exposure it's where you encourage somebody to
post your tweet to their users the first thing is to shrink
your urls to make them shorter that makes it easier for
somebody to retweet your post it's important also to retweet other people's
tweets and they'll often then retweet yours if you have a really popular tweet message direct message this to some of your most
popular followers and ask them to retweet it for you but make sure it's not selling
make sure that you're providing some value building your business with twitter you'll want to direct your twitter traffic to
your website and blog your facebook fan page your other social media pages for example
your myspace page or your youtube channel articles and press releases that you've
posted use your other social media pages to advertise your twitter
account and gain followers and advertise your twitter account to
your email list put it in your signatures
