Tweet

Twitter Secrets and Tricks to Make Twitter Work for You

Guest post by: Kelly and Andrew

Article Overview: When I first started using Twitter to be quite honest, I tried not to ‘waste’ too much time on it because I just couldn’t see how I could make it work for me and my marketing business, until I did some of the training provided to me through my company back office. This article will save you loads of Twitter time and help you get the right followers to share tweets with while keeping a professional Twitter page at no cost.

Twitter Secrets and Tricks to Make Twitter Work for You

For a start, when choosing your username it is recommended to use your name to enable people to find you on Twitter. If you decide not to use your name try to be original and savvy, and the username you choose should match your username on other sites used by you for your business. This way people will recognise you and your business by this name and will easily find you on all your sites and when Googled, all your information will be found with one search.

You can get Twitter backgrounds at little or no cost to you which look neat and professional, this can make a big difference to your Twitter account and the respect you receive from followers. Try these Twitter background sites twitterimage.com (free) twitart.com and twitterbackgrounds.com (customised).

You are limited to a small amount of words so make the most of what you have when writing your profile. Your Twitter profile is to tell people who you are, what you do, what you are about and what your hobbies are. Let your personality and character shine through.

Use a nice, smiley picture with a happy, positive face to represent yourself. Try not to use a picture of something else as your profile pic, most users like to see the person behind the account where possible.

Regular tweets (about 10-15 per day) will keep your followers interested and checking back for more. Use the 3 to 1 rule, 3 quality content tweets to 1 ad. Post links to articles you may have written or to your updated blog. If you don't write articles, post links to other articles which you think may help your followers. Try socialoomph.com for scheduled tweets. I normally spend 10 minutes in the morning managing my tweets for the whole day using this feature.

Twitter is not a great asset to you unless you build up your followers and here's a great way to build up over 1000 quality followers every week! Look for people who are well known in business and MLM and try to follow their followers, add around 200 per day at the most as Twitter can suspend your account if you follow too many at once. Now, most people have auto follow set up so when somebody follows them they automatically follow back. Those who don't are the ones you want to unfollow. Friendorfollow.com will give you a list of people who aren't following you back, Huitter.com unfollows Twitter followers who are not following you in return and it does this in a matter of minutes. Oh, and if you want to auto follow your followers as well, socialoomph.com has this option when you are setting up your account.

It is a good idea to add quality followers and also unfollow people who don't follow you back every day this takes about 15 minutes to do every morning.

I hope these tips help save you time and make good usage of Twitter. When you are in the routine of this articles advice you need only spend half an hour each morning on Twitter which is pretty good for a free marketing strategy which has the potential to bring you lots of new customers.

Wishing you Success

Related Articles
  Twitter Tricks And Tips: 5 Super Strategies To Get Targeted Traffic To Your Site!
  Success Isn't Magic
  Twitter Tips: The Secrets You Should Know
  You're Addicted to Twitter If You..
  How Twitter can have a postive effect on your business
  Blogging, Articles and Twitter - A Powerful Marketing Combination
  Is Twitter For The Birds?
  Four Easy Twitter Tools to Supplement Your Marketing
  How To Grow Your Twitter Followers
  Why Twitter?
  Wanna Know How To Increase Twitter Followers?
  Avoid These 5 Twitter Mistakes
  How to Use Twitter for Business
  Twabulous Twitter Tools
  Writers Not Allowed to Use "Tweet" Word
  Legal Marketing: Why use Twitter?
  Twitter Tools: The Definitive List of the Best Twitter Tools Ever
  The Real Strategy to Getting Over 10,000 Followers on Twitter
  Read On Book Review ~ twitter Revolution
  More Twitter Followers

Article Tags: marketing, marketing strategy, twitter, twitter secrets, twitter secrets and tricks



Related Forum Posts
Re: Using Twitter To Double Your Traffic? - I'm sure in many cases Twitter sends more traffic than Search Engines because most people don't have good enough SE rankings to get SE traffic. But anyone can get Twitter traffic. The problem is that Twitter traffic won't convert for the most part and SE traffic will. I'd venture to say that 98% of the time getting just 100 visitors from search is better than getting 2000+ from Twitter.
How to Use Twitter to Market Products? - How do you use Twitter to market products? Has the Twitter route given you good results? Please share your experience and ideas on how to use Twitter to take a product to the customers. Thank you in advance.
Re: Social media - [quote="jacksonp":38eoggxw][quote="terriz":38eoggxw] What Twitter tool are you using that provides those features? I use Hootsuite, TweetDeck, and recently added TweetMiner to manage day-to-day tweeting, scheduled tweets, etc.[/quote:38eoggxw] I am sharing the tools which I use.These are the latest tools. twi.bz: Better Name-Dropping in Shortened URLs localtweeps: Make Twitter More Relevant by Bringing it Closer to Home tweefind: Twitter Search Un-Democratized[/quote:38eoggxw] Thanks for sharing those!
Re: Social Media Works If You Do It Right... - Hi Michelle, Ah, but it seems hashtags are still being used by a lot of people - including Twitter! So I would still use them for your keywords. It's just that if you are searching for something on Twitter you can either go the #hashtag route, or do a direct search on the Twitter homepage. I guess you could use #hashtags when searching on the Twitter homepage as well! DH
Re: Facebook or Twitter? - Thanks for the feedback guys! I personally started with Twitter and am now moving over to Facebook. I polled people on both my accounts and (not surprisingly) the Twitter people said Twitter and the Facebook people said Facebook! The actual order of my social media presence looks like this: 1) LinkedIn (with little success) 2) Twitter 3) YouTube 4) Facebook


Share this article with your friends. Fund someone's dream.

Leave a comment below or share on the left and you'll help support entrepreneurs in Africa through our partnership with Kiva. Over $50,000 raised and counting - Please keep sharing! Learn more.

Newsletter

Get advice & tips from famous business
owners, new articles by entrepreneur
experts, my latest website updates, &
special sneak peaks at what's to come!

Name:
Email:

Popular Articles

Using your social media profiles to drive traffic

10 Steps to a Great Support Team

Hypotheticals, Scenarios and Foresight

Suggestions

Email us your ideas on how to make our
website more valuable! Thank you Sharon
from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for
your suggestions to make the newsletter
look like the website and profile younger
entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez.