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Use Twitter To Grow Your Business

Guest post by: Dana Carmichael

Article Overview: With over 500 million users and a constant feed of real time information, Twitter should be apart of every business plan. Cultivating and building relationships on Twitter requires more than just automated responses and tweets. Knowing that people like feeling connected, establishing a personal connection with as many people as possible is most important. Also, a willingness to provide quality relevant information will spearate you from the pack and help build lasting relationships.

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Use Twitter To Grow Your Business

Listen to any business coach or mentor or successful business person and they will all tell you that one of the main keys to having a successful business is building good relationships.

What better way is there to cultivate beneficial relationships than with social media and specifically, Twitter.

Twitter: The social networking service that allows us to stay in touch with family, friends and co-workers. More importantly, Twitter allows us to meet and connect with others.

Twitter is absolutely the best way to meet new people, to share ideas and to keep up with what's happening right now!

Who Knew?

An idea that started just a few years ago has now grown to over 100 Million users with more than 50 Million tweets daily. Thanks to this online revolution, hundreds of millions are now actively searching for, finding, connecting/signaling, and staying in touch with likeminded souls.

Three things which have made Twitter so popular are:

1. People love to connect with others.

2. People love being apart of the real world and to know the latest trends.

3. The amount of available information has allowed us to follow, connect and meet with others so that connecting with strangers is becoming the norm.

With this in mind, incorporating Twitter into ones business plan should be a no brainer.

Cultivate Your Followers
In order for people to want to follow you, you must present yourself in a professional manner. Create a pleasing page and atmosphere for your followers, an informative bio about who you are and above all, provide your followers with timely information. Little Gold Nuggets and the more the better. You Can give people a lot of information and a lot of value without giving away all your trade secrets. In a forum where most people are pushing and promoting their businesses, do not be afraid to share your knowledge.



How To Be Awesome On Twitter
The difference maker in using Twitter to grow your business is to establish one to one contact with as many people as you can. In an environment where automated tweets, automated following, automated messages, etc. are the norm, what would make more of an impact and create more goodwill than for you to personally respond to a few people on a regular basis. Here are a few ways to establish a dialog:


1. Find someone of interest and comment on their name or the uniqueness of their page.

2. Find someone interesting and ask them a question.
3. Ask for help or advice.
4. Make sure you respond to those who answer you.


By going the extra mile in giving your personal time, not just some automated message, and by giving lots of valuable information and less selling, you will separate yourself from the pack and build many lasting relationships.

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About the Author: Dana Carmichael
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I am Dana Carmichael, an internet marketing consultant and mentor, based in Dallas, TX. My focus is providing marketing information and tips to those who are in the internet marketing industry and to those who desire to start a home business. I love the outdoors, being on the water, sports and my dogs.

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