Who said you cannot get Business from Twitter, A guest blog from Mark Shaw

Mark Shaw at fundraising with Twitter course

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I have always stated that Twitter is the greatest lead generation and marketing tool ever invented but convincing others of that fact is very difficult. I decided the best way to convince people was to show them and to this end I created my dedicated @msrfr twitter account which stands for Mark Shaw’s request for recommendations.

@visua1print: @msrfr I have just confirmed a nice order from a new client in Ireland via your service. Deserves a shout out..See it does work

What do you know now that you wish you had known then?

My Truth about Twitter

by Catharine Higginson

happinessDespite the fact that I run a social network – http://www.survivefrance.com or SFN – when it comes to using Twitter, I am quite frankly, rubbish. I’ve never been good with gadgets. Operating the toaster used to be about the extent of my abilities, but I’ve had to get to grips with most things in the last year. I can even work my iphone now. Most of the time. There was a famous occasion when I got lost up the side of a mountain in the dark, as I couldn’t find the google maps app, but we will draw a veil over that and I can now tweet from my phone – hoorah!

Tweet – don’t squawk, shriek or grunt

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by Suzan St Maur

During my meanderings on Twitter I find I’m becoming increasingly irritated by tweets that try to cram so much junk into those 140 characters that the message can only be read with the help of an electron microscope.

Do these affect you the same way? And do you agree with me that a lot of junk not only obscures a business message, but also can make you feel positively hostile towards the product or service being punted?

You know the type of thing…

Do celebrities really write their Tweets?

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By Suzan St Maur

We all know and love the tweets we see on Twitter purporting to be from A to Z list celebs. Gossip burns holes in our screens and the latest scandal, divorce incentive, in flagrante delicto, admissions to rehab etc., etc., etc., are all intended to make us feel we have a sneaky, personal relationship with the celeb concerned.

But do these people write their own tweets?

Using Social Media to Promote Your Brand Image

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Social Media has become one of the aspects in which every company begins to investigate when they are looking to ramp up their online marketing efforts. Particularly in the past couple of years, we are constantly advised that using FaceBook and Twitter to increase our presence and connect with our customers is paramount to our success. So how useful and powerful are these elements really?

Developing businesses social media presence: one tweet at a time

With everyone all of a Twitter, and with the number of users growing by 300,000 each day, the social networking site provides an effective tool for small businesses keen to expand their growth by reaching out to key audiences.

It can be tempting for small businesses to jump in at the deep end when it comes to a social media presence, and begin using tools like Twitter before thinking about how they can have maximum benefit for their business. By giving careful consideration to how the networking site can be most effectively used can help a business develop and grow
So how do you maximise your Twitter useage:

Twitter: where’s it going? – Guest Blog By Jackie Barrie

A guest blog by @jackiebarrie

I was lying on the sofa watching trash TV one evening when my mobile phone beeped with a text message from one of my Twitter followers. It read: ‘R U free? Just seen a request on Twitter 4 some urgent proofreading.’

I logged on to Tweetdeck and tweeted the client. Turned out her usual proofreader was on holiday and a job had to go to print the next day. She emailed the document to me. I checked it, marked my corrections using Word’s ‘track changes’ feature, and emailed it back with my invoice.

Why are we adding loads of lists to Business on Twitter?

Bright AtlantaI’ve been asked this quite a lot recently, and as I have nothing to hide, I thought I’d blog about it :)

Recently we’ve added a lot of posts asking for lists of people – copywriters, PR companies, recruiters, Marketing people – and we plan to add a lot more.

And lots of you have emailed me saying “Why are you doing this?” – some of you even think I have some evil master plan :)

We’ve got a new look – and we’re still testing!

In order to bring Business on Twitter in line with the rest of the NikkiPilkington.com ‘brand’, we’ve used the same WordPress theme from the NikkiPilkington.com blog – we want people to be aware that Business on Twitter is a part of NikkiPilkington.com and not a separate entity.

But we’re still not sure – what do YOU think? Is it confusing? Could we improve it but still make it obvious it’s part of NikkiPilkington.com? Love it? Hate it?

Let us know your thoughts below!

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