Because Twitter's not just for twits ;)
Great post from webcommunityforum with more ideas on promoting your business on Twitter. Granted, a lot of these have been covered elsewhere, but I’m a great believer in old info packaged in new ways can give new ideas.
Here are the first 5 on the webcommunityforum list – you can read the rest here –>
# Craft an appropriate Twitter Policy, and encourage your employees to sign up for accounts on Twitter.
# As the owner of your business, register your @companyname and use it for all your tweets.
# Use Twitter Search to find and respond to tweets about your products or your brand.
# Ask for feedback on your products and then follow up with the responses you get.
# Go to any nearby tweetups you can find.
Heard of Twitter but don’t totally understand how it works or how to leverage it to develop business relationships? Watch this flowgraph created by Jordan @ GDMI providing the basics on Twitter, and primer articles on how to leverage this powerful social networking platform.
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Sarah of Arrow Light Haulage answered a few questions about her use of Twitter for business. Thanks Sarah for taking time out of your busy schedule!
How long have you been on Twitter?
5 months, didnt do anything with for 2 months.
How many people do you follow?
450 ish
How many people follow you?
207 ish
What made you sign up to Twitter?
recommendation
How often do you ‘Tweet’?
around ten times a day
How has Twitter been benificial to your business?
Ian Hendry of wecando.biz answered a few questions about his use of Twitter for business. Thanks Ian for taking time out of your busy schedule!
How long have you been on Twitter?
About three months. I was previously very cynical but am gradually coming round to the possible business uses.
How many people do you follow?
35
How many people follow you?
37
What made you sign up to Twitter?
Andrew Grill of London Calling answered a few questions about his use of Twitter for business. Thanks Andrew for taking time out of your busy schedule!
How long have you been on Twitter?
6 months.
How many people do you follow?
145.
How many people follow you?
196.
What made you sign up to Twitter?
Curious as to what it was all about.
How often do you ‘Tweet’?
All the time – mostly via my mobile with an application from mobileways.de called WirelessIRC+Twitter.
Steve Reeves of Front Office Box answered a few questions about his use of Twitter for business. Thanks Steve for taking time out of your busy schedule!
How long have you been on Twitter?
I’ve been on Twitter for only a few weeks – maybe 6 or so.
How many people do you follow?
I’m following around 40 people for the moment. Some of these are people I do business with but most I picked up on Triiibes or Twellow. I’m deleting these as it becomes obvious they don’t add any value.
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I understand why people find it hard to see twitter as anything more than ‘fun’ and a ‘waste of time’ – and indeed it can be both of those things (separately and together in fact!).
But Twitter can also be a great business and marketing tool.
In the past 7 days I have:
Gaebler Ventures today points out that there are a few venture capitalists using Twitter to find new ventures.
The list he features only includes US VC’s – but how long will it be before UK VC’s are seeing the value and jumping on the Twitter bandwagon?
For them Twitter is ideal as it allows them to look through micro-proposals and see which ones they want to look at more indepth. For businesses loking for capital it is ideal as you need to really focus your business message to get it across in 140 characters!
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