How to Use Twitter to Market

Intro: Twitter can be used for fun and for business. Follow these steps to use Twitter to market.

Step 1: You can market yourself and business through Twitter easily, but first you must have an account. Make sure your account name contains whatever you want to market. If you are marketing a business, then your name should be www.twitter.com/yourbusiness

Step 2: Once your account is set up, I would upload a custom background which is catchier then the generic Twitter backgrounds. You can find many custom Twitter backgrounds by searching on Google. You can further customize it in PhotoShop.

Step 3: To use twitter to market, you must get followers. Followers are the most important thing when trying to market yourself or your business.

Some ways to get followers are by following other people with common interests and hoping they follow back.

A very popular way to get tons of followers is by running a contest where people must follow you in order to be entered into the contest. You must give away something of value, such as a gift card, Nintendo Wii, or many free e-books.

Otherwise, you will have to generate some publicity about your Twitter page through the internet or on television.

Step 4: Now that you are getting more and more follower’s everyday, you can start to market to them. You can “tweet” or post messages which all of your followers can see. You can post messages about your company or yourself frequently but avoid doing it too often.

Step 5: To use Twitter to market, you will have to have some catchy or funny stories on your blog or website. You can tweet a catchy headline and a link to the story. This will bring in extra traffic to your website and hopefully more money.

Step 6: Pay attention to your @replies. If some @ replies you, they are talking directly to you. You can engage in conversation with many of your followers and hopefully build a customer out of them.

Step 7: Twitter is a great tool to market yourself and your company. The primary advantages of Twitter are building relationships with your customers and maintaining customer loyalty.

Step 8: To use Twitter to market, you must utilize the search feature. You can search through what every user is tweeting about. Find users talking about you, your company, your competitors, your products, and etc.

You can get a viewpoint on customer opinions while keeping a close eye on the competition.

Tips: Get followers! Market to them!

Don’t forget to pay attention to your followings tweets. Ignoring people will cause them to ignore you or unfollow you.

Warnings: Don’t let Twitter consume your day. Building followers will take time.

Comments (2)

LANWANMAN said:

	... Great article. Seems like the first thing I did wrong was not to use a name on Twitter that had something to do with what I am trying to promote--freelance writing; make money online. I will re-visit my pursuits on Twitter.
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tracysmith159 said:

	... I'm amazed at how much there is a twitter.
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August 20, 2009
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