15 Great Tips to Get you Started on Twitter
Monday, July 12, 2010 // 0 Comments // Blog, Social Media
One of the things I hear the most when I bring up Twitter to clients is “I just don’t get it”, and I definately understand where they are coming from. It’s a confusing beast to tame- but when you learn how leverage the users there it can be one of the best ROI marketing tools your business can use. When you start treating your followers like people walking into your store, or customers on the phone you’ll start to see how powerful twitter is.
To get you started here’s a few Twitter tips for beginners:
General Twitter Tips
- Complete your profile and update your avatar.
- Use a custom Background
- Use a twitter client (I recommend Tweetdeck or Seesmic)
- Don’t setup auto repliers or spam. Ever.
- Thank people when they do something nice for you.
Getting more followers
- Give away something to those that follow you (services, iPods, ect)
- Break news before other people do.
- Follow people your interested in and send them a REAL direct message.
- Keep an eye on trends, participate in them.
- Use hash tags to connect with people you don’t know.
Business Twitter Accounts
- Make no more than 10% of your tweets marketing related.
- Personally sign tweets with the Carrot key.
- @ Reply everyone that isn’t a spammer
- Integrate twitter with your website.
- Schedule and track your tweets with CoTweet
Golden Rule: Treat twitter conversations like conversations in real life
Using these techniques I have personally gone from under 200, to over 2000 followers in just ONE month. Probably even more after this article gets popular on Digg and you see my twitter name (@andrewpflynn) here in this article.
Do you have a Twitter tip you’d like to add? Just leave a comment here and I’ll add it to the list with a credit to your twitter name next to it.
Again, don’t forget to follow me on twitter for more tips like these in the future!
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