I guess that you have heard of Twitter, it has become extremely popular and everyone is tweeting at the moment. Since my blog is about marketing and getting traffic, i will tell you how to use Twitter to grow readers and strengthen you reputation.

What is twitter?

First of all, Twitter is a Social Networking and Microblogging service that allows you to send text messages to other people, like a blog, the main difference between Microblogs and regular blogs is that Microblogging only allows you to use up to 140 characters per post. Enough characters to let your readers know what you are up to.

Twitter is easy communication and you can access thousands of people within seconds.

I suggest you go visit Twitter and sign up for an account.

How can i use Twitter as a marketing tool?

Before i continue i just want to make it clear that we don’t want to become spammers, no one likes a spammer.

You can use Twitter as an alternative to RSS feeds to let people know when you have updated your blog, just add a link referring to your latest blogpost. Since you only are allowed to use a maximum of 140 characters per post it can be difficult to fit a link and a description into a single Twitter post, you might want to use a service like tinyurl.com to shorten your url.

Use Twitter to let your customers get to know you and your company/blog, show them that you are human and not a sales robot, this will build your reputation.

Don’t use Twitter posts to try sell stuff, use Twitter to get more contact with potential customers. More Contact = More Sales

When i chose to follow Mike Filsaime on Twitter i got an Direct Message with some offers to buy his products, if people decide to follow you on Twitter they are probably also likely to buy your products so you might want to try this out, but don’t try to sell it to people within a regular Twitter post. I dont know if i like this method or not, but you decide if you want to use it.

Don’t forget to monitor your website traffic, you do want to know what impact Twitter has on your page visits.

Putting a Twitter link on your blog

Don’t forget to put a Twitter link on your blog or website to tell all your readers/customers that you are on twitter so that they can join you.

Add ME on Twitter and I will add YOU back!
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