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Twitter for Business Tips
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Why Twitter
Tip #1
Set up your Twitter profile. Include your location, a description and choose a professionally appropriate avatar.
Tip #2
Get Twitter on Your Website. Add a “Tweet This” button and tell your visitors how to follow you.
Tip #3
Post regularly and learn to craft short and succinct updates. As always, humor, controversy and thought-provoking stuff gets attention.
Tip #4
Be approachable. While you may not be able respond to every reply or retweet, take the time to answer questions and say thank you now and then.
Tip #5
Twitter isn’t really made for an ongoing conversation. If you want to speak to someone directly and it takes more than 140 characters, take the conversation off your stream.
Tip #6
Want to send a public message to someone on Twitter? Use @username and they’ll see you in their stream.
Tip #7
Hashtags are a great way to contribute and start group discussions certain topics. They are a keyword phrase with a # in front of it.
You can put them in your posts and click them to see what other people are talking about.
Tip #8
Saved Searches allow you to keep tabs on conversations on specific topics.
Tip #9
Use the search function to answer relevant questions in your subject area…but don’t just plug a product.
Be helpful!
Tip #10
Creating Twitter lists helps you follow certain topics and allows you to showcase people you think are worth following.
Tip #11
Create a public list of people in your organization, so your followers can get to know all of you better.
Tip #12
If you like a tweet, you can share it with your followers by doing a “retweet.”
Tip #13
Encourage others to retweet your content, by making short updates (about 120 characters).
And, of course, tweet great stuff!
Tip #14
Follow like-minded people and businesses on Twitter. It keeps it interesting, gives you content to share and encourages others to follow you.
Tip #15
Share your “Follow Friday” recommendations. Tell your followers who they should follow, why and include the #ff hashtag.
What comes around, goes around.
Tip #16
Track your links and keep stats of your participation in Twitter.
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