Loving the Online Twitter Account
The Bird That Took the Internet by Storm… Twitter. Everybody loves the twitter bird. It’s cute, it’s easily recognizable, it’s Trendy, it’s got a nice shade of blue… and that’s the reason why the Twitter brand got so big in such a small amount of time. The love for twitting has evolved from its early days. Once made for the purpose of socializing and keeping in touch has now become an unparalleled tool for Internet marketers to get more traffic to their website.
We explore the many ways any marketer can use Twitter in the purpose of obtaining more traffic.
Step 1: Create A Twitter Account.
If you have not created your own twitter account, then by all means you should first go to twitter’s main site and create an account for yourself first.
Remember to put in a picture or logo of your company. This is very good for your own branding and so that people can recognize your account easily in the future. When that is done the next thing you can do is to put in your website information in the BIO area during the sign up. Using your website name as your username would help as well, or you could go with a nice catchy name.
Step 2: Following and Posting Daily.
The next step is to consistently follow people on twitter and post interesting contents related to your website daily. Do not expect things to explode so soon. You will need to keep doing this in order for your twitter account to grow. You should post about your website, the industry, your niche, the current events, or hilarious comedic posts. Make sure your posts are worth the while and gets people’s attention. If you are able to put in current issues or viral posts, you will quickly see your twitter account grow in size. Using Twitter Hashtags to Follow Events – Patch.com, on Fri, 19 Oct 2012 – My sister-in-law complained about the YouTube stream’s flakiness via Facebook as we were able to share the TV option with her. My daughter joined us in watching the TV broadcast and brought her phone as well. Each of us shared funny tweets we saw and …
Step 3: Use Twitter Directories.
There are many twitter directories out there such as Twellow which you can use to find user with the right demographics for your website. Add as much people as possible on these twitter directories in order to grow your twitter account with people of the right demographics. This way, you will be able to convert them into sales much easier later on. A good general rule to follow is follow 10 to a 100 people a week and work to grow this number slowly from here onwards. Many other people will receive a notification about you following them, and you will be surprised that other people will start to follow you back as well.
Step 4: Time to mix it up.
When you have a nice amount of following, you can start mixing in promos of your website into your contents and tweets. You can also, mix some repost and re-tweets of industry relevant events and any educational contents that are related to your niche. The one thing you need to know about marketing on Twitter is that the people on Twitter do not like a ‘hard sell’ approach, and you need to steadily build relationships first and then slowly recommend your offers in a much more subtle way to get their attention and trust.
Step 5: Every Tweet Is An Art.
Never be caught with a Boring tweet. Tweets are short because people generally have a low attention span, and you only have a few second to get an audience’s attention. So you need to craft your every tweet and make sure that it is something that will catch their attention. With the limited space, you need to use powerful words or emotional words and mix it up with your contents and links. Without these powerful words or emotional words, you will find it hard for people to even notice your posts.
Many gurus teach their student to treat their Twitter post as headlines where you need to instill marketing tactics into them. This is important because your every word counts and headlines meets this requirement perfectly. Weekend fun: UK’s recipe to ‘Funny advertising’ – Campaign India, on Fri, 19 Oct 2012 – He is rich because he’s a Russian businessman. He wears a cravat and smoking jacket because we have no idea what rich people wear. If comedy isn’t just “whatever’s funny“, it’s tension. Someone needs to be frustrated.
Step 6: Learn the power of the hash tags.
Using the Hash Tag service which is built into Twitter will help your potential twitter followers find your tweets. All you need to do is to use the # (Hash) key and put it in front of your keywords to use the hash tag correctly.
Step 7: customer Service on Twitter?
A great way to get yourself and your website exposed is to search yourself and your own has tags every day. Look for people who are asking questions regarding your niche and answer them in a professional way. This will make you look good and people will start to trust you more. Doing this is a surefire way to get you a lot more twitter followers fast. OK, What The Hell Is ‘Weird Twitter’? – Uproxx, on Fri, 19 Oct 2012 – “Weird Twitter” users tend to sound like spambots, where three sentences will be spliced together into one long string of gibberish. Often, they’re joke accounts, in the sense that the tweets are meant to be funny, and quite often, are. (@Horse_ebooks …
Step 8: Posting outside of twitter.
A great way to get more attention to your twitter account is to actually go and search for forum post or blog post on other websites. When you find relevant topics, you can post comments on them and redirect the traffic there to your twitter account. Remember to only do this when your twitter account is growing steadily so that people arriving on your account can see your credibility.
Step 9: Use twitter as an offer.
A great way to increase sales is to setup Twitter-Only discounts and coupons where only your twitter followers will get. This creates exclusivity to your followers, and more often than not this will result in a lot of sales for you. Better yet you can start using these twitter based promotions to help you grow your business and twitter followers. A great way to increase the clicks on your tweets is to shorten your tweet URLs using URL shortening service such as bit.ly. These kinds of service not only makes it easy for people to click it also provides tracking capability to your links, which is what you need to do for your every tweet to check for the effectiveness of your tweeting.
Using tweeter take a lot of time so if you choose to use tweeter to grow your business be sure to be patient and consistent before you will see the results that you’ve always wanted… Click Banner Find Out What Why When Video?