Twitter is just a great tool for getting your information out there quickly and easily. Twitter lists are a very effective way to help you keep track of what’s going on. I have three suggestions for you on how you can use Twitter lists now that you have been set up.
1. Twitter lists allow you to connect quickly and easily with your customers. You set up a specific list with just your customers. When you have that two or three minutes to spend on one of your social media platforms, you can go into Twitter, take a look at that specific list, you can respond to people, you can retweet what they’re saying, you can ask them a question, the list will only show your customers and what they’ve been tweeting, it won’t be all of your entire Twitter streams.
2. You can use Twitter to be location based. I have a Twitter list for Metro Vancouver because I live in Vancouver. I also have a Twitter list for the suburbia that I’m in, I live in New Westminster. I have Twitter lists for both of those locations. One of the things that’s really great about that is whenever I’m going out to a really big event here in the local area, I can go to that list, I can review it, I can see who is there, and I can retweet and I can find out whether or not it’s possible some of those people may be at the same event that I’m going to.
3. Now that you’ve attended the event and you’ve met a few new people, you can set up a Twitter list specifically for that event. Again, you’ll be surprised at how many people don’t do that who are on Twitter and how wonderfully it will be received once you start using lists for this purpose.
4. Keeping track of people who use specific key words. I do that when I am looking to start something new or whether or not I’m going to maybe create a product. For whatever you would want to do a little bit of keyword research, you want to find out what people are talking about on Twitter, you can keep track of people who are using those keywords.
There are four things to do with your Twitter lists now that you’ve gone through all of the work of making them. Get out there, use your Twitter lists, it is wonderfully easy to do and it makes a great impression when you go out to an event and after the event.
Twitter moves at an amazing speed. The more followers you have on Twitter, the faster that stream is going to fly by. It is amazing the diversity of people that will follow you and watch your tweets.
You want to make sure that you connect your blog to your Twitter account. It’s one of the ways that you’re going to automatically drive traffic. Each time you make a post on your blog, you can have it tweet the post has been made. One of the many ways to drive traffic back to your blog.
Something many people don’t take advantage of is to post your tweet more than once. Now remember we said that the Twitter stream can fly by very quickly. There is an excellent chance that most of your followers will not have seen the original tweet that came out when you initially created your blog post. You need to go back and tweet about it again.
Tweet about it on different days,
Tweet about it at different times of day.
One of the things that I like to do is to tweet for five consecutive days after I have made the blog post, but at a different time of day each time.
You want to use your keywords on your Twitter account. Plus use those same keywords to listen to other people on Twitter. When you “listen” to the tweets of other people you will find conversations around your business topics. You can then go in and
comment,
answer questions,
provide a resource or
support someone in getting something done.
You also must remember to thank all of those people who share your tweets; who re-tweet your tweets. We all like to be appreciated, we all like to be thanked for things that we do. When you thank people for RT’ing you also drive more traffic back to your own Twitter account giving everyone another opportunity to see all your different blog posts.
When you are thanking someone for re-tweeting one of your posts, take that time and the opportunity to find something of theirs to re-tweet. Then you can create a wonderful circle of sharing, how good is that? Make that happen with a lot of people, and your blog posts will go really far and yes you will absolutely be driving traffic with Twitter.
Remember the more people who see your posts and who see your offers, the more money you’ll make. Be sure that you’re creating content that’s worth sharing and have fun , drive traffic with Twitter.
Twitter: Why do People Include #tag In Their Tweet?
A great question from a member over on the WebMasterWorld forum…
Why # tag people include in tweet ? I never use twitter before just now i join twitter and found interesting # why? to make popularity or something else. help me out. http://www.webmasterworld.com/twitter/4454963.htm
ANSWER:
The # symbol, called a hashtag in Twitter, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages. A hashtag is a way to bring together Tweets on the same subject. It is simply a way for people to search for tweets that have a common topic.
1) People use the hashtag symbol # before relevant keywords in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets to show more easily in Twitter Search.
2) Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets in that specific category.
3) Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet.
4) They can be conversational or commentary. I personally love to use them for an event. Last year I won a small award for being one of the top 10 Tweeters at the InfusionCon 2011. It was all done using a hastag.
If you want your target market to be able to easily find you, be sure to use hashtags for your keywords in your Tweets!
It really is amazing how many companies believe that social media is just not for them!
So many people initiate their search for a product or service online. One of the big factors in choosing where to spend your hard earned dollars these days is what other people have to say about your product and service. AND bigger still how you handle those comments, what people are saying, good and bad.
It goes a long way when customers and clients know that the CEO gives a damm about what they have to say. I discovered this graphic a while back and it really had an impact for me.
When CEO’s respond it does not have to be a great big explanation on how things work in the company. It goes a long way for people just to know that the CEO is taking time to look at what people are saying about his company.
Twitter is such a fantastic way to make this happen simply because you only have 140 characters. It doesn’t take a lot of time and can have a huge impact. It does not mean the CEO has to respond to every single comment or question, occasionally will work well.
Treat people with respect and they will come back and when you use Twitter it can be quick and easy!
Twitter is such a wide open forum that many people believe they have no rules. They do, both written and unwritten. This video describes some of the unwritten Twitter rules.
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