4 Easy Ways to Empower Twitter for Your Marketing Benefits
Are you using Twitter to help build your online network marketing business?
If you’re involved in building a business online, you know the potential that the internet can offer. It can help you attract more leads, close sales, build your brand, build your credibility in the industry, and much more. It is important to go where the traffic already is and employ several different methods to market your business; and if you’re not engaging yourself in social networks, then you’re terribly missing out.
One great new way to utilize social networking is through the use of Twitter Tweets. How can it help you and how do you go about using it to your advantage? Let’s take a quick look at Twitter and what it has to offer.
What exactly is Twitter?
Twitter is a social networking site that allows you to network with friends, family, coworkers, and everyone else in the Twitter community. It basically helps you keep up with what people are doing at all times. You simply make a little post (called a Tweet) and everyone in the Twittersphere is now up-to-date on what is going on in your life. It is a great way to stay in touch with family and friends; but on a deeper level, it is an excellent way to see natural networking and marketing benefits.
So how can you maximize Twitter to benefit both yourself and your followers? Here are 4 easy ways to empower your Twittering for your marketing benefits:
1. Define the Outcomes You Want to Achieve
Do you want more traffic to a website? Do you want to build your image as an expert in the industry? Do you want to show your prospects who the real “you” is? Do you want to simply increase brand awareness? There are truly limitless things that you can accomplish through the use of Twitter; but your tweet activity will be more effective if you focus in on just one (or a few) objectives rather than multiple ones. Once you look at the options before you and have set your Twitter objectives, then stay disciplined with them–meaning that even though you might mix your Tweets up a bit (between personal and business), the majority of your Tweets stay on track with your main objective.
2. Provide Value to the Twittersphere & Engage in Fascinating Conversation
There are thousands of users on Twitter and it can be hard to stand out from the crowd and get noticed; so it is important to focus on providing your followers with original and useful Tweets. Engage your followers instead of just throwing out mundane details of your life. You will have more people ‘replying’ to you, which will in turn catch the attention of others and provide you with new followers.
Ultimately it’s about adding value to the conversations that are happening on Twitter. You will become someone that people will seek out and want to interact with when you go beyond adding to the noise in the Twittersphere. Provide value, offer solutions; and remember that every Tweet counts and you are building a reputation.
3. Ask Your Followers QuestionsThis can create very effective Tweets and draw many followers into active conversation with you, creating a viral impact and leading to real relationships with followers.
4. Connect with as Many Twitter Users As Possible In Your Niche
“Twitter Surf” and find people in your niche that are following you and see who else they are following and the things they are Twittering about. One follower leads you to another follower and so on. To be known in your niche and build your own profile it is very important that you are interacting with others in that same niche.
Twitter can be a powerful business building tool for your online network marketing business. Stay focused on your objective, provide value, and remain active in the Twittersphere and your social networking will boost positive results.
You can see all of this in action at http://twitter.com/katielml Happy Tweeting!
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Help answer the question about why twitter
Why cant I log on to Twitter from my cell phone?Why cant I log on to Twitter from my cell phone?
I have my account set up correctly in every way, including mobile. So whats the problem?
March 4th, 2010 at 8:42 am
I don't use it. People neither need nor want to know my every move.
March 4th, 2010 at 8:43 am
I am recovering from anorexia and I’m singing!
March 4th, 2010 at 9:17 am
thanks so much for letting me be a part of this…i sat here tearing up as I watched it! I am the second person…thanks again Kari! I love your music! God is so good! ~April
March 4th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Same thing with mine! And you can go to twitpic.com and then settings from there and it'll give you a number to send your pics too.
If you find out of to fix the tweets not showing please tell me.
March 4th, 2010 at 9:48 am
kari you are amazing. you have helped me through alot. God bless you
March 4th, 2010 at 11:13 am
As far as I can tell, there are just six possible reasons:
1) They follow people who look interesting, fully intending to read their tweets;
2) They return all (or most) of the follows they get, simply out of courtesy or because they think that’s just what you do;
3) They return follows because they don’t want to be unfollowed for not reciprocating;
4) They follow people simply to encourage return follows, thereby building their own follow count;
5) They follow people simply to encourage return follows, thereby broadening their scope for DM spam; or
6) They don’t pay much attention to Twitter, so they’re not really sure of their own preferences or of the impact of over-following.
March 4th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
thanks Kari and thanks to whoever helped you with this video! Tears welled up in my eyes as I listened to this! I would LOVE it if you came out with some accompaniment tracks for your songs…i would love to sing them at church!
March 5th, 2010 at 12:33 am
This is such an amazing song. I love kari and wanted to watch this because my wife is in it. I didn’t make it through the third video before I cried so much I could hardly see. This is such an amazing song and we serve such an awesome Savior! I can feel His presence here with me as I type this. I am absolutely in awe of His power and mercy and grace. This is so awesome. I’m going to embed this everywhere I can!
March 5th, 2010 at 2:59 am
i love this:D
so powerful!!
March 5th, 2010 at 9:12 am
are you using easyedge? I used to have the same problem when i tried to get on myspace, sometimes it just doesnt work, the trick is to not log out, thats what I did. Hope this helps
March 5th, 2010 at 10:03 am
I have no idea … and the last part with saying "hi" … it doesn't seem right or fair to me … i mean … it seems like their lives are revolving around the internet -virtual world – … and … that's not right … at least not in my point of view.
So … I don't give a tweet about twitter!
March 5th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
It is because the United States is a Market Economy.
March 5th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
This video ROX Kari… 8^)
March 6th, 2010 at 2:13 am
twitter is just like a website where you can findout what famous ppl and friends are doing.i have a facebook,a myspace,a twitter,an aim,and so on.out of all of them i like facebook best.i wouldnt get a twitter you can only talk andd upload your status.facebook is way better cause of the groups and quizes and games and pics and videos,etc….dont bother
March 6th, 2010 at 11:32 am
Twitter is based on micro-blogging platform. You can send the messages via text messaging(mobile use 140 char), Instant messaging,digital audio and web.
This is the primary reason why twitter has limitations of length of message. Additionally Tweets are made available in real-time while traditional blogs doesn't support this awesome feature.
140 char is way good ,if you know to use words effectively. No body wants to read heck loads of crap on a blog- all the micro blogging services are aimed for particular topics, share news and useful info.
So suggest you to make wise use of Twitter and enjoy. And don get crazy for a work around to write more messages, when you can simply tweet all day–break apart your messages
Happy tweeting
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March 7th, 2010 at 1:45 am
thanks so much for letting me be a part of this! I love this song and I hope it comes out in an accompaniment track so I can sing it at church!
March 7th, 2010 at 11:21 am
I just found out I will never have children on my own, but I’m still singing!
March 7th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Have you contacted their support?