Why Use Twitter For Business?

Long gone are the days that social networking was just for college kids keeping up with their friends. Facebook and Twitter are for Business now! So get with it or get left behind!

How To Set Up Your Business on Twitter

The first thing you need to do is sign up at Twitter.com and make an account name. This should be, ideally, the name of your business.

Why Twitter? Can I Really Become A “Twitter Traffic Machine?”

Read through Twitter 101: business.twitter.com/twitter101/

“Every day, millions of people use Twitter to create, discover and share ideas with others. Now, people are turning to Twitter as an effective way to reach out to businesses, too. From local stores to big brands, and from brick-and-mortar to internet-based or service sector, people are finding great value in the connections they make with businesses on Twitter.”

Once you set up your Twitter Account for your business and get it working properly, you can be a Twitter Traffic Machine, sending qualified leads to your website, turning follower into customers, increasing your web presence tremendously!

It all sounds intriguing, but what is twitter?

This is an important point! Not everyone knows what Twitter is. Basically, Twitter is a place where you can leave small updates about you and your business, and engage with other people who do the same. You can “Retweet” or “echo” what someone says, which broadcasts to everyone who follows you. It’s essentially a web that gets more and more intricate the more you use it. And it reaches further than you ever though imaginable.

How To Make Money On Twitter

Someone can use Twitter to mention a sale at their business. Sally can see this, and Retweet it to her 10,000 followers, another few hundred people Retweet it to their followers. Before you know it the store is packed, everyone waiving the discount code that was broadcast in one little tweet…

Even just having a presence on there brings clicks to your website. Lets say you happen to be following someone. Someone clicks to see who is following that person, they see you, they click to your profile, see your website!

You can reach out and connect with customers, too! You can search for people tweeting about things in your niche, start a conversation by @replying to them, they will see your mention, reply. You’ve now started a conversation with a potential customer who can navigate to your profile, see your website, choose to follow you….

Let’s say you are a restaurant. Someone “Tweets” about how they had a great meal at your restaurant. You’re using a tool that searches for your restaurant name. You see this tweet, and reply “Thanks for joining us last night! Here’s 20% off your next meal with us” and give them a coupon code. You’ve just done some serious public relations, and all it took was about 30 seconds of your time. And you can bet that person will be joining you again next weekend!

There’s really no reason you shouldn’t be on Twitter. You can make money on Twitter, because traffic = money, and Twitter is a hotspot for Traffic.

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