I received these Twitter tips from my Facebook friend Kevin Thomas. You can also follow him at the end of this article.
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Twitter Tips:
Tip #1: People buy from those they know, trust, and like. Salesmen chase people away. So don’t sell on Twitter, just make friends. Talk about anything funny, interesting, fun, what you like and don’t like, send out cool quotes. Then 1 out of 10 posts, invite them to your blog or website and ask their opinion on it, ask them to comment, or just share an informative site. You are gradually building relationships and becoming popular.
Tip #2: Use Twollo to follow people who tweet about topics within your target market.
Tip #3: Find someone in your area of business and follow his or her subscribers one at a time. About half will follow you back.
Tip #4: Use Tweet Later to send auto replies to people who follow you back. Say something friendly. Don’t just put a link in to your site. That will chase people away. Ask something about them.
Tip #5: Use Tweet later to schedule 5 tweets a day, or more, for the next month, and use the distribute feature to spread them out evenly throughout the month (only let one out of 5 or 10 be a link to a site of yours, the rest should be friendly info).
Tip #6: After you reach 2000 friends, Twitter only lets you follow 10% more than those who follow you back. Use Huitter to unfollow those who do not follow you back so that you can continue to follow new people in your target market.
Tip #7: Twitter is like a billboard that can create interest in you and your brand identity, and direct traffic to your Facebook site, or your blog, where they can get to know you better. Now that there is a relationship being established, you can direct them to your lead capture page, to sign up for your newsletter, or to an affiliate product that you sell.
I see a lot of people offering their business opportunity from the start. This will not work very well for two reasons: 1) They prospects don’t know and trust you yet; 2) You are not getting their info to follow up with. You won’t even know if anyone went to the site or not. You will need a lead capture page for your online marketing efforts to be effective, because the business is usually in the follow up.
Kevin Thomas
Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ktmarketing
