3 Free Super Twitter Tips for Business

Twitter boasts of 310 Million active users on its platform. It is right there behind Facebook in terms of popularity and usage.

What is amazing about Twitter is how it restricts messages from users within 140 words, thereby challenging its users to be brief and witty.

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I have been using Twitter for years helping promote my client's businesses and our business using the platform.

Here are 3 free super Twitter tips to help your business grow better on Twitter:

1. Twitter Profile Creation:

Rocking Twitter for Your Business

Twitter may seem like an enigma to you but if that is true, it is time for you to get to know how to use it and to embrace all that it has to offer because its potential is vast.

There are the basics and then there are the advanced features 

If you run a business, you probably have some sense that Twitter is a great, effective way to communicate although it limits those communications to 140 characters (with spaces) per tweet. You may be surprised at how effectively you can communicate with such a limit.

You may have a good understanding of the way Twitter basically works. However, at the same time, you may not be aware of all of its capabilities. Once you learn about them, you may be able to take advantage of those advanced features for great benefit to your business.

• Build Twitter lists: When it comes to business, lists are a critical organisational tool that no business person can do without. One important, advantageous list that you will want to build through Twitter is your influencer list. Not only should you list the influencers on your list but you should also add a place where you can make notes about what the influencers want to know. If you have a capability of answering his or her questions, you will be able to build a relationship that will be solid and enduring. The truth is that communications via Twitter seem to move very quickly. That means that there is a danger of your losing some of the information (or some of the information falling through the cracks). However, if you have captured important information in your list, it will be exactly where you want it and where you can access it at any time. Twitter lists are an extremely powerful tool and, surprisingly, fewer people take advantage of that feature than you might expect.

• Get involved in Twitter discussions: 

Getting Started on Twitter for Your Business

How to Set Your Profile, Make Connections, and Start Expanding Your Business Exposure Through Twitter

July is Twitter Month for us so for those already using Twitter for their business stay tuned for more 'how tos' and tips on using Twitter for business!

For those of you who haven't braved the Twitter social media waters quite yet, this article will provide compelling reasons why you should use Twitter for business and then dive into how to set up your profile and how to get started building your following on Twitter.

Why Use Twitter For Your Business? 

10 Ways to Get People to Follow Your Twitter Page

When it comes to Twitter, subscribers or "followers" are your key to building popularity. And popularity is a fundamental and a very important concept to grab hold of. The idea is that by following someone, they'll agree to follow you back.

The following are other ideas which can help with Twitter followers:

1) Connect your blog or social network site to your profile. By adding a link to each of your social media profiles to your Twitter profile, and vice versa, you are making sure everyone you know is able to reach you in all the places they have accounts as well.

2) Ask others to recommend your profile. A blog reader could recommend your social networking page, or other members of your social network could recommend your blog. Word of mouth can go a long way, especially in the world of social networking. Although you may not get every person who hears of you on your Twitter page, you can easily raise the number with a few referrals from friends.

5 Twitter Marketing Tricks You Might Not Know!

Can you remember a time before Twitter? It's hard for me, because it seems as if I've been on there forever. I've operated an online business ever since the Internet became a thing, and started using Twitter in February 2008, just a couple of years after it launched (March 2006). While I didn't make the most use of it back then, I've hung in there. My very first tweet was "I'm opening a Twitter account." Today it's a major part of my social media marketing strategy.

Twitter, in my opinion, is one of the most amazingly powerful marketing tools - ever. Just plain ever. 

Think about it. Twitter is wide open, unlike Facebook, which comes with its privacy settings, and other issues (like how it decides your content should be distributed). Twitter allows you to deliver your marketing message 24/7, directly to the people searching for your products and services. (Hello, hashtag!)

But there are several Twitter features many business owners don't seem to be making the most out of. The following are five of my favourite Twitter marketing tips. The good news? You can start using all of them today!

7 Tips To Grow Sales Using Social Media

Social media has become a selling force for the marketing world and marketers are taking a great advantage of it. Recent survey shows that about 75% of sales and purchase decisions are done through social media evaluations in one way or the other. Even the way we do business and maintain customer relationship has changed drastically within the last few years all because of social media. 

The traditional way of selling both offline and online has changed from email marketing, networking, phone calls and face to face discussions to almost complete social media selling. That been said doesn't mean our traditional ways of selling are no longer good or in use but, we rather make better use of them combining social media selling information and experiments to grow sales using social media.

Growing sales using social media

Why Social Media Is Important to Your Small Business

1: It finds your customers and builds clientele

Many of us use Social Media on a regular basis. We use it to stay on top of what's trending, follow our favourite businesses, post our personal beliefs and so much more. I'd like to think of Social Media as the new "office water cooler" --- People are out there talking and they are waiting for your business to show up so they can discuss what you have to offer.

Customers need to trust a business, service or product before purchasing. People tend to trust their friends and loved ones more than anyone else. So, if your customers hear from someone trustworthy, about your product or service, it is reasonable to believe that they are more likely to purchase what you are selling. You could very reasonably market your products and services using, mostly, word of mouth.

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Social Media - Do You Have a Strategy?

Social media has the same principles as face to face networking and is the most important part of your marketing. It not only enhances your relationship building but reinforces the outcomes you want from your business. We need to have strategies for our social media to help us achieve what we have created by making sure it is in both our business and marketing plans.

Most small businesses are not aware of how important it is to have both a business and marketing plans so that they are moving in the right direction. If we do not know what we want our business to be in the future, we can't create it, so the clarity of our VISION for our business is very important. Social media gives us the opportunity to market ourselves to a wider group of people and businesses whom we would never have the opportunity to connect.

Honing Your Social Media Profiles Effectively

Many people pay a lot of attention to social media. However, do those same people pay as much attention to their social media profiles? There are many different reasons why people don't update their social media profiles regularly, such as lack of time or simply forgetting about them. However, honing your social media profiles effectively and regularly will produce positive results.

The information in your social media profiles

Twitter for Small Business