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Make your Twitter Marketing Work For You

Guest Author — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:20:45 +0000

‘The Tweets’ are taking over the world – Here a Tweet, there a Tweet, Everywhere a Tweet Tweet. If you aren’t tweeting you aren’t hip and if you aren’t a part of the Twitterrati, you aren’t one of the boys. There is no doubt that there is a bit of snobbery linked to Twitter. Expressions like, “What!!! You aren’t on Twitter” are mouthed by incredulous Twitter fans who can’t understand why a certain person is still not a part of the next big social media revolution. Now, to be fair to these people, Twitter is indeed a wonderful outlet. In just 140 characters or less, you can share your thoughts with your friends, family or connections.

It’s also emerging as an innovative marketing tool, specifically, an online marketing tool. Marketers, who are always on the lookout for newer and more innovative ways of promoting products and services, have found a great new tool in Twitter. Like all other social media marketing platforms, Twitter allows you to take risks. As it’s extremely cost effective, marketers don’t mind thinking out-of-the-box and taking decisions that they otherwise would think twice about taking.

If you are somebody looking to use Twitter for marketing purposes, here is how you can take some bold, yet very workable marketing decisions.

Always keep it Personal

There are some people who make the mistake of approaching their Twitter marketing in an impersonal manner. But, the whole point of social media is to have a personal connect with people, so why make marketing impersonal. Make it as personal as possible.

Say you are a professional shoe maker known for only taking customized orders and your business goes by the name of ‘Singular Shoes’; you also have a website by the same name. What you need to do is open a Twitter account with your business name. Now you might say, “but this isn’t making it personal”. That’s right. Your potential and existing customers might be more aware about your business’s name rather than your own personal name. But, to make things personal, you can use a personal approach in the tone of your posts. Don’t’ use Tweets to only talk about a new shoe making technology that you are implementing, new discounts, or press releases etc. Using the tweets to initiate dialogue with your customers is a great way of marketing your business. It helps you develop an open and honest relationship with your followers, and builds trust.

A Two-Way Conversation

One of the cardinal sins of Twitter marketing is focusing on conversation that is like a one-way traffic of messages from you to your followers. But, such conversations don’t work, in the long run. If you want to run a successful Twitter marketing campaign, it’s important that you initiate a two-way conversation with your followers. So, tweet back, if you receive a tweet. You ignore a tweet at your own risk. What is also important is that you need to follow the right people. As a business, you might be tempted to add just about anybody and everybody to your Twitter list of followers. But, that’s the wrong way of going about things.

You need to exchange tweets, but you need to exchange them with the right people. It’s only if you choose the right network of contacts that you increase the chances of your tweets being retweeted.

These aren’t just tips; if you look closely they are two directions that will help you forge a better and more effective online marketing strategy that revolves around making good use of Twitter. For a successful Twitter innings from the marketing point of view, it’s important that you don’t over-think. You can think innovatively, but at the same time keep things simple. By developing complex marketing strategies all you will be doing is confusing yourself and the target audience.

Dustin Works for MyFirstMobileApp – A Top-notch Mobile Apps development Company specializing in iPhone Apps and iPad Apps development.

I’ve heard you can buy Twitter followers. Is this a good idea?

Guest Author — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:05:30 +0000

With the onset of social media and its benefits when it comes to online marketing, more and more businesses are using Facebook and Twitter to promote their business and connect with their customers online. However, if your social media campaign is not garnering the number of followers you thought it would, then the idea of buying followers might cross your mind.

With social media comes followers, and with followers comes the potential for business to ?buy? followers for their social media campaign in a bid to make them look more popular to prospective customers. This option, however, can have an adverse effect on the integrity of a business?s social media campaign, and chances are that real customers who are following you will be able to tell.

There many companies out there that will allow you to buy ?followers? for your Twitter account, but these can have a negative account on your Twitter account, as well as genuine followers. For starters, you don?t know what kind of followers you will be receiving, and the comments they may leave on your Twitter account. This can in turn lead to genuine potential customers deciding they don?t wish to be associated with your business anymore.

How should I build up followers instead?

The best way to promote your Twitter is to take the time to interact with your followers, and make them feel welcome and wanted. Buying followers for your business?s Twitter is a sure fire way to bring down the integrity of your company, as it makes potential customers question the kind of business you are running. They are not fooled, they can see that the followers are not genuine, and they will wonder if the rest of your dealings are less than genuine also.

When it comes to your business and social media, the best way to build up followers is by taking the time to build awareness for your brand, which in turn will lead to building a following for your brand. Demonstrate the fact that you care about your business and your customers, and they will naturally come to you and follow you. They will be there because they want to be, which in turn leads to a greater following from people genuinely interested in your business.

When it comes to Twitter followers, quality is worth more than quantity. You want people to be interested in what you Tweet, and a large of followers will be of no benefit if half of them don?t really pay attention to what it is you have to Tweet.

Angela likes the potential that SEO can bring to businesses, and enjoys writing articles that answers questions and discusses possibilities.

35 Web and Graphics Designers to Follow on Twitter

Snoggle Media — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:14:50 +0000

Twitter has become the de-facto communication tool for many Internet-based professions. Web designers, programmers, webmasters, and all types of artists are happy to share their thoughts and project details with the world. These materials are often very helpful for newbies into the regime.

If you thoroughly enjoy social networking then you should be using Twitter. All your favorite celebrities are probably tweeting often. This includes Internet celebs such as famous design firms and digital artists. I often find very inspiring articles being shared around the Twitterverse every day.

Below I’ve compiled a brief collection of 35 fantastic designers to follow. Each of them provide updates often and could provide amazing networking opportunities. If you’ve got a twitter account I highly recommend checking a few of the profiles I’ve previewed.

CSS Globe

Snook

Daniel Burka

Liam McKay

zee7

Jeffrey Zeldman

rogie

Brian Leroux

Sean Hodge

Tony Chester

Pieter Omvlee

Iconlicious

Christopher Downer

Spencer Fry

Robin Raszka

Rasmus Nielsen

Richard Rutter

Grace Smith

David Appleyard

iKitty

Ryan Meashaw

Jonatan Flores

Agustin Linenberg

Chris Spooner

gweston

Jan Cavan

Jian. Goh

Tian Chad

Collis

Sue Davies

SJames Wheare

Ryan Singer

Sonny Fazio

nico tzog

Rich Dellinger

Gain Success in Selling Products with Twitter

skyje — Sat, 07 May 2011 23:32:35 +0000

Nowadays, people are more aware with the technology usage. They use technology to make their life easier. Social network is one of the technology parts that used by most people all over the world. With the social network, they can connect themselves with others around the world without having time and distance limitation anymore. They cannot only reconnect with their family, friends and relatives, but also with people that they don’t know before. At this point, social network can be used as an effective and efficient way of business marketing. Business owners must be smart on using every opportunity that they have in order to develop and enhance their business.

There are several social networks that people can choose and used. One of them is Twitter. In Twitter, you have the right to follow or unfollow anyone. It depends on your preference. In the beginning, people only use Twitter for following their family, friends or even celebrities. But now, they use Twitter for further purpose, which is selling their products. If you have a business and you want to promote your product, you should consider about using Twitter.

Why Twitter ?

The number of Twitter users is increasing every day. There are some great facts that need to know about Twitter. First, the number of Twitter users has reached 200 million users. Second, there are approximately 460000 new account have been added every day. Third, averagely there are 140 million tweets that send every day. Those are big numbers for a social network. That is the reason why Twitter can be utilized as business marketing.

Some Tips to Start Selling

There are several factors that can affect the success in selling products with Twitter. The main factor is the followers. You should make sure that you have many followers, so more people can find out about the product that you are selling. You can do several ways in order to get more followers. One of them is by asking people to follow you and saying that you will follow them back. This kind of way is proven to be very effective.

The other way that you can do is to follow famous people that might mention you on Twitter. In this way, it is possible for their followers to follow you. In Twitter, you can only type 140 characters, so you must know how to market your product in short line. The solution is you can include the link to your business website. You can type short promotion line and followed by the link. As a result, when your followers read your tweet, they can directly open the link that you already give and visit your business website. The more you have follower is the better, because it means more people will find out about your business product and become your customers.

Do Some Researches is a Must

If you don’t have an existing business and you are planning to start a new one, then you should do some researches before starting your business. The first thing that you should determine is the kind of product that you want to sell. You must make sure that many people will love your product. It will be so much better if your product has cheap price. With good quality and cheap products, there will be more people who get interested and want to buy your product.

Maintaining Good Relationship with Followers

Maintaining a relationship in Twitter is very important. You need to assure that your customers will keep buying your product. You must be a good, nice and trustable seller, so your followers and customers can really put their trust in you. It is a good thing for your business. With all of those facts, no one can underestimate the role of social networks as business marketing. Business owners can really gain big success in selling their products through social networks, include Twitter.

Twitter for amateurs

Daniel — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:00:44 +0000

The Internet was a revolution in the communication and exchange of information from its beginnings, across the years everybody was shocked by the speed of implementing in one’s everyday life – another revolution. In the last decade a further revolution was made by the commercial power of the Internet, it changed the strategies of marketing greatly. Nowadays, as you can guess, we are living another revolution, the world became a tinny place and we all are friends. From this perspective the Internet is a never ending revolution and more important, a revolution establishes the conditions for a new bigger one.

The present revolution is based on the fastest growing online presence, the social media, and one of the most important networks is Twitter.

The project of Twitter is the work of three people: Jack Dorsey, the man who came with the idea, Biz Stone and Even Williams. The initial project was designed as an application that allowed the users to communicate via short messages in small groups. (Initially it was called twttr). The first Twitter message was written on March 21st, 2006 and it said: “just setting up my twttr”. The network amazes us due to the exponential development, according to the Twitter website, on the 14th September there were 175 million users registered.
Putting aside the short history of it, Twitter is an online entity which surely can’t be neglected. The great advantage of it is the fact that communication became more feasible and very personal; an online shop could present very fast and without any promo the new collection of products or its discounts.

Twitter come with a genius idea, any user can register and has two statuses: follower or following. In the position of the “follower” your tweets are listed in the timeline of the followings and they could see what you tweet; as a “following” you have in your timeline the tweets of the ones which are being followed. The messages could contain maximum 140 characters, Twitter being a platform that allows micro-blogging for everyone.
For an inexperienced eye it could be a loss of time, but there are some almost “hidden” advantages.

1.Great source of information

Any user with a coherent logic will follow people from his domain or other persons which are interesting for him. By following them, it’s at hand to find out what they consider worthy to read, their mood, location or problems. For example, a web designer surely will find interesting posts by following some of the most gifted persons in the niche. A great advantage is the feeling of being part of the group, the community needs your presence and you need their pieces of advice, links or offers.

2.A better interaction

Anyone can see what anyone tweets, nobody is privileged or deprived. Everything is based on one’s own decision of following someone or not. This is the ideal solution for a better and effective communication. A great corporation from the auto industry required its employers to create accounts to Twitter with the aim of a better dialogue with the clients.

A profound impact was created over the clients (and of course, over the sales) due the naturalness of the tweets; the employers tweeted about the novelties and promotions of the corporation, but also personal messages (what they are doing or how they are feeling).

3.Promote your blog

The power of Twitter consists in a great proportion on the number of followers. A good tool which can help to promote your blog is to tweet your posts to a great number of followers, the chances of being visited are increasing vastly; any blogger should pay attention to the flow of tweets, too many could annoy the followers, fewer is a mark of amateurish behavior.

4.Engage with the clients

Any company obtains a facile and detailed feedback from the potential clients if they are using a Twitter account and have a very good campaign of tweets. Any promotion should be tweeted, but very important is to study the effects, without this step, all could be a loss of time. A relevant clue of the success of any promotion or more generally of any tweet is the number of retweets obtained; a higher number usually means a better strategy, and the sales are increasing.

The study is more complex, these results should be related to the number of followers, but there are many other factors (the average age of the followers, their geographical position, the type of promotions and so on).

5.Gain influence

All the points above are emphasizing the advantage of the online methods to be successfully in real life, but having a great influence as a brand in traditional commerce could turn in a greater number of followers and it also contributes to the development of a more influential brand. Briefly, a strong correlation of the physical activity and good tactics on Twitter are two major components in the entire development of a brand.

If you don’t know how to use Twitter, don’t worry, on the Internet are plenty of resources.
It is very simple to “google” some words about your problems and surely the results are relevant and well written. Put in a comment any complain you have about Twitter for which you haven’t found any answers on the Internet. (or more simply, tweet your problem and ask for help!!!)
As I mentioned above a greater number of followers is equivalent with a more influential account and the probability of your tweets to be read and retweeted is in many cases in a direct relationship with the “influence”.

From a very commercial and pragmatic point of view the success of a Twitter account are the followers, so how to obtain them?
On the Internet it is simple to find applications which have great headers that say “1000 followers with 10$” or “499 followers in few days”, maybe it could be a variant, but in most cases these accounts are spam or created with this purpose, so I really don’t recommend them.

The healthy way of increasing the number of followers has few but strong modalities:

tweet only quality, any message about what you ate at breakfast isn’t interesting;
be part of the community and act in this way, be communicative, careful with any tweet, don’t ignore any ask for help;
try to reply to any demands, be honorable and you will gain the trust of the users;

The miraculous solution is inexistent and even if it could be, then the results aren’t good, so don’t forget, be patient!

Here are some cool applications with really worth to be presents here:

1.Friend or follow

This application allows you to see your friends, people who follow you and the ones followed by you.

2.Tinypic

Tynypic is an easy solution to upload images or video. The interface is simple and people could use it very fast.

3.Retweet rank

Retweet Rank is an amazing tool, it has an algorithm which tabulates all the Twitter accounts and establishes a specific rank for everyone.

4.Flick to twitt

It allows uploading a picture on Flickr and sharing it on Twitter.

5.Useqwitter.com

Qwitter has as purpose to reveal which users quit following you by simply accessing your Twitter account.

6.Tweetizen

Tweetizen was created to facilitate the users in creating groups related to some keywords. It is a very good idea because it’s a perfect way to share information with people who activate in the same field or have common passions.

7.Twaitter

This is a pretty interesting website: here you have multiple options, from finding out who is following you, who mention you in his tweets to the possibility of scheduling the tweets, so visit it!

8.Echofon

Echofon is an extension for Firefox (a small icon on the status bar) which show any new tweet of your friends and present a text field where you could insert the message ready to tweet.

9.Twitter counter

Twitter counter represents a very good tool which could bring good results if it is used by an expert of social media. It presents a detailed report about the entire activity on the network. It has two types of accounts, one free and one paid, but even the free one provides high quality information.

10.Tweetdeck

It represents an overview on multiple networks and its interface is really helpful for the amateurs. This cool application fully deserves the attention of the users.

11.Hoot suite

It is somehow similar to the previous one and provides a serious and relevant analysis of an account; the possibilities of getting various advantages by using it attract many users.

Surely, the Internet is full of any other cool applications, some being more competitive than these presented here or less competitive, but not there is the essence of the real problem. The most important conclusion is that Twitter has a major role in the evolution of the social media networks. The applications which are interconnected with Twitter are very numerous and have awesome features, but none of these can replace the human being who can provide quality tweets.

33 Examples of Illustrated Twitter Backgrounds

Guest Author — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:33:37 +0000

After MySpace and Facebook had demonstrated their potential as social networks Twitter has exploded onto the scene. With the ability to customize your profile contents there are many graphic designers showcasing their talents through the one-to-many network system. These works often include custom buttons, graphics, and sometimes background illustrations.

I’ve scoured the twitterverse for 33 of the most inspirational illustrated background designs. Though these are just a small collection feel free to share any I’ve missed in the comments section below.

@Krftd

@bongobrian

@frenden

@sallid

@aaronmillerillz

@DesignerDepot

@truemonster

@holeycoww

@mimobot

@playglitch

@MailChimp

@lizettegagne

@MrTweet

@Vectips

@justtweetit

@elitistsnob

@divvoted

@Camiseteria

@spurpaul

@nickla

@dani

@laquesefue

@JonathanNelson

@webprosys

@gfxmaven

@pixellent

@happytreefriend

16 Amazing Free Twitter Backgrounds

skyje — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:05:03 +0000

Everybody or every company like to have a beautiful twitter background , but if you can’t find good one, this time, we have collected amazing collection of free twitter backgrounds. Choose desired background from the list and Start uploading to your twitter profile.

The Fail Whale

Twitter Background Atari

Nightfall Ivory

Blue Demon – Twitter Background

Twitter Background 2

TwitterMX – Fondo para Twitter

Owl Twitter Background

Bubble Twitter Background

Background do meu twitter

twitter-aura (3)

Abstract Concrete Wall Twitter Background

Para Sailing Twitter Background

Sandy Sunset Beach Background for Twitter

twitter-fantasy(2)

Twitter Background #noviolenciamx

free twitter background girly

9 Best Twitter Jquery Plugins

skyje — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:57:52 +0000

There are lots of JavaScript libraries out there and many of them are in use on social media sites like twitter. This Twitter plugins uses the popular jQuery library, article contains a sampling of jQuery twitter plugins I’ve found useful. If you know other useful plugins please add it in the comments to this post.

A jQuery Plugin for Custom, CSS Styled, Retweet Buttons

A jQuery Twitter Ticker

Realtime Related Tweets Bar: Another jQuery Plugin

Making Our Own Twitter Timeline

Twitter Friends & Followers Widget – A jQuery Plugin!

Who-Tweet Button : Fancy jQuery Plugin for Twitter

Tweetable – A jQuery plugin

jQuery Twitter Widget with @Anywhere support

Popular-on-Twitter Widget: Topsy-enabled jQuery Plugin

25 Sites for Sharing on Twitter

skyje — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:38:10 +0000

Social media especially twitter has become a popular way to share information and content with others. If you are looking for a way to share your images, videos and files online with your twitter followers, You will find great collection of sites help you sharing on twitter.

Share Videos

Share Images

Share Files

Really Nice Twitter T-shirts

skyje — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:22:10 +0000

T-shirt shopping is easier nowadays because of the large audience Twitter has. Choose your favorite Twitter T-shirt from all available designs. You can already get your favorite tweets as T-shirts.