Twitter Links – Tools For Twitter

We have put together a list of Twitter connections.  Sites that help with your social experience on Twitter.

Tools

coTweet

CoTweet lets multiple people at the same company manage their business Twitter accounts together while keeping tabs on their brand name and how it’s being used. CoTweet can also be used to assign tasks to different departments and follow up on results and feedback.

DoesFollow

For all of the users that are obsessed over who’s following who: doesfollow will tell you exactly that. Just put in the two users and it plops out if they follow each other or not.

Feedalizr

Keep up to date with you and your friends social media activities on your desktop.

Friend or Follow

Submit your Twitter screen name to find out who you’re following that’s not following you back, and who’s following you that you’re not following back.

HootSuite

Streamlined Twitter account management from one clean, user-friendly interface is yours when you use HootSuite. In addition to being able to manage multiple Twitter accounts and profile from one application, you can also schedule tweets, track clicks to your links (using HootSuite’s ow.ly URL shortening service) and get an entire overview of each Twitter account with easy tab-based navigation. [Read more...]

Big Promises For Followers – Are They Really Beneficial To Your Business?

Twitter. It seems you can’t read an article, visit a website, or even watch television without someone mentioning their Twitter account. 

So if you run a business, you have to be on Twitter, right? 

And if you’re on Twitter, the best thing you can do is get a ton of followers, right?big promises for twitter followers

So when you get an email promising you 5,000 Twitter followers in 5 hours for $50 is a great deal, right?

Think again.

As with anything in the business world, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

First, if anyone is promising a ton of followers for a low fee, your first question should be “How valuable would these followers be to my business?”

Just like everything, the best way to get followers is the good old fashioned way. Go out and find people who you have something in common with.

  • If you are a mommy blogger, find moms.
  • If you are an accountant for small businesses, find small business owners.
  • If you are a realtor, find people who are interested in buying property within your area. (A Colorado realtor can find a ton of people to follow in Colorado very easily.)

And honestly, it’s not difficult to get a large following if you spend some time at it. So let’s say your goal is to add 50 new followers every day. That’s 350 a week. If you add 50 a day for three weeks, that’s more than 1,000 people you’re connecting with every time you Tweet.

And if you’re adding new followers at that rate, and contributing by writing a few times every day, you won’t just grow at 50 per day. Eventually it takes on a life of its own because you’re active and communicating. It works.

So in one month, you can easily have over 1,000 people in your network.

It may not be the 5,000 in 5 hour guarantee. But wouldn’t you rather chat with 1,000 people that you have a strong potential of building a relationship with?

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10 Tips For Using Twitter To Market Your Business

Having been on Twitter for well over a year now, I use it daily and understand its relevance. I understand how to use it to attract new clients, and how to use it to build my business. Could I be doing more with it? Definitely. I think there’s always room to grow. But if you’re just starting out and still struggling with the question of “Why do I want to use Twitter?” use these tips to start out in the right direction.

1. Build your Twitter account with quality people that you truly want to follow. Many people say they follow everyone that follows them. After following several people that filled up my conversation with information that didn’t apply to me, I took a different stance. I watch my conversations, and follow people that I have something in common with, or that I want to try  and build relationships with. In many ways it is a two way street – I follow them and they follow me. I just use discretion when choosing who to follow.

2. Don’t build too quickly. You don’t want to go from 0 to 2,000 following’s in a one week period. Likewise, you don’t want to be following 500 people and only have 10 following you. Build slowly at first to learn more about Twitter and start developing relationships. Show people you provide quality content, and give them a reason to follow you.twitter

3. Create a theme with your Twitter posts. I like to add links to quality content I’m reading in the blogosphere every day. I’ll purposely head out to find quality links I can share with my followers. A lot of social networking is about having a system and following it every day.

4. Make each post mean something to all of your followers. Remember, they might not be following the people you are communicating with, and can’t see the entire conversation. Give them a reason to find out more about the conversation, and maybe give them a new resource to follow. Posts like “LOL!” aren’t good for developing relationships. Posts like “LOL – I loved your blog post on building relationships” build up curiosity.

5. Don’t over-tweet. Make a commitment to adding quality posts every day. But don’t flood the homepages of your followers. This can often cause deletes if you’re overstepping the communication line, especially if you’re forgoing quality for quantity.

6. Find a few new people to follow every week. Head over to search.twitter.com and type in your niche, or a keyword related to your niche. Check out the profiles that show up, and find some new people to follow.

7. Use a service like Tweetdeck or Twhirl. These programs are designed to make monitoring your Tweets easier, and in the case of Tweetdeck, allows you to categorize and organize your Tweets by type and other features.

8. Sign up with Mr Tweet to gain follower recommendations and get recommended to others.

9. List your Twitter ID in Twitter directories such as Just Tweet It or Twellow.

10. Learn all you can about Twitter. Everyone is talking about Twitter. Head out to the blogosphere, and listen to what people are saying about Twitter. There’s no sure-fire way to use it yet – its still too new to fully understand its capabilities. But you can bet there are a ton of people making money with Twitter. Study what they do, and use it to your advantage.

Yes, sometimes it is a full time job just keeping up with everything that is available. I create systems and conquer. Choose how you want to participate, and do a little every day. A little will turn into a lot over time.