How to Start a Business

1. Be famous in the first place!  Nine of the ten most followed Tweeters were famous before Twitter originated.
2. Treat your Twitter profile just like your web page.  You must promote it in speeches, at the end of emails, on your business cards, on your promotional material, on your website, on your forehead, everywhere!
3. Let other Twitter followers know you exist.  See someone tweeting, tell them about your profile.
4. Follow lots and lots of people.  Tweeters tend to follow those that follow them.
5. Buy an ad, announce your specialty, and link it to your profile.
6. Answer users questions, be an expert.
7. Blog about your tweets and tweet about your blog.
8. Use forums in your interest area to promote your profile.
9. Pitch Twitter influencers with good article and comments that you make.
10. Exchange recommendations and have others promote you.
11. Use Find People and befriend people in your area of expertise.
12. Use a program like Tweet Adder to automate much of the work and maintenance.
13. Create a cool avatar that stands out.
14. Send @ messages to the smores, or social media whores. They might not answer you, but you just want to appear to have a relationship with them.
15. Link to funny videos, interesting stories, or sexy pictures.
16. Be friendly!
17. Incorporate videos and pictures into tweets.
18. Repeat tweets 8 hours later.  Users will be different.

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1 Comment

1.   tweetadder   |  Monday, 08 March 2010 at 6:53 am

   Overall, Twitter can be utilized as a marketing strategy if done correctly. Using twitter as a marketing tool is a subject of much argumentation in the marketing world. I have study numerous articles in favor of this technique and equally as many against it.