10 Twitters Tips for Small Business owners!

Most people especially business owners don’t see the need for social media, even twitter. I too felt the same way some time ago, until recently.
Twitter is a social media where sharing, learning. Socialization and listening occurs. These are places where you follow people and you also been followed. To me it’s the place where you create your authority you become the ‘leader’ while others follows religiously.

These sites can be a great source of free traffic for business owners. Many still are lost in the twitters game; hence they stay far away, and most are frustrated as their initial dreams are all dashed. To see lots of result one needs to be patience and follow a lot of people.

Here are some 10 tips that could help in your tweeting,
1.Know the purpose of twitter. Don’t miss this. It a place to connect , learn,
listen and get inform

2. Be friendly and show some respect. Return compliments and give same.

3. Define your goals for coming to tweet.

4.Try following known faces and major people which will be suggested
automatically for you. This is a great way to catch up with what is going on and in the process you learn. These people usually has great followership

5.To talk to someone simply send a message @ the person from your homepage, it can be general or personal message. It they respond continue the thread.

6.Don’t be offended if at first no one is following you which is rare though if you follow others

7. Use your personal photo or your company logo or some very good pictures of your activity and let it be your contact point. People love to connect with the people they are dealing with.

8. Always follow others and you will be followed.

9. Using twitter search you can find those who are talking about you or your
business so that you can maximize the opportunity for you and business.

10. Never you tweet to sales page or squeeze page that will be detrimental to your twitter success.

So if you want to grow your business using social media power, There are places you can get help and please do, it will pay you 100x more.

Enjoy.

10 Twitters Tips for Small Business owners!

Social Media Marketing; 4 Vitals Steps to Success

Social media is catching on very fast on the web and loads of people are beginning to see the marketing power contained in these social sites. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Delicious etc are getting tons of traffic daily. Majority of this people are into business but still fails to make the most out of this sites as promotional tools.

I have many techniques I use to promote products and gets lots of free traffic daily to my sites, but here are the 4 major areas I consider very important to your success online with social media.

The 4 Social Media tips for success

1. Be someone people can trust.
This is not common today, most people are not trustworthy and so if you present your self as one it will go along way to build your credibility. Be a friend; remove all form of dishonesty from you. Spread friendship to variety of people even to those below you. Be nice and generous. Connect with those you are following. Use personal names to sign up. Using dummy names and wield names don’t really come across well to many business people. Don’t be seen as anonymous

1. Have a plan and a goal;
Be strategic in your tweets and those groups you follow. Don’t just sign up for any group. Know hat you are following as it will help you develop fast. Don’t just follow people for selfish reason; always ask yourself what your goals are in participating, It will help your focus and friendliness on the community. You can make a lot out of social sites if you do it right.

2.Ask great questions
Feel free to ask question as this will lead to the answers as you should be willing to learn. Ask open ended questions which are specific and will involve deep and intelligent discussion and answers. Don’t ask mindless questions.

3. When given a referral follow it right away.
It’s a new opportunity, don’t blow it away. Don’t kill the interest of the referral treat the action with proper decorum and respect. Acting fast will help a lot.

These four categories are very major in social media success.

Enjoy.

Dan Ohis.

Social Media Marketing; 4 Vitals Steps to Success