Can Twitter Really Help Your Business?

Social Networking is really great for keeping in touch with your family and friends and even finding new friends or reconnecting with long lost family members.  Twitter  is one of the newest and latest social networking channels that allows you to follow the activities friends and family members.  However, many in business truly wonder if Twitter can help in their business goals and endeavors.  Well the answer is:  “YES”.  Here are a few ways you can use Twitter to help you in your business:

1.You can share knowledge daily in your industry of choice with those who can help give you agreat reputation on the web. Now a daysit only takes one person to blast your company name into the Web for the betteror for the worse. If you are beingspoken about as someone who twitters daily on business subjects that matterthen Twitter has already helped you. You can parlay the increased traffic to your daily tweets to yourwebsite. This of course can translateinto sales!

2.Many have heard of HootSuite. This is a great websitethat works in collaboration with Twitter. This site allows you to actually schedule when your tweets go out, soyou don’t have to be online all day and night, which is a great benefit forbusiness owners. This is somethingworth checking out and makes Twitter a real option for business owners. HootSuite allows you to use lists to keeptrack of those following you and is great for business owners as well formarketing purposes.

3.Many have heard of re-tweeting, but don’t know how it can help them in business. Re-tweeting issimply passing along a great tweet you got from someone else. Reciprocity is still big in business and ifyou develop the habit of paying it forward or mentioning other business ownersin a good light and recommending them and their tweets, they will no doubt dothe same for you.

Remember social networking is still “Networking” and many of the same rules of thumb canapply when using websites like “Twitter.” For more creative ideas, feel free to contact us and we’ll help you getstarted on your social networking path!


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