Apr
29

How Important is Twitter to My Business?

By Luca

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How Important is Twitter to My Business?

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If you are an online business owner, your first priority after developing your product or service is to find the people that will make your business a success. Marketing your business is a huge task and Twitter can help in that regard.

You have developed a plan for marketing your business or you are in the process of doing so. It might include article marketing, social network marketing and viral marketing. In the social network marketing section, don’t forget Twitter.

Twitter is more than just a site for keeping up with the minute details of everyday life. Sure, you’ve heard that celebrities and others twitter about their dinner plans, vacations and pop culture but those same people can be hearing from you about your business.

Twitter is a micro-blogging forum. You can talk to anyone who wants to listen. It is a quicker way to get people interested in new product offerings, contests, prize giveaways and more. Twitter is free to use so you can post a link to your Twitter account on your business website or blog.

One thing that is hard to keep up with is customer service. Providing timely customer service is the key to customer loyalty and increased sales. It is hard to manage email accounts when you are trying to market your business and fill orders.

As an alternative – turn to Twitter. When a customer posts a customer service question you can reply or direct them to different areas of your website quickly. Instead of sticking by the telephone or using an answering service (especially for small businesses), connect with your customers from your PC or your mobile device.

The platform is favorable for real-time communication with a group of people or one person at a time. Twitter allows you to send out new product information to your customer list. Your customers can tweet back or follow the link in your tweet to the website page with the new products.

You can use various Twitter tools to make your business account easier to manage. Applications, such as TweetDeck, Twitterfeed, Twhirl and TrackThis can be used to manage business groups, get tweet notifications, send draft tweets to all of your customers, track packages and/or backup all business communication on Twitter.

Check out the site and see all of the business tools available for the small business user. Twitter is free to set up an account and accessible from home or mobile. Keep communication easy and quick for your customers with Twitter.

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4 Comments

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I think Twiiter is very important! For whatever reason, some think it’s just a passing fad? Even if it is, why not capitalize on it’s popularity NOW!

It’s a great tool for visitors, traffic and sales!

Jake’s last blog post..Why is it So Easy to Lose Weight?

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Luca Reply:

Hi Jake and thanks for stopping by. I’ve been using it to get traffic and it works very well. It’s an evolving tool that we can all benefit from.
Hope to see you back

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I agree Jake,
Twitter is one of the best tools for a Blogger to get more relevant visitors to our sites and back links. Mainly because so many Twitter members own blogs, if they like a tweeted post of yours the chances of them link referencing that post, in a post on there own site is increased.

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Luca Reply:

@ Timon Weller Thanks for the comment Timon. I like the retweet feature – it can bring much more traffic to our sites. I read your article about the tweet plugin http://www.buyers-web.com/twitter-just-got-more-viral-with-retweet/ very helpful.
Thanks,

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