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Friday, September 04, 2009

 

Market Successfully Through Twitter

The internet is changing as social interaction between users becomes more and more of the norm. Gone (or at least going) are the days when anyone who wanted to find answers to their questions or a solution to their problems would simply fire up a Google search. Now, it’s likely that they will log onto their favorite social network to pose the same questions to their online friends.

Perhaps the word friends here might seem out of place, but these days,people all over the world are genuinely becoming friends via the net. There are many ways that this is happening, people using blogs, podcasts and chat utilities like Windows Messenger and Skype.

However, over the past year or so, one site that has been on the upand-up is Twitter - so much so that for many people, it is a site that they log onto every day. It is a site that allows people to communicate almost instantly, and because most people use the site in a public way, every time someone you have added to your friends list adds new information, you will instantly see it and so will all their other friends. It is therefore a site where you can have pretty open conversations with other members, a place where it is very easy to become involved, and also somewhere that it is very easy to learn.

On top of that, Twitter is a site that presents significant marketing opportunities, but only if the whole thing is approached in exactly the right way.

First and foremost a social networking tool. You are not going to use Twitter to market directly. What you are going to do instead is to use it to start building relationships with other site users who have similar interests to yours, on the basis that later on, you can use these relationships to introduce products and services to your recently acquired friends.

The fact is that the internet is changing, and social interaction between you and your customers is becoming more and more important.

Social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace should be used as ways of promoting your business.

The idea that these two social networking sites can be used as internet marketing tools has been around for a while but the networking tool that is beating the pants off those two sites in terms of simplicity, immediacy and effectiveness also happens to be the newest one - TWITTER.

How is it that TWITTER become such a powerful force when it comes to marketing?

First of all, people have changed how they search for information.

Up until recently, anyone who went looking for info on the internet did a Google search. Now it’s more than likely that they will log on to their favorite social network to pose the same questions to their online friends. The internet is becoming a much friendlier place to be and people all over the world are genuinely becoming friends over the world wide web.

This also means that if they want to do business, they want to do it with a FRIEND. This means YOU - even if you are trying to sell them something.

As most internet marketers are aware there is a trend towards trying to create intimacy with customers, and you should be doing this also by doing the following:

Provide helpful information on your site so your customers would come back to use your site as a valuable resource:-

Make sure that no matter what your site is up 24/7
Provide online telephone and chat support that was also available 24/7
Make the payment process absolutely seamless as possible
Regularly communicate with customers/prospects via newsletters, email,etc
Publish a blog to create a sense of intimacy with your customers.

Twitter

You should also consider using Twitter. In fact, it is so popular that President Barack Obama was using it to keep people informed throughout his entire presidential campaign!

Twitter is a powerful medium and media tool!

Twitter is a site that millions of people are logging on to every day. It allows people to communicate almost instantly and in a public way.

Every time you add someone to your friends list, other people will see it. They will also see your communications.

It is a fun site that allows you to have very open conversations with other members. It is a very easy place to meet people, laugh with them, spread news, learn from others and become involved in a good way.

The main form of communication is a little box that has a kind of status update. It is similar to the status update you see on Facebook. As it is short, it can also fit every message or "tweet"

Tweets can also be read on a mobile phone. This means that any advertising message that you have can also be read on a phone. It is versatile because you can use it from your computer, mobile phone or almost any other kind of hand held device.

As it is so easy to get to know people on Twitter, it is also a great place to market your business, PROVIDED you go about it in the right way.

With Twitter Marketing Your objective is to build a list of followers as quickly as possible without offending people who have enlisted on the site. After all, they are there to make friends, not be sold stuff. To be successful using Twitter on the internet as a marketing tool you MUST do it correctly. If you want to know exactly how to use Twitter to market your business, but doing so in the right way then go to this link internet as a marketing tool to find out more - Marketing on internet.

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Until next time all the best.

Kev Richardson

www.bizToolz.com.au
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