Network Marketing 4 Today

Twitter is all the rage on the internet right now, in the social networking, web 2.0 world. Twitter is a website where you can post little messages, or micro-blogs, and they will be sent out to anyone that is following you. This allows you to tell your friends or acquaintances exactly what you’re doing at a particular time, or all the time, depending on how carried away you get! This can be business or personal related, and should be a combination of the two.

Since you’re reading this blog, you’re probably on the web to earn money, so naturally some of your “tweets” should be business oriented. For instance, if you post a new entry to your blog, let people know on twitter. If you’re watching a webinar that might be helpful to others, let them know. There are many, many things you can share.

At the same time, if you just post business-related activities, people are going to think that’s all you care about, and as I’ve stated many times before, there’s a reason that web 2.0 is called social networking. It’s because you need to be “social”, talk about nothing or everything, and let people know who you are. I know, many of you are totally wrapped up in your business, to the exclusion of pretty much anything else, but you need to find something!

There must be something you like to do!

Maybe you like Seinfeld reruns. Maybe you’re a fan of the Yankees. Or maybe you hate the Yankees because you’re a fan of the Red Sox. Maybe you’ve got kids, go to church, like to garden, whatever. I think you get the idea. Well, let people know about those things. Let them see the real you, and they’ll probably like what they see.

There are a few ways to make your twittering more effective and efficient. I’m going to give you ideas about what I do.

1. Follow a bunch of people. You can follow up to 2000 to start with, and more if you fulfill some criteria set out by twitter (what that criteria is, I’m not exactly sure, but I think it involves how many people are following you). The way I followed a lot of people was to find someone on twitter that was interested in the same thing I am, attraction network marketing, and that was following a bunch of people themselves. Then, I clicked on the “following” link on their page and just started following the ones they follow. Eventually, I got to 2000 and I couldn’t follow any more. What you’ll find out is that if you follow those people, a lot of them are going to follow you back. When they do, send them a short message, with a link to your blog or another page of your content.
2. Follow people who follow you. Eventually, people will follow you that you didn’t follow first. If they do, follow them and send a similar message to them as above. If you’re at 2000 people you’re following, go in and delete a few that don’t follow you. I delete ones that don’t have a picture, as I don’t think they’re too serious about twitter. Which leads to my 3rd point.
3. Set up your profile. Add a picture. Tell about yourself. Put your blog link out there. Remember, we’re trying to be social – even us computer geeks!
4. Tie your twitter account in with your Facebook account. You do have a Facebook account, right? If not, shame on you! Go do it now! Why do this? Because it kills 2 birds with one stone: when you post something to twitter, it automatically updates what you are doing on Facebook. It saves time, and helps you to remember to do both so that many, many people will see what you’re doing. You can learn how to do this at Renegade University Professional. If you don’t belong to that excellent, let me know and I’ll tell you how to tie twitter to Facebook.
5. Use twhirl. This is a desktop application that displays tweets from others without having to be on the twitter site. You can also post your own tweets there, and more. What I like about this program is that it has a url shortener built into it. What’s that for? If you want to post a long link in one of your tweets, you might run out of space because you can only have posts of 140 characters or less. Some url’s are this long! With twhirl, you can enter the url into a box and click “shorten” and it will give you a short little link that you can put in your post. Download twhirl at twhirl.org.
6. If you have a blog, or multiple blogs, use twitterfeed. Twitterfeed automatically posts any new entries to twitter, and consequently Facebook. It works off your RSS feed and checks every hour (you can adjust this) for new blog posts, and if it sees any it sends out a tweet! It’s also customizable so you can put a prefix, only send the title, and more. This is just one more way to save yourself time and not have to remember so much. For me (52 years old) that’s important. Get this one at twitterfeed.com.
7. Tie it in with ezinearticles.com. There is a place in your ezinearticles profile that allows you to put your twitter information in there so that when one of your articles gets approved it will automatically send out a tweet. Same idea as above.

There you go! 7 ideas to make twitter better. Get out there and start tweeting soon. It will help to develop your web of content and get people to notice what you’re doing!