Getting Started With Facebook & Twitter

Couple of tips for you.

For Twitter, find people that are talking about things you are interested in and join in on the conversations. Don't spam or hit them with sales pitches, look to build relationships.

For Facebook, same kind of thing but make sure you create custom business/fan pages as well.

there are software programs that can help speed up the process, also you can run ads on both

That sounds like a good idea thanks Blarbie Any you could recommend? Thanks!

I read a book called Twitterville that is pretty good. It mentions how businesses have used twitter to gain millions in business. The takeaway I got was add valueable content and see where the loopholes are in your competition. For example, Jet blue realized customers were twittering no flights coming out of a particular city as passengers were stranded so they re-routed their planes and captured business from another airline.

Thanks Molimar... Do you have the URL for twitterville? Sounds exactly what i am looking for!

Make groups and fan pages on Facebook and send them out to everyone you know.

Thanks Jamie i will check that out now!

I'm looking for a quick way to increase my Twitter followers. Right now my follower count is at 650.. I would like to get it to 5,000 - 10,000 active followers, any ideas??

Groups and Fan pages work well.

Create a group/page with something that would make users curious.

"You wouldn't believe what this person said"

Hello

Said you have an aweber ? Thats good, now you need to start writing articles and submit it to ezine article first then ping your article posting to your facebook and twitter account with little description and build a squeeze page and link with your auto responder along with opt in box. Hope you get message! Good luck!

Jamian.

Here are some free resources that I put together to get started on Twitter:

Twitter For Online Professionals - Free Twitter Course and Free Twitter Tutorial

Twitter Marketing Guide (still working on this)

If you need more information on how you can efficiently leverage software for Twitter marketing, check out the links in my signature.

Using Twitter and Facebook are great ways to promote your site and increase traffic to your own site. However, I can not stress enough that we need to approach the use of social media sites with a goal and a plan in mind. Why? Simple, most people are there to socialize and if you start adding friends and followers without seeing if they have similar interests then you will be wasting your valuable time. Only accept people that have interests in networking, internet, technology or whatever your niche is. Keep in mind that although you do want to build a relationship and trust you want to set yourself some limits and establish boundaries. Otherwise you will get caught up in the socializing frenzy and never achieve your goal.

Now, I know some people have mentioned software in order to grow your followers or friends faster, but I have my reservations (as I do with most software). Twitter for example has been making a lot of changes in their rules about tweeting and about followers, as well as posting ads. So you want to make sure you read through the rules first. If you do not want to, or have the time to grow your lists yourself then outsource. There are plenty of people who would do this for a small fee. HOWEVER, do explain the project clearly, especially since you wan to avoid being accused of spam when you are just beginning. Good luck