Getting Started with Twitter

There is nothing wrong in putting up your real name. The hash tags are mainly used to mark keywords or topic and also help them show more easily on twitter search. They are mainly used for trending topics.

Real name - is just the name you want displayed.

Bio is limited to 160 characters.

Their real name is on top of their username

For example:

John Doe
johndoe2012

But everyone goes by the username when they mention a fellow tweeter @johndoe2012...

There is no problem leaving the business name blank or just use your website name in it's place, also you can use your real name and then use your website name as username. Make the bio short but easy to understand what you do.

Personally, I feel Twitter is more effective if you have one profile and become known for one particular topic. It's a social network and people like interacting with people.

If they like what you tweet, then they will likely build trust with you over time.

However, for what you're doing I would recommend another path.

Pick up a copy of Tweet Adder (pick the license that fits your needs best) and add your profiles to the software.

What you can do is automatically follow people who express an interest in a chosen topic. If you have a good profile picture and seem to tweet like a human, many people will follow you back.

You can also set up the software to automatically unfollow people who dont follow you back after a few days.

Sure it's not free, but it saves a ton of time and you can focus on interaction instead of busy work.

From there, 8-10 tweets per day is a solid amount. You can use a free service called BufferApp to schedule tweets across the day. Maybe have 5 tweets per day with links and 5 others with valuable info or even ask your followers questions.

I'd suggest having 3 tweets your own links and 2 tweets other links to valuable resources or anything else related to your topic.

You can decide whether you want hashtags in your tweets, but it will make it easier for others to find you. Maybe use 1 or 2 at the end of your tweet every few tweets.

Hopefully this helps!

Twitter is good if you have something interesting/unique to say - most of the times, people unfollow the usual IM/marketing accounts rather quickly. You could tweet the latest news in the industry, along with your own promotions once in a while (like once every 2-3 weeks).

Also, you can use Twiends to increase your followers count - the people are real, and your account will look much better with 1000 followers and ~20 following than 1000 followers and 1000+ following.

Twitter is great for rapid wide engagement but its very untargeted in my opinion. Even if you are following relevant people the conversions are low. Most users streams are messy and next to useless because of the amout of people we follow as Twitter like many of the other social networks users have fallen into the one-upmanship on the followers count trap.

You can tweet 4x times a day to playing safe and not too spammy.

Go to: twiends. com to follow your related niche.

twiends.com is the best place to start.

thanks for the useful info...

I've had a twitter account for quite some
time and haven't used it much.... didn't
really know what to do with it...thanks

Posting useful content and not post a bunch of links helps. I used to just post a bunch of links like a robot.

twitter is a good place to start however, all your tweets will not be imposed to your desire audience

Whenever you post something new in your website, you should tweet it through twitter. I want you to know one thing very well that google will not count your twitter links as backlinks but twitter can help you to get your website indexed quickly. There are other web 2.0 sites which are dofollow. You can go for them to get backlinks. Backlinks from social media sites like facebook, twitter, myspace etc won't give you higher ranking.

Hi CatherineMay!

If you are using Twitter for business, it is important to reveal your true identity. As you said, it's all about relationships and build your network. For me, Twitter is more than just sharing the information about yourself but it's more about having a conversation with your potential customers in the purpose of increasing your brand awareness.

You do not have to sell in make a hard sell Twitter, just be natural in introducing on what you can offer. Focus first on building trust before entering to sales development. More importantly, you have to be consistent in updating your followers in order for them to feel your presence. It's not about the quantity of followers but of their quality engagement with you.

Anyway, the hashtags are like the keywords of your thought.

It is always good practice to fill out all information when using social media outlets. It looks more official and gives followers more security when tweeting with you. Hashtags are important. Use them. Your tweets will show up in searches when users search for that subject. Ex, "I love #socialmedia." When people search for tweets about "social media," your tweet will show up. Good luck!

do you guys know how to monetize on twitter?