Twitter - Honestly I am not that interesting

If those who are following you are interested in what you have to share
business related, such as your blog or any articles you've written, or just
sharing a link you found about something that they might find interesting
such as a news story, those are the kinds of things you'd Twitter about
IF your goal is to build a following from Twitter that will eventually become
customers.

If not, then you're probably right...there wouldn't be much to Twitter
about.

I personally send them links to articles I've written that are on my blog
or if I find something online that I think they will find interesting.

Point is, I don't talk about my personal life because, quite frankly, nobody
would care.

No one is interested in the vast majority of tweets that stream across the screen. I mean really ... there's so much mundane garbage it amazes me that people are compelled to tweet that stuff. I'd rather maintain the facade that my life might be at least mildly interesting ... even though it is not

Do you go to networking events or business-social gatherings? The conversations are pretty similar in online networking as off

Go find some cool sites with stumbleupon & send a bit.ly link to them. At least it'll help build some following..

Todd

Go out and find something interesting to tweet about. News flashes, tidbits of local lore, strange but true things that you read about in the newspaper or find on line.

You are right, nobody cares that you had marmelade on your toast this morning..

Get creative and tweet interesting things..

Build your followers and build their curiosity. Use twellow to find relevant people who you want to sell to and follow them, hoping they follow you back.

Then allude to how well you do, the value you have people etc - build their desire to find out more about you and follow your links.

im not too sure about twitter. i only use it to promote my videos and Articles.

other than that i think its overrated

Kenj-

Sorry, I missed your reply.

Stumbleupon is a social bookmarking service. Basically if user 1 likes a website, they submit it to Stumbleupon. It then gets put into the "stumbling pool" for other users to go look at, classify, discuss & decide if they like it or not. The cooler sites move up the ladder..here's the long version of how it works: StumbleUpon's Recommendation Technology

A quick note, this is an actual Stumbleupon URL:

StumbleUpon WebToolbar

If you look at it, you see the monster-island.org & everything after it? That's the website's actual address, without stumbleupon.com's stumble bar. Like this:

Bread Kills!

You'll want to remove the last / off the end. Some servers don't like it much & will just say the page isn't there.

I see the forum changed the http:// addresses to a link displaying the page title. You can still see the actual URL's of the above 2 links by just clicking them & looking in your address bar.

bit.ly is a free URL shortening service. You take a long URL and make it a short one. Also, it will keep track of how many clicks each shortened URL receives. We're gonna grab our http://monster-island.... URL & shorten it up with bit.ly so it fits in a twitter post.

Take your bitly link, and then tweet something like this:
A reason the USDA should outlaw bread: http://bit.ly/7z4%s

Now you've got a tweet, and you see how effective it is with your audience by watching the clicks on bit.ly. You also can see what kind of products & stuff they're interested in by linking to manufacturer's websites, or press-releases & stuff like that.

This becomes really powerful when you target a niche group of followers & weed everyone else out. So, if you were targeting real-estate agents, and blocked everyone else so that your account only had real-esate agents following you...you then (through experimentation) see what makes them act. You can use the response information to see what a particular group would want as a product, or have some information on how to craft your new website in the real estate niche.

Todd