What are the best ways to use Twitter?

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Hi everyone... I am wondering what are the best uses for Twitter when trying to promote our sites? I have 111 Wordpress niche sites now and I know that Twitter is a useful tool. I do have an acct but rarely use it.

How do you use Twitter in NON-IM niches effectively? Does it help with backlinking at all?

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  • Profile picture of the author Woody C
    Use the search function to find others that are asking questions or talking about your niche then engage them in a Twittersation ( <-- I just made that word up btw).

    If you have a post that is directly related, then tell them that what you have may help them and post a link. Otherwise, just be personable and odds are that they are going to check out your profile and see the link to you homepage.

    Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author Shane N
    The best way is to build a nice list of followers that are loyal and who are REAL people, NOT other businesses that just want to sell YOU something...

    Then you'll end up promoting to them and they will promote to you and no one will buy anything... Unless you have a B2B product then that could work.

    Build followers who are real people and give them what they want!

    Best,
    Shane
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  • Profile picture of the author Mili_D
    Build up a list and to do this try using Twittollower it free and you can get people that will be interested in your product. Another way is to tweet about the product for examples try recommending the product rather than selling directly to the people, this also brings in followers. Last but all set up a feed at least once a day. Twitter is not bad if you know how to work it, despite you can get robots it just the case of being aware!
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  • Profile picture of the author Tony Hetherington
    You can also use twitter as a mini twitsletter (I just made that word up) to keep your customers informed with what you're up to
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin Riley
      Twitter is becoming more and more a news and information platform. Keep your followers informed with good tweets and intersperse promo tweets, but don't overdo the promos.
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      • Profile picture of the author sellerscompanion
        I can totally see how Twitter is a fantastic tool if you are in the IM niche, but what I cannot figure out is how one would use Twitter for other niches? For instance, if I am in 10 or 20 different micro niches (such as gardening, parenting, dog training, etc.) how do I (1) Find like minded people and (2) get a large following interested in those topics? Would I need 10 or 20 Twitter accounts?? That seems like a lot of work and for what kind of return?

        Just trying to decide if Twitter would make a big difference in traffic or backlinking in those kinds of situations....
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        • Profile picture of the author Shane N
          Originally Posted by sellerscompanion View Post

          I can totally see how Twitter is a fantastic tool if you are in the IM niche, but what I cannot figure out is how one would use Twitter for other niches? For instance, if I am in 10 or 20 different micro niches (such as gardening, parenting, dog training, etc.) how do I (1) Find like minded people and (2) get a large following interested in those topics? Would I need 10 or 20 Twitter accounts?? That seems like a lot of work and for what kind of return?

          Just trying to decide if Twitter would make a big difference in traffic or backlinking in those kinds of situations....
          It can work in practically ANY niche, because people of ALL types are on Twitter, surfing and tweeting... Not only people who are into IM. Therefore you could market a very wide variety of products and/or services.

          However, I definitely wouldn't put too many "eggs" in the "basket" of Twitter.

          Best,
          Shane
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        • Profile picture of the author clint48
          Originally Posted by sellerscompanion View Post

          I can totally see how Twitter is a fantastic tool if you are in the IM niche, but what I cannot figure out is how one would use Twitter for other niches? For instance, if I am in 10 or 20 different micro niches (such as gardening, parenting, dog training, etc.) how do I (1) Find like minded people and (2) get a large following interested in those topics? Would I need 10 or 20 Twitter accounts?? That seems like a lot of work and for what kind of return?

          Just trying to decide if Twitter would make a big difference in traffic or backlinking in those kinds of situations....
          Yes you would need a different account for each niche, so yes it could be a lot of work.

          Clint
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          • Profile picture of the author craigc1980
            Originally Posted by clint48 View Post

            Yes you would need a different account for each niche, so yes it could be a lot of work.

            Clint

            I agree it is alot of work at first but you can automate all these accounts and still make it personable.

            Like i have mentioned before in other posts the more accounts you have in one niche the better your success rate.

            1 main key thing i do is i focus on one niche at a time and build 10-15 Twitter accounts around that niche.

            Then every night before i shut the computer down i sit down and prepare all my tweets.

            I write out around 30 tweets for the next day.

            Some are jokes,some are just telling people what im up too,some are quotes,some are questions and about 2 tweets recommending a website that pertains that niche.

            I send the 2 promotion tweets at the busiest time on twitter and the rest just go out every hour to 2 hours

            Hope this helps
            Craig
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  • Profile picture of the author bfellow
    I love using twitter for product launches. I tend to build up twitter 30-60 days before a product launch be attaching people who look like they would be interested in what I am launching, then when it's time, instant traffic.
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