Seems a lot of new words being created these days, all thanks to Twitter. If you still don’t know or understand what it is about, perhaps this Twittervideo will help explain about Twitterverse, or was that the Twittersphere? All tongue in cheek of course! Thanks to Alex who brought this to my attention. Enjoy!
There is so much information about Twitter out there these days and once you get into it, you’ll find that the number of followers will increase quite quickly (definitely daily) and that the more you are following, the more you’ll have to tweet about. It’s definitely a great marketing tool. Just today someone who follows me responded to someone I don’t know who wanted to learn about the Virtual Assistant industry. They replied to the tweet and added my username @kathiemt which alerted me immediately to the conversation.
I contacted the other lady to find that she has a granddaughter looking to work from home before she has her baby and the VA industry would be perfect for her.
Now, if I wasn’t on Twitter and the first lady I mentioned wasn’t following me, then she wouldn’t have been able to refer someone else to my VA network. Works really well and is just another example of a referral based network in action.
Now Twitter isn’t all about referrals but it is about building relationships and getting to know what others do. And it’s great for viral marketing.
I thought this article by Naomi Trower about Viral Marketing with Twitter a good one to share with you.
Regular readers will know I’ve been doing posts about various social networks. There’s a lot of good things about them but there are some things you need to be careful about too.
I was reading SpeakerNet News recently and saw a quote about the use of Facebook and Twitter and how you conduct yourself there. Now, may I say, that I think it is always important to conduct yourself professionally, or in the manner you would always want to be perceived. No use in behaving one way in one place and different in another and not think anyone will notice. They will.
Anyway, let me share with you what Rita Makana Risser has to say:
Peter Shankman reports on a speaker who twittered on his way to speak to FedEx in Memphis about how he would die if he had to live there. He showed up to a hostile audience! Be aware that what might seem cute or funny to your pals can be an insult to your audience or meeting planners. It might be a good idea to limit posts on politics to groups that share your political views. A political posting on Facebook by one of my friends for all her friends to see caused quite a bit of discussion and not the good kind. Whether or not you want to use Facebook for business purposes, meeting planners and corporate types are looking at us wherever we show up, and making decisions based on what we post. You can have a business page on Facebook as well as a personal page, and that’s what I have done. Your personal page is for real friends and family; the business one is for everyone else.
I think what Rita says makes a lot of sense, don’t you?
I’ve had a Twitter account for sometime now and it really took me sometime to understand what it is about. But now I’m hooked!
I’ve signed up for some autoresponders on how to use Twitter and have been applying some of those things. In just 24 hours I’ve had an increase in 100 followers with several actually corresponding with me, which is great. And I have a potential new project on the horizon simply from a chance (and flippant) comment to someone after they saw a tweet I’d made. Amazing but that project has possibilities.
I also see our PM, Kevin Rudd, twittering about his activities and feel it’s great that he and his staff keep abreast of social networking tools to remain visible and up-to-date.
I’ve also learnt about Twitwall which allows you to add to your meagre bio at Twitter. And it is free and connects to your existing Twitter account so picks up on your chosen background.
I see a lot of Virtual Assistants on there and many I know are finding new clients as a result. Just goest o show you can’t dismiss a new tool or fad too quickly on the web – people keep finding new things they can create to add to an idea and build new businesses just from that alone!
Have you begun twittering yet?
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