Twitter – the micro-blogging service that allows you to type only 140 characters to tell others what you’re actually doing or do express yourself, can be a very useful tool to promote your Internet business.
In order to be successful using Twitter to promote your products and services, you need to have tons of followers. The number of followers more than 10,000 will be kinda little sufficient to have your products and services known by your followers and in return, it could generate lead or sales. The more the better.
As simple as that your followers are simply your listeners of what you’re gonna say or introduce everyday. Here are a few simple tips below that tell you how you can get more followers:
Industry Tips – If you have expertise in one field, you can make use of Twitter to showcase your expertise and build your credibility. For example, if you’re an expert in how to make money online, you can create a list of high value tips to send out one or two everyday. If you have the time, you can do it manually or alternatively you can have a free tool such as TweetLater.com to schedule and send it out for you everyday. If those “Tweets” sent out by you are interesting, you will get “Re-tweet” by others, which will then send to their list as well and in return get you lots of followers.
Tweet your business – Once you have sufficient followers, you can consider tweeting about your Business, your products and services on Twitter. But DON’T overdo it. If your Twitter account is full of tweets about your products and services, it’ll definitely be considered boring, people will stop following you. You need to keep your followers, a 80/20 rule of Tweeting about your products and services should be good enough. Such as you have eight tweets about things other than your business and two tweets about your business, which should be just nice to keep your Twitter account active with followers.
Send Thanks to Retweets – When you get “Retweeted”, it means what you’re tweeting is worth to be shared by the person who re-tweeted you to his or her list of contact. It’s always best to send the “Retweeters” a short tweet of thanking them.
Quotes – Quotes are useful on Twitters and it’s also a way to get you more retweets. Similarly, you can use TweetLater.com to setup quotes for a month and watch your retweets happen. An example of quotes:
Invitations – On Twitter, you can open an online seminars and invite others to join. If you could provide useful, high value, low-cost info, then people love to join you and you will get lots of retweets.
Personal – The last thing is include some personal things in your life. But you don’t have to share your deepest inner thoughts or too much detail about your family. Tweeting about pets, food or hobbies shall be just nice and fruitful.