Twitter, a micro blogging system is starting to become more popular among businesses who want to keep in touch with their customers and to keep tabs on their competition. Please share your best Twitter tips - or Twitter "no-no's" with other business women. Share Your Twitter Tips
Get Started Today
- Best tip: Start today! Twitter sounds simple enough but takes time to master and develop a following. It is not an overnight fix to a lack of social networking.
- —Guest 19113RWay
Share Information
- Share the wealth. Be sure to Tweet things for others when called upon to do so. For example, charities asking for votes, or spreading news that is relevant to your own business.
- —Guest AnneSythe1972
A Little Personality, But Avoid TMI
- I promote my website on Twitter, but I also tweet about myself. I am careful not to post anything really personal, and I never tweet about my mood or food. Sometimes it's just a quotation that I like, or what music I'm listening to. I think it is a helpful strategy if your business and your personality are strongly linked, as mine are.
- —SusanAdcox
HootSuite to Tweet
- Use HootSuite.com to manage multiple Twitter accounts. It also has a great "shrink" URL tool to give you more room for typing your messages.
- —Guest Anonymous
Week Days Are Better
- I find people respond better to business tweets during the work week. Save your best tweets for mid-week and avoid sending them on weekends and holidays.
- —SueBeeRay
Hashtags Hashtags Hashtags
- In real estate is is location, location, location. In Twitter, it is hashtags, hashtags, hashtags.
- —Guest TweetMe
Don't follow everyone who follows you
- It can get overwhelming if you start picking up a lot of followers. I don't always follow back. I look for experts in my field and people who look interesting to talk to. Some people follow me and I have no idea why. I don't follow back when that happens, or if the person has almost no info on their profile page. No clue...no follow!
- —Guest Joanne
Be URL smart
- I use Twitter to put urls to new products but the urls can be too long to put the url AND the description. I created one page on my site with a really short url (so I have more room on my tweet to say what it is about). When people go to that page they see a picture, brief info and click-through link. They also get a brief glance at other products I tweeted about.
- —Guest Guest-ann
A Definite No-no!
- If you have a business and personal twitter account make sure they do not link to each other. I put my business website on my personal account and did not have "approved only" checked on my personal account and a client found it. Imagine how embarrassed I was when he wrote and asked if he was the client who had me pulling out hair a 2 a.m.
- —Guest MoreThanMom
