Twitter Tactics For Business

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10 Great Tactics To Use Twitter For Marketing, Promoting and Growing Your Business

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Copyright © 2008 Karim Gargum. All rights reserved.

10 Twitter Tactics For BusinessCreated By Karim Gargum www.KarimGargum.com

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• Display your Twitter profile on your website

• Promote it on your emails and other client communications

• Easily update clients & prospects on new services and features via your Twitter profile

1. Easily Update Clients

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2. Track leads

• Create a private ‘leads’ profile

• Give your sales team access

• They get an update when a new lead comes in (needs a bit of IT work but very handy)

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3. Centralised Brainstorming

• Create a new project/brainstorming twitter profile

• Employees use profile to exchange thoughts

• An archive of ideas is created for future reference

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4. Cover Trade Shows & Events

• Create a trade show, seminar or event profile

• Cover the event with informative twitter updates

• Keep clients, prospects, and fans informed

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5. Connect With Remote Workers

• Create a private twitter profile

• Users on the road can update their progress here

• Head office can update remote workers

• Quick access to key information and news

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6. Customer Research

• Get thoughts on new offerings

• Ask users what features they want

• Discover which features are most popular

• Get quick and concise answers on your twitter profile

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7. Centralise Business Information

• Create a private twitter profile

• Upload latest sales figures, monthly targets and website traffic data

• Managers & staff can easily access information

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8. Light-Weight Email Tool

• We all spend A LOT of time on email

• Use twitter to send and RECEIVE short, 140 character emails

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9. Promote Educational Events

• Promote a new product guide

• Promote seminars

• Promote webinars

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10. Promote Your Blog

• Leverage twitter to drive traffic to blog

• New blog posts can appear automatically on twitter with a tweak of your blog settings

• Get blog post feedback

• Twitter word of mouth can increase readership

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Signing Up For Twitter

• Go to http://twitter.com

• Click on ‘Get Started - Join!’

• Follow sign-up steps

• You’ll be given option to set your profile to private

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About The Author

• London based online marketing specialist with over six years experience marketing retail financial services

• Find out more at www.KarimGargum.com

• Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/Kazimor

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11. Bonus Tactic - Networking

• Got to http://search.twitter.com/

• Type in a theme, keyword, company name, service that you are interested in

• You’ll get results of the Twitter users discussing these issues, follow these users

• If they follow you, you can exchange ideas

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