5 Top Twitter Marketing Tips For Beginners

David Thorpe    Twitter Marketing    

Twitter marketing isn’t just as simple as turning up and telling everyone how great your products is, or posting a bunch of affiliate links. You need to build a list of followers, establish yourself as an expert, let the community get to know you and provide as much value to the Twitter community as you can. Here are my 5 top tips for doing just that:

Twitter Marketing Tip #1 – Choosing Your Twitter Username
Try to make sure that you choose a username that relates to the business you are going to promote. There are several strategies for doing this; some Twitter marketers like to brand themselves, and use the same username (a variation of their actual name) to promote all of their products and services. The second strategy is to set up different user accounts for each of your products. Using this method means that you can be much more niche specific, but it is much more time consuming managing several Twitter accounts at once.

Twitter Marketing Tip #2 – Personalise Your Twitter Profile
This is an extension of tip #1. Twitter gives you the opportunity to add personal information about yourself (or your business) to your profile, so make sure you take advantage of this. You can also set a custom Twitter Background. This is very easy to set up, and can include your company logo, or even more information about yourself.

There are several services that offer high-end backgrounds at a price, but I’ve gone for the do-it-yourself method. I’m no graphic designer, and if I can do it, you can do it, I promise. Check out my Twitter page to see what I’m talking about, or my site for videos on how to create your own Twitter Backgrounds.

Twitter Marketing Tip #3 – Add Value to the Twitter Community
Social media is all about adding value to the community. You can do this by sharing your knowledge, commenting on other Twitter users’ tweets and even posting instructional images via twitpic. The idea here is to show people that there is more to you than just a bunch or marketing hype, and BS affiliate links.

Try to inject some personality into your tweets. And remember, there is nothing wrong with posting a link to a great free article on your money site’s blog.

Twitter Marketing Tip #4 – Do NOT Spam
This is simple really, do not spam. Do not post cloaked affiliate links, do not send multiple direct messages to your followers telling them to visit your affiliate link. You should be using Twitter to brand yourself as a trusted expert in your field. Not a lazy affiliate marketer with no imagination. Quite apart from the fact that nobody will trust you, Twitter will actually ban you for using these tactics.

Twitter Marketing Tip #5 – Build a massive list of Twitter followers on auto pilot
Building a massive list of followers is vital to your marketing efforts. Think about it, the more people that hear your message the better, right? If you have ever tried to do this manually you will know that it is a very time consuming job. But not any more…

You can now actually get your hands on Twitter Auto Follow Software that will allow you to follow and un-follow Twitter friends at the click of a button. It is the exact same tool that I use to build my list of followers by up to 1000 every 5 days, while I sleep! Very cool, and vital to build your audience, and increase traffic to your money site.

Author: David Thorpe
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