How to use Twitter for Business

I work with local businesses as a lead generation expert & internet marketing coach and I only use the internet, search engines and social media to get these leads. And it works really great!

With social media I use Twitter and Facebook pages. I find Twitter to be the best for connecting businesses with customers. For local businesses I recommend using http://www.twitterlocal.net and http://www.twellow.com/twellowhood/ to find locals using Twitter.

Do you want more customers?

Do you want to grow your business?

Then I set up http://www.tweetdeck.com with different columns using the built in Twitter search to keep track of locals discussing topics related to local businesses. Once you see them you can gently join in the conversation…and that’s the key…do not hard sell…offer tips, advice and create trust…once they know, like and trust you the sales will follow naturally.

I tell my clients to use their personal account but have a link to their business website in their profile. AND I tell them to use a picture of their face NOT their logo…since people relate to faces better. Also people do business with people not with businesses.

http://www.search.twitter.com , http://tweetgrid.com and http://tweetbeep.com are great live feed Twitter search tools that businesses can use to get insights into what people are saying about their brands or brands they sell in their stores and about the services they offer.

Last thing…with every Friday being #FollowFriday where people recommend / refer other people to follow on Twitter…I took this idea and a few Mondays ago I started #FollowLocals as a way for locals to connect, recommend and refer other locals – I am doing #FollowLocals on Mondays so it doesn’t interfere with #FollowFriday and also to get the week off to a great start with local networking. I also benefit from this local Twitter networking I get many of my clients through Twittering locally.

I plan to also start local Tweetups with the network of locals I have made in my area.

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If you would like to learn more about how to use twitter for your business and how to use twitter to sell more and get more customers please leave your Twitter for business questions in the comments below. I will be releasing an online course soon about How to use Twitter for Business and the people who leave me questions and comments below will get the course for free (Value $97).

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