How To Use Twitter for Business

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Presentation on How Small Business Owners can use Twitter in their Marketing efforts. Twitter is a great tool for Business Owners to create their brand awareness and customer management. Follow the steps provided and incorporate Twitter into your Social Media Marketing Strategy

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Power of Twitter:

How to Capture More Business

Urvi Mehta

Social Media MarketingPR Easy

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Agenda

• What is Twitter and why it’s valuable?

• What Big Corporations Do

• What You Can Do

• Twitter Automation

• Final Thoughts

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Twitter

• Micro-blog site where you answer the question “What are you doing?” in 140 characters

• Growth of 422% from Aug 2007 to Aug 2008

Source: TechCrunch

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6 million unique monthly visitors

55 million visits(+25 million since Nov)

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Twitter 101

• Create Your Profile– Put your picture

– Customize background

• Introduce yourself– Fill out profile completely

– Keywords in Bio (160 characters)

• Be a good conversationalist– Listen, respond

– Contribute relevant, useful material

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@elysiabrooker

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@SouthwestAir

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What Big Corporations Do…

• Monitor brand perception

• Support current customers

• News Broadcast

• Deals

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Brand

Management

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@starbucks

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Support

Current

Customers

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@ComcastCares

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News

Broadcast

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@cnnbrk

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Deals

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@DellOutlet

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What You Can Do…

• Spread your message

• Enable word of mouth marketing

• Work more efficiently

• Gather and develop ideas

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Step 1:

How to Find

Prospects

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www.twellow.com

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www.whoshouldifollow.com

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www.wefollow.com

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www.search.twitter.com

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Step 2:

Engage

Community

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@wbaustin

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@JimandKelly

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What can you share

• Blog Posts

• Articles

• News

• What’s happening

• Events

• Tips

• Videos

• Podcasts

• Pictures

• Deals of the week

• New Product

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What can you promote

• Live Events

• Teleseminars

• Webinars

• Sales for Retail Store

• Slow at Restaurant – Send out a Tweet

• Affiliate Products

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@MattBacak Promoting

Marketing Madness Seminar

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Automate

and

Manage Multiple

Accounts

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www.tweetlater.com

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www.hootsuite.com

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Take Aways

• Set up an account with Twitter (if you don’t have

one yet)

• Go to Twellow.com and find at least 5 people to

connect with

• Go to WeFollow.com and put in your 3 tags

• Share an article, blog post, video, etc with your

following

• Be Real, provide value and engage within the

community

• Bring them to your business

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