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Global Software – Gscsc.net – Richard Goddeau Best Twitter Practices

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Welcome to the GSCSC, Inc. Website, and Welcome to the GSCSC, Inc. Website Blog. Focusing on Twitter once again, as Twitter deserves lots of quality end user remarks, Richard Goddeau – Global Software & Computer Solutions Centers and the GSCSC, Inc. Team has put together this article entitled: Best Practices For Twitter.

Best Practices for Twitter

If you’ve been around the social media circuit for any time, you know Twitter is the phenomenal micro-blogging platform revolutionizing the way people network and market their business. Twitter gains somewhere between 250,000 and 500,000 new users every month. The recently elected American President, Barak Obama, made Twitter a household name as the political pundits across the country marveled at the way his campaign team used the tool to reach millions of American’s with Obama’s message. For all the people using Twitter effectively, there are also huge numbers of people who either don’t make good use of it at all since they probably don’t know how to use it, or who try to overpower the platform and its users with unwanted spam. Here are three of the best business practices for using Twitter effectively to grow and enhance your new or existing online business:

1. Use a complete profile. Twitter gives every user a profile page. Make the most of this space by uploading an actual photograph of yourself, providing your real name in your biography and offering information about and links to your website or blog.

People look at your profile page to decide if they want to follow your updates. They may also take a look when you post a message that is particularly relevant to them. When they get there, make sure you give them what they need to make an informed decision about your business. It may be the only shot you get.

2. Interact. Don’t just broadcast. Twitter is a social networking tool with the operative word being social. Don’t just blast your site information or the link to your sales page every time you use Twitter. Talk to people. Ask them what they do and how you can help them or ask about their family members or interests.

3. Share your expertise. The people with the highest rankings on Twitter are the ones who aren’t afraid to give away some of their best stuff. We know because as business owners at GSCSC, Inc. it has helped us tremendously to do this.Twitter is great for conversations kept open enough for everyone to join in. General talk about a specific industry, process or training is a great way to get others involved in a discussion. If you engage in banter and chat on Twitter every time you use it, you may even find it a bit tough keeping up with all the followers you gain.

Share tidbits of real information related to your area of expertise. If you’re a marketer, don’t just push products. Instead offer tips on how to build your list or ways to help your affiliates. If you’re a writer, offer tips on how to write an effective headline or what to say in an email campaign. Share enough of your knowledge to let people know you’re the real deal. It’s the fastest way to draw them to your website where you can then sell your products, provided that you’ve earned the prospect’s trust from your Twitter communications.

If you consistently follow these three business practices while interacting on Twitter, you are all but guaranteed to grow your business. Twitter is really all about interaction and relationships are all about give and take and showing respect. Using good business sense and common courtesy in your Twitter affairs will gain you not only followers and clients, but respect for your business as well. Happy Twittering. Global Software – gscsc.net - RICHARD GODDEAU and the GSCSC, Inc. Team wish you all the best with Twitter. Let us know your results. We look forward to speaking with you. Talk to you soon.

 

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To Your Continued Success,

 

The GSCSC, Inc. Team

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Best Practices for Twitter

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Writing about the top best practices for Twitter is fraught with danger because everyone has his/her own list. Thus with trepidation I will attempt to provide you with what I believe are the most important best practices:

#1 Best Practice:

Share valuable information of yours and others with links to this information. This can be blog posts, news articles, website pages, news photos, whatever is appropriate.

#2 Best Practice:

Retweet worthwhile information tweeted by others and include links to this information. This is a great best practice as long as this is not the only thing you do on Twitter. (Some people do only retweet other people’s information without ever engaging in conversations.)

#3 Best Practice:

Engage in conversations – use tweetbeep.com or other applications to know when people are tweeting about topics of interest to you and then participate in the conversation. This includes answering questions when you can do so. (For example, where’s a good fish restaurant in West Los Angeles? Or where can I find odd-size men’s shoes online?)

#4 Best Practice:

Do NOT make your tweets all about you. If you are sharing valuable free information, that’s one thing. But if you are promoting your own products and services all the time you will get a reputation that you do not want. (You will also get an undesirable reputation if you constantly tweet trivial information such as when you are going to sleep.)

Good sense is the motto for Twitter best practices:

The important element in any best practices list is using good sense. Put yourself in the other person’s shoes and consider what you like to see in tweets and what you don’t like to see.

Here’s a slightly edited email I received:

“I quit Twitter. To be frank, I hated it. Too many strangers wanting to be my friend. Much too much small talk. I just don’t have that kind of time … I simply can’t muster up the interest required in knowing that Bob just returned from his kitchen with a bologna sandwich.”

See what I mean? Judge your tweets by what you’d like to receive.

Just make sure you are one of those people sharing valuable information!

FYI – One additional point to consider: Who you retweet can also be important. Even if you think a particular tweet is valuable, consider who it is from who will then be mentioned by username in your retweet.

If that person’s tweets are usually not valuable and therefore that person’s overall Twitter reputation is probably not that good, perhaps you shouldn’t retweet that person. You want to retweet from effective Twitter participants the valuable information they share.

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