subject: Twitter For Marketing - You Need a System If You Want to Be Effective and Profit From Twitter [print this page] Twitter For Marketing - You Need a System If You Want to Be Effective and Profit From Twitter
To effectively use Twitter for marketing, without spending all your time on Twitter, you need to set up a system. An effective system that builds your Twitter following, establishes you as an authority in your niche, and subtly promotes your product, service, or affiliate promotions.
Build Your Following Systematically
Building a sizable Twitter following is much like building a sizeable mailing list. Rather than just building a large following, you need a following of targeted prospects - people who are most likely to buy your product or service. To effectively find and invite targeted followers, you need to set up a system for daily follower recruiting.
Establish Your Expertise Systematically
To establish yourself as an authority in your niche with your Twitter followers, you'll need to regularly supply them with good information and niche-relevant news. Use Twitter to give your opinion on new developments, and how you feel it will impact your niche. Set up a system to drip feed good, reputation-building tweets and you won't have to spend hours every day on Twitter. Instead, you'll be able to turn your attention to productive tasks, while your automated system does your Twitter marketing for you.
Run Your Promotions Systematically
To successfully promote your products, services, or other people's products on Twitter, you need to subtly slip promotional tweets in with your informative tweets. After building a reputation as a reliable source of niche-related information, you can start offering solutions to your followers. Provide them with the products or services they need, and you'll get click-throughs from your active followers. Again, you'll need a system in place to effectively keep your offers in front of your followers.
