subject: How to succeed in doing business with twitter [print this page] How to succeed in doing business with twitter
Many people who use twitter have often wondered how possible it is to use the same avenue to do business. Among these there are those who would like to market their goods and services while others would only like to use this networking site to only build relationships. To them twitter is about building new relationships. Although twitter has for a long time been viewed as an easy way to do business and increase traffic in a site many people who have tried to do business using it have come to realize that its not as easy as many people think. Twitter involves a lot of work and much time before tangible results can be achieved.
The twitter traffic estimated to be about 10 millions per month is considered to be one of the largest and it's drawn from different backgrounds and cultures. One of the greatest challenges that one has to overcome when promoting a business on twitter is the limitation of 140 characters for tweets especially when promoting your business using twitter.
After registering and joining the twitter families, don't be tempted to going into full swing promoting your business on twitter. You need to take sometime looking at how others in the twitter business family are going about their promotion activities before you embark on your promotion campaign. You can look at the way members of your marketing niche are driving their business campaigns and you can learn a lot from their activities. Following are the different ways you can use to get knowledge on how to promote your online business on twitter.
You should not expect to learn these tactics at once. Be ready to spend sometime learning these tactics if you want to succeed. You can also look for help from those groups that help new members to promote their businesses using twitter. Different groups exist whose main aim is to help users to learn how to promote their goods and services on twitter. After you become a member of such groups you will also be increasing your contacts and gaining more followers on twitter. You can also try to relate well to other members of relevant niches or those niches that are similar to your niches. This is a process that may consume much of your time but at the long end it will be of great help to your business as a whole. It will definitely help you to direct traffic in your site. You should also ensure that the tweets on your accounts are regularly updated to go in line with market patterns.
It's also advisable to deal with other subjects apart from promoting your business every time. You can make a habit of responding to other tweets on regular basis because this will remove the impression that you are only there for the purpose of doing business and for the sake of your business alone. This may depict you as selfish and this will not do any good to your business. If you can succeed in this ability to build a good relationship with other users it will help you attract new customers for your business.
Many of those who fail on twitter do so because they are only involved with total promotion of their businesses instead of addressing the needs of the markets.
