subject: How To Use Twitter Effectively [print this page] Whether you are a network marketer, affiliate marketer, own your own business, or simply want to grow your own network, Twitter is the perfect tool with which to do this, if you use Twitter effectively.
Twitter is a free social mini blogging site, and is proving very useful, with more than seven thousand new users signing up every day.
With Twitter you can look for people who have similar interests to yourself to follow, and most of the time they will follow you back. You can even follow your favorite celebrities or sporting hero's. If you aspire to be successful, why not find some successful people to follow, and see what they do each day.
With Twitter you can grow your network very quickly, by finding others to follow, and their friends in turn will end up following you. Don't turn Twitter into a place to pitch your sales talk. The best way to think of Twitter is like you are going to a party and meeting other like minded people. If you open your mouth and try and sell them something, they will quickly back away from you. First get to know them and ask them what they do. People will eventually want to find out what you do if you show an interest in them.
When you post entries onto your Twitter account, make them a good mixture of entertaining and helpful comments, interesting tidbits and every now and then you can recommend one of your products.
When you tweet on Twitter, make it to the point, as you only have a hundred and forty characters to say what you need to say. Make your tweets interesting and helpful, and you will build up and keep your followers a lot longer.
Replying to other people's tweets is a good way to use Twitter. You can do this by putting a @ in front of the user name, or simply clicking on the arrow at the end of the tweet that you want to reply to. Twitter allows you to send somebody a direct message, and this makes it easier to build up your relationships. You will gain more Twitter followers if you make your tweets interesting and informative.
Twitter is a wonderful platform to connect with new people. You can use these connections to get new ideas, joint venture partners and plenty of opportunities to help others. Helping and encouraging each other is one of the perks of having a Twitter account. By using the leverage of the internet and Twitter, anything is possible.
