Aim To Increase Followers.

For growing blogs, its definitely a tough job to get more twitter followers. Because many people will follow, only if you have many followers or simply saying, your twitter account should look matured. For beginners, many people don’t believe in following you (because your account is not matured). This was the case i realized when i have less than 200 followers.

Finally, i took a resolution and aimed to get 500 followers within a month. To frankly tell, i spend only 10 minutes per day. Even i don’t find much time for writing a blog post, for me its tough to spend time. So i decided to spend 10 minutes per day for Twitter, only to increase my followers.

How I Increased Followers ?

I used a tool (don’t worry i am not selling any products) which helped to find more followers. More interestingly, i am able to find more followers who are related to my niche. The end result, i gained targeted followers who are interested in my topic. That’s Buzzom, an online tool which helps you to organize/manage your twitter account. I felt, its very simple to operate buzzom and you could simply login with your existing Twitter account (you don’t need to register).

It has the option to Follow your followers, Grow your followers, Reciprocate follow and much more. I am more interested with Growing followers.

What I did ?

As mentioned, i spent only 10 minutes per day by doing the following:

• Click the Grow button.
• Buzzom lists the followers who are related to your niche/market.
• Manually select followers who have good profile.
• Follow them.
• Repeat the steps…

So every day, i followed many people (say 20-100+) and i found at least 50% of them are following back. Every day i gained followers and once in a week, i will clean my list (i will delete those who are not following me). So in a month time, i increased my twitter followers from 200 to 600+ by just spending 10 minutes per day.

Proof On Twitter Followers.

To make this post valid/true, i have shared the proof which shows, how the number of twitter followers had grown in a month ? From the day, i started doing this, you could see spikes in number of followers. If you see the graph, on 10th of July i have gained +123 followers (in one day itself).

Proof: Increase in Twitter Followers

I am planning to repeat these step again. Now I am aiming to increase my Twitter followers by 1000+ within a month (i will try to spend more than 10 minutes per day). Also, i found there are sites which sells twitter followers but i don’t believe in them and i don’t want to spend money for this too.

• Interestingly, the traffic coming from Twitter had increased to this blog when compared to last month.
• And more interesting, Twitter traffic spends more time on this blog, (avg: 4+ minutes more than Search traffic) that means Quality traffic.

What Next ? Follow Me On Twitter ! and Subscribe to my RSS to get more experimental tips in future.

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Apart from the long term methods to get more blog traffic using search engines, your new blog shall drive visitors from social tools also. Lets see those methods in simple steps.

Social Tools To Use.

There are many social tools available in the market. But the most utilized ones are Twitter and Facebook. Facebook is growing very fast, see this statistics which says there are 400 million active users as of now. At the same time, Twitter had a great growth in the past and now there are slowness in Twitter growth.

But it is true that, Facebook and Twitter are having the major population of social network users. As a blogger, we should not avoid these 2 tools. If you don’t have an account, Sign up for Twitter here and for Facebook here.

Networking To Get Blog Traffic.

Blogging is not only sharing information, its about networking too. Networking with similar people. And its one of the important factor to create visibility to your new blog. Its tough to get networked with other bloggers or peoples who are in your industry. But with Twitter, Facebook you could easily build that network.

• What you have to do is grow the number of your followers/fans and interact with them. This creates an opportunity to link with many like minded people.
• In actual, your blog gets around a network which is more targeted. You could pull your blog visitors to follow you and hence you get socially networked with them.
• The advantage is that you will be sharing your own articles with all your followers and this gets more traffic to your blog. Also, you could share other articles in Internet too and this way, interaction, relationship with your network builds.
• Not only sharing, you could ask questions or clear doubts for others in your network.
• Being active with social networking tools helps you to grow your blog network consistently.

Tips To Grow Your Social Network.

Lets see few simpler yet powerful tips to grow the size of your social network which inturn helps to get more traffic to your blog.

• Use tools to enlarge your account. Recently, i tried Buzzom for Twitter which helps me to instantly Increase the Twitter followers from 200 to 600+ with a month. Looks, it has Facebook support too.
• Manually, search keywords in Twitter search and Facebook Search,  find people who are similar to your industry and connect with them. Do this every day and over a period of time, you networks will be big.
• Other option, buy the network. There are many social network services to instantly buy the network for money. But i am not sure how far you will get true/active followers.
• Be active with these tools. Interact with people.
• Ask questions, clear doubts.
• Share only useful information to others.
• Learn how to keep good social media relation ?
• Follow Me on Twitter.

Final words, social tools are helping blogs to get more targeted traffic provided you built the right network. It actually takes time to grow your network and to see the results. At any cost, don’t avoid social tools for getting traffic to your blog.

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The interesting feature provided by Twitter is that you could send and receive Tweets from your mobile phones. Tweets are by SMS. So if you want to send a tweet then you have to send an SMS formatted based on the Twitter Text Commands.

In general, Twitter works with the mobile service provider to enable this feature. Check this Twitter Mobile support page to know the list of supported countries and the list of supported service providers. Whenever you are away from your PC, you could send tweets through mobile phones. SMS Charges are applicable as per the rates fixed by your provider and no charge for receiving tweets.

To frankly say, today only i came to know this feature from Twitter’s blog. So i am adding few more points in this post on how to better utilize Twitters SMS feature for your business.

(only for those who care about their MOBILE BILL…)

• First of all, for every tweet you send, it will be charged per SMS rate. So if you have free SMS’s available then you use this feature.

• Use SMS tweeting only in case of urgency. Say for example, if one of your customer needs your reply immediately then use it. Try to avoid using SMS tweeting feature as much as possible to reduce the extra cost to your mobile bill.

• Use SMS tweeting feature to post a single question. For example, on a day you may want to just ask a question to your followers then you could use this feature. You will get all the replies to your mobile (no charge for incoming tweets) to read. On that case, you don’t need to reply them.

Also, learn the Twitter Text Commands here or just take a print out for instant future reference !  Here is the news from Twitter.

Also, if you don’t know how to configure Twitter to use with your mobile phone then check out this helpful video.

Generally, whenever a tweet is made the byline holds the user name. For business accounts, there may be multiple persons operating a single Twitter account. Say, for example a business firm may do customer support through Twitter and they have multiple persons working on the support team. In that scenario, multiple users are added as “Contributors” to a single account. Every individual has the right to tweet using one single account. Also, the byline contains the username of the Contributor which tells the exact name of the one who tweets that message. For sure this kind of feature may help business firms who are willing to operate their twitter account with multiple resources.

For example, if the @bizmanager calls @bizsupport1 to make a Tweet then at the bottom of the tweet message (byline) will have the username as @bizsupport1 instead of @bizmanager. That’s more of adding personal to your business support right ?

The following is the note mentioned on this blog post – feature test with businesses,

The feature we are beta testing is called ‘Contributors’ – it enables users to engage in more authentic conversations with businesses by allowing those organizations to manage multiple contributors to their account.

Initially, this feature will be released to their Ecosystem partners & business user. Based on the feedback and after doing additional improvements (if any) they will launch this feature to every business users.

Showing Involvement and Participation.

First of all, you must show involvement and participate in using the social media tools. Your interaction should not happen at the keyboard or typing level, it should happen from your skills. Because social media tools, if used for business its a great marketing tool. Involvement drives you to produce more valuable content and hence you will become an expert in your network. So involve, involve more, involve even more…

Preach More Information.

Think like you are a preacher in your network and keep that thought going. I mean you should spread the right and valuable words to your followers. Don’t limit your relation as far as you know your network boundry. Your preaching should happen to the right peoples and to those who are tightly coupled or nearly coupled to your business. At the same time, don’t be rude, it hurts everyone quickly.

Listen To Others Voice.

Not only behave like a preacher, you should be a good listener. A good listener is the one who gains more knowledge and respect. So listen to others and understand what they are trying to tell. Don’t dominate others directly, sure you will be downgraded from your network. At the same time, don’t keep you silent. You have to spread your words at the right time after listening. Simply saying, listen and react nicely.

Behave Professional.

How do you behave professional in using social media tools ? There are two key terms, one is WORDS and the second is CONTEXT. Combining these two WORDS + CONTEXT may frame you as a professional. What words ? & Where (the context) ? decides your nature of communication. How you communicate decides your professionalism. Always behave professional & be professional, you will be appraised by others.

Being Solution Provider.

Addressing a problem and providing a solution keeps your social media network in good shape. That shows the level of your expertness in a business domain. Your voice goes high only when you are making solutions. Always spend your time to show that you are an expert in your network, definitely you will get great results sooner. Otherwise, try to ask more questions

Keep Your Network Under Scope.

You must define the scope of your social media usage. Answer this first, “for what purpose I am using social media tools ?” Answering this question may help you to define your scope. Because its not like you could expand your network hardly, you have to build a targeted network (adding targeted or related members to your network). If you have not understood your social media scope, define it first !

Though there are numerous things you should consider in keeping a good social media relation, if you follow these 6 points for sure your business grows towards success around a strongly built social network.

42 Top Social Media Tips And Tools.

Explains about the various tools available for working with social media from blogging to social bookmarking. Organized the tips and tools on social media under different categories. This is a must to bookmark article that you could refer any time to quickly access the tools.

Social Media Marketing Tips.

This is a great article that carries the proven social media marketing tips from gaints like HP, Comcast, Dell, Intel etc. Everyone is sharing their marketing strategies applied for promoting their business inheriting the power of social media. An inspiring article that you should go through to adhere the social media benefits.

35+ Social Media Tools.

This is collection of social media tools, some of the tools are we never heard and found that from this article. This is a wonderful list of tools that you should go through once to find out the one that may help you to make your work simpler.

How to Find Statistics on Social Media ?

It is always required to track the progress of your business maintaining a statistics. Your social media traffic and conversion needs to be tracked. This article speaks about how to find out the statistics of your visitors from the geographic details to much more. It has good links to resources that may improve your knowledge on social media tracking.

Today's Social Media !

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Social Media Business Benefits.

An article published recently on the benefits of social media for your online business. The usage of social media strategies from branding to traffic generation. A must read article that tells you the real benefits of using social media services for your online business.

Punching Tips on Social Media.

This is collection of 21 tips on social media speaks about marketing and optimization of social media for your business. It also speaks about Digg, Stumbleupon to increase your web site traffic. More related articles are referred from this page and definitely you will find useful.

Developing a Social Media Strategy.

If you looking to develop your social media strategies then you should read this guide. It tells like you should interact with more number of peoples using social media and you should define your goals, objectives, plan all your activites in using social media. We could say, this is a worth read for beginners that helps to understand the basics of social media and its usage.

Some more articles related to Social Media.

• Ideas For Social Media And Business.
• Social Media Dos & Don’ts.
• 50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing.
• Wikipedia’s definition of Social Media for beginners.

Articles on Twitter.

• 13 Twitter Tips and Tutorials for Beginners.
• Nine Twitter tips for business.
• 137 Small Business Twitter Tips.
• Twenty-One Top Twitter Tips.

Articles on Social Bookmarking.

• Tips from a Top 10 Digg user on how to get to the Frontpage.
• 4 Tips To Digg Success.
• Easy Tips For Improving The Potency of Your StumbleUpon Account.

Upon utilizing the benefits, you could easily cut down your marketing cost to the half amount. Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and of course blogging are the powerful marketing tools for your business promotion.

View of Social Media

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The major benefit of social media for business is its free. And it is really simple to setup a social media presence for your business and to build up a brand online. This article shows some of the major benefits of using social media for your business online.

Find New Customer.

Finding out new customers for your business is the incredible phase through out the business life. Social media gives that flexibility to find out new customers. It gives that exposure to a wider audience and helps you to go closer with customers. Because you could do a profile search for new customers who are looking for a service or a product related to your business. And that gives you the targeted customer who converts your products into money. The best example could be the twitter search.

Build Your Business Brand.

Branding is the sole energy of your business because that comes first in front of your visitors. The ultimate goal  is to build a better branding with social media for your business should be . Your social media profile should stand out when compared to the competitors and there you must show your professional touch. Because you are facing the real customers here. Your brand should remind in the visitors mind forever.

Using Blog For Business Promotion.

Blogs are the marketing tool that are easy to develop and build an exposure to your business online. You could promote your business using blogs. It helps your business to get aligned with the customers. It helps to easily identify, what your visitors or customers are thinking about your business and its service. You could add a personal touch to your business inheriting the benefits of blogging. You should realize the importance of using blogs for business promotion ?

Develop Your Business Network.

Social media helps to builds a network around your business. It is more important to build a targeted network. Though e-mail marketing is considered as the best method of networking, with the effect of web 2.0, now social media is the top strategy for business networking. A targeted network always supports your business provided you are giving out quality service or products.  There is a huge list of social networking sites but maintaining your quality is must to attain the real networking benefits. Without quality none of your customers never stays with your business.

Statistics or Tracking Becomes Easy.

With social media enforced, you could easily track the complete statistics. You could track down the following factors.

• The source of incoming traffic.
• Number of RSS subscribers and followers.
• The tracebacks and links pointing to your business blogs.
• Conversation rate from the social media traffic.
• Of course, rate of increase in product sale and profits.

You Should Know More

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Some more benefits of using social media for your business.

• The major advantage is that you could always get linked & mingled with your targeted audience.
• It helps to easily ping your customers anytime and that implements a stay tuned approach with the customers.
• It drives more targeted traffic, when the right messages are broadcasted to the public. You should not loose the opportunity to utilize the traffic from social media sites.
• It helps you to unicast as well as broadcast the messages. That means you could group your customers into smaller units and targeted them based on the requirements.
• Using social media you could show your expertness to the public. You could prove that you are the leader in your business domain. And that helps to stand out from the competition crowd.
• Social media feed you with new information and helps you to learn new things. Don’t forget to share what you have learned ? Because that shows you are active in your business.
• Of course, it gives you the fun of communication and interaction with customers. Hence more friendly to the customers with your business.
• Finally, it takes your business to the next level of growth.

Though there are tonnes of advantages available with social media, it all depends on how the right steps are applied ? and for sure that needs patience to achieve. You have to understand, experiment and inherit the benefits of social media for your long term business growth.

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Twitter has the potential to socially take your online business to next level of growth. In reality, every business owner should use Twitter as a marketing platform. It helps to build the stronger network in turn to achieve great success. With the power of 140 characters, promoting the business is simple and Free of Cost. So lets find out the realities in using twitter especially for your business growth.

Linking Targeted Population or Customer.

Twitter helps you to get linked with the targeted group and individuals. You should be more careful in selecting your group. You should focus towards building the targeted group. At one point of time this will become the source of customers for your business. Because targeted visitors are more important for the growth of business.

The Stay Tuned Approach.

Twitter gives the flexibility in utilizing your marketing effort in terms of time. You could stay tuned with your end customer, or your the visitors to your business or even with colleague, your friend. It helps to broadcast any news or information instantly to your group. Saves lot of time.

Traffic Generator.

Twitter drives more traffic through the links that you are sending in your twit message. You should take the care, to address the right stuffs that your group is expecting. Because it is not like you could publish anything through twitter. It is believed that the traffic from twitter is not converting much for your business. Better to initiate a call-to-action through twitter that drives the targeted traffic. Have filtering mechanism to take care what you are publishing to the group.

Unicasting Drives Better.

You should not always broadcast the message to all. Have the filtering always and take care to whom you are publishing the message. Pushing to selected people makes sense. Because here you are targeting to the right destination. This is a good example of effective communication.

Utilize Twitter Search Effectively.

It is simple to find more customers through the twitter search. Be the best in using the search terms i.e., the right keywords to filter the people. Focus towards the related and relevant topic or domain work outs best. That really builds the business network in the right shape. Also, how you are utilizing the twitter search apps matters here.

Show Your Domain Expertness.

Use twitter to show the world that you are the leader, you are the expert. You could rule the domain, by making valuable and matured comments over twitter. Always focus towards solving the problem. Provide the solution to the public. Gives solution proves that you are the domain expert. Expertness helps you to stand out from the competition crowd.

You should realize the importance of Twitter to take your business to the next level growth.

Make It Fun.

Communicating through twitter is fun. This is an ongoing activity. You could promote your business even as a hobby. Fun gives you the energy to achieve or gives fresh thinking. So feel the fun with twitter.

Learn and Learn Even More.

Use twitter as a Wiki. You could read over related topics and that helps to grow you knowledge. I would say, twitter is a open book. So read more and learn new things. At the same time, don’t forget to share the information that you learnt. Be connected with the twitter blog and twitter wiki.

Ask For Helping Hands.

Whenever you are struck with something don’t hesitate to find the solution with twitter. You could ask for help. Because this helps to establish the connections with other experts. This really strengthens your business and its growth. So don’t hesitate.

Have Twitting Schedule.

Make plan for utilizing the twitter. Include this plan along with your marketing and business plans. Stick to the plan and this makes you to work good and to utilize the real power of twitter as a social platform.

Speak Your Business Aloud.

You should make the noise with twitter. That means, look to attract the public. Some of the ways to attract are asking questions, making fun, giving solutions. Even you could conduct a course on your domain to cover the public.

So finally, twitter the most wonderful and powerful marketing medium for your online business. It all depends on how well you are utilizing the twitter.

Go along with twitter, build your network and revolve the potential growth of your online business.

Happy Twitting. ]]> http://emoneymakingonline.com/2009/06/20/realities-in-using-twitter-for-your-online-business-growth/feed/ 1 http://emoneymakingonline.com/2009/04/26/importance-of-twitter-for-online-business/ http://emoneymakingonline.com/2009/04/26/importance-of-twitter-for-online-business/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:07:49 +0000 Mr. Ven http://emoneymakingonline.com/?p=376 The Internet world is turning towards the social networking world. Its time to realize the importance of Twitter for your online business.

Twitter, a social networking and microblogging platform that provides a way to build a network of public around you. The amazing thing is that you are provided with only 140 characters to buzz your network or followers at a time. Using Twitter, could send a 140 character message to your followers and public. But is it possible to convey something with this limit ?

Yes, Twitter is short and sweet. It gives the flexibility to have conversation with any one including your customers or public instantly, that adds real value to your online business. I would say, Twitter is a perfect business tool.

How ?

Twitter helps you to promote your online business in lot of ways and in all directions.

Identify Your Business Customers.

Twitter helps to understand and identify your customers, it helps to understand what the customers are thinking about your online business. You could easily monitor your followers and learn the public opinions. As Twitter is a dynamic platform, it makes you to quickly identify the needs of your customers. For an e-commerce or product based business, Twitter plays a major role in understanding the problems faced by customers. This helps to quickly react to the problems and hence improves the customer satisfaction.

Most of the service oriented companies are now-a-days serving their customer needs and complaints through Twitter. Its really a dynamic medium to bring the public under your own network.

Explore Your Brand To Public.

Branding is really required for making a successful online business. Twitter as a platform helps to broadcast your business brand to the public. Reaching the public is more important than building a brand. Twitter provides the most simplest and best solution to explore your brand. Make your profile cool with your brand name and log embedded. This really gives your brand feel to every visitor. Branding builds the customer confidence and forms a trusted network of peoples around your business.

Twitter helps to quickly market your brand to the market and bring you in front of others faster. Hence I would say, Twitter is a powerful marketing tool for your business.

Drive Targeted Traffic to Your Website.

Twitter brings the targeted traffic for your website. Every business running online requires bunch of traffic. I would say, generating traffic is simple but the toughest part is generating targeted traffic for your business. Twitter feeds your the targeted traffic. You must build your network accordingly, connected to related peoples and keep them in your network always. This helps to bring in the targeted traffic at any time. It is true that Twitter builds valuable links to your website.

Statistics says that Twitters traffic is considerably targeted when compared to the search engine traffic.

Adds A Personal Touch.

Twitter gives a personal touch in everything that you are doing via Twitter.

• You are showing your own presence to your network and the public.
• You are showing your own style.
• You are showing your own culture.

This brings you before everyone that you follow and lays a strong basement for you to become an expert in your domain. You will become popular if you are actively addressing the problems with solutions and helping others related to your niche market. This also gives a personal life to your online business.

Mixing up a personal touch makes a good feel for others to follow you on Twitter. Sure chances are more for everyone to feel your personality.

Twitter The Perfect Tool.

Now I could say, Twitter is a perfect business tool.

• It helps to market your business,
• helps to serve your customers,
• helps to drive traffic,
• helps to build your business brand.

More over, Twitter is a broadcast medium for your online presence with power of 140 characters.

So don;t wait for anything, if you have not joined Twitter yet then join today. Twitter is really important for your online business as well as personal growth.

Come on, now its time to Follow Me On Twitter.