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Five Social Media Tips For Small Business Owners

Twitter, the microblogging phenomenon, has quickly evolved beyond a way for people to update their friends and family as to what they're doing.

It has become one of the most popular ways for businesses to promote themselves online, for two reasons:

FIRST: It works

and

SECOND: It's free. (Requiring No Up Front Participation Fee)

Anyone can increase their online visibility with Twitter and other social media. However, there are a few guidelines that businesses should follow to increase the effectiveness of their marketing, their company and brand.

Five Social Media Tips For Small Business Owners

1. Professional Background

For Twitter, get a professional Twitter background designed for your site, and for Twitter and all social networking sites, make sure to upload an avatar picture. This can be a company logo, a picture of your product(s), or a picture of someone from the company - the owners, the staff, etc.

2. Participate

This means creating content, conversing, and monitoring. Someone at the company needs to check in on all social networking sites a couple of times a day (okay, you can take weekends off), to post updates, to check on messages, to send messages, to start conversations with people. There is no point in investing a lot of time creating social networking sites if you don't update them regularly. Real relationship building can not be automated, no matter what the oft touted automated services promise.

3. Provide Reasons To Visit and Revisit

One of the main purposes of marketing on social networking sites is to bring new customers back to your own website. To do this, you need to have something compelling on your site - a sign up for an ezine newsletter, coupon of the week, coupon of the day, a contest, an interesting new blog post, a new poll that you have taken with some fun, interesting, or startling facts on it that might go viral.

4. Promotional Ties To Your Physical Locations

If you have a brick and mortar store, you can still use social media sites to promote yourself. Some businesses tweet a "word of the day" which gives followers a special discount if they come in to the store; some businesses tweet weekly contests, or specials, and so on.

5. Regularly Measure Results

Use social media monitoring tools to monitor the conversation about your business, products, and competitors. www.twilert.com, www.tweetbeep.com, www.google.com/alerts, are all free tools that will report back to you when people online mention whatever keyword you've entered.

Although Social Networking sites such as Twitter or FaceBook do not require a participation fee, that doesn't mean there are no related costs involved. When you plan for your ROI (return on investment) on social media remember the valuable human element. It's people that make things work.

Creating content, continuity with your other marketing and communications platform and conversing requires time, talent, and relationship building. Social networks are an investment of your most valuable resource - time.

And finally, here's some advice from the ultimate authority on Twitter: www.twitter.com!

Twitter has published a free guide to using social media marketing for business

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What You Need To Know About Twitter

It is fair to say that Twitter has had an gigantic effect on how social networking communities are designed.

After just 3 years of existence twitter has already climbed to the 3rd most used social media website with Facebook being the largest followed by Myspace in second place. For June 2009, Alexa traffic statistics indicate Twitter is ranked 33 overall for the most visited sites and is estimated to have 9 million registered users from the world over. So, have you taken the plunge yet and started twittering?

Twitter is often coined as a micro-blogging web site which allows anyone to stay in communication with others 24/7. You can register by surfing to 'twitter.com' site and writing your personal details in the spaces provided. It is advisable to provide your real info so you are able to connect with real people. In your account profile settings you can unselect ‘protect my updates’ to let everyone read your tweet updates or leave it ticked in order to restrict your messages only to those close allies or followers.

Sending your Twitter account url link to all your friends and relatives can let them now know that you have an account on Twitter.

Even when you aren't actually on the net, Twitter can still be used. When you're a registered member on Twitter, you can also enter your personal profile by using Instant Messenger application or cellular phone. To set up this feature with your profile, first you have the right settings checked to link your mobile and instant message accounts to Twitter.

Once this is done, tweeting messages can be sent by any of the registered devices. To transfer tweets via your mobile phone, a text sms is sent to the number 40404. The unique caller ID from your mobile device is than stored on your profile so those tweets will be identified in the future. If you’re in AIM, you can send the IM to TwitterIM but if you’re in Yahoo or MSN they can be sent via instant message to Twitter so it makes no difference where you are, friends and followers will have access to your tweets and can even receive tweet updates on their mobile device.

But you may still ask how do I read my friends messages that they send? Well, to do this you need to log into Twitter and add your friends user names to your own list. In your account there is an ‘Actions’ tab box, use your mouse to click on the word 'Add’. Another good feature is the search box that will let you find user profiles of more friends and maybe even close relatives or school friends you have lost contact with. It is important to note twitter users that have account profiles selected as private will have to accept a follower request from you before it is possible to start reading their tweets.

Managing your list of contacts is difficult via cell phone so it is much simpler to do it online. You can also choose to restrict phone use to only receive the tweets so even if you are away from your computer, updates will still be sent.

Twittering can really bring a lot of enjoyment. It is worth the time it takes to register there and configure your profile to suit your life. Go meet up with all your mates and find out what they are doing. Just remember to post tweets regularly too so everyone will be kept up to date. There are also many useful tools that help save the amount of time that it takes to do some of the more mundane processes and allow twitter to be a more enjoyable experience.