Twitter Marketing Training and Tools for Your Business
It seems this once seemingly "stupid" and "useless" (yes, i heard many a person say this) microblogging system is taking off and is leading by example.
I've been playing around with it for over a year, and while it's been fun, there's also serious business applications to using Twitter as well. I am not talking of the spamming systems that are popping up, where they teach you to add followers and then promote stuff to them left and right. I mean real honest to goodness "solid" business advantages to using Twitter,
BUT (and it is a big one),
in order to take advantage of it, you need to be on it (as a famous lottery commercial, in Canada anyway, once said, "You can't win if you don't play") and you have to know how to play by the rules.
So I'm here to show you how to get in the game and start playing with Twitter.. the RIGHT way!
This lens is dedicated to my sharing with you how to effectively market with twitter and what the BEST tools to use are BUT the first thing you NEED to do is CLICK HERE to follow me on twitter :)
I've been playing around with it for over a year, and while it's been fun, there's also serious business applications to using Twitter as well. I am not talking of the spamming systems that are popping up, where they teach you to add followers and then promote stuff to them left and right. I mean real honest to goodness "solid" business advantages to using Twitter,
BUT (and it is a big one),
in order to take advantage of it, you need to be on it (as a famous lottery commercial, in Canada anyway, once said, "You can't win if you don't play") and you have to know how to play by the rules.
So I'm here to show you how to get in the game and start playing with Twitter.. the RIGHT way!
This lens is dedicated to my sharing with you how to effectively market with twitter and what the BEST tools to use are BUT the first thing you NEED to do is CLICK HERE to follow me on twitter :)
Twitter Marketing Training Contents
- Twitter Marketing - Selecting Your Twitter Identity
- Twitter Marketing on JohnCow.com
- Twitter Marketing for Traffic
- Twitter Marketing Training
- Johncow on Twitter
- Twitter Marketing with Your Mobile Phone
- Twitter Marketing Books on Amazon
- Twitter Marketing Tools of Choice
- Find Twitter Friends
- Twitter WordPress Plugins
- Twitter Firefox Extensions
- Twitter Mobile Tools
- Twitter Marketing Lens of the Day
- Twitter Marketing Tips - Using TwitterFeed
- Do You Use Twitter & Do You Like It?
Twitter Marketing - Selecting Your Twitter Identity
One of the first things you need to know in order to get started on Twitter is what your user name will be. You'll need to put some thought into this; your user name is what everybody will use to identify with you, and it's not very wise to change later (in terms of followers) once you get going.You can use your user name as an opportunity to tie your twitter account into your online brand. If you've got an established persona (like, say John Cow) use that. If you're best known as yourself (and that's what you want to promote), then go with that.
I'd avoid using the product you're ultimately going to promote as your user name - it will make everything you say seem like you're trying to sell something, and that is not the way to be successful with social marketing. Plus, you may decide to promote another product at another time, and you don't want to have to start all over again. It's important that, whatever name you choose, real or persona, that you come across as genuine in both your profile and posts.
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Twitter Marketing with Your Mobile Phone
So I've been telling you how to use Twitter, and how important it is for you to post often and regularly, but unfortunately, you have a life and can't be tied to the computer all day.OK then, no Twitter success for you!
Just kidding.
While I am going to show you in a couple days how to auto post lots of cool things to your Twitter, the challenge is you NEED to be personal and that means you NEED to interact with your twitter followers, not just blindly post tweets at them. Now some may argue due to success they may be having spamming the heck out of their followers but all I can say is if you want long term success with your customers, then you MUST build relationships with them. That means allowing them to get to know you by communicating with them personally.
This can easily be done by any "Always On the Go" person by going mobile!
showing my readers how to mobiletweet on Twitpic
To sign up for Twitter on your cell phone, you'll need to go to the 'Settings' tab in your Twitter profile, and then go to 'Devices'
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Twitter Marketing Books on Amazon
Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 11/06/2009) 
The Twitter Book
Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 11/06/2009)
Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets
Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 11/06/2009)
Twitter Marketing Tools of Choice
- UnTweeps - Cleanup Twitter users who don't tweet often enough.
- Unfollow followers who have abandoned their twitter account
- Your Twitter Karma
- Mass unfollow those who do not follow you
- Twellow :: Twitter Directory, Twitter Search, & Twitter Yellow Pages
- Best twitter directory
- TwitterFeed - Autoposting to Twitter Via RSS
- Free service for auto posting to your twitter account
- Tools to Boost Your Productivity on Twitter
- Great service for managing automated direct messages, auto following and more
- Shrink a link. Track it. Grow your business. | BudURL
- Paid URL shortener that has excellent tracking
- Twitter Follow, Message and Market Management Tool
- Paid service that replaces twitterfeed, automatically finds loads of people to follow and integrates with Google Analytics
Find Twitter Friends
- Twitter Search Engine | Find Twitter Friends | Live Updates | TwitterTroll.com
- TwitterTroll.com is the only real-time Twitter search engine providing the best way to find new twitter friends
- Just Tweet It ยป THE Directory for Twitter Users
- Just Tweet It is a user directory for Twitter organized by genre to allow for users to easily find other Twitter users to connect with.
- FriendOrFollow.com
- Who are you following that's not following you back? Who's following you that you're not
- Qwitter: Catching Twitter quitters
- Catching Twitter quitters
- Twubble
- Twubble is a Twitter extension which helps you find more friends
- Twitter Ratio
- Your Twitter ratio is the ratio of your followers to friend
Twitter WordPress Plugins
- Twitter Updater
- The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.
- TwitThis
- TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website.
- Twit It Up!
- Twit it up is a simple AJAX-powered WordPress plug-in that basically does the same thing as Twit this: allows readers to tweet one of your posts directly from your blog by clicking a simple link.
- Twitt-Twoo
- Twit-Twoo is a very useful for bloggers because it allows you to tweet friends directly from your WordPress dashboard. Particularly great if you spend a lot of time on your WordPress dashboard!
- Tweetbacks
- Automatically import tweets about your posts and lets you display them either as comments or separately.
- Twitter Tools
- Twitter Tools, created by Alex King, is one of the most popular Twitter plug-ins for WordPress. It completely integrates Twitter in your WordPress blog.
- Twitter Avatars In Comments Wordpress Plugin
- This plug-in integrates Twitter avatars in the comment template of your WordPress blog.
Twitter Firefox Extensions
- Twitbin | Twitter Firefox Add-On | Twitter Sidebar
- TwitBin is a Firefox extension that allows you to keep up with all of your Twitter conversations directly from your browser's sidebar. Send and receive messages, share links and more.
- TwitterFox :: Firefox Add-ons
- This extension adds a tiny icon to the status bar that notifies you when your friends have updated their Twitter status. It also has a small text input field to allow you to update your own status.
- Power Twitter :: Firefox Add-ons
- Power Twitter adds a multitude of features to the Twitter website interface.
- TwitterBar
- TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from the Firefox address bar.
- shortText.com - Twitzer Firefox extension
- This Firefox extension lets you post tweets longer than 140 characters on Twitter.
- Twitter Search :: Firefox Add-ons
- This plug-in gives you quick access to the real-time Twitter search engine.
- Hoopla! - Twitter plugin for Firefox quicksearch
- An essential Twitter plug-in for the Firefox quick search feature.
- TwitterEyes :: Firefox Add-ons
- TwitterEyes keeps track of your character count as you compose tweets and replaces characters if you need extra room.
Twitter Mobile Tools
- Mobile Twitter
- Communicate and stay connected through the exchange of short status messages
- twibble mobile
- A location aware twitter client for Mac OS, Windows, Mobile
- Tiny Twitter
- Tiny Twitter - mobile twitter app by kevin cawley
- ceTwit
- A windows mobile twitter client written in c# leveraging the .net compact framework.
- Twitterrific
- Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website.
- Blackbird
- A Twitter client for BlackBerry smartphones.
- Map My Tracks
- Map My Tracks is the easy way to accurately track, or share in real-time, your sporting activity over land, sea or air using your mobile cell phone and GPS.
- Quakk
- Free Open Source Windows Mobile Twitter Application
- TwitToday
- A mobile application for posting updates to Twitter from Windows Mobile phones
- Slandr
- A Twitter Mobile ClientSite. Already working functions: replies, directs, search, geomap, tweetlocal, local events.
Twitter Marketing Lens of the Day
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Twitter Tools To Enhance Your Business
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In this lens, you'll discover 35 free Twitter tools you can use to help you to not only boost your websites' traffic but also your income. I'm not going to just reveal to you what these tools are, but I'm also going to share with you how you can mak...
Twitter Marketing Tips - Using TwitterFeed
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Do You Use Twitter & Do You Like It?
DianeRayfield wrote...
Even though I studied social media and have been on twitter for some time, I still found some new resources in your lens and insightful information. Thanks for publishing. I just started with my first two lenses on twitter and social media marketing. Please return the favor by rating my lenses if you find them helpful.
Thanks again!
Diane Rayfield
Posted October 24, 2009
punkydookids wrote...
Just started using Twitter for business; it's amazing the people I have found and have found me that are involved in my store.
Posted June 28, 2009
redondo wrote...
This is a great Twitter resource. I especially liked the video showing proof of traffic coming from Twitter. It looks like Twitter is here to stay. Therefore, I must jump on the bandwagon.
Posted June 07, 2009
jeffwend wrote...
Excellent list, I listened to the Twitter Power audiobook too, it was very good.
Posted June 04, 2009
john_way wrote...
I haven't know that Twitter has so many services. It is good to know it and when I need them I will use them.
Posted June 04, 2009
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