If you’re a Serious Entrepreneur who’s been involved in Internet Marketing, you’re learning that using social media is a great way to promote your business for free.
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(05-23) 14:46 PDT – Social networking sites are changing the way people interact, socially and professionally. Sites like Facebook and LinkedIn let people establish relationships and store information on their contacts. When effectively used and managed, these sites can significantly increase the productivity of salespeople and other revenue-generating employees. But the use of these social networking sites by employees to manage their business contacts can also have implications when those employees leave to join a competitor. Client lists and customer databases are frequently alleged to be trade secrets. If an employee has used a client list to build a network of links and/or contacts on Facebook or LinkedIn , does that list lose its trade secret status?
With only 140 characters to play with retweeting is like jamming a class into the corner of a classroom. No room to breathe. Claustrophobic.”
These tips work for retweets and your own, original posts:
1) Don’t Multi-ReTweet: I know that people feel like they need to give credit to everyone, but if you’re running low on characters, cut out some of the RT’s and leave just the original poster.
2) Use Word Shortcuts: “with” becomes “w/”. “Love” becomes “Luv” Retweeting becomes “RT-ing” “Characters” becomes “Chars”. The last probably only works in the context of this Tweet. Point is, you have to be creative.
3) Drop Vowels: As long as it’s still readable, you can do things like turn “classroom” into “classrm”.
Twitter is the easiest form of social media to measure, so make sure you’re getting the most from it.
The news is slowly sinking in that Twitter can help small businesses succeed beyond answering customers’ questions, networking and providing education. Within a fairly short period of time, Twitter could permanently change how small businesses operate to include hyper-local marketing, advertising, financial information, customer service, data mining, product and service alerts and micropayments.
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Use Twitter to market your homebased business.
You’ve probably heard of Twitter, even if you aren’t sure what it is. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service–think public instant messenger stream. From your mobile device or computer you send updates called tweets, which are text posts of up to 140 characters. Your tweets can be read by others, and you can sign up to follow the messages others write so that you can get short, quick updates from them.
As a homebased entrepreneur, Twitter gives you an open door to connect not only with other entrepreneurs but also other companies, marketing experts and more. As homebased entrepreneurs, these tips, connections and opportunities can spell great marketing options for you.
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