Produce Traffic With Twitter
There is a steady influx of new social networking sites on the internet. Twitter is just like these sites. Twitter is a social media community with the the easy-to-grasp concept of “What are you doing?” or where people can just update everyone on their lives as often as they like. You can share as many small and intimate details about your life as you want and change the information provided at any time.
Using Twitter you can very easily, without much effort start to drive targeted traffic to your website by posting short messages called Tweets all day, 24/7. You can also choose to log into Twitter on your Blackberry or mobile phone, making it that much easier to attract more visitors to your website. Whether you have a blog or own your site, just about everyone is vying for traffic to their web property. People like to follow blogs or websites when they continually have progress updates. It’s as simple as signing up for Twitter and posting messages. There are no restrictions on how you can employ this mighty service for the purpose of marketing. For instance, you can use it to easily and effectively market your own service or product or someone else’s, tell everyone about a a special event your company is having, or anything else.
Obviously, the very first thing you must do is get a Twitter account. It’s very simple to sign up for, takes very little time, and won’t cost you a thing. You don’t even need to have a website of your own to sign up. All you have to do is select a username and you are ready to start. After you have your account is activated you’ll be able to invite other people, prospects or potential customers, to start following you. This is simply a promotion asking people to follow you, nothing more. Nothing is mentioned about products or services when you are inviting others to follow you. You can use contacts that you already have in your email address book and send email invitations, with an explanation of why and how they should follow you on Twitter. Most likely, a large number contacts won’t have to start up a Twitter account to come with you because they’re already signed up. Slow and steady, you will build a substantial number of followers to your account. As always, you’ll want to take care of your followers and treat them like gold. How are you supposed to to this? You should make special offers to them regularly, and also provide them with beneficial and useful information. For example, you may want to offer “Twitter Only” promotional offers, giving discounts to your followers. To entice more people to follow you, you can limit these offers to those people who are following you. This way you will start to have people referring others to follow you and get their friends and family into your list just to take advantage of your offer.
The first thing is to get a Twitter account. No, you can’t start driving traffic without it. Twitter gives you the choice to sift through your electronic correspondence to discover if you have any colleagues/contacts or old friends who are already on Twitter, and there is positively no cost. Once you have an account, you customize it. Upload a photo of whatever you want, it could be you, a logo, anything. Be sure you link to the website you are trying to generate traffic for on your profile. Unlike MySpace or Facebook, this social networking site is different in that it will not let you micro-blog, meaning that it will not let you upload a lot of photos and keep them on your page so that everyone can see them. You can, however, add a picture or share them with friends as part of an update. When you have set up your account with Twitter, you can start following people. Following is just another way of saying you have subscribed to their updates. These updates will be shown on your own profile page. It is easy to follow somebody, you simply use the ‘follow’ button which can be located under their profile pictures. Following people is a great way to get followers of your own, most people will follow people who follow them.
To make things a little more automated, you can take advantage of sites like Twitterfeed to connect your RSS feed to your Twitter account. To make that more clear, every time you update your website, your RSS feed will then post your updates to your Twitter account. This assures your updates are done frequently. Don’t bombard people though, you wouldn’t want to be the latest spammer everyone hates. Try to mix these updates with your natural tweets. Twitter can provide a windfall for marketers who need solid focused traffic that easily converts to sales. But it does take some time and effort to really see big results with it. To drive traffic to your website keep your updates consistent, intersperse them with your own commentary, and interact with others in a genuine way.
If you have studied Twitter marketing to an extent, you will know that keeping in touch with your followers and growing the number of followers you have is one of the most important traffic generating factors of Twitter. But that’s not your only method of increasing the number of visitors to your blog or website. A great tactic is to tweet an update that contains a link to whatever it is you wish to advertise. If you’ve got to promote a new product, you can simply put out an update with the link that takes them to the product page. Twitter allows you to build and maintain a whole new way of promoting your business, promotions and anything new can be posted and will cause a surge of traffic to your website. Twitter is a relatively new social networking site, but it is a powerful tool. The kind of possibilities that come with it are endless. By combining common sense with an effective marketing strategy you will see great results.
It’s quite simple to make money with Twitter once you’ve gotten some followers. For example, I just tweeted about how much I like using Affportal, and I got quite a few sales from people clicking through. So setup your Twitter account right now, and take advantage.
