Twitter is a great marketing tool if you use it right. Like any social media, it’s a relationship building tool. When you earn the love and loyalty of your network, you find your stage has a pretty bright spotlight. The more you use Twitter and contribute useful content, the more you find followers will find you. There are many tools where your authority can be found (Mr Tweet and Twellow are my favs), aside from just surfing Twitter itself.
Twitter offers the ability to send a direct message to people who follow you. Have you ever noticed on occasion when you opt to follow someone, you immediately receive a direct message with something like “thanks for following – check out my site at www…” For that direct message to be sent, the Twitterer is either doing it manually (unlikely, especially if they’re busy) or using a web 2.0 tool like Tweetlater. This Twitter auto respond tool lets you schedule your tweets, but also has a convenient “auto-reply” feature:
Pretty useful to market yourself a little further. Just make sure you have something to say in your Twitter auto messages. It’s a great way to Twitter clients specifically, as well.
For those who were curious but didn’t ask, my Twitter obsession also hits Tweetdeck, Twhirl, TweetEffect, TwitterGrader, TweetBurner, Tweepler, MyTweeple, and TweetVolume pretty often. I’m about as addicted to these as I am Firefox extensions.
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The auto response could a problem if you add self-promotional a message. Imagine you follow someone because they provide the same service that you provide. When you follow them your auto-response would send them a message offering to provide to them a service that they provide for their clients. Not a good way to get way followed back.
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In all marketing there’s a chance of a redundant message or sending your message to a competitor. I think this WAY outweighs that off chance.
Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again – taking your feeds also~! Thanks.
Thanks for this info, Bill. That’s very helpful.
Nice. All the Twitter marketing and ad stuff in one place.
useful info, thanks Bill.