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- amauldin71, on 05/18/2009, -4/+24Twitter? For Business?
C'mon world. We can do better. - abrasion, on 05/18/2009, -1/+18Buried, twitter article.
- lyman67j, on 05/18/2009, -0/+8I don't think Twitter is essential for my business
- skeptictank, on 05/18/2009, -3/+10Essential Twitter Tools is an oxymoron.
- NorrisOBE, on 05/18/2009, -2/+9Come on digg. Diggers hate Twitter. So why bother having Twitter articles in Digg?
- NathanCH, on 05/18/2009, -2/+9This stuff is killing twitter. I'm sick of 'marketers' who have 50,000 followers adding me so damn often expecting me to follow their spam-ridden updates
- HeavyWave, on 05/18/2009, -1/+7If you put aside idiots and retarded people from twitter users you got an empty set.
- shaelen, on 05/18/2009, -6/+10Twitter is the best example of human de-evolution.
The stupid people keep breeding, and they keep having stupid kids.
Twitter is the product of stupid people breeding. - RebornInFlames, on 05/18/2009, -1/+4Buried because ***** Twitter. Twitter is for twits.
- Andrewweber, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2What investment? A company i work for deployed an advanced Twitter campaign based two people 1 hour a day with huge success! Even spammer marketers are getting 2-4% click through rates. Many people have 100,000 followers and that equals free traffic plus branding!
Everything down to the tweets, backgrounds, bio and website url can be rotated and posted on a re-occuring schedule. Those are the tools this guy is missing. - rblancarte, on 05/18/2009, -0/+2They have a huge new subscriber rate, but their retention rate (ie users coming back to use it month after month) is TERRIBLE.
- nepidae, on 05/18/2009, -0/+2Yeah, a lot of tools use twitter.
- MindTrigger, on 05/18/2009, -0/+2Well, the reason I dugg him down is because Twitter is doing exactly what it's supposed to do. The same thing banner ads and other forms of advertisements do. They drive traffic to your site/business. It's it not Twitter's job to convert a visitor to a lead or sale. That's YOUR job as the business owner. If you are getting traffic and not converting people, you probably don't have anything useful to offer them.
- Noncentz, on 05/18/2009, -1/+3Obligatory ***** Twitter Comment
--- I really mean it though.... Twitter = Narcissism - Brandwise, on 07/31/2009, -0/+1Like MindTrigger mentioned you do not use Twitter as the conversion tool. You need to use Twitter as the tool that drives traffic to your web site. Keep in mind though you need to offer value to the follower. Do not just send them to your Home Page and think that you are done.
In order to make twitter work and work effectively you need to think about the whole sales cycle. Here is an article we wrote on the sales funnel - http://tinyurl.com/nply3c. This concept might help. When you see the graphic you will notice that Twitter allows you to generate Phase 1: Brand Awareness & Phase 2: Brand Consideration. It is then your job to create interesting tweets that drive your followers to a landing page with an offer this is Phase 3: Prospect Purchase Intent. Once they get to your site and see your offer if it is a good offer and fits with their needs, then they will commit to fill out a form or contact you to buy your product or service. But Phase 4: Client Conversion only happens if you have a quality offer and the viewer trusts you can deliver on this offer. Lastly, you need to go above and beyond in order to hit Phase 5: Client Loyalty Retention.
We use some web software to make this process easy and help our clients use it effectively by going through the steps mentioned above. If you would like to learn more about this and how you can start generating leads with your web site you can check out this page on our site - http://www.getbrandwise.com/web-trial-offer/.
We wish you the best of luck and keep tweeting. Oh by, the way if you would like to follow us on twitter click here - http://www.twitter.com/Brandwise. - Elranzer, on 05/19/2009, -0/+1***** doesn't belong in the World & Business section.
- Brandwise, on 07/31/2009, -0/+1When twitter is used correctly it can bring in ROI. To learn more, see our replay to mrdigydigy above. We went through the sales funnel and talk about where Twitter falls in the sales process.
- mksmothers, on 05/18/2009, -0/+1Does any business actually get a return on investment using Twitter? Come to think of it, does Twitter make any money from twitter?
- Gm7Cadd9, on 05/18/2009, -1/+2Twitterfall
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -6/+6I have seen lots of tools for twitter. I am using twitter from lats 6 months. Ihave around 1000 followers. We can get qucik traffic from twitter but conversion is very less....twitter is just a traffic generator website. So iwould not like to waste my more time for just traffic...let me know how we can get more conversion from twitter.
Then only we can use these tools for business. - dungar, on 05/18/2009, -3/+3Twitter can be really useful in some ways. for example, if you're from the UK and want to see what people are twittering about the big banks, check out the bank tweets at http://twitterfinance.co.uk
If you're talking about stocks in America, see http://stocktwits.com
just two services i can think of at the moment... - sigit27an, on 11/13/2009, -0/+0This a great information and I want a try to using twitter for my business activity but for the first time I must understand how to use twitter? Thank you very much.
- MindTrigger, on 05/18/2009, -2/+2@HeavyWave
While I agree that the 'micro-blogging' use of Twitter by your average person is lame, the real usefulness for me is being pushed updates by some of my favorite websites or important people (who actually have something useful to say). I don't even tweet much on my own Twitter account, but I get all kinds of great info pushed to me all throughout the day. It may not be the best tool for this job, but it's the ONLY one getting this kind of attention. - jimmies, on 05/18/2009, -1/+1Yes, absolutely for business. Smart businesses go where their customers are. Businesses who are especially smart have customer service reps working on Twitter to provide help where they can.
- parttimejobs20, on 07/18/2009, -0/+0yes..Twitter is giving me a Maximum Followers but Minimum Traffic..
- isaiah1112, on 05/18/2009, -4/+3When you think of the number of subscribers to Twitter it constantly amazes me that business do not want to use twitter. What an awesome, free, worldwide marketing tool! Of course, the company I work for hates it. They think it allows people to forget how to communicate face-to-face. However, this tool can allow you to get to know people you never would have the chance to know face-to-face.
Don't knock it until you try it! - chamorro, on 05/18/2009, -2/+1I don't twitter enough to find these applications useful to me but if I was hawking a product, promoting an album or married to Demi Moore then I can see the usefulness of these tools.
- MindTrigger, on 05/18/2009, -2/+1Oh yes, let's please arbitrarily block articles about things a few digg people do not like! Good plan! /s
- IamNomad, on 05/18/2009, -4/+3I dont understand why you are getting dugg down. you make a clear business point of conversion to sales.
unless its because twitter != business but twitter == "taking a *****" - studiojohnny, on 05/18/2009, -2/+1How to use Twitter for Marketing and PR:
http://www.howtousetwitterformarketingandpr.com/ - Orsenfelt, on 05/18/2009, -4/+2Obviously not. More like it than don't, it's kind of how digg works...
- collution, on 05/18/2009, -5/+3As much as you may not like it, I agree with mrdigydigy, it does garner traffic nicely. All idiots and retarded twitter users aside, for the intelligent web, it is indeed a powerful, but simple tool to connect and interact with others. Too bad they don't have a plan to monetize yet.
- s34mu5, on 05/18/2009, -3/+1make an app yourself
- s34mu5, on 05/18/2009, -4/+1actually just had a look, there is about 10 apps on igoogle
just goto "add stuff" then search "twitter" - collution, on 05/18/2009, -4/+1@HeavyWave
Twitter for beginners:
http://wefollow.com/
1)Enter a tag that follows around intellectuals, get smart twitter-ers, go put in something ignorant, get ignorant results. All of this in moderation and "in general" of coarse.
But somehow I feel your little closed mind is uninterested in taking chances. - deanc, on 05/18/2009, -5/+1If you dont want to hand over your twitter usernames and passwords but want to implement a "keyword" autofollow Or if you are running multiple accounts and need more than 100 api hits an hour (if you get your ip address whitelisted you can get 20,000 api calls an hour).
Then check out http://www.MyTwitterButler.com for $10 it's a windows .net application that run directly on your pc instead of in the cloud.
It does two things;
1/ Auto Follows Users with up to 4 search terms per twitter account (allows multiple accoutns - I run mine with 11 accounts simultaneously but it slows it down).
2/ Direct Message Broadcast - you can send a direct message to all you users with just one click.
Cheers,
Dean - dexaroni, on 05/18/2009, -5/+0Twitter for iGoogle to get around the proxy when you are AT your place of business should be somewhere on that list.
- Gm7Cadd9, on 05/18/2009, -11/+4You might not like twitter, but it's still a huge phenomenon. It costs nothing to use this service so why would business ignore it?
- riyanray, on 05/18/2009, -10/+0I just love twitter....so easy to connect with friends .. great
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