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Hi and welcome everyone,

When I first discovered Twitter I must admit I wasn’t sure what to make of it, in fact I thought it was pretty pointless, Since then though I must admit I’ve changed my mind, after what I’m going to tell you I think you’ll agree and start to Use Twitter to Promote Your Business.

The first thing you need to do is go and set up an account at  http://twitter.com/

You will get your own page which asks “what are you doing?”, yes i know, as I said it seemed pretty pointless to me too but after I filled in my profile and simply entered just set up my Twitter account I started getting emails saying people were “following me”. So I went back in and had a look at what the people who were following me were doing.

Nearly all of them were promoting a business of some kind or another and the more I looked at it the more I realised that when you fill in the “what are you doing” and click update you are submitting a mini blog post. Take a look at my Twitter page and you will see what I mean:

http://twitter.com/caleka

I think you are now beginning to realise how to use Twitter to promote your business.

Here’s how it works;

There are 3 ways to update and these are called Tweets, you can send a Tweet to all subscribers, directly to one person or even send a private message to someone.

To send a Tweet to all subscribers, make sure you are logged in and go to your Home page, type your message in the box where it says “What are you doing?” and click update. You only have 140 characters to use up in this box so if you are putting in a link it’s best if you use TinyURL to shorten the link. Everyone will see this message and can click the link.

If you want to make sure that one person in particular sees your message first you have to be “following” each other then just type @ followed by their username, for example @caleka would make sure I got your message. All your other followers will also see this message.

If you want to keep the message private then you can send any of your followers a Direct Message, you’ll see the Direct Message box on your Home page.

More and more websites are catching on to the value of using Twitter, Squidoo, Ezine Articles, Mixx to name just a few. And if you use TweetMyBlog to automatically update your Tweets on your Wordpress blog you will even get paid for it! All these are free methods of how to Use Twitter to Promote Your Business.

Take care,

Carol

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