Twitter Marketing for Dummies

25 Excellent Twitter Tips for Small Business

With the launch of my book, Twitter Marketing for Dummies, I have been getting a ton of questions about Twitter and the use of Twitter for business. I wanted to update and republish this blog post from the beginning of last year… to better inform you on some tips for using Twitter.

Use them. Learn them. Love them.

1. Use your personal picture in your Twitter profile. There is only one situation where you can use your logo… if you have two profiles. Your personal profile and your company profile.

2. Don’t setup an Auto-DM to send when users follow you. Why you ask?

Here are two posts talking about why you should not:
Tweeter Blog: How to STOP These Freakin Auto DMs
Social Media Club: To Auto DM or Not to Auto-Dm

3. Use Twitter Search to find subject matters that interest you. This can cater to your business interests, as well as your personal interests. This will help you find people that share intriguing content.

4. Add in some of your personal life while you are using Twitter. What is important to remember is that you are using Twitter for your business communication as well. The people following you want to know that you are REAL and want to interact with you. This is especially important if you are a small business owner.

5. Use it. It is important to use Twitter but do not waste valuable time when at work. Tweet about what you are reading online.. Maybe a new insight you found while reading the night before. Try to use Twitter a couple of times a day.

6. Reply. Reply. Reply. Whenever you get a response (@yourname) make sure that you respond to the reply. This is extremely important because your most valuable followers are the people that respond and communicate with you.

7. (via John Janstch) Use strawpoll to create a survey to feed into your Twitter stream. This will be an awesome way to get information regarding service offerings and products.

8. Follow some awesome business Twitter people (@problogger@chrisbrogan@gacconsultants@jaybaer@roundpeg@Ribeezie)

9. Use a business Twitter account (example: @brandswag) to create a great place for customer relationship management. Teach your clients to use Twitter to keep with the happenings of your company. Also, it can help you share the news and information regarding the success of your clients.

10. Use Twitter as a discussion forum. Ask your clients and prospective clients what they would like to see, hear, taste, and experience.

11. Help. (via Twitip) Always help before asking for money. Twitter is not a place for you to hard sell individuals on services. We are here for discussions and not sales.

12. I started out with a personal profile that allowed me to create relationships before starting my company profile. (also via Twitip) I was able to cleaning transition between two accounts because people trusted me. If you start two accounts at the same time you will be overwhelmed and underwhelm your followers.

13. Use Hootsuite for productivity. Hootsuite allows you to pre-post Tweets to be sent out throughout the day. The important thing to remember is that you need to be involved in the conversation. If you are not there to interact with your followers there really is not a point for using the tool. However, it does help for those random tweets to stay in front of your followers.

14. Take pictures and share on Twitter. Add pictures on Twitter using Twitpic using your iPhone or mobile phone.

15. Use Google Analytics to measure the traffic directed from Twitter to your blog or website. If you can measure the traffic related to sales or aquisitions it help you understand an ROI from the tool. You can also use PostRank to measure engagement or your followers and your blog.

16. Encourage your employees to join Twitter and become part of the conversation.

17. Twitter connets thought leaders. Talk about a great brain trust!

18. Fill out your profile. Make sure you put information regarding your personal life as well as your business life. This is important because.. everyone reads it.

19. We add our Twitter URLs to our business cards. I also like to add my LinkedIN account and blog URL. This will encourage more of your networking friends to follow you and communicate more effectively.

20. Follow @Zappos. A perfect example of corporate twittering.

21. Download TweetDeck. Tweetdeck is a powerful tool to help you be productive while using Twitter.

22. Are you using a Blackberry or iPhone? You should definitly be looking at downloading an application to help you manage your twitter account while you are out of the office. Tweetdeck will sync your entire system together on one platform (fyi).

23. Thank you. When someone shares your post or tweet make sure you send a DM or Tweet thanking them for their support. Just as you should be emailing people to thank them for comments… same goes with Twitter.

24. Create a column or search feed on your Twitter productivity tool (Hootsuite or Tweetdeck) and start following potential clients, competition, and industry leaders…. Be very sure to organize them out to keep the messages separate.

25. Don’t add hundreds of people when you first join Twitter. Let the entire conversation happen naturally… your follower base will grow naturally

If you have anymore tips. Please add them below! Get on it!

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100 Twitter Marketing Articles for Small Business

I thought I would put together a list of Twitter marketing articles to accompany the different blog posts about Twitter and marketing for Twitter through small business.  The follow list are some of the top Twitter marketing articles on the net!

1. 10 Innovative Ways To Use Twitter For Business

Social networking is excellent for those who want to promote products, services and ideas directly to a target audience. Twitter marketing is a task that involves two-way audience engagement. …

2. 5 Very Bad Facebook Marketing Tactics

The article was called 5 Very Bad Twitter Marketing Habits. But equally irritating are tactics some Facebook users use to promote themselves or their music. Here are some of the most annoying ones. 1. Event invitation spam. …

3. 7 Twitter Tips For Beginners

You got all truth about twitter. Marketing your tweets to people that follow you because of some extra website gaining followers is really pointless. I do not have as many followers yet but I really see quality difference when someone …

4. Microblogging For Business | Marketing Advertising

Threadless, the T shirt company that has made social media marketing an art form usesTwitter (@threadless) to update their audience regularly in this way. Microblogs are a great way to expand your network and build your contacts. …

5. Twitter For Marketing: You Need A System To Profit

To effectively use Twitter for marketing, without spending all your time on Twitter, you need to set up a system. An effective system that builds your Twitter following, establishes you as an authority in your niche, and subtly promotes …

6. Powerful Twitter Grader Traffic Tips | web-marketing-blog

Twitter is a popular social networking website although it is still in its nascent stage. Twitter marketing is slowly gaining popularity as…

7. Tools to Maximize Your Social Marketing Efforts on Twitter

Trying to do social marketing on Twitter without the proper tools is like trying to cut down a giant redwood with a pen knife rather than with a two man chain saw.

8. Twitter Marketing: 5 Ingredients for a Perfect Recipe

Check out the 5 elements of a perfect Twitter marketing strategy on the TopRank® Online Marketing Blog.

9. Twitter For Marketing: It’s No Longer Just Mindless Tweets

When it first appeared on the social networking scene, there wasn’t much benefit in Twitterfor marketing. Twitter was dominated by mindless chatter and…

10. Why You Need to Use Twitter As a Business Marketing Strategy

Most businesses are now realizing that traditional forms of advertising such as newspapers, television, and radio are no longer effective methods of marketing a product or service…

11. The Roles of Facebook and Twitter in Social Media Marketing

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12. Twitter Marketing Guide – Use Twitter as a Marketing Tool

13. Twitter Marketing: 8 Simple Steps to Follow

Twitter is one of the simple social networks and it is also free. With these easy to do steps you can create leads from twitter.

14. Twitter Marketing Tips | Twitter Freak

Twitter has come on to the social media scene in a strong way. With millions of Tweeters around the globe, this is a hard market to blank.

15. How you can Achieve Success At Twitter Marketing

It appears that many people can’t get enough of Twitter. They’re always discussing it, online and offline. Through Twitter, you can create a large network of friends, clients, associates, and customers.

16. Easy Twitter Marketing Strategies

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17. Your Perfect Twitter Marketing Strategy

You need to have the right mix of elements (and ideas) in order to have the perfect Twitter Marketing strategy. If you push your products and services too much, your followers won’t stay.

18. Successful Marketing with Twitter

Twitter to success by exploding your Twitter cash and profits, by a successful marketing strategy available by being shown the Insider Secrets to Twitter marketing success, with the potential of making money with Twitter Tools...

19. Four Styles Of Marketing On Twitter

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20. Why Twitter Marketing Big For Internet Marketers?

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21. Twitter Marketing Is Something You Need To Think About

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22. B2B Marketing using Twitter

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24. Twitter Marketing As Simple As Chatting

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26. Top 3 Twitter Marketing Apps

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27. How You Can Be Successful At Twitter Marketing

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28. Twitter Marketing: What You Need to Know

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29. Twitter Marketing – Are You Taking The Road To Failure?

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30. Twitter Business Secrets 3 Advanced Twitter Marketing Strategies

Have you been using Twitter for business for a long time, and you want to learn some new advanced social media strategies? In this article, you’ll learn 3 little-known Twitter Marketingsecrets that the inner circle of social marketers 

31. 5 Ingredients for a Perfect Twitter Marketing Recipe

A successful Twitter marketing strategy must include a balance of different but complementary elements. Ensure the right mix with these 5 ingredients for the perfect Twitter Marketing recipe…

32. The Twitter Marketing Blog: The Twitter SEO Effect

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33. Does Your Twitter Marketing Suck?

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34. Twitter Marketing 101: Get Started Today

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35. 7 Ways Marketers Can Use Twitter

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36. The 411 on Twitter Marketing

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37. Run a Marketing Campaign on Twitter

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38. Target Followers, not “Big Follow” Strategy

Why the “Big Follow” Strategy Doesn’t Work.Yes, you get the followers. The problem is that you get a bunch of followers who aren’t really interested in anything you’re saying.

39. Twitter Marketing Tips For Your Customer Service Program

Have you been considering using Twitter as part of your marketing plan? What about using it to build your visibility and market share? And could Twitter assist you in your customer service programme? 

40. Twitter Marketing Techniques That Work

Twitter marketing techniques can give a free rein to several courses of earnings. Here are six of the grand ground-breaking ways to bring into play Twitter for your business venture or any corporate dealings. …

41. Extreme Twitter Marketing Tricks and Tips 2010 Part 2

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42. Twitter marketing and the Power of Influence

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43. The Power of Twitter and Marketing

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45. Facebook And Twitter: How Smart Restaurants are Using Social Media

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46. Effective Twitter Marketing Strategies

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47. Successful Twitter Marketing Strategies For Businesses

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48. How to Tweet and Retweet on Twitter

49. Twitter Marketing Done Right

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50. Twitter Marketing: Here Are 8 Simple Steps

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51. Using Twitter Marketing as a Business and Market Research Tool

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52. Twitter marketing steps into a new age

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53. How to Use Twitter Marketing for SEO

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54. Twitter Marketing Tips For Success

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55. Small Business Guide To Twitter Marketing

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56. Understanding Twitter As a Wine Marketing Tool

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57. 10 Twitter Dos and Don’ts

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58. 26 Steps in Small Business Twitter Marketing

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59. Finding Your Twitter Voice & Style

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60. 2010 Twitter Marketing Tools

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61. 7 Reasons Not To Tweet – Or Are They?

Have you made an idiot of yourself on Twitter yet? The chances are you will, and there is no place to hide! Check out my 7 Reasons NOT To Tweet.

62. More Twitter Marketing Insights

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63. Twitter Marketing : Basics Strategies and Tactics

Brazen Careerist is an online community and career center for Generation Y — young professionals who want to define their careers using the new rules for success. This article focuses on the basics of Twitter marketing and usage for college students looking to get a job.

64. Why Do I Need Twitter?

Everybody “buzzing” about it from the pundits on CNN and The Today Show to mainstream celebs such as Ellen Degeneres and Ashton Kutcher. Ok, that is the point where you are probably screaming “DUH!” at the screen. 

65. Twitter Marketing Strategies That Work

If you have questions about Twitter Marketing and wonder if it’s right for your business, please visit my company’s website, Presence Media Group. You can check out our portfolio and contact us with your company’s info and your …

66. Twitter Marketing: Here Are 8 Simple Steps

Twitter is a free social networking site. It enables its users to do micro-blogging wherein users can send and read messages known as tweets from other users. Tweets are posts which can be displayed on the author’s profile page and are 

67. Using Twitter To Promote A Variety Of Niches

“I know I have these bits and pieces that could make me money, but I don’t know how to put them together and use Twitter to help sell them – or get traffic to them. What would make sense in my situation?”

68. 137 Twitter Marketing Tips for Small Business

In case you missed it (as I did), Anita Campbell a few months ago published 137 Twitter Tips: How Small Businesses Get the Most from Twitter, based on input from the readers of Small Business Trends.

69. Marketing 101: Proactive Twitter Marketing

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70. Top Twitter Marketing Strategies

Twitter can be used for various purposes. You can use it as a networking tool and also as a marketing tool. Here in this article, you will find top strategies for using twitter as a marketer. Just follow these Strategies and see the 

71. Guy Kawasaki On Entrepreneurship & Twitter Marketing

Guy Kawasaki who was part of Apple and later founded Garage Technology Ventures a venture capital firm and is well known as the author of the best seller ‘The Art of the Start’. He currently is the Founder of Alltop a news/content…

72. Twitter Marketing Earns Business Big Dollars

In the world of marketing on Twitter, many businesses have earned big bucks just using this site alone. For example, a recent case study is Dell’s outlet store who have taken in more than $2 million in two years alone...

73. What is your Twitter Marketing Strategy

Now I write Twitter Marketing strategies for companies. Twitter has exploded way beyond the imagination and many people are making a full time income on Twitter. There are a few things you must do with your twitter profile…

74. What is your Twitter Marketing Strategy?

Now I write Twitter Marketing strategies for companies. Twitter has exploded way beyond the imagination and many people are making a full time income on Twitter. There are a few things you must do with your twitter profile. …

75. Why Use Twitter for your Business?

To inspire motivation, examine the following Twitter marketing strategies and analyze how they might benefit your company and/or organization. Announce coupon codes and special deals. Do you offer coupon codes or special deals?

76. Twitter Marketing VS. List Building

Twitter Marketing is cool, it’s hot, but is it effective? For example, list building has been a primary activity for online marketers for years, but now newbies are getting confused. How does Twitter marketing help in list building? ..

77. Twitter Marketing Tips For All

Twitter is being used by major corporations world wide. They are using it to broadcast PR news, coupons, launches and a lot more. When I heard of twitter I did not consider it at all. I didn’t like the thought to write 140 character …

78. Do Twitter Marketing Tools Really Work?

Many entrepreneurs around the word ask this question, “Do Twitter marketing tools work?” Yes it does. Using internet for marketing is an all new method targeting on the use of popular social media for publicizing business…

79. 6 Twitter Apps for Marketing Your Business

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80. Simple Methods to Cultivate Focused Twitter Traffic

If you’ve been studying Twitter marketing at all you have probably realized how critical it can be to have loads of followers on your Twitter account if you want to start getting some real traffic to your site.

81. 5 Ways Restaurants & Bars Benefit From Local Twitter Marketing

If you haven’t joined the latest internet sensation, Twitter, then you’re missing out on a golden opportunity. Not only does Twitter keep you up-to-date on “What’s Happening” in the world, but it also affords an opportunity to connect …

82. The Essentials of Twitter Marketing | Pure Web Conferencing

For a Twitter marketing campaign to be truly successful, you’ll have to do two things. You’ll have to a) get as many Twitter followers as you can to join your Twitter page and 2) you’ll have to get those followers as quickly as possible …

83. 9 Ways to Get More From Twitter

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84. 4 Ways Companies Use Twitter For Business

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85. Twitter Marketing: Pros and Cons

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86. Marketing 101: Proactive Twitter Marketing

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87. Twitter Tools for Marketing and Social Strategies

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88. How effective is marketing on Twitter?

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89. 5 Steps to Twitter Success

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90. Twitter Marketing 101 – Beginner

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91. 3 Easy Ways To Use Twitter For Business Marketing

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92. Top 10 Twitter Apps for Business

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93. How to perfect your Twitter marketing strategy

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94. Twitter Marketing Secrets for Business – Exposed

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95. 10 Twitter Marketing Tips

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97. An Experiment in Twitter Marketing

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98. Top 10 Ways to Use Twitter for Marketing

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100. Twitter Marketing: It’s More Like E-mail Than You Think

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140 Twitter Tips from Twitter Users Around the World

While we were writing Twitter Marketing for Dummies, we asked different individuals for ideas on marketing through and using Twitter. We compiled around 140 tips and ideas for using the tool  to add to the back of the book! The powerpoint/slideshare presentation below are the tips taken from the back of the book and designed for your viewing pleasure. If you have any additional tips.. please feel free to add!

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Top 10 Twitter Business Applications

1. TwitterHawk

TwitterHawk is a real time targeted marketing engine that allows you to search Twitter on a chosen topic (or keyword) and will either auto-reply to that person or generate a list of matches for you to respond or reject. The point of this application is to hit the conversation while it is happening and they follow up. Make sure you are being sincere when using the tool. DO NOT SPAM.

You also have the ability to link track with an average cost of around .02 cents. The people over at Twitterhawk are feeling blessed and are offing 10 free tweets for signing up.

2. CoTweet

CoTweet is a web application that allows you to manage up to six Twitter accounts through a single CoTweet login. This is a great tool for businesses with more than a couple of employees using Twitter at one time. You have the ability to monitor keywords and different trending topics on Twitter. You can assign Tweets and on duty notifications for your employees! It is an awesome tool. I would recommend this for any business owner.

3. TwitterFox

TwitterFox is a Firefox (the Web browser) extension that notifies you of your friends’ tweets on Twitter. The Firefox extension adds a tiny icon on to the Firefox status bar which notifies you when your friends update their tweets. It also has a cool small text input to that you can use to update your tweets from your browser. This may be overkill for some of us that use Twitterific or TweetdDeck, but it is a cool tool to use. You may think it’s perfect if you love Firefox and Web browsing!

4. TweetDeck

There is no better tool out there for managing and organizing your Twitterati than TweetDeck. Imagine a tool that you can use directly from your desktop that manages followers, friends, replies, direct messages, groups, and anything you could possibly imagine. Tweetdeck gives you the ability to create groups that could cater to any type of subject. If you want to pull a feed from Twitter that has to do with Barney and childhood stories it is completely possible to do.

Tweetdeck can also be downloaded on your iPhone and used when you are away from your desktop. The program is easy to use and easy to manage. Built off the Adobe Air platform, it is your social dashboard for Twitter. And in respect to that little tool called the iPhone, there is a feed :-) for that.

5. Hootsuite

Where Tweetdeck gives you the ability to organize and manage followers, Hootsuite is just as powerful when it comes to the world of Twitter productivity. Hootsuite gives you the ability manage multiple Twitter accounts, add multiple editors of the same account, pre-schedule your Tweets, and measure traffic. If you are looking for a tool to help you stay productive throughout your day and not be held hostage by the time suck police, Hootsuite is where it is at!

You have the ability to view clicks and where the click originated based on region of the world. You also have the ability to view your more popular Tweets as well as how many clicks you have received over a given time.

6. Twitterific

Twitterific can be likened to Tweetdeck but is designed more for use on the MAC desktop. Twitterific has an excellent user interface and is small enough not to be annoying. It gives you the same type of abilities as Tweetdeck but offers more keyboard shortcuts for the MAC user. The application is designed to let you view as much or as little information as you prefer when using on your desktop. Twitterific is also available for download on the iPhone as an application.

7. Twhirl

Twhirl is a social desktop software designed by the people who brought you Seesmic the video conversation website. The Twhirl application is still built in the same realm as Twitterific, Tweetdeck, and Hootsuite. It also has the ability to be run on both Windows and MAC platforms. If you are familiar with sites like Friendfeed and Seesmic this may be the tool for you. Twhirl gives you the ability to connect to multiple Twitter, Iaconi.ca, Friendfeed and Seesmic accounts.

You can let Twhirl run in the background while working and it will give you random pop-ups that display new messages. There are a couple of other cool features worth mentioning for this productivity chapter. You can cross-post messages to multiple profiles on other social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace. You an also record a video and share it on the video social network, Seesmic.

8. NearbyTweets

This is a tool for those of us who would enjoy connecting to individuals in our general location. NearyTweets is a website that allows you to search based on geography in order to build customer relationships and monitoring in real time.

NearbyTweets is still fairly new but they will have some awesome tools coming up in the future including premium business tools, ability to show nearby business on Twitter, and a page for setting your default location.

9. TwitterGrader

Hubspot, the people that brought you Website Grader, realized that there was a need to track and rank users based on a certain criteria on Twitter. TwitterGrader was the answer to that question. The site allows you to track and measure your (and others) relative Twitter power. The calculation is based on a combination of different states including your number of followers, the power of your followers, number of updates, clicks, retweets, and completeness of your profile.

10. Twilert

Twilert is the tool for the paranoid in all of us. Twilert gives you the ability to receive regular email updates of tweets containing your brand, product, service or any word you could possibly want, really any word. The service is extremely easy to setup and you will be able to stay on top of the conversation surrounding your specific keyword.

You can also use the service at search.twitter.com but Twilert gives you a more consistent feed from the world of the Twitter.

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Twitter Marketing for Dummies

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I have been waiting with great anticipation for the delivery of my book, Twitter Marketing for Dummies. It has been a long (but awesome) process of writing, editing, and brainstorming over different concepts involved in marketing through Twitter. I couldn’t have done it without Erik Deckers, the Wiley Staff, Manny Hernandez, and the staff at Brandswag. It was a fun 7 weeks of writing and I am looking forward to what the future brings.

If you have not picked up the book you can do so through Amazon.com (click the link) or through your local bookstore on November 18th.

Some general things you will learn by reading the book:

  • Using Twitter to communicate with your customers
  • Utilize tools to maximize your Twitter prescence
  • Build and use your network to psread your message
  • Measure the success of your efforts

It has been fun and I am looking forward to the feedback from the book!

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