Social Marketing Has Been More Widely Used Nowadays

By Kyla Croff


One new, and not widely used, Internet marketing strategy is use the website Twitter. It is a free and fast-growing website; you can get incredible results if you learn to use it correctly.

Every 90 days, the number of Twitter users doubles and is expected to reach 50 million by the end of 2010. Websites with statistics such as this are always good to target; the extensive user base and potential for growth gives you a large audience to communicate with.

You cannot get rich quick using Twitter to market yourself, but it is a sure way to increase your income if you take the time to learn how to use it.

Twitter is a viral website; it takes information on a subject and spreads it like wildfire over the Internet community. People are curious and they want to know what their friends are doing. If someone tweets about something, their friend will pick it up and re-tweet it (if it is interesting) and it's a snowball effect from there.

Keep the conversations very simple and you can successfully communicate with your followers are offering them assistance and information. Twitter by its very nature is simple, so you don't want to spew a bunch of technical jargon at people.

It will intimidate people if you use a bunch of technical words and long paragraphs in your tweets. Be personal with your clients; make them feel comfortable by conversing about movies, weekend activities, pets, etc. Regularly ask people for suggestions and advice too.

This is a good way to get a lot of followers really fast. You are essentially using Twitter to develop good business relationships, like any other marketing plan. The number followers you have indicates how popular you are and, by proxy, how well known your business is.

Don't try to directly sell yourself on Twitter. People don't use social networking sites be badgered by sales pitches; it's important to be sneaky about it and get your word in indirectly. This prevents you from losing a lot of customers.

Indirectly driving traffic to your website through YouTube, blogs, and articles can be explosive ways to expand your network. Good links will be re-tweeted and go viral from there.




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