How to get more traffic using Twitter For Business
The 140 character whiz kid know as Twitter has fashioned quite a media storm in the last few months with a frenzy of authority figures discussing Twitter on their television shows , and marketing experts telling you, you can use Twitter to new business leads , the exposure to Twitter is pretty high. You almost certainly know people on Twitter and your major suppliers have probably asked you to be their Twitter fan . That leas us to the big question . What are YOU doing about it for yourself?
Twitter doesn’t look like it will disappear any time soon. In the meantime some are jumping on the band wagon, while others sit in the sidelines bemused.
Despite what you think of Twitter for yourself, there are opportunities you should deploy and there’s a great FREE training video about that at http://www.TrafficHug.com/twittervideo/ but whatever you do, you should be doing something. The least you’re likely to achieve is a handful of great relationships , ideally with some way of people finding you by your keyword, or your name. I mean a few people are just going to wonder if your business (or you) are on Twitter and type in twitter dot com slash acme widgets. Now it will be embarrassing is a cyber squatter is sitting on your own name, so another good reason to make sure you secure your place in the Twit’o’sphere. (By the way things can be done about cyber squatters, just ask me.)
We have other articles on getting targeted traffic, but let’s look at something we can do in ten minutes We’ll take a more detailed look at targeted traffic but first let’s explore a quick and easy option.
Most people limit themselves to thinking Twitter traffic as being an internal affair . A concept most Twitter directories also foster. But , the advantages of having your existing clients join you on Twitter are enormous . So valuable that we need to do something about it now .
One thing we can do almost immediately is to add a Twitter “badge” to your existing web entities . A badge is a simple graphic stating who you are on Twitter with a link to your Twitter identity. In the videos I mentioned , you’ll discover a lot more , but the badge we can do now, with no excuses.
WHERE CAN I GET MY TWITTER BADGE ?
You can get your own customised Twitter badge at no cost from this site ;
http://wwwTwitterHug.com/twitter/category/badge/ - FollowMe Twitter Badge .
You just paste the HTML it provides in to your page .
It works great on Wordpress blogs as a sidebar Text Widget. I’ve put one on all my blogs.
The Badge is housed in its own HTML DIV so should reside easily almost anywhere.
If you create a table or div tag to position it in , then you can just paste the code in easily . With WYSIWYG html editors, there is usually an HTML “object” box you can place in the desired location and just place the code in to that. Adobe Dreamweaver users can just insert an AP Layer (from the insert menu) and then paste the code in to that using the HTML code view pane.
The rewards from promoting your own Twitter profile are immense. From SEO to relationships to direct sales.
