Are you using Twitter to market your business?

[lav]

Did you follow me on Twitter?

Yep! you are 1 of seven that Im following at the moment haha and I have a massive 1 followers growing everyday hehe

Hardly anyone uses their real name,

oops! my username is jasoncoe_XL I think it will make it easier for people to find me and also I have been inclined lately to avoid using my "netname" if possible as Im trying to market my business on a more personal level.

[vangogh]

You have your second follower now. I think I saw your name come through in an email as having followed me, but when I went to follow you back I got a message the page no longer existed. Maybe that was when you changed the name. I don't think the XL was there before.

Some people do use their real name. Just depends on the person.

If you want to build up more followers there are a couple things you can do without having to resort to all the auto follow tools. Pick someone you're following and look at who they're following and who's following them. The names you recognize you should follow. Maybe will likely follow you back.

Also @reply people. Unless someone has too many followers they'll notice the replies and go back and forth with you. 2 things will likely happen. They'll follow you and some of their followers will have seen your conversation and follow you as well.

And the more you tweet, the more followers you'll get. It'll take some time at first, but as you build more followers the growth of new followers picks up.

[lav]

I don't think the XL was there before.

Yeah I changed it to something that people will recognise as XL Grafix as well. Thanks for the follow

Thats a big 2 now

[vangogh]

Hopefully as some of us here find your link you'll have a few more than 2 followers.

[lav]

I wake up this morning to have 1 more follower wooo hooo!

That makes 3

I am putting together some email stationary today that I can email out with all our quotes, and invoices etc with a link to twitter, facebook and of course my site as the ultimate goal is to get some of my clients who arent on twitter to sign up and follow.

[vangogh]

Don't forget to link your social profiles together. Link your Facebook page to Twitter. I don't think you can link Twitter to Facebook, though you can create a background on your Twitter home page that shows an image with your other social media profile URLs.

[lav]

Don't forget to link your social profiles together. Link your Facebook page to Twitter

Yeah Im going to play with that tonight. Im going to see if I can get some of my facebook friends to register for twitter. Ive mentioned before that not many of them are using twitter, Im assuming that they have been there and looked at it but probably got a little confused or couldnt find anyone they know and left.

Guess what! Im up to 5 followers today.... growing rapidly haha

[vangogh]

By tomorrow you'll be up to a dozen.

[eborg9]

Originally Posted by vangogh

Don't forget to link your social profiles together. Link your Facebook page to Twitter. I don't think you can link Twitter to Facebook, though you can create a background on your Twitter home page that shows an image with your other social media profile URLs.

You can feed your Twitter RSS to update your Facebook page. I can't remember how I did it at the moment, but all my Tweets go straight to Facebook as well as any You Tube favorites, and Diggs.
There is also a Firefox add on called "Share-a-holic" that lets you set all of your social networks including Titter, My Space and Facebook and bookmark from your browser.

[vangogh]

I think it's just one of the settings in Facebook. I also pull in my Delicious and StumbleUpon profiles. Now that I think of it I'm not sure if I'm pulling my tweets into Facebook. I'll have to check.