Twitter Twenius

Benefits of Becoming a Twitter Twenius

Read on or watch the Free Video.  When I watched this video the light bulb went on within minutes.  Prior to the viewing, I couldn’t come up with a twitter strategy for Kiss Marketing, it just didn’t make sense.

Old Twitter Strategy:  Say what?

New Twitter Strategy:  We will use twitter to grow the KISS brand by sharing bytes of knowledge about Internet marketing, business development, search engine optimization, website design, and much more with people who want to learn.

Are you ready to become a twenius?

It seems like only yesterday that setting up a web site was the “cool” thing to do. Then suddenly, blogs became the popular thing and many raced to put up a blog and began blogging. But that was yesterday, and today is today. All the talk now is of “Social Media” with Twitter and Facebook at the top of the list. It’s the newest phase in online communication, it’s the newest phase in community, and as you might expect, it’s starting to catch the attention of businesses and marketers too.

There’s little doubt that Twitter has established itself as a major mode of social communication in the mobile and online world. Movie Stars, athletes, government officials and well known people from @SnoopDogg to @BenKweller to @JoeyMcIntyre to @MikeyWay and others, are all on Twitter.

But Twitter is far more amazing than that. What a lot of people do not realize is that Twitter is a local area connection tool too. More likely than not, your town municipal government is using Twitter, your local TV news, your local Fire Department, your library, your community college, even the guy that mowed your lawn recently. If they are not on Twitter today, they’ll likely be on tomorrow.

But there’s another audience moving with great interest toward Twitter. It’s an amazing transition of a more serious nature where business owners (both large and small) including entrepreneurs and home-based businesses are beginning to tap the grand potential of Twitter. When you see companies such as: @MarriottIntl, @TheHomeDepot or @lacoste start lining up on the Twitter bandwagon, it’s definitely time to to start contemplating YOUR Twitter plan.

It is likely that this “business phenomena” boils down to the commonly known fact that a significant amount of business actually occurs in social gatherings, at cocktail parties, on the golf course, or at other social events. Now, through Twitter it’s become possible, if not down right easy, to benefit from an online version of a non-stop cocktail party of incredible proportions.

The statistics and stories are incredible:

• How powerful is a reTweet? “Social network users are 3 times more likely to trust the opinions of peers over advertising when making purchase decisions.” ~JupiterResearch
• “88% of marketers surveyed are interested in using social media to market their businesses, BUT 72% have only been doing so for a few months or less. A significant 64% of marketers are using social media for 5 hours or more each week and 39% for 10 or more hours weekly.”
• “The average unique visitor went to Twitter.com 14 times during the month and spent an average of seven minutes on the site.”

What’s the meaning of all this? It means that if you are an entrepreneur or own a business, you must go directly to Twitter, do not pass go, do not collect $200, and set up your own Twitter account.

Can it possibly be that simple?

Well, not exactly. Once you have your Twitter account opened, that’s when the mystery begins. It’s a very very rudimentary concept, but like a Rubik’s Cube, unless you know WHAT to do, you’ll soon be scratching your head.

The good news is there’s help. Internet strategist and social media marketing expert, Dan Hollings has spent the past year researching and testing Twitter strategies for business. Along the way, Dan wrote 100 of the most popular Twitter tips found anywhere online. Next he created a toolbar for Mac or PC that puts over 235 Twitter tools, tips and apps easily within reach. Recently, he released his “tour de force” Twitter training program called, “Twitter Twenius” (that’s Twitter-talk for genius).

Here is a basic Twitter tip, to wet your whistle:

Socially bookmark your better Twitter postings (I’m talking individual tweet status pages). Yes they have SEO value. Services such as Twitchboard and Fleck Lite automate social bookmarking in different ways. You can of course go heavy-duty with services like Onlywire or SocialPoster.

Without doubt, there’s so much more to learn, however if you’re looking for killer strategies for making money using Twitter or a way to rev-up the Twitter rocket boosters on all your marketing campaigns from local to international, I wholeheartedly recommend Twitter Twenius.

I watched Dan Hollings free video and my creative juices started to boil. If you are serious about growing your business and connecting to your customers start with Twitter Twenius. 

Deirdre “Byte” Cavener
Follow me on Twitter: @KissByte