How to Use Twitter Effectively For Your Business

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Why Twitter is Important for Your Business

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Learn New Things

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The Key to Successfully Use Twitter for Business

Why Twitter is Important for Your Business

1. Share Industry News

You see, Twitter is a great tool to reach more people and convince them to business with you using content marketing.

In addition to sharing your own content, you must also share related content from other authors and websites. If you do this consistently, you will build relationships with experts in your industry who have big followers.

When they return the favor and share your content, they can bring a lot of traffic to your website.

You can easily automate the process of sharing high-quality content on your Twitter account. Here is the step-by-step instruction:

Ifttt stands for If This Then That. What we are trying to do is to automate a formula: If Our Favorite Blog Publishes New Content Then We Share it on Twitter.

Don’t worry if you do not understand right now. Just follow the steps below and you will save a lot of time on Twitter in the long run.

Step 2: After you create an account and log in, click on your profile on the top right and choose “New Applet.”

Step 3: After you click on “New Applet” you will see a big sentence that says if this then that

Step 4: Click on the word “this” and choose RSS Feed from the list.

Step 5: Choose an RSS Feed trigger that says New Feed Item.

Step 6: Set up 2 or 3 feed URLs of the best websites in your niche. For example, I use Moz, Search Engine Land, and Social Media Examiner feed URLs for my Twitter account.

As a result, every time Moz, Search Engine Land, or Social Media Examiner publishes a new article, I automatically share it to my Twitter followers.

Note: Feed URL is different than a blog or an article URL. The best way to get a website’s feed URL is to look for their subscribe RSS button.

2. Curate Content by Using Lists

When you view a list timeline, you are only viewing the tweets from accounts on that list. For example, you can create a “Marketing” list, that includes all the marketing experts you want to keep an eye on. Just add them to your “Marketing” list and you will easily read their updates.

Another common use of list is to monitor on your competitions. Add them to a list called “Competitions” and see what kind of content they share. As a result, you can get ideas on how to share better content than your competitions.

Here is how you create and add accounts to a Twitter list:

Step 2: Click on “Create new list” and give it a name.

Step 3: Now, your list is live and it is time to add users to it. Here is how you do it: Just go to a Twitter account you want to add and click on the 3 dots settings beside their Follow button.

Step 4: Choose “Add or remove from lists”

That’s it. From here, you can add a new list name and keep adding accounts to your lists.

Here is a great resource on ideas to use Twitter list.

3. Interact with Other People

Additionally, I use Twitter to interact with other people from all over the world. For example, when Safari browser didn’t work on my iPhone, I searched Twitter about the topic and asked one iPhone user from the other side of the globe.

He tweeted me back within minutes and told me how to fix it. I also use Twitter to answer questions from other people.

I have also secured backlink opportunities as a result of my interaction with other people on Twitter.

4. Learn new things

Simply put a keyword on Twitter’s search bar at the top and you’ll get all kinds of content about a particular topic.

5. Market Your Business the Right Way

Your goal is to share informational content on Twitter. One of the most common practices is to share your high-quality article on Twitter and direct the clicks to your blog post.

Here is another example to learn from:

Do you notice what they have in common? They both have an image on their tweets. Make sure you have an attention-grabbing images to go with your content.

The combination of sharing your own high-quality content and the automated content that you set up with ifttt.com is enough to keep your Twitter account fresh all the time.

6. Monitor Your Keywords

There is a free, yet powerful, tool to monitor your keywords on Twitter. It is called: Hootsuite.

Use Hootsuite to monitor your keyword and respond to relevant tweets. For example: I monitor a keyword “I need an aquarium” using Hootsuite.

Immediately, I see 2 relevant tweets I could respond to if I were selling aquarium products:

7. Get Leads for Your Business

The best way to get leads on Twitter, and any other social media websites, is to share your downloadable content.

Here is a real-life example of how to get leads on Twitter: Piktochart and Hubspot are working together on an eBook about “How to Generate Leads with Infographics.”

Piktochart then sends a tweet to share this eBook:

When you click on the tweet, you will go to a landing page where they ask you for your name and email address to download the eBook.

The next step is to follow up with these leads that you collect. From here on, you can send them regular email until they unsubscribe to your newsletter.

This method will work for any business who has great downloadable material to share.

Conclusion

There are easy-to-follow steps and instructions on how to use Twitter effectively to share your content, build relationship, and eventually generate clients from Twitter.

The key is to consistently show up , set up the right marketing funnels, and be ready to provide great value for other Twitter users.

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