Have you jumped on the Twitter bandwagon yet? Have you been swayed by all of the hoopla about marketing and twitter?
I do not know about you but I have been using Twitter now for about 8 months and I find it to be a very interesting venue for marketing. I am not sure that it really drives as much traffic as you may think it would to your website BUT you certainly cannot deny the amount of attention you can get from the Twitterverse!

It is pretty simple really, just go to their website www.twitter.com and get yourself a account. It is free. Then start looking for friends that you may know that have an account. Once you find some add them by "following" them and the idea is that they will in turn " follow" you.
Once you do this you can grow your "followers" by doing a few things on a daily or at least weekly basis. Of course....you could be one of THOSE people who use some sort of a auto follower adder to their account. For the record...I loath THOSE people. LOL Come on, if you cannot get people to follow you without a tacky auto adder then forget about it! 
Okay, so what are these few things you can do to grow your "follower" list? Well, first and foremost be REAL...ummm let me repeat...be REAL. Just be yourself, it is that easy. Well, at least one of the things you can do is that easy. Nobody likes becoming your friend to find out that all you care about is selling them something. So, when someone follows you DO NOT just send them a notice or tweet about what it is that YOU sell. Maybe you can ask about them...see what it is that they do, see what it is that they are into to. That is a good start.
Second, maybe try to post once or twice a day something about yourself...your interests or what is happening in your life today. Try and be witty or wise..thoughtful...any of these things are good.

Then there is #Follow Friday. What is #Follow Friday? It is a little thing that happens every Friday in the Twitterverse. You acknowledge your followers as the great people that they hopefully are by @ reply them and before hitting send you add #FollowFriday. They in turn will send your name out to their list and all of their followers and so on and so on......by doing this each and every Friday you will gain many,many new followers each week. This #FF I a powerful twitter tool!!!

Now that you are armed with some Twitter info go out and multiply your "followers" in the Twitterverse!

Have a great day!

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