Galaxy Ninja

Twitter is currently the tenth most trafficked site in the world with over 34 million users per month in the U.S. alone. Don't worry, you don’t have to be a tweet-a-holic to leverage this social network. I have laid out general principles, best practice tips and guidelines to help you create a more holistic feel to your Twitter campaign so that you get results without investing crazy hours. 10 Sweet Twitter Tips: 1) Your blog or website is the number one way to leverage this traffic machine. You must give people somewhere to go so they can find out more about you (your website/blog in your bio section). 2) Use something other than the standard Twitter background, preferably an extended bio with additional information about you and your networking platform. 3) Be regular with your content without being overly promotional.                                                                                                                 a) We recommend trying to maintain a ratio of about 1:8 (one request for every 8 pieces of quality content). Throw in a picture from time to time using www.twitpic.com 4) Do Not over-use links to your website. With quality content folks will naturally click your bio link! 5) Slow and steady. It is much better to space your tweets out rather than storming five in a row just because you are trying to leverage your time. Patience, my ninjas... 6) As a general rule people you follow, follow you. Follow about 50 people per day in your niche. 7) Keep your updates warm and personal, yet pertinent. If you don’t have good content in mind and you want to make a presence, try retweeting something great from one of your followers. 9) Mention leaders in your industry with the @ symbol. They are more likely to notice you and return the favor. 10) If you are running more than one twitter account check out www.HootSuite.com to help save time. The benefits of Twitter are many; we can increase our image and gain a niche-specific following while attaining the ability to leverage and drive traffic to any destination we desire. Feel free to check out my Twitter account at ericcarternow to see how an example of how I implemented these tips. Please leave a comment below with additional insights or sweet tweet benefits I may have left out.

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