Twitter Tips to Help You Stay Ahead in Business

With so many social media platforms available it is difficult to choose the right ones for you and your business. Here are some tips to help you stay ahead in business with Twitter.

Tip 1
Don’t forget to use #hashtags in your tweets. For example, if your tweet is about jewellery, consider hash tagging that keyword (#jewellery or the @brand) in the tweet to make it searchable.

Tip 2
Retweet, participate and start conversations with people and businesses by asking simple questions. See where it takes you!

Tip 3
Shrink your URLs to create more space to have your say, you can now have slightly more than 140 characters. More here > Twitter now lets you post longer tweets after 140-character limit relaxed (Google URL Shortener)

Tip 4
Use @companyname or @personsname to tweet someone directly. This is public and alerts them you have mentioned them in a tweet.

Tip 5
On Friday, people like to thank special followers for that week and you can do that by using #FF or #FollowFriday then the name(s) of your followers you want to mention. It's also good to say a reason to follow that person too.

If you are new to Twitter… don’t be bogged down with buzz words like strategy, engagement, ROI… give it a try and see where your strengths lie.

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