Five ways to utilize Twitter in order to connect with others and promote your business.
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Announce a new blog post - When people opt to follow your Twitter stream they are telling you that they want to be kept up to date about what it is you are doing. This includes a certain level of promotional 'Tweets' every now and then like the announcement of a new blog post.
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Connect with your Community - In the good old days Realtors went to Chamber Mixers, local events and charity parties to establish themselves and make connections. While these things might still be a good idea to participate in, you can take advantage of connecting with members of your community directly through Twitter.
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Open House Alerts - Having an open house for an upscale property? Announce the date via Twitter to potentially boost the number of people that show up through out the day or weekend event. Announcing an open house via Twitter once or twice a week certainly won't chase people away and if you've connected with your local community as suggested above then you'll likely see an increase in interest.
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Upgrade your Twitter Background - Take a look at my Twitter profile and follow me while you are at it. If your browser window is maximized you should see a list of links on the far left hand side to my Active Rain profile, Trulia profile, Linked In and so on. Below that you'll find my 2009 promotion that I'm running.
Simply spend some time in your favorite paint program creating something small like this and you'll reach a good amount of people checking out your profile getting ready to follow you on Twitter.
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Live Tweeting - Attending a local charity or training class? Bring your laptop and live tweet some of the highlights of the event. People have done this with weddings, during a plane crash and other crazy events and have drawn a LARGE following of interested people.
Follow my Twitter updates for post announcements, random shots of marketing advice and to contact me directly through out the day without opening up Outlook. Almost as good as live chat!
PS. If you use Twitter, please provide a link to your Twitter profile so that new AR Twitter users can quickly find like minded people to follow for great advice and tips.
@10minutes - http://www.twitter.com/10minutes/
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Great ideas. I also use Tweetdeck as well to keep up with people talking about moving to Savannah. Thanks John.