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The Right Way To Make Money Using Twitter

You should primarily look to use Twitter as a means to build relationships with potential clients and partners. It is not a great tool for ongoing business relationships because it is not ideal to carry on a meaningful conversation in 140 characters. If you try, you end up with a long thread of Tweets going back and forth. If that is the case, then one ph

one call or a couple of emails might have been better.

So, focus on turning a Twitter follower into a personal contact, who you can then communicate with by more traditional means. You will be more likely to make money through 100 personal contacts than 10,000 Twitter followers. Therefore, having gotten yourself a good number of Twitter followers (say, 100-500), you should spend more developing your relationships with those people than simply trying to boost your number of followers.

The question is then – How can your turn your Twitter followers into personal contacts? The first thing that you should do is use HootSuite to help you manage your Twitter account. It allows you to pre-schedule tweets for the week ahead and to automatically tweet every time that you add a new page to your blog or website.

There are ways to use Twitter to subtly promote yourself. When you send out tweets, you can link back to your own material without being overtly self-centered. So long as your materials are of benefit to your followers you can feel good about advertising to your own benefit over Twitter.

Taking this approach, it is important to not always link back to your own personal site. You need to write guest posts for other people’s blogs, submit articles at the best article directories, publish content on web 2.0 sites, etc. You need to offer your followers some variety as otherwise they will become bored and will stop clicking on the links in your tweets.

Proving yourself an expert in your field through diverse and worthwhile tweets will gain you a following. Any new followers of your tweets can be e-mail to you by HootSuite.

You can then search their profile to see if they are worthy personal contacts and link them to your own blog or website.

Some people will send a boilerplate welcome message to new followers. This is a mist

ake. If you are interested in making real contacts you want to add a personal touch. If you are interested in more than a large list of followers you will want to scan your follower’s profiles carefully and demonstrate your genuine interest.

You want to encourage close links between yourself and your followers. To achieve this, post your personal contact information on your website/blog. You should encourage your followers to join your mailing list and subscribe to your RSS feed.

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