5 Ways to Improve Your Business Networking With Twitter
Twitter is a great tool that can help you develop your business online. It has real time communication capabilities which make it too good to ignore.
In the world of twitter, you will come across people with different level of skills and communication. That is why it is very important for you to connect with people you want to associate with and you need to find a way to establish a relationship with these people. Twitter can help you with that.
Read along and let's find out some way on how we can network using Twitter.
Let people know what you want to talk about
The first facet of twittering that you need to zone in on is showing people what you are interested in.
This can be done through your bio (putting in info that will help tell your visitors what you are interested in) and though the contents of your tweets. You can also share your conversations by using hash tags in your tweets. You can also customize your Twitter lists to show whose important you.
This is the most important facet of twittering and putting time and focus on your profile and tweets will help mirror what your interests are and this will help attract the people you want to interact with.
Giving a shootout to someone
A lot of twitter first timers do not know where to start in terms of connecting; you can give a shout out to someone on your network to jump-start a conversation. You can mention them for #FollowFriday by saying something nice about the person. Always include their Twitter ID. An alternative is to publicly mention how you appreciate that person.
Show people that you listen to them
When you show people that you actually listen to their conversations, they in turn will take interest in you and eventually become your follower. A great way to show that do listen to people is by providing links to their conversations. Their conversations can be anything from personal ones (birthdays, anniversaries) to the more intellectually laden ones such as LinkedIn questions or business blog posts.
Tweet with substance to engage conversations
Once you already have someone following you or is in your network, it's time to get a real conversation going on. The best way to do that is through asking mind tickling questions.
Introducing people to other people within your network
This is a great way to help other people increase their associations. As you go along with Twitter, you'll meet more and more people who share similar interests with you. Introduce them to other members of your network. They'll take more notice of you and eventually do the same for you.
So there you have it. 5 ways that can help you gain more connections for your business via twitter. If you want to make the connection more personal, take it a notch higher by giving that a person a call through chat or Skype. That's always a good step for something new.
