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How Social Media Can Boost Your Business
November 20, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
These days there are those who would argue you would have to be living under the proverbial rock to not have at least heard of social media. Even those out there who arent even slightly internet savvy have heard of Facebook or MySpace. Social media are the tools that are utilised by just such sites, and there is an increasing number of businesses out there that are developing a presence in this field as well.
With a tool such as Facebook there are businesses out there that are developing enormous followings, and this is an advantageous step to take. If you have everything in good working order, and you are well connected with your customers, then social media gives you an opportunity to feel updates directly to your customers own pages. This makes it one of the easiest possible ways to keep your customers or potential customers up to date with everything you are doing, all from the one place and simultaneously. Even email cant boast being quite so streamlined!
Another popular new social media tool that has taken off in a big way, is Twitter. This is toll that sends out short messages, around 140 characters max. To those linked into receive your updates. As with Facebook this is a direct line of communication with your customers, and if you are clever with how you use these short and sharp tweets you can get your message across to your customers in a witty and succinct format. There is also the possibility for those interested to have this linked into their mobile phones, receiving your twitters as text messages. For the originator of the tweet, it is possible to link your tweets into your web page or blog via an RSS feed.
This brings us to the other social media platform that has shown phenomenal expansion over the last little while, blogging. Few of us arent familiar with blogging these days, so the question that many are asking is how it is of benefit to a business. Well as with Facebook or Twitter this is a great format that allows direct communication with customers.
Creating a business blog however, allows you to go much further than this. For starters a blog is not limited to 140 characters! That said, a blog provides you with the opportunity to show your expertise in your area of business. You can communicate new ideas and developments to your customers and communicate with them via the blog space. Customers have the opportunity to leave comments and this allows you to develop better understanding of their particular needs.
These are only a few of the social media opportunities that are available, there is a number of others that are also worthwhile exploring if you are serious about using this format to grow your business. If you are ready to start linking in with customer and expanding and developing your direct communications, then these options are worth taking the time to explore. As marketing tools go these are some of the cheapest and easiest forms of direct communication tools around. Investigate which options to pursue, and consider the fairly small outlay for getting these up and running. Especially these tools may hold great appeal for the small business owner with the bottom line to consider.
Save money by using Twitter Applications
November 9, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
I like to surf different websites, you can say it’s my hobby and interest to visit various websites. From past few years social networking websites become very popular it’s the best time pass for anyone. If you are getting bored then you can surf any social networking site where you can visit different profiles and can contact anyone in world. These sites have become the best source to meet your old friends. I like twitter a lot I have found it very interesting and searched for twitter applications for quite a while.
With Twitter you have the option to link it to your mobile phone or to your instant messenger. This turns Twitter into a powerful mobile communication tool, since you can both send and receive updates on your phone, and stay in touch wherever you are.
The benefit of twitter is its microblogging facility through which you can send short messages of 140 characters to your friends at same time. Spending unnecessary money on cell phones, twitter is the alternative way to interact with your friends. Even you can send messages through your laptop to your friend’s cell phone.
For the businessman and home maker, Twitter is becoming an important part of business promotion, web marketing, personal branding, and the social networking scene. It can be a great tool to get your messages out to a targeted audience and find new business leads.
There are various twitter applications and every application has different purpose. Twitter applications are the add-ons which are used with browsers. You can add these applications in your browser. There are various facilities which are provided by these twitter applications. Facilities like you can search your friend easily through specific twitter application. You can interact with your friends on common topic through specific application. You can share your interest.
Twitter applications are the special tool which gives you different looks to the user’s account and to your explorer. Various twitter applications are so user friendly and enjoyable that while using it you enjoy it. There are various kinds of twitter applications like for games, astrology, different font styles and so on.
To experience all this we find that with Twitter applications, we will receive fast and better service, Sms faster than e-mails; this creates the magic and bound the people in chat bond. Useful to broadcast your company’s latest news and blog posts, interact with your customers, or to enable easy internal collaboration and group communication and many more application are coming soon.
Pallavi is an executive of Wensil i technologies.
Millionâs people choice Twitter Applications
November 9, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Time has changed a lot and with the time, knowledge and facilities have changed too. Few years ago very few people knew about the usage of internet, but today the use of internet becomes very easy and well known to everyone. Internet has become the easy way to discover your old buddies and connect with them. In last few years, social networking sites have become an important of our lives. And the services which are provided by these sites are so good that maximum social networking websites are surf by people on websites on an average. Twitter and twitter applications are one of the examples of social networking website amongst so many sites.
It is no wonder why millions of people enjoy social networking. Social networking allows people to share information easily and in some cases, very quickly.
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows us to send short messages of 140 characters. These updates, known as tweets, are text-based messages that can be sent from a mobile device. Like SMS, twitter has up to 140 characters message in length. These messages are also sent to everyone who subscribed to receive our updates. In turn, we too can receive updates from others.
Twitter was launched in 2006, at that time competition was very high applications like Orkut etc. was already in the market but still twitter made its individual position in the market. In beginning it was estimated that twitter had approximately 3-4 million users and it was on third position as social networking service after Facebook and MySpace. But recently this year in February 2009, the monthly traffic on twitter was around 55 million which was a huge success. Twitter applications are also making its different position in the market. People are pretty much happy with the twitter applications and twitter. Various facilities provide by the twitter applications which other social networking websites do not provide.
It is not difficult to understand why Twitter is so popular. Apart from its simplicity, Twitter also provides users with the option to send or receive tweets via SMS, RSS, or through various twitter applications. Twitter also provides back-end functionality via APIs that can be implemented in other desktop and web-based applications. This lets users make updates without having to visit the actual Twitter site.
With the personal use twitter is also used in business. There are various twitter applications which are used in business. It can be used to widespread latest information of your company. From companyâs latest news to blog posts. It can also enable easy internal group communication, feedback and collaboration.
Pallavi is an executive of Wensil i technologies.
Using Twitter.Com To Market Your Music And Attract More Sales & Fans
November 7, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
In this article, I’m going to share with you a very popular
Social Networking site called Twitter.com that you can literally
spend just about 5-10 minute a day on and be able to attract a
very good amount of high quality traffic in the form of fans and
music buyers back to your website or myspace page. And its really fun.
Before we begin, I want to let you know that very few people are
using this method of attracting new fans and attention to their music, why?
Simply because they either A- Don’t know or B- Are to lazy
In fact, if you take the steps that I give you below and apply them
you’ll be way ahead of everyone else.
Are you ready? Great, then lets begin!
Things You’ll Need to successfully use twitter:
* Computer
* Internet / mobile
* Few seconds of time
Step 1 – SMM (social media marketing) is the latest online
marketing trend to hit the music industry because its an highly
profitable and easy way to build brand recognition for you the
artist.
It’s a also a great way to get new fans to your website, blog or
Myspace page through social media like facebook, myspace, flickr,
youtube, digg and the like.
Social media sites are web sites where news, photos, videos and pod
casts are hosted through user submission. If you’ve ever thought that
marketing your music through social media is time consuming,
Twitter is an exception
Step 2 – The reason why I really like Twitter is because it is
a lot easier and simpler social networking and
micro-blogging service. All you will need to do is answer the
question, ‘what are you doing?’ in less than 140 characters. These
short messages are called “tweets”. Your tweets are immediately
displayed on the your profile page and instantly delivered to other
users who are following you (i.e. your fans.)
So for instance, some of your tweets may look like
“I’m in the studio recording a new song for the next CD”
“I’m sitting at the park writing a new song”
“I’m at the SWSX music conference”
So do you see how this works? Pretty easy right?
So how do you start Tweeting?
Step 3 – Sign up for a free twitter account. The most important
thing that you want to remember is to use you Artist name, Business
Name
or Real Name rather than some abstract alphanumeric
combination. This will help build credibility.
The next step is to change a few things in your profile,
immediately. Include keywords about your music and genre, interests
and whatever you want to use twitter for. You can restrict your tweet
delivery to those in your circle, but I suggest leaving the
Default setting in place, which is “delivery to everyone”.
Step 4 – Click ‘find and follow’ to follow people from your aol,
yahoo gmail and other email contacts who are already tweeting. You can
also find people with similar interests by searching for a keyword
according to your Genre or interest (i.e. Jaxx Music, Hip Hop,
Country). Click follow, if you find any interesting.
By the way, My twitter name is TyCohen 
Step 5 – Now you are all set to send your first tweet. Type a small
message (max 140 characters including spaces) telling people what
you are doing. You can send tweets through twitter website or
instant messenger or SMS from your cell-phone. You need to confirm
your cell phone number first. Do this by clicking devices.
If you think it doesn’t make any sense and is sheer waste of time,
then you are under estimating twitter potential.
Step 6 – Twitter allows you to add links in the tweets which is a
huge marketing benefit to you. You can use
this to display your own links. For ex: one of my tweets today was
“Using MySpace to Make Your CD Sales Soar!
Step 7 – By tweeting frequently, following and being followed, you
can grow a small community of people with similar interests and who
recognize your name and your brand!
Step 8 – I downloaded a great time saver Twhirl. It is a third
party application for twitter. If tweeting takes around 60 seconds,
Twhirl cuts down that time to below 10 seconds.
Twhirl stays on the desktop (logged in). I don’t need to visit the
twitter website during my hectic workday. All I do is, click the twhirl
icon from the system tray and type a short “whatever I’m doing”
tweet and send. Twhirl also notifies when I receive messages from
my followers or anyone that I’m following. So I don’t miss a thing and
all without wasting my time.
You can also use twhirl to upload pictures to twitpic.com, a site
to share photos.
There are many applications for twitter like twitterfeed (similar
to twhirl), twittervision, which shows the geo position of the your
twitter friends and so on.
So there you go! A quick and easy way to expand your marketing to
millions of people all for free.
Happy Tweeting.
Your Music Business Coach!
Ty Cohen
This article was written by Ty Cohen ,
the Music Business Coach! Get a
free copy of our Music Industry
Using Twitter.Com To Market Your Music And Attract More Sales & Fans
November 7, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
In this article, I’m going to share with you a very popular
Social Networking site called Twitter.com that you can literally
spend just about 5-10 minute a day on and be able to attract a
very good amount of high quality traffic in the form of fans and
music buyers back to your website or myspace page. And its really fun.
Before we begin, I want to let you know that very few people are
using this method of attracting new fans and attention to their music, why?
Simply because they either A- Don’t know or B- Are to lazy
In fact, if you take the steps that I give you below and apply them
you’ll be way ahead of everyone else.
Are you ready? Great, then lets begin!
Things You’ll Need to successfully use twitter:
* Computer
* Internet / mobile
* Few seconds of time
Step 1 – SMM (social media marketing) is the latest online
marketing trend to hit the music industry because its an highly
profitable and easy way to build brand recognition for you the
artist.
It’s a also a great way to get new fans to your website, blog or
Myspace page through social media like facebook, myspace, flickr,
youtube, digg and the like.
Social media sites are web sites where news, photos, videos and pod
casts are hosted through user submission. If you’ve ever thought that
marketing your music through social media is time consuming,
Twitter is an exception
Step 2 – The reason why I really like Twitter is because it is
a lot easier and simpler social networking and
micro-blogging service. All you will need to do is answer the
question, ‘what are you doing?’ in less than 140 characters. These
short messages are called “tweets”. Your tweets are immediately
displayed on the your profile page and instantly delivered to other
users who are following you (i.e. your fans.)
So for instance, some of your tweets may look like
“I’m in the studio recording a new song for the next CD”
“I’m sitting at the park writing a new song”
“I’m at the SWSX music conference”
So do you see how this works? Pretty easy right?
So how do you start Tweeting?
Step 3 – Sign up for a free twitter account. The most important
thing that you want to remember is to use you Artist name, Business
Name
or Real Name rather than some abstract alphanumeric
combination. This will help build credibility.
The next step is to change a few things in your profile,
immediately. Include keywords about your music and genre, interests
and whatever you want to use twitter for. You can restrict your tweet
delivery to those in your circle, but I suggest leaving the
Default setting in place, which is “delivery to everyone”.
Step 4 – Click ‘find and follow’ to follow people from your aol,
yahoo gmail and other email contacts who are already tweeting. You can
also find people with similar interests by searching for a keyword
according to your Genre or interest (i.e. Jaxx Music, Hip Hop,
Country). Click follow, if you find any interesting.
By the way, My twitter name is TyCohen
Step 5 – Now you are all set to send your first tweet. Type a small
message (max 140 characters including spaces) telling people what
you are doing. You can send tweets through twitter website or
instant messenger or SMS from your cell-phone. You need to confirm
your cell phone number first. Do this by clicking devices.
If you think it doesn’t make any sense and is sheer waste of time,
then you are under estimating twitter potential.
Step 6 – Twitter allows you to add links in the tweets which is a
huge marketing benefit to you. You can use
this to display your own links. For ex: one of my tweets today was
“Using MySpace to Make Your CD Sales Soar!
Step 7 – By tweeting frequently, following and being followed, you
can grow a small community of people with similar interests and who
recognize your name and your brand!
Step 8 – I downloaded a great time saver Twhirl. It is a third
party application for twitter. If tweeting takes around 60 seconds,
Twhirl cuts down that time to below 10 seconds.
Twhirl stays on the desktop (logged in). I don’t need to visit the
twitter website during my hectic workday. All I do is, click the twhirl
icon from the system tray and type a short “whatever I’m doing”
tweet and send. Twhirl also notifies when I receive messages from
my followers or anyone that I’m following. So I don’t miss a thing and
all without wasting my time.
You can also use twhirl to upload pictures to twitpic.com, a site
to share photos.
There are many applications for twitter like twitterfeed (similar
to twhirl), twittervision, which shows the geo position of the your
twitter friends and so on.
So there you go! A quick and easy way to expand your marketing to
millions of people all for free.
Happy Tweeting.
Your Music Business Coach!
Ty Cohen
This article was written by Ty Cohen ,
the Music Business Coach! Get a
free copy of our Music Industry
My Top Ten Twitter Applications Your Business Will Ever Need
November 7, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
It has been 3 years now since twitter was launched publicly in August of 2006 and you can see how twitter has risen to prominence as the most popular community to share your thoughts in short messages.
Due to its increasing popularity, many businesses have realized the potential uses of twitter in business marketing. Businesses used it for personal branding, promoting products, getting feedbacks, hiring people, generating web traffic, making new friends, notifying customers, finding business prospects, setting up meetings, updating business events and more.
While there are hundreds of cool twitter applications that can be found on numerous sites that will help you manage the way you use twitter, I collated my own top ten twitter applications to bring you the most helpful in marketing your small business.
Here are my top ten twitter applications lists:
10. Splitweet- It is a twitter multi-account manager and brand monitor that allows you, twitter user, to compose a list of accounts and distribute their tweets, choosing their release in one or more of their accounts. You can also follow your contacts tweets from all of your managed accounts and monitor your brand.
9. Tweetlaw- This is a website primarily designed for legal professionals where members of the legal community can instantly share new information and network. This is a big help for any business owners who will seek legal consultation.
8. Calendartweet- It is an easy event management tool via twitter that allows you to plan your business events and control frequency of updates on your twitter page.
7. FutureTweets- It is a very simple application that allows you to schedule your business/ product/ service tweet ahead of time for a specific date and time.
6. CoTweet- It is a platform that help businesses send and receive messages from multiple twitter accounts. CoTweet lets you connect to one master twitter account, but still use it as totally separate users. Each user can log in and turn their status switch on so that others will know you’re online. It also allows you to assign tweets to specific team members and it will track who ended up answering the question and what they said.
5. TrackThis- Using this application you can easily track any UPS, USPS, FedEx or DHL shipment. Updates are sent via Email, SMS messaging, RSS feeds, Facebook, or Twitter account whenever your package is out for delivery, delivered, or delayed.
4. TwitPic- It is an application that allows users to take photos from their mobile phones and post it to twitter. This is a good way to introduce your new products to your twitter followers.
3. Bubbletweet- It is a fun way to make a short video of your business or business product and bubbletweet it. It makes your twitter page extra special. It adds a short video that plays in a Bubble video player that floats on top of your twitter page and when it is over, it pops and goes away.
2. Followbase- It is a very simple real-time customer service and support application for any business company that uses twitter. Using the application, your clients can easily get in touch with you, ask questions, report problems, suggest ideas and more.
1. BakerTweet- It is a very innovative application that could apply to any kind of businesses tweeting people that you have something new coming . Bakertweet is an application designed for busy bakers to tell the world that something hot and fresh has just come out of the oven. It has a device that sends messages to twitter. It has a very simple web interface where the baker can update their messages and things they are selling. It is a way you can get the freshest baked stuff first.
These are just some of Twitter Applications Your Business Will Ever Need.
Hope these applications would help you in accomplishing your business goals successfully.
Jay Mabalot spent most of his time doing online business. He is also fond of doing online jobs, online selling, online shopping, blogging and work at home jobs. You can visit his site at Pinoy Business: The Livelihood Resource Portal for Young Entrepreneurs.
How to Make Money and Promote your Site by Tweeting on Twitter
November 5, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
If you have to learn how to make money then you should try tweeting on Tweeter. It is a simple way to promote your site, but one of which most have little knowledge. Twitter is not a new phenomenon on the internet, because it was created by Jack Dorsey as long ago as 2006. Don’t laugh – 2006 is a long time ago in internet terms, and Twitter has grown a great deal since it was conceived by Jack as a means of small groups communicating by using short SMS messages.
Messaging services are now commonplace, but Twitter has developed into a world-wide phenomenon. I am not here to discuss Twitter’s past, but how you can use it in the future: not only to communicate with people, but to make money and turn it into a marketing tool more effective than any that have gone before.
I fully understand how Google works (as well as anybody who is not employed by Google can), and Twitter is Google bait! This will only last for a short time, and even if you only have a blog that you want to promote you must learn how to use Twitter to promote it. If you have a Squidoo lens, just the same: Twitter can be use to give you visitors.
So how is that? The question you have to answer yourself when you tweet on Twitter is who will see it? A tweet is not a web page, and is not listed on a search engine. It isn’t an email, or any other direct means of communication. The only people that will come across those short messages you send are those that are ‘following’ you. To do that, they must deliberately click a link so that they do so. Why should they?
Many newbies to Twitter make their tweets and they go nowhere because they don’t have any followers. Imagine if you could choose your own followers. I am not saying that Britney would follow you because if you check out Britney’s link you will see no tweets except hers and her manager’s and agent’s. She uses Twitter as an advertising medium, and follows nobody.
You can use Twitter that way too, and can advertise products and web pages but refuse followers – you will then make nothing. It is very important that learn how to get followers, but the followers that suit you. There are ways to achieve that, and also ways to choose the Tweeters that you want to follow. If you get it right, one or both of two things can happen:
1. You can make a lot of friends, even if you have no desire to use Tweeter to make money. 2. You can use Tweeter make a lot of money, even if you have no desire to make friends.
What you should be aiming for is a combination of each, and if you know how to do it, then you can, to the advantage of you and your friends on Tweeter. They need a service or have a problem to be solved, and you can provide either or both. But how do you get together?
By Tweets of course! But you have to get them following you, and while you know how to register with Tweeter and make your tweets, who is reading them? Nobody! However, let’s take just one social networking site – Facebook. As with most, you can have your tweets posted on your wall in Facebook, so that all of your friends can see them. That is just one simple way of advertising yourself totally free of charge.
Solve that problem and you will be made. You will be able to put everything you learn into practice and will be able to make money and promote your site by Tweeting on Twitter! Think of all the social networking sites out there on which you can make your tweets visible, even to non tweeters? At one time it was tag and ping – that is old hat now.
There are far better ways of getting your message publicized than that: Twitter offers it if only you can see how to do it. Enough said!
If you want to find out how to use Twitter as it can be used, then check out at Twitter Traffic – you will also find out how Twitter can be used to make money, particularly if you have a product to sell. If not, simply enjoy knowing how to use it to its maximum advantage to you. . .
Using Twitter.Com To Market Your Music And Attract More Sales & Fans
November 3, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
In this article, I’m going to share with you a very popular
Social Networking site called Twitter.com that you can literally
spend just about 5-10 minute a day on and be able to attract a
very good amount of high quality traffic in the form of fans and
music buyers back to your website or myspace page. And its really fun.
Before we begin, I want to let you know that very few people are
using this method of attracting new fans and attention to their music, why?
Simply because they either A- Don’t know or B- Are to lazy
In fact, if you take the steps that I give you below and apply them
you’ll be way ahead of everyone else.
Are you ready? Great, then lets begin!
Things You’ll Need to successfully use twitter:
* Computer
* Internet / mobile
* Few seconds of time
Step 1 – SMM (social media marketing) is the latest online
marketing trend to hit the music industry because its an highly
profitable and easy way to build brand recognition for you the
artist.
It’s a also a great way to get new fans to your website, blog or
Myspace page through social media like facebook, myspace, flickr,
youtube, digg and the like.
Social media sites are web sites where news, photos, videos and pod
casts are hosted through user submission. If you’ve ever thought that
marketing your music through social media is time consuming,
Twitter is an exception
Step 2 – The reason why I really like Twitter is because it is
a lot easier and simpler social networking and
micro-blogging service. All you will need to do is answer the
question, ‘what are you doing?’ in less than 140 characters. These
short messages are called “tweets”. Your tweets are immediately
displayed on the your profile page and instantly delivered to other
users who are following you (i.e. your fans.)
So for instance, some of your tweets may look like
“I’m in the studio recording a new song for the next CD”
“I’m sitting at the park writing a new song”
“I’m at the SWSX music conference”
So do you see how this works? Pretty easy right?
So how do you start Tweeting?
Step 3 – Sign up for a free twitter account. The most important
thing that you want to remember is to use you Artist name, Business
Name
or Real Name rather than some abstract alphanumeric
combination. This will help build credibility.
The next step is to change a few things in your profile,
immediately. Include keywords about your music and genre, interests
and whatever you want to use twitter for. You can restrict your tweet
delivery to those in your circle, but I suggest leaving the
Default setting in place, which is “delivery to everyone”.
Step 4 – Click ‘find and follow’ to follow people from your aol,
yahoo gmail and other email contacts who are already tweeting. You can
also find people with similar interests by searching for a keyword
according to your Genre or interest (i.e. Jaxx Music, Hip Hop,
Country). Click follow, if you find any interesting.
By the way, My twitter name is TyCohen
Step 5 – Now you are all set to send your first tweet. Type a small
message (max 140 characters including spaces) telling people what
you are doing. You can send tweets through twitter website or
instant messenger or SMS from your cell-phone. You need to confirm
your cell phone number first. Do this by clicking devices.
If you think it doesn’t make any sense and is sheer waste of time,
then you are under estimating twitter potential.
Step 6 – Twitter allows you to add links in the tweets which is a
huge marketing benefit to you. You can use
this to display your own links. For ex: one of my tweets today was
“Using MySpace to Make Your CD Sales Soar!
Step 7 – By tweeting frequently, following and being followed, you
can grow a small community of people with similar interests and who
recognize your name and your brand!
Step 8 – I downloaded a great time saver Twhirl. It is a third
party application for twitter. If tweeting takes around 60 seconds,
Twhirl cuts down that time to below 10 seconds.
Twhirl stays on the desktop (logged in). I don’t need to visit the
twitter website during my hectic workday. All I do is, click the twhirl
icon from the system tray and type a short “whatever I’m doing”
tweet and send. Twhirl also notifies when I receive messages from
my followers or anyone that I’m following. So I don’t miss a thing and
all without wasting my time.
You can also use twhirl to upload pictures to twitpic.com, a site
to share photos.
There are many applications for twitter like twitterfeed (similar
to twhirl), twittervision, which shows the geo position of the your
twitter friends and so on.
So there you go! A quick and easy way to expand your marketing to
millions of people all for free.
Happy Tweeting.
Your Music Business Coach!
Ty Cohen
This article was written by Ty Cohen ,
the Music Business Coach! Get a
free copy of our Music Industry
Using Twitter.Com To Market Your Music And Attract More Sales & Fans
November 3, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
In this article, I’m going to share with you a very popular
Social Networking site called Twitter.com that you can literally
spend just about 5-10 minute a day on and be able to attract a
very good amount of high quality traffic in the form of fans and
music buyers back to your website or myspace page. And its really fun.
Before we begin, I want to let you know that very few people are
using this method of attracting new fans and attention to their music, why?
Simply because they either A- Don’t know or B- Are to lazy
In fact, if you take the steps that I give you below and apply them
you’ll be way ahead of everyone else.
Are you ready? Great, then lets begin!
Things You’ll Need to successfully use twitter:
* Computer
* Internet / mobile
* Few seconds of time
Step 1 – SMM (social media marketing) is the latest online
marketing trend to hit the music industry because its an highly
profitable and easy way to build brand recognition for you the
artist.
It’s a also a great way to get new fans to your website, blog or
Myspace page through social media like facebook, myspace, flickr,
youtube, digg and the like.
Social media sites are web sites where news, photos, videos and pod
casts are hosted through user submission. If you’ve ever thought that
marketing your music through social media is time consuming,
Twitter is an exception
Step 2 – The reason why I really like Twitter is because it is
a lot easier and simpler social networking and
micro-blogging service. All you will need to do is answer the
question, ‘what are you doing?’ in less than 140 characters. These
short messages are called “tweets”. Your tweets are immediately
displayed on the your profile page and instantly delivered to other
users who are following you (i.e. your fans.)
So for instance, some of your tweets may look like
“I’m in the studio recording a new song for the next CD”
“I’m sitting at the park writing a new song”
“I’m at the SWSX music conference”
So do you see how this works? Pretty easy right?
So how do you start Tweeting?
Step 3 – Sign up for a free twitter account. The most important
thing that you want to remember is to use you Artist name, Business
Name
or Real Name rather than some abstract alphanumeric
combination. This will help build credibility.
The next step is to change a few things in your profile,
immediately. Include keywords about your music and genre, interests
and whatever you want to use twitter for. You can restrict your tweet
delivery to those in your circle, but I suggest leaving the
Default setting in place, which is “delivery to everyone”.
Step 4 – Click ‘find and follow’ to follow people from your aol,
yahoo gmail and other email contacts who are already tweeting. You can
also find people with similar interests by searching for a keyword
according to your Genre or interest (i.e. Jaxx Music, Hip Hop,
Country). Click follow, if you find any interesting.
By the way, My twitter name is TyCohen
Step 5 – Now you are all set to send your first tweet. Type a small
message (max 140 characters including spaces) telling people what
you are doing. You can send tweets through twitter website or
instant messenger or SMS from your cell-phone. You need to confirm
your cell phone number first. Do this by clicking devices.
If you think it doesn’t make any sense and is sheer waste of time,
then you are under estimating twitter potential.
Step 6 – Twitter allows you to add links in the tweets which is a
huge marketing benefit to you. You can use
this to display your own links. For ex: one of my tweets today was
“Using MySpace to Make Your CD Sales Soar!
Step 7 – By tweeting frequently, following and being followed, you
can grow a small community of people with similar interests and who
recognize your name and your brand!
Step 8 – I downloaded a great time saver Twhirl. It is a third
party application for twitter. If tweeting takes around 60 seconds,
Twhirl cuts down that time to below 10 seconds.
Twhirl stays on the desktop (logged in). I don’t need to visit the
twitter website during my hectic workday. All I do is, click the twhirl
icon from the system tray and type a short “whatever I’m doing”
tweet and send. Twhirl also notifies when I receive messages from
my followers or anyone that I’m following. So I don’t miss a thing and
all without wasting my time.
You can also use twhirl to upload pictures to twitpic.com, a site
to share photos.
There are many applications for twitter like twitterfeed (similar
to twhirl), twittervision, which shows the geo position of the your
twitter friends and so on.
So there you go! A quick and easy way to expand your marketing to
millions of people all for free.
Happy Tweeting.
Your Music Business Coach!
Ty Cohen
This article was written by Ty Cohen ,
the Music Business Coach! Get a
free copy of our Music Industry
Using Twitter.Com To Market Your Music And Attract More Sales & Fans
November 3, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
In this article, I’m going to share with you a very popular
Social Networking site called Twitter.com that you can literally
spend just about 5-10 minute a day on and be able to attract a
very good amount of high quality traffic in the form of fans and
music buyers back to your website or myspace page. And its really fun.
Before we begin, I want to let you know that very few people are
using this method of attracting new fans and attention to their music, why?
Simply because they either A- Don’t know or B- Are to lazy
In fact, if you take the steps that I give you below and apply them
you’ll be way ahead of everyone else.
Are you ready? Great, then lets begin!
Things You’ll Need to successfully use twitter:
* Computer
* Internet / mobile
* Few seconds of time
Step 1 – SMM (social media marketing) is the latest online
marketing trend to hit the music industry because its an highly
profitable and easy way to build brand recognition for you the
artist.
It’s a also a great way to get new fans to your website, blog or
Myspace page through social media like facebook, myspace, flickr,
youtube, digg and the like.
Social media sites are web sites where news, photos, videos and pod
casts are hosted through user submission. If you’ve ever thought that
marketing your music through social media is time consuming,
Twitter is an exception
Step 2 – The reason why I really like Twitter is because it is
a lot easier and simpler social networking and
micro-blogging service. All you will need to do is answer the
question, ‘what are you doing?’ in less than 140 characters. These
short messages are called “tweets”. Your tweets are immediately
displayed on the your profile page and instantly delivered to other
users who are following you (i.e. your fans.)
So for instance, some of your tweets may look like
“I’m in the studio recording a new song for the next CD”
“I’m sitting at the park writing a new song”
“I’m at the SWSX music conference”
So do you see how this works? Pretty easy right?
So how do you start Tweeting?
Step 3 – Sign up for a free twitter account. The most important
thing that you want to remember is to use you Artist name, Business
Name
or Real Name rather than some abstract alphanumeric
combination. This will help build credibility.
The next step is to change a few things in your profile,
immediately. Include keywords about your music and genre, interests
and whatever you want to use twitter for. You can restrict your tweet
delivery to those in your circle, but I suggest leaving the
Default setting in place, which is “delivery to everyone”.
Step 4 – Click ‘find and follow’ to follow people from your aol,
yahoo gmail and other email contacts who are already tweeting. You can
also find people with similar interests by searching for a keyword
according to your Genre or interest (i.e. Jaxx Music, Hip Hop,
Country). Click follow, if you find any interesting.
By the way, My twitter name is TyCohen
Step 5 – Now you are all set to send your first tweet. Type a small
message (max 140 characters including spaces) telling people what
you are doing. You can send tweets through twitter website or
instant messenger or SMS from your cell-phone. You need to confirm
your cell phone number first. Do this by clicking devices.
If you think it doesn’t make any sense and is sheer waste of time,
then you are under estimating twitter potential.
Step 6 – Twitter allows you to add links in the tweets which is a
huge marketing benefit to you. You can use
this to display your own links. For ex: one of my tweets today was
“Using MySpace to Make Your CD Sales Soar!
Step 7 – By tweeting frequently, following and being followed, you
can grow a small community of people with similar interests and who
recognize your name and your brand!
Step 8 – I downloaded a great time saver Twhirl. It is a third
party application for twitter. If tweeting takes around 60 seconds,
Twhirl cuts down that time to below 10 seconds.
Twhirl stays on the desktop (logged in). I don’t need to visit the
twitter website during my hectic workday. All I do is, click the twhirl
icon from the system tray and type a short “whatever I’m doing”
tweet and send. Twhirl also notifies when I receive messages from
my followers or anyone that I’m following. So I don’t miss a thing and
all without wasting my time.
You can also use twhirl to upload pictures to twitpic.com, a site
to share photos.
There are many applications for twitter like twitterfeed (similar
to twhirl), twittervision, which shows the geo position of the your
twitter friends and so on.
So there you go! A quick and easy way to expand your marketing to
millions of people all for free.
Happy Tweeting.
Your Music Business Coach!
Ty Cohen
This article was written by Ty Cohen ,
the Music Business Coach! Get a
free copy of our Music Industry
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