Comments on: Why Your Twitter Followers Aren’t Leads…Or Are They?

By: Davis

Davis — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:48:06 +0000

Thanks for your advice and valuable insights. I believe I have to rethink who I follow and what I should be tweeting about. Makes one more credible and believable if you stick on your niche and be interactive.

By: Nathan @ New Balance

Nathan @ New Balance — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:33:56 +0000

So many people epic fail at both Facebook and Twitter… they figure their friends list is a list of potential marks. I have one friend who relentlessly spams us with his MMA site, but it’s the best way I have to contact him, so I can’t really unfriend him. The annoying part is that I even taught him how to do social networking when he worked for me. Post info that your target market is interested in and will backlink to. Don’t use every post to promote yourself and your product. It’s not hard.

By: Best Website Templates

Best Website Templates — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:39:53 +0000

I finished with 500 followers and the majority are within my target audience. My Ultimate goal is to use Twitter as a complimentary lead generation technique by keeping them interested!

By: Dental Hygienist Programs

Dental Hygienist Programs — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:20:08 +0000

I never know how to use Twitter effectively. I always start an account and follow a bunch of people but I never know what to do from there. I got a few followers but I don’t even think they read the tweets I send out. I should really be more engaged and active on Twitter.

By: Relatiegeschenken

Relatiegeschenken — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:28:42 +0000

I like Twitter, but I really need to get to the conversation with my followers. This is also a matter of time. What I do a lot now is searching for a keyword and look what people tweet about it. Sometimes they are looking for my products and that way I can immidiately react on their question. Perfect!

By: Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:41:06 +0000

I did twitter for a while, had about 30 followers, but I am not a star or an athlete or even a major corp. so why would anyone care when I ate dinner or thought someone was a jerk on the freeway….

By: Roger @ Internet TV

Roger @ Internet TV — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:13:42 +0000

Wow great insight. I’d say they are leads and brand ambassadors of your work. Treat them properly and they will evangelize around your product and help promote them. Treat them badly and hear and fear their spurn.

By: Ninjajeebus

Ninjajeebus — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:57:29 +0000

I am new to twitter but I have been having a lot of fun with it. As a business tool we are all still getting used to it.

By: Funny T-shirts

Funny T-shirts — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:47:11 +0000

We’ve found from our weblogs that Tweeting a new product can generate a surge of interest in a T-shirt and by building up followers we can gain notoriety, if not sales.

By: Droid 2

Droid 2 — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:35:50 +0000

I’ve honestly never had any luck with my twitter followers turning into leads. I am sure that there are those of you that have had lots of luck, however. I guess I have a lot to learn.

By: bookmarking

bookmarking — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:21:25 +0000

Twitter is a very much efficient way for marketing .. we need to study more on that.

By: Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:14:03 +0000

While twitter can be used to talk to people, the best thing that could happen is people start talking about you and directing them to your business. This is extremely hard to do, unless you happen to have really good content on your site like Wikipedia. Links and getting others to pass the word on are always good.

By: Panos

Panos — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:14:59 +0000

I have put a lot of energy into Tweeter and find that Ãt doesn’t work for my business as a marketing tool… I will follow your good tips and give Tweeter a second chance… THANKS!

By: Cellulite

Cellulite — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:00:04 +0000

i think twitter is very useful to us! but anyway thanks for this information.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:20:08 +0000

I find it very hard to keep track of all the Tweets from people I am following, this is where facebook has the advantage as the comments “stick” to the wall. Although % wise more of our Twitter followers click through to our site then our Facebook Fans.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:27:49 +0000

I’m currently using twitter to market a website (NGO, not for selling), and you’ve persuaded me to take more time to get to know the people I’m tweeting to – if they know me better, they’re much more likely to re-tweet my info.

By: Heaven

Heaven — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:05:06 +0000

Of all the social networks I’ve seen people use, Twitter does seem to be the most effective. That’s just because it is geared towards a larger audience than the teens that usually flood MySpace and Facebook. Plus, it’s really easy to use and really easy for your customers to use. In the end, I think it’s quite a powerful marketing tool.

By: Mr Ong

Mr Ong — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:24:19 +0000

Your information is very helpful, frankly I was one of the twitter user, such as what you say, I still feel twitter is the activity a waste of time, and try to inform some of my activities. But not much influence. And followers never grow. even tended to decrease.

By: klaverjassen

klaverjassen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:39:30 +0000

Personally I like Twitter. I must say that when it comes to specific language finding followers is hard and therefore I suggest that your Twitter acc. and twitts should be on English. There are also some helpful free online services that can assist you with reciprocal following and removing people who don’t follow you.

By: jillian at 22pages.etsy.com

jillian at 22pages.etsy.com — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:30:27 +0000

i joined twitter recently and although it has definitely brought in some traffic to my etsy shop, i’m not sure if it has helped with increasing my sales directly. that being said, i am relatively new and it surely feels nice to have the platform to share with my small number of followers when i am selling a new piece or art.