In the name of time management – spending my time on the right income-producing activities for my online information marketing business, I’ve limited my time to Twitter to just 15-minutes each day.
That’s up from my previous 5 and then 10 minutes each day…the reason is simple, Twitter is getting me results!
Traffic from Twitter has tripled for me in the last month, I’ve discovered a couple of joint venture partners, one I’ve interviewed and another that has become an affiliate AND I’ve actually tracked some sales coming through from twitter.
No – it’s not the holy grail of marketing – for that you need to look at combining things like consistently creating great content, understanding your market desires and developing content around meeting those desires, search engine optimization, using multimedia and some other nifty traffic generation secrets we’ll talk about over the next few days.
That said – twitter has now overtaken my traffic and results from all other social networking sites with the exception of Myspace which I don’t hear much about anymore, but still gives me good traffic from my profile.
Twitter is…
- Simple to use – you can try it out by selecting the "Follow" button over at http://www.twitter.com/highertrust/
- It’s limited to 140 characters – so posting and reading is FAST
- It’s all connected – so you find yourself linked to people with like-minded interests very quickly
- There are millions of watchers – it’s picking up steam everday
- Lots of big names hang out on Twitter as well, it’s a great place to network with top names in your industry
Just in case you have joined twitter and are already following us…and still need to know more to get maximum benefit from tweeting – here is a terrific ProBlogger article on 35 ways to get the most out of twitter.
Jeff
