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Use social networks to promote business

Networking is one of the most ancient and time tested to get orientation direct and promote a business. Take this internet age and you have social networking sites geared toward building your own network Online. One network services more widely used, it's Twitter.

Twitter is a service social networking that allows users to send and read other users' updates called tweets. It is a great way to stay in touch with friends and quickly disseminate information on where you are and what you do?

Twitter started as an experiment in 2006. When it was used as a medium for instant sharing information in situations such as earthquakes, conferences and Festivals – Twitter has been very popular. So Twitter, Inc. was founded in 2007. Today, Twitter is a privately funded based in San Francisco, CA.

Tweets are text messages that you send your profile up to 140 characters. These are seen by your followers or the people you follow. You can limit a tweet to a group of people or to open it all inside circuit.

You can use and send tweets via Twitter site. You can also use Mobile Phones SMS (Short Message Service) service station and see the tweets. This service is free, but to use the mobile service providers would sms cost.

Why Twitter?

In a podcasting company called Odeo, Jack Dorsey pass this idea of maintaining services SMS in mind to share information with friends and strangers. So the working name was originally registered. But it does seem not very attractive and after much brainstorming they came up with the word Twitch (Because the type of phone to vibrate when it moves or received a message). But once again shaking does not seem too great and after watching the dictionary they came with the word that meant Twittr a "short burst of irrelevant information," and "birds chirping", which was exactly what the product was. Hence the name came from Twitter.

Twitter and your business

People use Twitter to create, discover and share ideas with others. Now people are turning to Twitter as an effective way to affect companies.

For a company, Twitter can be used to

• Broadcast the latest news and business blogs
• Interact with customers
• Enable easy internal collaboration and group communication

You can

• Join groups, industry and topic related to your business and career sites like www.twibes.com

www.wefollow.com

• Join Twitter cats related to your industry or business on a regular basis.
• Stay in touch with friends and colleagues. Sometimes a friend or colleague can help you look and you make some valuable business.
• Obtain and provide references.
• Recommend other Twitter users in your network, including reasons to follow them – by sharing goodwill, you encourage others to reciprocate.
• Do not post your tweets at a time, spread them throughout the day.
• Help people solve their problems if you can and share tips related to your business.
• Report interesting information related to your business and industry with your comments.
• Link to articles and other content posted a summary of why it is valuable.
• Post your thoughts on the original topic, industry and business.
• Share what you're doing so people learn about the type of work you made. To do so, on occasion, rather than all day.

Some interesting ways companies use Twitter to promote services and products:

• Dell has created a number of Twitter profiles, each designed for different types of transactions (eg, Dell Outlet offers refurbished Recent Posts Dell computers).
• STARBUCKS posts new offers and son participates in discussion of these offers to their followers on Twitter.
• Whole Foods Market asks what their customers like to read and watch, recommends new food podcast and invite them to future society
• BEST BUY BUILT TO GINA community to communicate with their customers and friends
• Twitter updates ATTNEWS their followers of the news published on site
• BREAK POINT posts updated news about the company and industry and discusses it with her Twitter-listeners.
• ED FORD post within the company's news on twitter
• SAMSUNG created a Twitter account dedicated to mobile phones and two positions in the company (DOC) and new product there.
• KODAK CHIEF BLOGGER two posts updates blog of the company and discuss business with clients.

So if you find it interesting and useful for your company newsletter on www.twitter.com and become a member of the community of the most used social networking and enjoy the interaction and make new friends.

About the Author

Sabinder Kaur is the Director of Cranvas(www.cranvas.com) that provides custom website development services, website design and SEO services. To get more information on web development services please visit: Promote your business

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