Getting more traffic using Twitter for your company
Twitter.com has created quite a media storm in the last few months with a plethora of subject gurus discussing Twitter on their podcasts , and business strategists telling you, we can leverage Twitter to build thousands of followers , the talk about Twitter is hard to avoid . You almost certainly know people who are on Twitter and your suppliers may have invited you to their Twitter profile . That leas us to the big question . What are YOU doing about it for yourself?
Twitter doesn’t look like it will disappear any time soon. In the meantime some are jumping on the band wagon, while others sit in the sidelines bemused.
Despite what you think of Twitter for yourself, there are opportunities you should deploy and there’s a great FREE training video about that at http://www.TrafficHug.com/twittervideo/ but whatever you do, you should be doing something. Even at a minimum you have one more point of contact via Twitter , ideally with some way of people finding you by your keyword, or your name. I mean a few people are just going to wonder if your business (or you) are on Twitter and type in twitter dot com slash acme widgets. Now it will be embarrassing is a cyber squatter is sitting on your own name, so another good reason to make sure you secure your place in the Twit’o’sphere. (By the way things can be done about cyber squatters, just ask me.)
In other articles we talk about how to get noticed for your keyword and how to manage your account for targeted conversion (also covered well in that free video I mentioned earlier) but let’s do something we can do right now.
Many people perceive Twitter traffic as coming from within Twitter itself . A concept most Twitter directories encourage . But with Twitter , the advantages of having your existing customers join you on Twitter are huge . So enormous that we need to start integrating immediately .
One thing we can do almost immediately is to add a Twitter “badge” to your web presences . A Twitter badge is a graphic showing who you are on Twitter with a hyperlink to your Twitter profile. In the videos , you’ll see how , but let’s stick to a simple badge for now .
WHERE CAN I CREATE MY TWITTER BADGE?
You can get your own customised Twitter badge without spending any money from here ;
http://www.TwitterDominator.com/followme_badges.php – FREE Customised Twitter FollowMe Badges .
You simply paste the HTML code it provides in to your website, store, or blog and your customised graphic with active link, will magically appear .
It works great on Wordpress blogs as a sidebar Text Widget. I’ve inserted them on all of my own blogs.
The Twitter badge is housed in its own code block so should integrate perfectly almost anywhere.
If you create a table or div tag to position it in , then you can just paste the code in in that place . With WYSIWYG html editors, there is usually an HTML “object” box you can place in the desired location and just place the code in to that. Adobe Dreamweaver users can just insert an AP Layer (from the insert menu) and then paste the code in to that using the HTML code view pane.
There couldn’t be anything easier than using a Twitter badge. And it’s the glue that links your web 2.0 with your normal web. Don’t miss the boat.
