The Office Grapevine - Virtual Assistance in Chicago, Illinois

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Ways to Twitter - I have 11, Can You Add to My List?

Because I work as a virtual assistant within real estate and bookkeeping, primarily with small businesses, I am being asked a lot about Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. How should I use these platforms? Should I use them? What do you suggest?

Below are some ideas that I share with all my clients because the reality is that if you don't use these platforms on a consistent basis then you won't get anything out of them either. Like anything else in your business, consistency and clarity of information is necessary as well as a plan.

11 Ways To Twitter

1) What you're working on right now

2) Links to interesting websites or articles you've found

3) Announce a new product or service you're preparing to launch

4) Links to cool tools or services you've found helpful

5) Thanking people that have recently inspired you or helped you with something

6) Questions about something you want to know about, like an issue you're having with something

7) Send out a poll or link to a survey. The answers can be the subject of your next blog post or video

8) Mention how cool it is to be working on "x". This highlights the type of work you do, and people looking for this type of help will be able to find you

9) Announce to your tweeps that something great just happened to you.
--you just received an award or nomination
--you been asked to speak at a big seminar
--you just landed a huge client
--you just finished completing a certification course
--you been contacted to do an interview about your business

10) Schedule a series of tips as individual tweets

11) If you're at an event, tweet about the experience as it's happening

So what other suggestions do you have for your Tweeting practices? I'd love to learn more.