Many of you have emailed me lately, asking how to more effectively use Twitter to grow and manage your Market America UnFranchise® business. For starters, remember, neither Twitter or Facebook is a substitute for one another. They’re both equally important in the social networking landscape, as they each have their own unique audiences. With that in mind, it is important that you get organized before you jump right in to using social networks. Without a plan in place, you’ll end up doing a lot of back-tracking, removing people, creating new lists, etc…If you’ve reached 500 friends, this can prove to be very challenging. For people with thousands of friends, I suggest breaking your re-organizational project into smaller pieces so that you can manage them more effectively.
For Facebook, this means creating lists and familiarizing yourself with adding new friends to it (which I’ll cover in my next tip). For Twitter, I recommend using Twitter lists. Twitter lists in a nutshell, allows you to group certain people that you follow on Twitter into a group, so you can see their tweets (along with anyone else that you’ve added to this list).
To create a Twitter list, follow these steps:
- Login to Twitter
- Visit someone you would like to follow. Ex: Market America
- Click the ‘list’ icon on the right side of the page
- Create a new list or if you’ve already created a list, add them to an existing one
- Once you’ve added them to a list, you can now click the ‘list’ icon under the What’s Happening box to view just the people you’ve added to a particular Twitter list.
As a Market America UnFranchise® owner, this tool is great for managing your preferred customers and communicating with other customer managers, as you can view everything they’ve said on Twitter without having to sift through hundreds and hundreds of tweets from other followers. Lists can also be created to help you manage all of the tweets from say a company like Market America (see here).
If you’re already using the Twitter List feature, I want to hear what tips you have to share with other customer managers looking to adopt this great business building tool.
If you’ve got questions or need help with Twitter lists, please email me, internetmarketing@marketamerica.com.
Sincerely,
Christian Karasiewicz
Internet Marketing and Social Media Manager
Twitter: @ckroks
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I use Twitter lists a lot. One tip is that you can add a user to a list even if you don’t follow that user. I use this capability to create private topic lists on web design, small-business marketing, social media, technology, etc. without cluttering up my “main” feed.
Lists also work great with some third-party twitter clients like TweetDeck that allow you to create columns for each list and view then simultaneously or quickly switch between then.
Your tips, Christian, are so valuable. Can a PRINT Button be added so that only the text is printed out and not the entire page. Saves time and paper.
Thanks,
George
Miss you old friend God speed
Thanks Christian. Your tips and techniques are what are getting me moving with social network marketing. I’m very grateful. Keep ’em coming.
Christian: Got your email and am trying to get back with you as soon as I can get organized in the office.
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