A couple of days ago I asked for readers to submit their questions on Twitter for me to answer. Well 4 of you did, and here they are – with my thoughts! ( I wont say answers because some of them are not looking for answers, but more opinions)

Twitter Questions from Bari of 201art.com

1. How can Twitter help business and how does it help celebrities?

You have to go into Twitter with a plan, just like with anything. If you go in know what you want to acheive from Twitter then you can focus your efforts on that goal instead of getting sidetracked by the latest fads.
Some of the way Twitter can help business could be:

• Publicity
  Building publicity for a business is so important, because the more people who know about your business the more customers you will have – if you are targetting the right people. The key is where to find the right people to build publicity. When you are trying to use Twitter to gain exposure for your business you are looking for new people, who have never heard of your business – not existing customers.The best way to find people who might be interested in your business is to find your competitors or other twitter users who focus on something similar to you and see who is following them. A great tool for this issearch tool at twitter.grader.com.
• Conversion
  Once you are finding people who may be interested in your product, how do you go about converting them to clients and customers? This is where offering a free product or report in exchange for their details comes in handy. For example, I have just soft launched a new free report that I have written on the power of Twitter and using Twitter alone I have gained 25 new subscribers to my email list! That is 25 people that I can email on a regular basis eventually turning them into customers.
• Informing Clients
  Don’t forget your current clients. Twitter isn’t just for branding, but also for keeping your current customers up to date with the happenings of your business – and your latest offers! Why not ask your customers if they have Twitter?

Could not the way Twitter helps business be the same for celebrities?

For celebrities, they are their business! So I don’t see why celebrities could not use Twitter exactly the same as any other business. That is what I would be doing if I was a celebrity.

2. How does Twittering… help the public get a sense of purpose?

Maybe I am reading this question the wrong way, but I do not think that Twitter should give you a sense of purpose. You should already have a purpose for whatever you are doing before Twitter, and should only be used to help you achieve your purpose. read this entry »

Since the beginning of May I have been focusing the majority of my efforts online to Twitter, in an attempt to discover how valuable a tool it is for bloggers – and how we can maximize our results from using it. BTW, I just passed 4,300 followers – well on the way to my target of 10,000 by the end of May!

I have been doing a lot of testing, and learning a whole lot that I want to share with you all about using Twitter to grow your blog, but today I want to look at something that I am sure you will all love!

How To Write Blog Posts That Twitter Loves

Now when I say, ‘blog posts that Twitter loves’, I am talking about creating posts that will draw a lot of traffic using a few simple steps, that anyone can replicate. This method will work for any blog, in an niche, so if you are looking to dramatically increase your unique visitors keep reading… read this entry »

I figured that as we start to hit the end of the first half of Twitter Month (May) and my follower count edges nearer to 4,000, that now would be a good time to find out what you want to know about Twitter.

The past 11 days have been hugely insightful and very effective in gaining me traffic and subscribers and having spent a lot of time on Twitter, I believe that I have learnt a lot about how it works, and how to benefit from micro blogging.

Now I would like to open the floor and ask you:

What Do You Want To Know About Twitter?

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This article is a guest post. If you are interested in writing for StandOutBlogger please contact me.

As you may know, Twitter, also known, as “MicroBlogging” is a great resourceful site for bloggers as well as ordinaries people to share ideas, convey their stories and make friends in the process. Today, in this guest post, I’ll be discussing of how Twitter helps us bloggers achieve our goals.

Stronger Name
Twitter helps you strengthen and expand your blog’s name, like all other ways including social bookmarking, article submissions and when your blog gets blogged by different users it encourages them to visit your blog.

Traffic
Like i mention above that Twitter bring upon desired and undesired traffic, it can be a great source of bringing in loyal and honest readers, hence brining in more value to your blog and your blogging experience. read this entry »

After creating my own Twitter background yesterday, I thought it would be a great idea to look at a few other bloggers that I believe have fantastic, well branded Twitter backgrounds. Hopefully these links will be able to provide you with some inspiration if you are looking to create or update your Twitter background. Either way, I would recommend following each of these bloggers and they have great content to back up their creative designs.

10 Bloggers With Well Branded Twitter Backgrounds

@DavidRisley – DavidRisley.com

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