Thursday 26 May 2011

Tips on Increasing Followers in Twitter



The popularity of twitter is being increased rapidly as the purpose of appearing on it has been varying. People started creating accounts in twitter with different intentions. Business oriented personalities are now aware of the fact of online presence advantages for their business. According to Internet world stats, with total 444.8% growth since 2000, in 2010 the pc penetration doubled as compare to 2009. Business fellows initiated reaching their targeted audience through internet with different ways. Among them very simple and popular way to get connected with preferred crowd is social networking sites. Among some famous sites, I am going to reveal some tips on twitter which can assist one to get quality and genuine followers.

First of all I am going to start with Beginners of twitter how do you get people to follow your twitter account. When you create an account with twitter, you may not identify anybody on twitter platform and also not having any clue where to initiate. There are many ways to get followers but I am showing you some best practices to increase it. People always appreciate or follow a profile which contains more number of followers. Some proactive business profiles always keep looking for people to follow them and get involved in different activities to get attention. So here they are.


Write on interesting topic and get followers

Target your audience and start writing on the topics regularly which could be interesting for them to read. As people always desire to read news, your article content has to be unique and fresh and has to be understandable for a common man. Thus you can create and connect with the group of general users for your business. Wise commenting on In-demand topics and constant participation on twitter can get you more followers. Keeping in touch with relevant topics by posting, by messages or by placing an applicable link should create a feeling of being a genuine participant can assist you to grow your numbers of followers constantly.


A Smart twitter Profile

 A Business oriented profile should always be looked decent in the all manners. While you are focusing any particular Industry on twitter, you should be an iconic for your followers and for that a smart picture of yours is more appreciated instead of any other logo or cartoon. A smart and decent picture may help users to connect you while they are following you. A suggestion to avoid inconvenience to followers is not to change profile picture frequently. According to the kind of followers you are looking for, an appropriate name may also ask people to follow you whether it’s your own name or name related your industry. Name with any industry phrase can help you appearing in search results while certain people search for some industry news or people. My example (Vikesh_SEO) would be wise enough to explain this trick. Being from SEO Industry, I created profile using my name and my own industry so if somebody willing to look at the current trend of SEO and search for SEO in twitter, they will find me in the search result. To create a complete profile, the place you are located at should be mentioned to connect with your followers personally. A small description about you and a link of personal blog gives a final touch to your professional twitter profile. Just to have a look, a decent example of it is “Vikesh_SEO”.

Key points about followers

A common mistake done by many people is to follow the people who are following them. Only quality people should be followed to get relevant news or updates. Just to increase the numbers of followers, never sacrifice quality otherwise your homepage will be filled with some rubbish stuff you are not interested in. If you find any interesting profile and you want him or her to follow you then try to interact with him on the topic of your industry. A quick reply on whatever they said can be observed by them which may lead into one more quality follower. If posted news is good enough to share with your followers then try to retweet it to get attention of users as the user come to know about it when somebody retweet their posts. One step ahead to it if one think deeper, a proactive profile may interact with the people that can influence your desired followers. Trying to build up a strong quality portfolio is time consuming as every smart work. Last important tip to get connected with large audience is to mention your twitter account possibly everywhere you are interacting as like I had given an option to “Follow me on Twitter” on my personal blog. Thus you can connect to a large targeted audience and can expand your business. Twitter has been a very popular tool among SEO Expert services to promote services.


Article written by Vikesh Pithadiya. - SEO Expert India

Tuesday 3 May 2011

Twitter – Customer Care Service



Social Media Marketing - The effective and cheaper way to connect target audience has been the reason of me keeping writing on it since last four weeks. Along with the entire world, I have been wondering looking at some innovative organization’s approach utilising twitter as an applications. Among all better work by some innovative companies, I am going to share two interesting cases of Southwest and Zappos how they use, how they leverage twitter to interact with their customers. They have shown a beautiful example of building and promoting their brand awareness using twitter.

David Armano had written a great article revealing the story of how these two companies have leveraged twitter for networking. Southwest and Zappos have been known for inventive customer care service are leveraging Twitter.

According to David, once he was flying with Southwest. He left a post on twitter thanking southwest for being on the time when he boarded on the flight. By the time he landed, the customer care team of twitter had responded back to it as well. After reading this wonderful article I looked at the twitter account of Southwest and I found it filled with the responses to posts left by Southwest customers. Southwest is more dedicated to its blog to connect with the customers. This is an amazing piece of excellent customer care service and indirect marketing. One more exciting observation by David praised the usage of Twitter by Zappos. It has always been known for an aggressive marketing and amazing customer service. Zappos has 1,818,053 numbers of followers in the twitter which shows a great attention on the leveraging Twitter. A team at Zappos customer care service discuss or ask for business ideas before launching any new schemes or products. The CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh is having an account with twitter to keep in touch with customers. Many schemes have been revealing for the twitter followers to keep it interesting like one day they gave away 10 pair of shoes randomly to their twitter followers. Only a quick response form a company can make a customer delight, otherwise it’s wise versa. Social Media Marketing is getting more attention of SEO Expert services to create a brand in the market.


These two spontaneous example of leveraging twitter could be inspiration for a small budget business to improve their business by keeping in touch with their customers. The Twitter account is free and always will be.

Article written by Vikesh Pithadiya - SEO Expert India