Twitter

[Yorkshire Tiling Services]

Still don't understand it !!! Am i thick ?
How can it help my business ?

 

[widler]

if your thick(being from yorkshire,it can't be hard:smilewinkgrin then i must be thick as well:drool5:

i have a good mate,we both follow boxing,he is on twitter all the time,following boxers on there,personally i think its a bit wierd,a bit like internet stalk:yikes:ing

 

[Gazzer]

Yes it can benefit you with getting new contacts. More so for traders wanting your custom but if it saves you money then why not. Its worked for me.

 

[Stewart]

Use it all the time.... Great for direct contact with suppliers, getting good info on products and getting your business out there. You can even have a good laugh. If your not using it for your business then your missing a free opportunity to promote yourself.


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[Yorkshire Tiling Services]

??? loads of random one liners.. tweets
I can see other businesses there, have clicked follow, do I wait for people to follow me ? or do i just start tweeting and hope I get noticed ? Seems like a retarded Facebook to me. Wish I could get my head round it.

 

[Gazzer]

search for adhesive manufacturers and follow them or the Reps. You will get up to date info, info on special offers. I managed to save a client almost 50% on tile when I tweeted that I was looking for a particular tile. A company tweeted back and the deal was done.

 

[Stewart]

You need to follow tweeps and then most will follow you back, but only follow things you may be interested in as there are a lot people who talk nothing but rubbish and spam you.


Created on iPhone.....

 

[Dan]

If you're following somebody and tweet from your account something like "@username hi something something" they then get notified that you've said something to them, so they will see what you've said. So they don't have to follow you per se for you to ask them something.

So use it as a form of communication and ignore the following thing if that's the bit you don't understand.

Search for "tile" or "tile adhesive" and add the firms you know of (not just all of them - that's the mistake I made and as a result I get spammed a lot every day - as somebody said above already).

If you keep doing @username messages to different people, eventually they'll follow you if they're interested in what you're saying and then you don't need to keep @username'ing them, as whatever you write to your 'wall' (facebook reference there to help you understand what that is) all your followers see.

So like neale did a message "anybody got xxxx tile", the tile shops following him would have spotted it. If he didn't have tile shops following him, he would have had to @tilegiant then the message (for example - TG don't have a twitter account by the way) to each of the tile shops he can find by searching.

To be fair, it is a bit weird and christ knows how something quite complicated in terms of communication got so popular, but it did.

You'll notice as soon as you have your account all the TV programs that have "#ProgramName" somewhere on the screen as certain points which means if you search twitter for the programname bit you'll end up with all the people who are talking about that program while it's on. You can then follow the 'interesting' people, or just keep searching when you want to see what's being said.

I'm not much for it, but as a web developer I suppose I have to have an account. Doesn't really get used much though.