Twitter Tips To Engage E-Commerce Consumers
Emerging media is great for us e-commerce business owners. It allows us to have more marketing channels and engage our customers and future customers at another level. While newsletters is still a great way to keep customers coming back, TWITTER is a new way to reach customers real-time and allow you to market products as they come out.
If you don’t know what Twitter is yet, “Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service, itself, costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.”
One great thing about Twitter is that it’s a great tool to incorporate into your site because it allows you to custom design it to your website.
How to go about setting up a Twitter account and get followers?
1) Go to Twitter.com and click on SIGN UP NOW (1 second)
2) Fill out the information (1 minute)
3) Where it says, “what are you doing now” you can input product name and URL and click send. Will automatically turn URL to link.
4) To get users, start requesting people and many will request you back. By requesting we mean FOLLOWING people.
5) Include FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER buttons on your website, blog, and newsletters.
You’re ready to start marketing your website on Twitter!