Mark and Ian explain the Top Ten Things to avoid so that you stand the best chance of gaining relevant followers who are interested in you and what you do, help you to build up a powerful network, and enable you to get the best results through your on-line Twitter activities.

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What is  Twitter ?

Twitter is a free social networking  service that enables its users to send and read short messages of up to 140 characters, known as tweets. These tweets are text-based posts which are displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers or followers. All Twitter subscribers  can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, or they can use a variety of external applications. The service is free and is a great too for building up your Social Networking profile and raise personal and brand awareness on-line.

For those who prefer a written lists of Top Ten Twitter Tips Thou Shalt Not Do, this is for you!

Thou Shalt Not:

1. Whinge about personal matters -It’s scary when you get personal
2. Troll, Flame or be rude while networking on-line – It upsets people
3. No profile? Then don’t expect to get any followers.
   • If you can’t be bothered, we won’t bother to follow you
4. Mass following/mass unfollowing is poor etiquette.
   • It tells us you’re only interested in numbers, not people
5. Slag people off or show disrespect – It helps everyone if you suggest solutions instead
6. Pointless updates – We’re really not interested if you’re in the bath – unless it’s with pictures!
7. Never Re-Tweeting or Replying to Tweets – What are you there for?
   • Twitter is a conversation – people to people – It’s a “Two Way” thing!
8. Don’t send us Spam, we stop following you when you do
9. Don’t sell or bleat out endless self promotion, rather engage with us and pique out interest
10. Having no Avatar tells us you can’t be bothered. Social Networking is what it says on the tin
    • It’s social – It’s person to person – It works best when we can see who we’re talking to!

Apart from everything “Sliding” around the Top Ten chart this week, Mark and Ian take a very light hearted look at all of the things you could be doing to get the best results from your FaceBook activities to help you gain you lots of fans, friends and followers, which will ultimately lead to more business.

What is FaceBook?

Facebook is a social networking website where anyone over the age of 13 with a valid e-mail address (and not residing in one of the countries where it is banned) can become a FaceBook user. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organised by city, workplace, and school or college. The website’s name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.

For those of you who prefer a written lists of Top Ten Tips for FaceBook, this is for you!

1. Join in with status updates and be part of, and initiate conversations
2. Being active on FaceBook help you become visible and raise your brand awareness
3. Use it to find, meet and grow your business networking connections
4. Target your niche and build a following of people interested in what you do
5. Use your knowledge and know how to help people and become known as an expert in your field
6. Gain public testimonials  and recommendations from followers you do work for
7. It can open doors to new contacts through your network of followers
8. Posting links to your blog articles can help you gain rapid search engine placement
9. FaceBook is great for promoting events and has tools to help you
10. It costs nothing but time – put in the Social Sweat and get rewarded by building a following

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What is  Twitter?

Twitter is a free social networking  service that enables its users to send and read short messages of up to 140 characters, known as tweets. These tweets are text-based posts which are displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers or followers. All Twitter subscribers  can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, or they can use a variety of external applications. The service is free and is a great too for building up your Social Networking profile and raise personal and brand awareness on-line.

For those of you who prefer a written lists of Top Ten Tips for Twitter Part II, this is for you!

1. Keep it professional, don’t be big-headed, or rude, you’ll trash your image
2. Share the love by helping your followers and those having difficulties
3. Don’t over automate, no-one likes listening to bleating robots
4. Pictures say a thousand words, post them on Twitter, they’re a great “eye ball puller”
5. Use bit.ly to shorten your URL’s so it makes it easy for others to Re-Tweet your messages
6. Share juicy bits of information you find on the web, if you found it interesting so will others
7. Respond to any Direct Messages you receive
   • (apart from ones asking you to sign up to get a million followers!)
8. Remember to “Mention” helpful Twitter users, it shows you care too
9. Respond to “@Reply’s” when people have responded to you,
   • help them raise their profile to your followers
10. Give your followers a huge hug by ReTweeting their messages, it helps the world go round!

Follow Mark Peters on Twitter:  @StarRadioMark

Follow Ian McKendrick on Twitter:  @IanMcKendrick

What people are saying on Twitter about:  The Business Bub

Maybe you’re doing something on Twitter we haven’t mentioned above, if so, please share your ideas with our readers in the comments section below, and we’ll make another film and give you the credit!

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a free social networking  service that enables its users to send and read short messages of up to 140 characters, known as tweets. These tweets are text-based posts which are displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers or followers. All Twitter subscribers  can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, or they can use a variety of external applications. The service is free and is a great too for building up your Social Networking profile and raise personal and brand awareness on-line.

For those of you who prefer a written lists of Top Ten Tips for Twitter, this is for you!

1. Promote new content on your blog or website
2. Learn new marketing ideas, ask your customers what they want
3. Use Twitter Search to find new people to follow who could be potential customers
4. To ask permission to add your followers to your email lists for your monthly newsletter
5. Build a buzz around you and what you do
6. Grow your on-line business network
7. Establish and build your brand to raise brand awareness
8. Get feedback and opinions so you can give people what they’re looking for
9. Use it for research and to keep updated in your areas of expertise
10. Direct traffic to your web pages containing your “Calls To Action”

Follow Mark Peters on Twitter: @StarRadioMark

Follow Ian McKendrick on Twitter: @IanMcKendrick

What people are saying on Twitter about: The Business Bub

Maybe you’re doing something on Twitter we haven’t mentioned above, if so, please share your ideas with our readers in the comments section below, and we’ll make another film and give you the credit!

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