Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Twitter Productivity - Part 2

Welcome back Valued Visitor...

My friend David Perdew, over at the My Twitter Toolbox Gold Membership site, shared the top ten ways to improve twitter productivity with me the other day. Previously, I shared with YOU, the top five, here are the top 6 through 10 ways to improve twitter productivity.

Twitter began as a fun and innovative way to achieve social networking, and has quickly become an easy and helpful tool for promoting businesses, both small and large.

If you are already using Twitter for your business, then you will want to look for ways to improve your productivity. How can you be more productive with a site that only allows you to type one hundred forty characters? Here are 6 through 10 of the top 10 ways to improve your time on the Twitterverse.

6. There are some helpful applications that will help you filter through the millions of people tweeting at any given time. If you do not siphon through these tweets, you could spend a great deal of time looking at messages that may be of no help. Make use of the filtering tools to find the right tweeters so that you can spend less time looking for them.

7. Keep an ongoing list of the most helpful users. Instead of following a great number of people and spending a long time looking through all of the tweets for one particular person, a short list of the best will help you get right to the point.

8. Use twitter as a helpful timer. Many people do not know this, but Twitter can serve as an alarm clock on sorts. You can simply send a direct message to a timer with an amount of time and a short message. When that time has passed, you will receive a tweet telling you your own message. This can be very helpful when you have busy days.

9. Know how to use the re-tweet. There are millions of people on Twitter, and they may not be following you. However, if you send a tweet and then ask for your followers to re-tweet, your message will reach thousands of people in a mere matter of seconds. The re-tweet can be powerful if you use it correctly.

10. Use alerts to your best advantage. When you need to know what people are tweeting about you or some of your customers, you can use applications to set up alerts that will key off of certain words. These alerts can provide you with valuable information and even lead you to new customers.

If you'd like to see a video introduction of the top 20 Twitter tools, visit My Twitter Toolbox...

Happy Tweeting!

Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Twitter Productivity - Part 1

Hi there Valued Visitor...

My friend David Perdew, over at the My Twitter Toolbox Gold Membership site, shared the top ten ways to improve twitter productivity with me the other day. Below are the first five, I'll post 6 through 10 later.

What began as a fun and innovative way to achieve social networking has quickly become an easy and helpful tool for promoting businesses, both small and large.

If you are already using Twitter for your business, then you will want to look for ways to improve your productivity. How can you be more productive with a site that only allows you to type one hundred forty characters? Here are 5 of the top 10 ways to improve your time on the Twitterverse.

1. Sort out your followers. You can find applications that will allow you to separate the people you follow and tweet to into separate groups. This way, you can have a group for your friends, your family, business connections, and more. With these separate groups, you can focus your business related tweets on the right people.

2. Tweet and tweet often. You cannot be very productive with Twitter if you do not dedicate time to it. One way to get many followers is to tweet as often as you possibly can. By doing this, you will have more of a chance of people noticing you and following you.

3. Send useful messages. Tweeting often does not mean sending the same messages over and over. If potential followers see that you never post anything new, then they may not follow you. While you want to tweet as quickly as possible, make sure you are tweeting something worth reading.

4. Include links, but make them short. There are plenty of applications that will allow you to shorten your links to save a great deal of room. Make sure that you always use a link-shortening tool to make the most of every tweet you send.

5. Know when to step away. Of course, you do not need to spend all of your time on Twitter. Remember that you do not need to neglect the other parts of your business. Make sure that you devote enough time to all of your business areas.

If you'd like to see a video introduction of the top 20 Twitter tools, visit My Twitter Toolbox...

And be sure to catch the next 5 ways to build a better life using Twitter in the next post.

Happy tweeting!