Meet and Market Business Through Twitter.

I hate to sound like I'm selling marketing services but if there's one thing that I know all too well its that without marketing, any business interest or product, no matter how good, will only be known by the owner/creator. There's definately no two ways about it, marketing is a must.

Twitter's search functionality cannot be under-estimated.

First of all, you get to use real-time updates to find out what people are tweeting about and you can identify which individual is tweeting about the keywords you have searched for.

Secondly, after identifying those individuals, sending them an email to introduce your website, blog or services are great for the next step. It may seem a bit forward, it may not. That is actually how some marketing companies make use of twitter.

It is true that posting tweets are similar to posting status messages inside facebook, except facebook doesnt allow you to search the status messages that are posted on their platform beyond you only seeing what was said by someone you already know.

Twitter not only makes it easy to generate new leads, but gaining access to those individuals and integrating with your already existent systems become so much easier based on their published API.

The Plan
Feed my Blog Labels/Tags to Twitter Search.
Then message those twitter users that were returned from the twitter search with a tinyurl hotlink to my blog.

UPDATE! - Okay, well I wont even write a new post or inform you on how I've implemented, suffice it to say, I encountered this blog and it does as much of what I need to do!

Here's to making Social Media work for you.
Cheers

Auto Follow and Tweet At someone (Part II) from Google Form

Following up from Part I it would seem pointless if all that cool effort of acknowledging your new member via an automated tweet with their name goes unnoticed by the new user! This is however possible if your twitter account pushes alot of tweets, therefore a tweet going unnoticed is possible.

One of the workarounds I've thought about is to tweet @JohnDoe as well as to automatically start following JohnDoe on twitter. That definately improves the odds of him seeing that you've tweeted at him, acknowledging his presence to your online community.

Auto Tweet a welcome message!

At some point, everyone wants to gain more growth and create a community behind their organisation. Nothing like letting your newcomers feel welcomed by tweeting their presence on your twitter channel and signing them up to your mailing list via a google signup form.
 
So someone finally comes across your blog, website or even facebook page! Wow, great now that you've gotten this lead, how can you get them to signup for joining your community and ensuring they enjoy the process?