5 Basic Twitter Techniques

Twitter real time networking can be beneficial to your book and business. Here are some techniques for enhancing your experience and those sales.

1)Your website is your business card. Post your link with credible contact information. For example book stores, libraries, and other authors and publishers may want to know more about your book business. You may want to send out media kits or complimentary copies.

2)Build relationships. Follow. Talk. Follow. Communicate with people using @ and RT.

3)Use Twitter time savers. There are so many. Try and see what works for you and your schedule. My favorites include:

http://tweetlater.com
This allows you to pre schedule Tweets for later posting. You can then recycle previous posts with one click. Time and timing are everything. It is Twitter on autopilot.

http://tweetdeck.com
This allows you to have a full screen of Twitter columns like all friends, direct messages, replies. There are many excellent features you can do with a click. Today Tweetdeck was updated and now has a Facebook icon.

http://hootsuite.com
This allows you to Tweet, pre-Tweet,live Tweet and more.

http://tweetgrid.com
This is a tool especially good for group meetings and chat. Follow your favorite topics here, too.

http://search.twitter.com
This is a good internal search engine and chat tool.


4)Educate yourself. Study and learn as you go. There are many Twitter teachers. Two of the best are @JohnKremer http://bookmarketing.com/twitter and @bookgal http://amarketingexpert.com .

5)Be yourself.


J.L Richardson, MD is author of Patient Handbook to Medical Care: Your Personal Health Guide. Bend of the River Books is her publishing company created to self publish her titles.

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