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<p>Can it be time cnosuming? Yes, if you decide to do it yourself.</p>
<p>Can you get it wrong and look like a spammer? Yes, if you’re not careful.</p>
<p>Can it bring in business? most definitely.</p>
<p>Read our articles to find out more on using Twitter for business.</p>
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<h4>Better business, less noise, get noticed<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"></a>..tweet </h4>
<p><a href="http://www.businessontwitter.co.uk/index.html">Here at the Doing Business on Twitter website</a> we can show you how you too can use Twitter to increase your online visibility and develop a wildly successful business online. You may feel daunted by the prospect, and so the first step to online success is to get yourself some expert help. </p>
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<p><strong>We say: </strong>Twitter is a mini-blogging device that can be accessed via the web, instant messaging and mobile phones. Users can send messages of one hundred and forty characters that are published either publicly or privately in a shared environment. Anyone with access to this environment can follow the flow of messages and comment, reply or simply keep up to date. Twitter can be used by groups of friends sharing gossip, groups developing ideas or colleagues in the same building deciding when to go to lunch!</p>
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<h2>Whether or not you tweet...<br />
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<p>@Tweeting (touting) for business</p>
<p>Whether or not you tweet, Twitter is an online phenomenon all business people need to be clued up about – especially in the world of commerce where you're judged on your expertise. So, here's a useful little diagram that should get you right to the top of the Twitter learning curve – and in next to no time... <a href="http://visual.ly/how-use-twitter-business" target="_blank">http://visual.ly/how-use-twitter-business</a></p>
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<p>A podcast, or podcasting, refers to the activity in which people create a series of digital media files and broadcast it online though internet streaming or by making it available for easy download as an audio file. Podcasting has developed since its inception with people now operating podcasts within a video format, commonly known as a vodcast. </p>
<p>A blog (sometimes referred to as a weblog) relates to a form of website that is maintained by either an individual or a group or people that offer regular commentary, pictures and video content to their readers. The majority of blogs cover a specific category such as Gadgets. Generally speaking a blog is made up of text, images, video content and links to other blogs, related websites. </p>
<p><strong>Set up a profile!</strong></p>
<p>This is the first thing you should do when you start a Twitter account. If you have the default Twitter profile photo, you are immediately identified as a newbie and people may suspect that your account is a bot account. Some people on Twitter do not even follow you without a profile picture. Photos are more memorable and engaging but you can use your business logo if you prefer: I do to keep my business account and personal account separate.</p>
<h3>Making Money</h3>
<p>Imagine sitting in your office, and posting “Just finished optimising a client’s website for higher Google listings” on Twitter. 2 minutes later you get a direct message saying “We need some help getting Google listings – can you help?” A few emails back and forth, a quick phone call and £3000 of business is done.</p>
<p><strong>Sounds fantastic, doesn’t it? It did to me.</strong></p>
<h2>Other posts you may be interested in:</h2>
<p> Have you decided to make the leap and get onto Twitter in 2011?<br />
Softly, softly or hardly, hardly?<br />
How should I mix the personal and professional on Twitter?<br />
Twitter: where’s it going? – Guest Blog By Jackie Barrie<br />
Why should I use a hashtag in a conversation?<br />
Why I love Twitter by a self confessed Twitterholic<br />
A Twitter Interview with Karen Plane of Your Admin<br />
Recruiters and recruitment companies on Twitter<br />
The trouble with people who tweet is…<br />
What should you use for your Twitter name or ‘handle’?</p>
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