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A Beginner’s Guide toTwitter:How to use Twitter to Promote your BusinessYou have probably heard a lot about Twitter but like anything, until you know how to use it, it canseem daunting. This guide will give you a brief overview of Twitter, how to get set up, what to tweetabout and how to increase your number of followers.So, let’s start at the beginning. Created in March, 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone andNoah Glass, Twitter was launched four months later. By December 2014, there were 280M activeusers with 23% of adult internet users having twitter accounts. So you might be asking, why wouldmy business benefit from using Twitter?Twitter is a real-time social media platform which you can use to increase your brand awareness,driving traffic to your website and reaching a wider audience. It’s like micro-blogging or sendingpublic text messages and like many social media platforms, it has its own language. I’ll begin byrunning through a few definitions before showing you how to set up a twitter account and then giveyou some tips on how to run a successful twitter campaign as well as sharing some of the risksinvolved.Twitter: A Beginner’s Guide Page 2

DEFINITIONSTwitter as many of the other social media platforms has its own language. Here are a few definitionsto help you start:Tweet: a message of up to 140 characters that you send out to your followersRetweet:sending a tweet you receive to your followersFollowers and Following: as the name suggests, these are people who either follow you or you followDirect Messages: Twitter now allows you to send a DM to anyone, even if they don’t follow youalthough there is a setting to disable this if you do not want to receive DMs from non-followers. Andthey also recently increased the number of characters for a DM to 160#: Hashtags are used to link together conversations about certain topics@: Your @username can be up to a maximum of 15 characters and is used to link others to yourprofileTwitter: A Beginner’s Guide Page 3

SETTING UP AN ACCOUNTHere are some guidelines about setting up a Twitter account:1. Go to www.twitter.com or download the free Twitter app on your mobile and sign up andfollow the instructions2. Choose your @username as well as a name to appear next to it. Some businesses use thesame as their @username or something different. If your business’s name is too long orsomeone else is already using it, try abbreviating it or varying it slightly3. Upload a picture of yourself or your brand logo – photos can be in any of the followingformats: JPG, GIF or PNG. The image will appear alongside every tweet4. Write a profile of your business using no more than 160 characters. Make it clear what youdo and who you are and if relevant include opening hours and the location of your business5. Include a link to your website. You want to make it as easy as possible for people to find yourwebsite from your Twitter page6. Use a header image that represents your brand as people who visit your profile page will seeit7. Customise your profile page: once you’ve set up your account, you can make changes to yourprofile page by clicking on “Settings” and then choosing “Design”. This can be anything fromadding a background image to changing the colours of any links to your pageTwitter: A Beginner’s Guide Page 4

TWEETINGOK, so you have set up your Twitter account, but what should you tweet about and when?1. StyleThink about tweets as a conversation between you and the public so use a conversational style. Makethem authentic and friendly and include a call to action such as “Discover .” – people are curious andwill want to click on the link to see what you are offering them.2. ContentHere are a few suggestions about what you can write about: Include a link to your blog or post on your website and Twitter will automatically alterit to 22 characters even if the link is shorter than that. Share amusing quotes or inspiring speeches Always tweet about something that is related to your business. For example, youmight be interested in bee-keeping or politics but don’t share this with your followers Respond to your clients’ tweets; hopefully the majority of the comments you receivewill be positive but if you do receive some negative feedback, you could send a DM toyour client and ask them to give you a ring personally so you can sort the problem out Share any discounts or offers Don’t oversell. People aren’t on Twitter to be sold to, so a softer approach is needed Check out the #s that are relevant to your business and get involved in theconversation.Twitter: A Beginner’s Guide Page 5

Before using any # in your tweet, always check the content first. You don’t want toenter a conversation before you know what’s being talked about! Test different content and see what works for you3. When? Tweet regularly: Think of Twitter as a networking event – if you never talk, nobodyis going to want to engage with you! Start with 1-2 tweets a day and gradually buildit up to around 10. There are tools like www.buffer.com which can schedule yourtweets for you in advance which means you can write your tweets in one sitting butdon’t forget to check your account several times every day just in case you need torespond to some feedback. If you are away from the office, it’s a good idea todownload the Twitter app to your mobile. What time of day? Although stats say around lunchtime is good for tweeting, carryout some A/B Testing - read our article for some more informationTwitter: A Beginner’s Guide Page 6

INCREASING YOURFOLLOWERSYou’ve set up your account but how do you build your followers? Join a twitter chat: you will probably find that your local area uses a # to letfollowers join a conversation at a certain time each week. For example if youlive in the London area, you could join the chat #LondonHour – every Mondayevening between 7.30pm – 8.30pm Use the search function: try searching for keywords in your Twitter bar thatmight be related to your business e.g. accountancy Dorset. You might findsomeone who has tweeted about finding an accountant in your area so that youcan send them a tweet (using their @username) telling them about yourservices Interact with people: don’t just wait for people to find you, go out there andstart introducing yourself Mention others: if you meet future clients or other businesses at a networkingevent, mention them in a tweet. Hopefully they will retweet it to all theirfollowers Make sure your number of followers is about the same as the number of peopleyou are following otherwise you could fall foul of Twitter’s Best Practise Rulesand never buy followers as it could violate Twitter’s Ts and Cs. Be polite! Send people a DM to thank them for following youTwitter: A Beginner’s Guide Page 7

AND FINALLY .enjoy it! And make sure that you link your Twitter account to your website and all of your othersocial media sites. If you have any other Twitter related questions or would like us to manage yourTwitter account for you, just get in touch 01722 671971 or by email hello@baqqa.comTwitter: A Beginner’s Guide Page 8

So, let’s start at the beginning. Created in March, 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass, Twitter was launched four months later. By December 2014, there were 280M active users with 23% of adult internet users having twitter accounts. So you might be asking, why would my business benefit from using Twitter?

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