Most people soon realize that they can increase their follower numbers dramatically by aggressively promoting your Twitter URL online. Email signatures, forum signatures, badges on blogs, and a variety of other methods can help increase the size of one’s fan base.

Now that Twitter is getting so big, there’s another way to increase attention. It may be time for you to start promoting your Twitter URL offline, too.

Put it on your letterhead. Stick it on your business cards. Is your company handing out brochures, running Yellow Pages advertising, putting a display ad in the newspaper? Put that Twitter URL right there for everyone to see.

When Twitter was smaller, it didn’t seem like it could make much a difference to engage in offline promotion. Now that the user base has grown to such monumental proportions, it’s time to pull the trigger on offline promotion.

These techniques have a proven record of success with other URLs and should transfer nicely to promoting your Twitter presence.

You want to maximize your follower base, right? Start spreading the word online… And on the street.

If you use Twitter on the web by itself there’s already a lot of things that you can do to promote your business. However there are several other ways that you can enhance your Twitter experience. After reading this article, you’ll learn of 3 ways that you can enhance your Twitter experience.

1. Use Twitter in combination with other networking sites

This is absolutely critical. That is why it is listed first. You should never put all your eggs in the same basket. What if something happens to Twitter? What if it’s down for maintenance? What if there are just too many tweeps on at once and you keep seeing the fail whale (that’s what happens when you can’t load twiter)? There is a service called tweetake, which allows you to download your followers, favorites, tweets, dms, everything you need to talk to your Twitter family outside of Twitter. I suggest you download this file from tweetake daily. Another thing you should do is invite your friends to join you on Facebook or LinkedIn. I recommend putting your Facebook profile on your Twitter page as your website. That way when people follow you on Twitter, they’ll go right to your Facebook page and follow you there too. Find an email address for your Twitter posse so you can send emails to them. Don’t send them commercial messages unless they sign up for your email list. That’s considered spam. You can send them messages that you’d send to your friends. It’s great to email your Twitter friends information that will help them with their business. They’ll be extremely grateful to you for sending them wondeful information and it will seem more personal because you sent it right to them instead of blasting it to the whole Twitterverse!

2. Use Twitter +twitwall to market your telecalls.

Twitwall is an excellent service to use to market your telecalls. Every Twitter user gets a twitwall. You’d use your twitwall when you have things that are more than 140 characters to post. You can use your twitwall to promote your telecalls very easily. You’d just post the relevant information to the twitwall and then retweet it. Important: Be sure to include the words please retweet in the headline when you post information about your telecall. Even though twitwall makes it easy for people to retweet your information, they won’t do it unless you tell them to most of the time.

3. Twitter + Hashtag + Tweetchat = PARTY!

Another great way to get people talking about you and your business is to hold a Twitter party! Twitter parties are very easy to set up. All you have to do is create a hashtag for your party. Basically a hashtag acts a tracker for your party. Once you decide on a hashtag, next pick a date and a time. Then start telling everyone that’s in your Twitter family about your party and ask them to retweet the information for you. On the day of the party you can use tweetchat to follow everything everyone is saying about the party. Tweetchat is awesome because once you go to the website and log in, it automatically inserts the hashtag and tells you how many characters you have left to tweet with. It also allows you to momentarily stop the chat within the chat room so you can scroll back and see what was said before you enter the room. It’s important to both participate in and throw Twitter parties because it’s a great way to get the word out about your business and you can meet new people that are interested in the same things that you are interested in.

Twitter is a great tool to use to drive traffic to your website. These things that I’ve mentioned will only improve the amount and quality of the traffic you get to your website.

There are different ways to get Twitter followers. You can follow everyone and their house pets yourself, hoping that enough of them will reciprocate to boost your follower total through the stratosphere.

You can make a concerted effort to promote your Twitter URL at every turn, hoping to find new followers from the population that visits your website or blog.

There’s another way to do it. The third route, by the way, is the one that works the best.

If you Tweet quality, you’ll get followers. Good followers. The kind who want to listen to what you say and who are willing to follow your advice.

When you’re Tweeting the “good stuff”, people notice. They re-Tweet you. They recommend you. They respond to you. And every time one those things happens, more people become aware of you and the fact that you’re doing something special on Twitter.

Want to get a nice big collection of rabid followers who can actually produce results? Start bringing your “A” game to the Twittersphere. When your dropping great Tweets, people will find you. There’s a magnetic thing about quality that makes it happen. Every time.

If you’re just getting started with Twitter, you might want to use the buddy system to get a handle on how things work.  Instead of jumping in all by yourself, find a friend or two to join up with you.

Here’s why.  Instead of experimenting with other people and going through the inevitable trial and error process in a way that could reflect poorly on you or inconvenience other users, you’ll be able to play with Twitter by constructing your own little “newbie network”, insulated from the rest of the Twittersphere.

Don’t worry, this isn’t a long-term situation.  You’ll probably get the hang of things on the first day.  Having someone else with whom to test out Twitter will make things that easy.

You don’t need to go this route, of course.  You can hop right into Twitter and get started. Chances are, it will work out great for you, too.  However, if you’re a little nervous about learning the ropes, bring a buddy with you!

Interacting with people online is a wonderful way to get started networking.  Eventually you will want to meet some of your new found friends in person so they can become your In Real Life or (IRL) friends.  People are more likely to do business with or joint ventures with you once they have met you in person and see that you are a real person and you act the same way offline as you do online.  Here are some tools to help you find people in your local area to follow.

You can use hashtags.org to find people in your geographical area to follow.

Just type in your city or state and you will see all of the tweeple that are located in or talking about things related to your city or state.

Another service you can use to find people located near you with is tweets.ws.

Tweets.ws is very simple to use.  Just click on choose your own news topic and type in your state. I tried using my city and state but I didn’t find anything that way.  Once you type in your state you will see everyone who is in your state or talking about things of interest to your state.

Another great tool to use to find tweeps in your area is Twittermass.

All you do with this site is to go to the website and login with the same username and password that you use to log in to Twitter.  Once you’ve logged in you’ll have to click on the tab that says Create. Then click on manual follow for best results. Type in your City and State.  The website will generate a list of tweeple in your city and state and then you can follow them.

Citytweets is another wonderful tool to help you find tweeps in your local area.

Now if you live in a suburb you may need to use the next biggest city to find people near you.  It looks like that site is still growing.

Twitter is a wonderful way to meet new people.  Be sure to follow people local to your area so you can meet them in person.  Be on the lookout for tweetups on your area.  Basically, a tweetup is a combination of the word meet-up and Twitter or a bunch of tweeple in the same geographic area that meet-up and network.  Tweetups are great tools to add to your arsenal of Twitter tools. Be sure to take pictures and videos. This will prove that you were at the tweetup.  When you meet people in person you deepen the relationships that you have on Twitter.  That’s what it’s all about after all, right?

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If you said “YES” congratulations your human!  And being human gives you the edge on Twitter because on Twitter you won’t be dealing with numbers, you will be dealing with humans. 

Where ever there are real people there are real people with real money and real people like to spend money because it makes them feel real powerful to be able to choose something and then get it.  It seem an unlikely way to make a sale but it really is how most decisions are made that move money from one pocket to another.   No hardball sales pitches just pleasant and mutually enjoyable conversations. This Is How Money Is Made Through Twitter!

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Twitter is an extraordinarily powerful tool for doing just that but just like any tool that is powerful, there is always a chance you can use it wrong and it will do more damage than good. I hope you will enjoy the instruction manual for Twitter I have provided and that your results are greater than you imagined. 

Sincerely,

Let’s say you wanted to find two thousand people who would share an interest in your upcoming product.  

Now, let’s say that you wanted a way to contact them and to send them updates and even a purchase link when you were ready to go.

Time for a squeeze page and an auto responder, right?  Not necessarily.  There’s nothing wrong with creating a list, but there could be a much more efficient way to get the job done.

Twitter.

You can gather thousands of followers and “Tweet” them the messages of your choice at any time.  You don’t need to worry about opt-ins, delivery or staying on the right side of the regulations.  

If you’re not using Twitter to create a “shortcut list” that can drive traffic to your offers, you’re missing a great opportunity.  This is one of the easiest ways to get started with permission marketing in the history of the Internet and many marketers are already making money by talking to their followers instead of just sending those emails to their list.

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Have you been wondering “What is this Twitter? Why are people twittering? Is twittering even a word?” 

Have you heard the words Tweet us at on the news or TV? Are you worried that if you ask someone to describe twittering or tweeting that you will be labeled as a social misfit or uncool? I have also made that assumption. The assumption that just because someone is young and into twittering or understand social media that I would be greeted with laughter or at best a blank stare. This is a bad assumption and once I stepped over that fear of being laughed at, I actually got answers. And I want to share my discovery with you.

I bet you are thinking yeah, yeah so what is Twitter, Twittering, Tweeting and all that jazz? Why do news agencies use it and why do I see in on T.V.?

Twitter is a website that offers something called micro-blogging. Micro-blogging (yeah, another word to learn) like blogging, it allows people to text little updates and put them immediately online, so that anyone can see them or by only people in special social groups.

Tweets (the little text messages) can be submitted to Twitter with a variety ways and devices from instant messaging, email, cell phones or the web. Tweets are direct text messages sent “at” a person by using the “@” symbol before their username. This Tweet will not only communicate with that single person but also show partial conversations with other members of the group. Then, once you have an account with Twitter and someone follows you, people can direct message one another or “DM” through the Twitter websites interface.

Twitters can friend or “follow” other Tweeple (people plus Tweeter) to receive Twits, Tweets or Twitters (it is a personal preference what you call it). Adding or “following” a person is similar to adding a friend on a social network like Facebook.

Next question…why? Tweeting on Twitter attracts people with similar likes and dislikes. It is all about letting people know what you are up to and expressing yourself in 140 characters or less. It’s an immediate mini form of self expression. Tweets range from single commentary on subjects near and dear to the heart in little bursts and rants to just describing mundane activities at any exact moment from waking up and drinking a latte to news worthy events or even deciding what shoes to wear. 

Some Tweets pin point and use Twitter for monetary gain. They post links to websites and blogs. Twitter allows a business person to draw attention to blog entries, sale coupons, happenings and events. Twitter allows a business person to target people with similar backgrounds and buying habits.

There are many uses for Twitter just to name a few, you can ask for advice, heighten aware in a cause, offer help and resources to others, promote products and/or services and even promote breaking news. So, that is why you are hearing Twitter everywhere, with so many uses and the fact it allow self expression in immediate bursts…how could it be any other way! Now, will you be Tweeting soon?

The Twitter background: To snaz or not to snaz that is the question. I really have no definitive answer to that question. But it seems that if you are trying to make a name for yourself anything will help and it can’t hurt to pimp out your Twitter background to see if you can’t stand out from the rest maybe even create a little controversy. If you already are famous as heck, like Demi Moore, I guess you don’t have to do squat to your account to attract huge followings of Twitter faithful who will hang on your every word. 

That said I thought I would spot light a few Twitter backgrounds and give you some background on the backgrounds if that makes any sense at all.

Since we mentioned Demi Moore already I will just start with her background. Of course if you are a Gen Xer you remember Demi as the hot starlet with the husky voice from St. Elmos Fire or perhaps her early marriage to Bruce Willis or the too numerous to mention movies she has starred in and now are just starting to believe she is some sort of vampire, because frankly gravity is not doing things to her body that it is to the rest of us. If you are younger than a Gen Xer you just may think she is some pretty young woman you’d like to hangout with. Whatever you think of Demi… her Twitter following has erupted to over half of million while probably her Twitter background is one of the most plain and unpretentious on the site. Her back ground or the lack of it can be seen at http://twitter.com/mrskutcher (how do you get 1,000,000+ folowers?)

Now to cover the other end of the spectrum I think absolute craziest Twitter background title belongs to Mr. Michael Ian Black in which has a depiction of him hiding behind Dr. Pepper cans evidently naked and apparently strangling a unicorn while Demi Moore is looking on. 

This background seems to be helping him gain followers because he also has over a quarter of a million followers, even though he is not famous. He does claim to be a famous comedian but his claim to fame is from an obscure show on MTV which no one watched since MTV has stopped playing video and started ripping off Mexican TV game shows. His Twitter background can be seen at http://api.twitter.com/michaelianblack

To contrast the art work of the Mr. Blacks Twitter background I would like to leave you with the classic black background. The sort of Ralf Lorene style background which no one can comment on or condemn, because it is so simple and classically black. This is the little black dress of Twitter websites and like the dress it is perfect for every occasion. In the Twitter world a classic black background goes with whatever you have to say. The classic black background goes well with political statements, just day to day banter, celebrity gossip even if you don’t have anything to say. Like in the case of The Mime who has not only gained over 8,000 followers without being famous he has also gained all of those followers without ever tweeting a single word. That’s right since becoming a member The Mime has amassed a loyal following thru his classic black background and his uncanny ability to keep us spellbound by his “…” tweets. You can see The Mime on Twitter at http://api.twitter.com/TheMime  

So, you can see for yourself how a background can work or not work for you.