Comments on: 7 Ways To Create A Professional Twitter Presence

By: Rob Griggs

Rob Griggs — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:09:51 +0000

With #5 I think it depends on your target audience but see no harm in doing a “non commercial” tweet once in a while. Kinda tells your followers that there is a human being behind those tweets and not a bot.

By: Rich@Niche Blueprint 2.0 Review

Rich@Niche Blueprint 2.0 Review — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:07:58 +0000

Thanks for this post. I think there are many people who could really benefit from taking your advice on Twitter. Everyone wants to use it for branding and monetisation, yet this cant be done effectively without the professional approach.

Thanks

By: Tara Burner

Tara Burner — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:30:06 +0000

I agree with most of what you said but beg to differ on the 1-3 tweets a day. Now granted I do agree that I don’t want to see the last 20 tweets all from same person.
Also have to disagree w/the last comment..if someone has lots & kits of followers and minimal people they follow that to me shows they’re really not communicating/building relationships with their followers.
That said though I do have more people following me than I follow back but it’s not an insane ratio like 5000 followers and I only follow 10.
Has to be some type of communication/relationship building conversation going on and not one sided.
just my thoughts

By: BeBizzy

BeBizzy — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:18:41 +0000

In regards to the followers… I like to reciprocate most followers, so if you follow me I’ll follow you back. I then sort out the ones I want to follow apart from the Twitter “noise” with lists.

By: Karen's Katerers1

Karen's Katerers1 — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:28:41 +0000

Hi, Thanks for the very helpful info. I am new to Twitter and appreciate all you who give tips and insight. Biz is hard and it’s so great knowing there are those who work side by side in letting the public know who we are and what we do ; used to be called advertising I guess.Well, I am always a student!

By: james ayonga

james ayonga — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:39:23 +0000

I think having many followers and following very few yourself seems a little self centered. In the world of ecommerce everyone has something to learn from the next guy. Tweeter who follow very few people in my opinion are detatched and ecomerce is not the place for such a quality.

By: A. Nonymous

A. Nonymous — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:54:37 +0000

8. Remember to pluck your eyebrows or use a lawnmower or whatever, before you take a lousy webcam photo. I mean, wtf? Scary.

By: west-texan

west-texan — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:03:08 +0000

Call me strange..

But for a business…

I find a good logo as an avatar is more professional than a personal picture.

Also…I prefer a business name that does not involve my personal name.

Why?

1. Your own name on a business forever marks you as small.

2. A good business name (not your name) allows for growth.

3. You can sell your business down the road…and not have to make someone take your name off the business they just bought.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:47:25 +0000

Great post! Although, 1-3 tweets per day is definitely on the low side. If you have something important you want to tell or show your followers then tweet it. Don’t hold back and limit your tweets. If they unfollow you, you don’t want them as a client anyway.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:17:52 +0000

First I’ll echo everyone else Nick: this is a really good article, – thank you!

↔ I too believe in the theory of following just a few people that really interest me and yet, have hundreds of followers yourself. Dayngr (@dayngr) said it best, “Content is key”. When people see or hear about good solid content; they are more likely to follow you: – in my opinion here.

↔ Also, Dayngr (@dayngr) & I operate our Twitter pages similarly; I too welcome each new follower (-or as many as possible) with an @mention on my page. My goal is hopefully for them to see their name/page roll across in my stream of Tweets. I follow this up with a direct message to that person/company letting them know that I gave them a direct mention that day & thanking them for following FLAMortgages. That way they can directly see my appreciation for their finding value in my posts.