Comments on: 8 Ways that Twitter Can Grow Your Freelance Business

By: Teresa

Teresa — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:48:36 +0000

What a great article! Very informative! Now following you as well!

By: greg cryns

greg cryns — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:18:54 +0000

I’d love to see some hard number results. How many clients did you actually sign up? How long did you spend tweeting to get the clients you have through Twitter.

I find a ton of people promoting Twitter and other 2.0 properties, but I don’t see any real research, just hopes and prayers. So, you get a couple of clients after spending 50 days (whole days) having fun on Twitter. Where are the other nay-sayers?

Just call me Doubing Thomas but only after a ton of experience on Twitter, trying hard too.

By: Doug C.

Doug C. — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:41:19 +0000

Recently I had a phone conversation with someone who put me to task by pointing out several insights about me, my online presence, and my goals as a designer. One of the most poignant was, “When I visit your web site I don’t know who you’re talking to.”

This person told me my greatest strengths as a designer was in illustration – character illustration, to be precise. He said I should narrow down my focus on this one ability and make that the overriding theme of my web site.

This has also led me to reevaluate my presence on places like Twitter. I will need to focus more here as well and narrow down my niche. Recently I checked out a great site that takes your Twitter lists and converts them into keywords so you can see which ones are most prominent. For me the biggest one was “bloggers” so I have some work to do in that area.

I may also have to redesign my entire site to focus more on my work and so people who visit it will not be confused about what it is I do.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:40:12 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. After VOIS.com encouraged me to start up my own business(God, I love those guys!) I went ahead and started my own profile for my clothing collection on Twitter.
Right away I was noticed by web designers and photographers who referred themselves to me which is great, because that means I don’t have get buried in extensive research for what I should be doing next! Twitterites give great tips and I couldn’t be happier!

By: Aaron Smith

Aaron Smith — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:19:04 +0000

Great Post! Totally agree. Twitter is a great way to promote yourself and your services and improve your online marketing strategies.

By: Web Design Company

Web Design Company — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:57:39 +0000

I kind of share your experiences with Twitter. As a web design company, We started using Twitter about 6 mjonths ago. At first I did not see the advanatges however with time as followers grew the benenefits started to become visible. We still do not have tens of thousdands of followers but the number is certianly increasing by the day. I can certianly say that soon it will be come a powerful resource for us. How exactly I do not yet fully, but surely a daily audience has got to be useful.

By: Arne Hulstein

Arne Hulstein — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:58:48 +0000

Hi Jenny, I agree with you on the point you are making. However, there is something none of us should forget. And I believe it should have been point 0. on your list. “It is all about relationships”.
More than any form of communication, twitter is about sharing yourself with your friends. Sharing yourself puts you in a great position to share about your business and your possibilities. And even promoting yourself every now and again. However, the main reason people are following you, is because it is you. Of course there are people who still are in the numbers game. Trying to score as many contacts as possible. And nice as a 5 digit number of followers seems, it is not the holy grail. In the end, if you do not have the relationship with your followers, your tweets will just float away in cyberspace.
To read more of my thoughts on this, take a look at my blogpost on Monetizing your social network.

By: Nathalie

Nathalie — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:48:40 +0000

Yep, I’m a convert too! Thanks for the post. Now following you.

By: Robert Bravery

Robert Bravery — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:50:32 +0000

This does give me some great encouragement. I have always thought twitter to be a waste of time, but continued just in case. If I had other things to do, they would be done and twitter would be pushed to the back burner, only to surface when I have nothing else to do. Hopefully if I carry on, it might bring some traffic to my site. So far, not much, only 4 visits. But then again it is a new site anyway.

By: Rian

Rian — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:43:46 +0000

Thanks for the post.
Good information for me