Comments on: Building an Effective Business Profile on Twitter

By: Kyra

Kyra — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:13:19 +0000

Thanks for the article – some great pointers there to keep my business Twitter account heading in the right direction!

By: mointernational

mointernational — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:09:54 +0000

Great advice- i shall put it into practice for my new business.
Thank you

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:16:36 +0000

Thanks for the advice, I needed some help setting up my business account.

By: UK Webmaster Forum

UK Webmaster Forum — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:22:49 +0000

Great post! Twitter profile should also be cheesy and memorable, that part of optimizing the title tag which the username …

By: Marie Rhoades

Marie Rhoades — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:36:22 +0000

Great advice! We have had much success building business and client relationships with Twitter. As mentioned previously, you really do have to make sure that you balance your business promotion/personal tweets.

The business relationships we have developed have helped us with marketing, creating videos as well as being contacted for TV and radio interviews. It’s been a win-win situation for us!

http://twitter.com/SallyLeeCandles

By: Doug - Velocity, B2B Marketing Agency

Doug - Velocity, B2B Marketing Agency — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:21:33 +0000

Excellent post. It can be tricky finding the right balance between doing goal-directed things on Twitter and being overly self-serving. My favourite people are always giving something back. Least favourite are always selling. Maybe I fall into that a bit myself…

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:37:24 +0000

Thanks for your wonderful info! I appreciate it!

By: Jim Symcox

Jim Symcox — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:51:11 +0000

There’s no doubt that Twitter can seriouly affect your profile (for good or bad) and there’s a good chance your customers will be following you – if they know you Twitter. So as you say it’s vital that you use keyword checkers to alert you to any feedback.

And I agree with you the Airforce social media response policy is excellent – in fact I’ve downloaded the PDF and will be suggesting my own clients think about implementing it.

And for those who’ve not had enough advice on business twittering my blog contains a guide on How To Use Twitter in Business.

Jim

By: Heidi Strom Moon

Heidi Strom Moon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:08:04 +0000

Michael:

Thanks for a comprehensive summary of issues to consider. I particularly like the concepts of monitoring industry relevant keywords for responding to, and developing a Twitter landing page.

Another dimension to this topic is distinguishing between business and personal tweeting per individual, in addition to corporate business IDs. For example, I have a private Twitter ID for personal tweets, and an open Twitter ID for professional tweets, but the latter is attached to me specifically, not as a corporate role account. This is where tools like BrightKit come in especially handy!

By: Mayav Madon

Mayav Madon — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:42:01 +0000

When does Twitter consider an account in-active/dormant ? I am trying to get my first name as my Twitter Username but someone opened an account with my first name in October 2007, made one post “checking out twitter” and has made no updates since.

He/she has no followers and is only following one person. No website/blog address to fall back on. Doesn’t follow me so i cannot DM that person.

Any suggestions on what i can do ?