Comments on: How I’d Use Twitter if I Were an Acupuncturist

By: Rachelle Webb

Rachelle Webb — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:26:01 +0000

I am an acupuncturist and a lot of what I see is people who spend too much time on computers. I am trying to decide if I want to encourage this type of behavior or get people to go out and exercise instead. Get fresh air and feel the elements. I am still open to checking it out…..

By: Maya Thomas

Maya Thomas — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:57:54 +0000

How do you keep up with all of this?! I’m showing buyers homes, taking pictures of new homes I have listed for sale, organizing professionals and the hundreds of hours of other duties it takes to get to the closing table including getting homes ready to market and also blogging I don’t have time for sleep and exercise. I haven’t even had time to Twitter yet!

By: Robert "Butch" Greenawalt

Robert "Butch" Greenawalt — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:53:07 +0000

We have managed to use it effectively with regard to design build of various types of computer systems and or networking equipment. Contacts made through Twitter can effectively contact us via Twitter or a link on our bio page, make an introduction and communicate via dm or through our site. We can establish their needs, budget and make suggestions concerning brands and provide a final product all based on dialogue that can be seamless from within Twitter.

By: Hector A. Henry S.

Hector A. Henry S. — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:25:35 +0000

I understand this only show how useful and easy to use its twitter for all sort of factories and companies. The real fact its that if they know to use it apropiert ly that make the diferents between all of the rest.

Than you for the pots.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:57:00 +0000

THAT is a great idea, and a keen observation on your part! I am going to pass this on to my father, who is both a Doctor and an acupuncturist. I could use this technique as a machine designer, where my end customer could tweet me to tell me how the machine is running, process monitoring, etc. I wonder if I could set the machine controls up as a web server and automatically send tweets out with manufacturing data…

By: Denny

Denny — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:29:44 +0000

If I were an acupuncturist I would set up a local twitter search about certain health symptoms and try to find new clients that way. How cool would it be to be contacted by an acupuncturist that’s 10min away from on Twitter saying that he can fix your problem?
I would also consider offering coupons/discounts on twitter. Maybe I would set up and acupuncture-on-the-go truck and tweet my current location, haha. Wow, I should learn acupuncture and start working on that =)

Back to your post: I don’t quite see the difference between tweeting one’s day and keeping a log/journal that you can bring to the next session. Of course, if you’re using twitter anyway, tweeting will be much more convenient

By: Rahul

Rahul — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:15:42 +0000

As for me from the day I’d used twitter, I’ve definitely come a long long way. Today, I use twitter to get to know the latest events and news about anything. But anything means the subject of my interest. I also use it to spread my message around too.

By: marz

marz — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:30:57 +0000

Perhaps an acupuncturist could give a short individual hashtag to his/her clients to use when they twitter on their private account, so that the practitioner could sort data sent by each person. Unsure if hashtags are searchable for private accounts, I would think you could search them if you were following them.

I’m studying to be an acupuncturist now, so this blog was appealing to me.

By: Xim Madu

Xim Madu — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:17:19 +0000

Nice idea – the only thing is, if the acupuncturist, doctor, etc was doing this for every client or patient, wouldn’t it effectively triple their workload?

The biggest problem I see facing people who sell their skills for time is not how to get more business, but how to build the business without eating into sleep and family time. Take a chiropractor I know – everyone loves him and you have to book way in advance to get a slot. He tried to hire other chiropractors to help him, but to make a profit on it and not charge more, inevitably these had to be less experienced people. So of course no-one wanted the new guy, only the person they knew and trusted. So that didn’t work out and he ended up opening his practice at weekends to fit in all his customers – all without a shred of marketing. Had a heart attack in the end.

So how could Twitter help alleviate that problem?

By: matt schulte

matt schulte — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:27:21 +0000

This article is actually a great argument contra the “twitter is full of meaningless posts about minutea”
All those “meaningless” tweets are actually points of data from which meaning ‘could’ be extracted…