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5 Simple Twitter Listening Tips Every Marketer Should Know

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5 Simple Twitter Listening Tips Every Marketer Should Know

Written by Elyssa Pallai / February 2, 2010 4:00 PM / 22 Comments

If you’re just starting out using the Web as a research and analysis tool to find out about your customers’ needs and wants and have never used a search service to do this, a great place to start is Twitter Search as it is instantly gratifying! However, fair warning: these tools are addictive. If you are ready to take the plunge, read on.

Search Your Product, Service or Topic Using Twitter Search

Use Hashtags

Progressing to a Desktop Application For Market Monitoring

Create Custom Filtered Views of the Conversation

Setting up canned searches
Setting up groups

Building Community and Learning from the Twittersphere

Warning: These services are addictive!

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8 Simple Steps to Growing a Quality Twitter Following

I definitely agree you need to jump in there and interact. Balance would be the key to this. If this is all I saw, I’d unfollow someone. :D

8 Simple Steps to Growing a Quality Twitter Following

Step 1:  Choose Your Preferred Audience

Step 2:  Decide How Many Tweets You Want to Send Daily

Step 3:  Decide How Long You Want to Make Your Tweet Plan

Step 4: Find the Keywords You Want to Use on Twitter

Step 5: Choose Different Formats for Your Scheduled Tweets

Step 6: Write Your Timeless Tweets

Step 7: Choose Your Times

Step 8: Schedule Your Tweets

Although a tweet plan is useful when your schedule gets busy, it’s not a way to avoid real-time tweeting.  The tweet plan’s main advantage is to maintain brand awareness consistently and attract the people you want to meet on Twitter.

You must find a balance to make this work for your business.  And you can only find this balance by jumping in, listening to your audience and tweaking the content you share on Twitter to get the best results.

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2009’s Hundred Best Tweets and Links for Marketing Copywriters

I just included a sample, but there are many more if you go to the link. There is some really good links to great information.

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2009’s Hundred Best Tweets and Links for Marketing Copywriters

Writing and Blogging

  • The 10 Mistakes Writers Don’t See—But Can Easily Fix
  • Twitter/Social Media

  • What Socrates Can Teach You About Social Media. Two thousand year-old philosophic wisdom applied to social media. Post by @JesseNewhart
  • Internet Marketing/Branding/SEO

  • 12 Brands Predicted to Disappear This Year. But did they? Check it out.
  • Work and Productivity

  • 10 Great Ways to Use Evernote, my hands-down favorite organizational app–and it’s free.
  • Stand and Deliver

  • Top 10 Public Speaking Tips. Whether you’re slated to speak in front of an audience of five or five hundred, these 10 useful tips from @DMScott help you prepare with confidence.
  • YouTube/Videos

  • The Social Media Guru. Before you think about hiring a jargon-spewing hipster to run your company’s social media campaign, watch this very funny video.
  • WordPress/Coding/Design

    News/culture

    Technology

    Food

    In its Own Class

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    The top ten Twitter statistics and analytics tools

    Excellent list of tools. I hadn’t heard of a few.

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    The top ten Twitter statistics and analytics tools

    so you can use them to measure how effective your Twitter campaigns are.
    TweetStats
    TwitterGrader
    Twitterholic
    TweetVolume
    Tweetmeme
    TweetValue
    TwitGraph
    TwitterMeter
    TwitterPoster
    Twitterank
    I know Hootsuite and Bit.ly are also great stats tools to measure your link popularity but if you have more please just add a comment and let me know.Read more at socialmediatoday.com