What should I do in Twitter? How does it help?

I go to twitter every day. In November I started with a few followers and now have 1750. I tweet products from my booth and tweet for others promoting their products. By tweeting every day, my booth views and item views have increased significantly. I’m not sure I have any more sales from it, but at least people are visiting and browsing.

Are you receiving sales from all of your tweeting dojejo?

Hi Robins Roost & Imhnh53

What do you mean by your Twitter ‘Page’? Do you mean your profile? Do you mean technically? Do you mean just in general? Or all of the above?

I am really new at Twitter. There are people here that have been at it a lot longer than I and know their way around. I am still in the ‘lucky to keep up stage’ and to add more confusion, everyone seems to have their own ideas and techniques about how to Tweet. I’ll just share my Twitter thoughts so far (keep in mind, I am still finding my way).

1) Update your profile from your old business if you haven’t already.

2) Learn about and definitely USE LISTS. Give careful consideration as to how to name them and where to put your followers.

3) Make up your own mind about how you want to tweet. Are you more of a volume Tweeter or a personal Tweeter or somewhere in-between? Only you can decide this (and yes, I’m still figuring this out as well).

To me, this is probably the most important thing. Find your own style. And have fun. It shows when you don’t.

4) DO NOT click on ANY links in an email from one of your Twitter friends be it in Direct Messages or through Direct Messages in your real email. I have been caught and hacked 3 times in the very short time I’ve been on Twitter (about 1 to 2 months).

5) Remember your manners and Good Luck! I honestly don’t know how people keep up.

And I got email messages telling that you were following. Now how do I find the way to your Twitter profiles?

@Jazzy- A few….. not as many as I would like of course….But I still figure it’s worth a try, huh? Many views is still better than no views. No one can buy what they don’t see.

You are right dojejo.

Momzilla said: " I am really new at Twitter. There are people here that have been at it a lot longer than I and know their way around. I am still in the ‘lucky to keep up stage’ and to add more confusion, everyone seems to have their own ideas and techniques about how to Tweet. I’ll just share my Twitter thoughts so far (keep in mind, I am still finding my way)."

You are a natural at it….no doubts there!!!

go here: http://tinyurl.com/
It’s easy as 1, 2, 3
Please, boyz, don’t delete this link.

Bonanza is set-up to create the tiny URLs for you. Just click the “tweet” button on any bonanza item, and most of the work is done for you.

You can go to your twitter profile and see your own tweets to know how they look.

I have said this before, though I don’t think many want to try and understand it. There’s no denying that tweeting will increase your item view count. And it may help Bonanza in search rankings.

As several have said before, lots of views but not sure if they generate sales.

Here’s the thing, if you have followers, most are like yourself, another seller. Some have thousands of followers. Then there are those who you follow, and some may follow thousands, again, most are probably sellers.

I follow less than 500. Yet I receive on average 15,000 tweets in a 24 hr period. A periodic scan of those tweets show the majority from sellers. Do I read them? No. Do you read yours?

The point I want to make is this, increased item views are very misleading. Most come from ‘bots’. If you really want to know how many are actual people, DO NOT LINK TO YOUR ITEM when you tweet it. Link to the category if you have your own booth categories setup. Promote you booth in the Promote Your Booth board and tweet it with a link to the thread. Tweet your booth URL, tweet your Booth Details.

These tweets will generate a much lower item view count because there will be no bots or a very small bot count. But they will generate Booth Views which you won’t see until the next day.

If you have 100 individual Mystery Paperbacks listed and they are in a ‘Books > Mystery’ category, link to the category. That one tweet may generate several item views from the category. If someone follows your link, the page to your category opens and there are at least 48 similar items to choose from.

One other thing is to tweet from twitter because you can include a photo of the product. If you have a beautiful piece of jewelry, can you describe it better than a photo in 120 characters?

You will actually have a better feel for the number of item views you receive and possibly sales results. You won’t know positively that your sale came from a tweet, but if you tweet item A with a link to the category, but see an increase on item B or C or both, then a sale of almost any item from the category within say an hour if not sooner could very possibly be from your tweet effort.

And one more thing, doing it this way you will never come to the boards and say “I’m getting lots of views, but ain’t selling a darn thing.” Wouldn’t it be better to say, “Yesterday I had a total of 60 item views and sold 2 or 3 items”. JMHO

Hi G.

For lack of a better term, why not?

It’s not really a header. I don’t know, I guess calling it a menu would have been better?

What do you call it?

Hi Momzilla, it’s technically a toolbar, I just never thought of it that way and had to go look! LOL

Can a person tweet pictures? I recall asking before & not getting a real answer. Isn’t that what Pinterest is all about?

Maybe someone who knows will come along and let us know, one way or the other.

I always think of a toolbar at word processors or at browsers in particular.

Not all of them have photo’s in them because I’m still working on this daily. But I have about 350 already in rotation with photo’s. It’s a labor of love…

Yeah, it really looks like a lot of stuff to take in, but once you do a few, you can figure it out. It’s not any easier to explain than it is to understand, so don’t feel bad….

I’m off to bed, head is a rollin’ here~