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Russinating

Russinating

Russinating

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So I've shamefully (though probably expectedly) signed up to Twitter for our wedding videography business.

Now maybe it's just the sector (weddings), but everyone I've followed so far is just talking absolutely crap/spam constantly. These guys are a prime example: http://twitter.com/wimagazine

So my question is, is this what we should be doing? Spamming random, unrelated crap? Also, who should we follow - everyone and anyone or be selective?

I guess our aim is to increase our exposure in front of wedding magazines and other retailers, and also pop up occasionally to the odd bride-to-be by luck.

I've got a feeling we're going to have to act like excitable women and end every tweet with "xxx", seeing as that's what everybody else in our sector is doing :p. We've only been signed up a day and I already can't be arsed with it.





Mods: This is a 'duplicate' topic from the HTML section, though if you could leave both that would be great - as I'm sure you're aware, the replies I'll get here will be far different from the other topic!
 
I'd try and make them appear more personal and individual (even if they aren't). People will want a friendly service that appears to take their time to ensure that the best possible service is achieved. Compare that to the spammers who would give me little faith, I'd just think they are trying to get through as many weddings as possible to turn a quick buck and not give me what I want/deserve and you could use that to carve out a niche.

Dunno how you'd do it though.
 
Firstly, the best thing you can do for exposure is follow people. Wether this be randomers, people in the same industry, friends, or even targetting users who have mentioned a certain keyword such as wedding.

As for tweeting, I'd suggest you talk to your followers as you normally would a customer. Just light hearted chit chat. Every now and again, post an example of your work, a pic of where you are and what you're doing, or even some insight into what you do.
 
You have to work out what you want to get from it, if it's purely social, then you can do as you will.

www.twitter.com/randomshenans is me, which is a combination of random shizz and stuff we are working on for our site. The thing is as well I've built up some good business relationships with people, through twitter. Much better than I would via linkedin as we chat, and then link on linkedin also.

I select the things I'm interested in and follow people that replicate that. Trending is important as well to get your tweets noticed. i.e. if you are talking about sharepoint, hashtag it (#sharepoint) to trend it, so anyone that is interested in that topic will be able to see your tweets and more likely follow.
 
skippi90 said:
Firstly, the best thing you can do for exposure is follow people. Wether this be randomers, people in the same industry, friends, or even targetting users who have mentioned a certain keyword such as wedding.
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There is no surer way to get me to block you than to follow me because I happened to mention some term your bot is trawling for. Additionally following lots of people without having a large number of followers is going to make you look like a spam account.
 
general attitude: be personal, don't play as the company, but someone running the twitter site for the company.

Reply to tweets directed at you, use it as a promotional tool, but don't just spam adverts, give promotions/competitions (with the entry being Retweeting the competition and they must be following you), and only do it every now and then.
Make sure you tweet a few times a day other than replies, it can be something exciting happening at your company, what your team are doing over the weekend, any news regarding your industry as a whole, the furthest I'd go towards a more personal twitter account is to announce you're online (morning, afternoon all) it adds a bit more (possibly too much) personal engagement, but it does flag up that you're now online and if someone wanted to ask a question now would be a good time to do it.

Specific don't: as bam0 says don't just follow people because of keywords, sure search on them, but do actually check the person you're followings feed and see what context it was in.

When I had a public account I got no less than 3 followers in reply to the tweet
"<something I can't remember> is bouncing around like a kid with adhd on a pogo stick"
I got an "expert" on adhd, a child psychologist and a pogo stick manufacturer as a result of that one tweet :/
 
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Sounds like I'm doing everything fairly right so far. What about following competitors? Recommended or not?

Also, seems to be a problem updating the background image - get the fail whale. Status says it should be fine, but it's clearly not.
 
Russinating said:
Sounds like I'm doing everything fairly right so far. What about following competitors? Recommended or not?

Also, seems to be a problem updating the background image - get the fail whale. Status says it should be fine, but it's clearly not.
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Depends. How about setting up a personal account and following them on that? Then you can see how they use Twitter.

I've been getting the same problem when updating the background. Sometimes it works although it still gives the fail whale.
 
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