Why Twitter? Should You Be Twittering About Your Altrincham Business?
What benefit is there with Twitter? This article should help you understand why you should twitter and what we do with twitter too.
We have all heard of twitter, no doubt you have heard the Steven Fry is the biggest twitter in the UK and one of the best in the world. The UK is the second biggest country for twittering, so even if you are not on twitter.com others are. As with any form of social media or marketing it is all about your customers or friends.
So how can Twitter.com help your Altrincham based business?
The best way to answer this is to tell you how thebestof.co.uk/Altrincham benefited from it. By the way our twitter account is www.twitter.com/TBO_Altrincham.
We started in early October 2009, and in just over 2 months and with about 10-15 Minutes a week, yes a week not a day, we have nearly 100 local people following us, you can have many more if you are not just looking for just local people.
What do we use Twitter for? Good question, we use it for telling local people about local businesses, for instance the Dilli Indian Restaurant has a great offer for members of thebestof/Altrincham, we can twitter about it and instantly lots of local people hear about their offer, we also have a link directly to the feature for the Dilli and then they can print of the voucher and start saving, this makes us look good, the Dilli Indian Restaurant loves having more Altrincham based people popping in with a voucher and hopefully the people of Altrincham will love thebestof for giving them the voucher. A all win situation.
Anyone can create a twitter account and it only takes about 2 minutes to get started. So what is stopping you? If you think it is a fad, well it may be, only time will tell if we will all be twittering in 5 years time, many think we will be, after all with only 140 characters it means it is quick and effective. Bottom line if it works now do it now, if something else takes it place then transfer over to that, that is what marketing is all about. Go on give it a go!
If you have a twitter account then let us know and we will of course follow you too.
www.twitter.com/tbo_altrincham.