Twitter is becoming a very popular place not only to socialize and communicate with other people, but also a place where you can market and grow your business online.

If you have no idea what Twitter is I’ll help bring you up to speed.

Twitter is an easy and quick way to share information with people online. People follow you, and they can see your “Tweets” or messages you post instantly. The more people you have following you the more people see you’re “Tweets” (messages).

Sounds dumb how do this help my business?

I thought the same thing. I made a Twitter account actually 3 months ago, but never used it because I thought it was stupid to be honest. However after hearing more about it, and reading peoples stories of how they are using it to expand their business led to me logging back into my account.

This time around I had a different attitude towards Twitter though. I caved in and bought this small e-book for $7 teaching me how to use Twitter as a business tool. Within 20 minutes of finishing the 10 page e-book I already had over 200 people following me. I was shocked at how easy and fast it was to get followers (something I use to think was boring and hard to do).

Then someone on Twitter recommended I use www.tweetburner.com to track my URL’s on my Twitter account. Now after 2 days of applying the steps in the e-book I had over 600 followers, and using the recommended site tweetburner I was able to track my traffic from Twitter and each URL I was sending out in a “Tweet” or message was getting 30 – 50 clicks! This was real free traffic.

So my question is….are you using Twitter yet to help build your business?

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