Twitter Alert – Who’s Talking about Me?
August 11, 2009 ·
Be pro-active and start using Twitter as part of your marketing strategy? Find out who’s tweeting about you or your topics of interest and join in the conversation with tweetbeep.
One of the most common questions people have when they first start using Twitter is how to actually find people interested in or tweeting about your topic of interest who might become followers and/or customers.
Twitter alerts email you hourly or daily to show you converstions involving your choosen words or phrases.TweetBeep is like Google Alerts for Twitter. You can click on anything to see more updates from the twitterer, reply or retweet. See sample email below.
How to Setup a Twitter Alert
- Go to www.tweetbeep.com
- Setup a free account and enter your twitter username
- Create an alert for your Twitter username and set how often you want to get it.
- Place names and local attractions
- Product names and brands
- Services eg. WordPress designer
- Job titles (who says you can’t find a job on Twitter)
Case Study: Use Alerts to Get Traffic
A few weeks ago, I was planning a family trip to Taranaki and put an update on my Twitter page.
Heading to Taranaki for a few days. Anyone have ideas on fun stuff to do there (with kids)?
Almost immediately, I got a Twitter reply from Taranakinz (twitter.com/Taranaki_NZ) about school holiday programmes at the museum (see below).
It sounded perfect so I immediately clicked on the link in their tweet and had a look at what was on as well as visiting http://www.taranaki.info from their Twitter page.
Turn Visitors into Followers and Customers
Answering questions, making suggestions and adding valuable content to your Twitter page goes a long way to establishing you as an expert and making you the first port of call for up-to-date info on any given topic.
Most people you reply to on Twitter can’t resist at least clicking on your Twitter name to see what else you tweet about.
Once there, chances are they will start following you, retweeting you and hopefully visiting your website to purchase your products/services.
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