What Is Twitter? And How Can You Use It for Business?

Friends have been asking lately what Twitter is. And I’ve been asked by several clients how to best use it and leverage it to improve their business networking.

Well, the exciting news is that there are a ton of businesses on there using it to improve the lines of communication with their customers, and there are many professionals building up a huge following and improving their credibility at the same time. Yesterday I published a detailed tutorial at our sister site about what Twitter is and some of the ways to best utilize the service for personal branding and to increase your leads. If you’re curious what this new social network is and how your business might benefit from you, I invite you to read Tweet and Grow Rich: A Beginner’s Guide Plus 5 Tips to Rock Your Business With Twitter at Thrilling Heroics!

I also highly recommend Brian Clark’s article Three Ways to Maximize Your Twitter Time for Networking, Marketing and Fun at the Copyblogger blog.