Twitter Dos & Don’ts For Building your Network Marketing Opportunity
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Twitter is a great tool to use to build your network marketing opportunity. Many network marketers are reporting fantastic results from using it. However there are also many network marketers who struggle to use it effectively.
Using Twitter the right way can help you meet excellent prospects for both your product as well as your business opportunity. Using Twitter the wrong way can get you blocked from the website. It's important to learn how to use Twitter so that it becomes a social marketing campaign you can use effectively.
To help you avoid this, here are some dos and don’ts for using Twitter to build network marketing opportunities:
Build Relationships – Don’t Spam People with Your Network Marketing Business
One of the best ways to use Twitter to build your network marketing business is to build relationships. Blogs and blogging for lead generation are fantastic platforms for doing this and another technique to continue to maintain these relationships is through Twitter, a micro-blogging platform where people can quickly share what they are doing at a given moment.
As a result you can view what they have shared and make comments to anything that you come across. Conversations can start and who knows where they might end up. In fact they may end up with you talking about your network marketing opportunity.
That being said it is never a good idea to simply start replying to people and pitching your business opportunity. That is considered SPAM and will immediately trigger complaints and get your account banned from Twitter.
There is a right way and there is a wrong way to promote your network marketing business using social marketing with Twitter, which is just one of many social networking sites. 
One way is similar to the “three foot rule” approach offline. People who effectively use the three foot rule offline actually engage in a good conversation with the prospect before seeing if the prospect may have an interest in their business opportunity.
The same applies on Twitter. As you continue to send messages back and forth to people some of the conversations may indicate this person might be a potential prospect for your business. If so, ask them if they are open to a business opportunity.
Avoid Follow SPAM and Tweet SPAM As A Network Marketing Distributor
Follow SPAM is a term that Twitter uses to refer to people who are following a large number of people, yet no one is following them.
When Twitter sees an account that is following thousands of people yet very few of those people are following that person in return, Twitter considers that account as a possible target for Spamming.
Therefore you want to make sure you don’t have a large amount of people you are following without an equal amount of people following you in return.
In fact, it’s even better if you have the opposite scenario. You have a large amount of people following you, yet you are following a smaller amount of people. When someone on Twitter sees that, it immediately signals that you are a leader.
The other area you want to avoid is tweet SPAM. This is where you constantly send out messages promoting your network marketing company. If all your messages talk about is your business and nothing else, people will tend to stop following you. 
When that happens they will no longer get your messages and be able to see what is going on.
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Reader Comments (3)
I've been using Twitter with great success because I'm following all of the rules and excellent points that you've made in this post.I also incorporate the book marking strategies that I've learned at Renegade University to avoid being seen as unselfishly promoting myself or business offerings,as well as not out right spamming which will get your account terminated.
If you follow the rules of the community and build relationships by providing value that people are looking for Twitter can be a fun and easy way to market and promote your business.
Great points Kevin on using Twitter. More people need to read this since so many are spamming everyone with their company before even building a relationship.
Thanks so much. This type of marketing is so much fun. I am learning to be more of a giver and as a result attracting more traffic and business to my blog. I think it is just all a mental transformation.