Speed Marketing 2

Diane KorteKris TurkalyJamie JanusSarah Lingo

Amy McCarren

What the Heck Is It, and Why YOUR Organization Should be Using It!

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send

and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts

of up to 140 characters in length.

Twitter simply asks its users…

What are you doing?

Why YOUR company should use Twitter

• Personal Branding• Customer Service• Direct Traffic to your website• Monitor your product/brand• Hire People

Why YOUR company should use Twitter

• Network• Seek out industry colleagues for assistance

with special projects• Better understand social media• Notify your Customers• Market work, products, services, etc.

Who should you follow?

• Colleagues• Friends• Competitors• Customers

Twitter Search

• http://search.twitter.com• Allows you to monitor anything you can

search. • See what is being said about YOUR company• Example: Marion’s Pizza

Who is on Twitter?

Recap• Add content about events• Retweet other great tweets• Add tweets that are questions• Add tweets that are great links• Add your blog posts

Follow Us!

Questions?