I put together a quick video to chow you how fast and easy it is to change your Twitter Background picture:

Well, now you don’t have any excuses to be different than everyone else on Twitter who is still using the default twitter background.

Play around with it. Try different pictures and background images. If you are familiar with Photoshop, you may even want to build a customized background that can show off your style or brand.

You are Awesome!
~~David

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This video shows you step be step how to upload or change your picture on the new Twitter. The biggest problem people have when trying to upload a photo is that they use to large of a picture size. Twitter states that the picture cannot be larger than 128pixelsx128pixels and a Maximum size of 700k. JPG, GIF and PNG formats are allowed.

You are Awesome!
~~David

Let’s jump right in and talk about how you can use Twitter to conduct your market research. Every business has a target market, but the simple fact is that many business owners often miss the mark because they don’t know the true needs of their market.

By using Twitter, you can easily listen to the needs of your prospects, the issues they are currently facing and the kind of help that they want.

Whenever you meet someone new on Twitter it’s a good idea to try to establish a good relationship from the start. Think like your customer. You buy from people who you trust and like. Your target market also behaves the same way. It is important, especially in social marketing that you get to know your clients and do your best to win their trust and confidence.

A good rule of thumb is to try and keep ninety percent of your tweets full of helpful content and try to limit your promotional ones.By doing so, you can attract more followers and hopefully customers.

In order to show off your expertise on Twitter you will want to post quality content on your blogs, website and other sites, like article directory EzineArticles.com. Then share them with your followers. As we talked about in the last post there are a wide variety of tools that work with Twitter that will automatically check the blogs you’ve posted and share them instantly on your page.

Offering educational materials, seminars, video training and networking events will also go a long way when you are trying to convert your followers into paying customers.

As a matter of fast I recently came across a great website that allows you to stream live video on your Twitter page and chat real time with your followers, so if you’re not camera shy, plug in your connection for you and your peeps.

You can find out more here: http://twitcam.com

There are so many different techniques that you can use to help the transition from follower to customer by using Twitter. Just remember to keep the value of your content high and the volume of your promotions low and you will begin to see real results from your efforts.

Keep On Tweeting!
~~Dave

Whether you want to generate more traffic to your site or you want to increase your social relationships, Twitting is a fun and exciting activity that you can quickly master and use to achieve your goals.

We already know that Twitter keeps people connected at all times. Some people send tweets regularly (every day) and others only a few times a week. Since you are planning on using Twitter to build your IM business the latter is the best option for you.

That leads us to our first tool, Social Oomph. This works great if you aren’t able to send important tweets because you have other commitments. It only takes a few minutes to set up and you can use to automatically post your prepared tweets. The paid version also allows you to schedule updates to Facebook as well as Twitter.

It is very important that you don’t use this tool to auto spam your account with worthless information and constant offers. That will only lose you followers. Here is an example of proper ways to use this tool would be to remind your followers of upcoming seminars or meetings, maybe even let them know about products and offers to help build a buzz.

You can find out more about Social Oomph here: Social Oomph

Sharing pictures and product images is also possible with Twitter by using the tool Twitpic. When you make new contacts there may come a time when you want to share some of your pictures with them so that they can get to know you and your business better.

Once you’ve created your Twitpic account you can upload your pictures and quickly post them on Twitter. Another great thing about this tool is that it is also compatible with mobile devices which make it easier to share pictures from your mobile device.

You can find out more about Twitpic here: http://twitpic.com

If you are using WordPress for your blog, there are quite a few tools that you can use to automate your Twitter activities from inside your dashboard including:

TweetThis plug-in – It will encourage your visitors to tweet your blog post. TweetThis also adds a Twitter link in every blog post you create plus gives you the ability to shorten your blog post URL to fit the 140-character limit.

Twitter Tools – This plug-in integrates your blog with Twitter by pulling all your tweets into the side bar of your blog. You can also use it to post new tweets from inside your WordPress blog.

You can find these and a whole slew of other tools specifically for wordpress by doing a search for “Twitter WordPress plug-in”

Now let’s talk about Twollo. It is another Twitter tool that you can use to find people you want to follow. Just type in the subject or topic that interests you and the tool will find people who are talking about the same thing and automatically follows them for you.

And the list goes on. I could literally list hundreds of tools that work with Twitter for you, but then we would be stuck on this post for days, so instead I am going to suggest that you do a little home work after you are done reading this post.

All you have to do is open up your favorite search engine and do a search for “Twitter tools, plug ins and add-ons” and you will find more than enough to meet your needs. You can narrow your search even more if you are looking for something more specific.

For instance I did a search for “Twitter tools business” while I was writing this lesson and came across some that I didn’t know about.

Before we close this lesson I do want to tell you about one more tool that you can use to find out who you are following that isn’t following you back.

It’s Just Unfollow and all you have to do is type in your Twitter username and password and it will give you detailed list of who you are following that is not following you back.

It does take it a few minutes to populate the list but it is well worth the wait. You can find it here: http://www.justunfollow.com

Another great tool I found was http://www.twittollower.us and it allows you to build your own Twitter list by automatically connecting with the followers of other Twitters of that niche. This is great if you intend on building a subscriber base quickly in various niches without the need to promote your websites!

So, go do your homework and find some Twitter Tools that will work in your niche and start using them to make new contacts, automate your posts and promote your site even better with Twitter!

Keep On Tweeting!
~~Dave

Watch this video about getting pulled into the twittersphere:

If you are using Twitter for business, you really need to focus your tweets about something relevant and entertaining. The challenging part is writing a relevant, entertaining tweet in under 140 characters. There are statistics out there that show that the best response for clicking on links in tweets is around 100 characters. That means you are going to have to be very creative.

Keep On Tweeting!
~~Dave