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5 Ways Twitter Can Help Your MI Store

Christian Wissmuller by Christian Wissmuller
June 3, 2015
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“just setting up my twttr.”

That’s how it all started, back in 2006 with that first tweet by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. At that time, no one knew that this short-form social network would grow to the worldwide community and multi-million dollar company that it is today.

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Lucky for your MI retail business, Twitter has become a lot more valuable than simply sharing real-time updates about what you’re doing at any given moment. Assuming you’ve already read my book, and you’ve chosen a strategy for Twitter that achieves your business objectives, here is what you need to know about this social platform to make sure you’re successful.

#1: It’s Real-Time

Duh! But this is a factor that has to be considered (both for its positive and negative attributes) before jumping into the world of Twitter. Twitter’s real-time nature is what makes it so great! You can have conversations in real-time with anyone around the world. You can get instant feedback on anything you publish. You can join the broader public conversation at a moment’s notice.

But it also means that you need to have a plan and resources available to respond when people tweet at you. You need to have a crisis management plan to enact just in case you or your employees make a very public blunder that “goes viral” in all the wrong ways.

#2: It’s FAST!

Twitter is all about speed. It’s very transient in nature, which makes it fun and exciting, but also means your message can easily get lost or overlooked. Just because you have 1,000 followers doesn’t mean that 1,000 people are going to see every message you put out there. In reality, it’s likely that only 10 percent (or less) of those followers will organically see a tweet that you put out. This, of course, changes when you create something that gets shared extensively or when you put money behind a tweet (more on that later). It’s not that Twitter restricts who will see your tweets (like Facebook does), it’s just that there are 350,000 tweets sent every minute, so it can be a very crowded space. But if you’ve got an engaged audience and good content, the speed of the platform can be advantageous, not detrimental.

#3: It Has Fantastic Paid Options

Before you skip this section because you say you have no budget to spend on social media, stick with me here. One of the amazing things about Twitter is that it knows so much about its users (almost as much as Facebook). What does that mean for you? It means you can really leverage that important marketing tactic of getting the right message, at the right time, to the right person.

If you have a message that is important to your business that you want to get in front of guitar players, Twitter can give you that opportunity fairly inexpensively. Only want guitar players who like Taylor Swift? No problem. How about only female guitar players who like Taylor Swift and live in Des Moines, Iowa? Done. Twitter can find those people, serve them your message (whether they follow you or not), and do it cheaply. Or even better, they can get those people to follow you so you can continue to interact with them. Pretty great, huh?

#4: It’s Not Just About Text

A tweet is a message of 140 characters or less, blah, blah, blah.

The days of Twitter just being full of text-based tweets are over! Twitter has built itself into a rich media experience, allowing users (and businesses) to interact on a much deeper level.

The term “Twitter Card” refers to those tweets that include more than just text, and they’re generally easy to use. Simply upload a picture or video and it will be displayed in the tweet, so users can view it without leaving the Twitter stream. Beyond that, if you link to a website that has Twitter Card info enabled (or you enable it on your website), Twitter will pull in the title, first few lines of text, and a picture from the page, giving users a preview of what they’ll find at the link. Finally, you can work with Twitter or third party vendors to create custom Twitter Cards to do things like capture email addresses or elicit survey responses directly in the tweet. All these ways just make it easier for users to consume and interact with your content.

#5: It’s Global

What makes Twitter revolutionary is that it truly is a global community. You can connect with people all over the world, instantly! But if your store is in Bozeman, Montana, it may not actually be all that valuable to have an in-depth conversation 140 characters at a time with a drummer who lives in Oslo, Norway. Not to say you can’t create an engaged hyper-local community on Twitter, you absolutely can! You just need to build your audience that way if that’s what’s important to you.

I could go on and on about Twitter and the ways you can approach the platform as a way to connect with consumers, but this short list should give you some things to think about as you set up your Twitter program, or help you look to make the most of what you’ve already got going on in the Twittersphere.

I can’t wait to see what you come up with – tweet me at @benunh!

Ben Blakesley, author of Get Social: A Practical Guide to Using Social Media for Business and co-founder of Community Manager Recharge social media conference, has been working in social for the better part of a decade, spanning industries from music to finance to sports apparel and many in between. One of those “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” kind of guys, Ben lives and breathes social and thrives on making connections and making a difference. Now leading social media for Reebok, he lives in the Boston suburbs with his wonderful and socially adept wife, Lauryn, and their three children.

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