The rise of the internet was phenomenal from the time it reached the public eye in the 1990s until now. With the rise of the internet, a change in the way we use marketing went along. New methods emerge almost monthly.

Due to that SMOs as well as Online Marketers must be quick on their feet, detect new marketing trends fast and implement them in order to gain an advantage over their competitors.

So what is the current trend in online marketing? It appears as if Twitter media marketing is gaining more and more popularity. Reasons for that are easy to find: It is free of charge, allows you to target a pretty specific audience and takes a short time to set up.

Let me start with the basics. What is twitter actually about?

In Web 2.0 terms, Twitter is a social networking site. It enables users to send text messages to a website and create a mini blog with these messages. Other people can than follow you and read your “thoughts” (or tweets as they are called), consisting of no more than 140 characters. There are two ways to receive those tweets: via your cell or via the internet. While Twitter started out as being text message based (both on the sender and receiver side) the huge increase of members made it more web based as of late.

Something that helped Twitter a lot to establish itself as a big forum was the fact that a lot of celebrities decided to frequently tweet to their fans. Another reason was the parallel rise in popularity of so called (internet able) smart phones.

So how does Twitter Marketing work?

Knowing your market well is important. Otherwise you have to do a bit of research. You have to find out who the big players in your niche are and whether they have a twitter account or not.

After the research part you start to follow the people that are following the people you made out as being in the same niche. Some of the people that you follow will follow you back, and some won’t. The once that do follow you back will receive your tweets from now on. The cool think about that is that you already know that those people are interested in your products, since they followed someone promoting something very similar already. This way the prospects aren’t cold, but warm.

Selling to this list shouldn’t be that hard anymore. After all you know that they are interested in your niche. And since this process is pretty easy and not very time consuming, it is easy to build a big list of followers.

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