Providing Useful Information to Your Twitter Followers Will Make You Follow-Worthy on Twitter Claims OnlineBizU.com Founder

Online, February 19, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Gone are the days when business owners used social networks such as Twitter as a means of solely communicating and socializing with friends, family and business associates. Indeed, these social networking sites are now used as vital sources of gaining more customers, keeping those customers, and expanding their businesses.

Donna Gunter, author of "Get More Clients Online: How to Get 95% of Your Clients from Internet Marketing" and founder of the online marketing strategy training community, OnlineBizU, http://www.onlinebizu.com has developed a series of seven steps to grow a massive following on Twitter. By implementing this system, there no longer a need to waste thousands of dollars on software and services that increase your Twitter following.

Gunter notes that she's often asked the secret of how business owners can get more followers on Twitter. "Many of my clients want to pay a sum of money for the latest scheme to get them 10,000 new followers in 24 hours or some such nonsense as that. As in all marketing strategies, it's not the number that counts. Rather, it's the quality in the numbers that really matters. So, 10,000 followers who are not members of your target market are fairly useless to you. Of much greater value would be a smaller list of 1000 followers who are all members of your target market".

The steps in her proven strategy all relate to providing actionable, useful content to Twitter followers in 140 characters or less. Her simple 7-step strategy is outlined as follows:

1. Post your content-rich ezine to Twitter.
2. Syndicate your blog posts to Twitter.
3. Distribute your articles to Twitter.
4. Re-tweet the posts of others that are useful to your followers
5. Create a tips hash tag campaign with useful tips to your followers
6. Comment on other people's posts
7. Show interest in your followers by asking and answering questions, making referrals, taking suggestions, and providing support.

Service business owners must determine which of these strategies work best for them and should set a finite amount of time each day to devote to social networking so that it doesn't become all-consuming yet still achieve the overall goal.

Gunter concludes, "Use your information and knowledge to build your following on Twitter. Your followers will pass your useful information to their networks, and slowly but surely, your number of followers will increase, as well".

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