Twitter For Local Business Contacts
If you are an artist who sells internationally and regionally dont forget the local scene. Many artist tell me they dont sell much work locally. The whining goes on about how one is not appreciated locally like you are outside of your region. True, in many cases anyway.
I would suggest though that there are many buyers, patrons and collectors right where you are. How do you find them? Well I cant tell you how to find a specific collector obviously but I can tell you how to expand your network of local people wth very little effort.
This technique takes very little time and works for any business or person who wants to meet more local people. It starts with Twitter. (does everything start with Twitter? No) If you are not on twitter, get on. Sooner rather than later.
When you sign up for your twitter account take special care to fill out your profile. You only have a small amount of room for your bio. What is important here though is the location area. A ton of people leave that blank or put in the country only. Here is the deal, if you are a business geek and you want to find other local business geeks it makes it difficult if that is not filled out.
The other way to use twitter to find people in your area is to use the search function on twitter. The challenge with this method is that you will pick up any post that has the keyword in it you seached, it doest mean they are local.
If you havent hooked up with twitter you can see a short step by step video here.
Tim
3 Responses to “Twitter For Local Business Contacts”
Good article with simple reminders on how to maximize Twitter’s benefits.
This article contains simple reminders on how to maximize Twitter’s benefits. Now, if it weren’t so darned hard to get this sent. They keep sending it back!
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