How Often Should I Tweet on Twitter For Business?

In the context of using twitter to directly market your products or recommend products to others (where you get a commission via an affiliate link) you should tweet realistically no more than once per day. In addition to these potentially commercial tweets you will also be posting regular updates on what you are doing.

If you consider your followers on twitter to be your marketplace (prospects) then building a relationship is the key part of the process. As people we buy from people we know, like and trust within out communities locally and the online communities work in pretty much the same way.

As a general guide you should post five tweets before you post anything commercial and then update at least five times before the next commercial message. In some cases this should be increased to ten tweets if you notice an increase in the number of people who stop following you.Respond to your marketplace.

Twitter has the advantage of not being email and therefore not requiring double opt in processes to build up a list.Followers opt to follow by pressing the button and thats the process.

The userbase of twitter is interested in a variety of things, so post variety.It is also demographically mainly male and 40 so post things that are interesting to that audience and you should do ok.

As of today(May12th) I have a click through rate from twitter of 2.3% which is something I intend to build upon.

You can follow me on twitter by going to this link:

http://www.twitter.com/DennisBarker

 when I am close to my computer or have access to a public system via my local library I tend to tweet very regularly. I have the kind of mind which moves around like a butterfly and changes direction regularly after 7 or 8 minutes unless I am doing something which I have earmarked as a goal for the day in which case I switch off my butterfly mind and adopt a more elephamt like mind.

 I am pleased to report here that I've achieved my first Twitter Milestone: I have 100 followers.

The figure is fluctuating between 99 and 100 but for the purposes of this article it is fair to say that I've achieved my first target.

Next target is to raise the level of followers to 150 and maintain the click through rate at 2.3% (or raise it to 2.5%)

A good twitter promotion strategy would be to use social bookmarking sites such as stumbleupon,digg or delicious to promote your sites with backlinks and the tweet the bookmarks.

This avoids the issue of bein overly promotional(posting the same link over and over again is tedious) but increases your sites search engine ranking by providing two backlinks - one direct , the other indirect.