This video below will show you how to use Twitter to build your list. Anyone in business today and using Social Media needs a Twitter account. With our younger generation using it frequently, businesses have a free media for advertising. As of March 2013, there were 500 million users on Twitter. Although they are not as popular as Facebook, Twitter is a very useful Social Media outlet and so easy to use.

The first thing is to open a Twitter account and this can be done at http://www.twitter.com, you have to set up your profile and your background to make it look attractive. There are quite a few steps on how to use your twitter to build a list.

• 1. The most important step is to give value to your followers.

• 2. Post at least 3 times a day and generally the best time to tweet is 9am, 3pm and 9pm EST. You will have to experience with your followers and see what will be the best time for your followers to interact but you can start with those times.

• 3. Post content that will create a buzz and that will interest your followers. The 5 areas would be:

· Personal; example will be if you went somewhere and took a great photo of you there

· Relevant to your niche; Post interesting things and give value according to your niche. If you are in the health industry, you will not bombard them with posts on a subject that they have no interest in

· Current affairs; this is a subject that will interest everyone, in every niche.

· Quotes; they are always popular posts. · Promoting your products; you can post your link

and promote every so often. I usually will not promote more than once a day.

• 4. Play #Followfriday or #FF, every Friday find posts with this subject, follow a few people and they will follow you back. Once in a while, start a post yourself. Think of it as hosting a party, you invite people and people will invite you back.

• 5. Retweet popular tweets or tweets that you have enjoyed. This builds engagement with your audience.

• 6. Follow other well-known people’s followers in your niche. This is powerful and 40% of people you follow will follow you out of courtesy.

These are just a few things how to use twitter to build your list. Doing them every day for say 30 minutes will build your list for free. To see how well you are doing, go to http://www.klout.com and open a free account and usually users with a score of 63 are in the top 5%.

The # tag is used to group or categorize the tweets just like a keyword. The @ tag is used to capture attention of someone, it is like a public reply and is only visible to people who follows both sender and receiver.

Twitter is a powerful tool and if used properly can build you list for free. I hope that you received some value out of this post and

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