Twitter Assistant

Think of your bio as your opportunity to tell the world a little something about you that they may find interesting. The more interesting you sound to people who read your bio, the more likely they will be to follow you and be interested in your Tweets.

It’s a bit like window shopping. If you were window shopping for followers, what would entice YOU to follow you? What would make you interesting to YOU? You must consider that angle when creating your bio in order to get the best result possible.

That being said, here are a few practical tips to consider when creating your bio. Remember that you only get 160 characters to tell the world about you.

Those 160 characters should include a keyword or two relevant to your business that will help folks find you, as well as your name if your user name happens to be an alias. It should also include the URL to your quality website.

Remember to NOT use all caps when creating your bio, as in the on line world this is considered ’shouting’ and really tends to make your bio a bit difficult to read. Also, don’t try and fit more words in by runningallyourwordstogetherlikethis. Seriously this will completely turn off any potential followers and it does you no favors whatsoever.

Have a lot to say though and the 160 character limit just isn’t cutting it? There is a work around. Create an account at www.tweetspinner.com. It will allow you to create more than one bio and rotate them around on a periodic schedule. This way you can include even more cool facts about yourself to entice followers into becoming one of your Tweeps! Handy huh?

Some other things to keep in mind when creating your bio is to avoid flaunting your ego. Don’t boast as you will just look like a jerk and turn off potential followers. Be friendly, engaging, and interesting. Those are the magic 3 ingredients to the perfect bio, and I KNOW you have it in you.

Two final tips- If you don’t have a current quality blog or website set up to link to in your bio, use the opportunity to link to one of your other social network accounts, such as Facebook or LinkedIn. And finally, don’t forget to include your location. There are many local and off line connections to be made on Twitter, but they can only be made if people actually know where in the world you are. So make sure to include your city, and have a great time Twittering with all your Tweeps!

It just makes sense to get the most “bang” out of each social media effort. In other words, leverage each effort with the TwitterMuscle approach.

In part, this means that any one post should do more than one job, in more than one place, at more than one time, and should contain keywords that bolster your social media activities.

In this case, the post you are reading right now will appear in a number of places at a number of times completely automatically, and build keyword value and social presence.

First, it will show up at Utterli, then Twitter with a link, then the TwitterMuscle.com blog about 10 minutes later, and an hour later or so on TweeterForum.com, and then 2 rss feeds.

The post contains a number of keywords I use including Twitter Assistant, Twitter Coach, and Twitter Consultant. (Yes, that was sneaky huh LOL )

All told, the basic premise behind TwitterMuscle here has amplified the actions of this single post by about 9 or 10 fold.

Not bad, considering I posted this from a free app on my iPhone while barbequing pork chops on my patio and enjoying a bloody ceasar;)

Cheers,

Ron Davies
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