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Every Internet Marketer worth his or her salt

knows that in order be successful as an online

entrepreneur you must have some way to get people

to your website. If they don’t come, they won’t

buy. And if they don’t buy-well, you’re not much

of a marketer; at least you’re not a successful

marketer.

So every online maven uses every available trick

to bring traffic to their websites. I’d like to

tell you about one method of brining in the

traffic may have been overlooked by many

marketers.

Twitter.

Twitter is a free social networking and mini-

blogging application that allows its users to

write 140 characters per micro-blog. These

updates are sent to all their friends, who are

people that are ‘following’ them, as well as

being put out on the public timeline where every

Twitter on planet earth can see them. Some people

use Twitter as their own personal blog, where

they talk about everything from their cats and

kids, to the savvy internet marketer who places

the url’s of their online business offerings in

their ‘tweets’ in order to get those website

addresses out in front of as many people as

possible.

In order for this to work, you must be

‘following’ a great many people and have a great

many people ‘following’ you as well. If you’re

following someone on Twitter, it means that you

see all of their updates (micro-blog posts) each

time they post. The more people you have

following you-the better it is for your online

endeavors.

You can perform searches on Twitter to locate

people in a geographical area or by interests.

Once you’ve found someone you want to follow, you

go to their Twitter page and click on the word

‘follow’ underneath their avatar. Some Twitter

folk have their updates protected-meaning that

the general public is barred from reading their

updates. You can request to follow them and an

email will be sent to them with your request.

Using Twitter as a social networking tool is a

great way to get to know people who share your

interests-whether they be about the music you

like or your brand new eBook that went on sale

today-and an excellent way to generate interest

and traffic. You can send Twitter updates via

your cell phone from tech events or just from

your bus while you commute. There are all kinds

of add-ons to Twitter that you

Social Networking sites like Twitter are best

used by creating a following-and following

others-in order to foster a relationship with

potential clients. Once you build trust by giving

them a window in on your world, it’s much easier

to make them a customer. People tend to buy

things from people they trust-and they will

discover as they read your Tweets, that you are a

trustworthy soul.

So in order to funnel more traffic to your

website, it’s a good idea to use every social

networking tool at your disposal and that

includes Twitter.