I have made the following list of tweets and kinds of tweets appropriate to business

Can you add one more – the best you can think of?  (Answering other tweets etc is obviously important but here I want tweets that start the fabled social media ‘conversation)

·      New promotions “2 hours music class for the price of one at…”
·         Future events on the diary like trade shows “Earls Court home appliance section, stand 34.5. Come see our new blender”
·         Product launches  “Sample our biscuits at all Sainsbury stores in Nottingham this Monday!”
·         Heads up on important industry news “New tax laws – how will they affect your small business? Call xxxx accountants for a free consultation”
·         New blog entries ” ‘Wedding destinations – the photographer’ Check out our new article on making your big day”
·         New Youtube promo films “A message from our CEO”
·         Requests for information – invitations to participate in online poll “What colour would you like your fridge?”
·         Start a contest. “Win a holiday for four at any one of our Spanish resorts.”
·         Invite questions on your products and services “We’re doing some thinking for next year at xxxxx Theatre. What would you like to see?”
·         Announce a GroupOn deal “We’re the deal of the day on GroupOn. Off roading and paintball combined in Wiltshire. Check it out!”
·         Announce new social media involvement e.g. “Sign up to our youtube channel”
·         Congratulate colleagues on recieving industry awards “Jeff Davis – innovation award at xxxxx industry conference”
·         Welcome new colleagues to company with link to information on their impressive work in your industry “Our new head of contracts in Europe, Karen….”
·         Job vacancies/auditions etc
·         Announce success in bids for important contracts “Somerset council housing bid success – sustainable development on brownsites”
·         Organise a tweetup “Come meet us for real at the annual tweetup – George Hotel, Edinburgh, 6th September”

@jon-hartley If your company sends volunteers, provides equipment or food, or matches donations to a particular charity, tweet about it.

Hello.

I post articles from around web – and a few of my own at times – BUT I never just do biz tweets that are self-serving.  

I share more of others posts through re-tweets too by utilizing paper.li – I have ten papers that range in subjects and through those, I introduce my audience to a lot of people interested in the same subjects – NONE of the papers are about SEO, Social Media, or Web Development. They are interest specific – Here is the Buddy Bulletin Newspaper List Page – my website that lists all ten papers. 

I also do the “Tweeted Times” and lots of folks jump on that one too. 

As a member at Mashable I have some auto tweets from there on a regular basis. 

It’s funny – I’ve had a lot of requests for business information from folks at Twitter even though I don’t do much real advertising there.  

I just share a lot of different items.

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Eileen