Welcome to Tweetips! A few weeks ago, we presented an article with an introduction to Twitter, this is the 2nd in that series. Surely you’ve at least visited Twitter, whether you’ve been addicted from the start or still feeling your way around; you can get some good tips here. You’ll probably want to read through them all, since some are great marketing tools for Indie shops and others are just plain fun!

I’ve spent the past couple weeks, using Twitter Tools to gain an awareness for not only this article but to improve my own knowledge of what is useful for business and personal twittering. (is there such a word as twittering? Hmmm).

Love to add buttons to your website, this site Twitter Buttons is a must!

One of the tools that I find we cannot live without in Twitter is
Twitter Karma, it was designed by a gal in NJ and quite simply put, it will allow you to organize your tweets! First of all know that once you follow 2,000 people Twitter will “shut down” your ability to follow more people until you have more people following you. What do you do? Easy, delete some of the people that you follow that just aren’t mutual, Karma will do that for you! It displays the avatar of the people you are following, the people that follow you and whether or not it’s mutual. So, just click on those you want to delete, and you’re off and running again. Is it shallow to stop following people that don’t follow you? That’s another article all together! When you visit Twitter Karma, make sure to click “Whack’! You will use your twitter account info.

Now, you will love this fun tool. It’s basically for twitters, it’s a Twitstamp (http://twitstamp.com) who also have a blog – now that would be a great poll! I would say that the majority of Indie shops also have a blog or a website. So if you are one of them, Twitter Stamp is so very cool. It provides you with a code to post on your blog and visitors will see your latest Twitter!

Here’s ours:

If you Twitter with any degree of seriousness, Twellow(http://www.twellow.com/) is a must! If you want to read about a twitter before you follow them, this website will be a great benefit. You can search various Twitters by category and key words. So as an Indie shop, for example, you are probably interested in following other independent shop owners that are into the arts. Reading through all the profiles gives you a better feel about the twitter you choose to follow. You must sign up and add your twitter account to Twellow to be included in the directory. Many new twitter tools will be powered by Twellow, so it’s a must have for any Twitter account!

This tool, Tweet Burner (http://tweetburner.com/)
is a must have if you want to post a url of an item from your Indie shop. First of all, it will shrink your url (like tinyurl) but it takes it a few steps forward! Imagine now shrinking and posting to Twitter in one website! Not only that, but it will let you know how many people have clicked on your link! For most Etsy sellers this is really important since we have no other way of tracking where are views are originating. So, shrink a link, post a link and then track a link. Nice!

This is the most exciting Twitter oriented website yet!! Twittad is one of those sites where, when you once visit you may be wondering “what exactly is this?” So, let me give you a couple tips. First of all you can agree to list your site and if someone wants to pay you for it, allow another twitter to advertise on your background. How much can you earn, well they have a formula for you. Now this isn’t one of those spammer websites that have gotten a bad name, this is only an ad on your twitter background. If you sign-up think of yourself as running your own billboard on the internet! So check it out, click here:

There are numerous tools and tips for Twitter that could take a mountain of blog postsl so check back with us monthly for a continuation of “Tweetips for Indie Shops” some are websites, blogs and there are tools that require downloads. I’ll be researching more of those and presenting them right here. So check back soon to see my next post on Tweetips!

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