How to Set up a Professional Twitter Profile
Twitter is an awesome Social Media tool for businesses. For those who are beginners at Twitter you should know that it is a great way to connect with not only other business owners in your niche, but it is also a superb way to converse with your customers and potential customers.
But, in order to connect with these business owners and consumers they need to be following you on Twitter….. following your conversations. If a member of the Twitter community is not following you they can not hear you. So, in order for Twitter to work effectively you need to get members to follow you.
One sure fire way of NOT getting any followers is to use the Twitter default avatar. And, using the default Twitter profile page isn’t that much better. For many people when they see the default avatar they think its one of a few things….
- A computer bot - not a real person
- A member that doesn’t take the community seriously
- A brand new member that just hasn’t had a chance to add the avatar
To put the importance of an avatar in perspective think of it this way… an avatar is a visual symbol of you or your company.
Some people are very visual. In order for these visual thinking people to remember you or your business they will probably have an easier time remembering your avatar. So, having an avatar that is something other than the default avatar is extremely important.
As a continuation of my "Basic Tips of Adding Social Media to your Business" here is a tutorial for how-to set up a Professional Twitter Profile in Minutes….
How to set up a Professional Twitter Profile in Minutes
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9 Responses to “How to Set up a Professional Twitter Profile”
By Dev on Nov 12, 2008 | Reply
Hi Shana Albert,
nice posts dear, good tips for twitter users. I’ll use your tips to make my twitter profile to a Professional profile.
By John on Nov 12, 2008 | Reply
wow, thanks for this!
By D3Marketers on Nov 12, 2008 | Reply
Nice tips for twittering. But as of now I have yet to see the benefits from twittering in relation to my business.
God Bless and more posts!!
By John Smulo on Nov 12, 2008 | Reply
The video wasn’t working for some reason.
One of the problems I’m having with Twitter profiles is getting them to display correctly on different screen resolutions. Are you aware if there is a work around for this?
By Tom Lindstrom on Nov 17, 2008 | Reply
Excellent tips.Twitter is a good tool to get traffic to your site.
By Gordon Gates on Nov 27, 2008 | Reply
Thanks Shana,
After watching your video I changed by avatar from the default one and changed my profile page so that it looks more like my website. Much better! Thanks for your help and insight.
By ReddyK - The Atma Jyoti Blog on Dec 12, 2008 | Reply
Shana,
This is just what I needed to know. Especially the concept of having an avatar related to the business or blog, rather than a personal (photo) type of avatar. Keep up the good and helpful work.
By Gerald Weber SEM Group on Dec 13, 2008 | Reply
Great video Shana. Regarding the avatar, I agree with you. It’s so important to have an avatar on Twitter or in blogging in general it’s ads personality to everything.
By John Diaz on May 2, 2009 | Reply
I could not see your video. I noticed that the White House has its own page on Twitter and I want to do the same thing.