Twitter Marketing Guide – Real Businesses Using Twitter for Marketing, Sales and Support
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AdAge and others covered the story of how Land Rover is planning to use Twitter.
Two things make this one unique.
First, Land Rover is including #hashtags ( #LRNY ) in their online and offline twitter marketing promotions. I guess you could say that #skittles was first to really do this as a brand marketing [...]
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Kraft’s DiGiorno brand pizza has teamed up with PR firm Weber Shandwick to leverage Twitter to as part of its launch of a new pizza. The Twitter marketing plan is to identify influential Twitterers and deliver pizzas to their tweetups.
“We’ve always been out there with a lot of different media touch points, with a [...]
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If you haven’t heard about the race between Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) and CNN (@cnnbrk) to 1,000,000 followers on Twitter you must have been camping in the woods for the past week. Ashton was on Oprah (@oprah) and got her to send her first tweet – how can you ignore that?!
While millions of people still don’t [...]
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The blog, Online Marketing for Restaurants has started to build out a list of restaurants using Twitter. Some use it to promote deals. Others for customers service. Bottom line is that if you’re in the restaurant business you should be following each and every one of these guys. Doesn’t matter if you have your own [...]
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Is your Realtor using Twitter to promote your house? This seller took matters into his own hands, but isn’t ‘find a buyer’ the main reason to hire a real estate agent? Agents, you’re forgiven if you don’t offer Twitter promotion as a standard part of your offering today, but that probably won’t be the case [...]
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This pizzeria has more than 1,000 followers on Twitter and sends them instant messages about different meal deals and other incentives to come in.
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Anyone that doesn’t at least understand that Twitter has become a disruptive marketing tool should immediately stop reading this, start with some earlier posts and the articles they recommend.
Disruptive technologies, by definition, change the way people do things. In most cases, our the way we use these technologies evolves as we learn more about [...]
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The WSJ posted an article about Guy Kawasaki’s keynote presentation at Search Engine Strategies in NY. During his presentation, he called Twitter “the most powerful marketing tool that I’ve seen since probably television.” He also talks about the value of retweets and using Retweetist to monitor them (claims that he uses it as his ’scorecard’ [...]
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This article on MediaPost written by Mark Ghuneim of Wiredset talks about the new ‘Suggested Users’, ‘Trends’ and ‘Search Now’ options and the potential impact on branding.
Zappos, Mashable (@Mashable), and Jet Blue (@JetBlue), among others, have proven that users and brands can pick up 200,000 followers, solely by being designated a “Featured User.” These [...]
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This article from InternetNews.com perked up a lot of ears. “Dell sold $1M worth of product using Twitter?” While many people still question the business model for Twitter, mainstream companies are signing up right and left. Now that Twitter’s funding situation is pretty solid, it seems that there is confidence that Twitter is here to [...]
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