Rebecca Corliss from HubSpot explains what Twitter is and why it's not as scary as you think! This presentation gives examples of how Twitter can be useful to your business, and how you can use it for marketing, PR and customer service.
Intro to Twitter for Business: Hubspot & Geek Girl Camp
1. Download these slides at
www.slideshare.net/HubSpot
Introduction to Twitter for Business
Rebecca Corliss
Inbound Marketing
HubSpot
Twitter: @repcor
2. Agenda
• Inbound Marketing & the New Rules
• Twitter 101
• Build Your Network
• Engage Your Community
• Twitter for Business Examples
• Track & Analyze
• Tools & Resources
7. Agenda
• Inbound Marketing & the New Rules
• Twitter 101
• Build Your Network
• Engage Your Community
• Twitter for Business Examples
• Track & Analyze
• Tools & Resources
8. What IS Twitter?
Like … … Except
Only 140 characters
It’s viewable in lots of places
A giant chatroom You choose the people you
follow
Instant Messaging It’s public and archived on the
web
9. Twitter is a Cocktail Party!
Flickr: stevendepolo
13. Company vs. Personal account
Company Account represents the
company as a whole:
• News
• Blog Articles
• Product Updates
• Monitor and respond
Personal Account is used by an
individual employee at the company.
• Act as a liaison
• Update on what you’re working on
• Share tidbits about your personality
• Expand your company’s network
15. Agenda
• Inbound Marketing & the New Rules
• Twitter 101
• Build Your Network
• Engage Your Community
• Twitter for Business Examples
• Track & Analyze
• Tools & Resources
19. Who’s Talking About Your Keywords?
search.twitter.com/search?q=lead+generation
20. Agenda
• Inbound Marketing & the New Rules
• Twitter 101
• Build Your Network
• Engage Your Community
• Twitter for Business Examples
• Track & Analyze
• Tools & Resources
27. Agenda
• Inbound Marketing & the New Rules
• Twitter 101
• Build Your Network
• Engage Your Community
• Twitter for Business Examples
• Track & Analyze
• Tools & Resources
29. Twitter for PR
Need to urgently speak with a business that is very
actively leveraging social media strategies; for ZDNet
I spoke about our use of social media for biz on 2 panels -
http://tinyurl.com/4v4cgh AND http://tinyurl.com/6943l9
408 555-1234?
I will call you right now
Elapsed Time:
50 Minutes
36. Agenda
• Inbound Marketing & the New Rules
• Twitter 101
• Build Your Network
• Engage Your Community
• Twitter for Business Examples
• Track & Analyze
• Tools & Resources
42. Agenda
• Inbound Marketing & the New Rules
• Twitter 101
• Build Your Network
• Engage Your Community
• Twitter for Business Examples
• Track & Analyze
• Tools & Resources
43. HubSpot Tracks Relevant Tweets
• HubSpot Owner & Marketer tracks industry and
company keywords for you.
44. Tiny URL
• Make long URLs fit Twitter’s 140 characters
• Other options: bit.ly, poprl.com, etc
45. Lots of Twitter Clients
• Many ways to connect to
Twitter via third-party
applications
• Lots of mobile options
Flickr: Jeffery Simpson
46. Twitter Feed
Your Blog, Flickr or Any Feed
• Allows you to automatically update your Twitter
stream with content you’ve published elsewhere
47. Hashtags
• Follow topics and events
Search.Twitter.com
• Inbound Marketing Summit
• #IMS08
• Find people talking about similar topics
48. HubSpotters to Follow
HubSpotters
• hubspot
And MANY more …
• Grader
www.hubspot.com/twitter/
• Onstartups
• bhalligan
• PC4media
• Rickburnes
• ellieeille
• mvolpe
• danzarrella
50. Thank You!
Learn more about HubSpot:
http://www.hubspot.com/products/owner/
http://www.hubspot.com/products/marketer/
Rebecca Corliss
Inbound Marketer
Email: rcorliss@hubspot.com
Personal Blog: www.rebeccacorliss.com
Twitter: @repcor
Download these slides at www.slideshare.net/HubSpot