Learn the basics of setting up a business page. Learn how to reach people on Twitter. Learn how to grow your following on Twitter.

1. Twitter for Business Who, What, When, and How’s

2. Tweet – A message or status update on Twitter. DM – Direct mention or ‘Private Message’ Mention – a @BrentRangen or ‘@YourName’ Retweet – Sharing someone elses tweet, or ‘RT’ Vocabulary

3. Why is Twitter important? How do I get started? (Profile Customization) Who is on Twitter? (Learning how to Search) Takeaways – Image, Fans, and Rep. Introduction

4. Creating the Background Matching Color Scheme BioParagraphs Profile Pic Customizing the Profile

7. How Can You Find Me? Twitter users now send more than 140 million Tweets a day which adds up to a billion Tweets every 8 days—by comparison, it took 3 years, 2 months, and 1 day to reach the first billion Tweets. While it took about 18 months to sign up the first 500,000 accounts, we now see close to 500,000 accounts created every day

8. Twitter is growing extremely fast. A lot of spam, a lot of potential customers. Knowing where to look is the key. Reaching Your Market

9. Help! Help!! Help!!! How Can You Find Me?

10. Search by location. Search through words prefixed by ‘#’ (#Minnesota). Search for Authority Profiles (@StarTrib, @NewsStation, @IndustryCompetitor) followers. Reaching Your Market

11. Get Creative!

12. Build lists. Don’t rely on your home stream or timeline. Provide users with authority content in a timely fashion. A good Twitter user has a stream broken up by Retweets, @Mentions, and Resources. How to Grow Your Audience

15. Work on identifying and connecting with authority profiles specific to your industry or region.

16. Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, Seesmic – Mobile apps are a great way to make Tweeting easier!Summary

17. Twitter for Small Business Guides Hootsuite University Social Media Podcasts SocialMediaExaminer.com More information

18. Twitter for Small Biz Twitter.com/BrentRangen OptimizeGuyz.com 218-833-2SEO brent@optimizeguyz.com