Dale Dillon, The S.M.A.R.T. Group has a brief overview of Twitter -- Best Practices, Favorite Apps and Daily Routine. For small business owneres and professionals.

1. …to expand your reach!

2. 1. Best Practices
2.Tools
3.Daily Schedule

3. Best Practices
 Twitter handle should be you and the photo should be
you.

4. Best Practices
 What to write – things that you think are cool,
interesting, funny and to provide feedback.

5. Best Practices
 Be conversational!

6. Best Practices
 Respond to all @ messages
 Read your stream and respond.

7. Best Practices
 Do not click links.

8. Best Practices
 Quality Followers
 review people that follow you carefully before following
back.

9. Best Practices
 Good things to check first are:
 Did they tweet or retweet you first? Do you recognize
them from comments on your blog?
 Are they asking for help?
 Do they look like they could be a good resource for you?

10. Best Practices
 Good things to check first are:
 Read their tweets: Do they converse with others? Do
they tweet too frequently? Do they have too many
retweets?
 Read their bio: Do they have one? Does it include a link?
Does it make you want to follow them?

11. Tools
 FriendorFollow.com

12. Tools
 FriendorFollow.com
 Connect with Twitter
 Hover over photo to see more about them
 Can unfollow
 Only allows so many interactions
 Gold Membership

13. Tools
 FriendorFollow.com
 Flitter.com

14. Tools
 FriendorFollow.com
 Flitter.com
 Much easier to use!!
 Recommend

15. Tools
 FriendorFollow.com
 Flitter.com
 SocialOomph.com
 Free version
 Schedule tweets
 Automatic follow feature
 Filter new followers
 Delete DM’s!

16. Daily Schedule
 Check Interactions and respond
 Check lists
 Make sure your lists are up to date and relevant
 Scan twitter feed for interesting tweets to interact
 Scan Trending
 Once a day