Day 3 – 30 Days of Networking: Use Your Twitter Profile to Network
July 4, 2009 by Suzi Dafnis
Hello and welcome to Day 3 of 30 Days of Networking.
So far we’ve set in this free networking program we’ve
- Set our networking goals
- Learned why it’s important to tweet about relevant issues
- and looked at how to get more of the right kind of followers.
Today we’re going to look at how to use your Twitter profile to grow your network.
When you registered your Twitter account at twitter.com you had the opportunity to set up a profile. And, you have no doubt filled in some, or all, of the available fields already.
Let’s review your profile and look at ways to maximise its effectiveness.
Watch this video for today’s lesson on using your profile to network more effectively.
We’ll discuss the best ways to set up your:
- User name – Have you made a big mistake with your user name?
- Location – Where should you say you are?
- Website URL – Which one? And what to put if you don’t have a website.
- Your Bio – Your life in 160 words or less.
- Your photo – Are there dos and don’ts?
- Your Twitter Background – Branding and continuity
[Note: I stand corrected... In the video I suggest you cannot change your user name. You now can! So no need to live with something that's not working e.g. sillysue92. (Promise this will make more sense when you watch the video!)]
Here are links to a couple of the people mentioned in the video. I follow them and all have been Twitter mentors for me.
- Joel Comm – Author of must-read Twitter book Twitter Power
- Carrie Wilkerson – The Barefoot Executive (a master Twitterer)
- James Burgin – A branding expert (and a friend)
TODAY’S TASKS
- Review your profile page and ensure it’s going to help you network.
- Tweet something (remember to include tag #30DNet in your tweet so that we can follow your conversation)
Best wishes,
Suzi
Hi All,
Just a further thought to Suzi’s comment on your Bio and making it revelant to your business. There are online twitter directories that automatically source bios and categorise you into indexes. Twellow is one and works much like the yellow pages.
They’re fairly basic & aren’t particularly clever search engines. So you need to be watchful of the words you use. For instance, my husband said he enjoyed Dr Who and he was categorised into Health>Medicine>Doctors. Took us a while to figure out the irrevelant tweets he was getting.
for #30Dnet. Tweaked my bio a bit tonight.
Still working on the background !
I made my own background tonight. Who would have thought I could do that! There you go!
@neridagill
If you’re inclined, let me know what you think.
I’ve put on my To Do List: customise professional background on Twitter to list all my LinkedIn, Facebook, blog website etc… for when I have decided on my brand colour, mission statement etc…
http://www.linkedin.com/in/francesejones
http://twitter.com/FrancieJones
I think it’s great. Shows your face, gives people a website to go to. Congratulations. (Ok.. I’m so excited to see people taking action. It’s very inspiring. Thanks Nerida.)
I hadn’t changed my profile on twitter for a while so I’ve changed the background image on my profile to reflect the recent changes on our website.
My tweet for this session was to remind people about 30 day challenge which starts in August:
30 Day challenge is an awesome way to learn about earning money & marketing online – starts in August. http://is.gd/1nwGQ #30DNet
I have put a new back design to my To Do List. I am in the process of making some minor changes to my brand and website at present. After this, I will get the design changed.
Enjoying 30DNet.
regards, Maria
I’ve just had about 10 spammers following me and wondering whether it’s better to block them or leave them – any ideas?
@nhimmelrich
I finally decided to find out what all this Twittering is about ! I feel that I’m already behind the 8 Ball, but I’m looking forward to being able to Twitter with the best of them ! Thanks for the prompting newsletters, Suzi. @calyflo
Great Denise. Look forward to your tweets.
Suzi