Exciting news this week, we broke the 100 followers mark- big deal for us not so much for everyone else who seems to be celebrating their 500 followers. Our 100 followers, however, are an indication that we are doing something right!
We have also discovered lately that we are becoming a lot more comfortable with the concept of micro-blogging, at first we were unsure of what to write about telling people that you’re away to tuck into a bowl of soup just doesn’t sound that interesting does it?? However, as we have started making connections with people in our local area we have also found ourselves lamenting with them about menial subjects such as the rubbish weather and even discussing the books we are reading- showing that chit chat isn’t always boring.
Looking at at it from a business point of view we have also became more comfortable using it as a tool, using our experienced followers to ask if there are any good business networking events going on and for inspiration for our blog, in every instance the response has always been positive and for any prospective business Twitterers we would encourage you to lose inhibitions when it comes to asking for help from the Twitter community.
Last weeks Tip was to retweet, which we have been trying to do. We have a look at what others were retweeting and if we are honest we didn’t really understand the relevance of retweeting what they did… again this led us into uncomfortable territory: do you retweet everything? or just things you are interested in? or just from people you converse with? In the end we settled for just retweeting fun things, such as “RT Whats your favourite movie, mine is Stepbrothers” – not entirely business related but we are newbies, as you know, and the whole concept of retweeting is still a bit beyond us.
I think a little research is still required on the whole retweeting malark… so we will not be setting a new task/tip for ourselves this week. Next week we will give you a proper rundown of how to use retweets to benefit your business- promise!
Here’s our stats from this week:
Followers 109 (+21)
Following 183
Followers 115 (+24)
Following 153
Keep posted guys…
