Sunday, June 14, 2009

Utilize Twitter For Marketing Your Artistic Creations - Paintings, Handmade Items, Songs...

By Leigh-Ann Lemire

Twitter is an extraordinary opportunity that is growing big with monetary potential plus it can be a new vehicle for selling the artistic products that you make. It's an entertaining social networking site where you can send short messages of what you are doing. Go to twitter.com to start right now, there is no cost to do so.

When you send your short messages, you can also add photographs by using Twitpic. Just log in to Twitpic.com by using your Twitter ID and password. Simple as that! No technical mumbo jumbo to decipher. Photographs can be on your cell phone or computer, both are acceptable forms of transferring your pictures. To make it even better, this service has no cost.

Another service that is very helpful to add and follow friends is Tweetspinner.com. There is a free service and an upgrade service here. Just using the free service is awesome as you can enter keywords for subjects that you are interested in, then add up to 40 people per keyword in a snap rather than trying to search and add people which can be time consuming. You can also purge the people that you follow but are not following you. This task alone is truly magnificent because it is difficult to find which people you follow that are not following you otherwise. You can take out 40 people at a time that haven't returned the follow.

A target to set for getting followers is 2000. When you add friends, wait for three or more days before eliminating to see if the people are going to follow back. If the people are not following you, don't follow them. It's easy to take them off with Tweetspinner.

Attempting to add every friend by hand is hard to do. Without the automated service, attempting to figure out who is following you and who isn't is futile. But with Tweetspinner, you can achieve the target of 2000 followers in a matter of days.

A simple method to welcome your new followers is with Tweetlater.com. Once you register for an account, you enter your Twitter account information and then you can create an automated response that will go out to every person that signs up to follow you. This is a very nice thing to do as it makes your followers feel very welcome. There are other services here and an upgrade, too. There's lots of services that are free including a system to schedule tweets. The most important tool though is the automated acknowledgment.

There is a website that you can go to in order to make Twitter coupons to offer special deals on your goods. There is also other no cost things that you can do while you are there such as create a poll, add events to a manager, make your own online business card, add your art listing to a directory, give greeting cards and other cool stuff. All of the services are absolutely free with no strings attached. Just go to twtqpon.com to get started.

Once you have your tools set up and ready to go, what do you do on Twitter? Speak about yourself, your works in progress, you likes and dislikes, your targets for projects, be witty, share information that you found online, the magazine you are reading, the instructions that you took to create your artworks or whatever else that is going on. It is a fun place to speak about enjoyable things. Every so often, add an update about a newly finished work with a link to a profile or site where more information can be found out and on that page, supply a method that you can be paid for your work. Have fun while you are getting sales!

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