7 Ways to Search Twitter for Marketing

RET Staff
Published: 05/18/2011
Posted by: RE Technology

Millions of people flood Twitter and many more are signing up. Some tweet out of boredom or pass on information as it comes, others try to find ways to harness the microblogging database and use it for marketing. R.J. Metrics reported at the end of January 2010 that Twitter has over 75 million users. The power of this social media channel for marketing, particularly for the real estate industry is huge!

But with such an overwhelming number of tweets per day, how do you begin to weed through Twitter and target the users who could actually want to hear about your real estate listings, or services?

John Jantsch, founder of Duct Tape Marketing, recently shared some valuable information about how to go about using Twitter for marketing business services. He provides seven ways to search Twitter for marketing:

1. Target by occupation
   
2. Target by bio
   
3. Target by location
   
4. New sign ups
   
5. Keep up on your industry
   
6. Competitive eavesdropping
   
7. Trending photos
   

Continue to read his insight...