Ok, so i use Twitter a lot, and i tell my clients to use Twitter (alot)… so why is that most of them choose not to?

“Well, for one thing Twitter can take up a huge amount of time, updates can be anything from useless (if your following the wrong people) to compelling (if you follow the right ones) and if a friend or business guru posts something you agree with, you want to ReTweet it and tell others about it and that can take up time. You get a kick out of every follower and even more so out of every one that responds to your questions or ideas, its like being part of a community that cares about what you are saying and for alot of business owners, this community is not only their peers.. but their loyal customers. You nod your head or shrug and say that the time you feel you need to be spending considering your ROI is being wasted on updates about “eating a sandwich on the beach”… it doesnt have to be AND it shouldnt be”.

Consider this. Each and every follower - is a customer, or a potential one, would time spent on Twitter be such a waste then?. I agree that your time spent Tweeting has to be focused or else, like

Now if you do a search top ten Twitter tools or the best Twitter tools for business, you are going to be bombardered with 100’s of results. So i have put together a short list of the tools i would recommend for small business use, to save time, find those in your industry, update on the move and plan a few promotions.

Top 10 Twitter tools for saving time on Twitter for business owners everywhere!

Twibs - This is a place to list your business as soon as you go live on Twitter

Twitterfeed - This tool allows you to automatically add your blog RSS or a topical feed to your Twitter stream

Tweetdeck - after testing alot of these desktop updaters, we all come back to Tweetdeck - basically Use it!

Hootsuite - Manage multiple profiles, add loads of staff as authors, get stats and schedule Tweets - its basically brilliant

Twitzu - Create an event or run a promotion free on Twitter

twtQpon - Create your own money off coupons for your products and add them to Twitter

Twubble - Find freinds based on those that you follow and your followers - nice tool

Twitterberry - the Blackberry twitter client for mobile posting

Tweetie - voted best overall costs $3 and looks pretty slick

Strawpoll - Tiny user polls of 140 characters, quick & neat test groups

I hope these help, i will be updating a few more, using different categories over the next few weeks, if you can’t wait until then check out smashingmagazines top 99 Twitter tools, its a great read and opened my eyes to a few tools that i haddent seen.

Bye x

Tags: Online Communities, RSS, Small business, Social network, TweetDeck, Twitter, Twubble

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