You are right, Twitter can be associated with listbuilding. I think the trouble most people get in with Twitter is they are too busy marketing. Twitter is a community. It needs to be approached differently than other forms of listbuilding. A good analogy I heard recently was you do not go into a party and start hawking your wares. It will get you shut down in a hurry. Twitter is the same, build friendships, those develop into other friends aka “followers” the business will take care of itself when trust is built.

Scott
http://ScottThrall.com

Such an excellent topic that energized many opinions and some great reading.

Just as many have already written, I believe both Twitter and email list building have their place. The two can be complementary to one another.

I have been been involved with social networking for about four months now. I wasn’t exactly sure how all of it was suppose to work in terms of list building. At first, it seemed very time consuming and I was wondering how in the world were people with 1000 friends managing to stay in touch with each and every one.

Ironically, it was through my email subscriptions that I received some very valuable courses which taught me some strategies and gave tips on how to use social networking more effectively and how to best generate income using these platforms. Following some of this advice definitely generated a list faster than email for me. I see this as being the case also for new people coming aboard IM because it allows them to create relationships which can facilitate building a larger email list.

From a personal view, I go to email when I am searching for targeted information. Based upon headlines that interest me in a particular area, those are the emails that get opened. So here email definitely has value.

Since learning how to better use Twitter, I thoroughly enjoy it and give it a higher priority to email.

On the Internet the list was the name of the game. It did not matter how you got people on the list just send them as many emails as you can without them unsubscribing because sooner or later they will buy.

Now it is changing. Traditionally we have bought from people we liked or stores we liked. Where most of us live there is more then one gas station but we go to the same one all the time. Most of the time it is because of the people who work there.

The Internet is making a shift from buying from anyone to buying from people we know and trust. The Internet is shifting back to building relationships with your customers and your future customers. Things are changing so that wonderful sales copy is not enough. Relationship building and name recognition is going to become two of the most important parts of doing business on the Internet in the future. Not something new just returning to the way business is conducted off the Internet.

Twitter is another type of list but Twitter is taking advantage of the change. Twitter is a way to build a list and build a relationship with the people on the list which in my book means it will be a great tool for the future.

Thanks
Bo Tipton
The Ornery Marketer

I recently joined twitter and do not know much.
I think twitter is great. I set up to follow the people I am
learning from or with.

I hope my following will expand, reach my blog pointing
to my website.

If the blog offers real value and free assistance, I think it will work.
My blog and website are not finished but will be soon.

Thanks

Brian Foster

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