If your not using Twitter on a daily basis, your missing out on an ideal opportunity to socialize with your clients and create interest in your niche, products or services as well as adding to SEO and your online reputation.

Now before you tell me “I don’t have enough time” or “I’m not into that computer stuff” well your competitors ARE interested and the market leaders in your field have been using Twitter, Facebook and Youtube for longer and more successfully than you and they’re taking their Tweets to the BANK! Social Media may change over the months or years but is NOT going to go away!

Now before you give up on me and decide that your comfortable with just sliding by and getting just enough clients to survive, think about what you really want. Do you want to be able to get more clients, or to sell more products and services? Do you want to make more money this year and succeed when other businesses give in to the economy? I thought so. Now we can get down to the business of Twitter.

Step 1: To be a market leader in your field doesn’t mean you’re necessarily the first one out of the gate. Remember that the 3rd horse is the one that makes the trifecta more valuable than the other two horses! The most important part to all of this is to simply get started!

First I’ll show you how to sign up on Twitter. Type in your REAL full name and your username, which is the name your Twitter account will be such as http://twitter.com/jimedward or jimedward. I would suggest making your first Twitter username your REAL name as well. Write in your password, email, and captcha, then click the “Create my account” button.

Step 2: Skip the second and third screens (”See if your friends are on Twitter” and ” Look who else is here”) We’ll add followers later.

Step 3: Click on the settings link at the top of the page. Fill in all the blanks authentically. Make your Bio compelling enough for people to be interested in you, NOT about what you sell, what you service, or how much money you make. You will have a difficult time finding unique social followers if you do. If you don’t have a Facebook Fan Page go to my videos on Facebook Optimization. Set you’re Fan page up and use a sub-domain or URL shortening website to create a smaller url to put in your “More Info URL” section.

Step 4: Add your picture. Make sure it’s really you in that picture, preferably smiling, and make sure it is under 800k.

Step 5: Pick a background and click on “save changes”.

Step 6: Click on the “home” link at the top of the page and Tweet at least 10 times before you even follow anyone. This is very important! You want to fill the site at least 10 tweets deep before anyone will consider you a person worth following. Make sure your Tweets are less than 140 characters long and they are NOT about selling anything. Your time to market will come later.

Congratulations! You’ve successfully started your first Twitter session. Stay tuned for Part Two of Twitter Transcendence on how to attract followers by following and much more.

Youtube is considered the Wild-Wild-West of Social Media websites, second only to MySpace. But did you know that ever since Youtube gave us the power to embed videos into your Wordpress business website, that you can now create professional marketing, promotional and training movies online? Go to the VIDEO section of my site to view examples of how online video using social sites such as YouTube and Vimeo, could work for you.

And if your like us, you’ve discovered the power of Facebook and Twitter to help market your business online as well. Through Wordpress, we add StrattoPress plugins and widgets that allow you to draw your potential customers and current clients into your web site by incorporating your social media efforts right on the home page of your website. Your clients can keep up with your business from your wordpress website as well as other social media channels such as MySpace and Youtube.

Come find us and let us tell you more about using a flexible Wordpress business web site for your online marketing needs.