Going through the list of twitter tools as recommended by blogs I notice many recommending a lot of tools which for me is not necessary. Some blogs recommends 30 twitter tools for businesses . For me. All you need is a few. If you want to have a successful business using twitter you got to follow the KISS rule. KISS rule means KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID rule.
So what do you need for your business to be successful on twitter? That depends if you’re a big company or maybe you’re a small business owner. So I’ll list out tools for local businesses up to big businesses.
I only recommend using FIVE tools if you really want to have a successful business on twitter. The FIVE tools are:
1. Monitter
Why Use It?
Monnitor has a function that I really like. Which is you get to monitor THREE keywords from your area. You get to select your the location and the tweets within the location. Eg: 3km from Dallas. Why this is good? You get very targeted potential customers from twitter. Maybe they’re looking for a place to eat you can tweet them to drop by your restaurant.
2. Tweet Grid
Why use it?
Tweet Grid is like monitter but with monitter you get to view only three keywords but with tweet gird you get to monitor a lot of keywords at the same time.Tweet grid is the more advance version of the monitter. Maybe you want to follow targeted followers or get tweets regarding a tweet for coffee. You can follow coffee, coffee tips, coffee help, I want coffee.. etc.. Or maybe monittor starbucks, coffee bean, gloria jeans. Or perhaps restaurants around your area.
3. Cotweet
Cotweet is currently on beta mode so its still free. I’m not sure how much they will be charging for their service in the future but I’m pretty sure they will charge them. Cotweet tagline: How Business Does Twitter. It helps you to manage few accounts up to setting up scheduling tweets.
Its so good even twitter themselves are using it.
4. Tweetbeep
Tweet beep is the google alerts for twitter. Its simple and efficient.If you don’t have time looking at the screen what people are talking about your business or looking for potential customers why not have them sent to your email instead? Tweet beep does it for you.
5. Twitter Search
Last but not least, twitter search engine. My favorite to get a quick search for anything. As a business you can use this tool to search about what people are talking about you. All you need to do is insert your keywords and search. I will take more about using this tool for your business in the future post.
For the mean time you can play around with these five twitter tools.
This is part II of the Twitter For Business Series. If you miss part I 10 Reasons Why Your Business Should Use Twitter. Do read it.
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I definitely like HootSuite which gives you the possibility to manage multiple Twitter-accounts, different views and timed Tweets.
I like hootsuite but I prefer using cotweets for that purpose though because cotweets for me is much simple.
Hootsuite and cotweets are side by side on fuctions =)
Thx for the list. There are plenty of other even more useful tools out there.
I’m especially talking about one tool, which I don’t really want to exploit to the public. DM me if you wanna hear about it, you maybe already know it. I’m actually a guy that advocates open access / transparency, but some people might associate spam with the tool I have in mind. It might be used to spam people, but as long as one stays relevant, it’s just the greatest Twitter tool ever invented imho.
So, drop me a msg, maybe we can have a chat about it.
Cheers,
Stefan
Very nice set of Twitter tools. Understanding how all these tools work will greatly help your business.
Great article series. I haven't got around to utilizing twitter that long but I'm in love with it already. And BTW we use the same RSS graphic. 🙂
Cheers!
Thu
great post i am integrating this into my e-commerce site
Another tip: click.to! You need only one click to use Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Best Tips for Growing Your Business on Twitter http://how-what.blogspot.com/2011/12/5-tips-for-growing-your-business-with.html
Looks like the post is too old to be valid, check out this list, if you are still searching for useful Twitter tools, http://thetecnica.com/2014/01/free-twitter-analytics
I have already used Monitter for monitoring the tweets and its a good application for all business professionals like me. They can both monitor and get updated from this application by just a click.