Benefit from your recruiter Twitter Twelcome page!

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Morning!

Tell me, are you on Twitter?

I’ll be writing more about that later on (hopefully, say, after I’ve recovered from my bout of food poisoning, to which you’re probably thinking, hmmmm, if you’re that sick, what are you doing blogginer?  Great question; my son demonstrated an superb lack of common sense by waking me up after my last bout of retching to inquire, and I kid you not, "Mom, might I have a cookie?"  Talk about choosing the WRONG time for such pointed questions about existence….but I digress.    ), but wanted to to offer this one tidbit should you decide to jump into the word of microblogging:

Take advantage of it!

Twitter (and Stumbleupon and Facebook and tons of other social networking sites) allows you to post a direct link back to your website on your profile.  Here’s what mine looks like:

Notice that link in red?  You see, instead of directing people back to one of my main sites (in this case, BarbaraLing.com), I sent them to my Barbara Ling Twelcome page (Twitter, Twelcome, get it?).

After all, should people find your site via Twitter, there’s a fair chance they’re Twitter users as well. 

So why not proactively welcome them with information they’d find useful as well?

I wrote a brief tutorial over at Build your Twitter page for my entrepreneurial readers (you can get the whole 200+ blueprint at 21 Days to a More Profitable Blog) on how to achieve this.  Remember, the point is simple – your’re on Twitter, your visitor CAME from Twitter, write a special welcome page just for them that shows how yo USE

Want a brief video about the benefits of Twitter?  Enjoy the following Twitter in Plain Language:

And dont’ forget about some useful resources regarding Twitter and marketing in general:

• 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Busines Owners
• 9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers
• Beware with Twitter Links, Malware Arrived on Twitter
• Can Twitter save lives?
• Eight Ways Twitter is Useful Professionally
• Follow Me on Twitter
• ggFtr – Get Fitter With Twitter
• Ideas for Using Twitter
• Journalist saved by Twitter aims to start a Twitter-driven emergency network
• MobiFeedLive – what people are saying
• Now you can graph your twitter usage
• Recruiters on Twitter
• Rise and fall of Twitter
• Snitter
• Stumbleupon Twitter
• The many flavors of Twitter
• There are only 85 recruiters on Twitter?
• The Web is Atwitter Over Twitter
• Top 9 Ways to Use Twitter + Poll: Do You Twitter?
• Twitter Fone
• Twemes – Twitter memes
• Twitter by Steve Pavlina
• Twitter as Coffee Break
• Twitter command line tool
• Twitter Followers Like Guy Kawasaki…
• Twitter for Lotus Notes
• TwitterGotchi
• Twitter in the Classroom
• Twitter Monitor
• Twitter Quotient Calculator
• Twitter Tools Roundup
• Twitxr- Like Twitter Except with Pictures
• Use Twitter to let family know you’re okay in a disaster
• Video Twitter
• What Twitter Would Look Like During A Zombie Apocalypse
• Witty – Twitter client for Windows Vista and XP powered by WPF

Lots of recruiters and recruiter trainers are already on the Twitter bandwagon, including

• Bill Vick
• Jim Stroud
• Steven Rothberg
• Recruiting Animal
• Penelope Trunk
• Gerry Crispin
• Suzy Tonini
• Shally
• Joel Cheesman

and of course, me.    I’d like to invite you to visit and follow me on Twitter; I’ll be happy to return the favor.

Enjoy,

Barbara Ling

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