Social and business networking sounds fun. Everyone tells you it’s easy, it’s the way of the future, it’s even indispensable. Here is how one Internet Guru describes it:

“If you aren’t using Twitter, you are missing out on the greatest opportunity for building relationship with your customers and prospects.

“You are missing out on the best free branding tool on the web.

“And you are missing out on FREE traffic and increased sales!

“There’s just no excuse for any business, whether small or large, to not be using Twitter.”

How do you get started on Twitter? It’s simple. Just sign up – it’s free – and start tweeting. But what, how and to whom? Without guidance, it can soon turn from fun into frustration.

To get networking for business right, online or off-line, is a skill. There are a few rules you really ought to know, there is etiquette to follow, and a good measure of confusing jargon gets thrown in here and there. The right mixture to scare off the unwary who’ll then leave exclaiming “it doesn’t work!”

No worries, though. If you really want to get business networking off the ground, help is at hand. I’ll be posting here about the “how to” rules made available by various expert networkers. So let’s get started.

Karen Skidmore’s Twitter Checklist for Small Businesses  explains how to use twitter so it becomes a productive tool to help attract the right clients to your business - and not a waste of time and client repellent!

Her guide is jargon free, concise and clear. She tells you how to get started, (use a picture, when to start tweeting), how t promote your brand, where to find useful, easy to install applications that make twitter a pleasure rather than a chore. And, most importantly, how not to waste your time.

Right, what are you waiting for, go and get UR T4B checklist from http://www.candocanbe.com/Twitter_Business_Checklist.php, then follow me on Twitter (www.twitter.com/maxalter) and also Karen (www.Twitter.com/CanDoCanBe).

Tags: networking, twitter

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