Most internet marketers have at least considered using Twitter to find new customers. Everyone now understands the remarkable reach that Twitter can give you and success can be obtained in a relatively short amount of time. Following are some important tips that will put you on the right track.

Twitter is a structured community with its own set of rules, rules you must follow to succeed there. Over promoting yourself is a quick way to failure. The Twitter community is quick to label marketers that don't offer much value as a spammer, so you must offer as much value as you can. An easy way to avoid this is to keep your promotional tweets to a minimal and avoid pushing a product too hard. The secret is to always wrap your promotional links in lots of useful information. Mix it up, only include one promotion with every few valuable tweets that you send out. Nobody online trusts a spammer so why use their tactics? Using spam tactics will only set you up for failure and ruin your chances of making big money with Twitter. Twitter is an amazing place to grow relationships, so when you over-promote yourself, you lose this chance. Now, you need to make a decision, you can either spam Twitter or learn to make big money with it. Don't be like the majority of Twitter marketers who don't promote their account, it is necessary. In order to use Twitter to drive traffic, people must be aware of you and your account in order to follow you and stay updated with your new tweets. Whatever ethical ways you can think to get followers on Twitter, use them. This is not a step that can be skipped, it is absolutely necessary to promote your account. It would be very convenient to print it on the business cards that you hand out to people, too. Search for legit methods that others have used to grow there base of followers and test it out for yourself. Your followers must be targeted for your offers or you won't make any sales, no matter how much value you give. Don't be fooled into believing that a large broad group of followers is worth more than a small very targeted group. Quality trumps quantity every time, in this case. Another great way of advertising your Twitter account is by having a link to it in each email you send out. There is a ton of ways to get followers, just experiment.

One secret to Twitter success is learning to automate your Twitter marketing so you can get better results. If you want to exploit trends and manage your keywords better then TweetDeck, or something similar, is a good software solution. You'd be able to know where your product is being mentioned in the Twitter stream so that you can get in touch with new people and add more subscribers. This is only one tool; there are many more. Search or ask questions on a marketing forum to find out what works best.

If you are looking for a low-cost and effective way to sell stuff then look no further because you have found it with Twitter.