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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Hire A Virtual Assistant To Do Your Tweeting

Instead of doing all the tweets and writing your own tweets yourself, hire a virtual assistant to do the work for you

by Lawrence Perry

LONDON, ENGLAND -- (NewsPR.us and OfficialWire) -- 01/06/10 --

Tweeting and social media may be the biggest things to happen online for businesses in 2009. Companies can continue to benefit from social media in 2010 as long as they really pay attention to their social accounts. Because social media require a lot of time to manage, then their use is not exactly free. Time costs money.

With Twitter, although the messages are short, the 140-character limit for tweets actually makes tweeting much more difficult. With only 140 characters to work with, a company must put in more careful thought into its tweets so that its marketing messages can be delivered clearly to its target market. Remember that your goal is not to get thousands of followers who are not following you at all. What you need is a good number of followers who actually read and believe what you say. This means that you really need to think how your tweets and your interaction with people will help you gain a good following and the trust of your followers. You need to be able to establish a good image online so that people will really be interested in what you have to say. There are millions of people on Twitter alone you need to make sure that what you have to say actually matters to your target market so that you gain followers.

If you want to have an active Twitter account but do not have the time to create messages or to update the blog you should hire a virtual assistant to work with you on your Twitter account.

Not all CEO or business owners have the time nor the patience to actively participate in Twitter and other social accounts. If you are one of those CEOs who have too much work than they have time for, it could be more detrimental for your business if you do the tweeting yourself. If you hire a representative to work on your Tweets, then twitter can really boost your sales and your online image.

Hiring a virtual assistant to work on your tweets is also very cost-effective as it doesn’t take a lot of money to hire and maintain a virtual assistant.

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