Tell Me Your Twitter Success Stories

24th January 2010

Business Success Stories on Twitter - What's Yours?

I’m reaching out to my network, which of course includes you, my blog readers; for some real life success stories on how you are using or have used, Twitter for the benefit of your business.

Why am doing this? Well quite simply I want to use your stories as practical, real-life case studies during my Twitter and social media workshops.

Yes I know that a quick Google search will unravel a number of such examples; but these are either related to the big multi-nationals such as Dell who use it to improve “brand recognition”, small US based businesses who are relevant to we UK folk, or ropey MLM schemes who’s claims I wouldn’t believe anyway! All of these I feel are distant from my own business and those of my clients.

Instead, I’m after some real-life examples from real business that are based here in the Blighty. Some stories that people can empathise with.

I want to know how you use Twitter to boost your own business either in terms of increased sales, improved communications, improving your network (which may in turn lead to more sales), recruiting or increasing your knowledge etc.

Tangible Examples

Ideally I’d like to see some tangible examples that one can put a value on. So please post your examples as a comment to the bottom of this post or if you’re feeling a bit shy, you can send them through to me via this website.

To get you thinking, here’s some possible ways in which some business types may be using Twitter to boost their businesses.

AuthorsYou may be an author and use Twitter to directly sell your books or improve awareness of a new book launch. How does that work?
Public RelationsPR professionals. How are you using Twitter successfully for your own or your clients’ businesses?
Creative IndustriesIn the design, web development or photography sectors? Twitter is great for sharing knowledge with your peers, but how else are you using it?
RecruitmentPerhaps your job or your business is involved in the recruitment of people. Tell me why Twitter is good for your business when it comes to getting a placement.
Leisure IndustryMany restaurateurs, holiday companies and even nightclubs and music venues are active on Twitter. But why? What do they get from it? If this is this you, tell me more.
Virtual Assistants. Having a virtual assistant is all the rage these days for the time strapped business owner and I see plenty of them on Twitter. If you’re on of them, I’d love to know how Twitter helps you grow your business.

Measurable Results

This list isn’t exhaustive of course, it’s just there to get you thinking. So whatever business you’re in, if you use Twitter to give a measurable and beneficial results for your business, then I’d love to hear your story.

Post your comments below.

Many thanks for your help and don’t forget, you can follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/inetinsights