Twitter Marketing - Scott Fox interviews Rich Brooks

Twitter is a new digital marketing phenomenon! How can your small business use this micro-blogging tool to attract more customers?

You may be one of the millions of people now using Twitter, OR you may be asking yourself "What are you talking about? - What's a "micro-blog" and why should I care about Twitter?"  If that's how you're feeling, you're in the right place!

Twitter is a new micro-blogging service that allows you to send short messages to anyone who chooses to subscribe ("follow) to your Twitter updates (called "tweets").

Your followers can pick up your broadcast messages on the web at Twitter.com, via various software tools on your PC, or directly to your mobile phone as text messages.  Because Twitter was based on the SMS text messaging format, its messages are limited to only 140 characters each.  (This short message format is why it's called a "micro-blogging" service - it's like sending out really, really short blog posts!)

I recently sat down with "the" Rich Brooks of Flyte New Media.  Rich is a digital marketing ace.  We spent an hour together discussing Twitter and how it can be used for your online business today. 

You can listen to this interview FR-EE by clicking on the player below!

Together Rich and I cover topics like:

What is Twitter? Why would I use it? How can Twitter help grow my business? What makes a good "tweet" message? What specialized tools like TweetDeck, Twhirl, Tweetlater, Twitpic, Tweetbeep, or Twitterfeed do we recommend to maximize your Twitter time? How can I attract more "followers" (subscribers)? and lots more practical, real world tips to use Twitter effectively.

Click the player above to listen to this fr.ee podcast to learn how to grow your business using Twitter's unique combination of social networking, digital mailing list, and text messages.  This is an hour worth your time.

Try out Twitter yourself now here.  It's fr-e-e!  Follow me, Scott Fox, at http://www.twitter.com/scott_fox.

Please COMMENT to let me know what you thought of this interview and topics you'd like to hear more about?

[Also: check out the FR-EE Archive of past E-Commerce Success Radio Show podcasts here.There's lots of great FR-EE MP3 downloads about Facebook Marketing, Public Relations Strategies, Google Adwords, Article Marketing, Web Copywriting, Online Video viral promotions, and more!]

UPDATE: If you're looking for more free Twitter marketing strategy advice, check out these posts:

• 4 Annoying Twitter Myths about How to Use Twitter

• Twitter Gurus Please Stop Whining!

• Twitter Success Report: How much traffic did I get?

These posts have been VERY popular because I give some unexpected advice on best to use Twitter!