Be a Twitter stand out!

Are you putting your best foot forward with your Twitter profile page? With having a small window of opportunity to prove you are follow worthy, here are some tips to help improve your Twitter profile page.

Avatar seen you before?

Avatars are your calling card, they are the window to who you are or want to be. If you run a restaurant what do you think will attract the followers you need and want? An avatar of you smiling from ear to ear or an avatar of a triple cheeseburger with melting cheese that can barely squeeze into the frame?

Your avatar will be used aggressively by Twitter and most Twitter clients when showing your messages. With only 140 characters of information the image you use in your avatar is working overtime to create credibility of your message. Play into the psychology of imagery to re-enforce the marketing messages for your product and services.

Backgrounds can say a lot about you!

Custom Twitter backgrounds as of this writing are not that common yet. Twitter business users have not caught on to the value custom backgrounds bring. Using a custom backgrounds is a unique opportunity to be amongst the first to do it and reap the rewards.

Why is it impressive when a Twitter users has a custom creative background?

Most of the time you see Twitters default sky blue background, then suddenly WOW there in front of you is a slick looking Twitter profile with a custom background. Does that not leave an impression? Are you more curious as to what this person does or who they are? The fact that you paused on the Twitter users profile, you have probably already spent more time than you would have otherwise.

Treat your Twitter account as a micro site and brand it well. Give people an ability to take in as much information as possible. Provide contact information and a small write up for your products or services.

Ditch the Defaults

Go through each setting that is available to you via your Twitter account profile tab. Change everything! That’s right, spend some time to make you profile reflect who you are or the type of followers you are trying to attract.

Fill in your location so that you can be found by people in your area who need your products or services. Many Twitter clients including Twitter’s own search allows users to find other Twitter users within a certain geographical area.

Provide a website address if you have a company site or blog. Try creating a custom page for Twitter visitors that provides a small introduction of you or to your products or services. Actually click on the link on your profile, you would not believe how many times I have come across broken or incorrectly entered links. Do not use a url shortener for your web address, this makes you look suspicious and spammy.

Lastly make sure to provide a small write up about yourself in the BIO section. Don’t be fooled by Twitters small text field they provide for your bio, you can actually enter a lot of info. Try writing out your bio in notepad or some other editor first. This way you can see your entire bio and just simply copy and paste it in. You can also still enter website url’s they are just not linked anymore.

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