Any time there are thousands of people spending time on a website and millions of visitors, and common sense dictates that this traffic presents a matchless opportunity for generating revenues. Any savvy marketer should be able to see that Twitter, which is fast emerging as a major Internet phenomenon, presents just such an opportunity. However, the new paradigm means that traditional sales and marketing techniques need to change radically, and some off the new twitter tools that will be necessary are described below:

General Twitter Tools :

• Avoid spamming like the plague. People hate it, and you need your head examined if you think it is going to work for you
• Ensure that you have completed all the relevant fields in the settings section.
• Make sure that you will have a proper hyperlink for your URL
• Complete the bio section properly so that it shows what kind of person you really are and what it is that you really do.

Specific Twitter Tools :

1) Bit.ly: One of the big selling points of Twitter is the brevity of each tweet which is limited to 140 characters. Since traditional URLs take up lots of space, this tool enables you to use an abbreviated URL. It also keeps track off how many clicks are generated on this abbreviated URL thus providing useful feedback on what is working.

2) Twellow.com: Twellow serves as the yellow pages directory for Twitter. It enables you to find people who live near you or share your interests. This means that you can conveniently follow them if you choose.

3) Killertweets.com & Twitbacks.com :  Since marketing on the Internet is about the creation off personal brands, you need a background that suits the image that you want to project. Killertweets charges a price, but provides many striking backgrounds from which to choose. Twitbacks is free, but nowhere near as impressive.

4) SocialOomph.com (formerly TweetLater.com ): A highly useful tool that enables you to type in tweets and save them for future use. It also saves you much valuable time by permitting you to “autofollow” all off your followers.

5) Dossy.org/twitter/karma : To check on spamming, Twitter has limits and you may only follow a total of 110% of the number of your followers. You need to quickly eliminate those who do not follow you back so that you can follow new prospects. This site allows you to “unfollow” the “unfollowers”.

6) Tweetdeck.com : This invaluable tool allows you to see all of the action in your account within one single application, enabling you to automate Twitter to run on autopilot.

7) Twollo.com : This tool uses an automated format to enable you to follow people with similar interests. Sort instance, if you are interested in waterskiing, or you need to do is to enter waterskiing into the website and how many people you wish to follow who have the same interests.

8) MyTwitterToolbar.com : A useful toolbar that provides you 100 tips on twitter and assisting you in carrying out many operations.

Let’s hope that you are now better equipped than you were. Happy Twitter marketing!