Tour Scotland Social Media Tips

Tour Scotland Social Media Tips from: http://twitter.com/tourscotland

Social Media Scotland Tip 1. Be yourself on twitter. People will either like you, or not, but at least it's you.

Social Media Scotland Tip 2. Pick your niche wisely, either a personal, or business twitter account.

Social Media Scotland Tip 3. Communicate with your followers, don't just push promotions about your business.

Social Media Scotland Tip 4. Link your tweets to your own original content. Give your followers " real " content. My main website: http://www.visitdunkeld.com

Social Media Scotland Tip 5. Do not post same sentence several times in a row it will only show up once in search results.

Social Media Scotland Tip 6. Do not tweet often to the same URL on your website, that is simply spam.

Social Media Scotland Tip 7. Tweet local information and events. Tweet local charities. Help others.

Social Media Scotland Tip 8. If you want people to RT your post leave 20 -25 characters for convenient RTs.

Social Media Scotland Tip 9. Always remember you were a beginner once too. Help newbies on twitter.

Social Media Scotland Tip 10. Be consistent, tweet often. There are no " magic " ways to do well on twitter. Be patient.

Social Media Scotland Tip 11. Every one of your tweets should either, inform or educate your followers about your niche.

Social Media Scotland Tip 12. Choose your words wisely on twitter. Every word counts. Be brief and informative.

Social Media Scotland Tip 13. Do not pay so called experts in Scotland lots of money to teach you this.

Social Media Scotland Tip 14. Forget about the number of followers you have, it is quality, not quantity, that counts.

Social Media Scotland Tip 15. Never forget that twitter is a " community. " Help people, and they will help you.

ocial Media Scotland Tip 16. If you need Social Media help on twitter. Just ask, many folks on twitter will help. Just ask.

Social Media Scotland Tip 17. Be " you ", be authentic and truthful, be kind and giving. Be informative, be patient.

Social Media Scotland Tip 18. Tweet local, to global audience. Don't tweet the news, foursquare links etc. Make your own content real content.

Social Media Scotland Tip 19. Build your own blog, get a digital camera, and start tweeting to your own content.

Social Media Scotland Tip 20. Get listed on we follow directory. WeFollow is a directory of Twitter users organized by interests. It is free. Here is my listing. http://wefollow.com/twitter/scotland

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