15 Ways To Use Twitter for Business

As Twitter matures and more business people use it, it's becoming a powerful, effective tool for your business. Here are some ways that you can use Twitter for business. Let us know other ways you are using Twitter for business.

1. Customer service: give your customers another channel to reach you.
2. Give you customers a voice. And listen to what they say and use the information to better your business.
3. Announce events.
   
4. Promote your company brand or personal brand.
5. Keep customers informed about new products, new releases and expanded service offerings.
   
6. Attract prospects and customers to your website.
7. Drive traffic to your blog.
8. Keep in front of your customers. Remember, out of sight, out of mind.
   
9. Stay in touch with vendors and partners.
10. Establish new partnerships and referral relationships.
11. Connect with other people for collaboration.
12. Monitor what others in your industry are doing.
13. Educate yourself about __________.
14. Motivate yourself by following people like @TonyRobbins.
    
15. Connect with your followers followers through retweets.
    

Chris Brogan, social media guru, has some additional ideas on using Twitter for business which is worth reading.