eSpire Marketing

Networking, or as I will call it in this article “twitworking” is something that is very new to the internet. Email has been around for years, social media sites such as Myspace and Facebook have been around for a little while now, and each of them have their pros and cons.

Email – Is great for communicating with people whom you already know, either they are your friends and family, or a co-worker. Email will always serve its purpose for communicating online with those groups of people.

Myspace/Facebook – Both are great services, but again you generally must know the people and get through the road block of friend requests and other loopholes. They, or derivations of them, will continue to exists as long as they continue to bring people together.

And then there was Twitter. Twitter is a service unlike any other. There is no friend request needed to communicate with a person directly, and you don’t need to know their email address. With twitter you can search other people’s tweets to see what they are talking about. Say you are in the fashion field to contact them all you would have to do is simply search for people talking about fashion, and then send them either an @ reply or a direct message. It’s that simple.

In my time as a twitter user I have come to know dozens of people, in the same or related fields to mine, that are more than willing to discuss issues related to work, and make deals directly through twitter. In the eyes of the SEO world I am somewhere near the bottom of the totem pole. Not many people will know who I am. But I was able to get in contact with some of the people that I see as the leaders in my field and start to build on these relationships with them. On top of that I am able to use twitter to connect with thousands of other people just like me who are looking to learn and discuss the very same issues that I want to discuss.

I’d love to hear what everyone else has to say about this subject and get a discussion open about how twitter has helped you gain strong relationships with people in your industry or hobby that you might not have been able to get through other services. Send me an @ on twitter or leave a comment. I am looking forward to everyone’s thoughts on this subject.

Till next time….