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Use Twitter to build your brand and reduce job advertising costs |
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April 2009 - As you will have no doubt noticed in the news Twitter is a social media network that is growing at a rapid rate and gaining lots of press, and followers, along the way. As a result many companies have begun adopting Twitter as a way to distribute news and build their brand. Recruiters have also recently started using Twitter as a way of building their brand, sourcing candidates and significantly reduce job advertising costs. Twitter is a great way of reaching a candidate pool before your competitors.
Establishing a profile on Twitter is relatively quick and easy. Below are a few tips to get you started: - Do your research. Are your competitors there? What are they tweeting? How active are they? How does their profile match their brand? Who are they following?
- Use a professional name for your account. Ideally it should be your business name to make you easy to find for anyone who wants to follow you.
- Organise artwork for your Twitter background and logo to reinforce your brand image.
- Tweet useful and interesting information to gain followers. Also use Tweets to distribute news and updates that your followers may be interested in.
- Tweet regularly. This will ensure you regularly appear in the public timeline and lead to more followers. It will also help keep the followers you already have.
- Search to start sourcing candidates and followers.
- Take advantage of some of the tools available to make Tweeting easier such as Twitterfeed, WeFollow and Tweetlater. For a more extensive list of some of the tools available check out the Twitter Fan wiki
Finally, check out our Twitter page and follow us.
Happy Tweeting! |