{"id":2629,"date":"2011-08-01T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T01:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2012-06-20T17:51:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T07:51:33","slug":"twitter-for-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/08\/twitter-for-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter for relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"

When twittering, it is about conversations and building trust so why not be personal?
\nTonight, I got multiple tweets within half an hour from someone I don’t know or follow. She was using a company name as user name but talking about the business as ‘they do the hottest websites’ etc. Here’s my response to her tweets…<\/p>\n

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  1. It’s not very personal to say they when she could have chatted to me about how she could help me \u2013 and it looked stupid for XYZ to say “see xyz.com – they do the hottest websites”. No credibility and she lost the opportunity to get to know someone (someone who had just posted about businesses needing good designers, too)<\/li>\n
  2. She obviously hadn’t read my reply which said ‘ no thanks, I’m not looking for a designer’ as she kept telling me to look at this design company. She didn’t build my trust or respect at all.<\/li>\n
  3. She made no attempt to have a real conversation with me. I twittered about not just using anyone to help with setting up a new website<\/a> which would have been a perfect opening for her to agree, ask questions about why I tweeted that and perhaps give some tips on choosing a good designer. But she preferred to tweet me repeatedly with a sales pitch – and even a newbie to Twitter<\/a> like me knows that rule #1 is don’t do a sales pitch!<\/li>\n
  4. If you are going to take the time to respond to a stranger’s tweets, and send them a number of tweets, surely you could take a few minutes to look at their profile and get some idea of who they are or what they do? One of her tweets listed various industries ‘they’ have designed for – none were my industry so she missed another opportunity there by not targeting her spiel.<\/li>\n
  5. \"note:<\/a>Sending multiple emails telling me to ‘hit their website’ annoyed me (both in the repetition and in the terminology!) so I blocked her. Frankly, I considered her tweets to be spam and I don’t like being spammed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In other words, \u00a0she actively lost a client by her actions so totally wasted her time. It would have been so easy to have written ‘we’ instead of ‘they’, and have a conversation with me.<\/p>\n

    Do you follow anyone who talks in the third person about their business?<\/p>\n

    I don’t know that she’ll had learnt anything by being blocked, but maybe someone reading this post will learn from her mistakes instead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When twittering, it is about conversations and building trust so why not be personal? Tonight, I got multiple tweets within half an hour from someone I don’t know or follow. She was using a company name as user name but talking about the business as ‘they do the hottest websites’ etc. Here’s my response to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,1090],"tags":[1315,88,1316,591,1260],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-social-media","tag-conversation","tag-personal","tag-sales-pitch","tag-trust","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t