Geek Guide To Promoting Your Blog (or Yourself) on Twitter

written by John Chow on June 19, 2008

Those mad geeks over at Geekpreneur has wrote a 48 page eBook about Twitter and has ordered a review to promote it. The eBook, a geek’s guide to promoting yourself and your online business in 140 characters or less with Twitter, is totally free to download and covers pretty much everything you need to know about using this new tool to make money online.

While most people use Twitter as a new form of instant messaging, the Geekpreneur are smart enough to know that Twitter can be a great marketing tool if used properly. The book is divided into four main chapters:

Why you need to join Twitter right now
How to use Twitter as a Mini Blog
Using Twitter to enhance your online business
Twitter Tools

Follow Me on Twitter

I’ve been on Twitter for a about two months (follow me if you haven’t done so) and I can see the marketing potential of the tool. Twitter a great communication medium between you and your readers. While it’s meant to keep you in touch with friends and family, a blogger can use Twitter to keep his readers updated on what is happening on his blog. Whenever I have a new blog post, the first place I promote it on is Twitter.

The key to using Twitter to promote your blog is to build up a big following and the Geekpreneur eBook shows you many ways to do that. The book is good for both new and advance Twitters. It’s well worth the download and the read. And it’s totally free.

A big shout out goes to Geekpreneur for writing the book. You spotted a trend and you capitalized on it with a free eBook that I’m sure will be spreading across the Internet like a wildfire. Not a bad way to build your brand.

Download A Geek’s Guide To Promoting Yourself and Your Online Business in 140 characters or Less with Twitter

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{ 52 comments }

Shaun Carter June 19, 2008 at 10:03 am

Thanks for the info, I will be checking out that ebook. I have yet to jump on the twitter bandwagon and hopefully this will help.

Chris Jacobson June 19, 2008 at 12:12 pm

Twitter is a great tool… follow me if you already aren’t. @chrisjacobson

Terra Andersen June 19, 2008 at 12:28 pm

Those sneaky people… great idea! Good to see others are enthusiastic about Twitter too!

I don’t think many people realize how awesome it is. When it came out, everyone was wondering what the big deal was.

Now we know! (or at least we should know!)

David Cheong June 20, 2008 at 1:44 am

Agree with you Chris, in fact, i gain some good traffic from twitter too. @davcheong, if you wish to follow me, i would be glad too.

Abdul June 20, 2008 at 3:38 am: I still can’t get a hang of Twitter probably because I did not read the E-book I just saw it.

Tyler Ingram June 19, 2008 at 10:05 am

Who isn’t using twitter now? Even though their service is shotty, I can’t stay away from it! Reminds me of the IRC but without channels lol

stuffgirlslike June 19, 2008 at 10:09 am

great, I have been busy, it helps to have twitterfox. Great marketing geekpreneur.
look forward to reading it.

Clickusername June 20, 2008 at 7:33 am: There’s also twitterbar, where you can update via your url address bar. Of course, there’s twhirl and its major use of tinyurls.
http://tinyurl.com/5lzysb

stuffgirlslike June 19, 2008 at 10:12 am

It is a great tool but you need a tool like twitterfox to take great advantage. addictive though

Thiago Prado June 20, 2008 at 11:04 am: I didn’t like it very much. It’s like you said it became a addiction to many people.

Shanel Yang June 19, 2008 at 10:12 am

I don’t usually download ebooks, but this one sounds too good to pass up. Time for me to finally learn about Twitter. Thanks, John!

Carl - BeABetterBlogger.com June 19, 2008 at 10:45 am

Definitely an eBook to be checked out. Thanks for the heads up, I’m going to be using Twitter a lot more with my new websites I’m launching so will definitely be of benefit, reading this eBook.

Gerard June 19, 2008 at 11:32 am

I’ve seen a couple of people advertising on Twitter. Lets give this a shot. Thanks for the info.

Deal Filter June 19, 2008 at 12:35 pm

I guess I’m gonna’ have to breakdown and sign up on twitter. Thanks, Guys!

Geiger June 19, 2008 at 12:52 pm

I love and hate the idea of Twitter. It’s great if I want to know where you are, other times I just want to unplug myself from the internet and hide for a while.

Thiago Prado June 19, 2008 at 1:11 pm

Of course twitter is a great tool the only problem is the high traffic the system can’t handle and the website is down all the time.
I think they should either define a time to post stuff or use a third-party application to take care of that.

Mick Kopp | Success Secrets June 19, 2008 at 1:36 pm

Great timing John! I just got started looking for followers. This should be a big help. Follow me @Mick_Kopp

Start Blogging June 19, 2008 at 1:54 pm

I’m going to have to check that out!

Get Best Prices June 19, 2008 at 2:49 pm

thanks jhon for the info!
how many of you used twitter with success? just curiosity

Busby Seo Challenge June 19, 2008 at 3:47 pm

I has been your follower on twitter

BriskShare Link Directory June 19, 2008 at 4:02 pm

Great guide Im gonna follow you

BillyWarhol June 19, 2008 at 5:22 pm

But can ya Meet HOT Chix on Twitter??

John Chow June 19, 2008 at 5:35 pm

Of course! All the hot chicks hang out on Twitter!

Abdul June 20, 2008 at 3:41 am: aah.Now I see why all the guys are joining twitter, why should I miss out the action!

CHERYL PHILLIPS June 19, 2008 at 5:56 pm

The name Twitter is a little oddball but I’m trying it….it’s ok…I still can’t find the real purpose of the site but I’ll keep trying it.

SuperTips June 19, 2008 at 6:03 pm

I was wondering how to profit from twitter, this seems to be just what I needed, thanks John

Affiliate Confession June 19, 2008 at 6:07 pm

I’ll have to check out the ebook, but who knew you could write 48 pages about Twitter!

Rohit June 19, 2008 at 6:22 pm

WOW!.

Thanks for letting us know..I’ve started using TWITTER recently and I am loving it .

You can Follow me on twitter @ twitter.com/sitegorge

Noobpreneur June 19, 2008 at 7:17 pm

John,

Thanks for the info – good site geekpreneur, that is…

jatt June 19, 2008 at 7:24 pm

I had joined twitter for 2months now..but still dunno that we can actually take benefit from it..Thanks John

What’s up

Traffic2mypage.com June 19, 2008 at 7:38 pm

thanks john,

never even heard of twitter… now i have, thanks for sharing that… i will explore the site and write up some strategies on my blog

cheers
traffic2mypage.com

Chessmaster June 19, 2008 at 8:09 pm

I going to download this book, I’m not sure why everyone is “adoring” twitter, I need to read about it. Personally I don’t really like the idea, didn’t someone already try to impersonate John Chow on msn lately?

Germz June 19, 2008 at 8:35 pm

John did you change server? I added your Entrecard blog to my Entrecard Generator script and when It loaded I was getting your website’s cpanel congratulations message.
Thanks.

John Chow June 19, 2008 at 8:48 pm

Nope, still the same server. It’s just the way BlueFur set things up.

Germz June 20, 2008 at 8:23 am: Oh thanks, I actually just checked and it turns out I added a “w” to http://www.johnchow.com so your subdomain was getting the traffic lol.

tyna June 20, 2008 at 12:57 am

I have not joined twitter yet,seems to be the in thing now; let read the ebook,i need to know how it works then i can follow all of you.

Binary Ant June 20, 2008 at 1:40 am

I’m reading rignt now at the office I hope to get some good tips from it.

Jeff Paine June 20, 2008 at 2:04 am

thanks for the note, will check the books out…

Clickusername June 20, 2008 at 2:15 am

We learnt about twitter from Ed Dale during last year’s thirty day challenge. This year’s challenge starts Aug 1. Right now it’s 2 months of preseason and it’s FREE – http://tinyurl.com/5lzysb .

Turn One Pound Into One Million June 20, 2008 at 4:01 am

Thanks for this one – I will be checking Twitter out some time to see whether i think that I can benefit from it.

$ Secret Money Blog $ June 20, 2008 at 5:55 am

thanks for the nice post, i haven’t joinedd twitter yet but will join it soon!!

Quintin Riis June 20, 2008 at 10:52 pm

Thanks for this post John, I’ll check out that book.

I let people write on twitter about my most recent contest to get extra entries, but I’ve never actually used twitter myself. I’ve signed up and I have a few people following me, but I’ve yet to, uh, “tweet” I think the word is.

I’m so behind, I know.

Kim June 21, 2008 at 8:45 am

This sounds interesting. My husband and I just created a blog and would like to generate interest. In addition to other tools, Twitter may be very useful. Thanks!

Kim June 21, 2008 at 9:35 am