I first talked about Twitter when I joined at the end of June 2009. It has now been one month and a couple of days. This morning awakened and found that I had 200 followers. I am amazed, stunned and just don’t get it. I love it though. I don’t know if the readership numbers have gone up for my two Bellaonline.com sites, Hot and Spicy foods and Work & Family. I won’t check this month, but I will come the end of August. It is my hope that the numbers have increased.

Sharing some stuff and things:

I have found that my bio has brought target people to me and that’s a good thing. Originally I showed Work and Family as my primary site, but I talk about food so much that I have found that I get more folks who are interested in food than family. So I went with the flow and changed my primary site to Hot and Spicy foods at BellaOnline.com.

Early on, I made a decision not to push my any of my sites or the products I sell. Instead I decided to do as I do here, that is, a soft offer rather than a hard sell. Having 200 followers does not make me an expert or even knowledgable by any means, but I do think that showing a biography that shows who I am and tells exactly what I do has helped me acquire this cool following. I also post Tweets concerning the the subjects I list in my bio and I think that has helped me. As a newbie I am still learning my way around Twitter, I have left my messages open so people can contact me. I contact people as well. I have already hooked up with an author who is new to me, I have ordered two of his books and read one. Joseph Finder is his name and he is an awsome writer, if you enjoy mystery novels I urge you to check him out, especially his book, PARANOIA. Finder writes the way John Grisham did in the early Grisham days.

When someone starts to follow me, I check out their Twitter page to see if they offer good advice or just tell me what they ate for breakfast, lunch or dinner. I do that too but I am a foodie , I also sell herbs and spices, so decided that it was O.K. especially since I offer food and spice, herb tips.   

While checking to see what I could do to continue to grow I found an online magazine called SMALL BUSINESS TRENDS, in it is an article is titled “Top FIve Types of Twitter Messages to Grow Your Business”, written by Margie Zable Fisher. It is interesting and informative. Here is the link to the article.

I think the bottom line is be yourself. I have not been a terribly aggresive entrepreneur, so decided not to be on Twitter. That being said, I am aggresively consistant in updating, posting and blogging; just as I am in promoting and tending to my business.

Please don’t forget to follow me at http://twitter.com/Vannie_Ryanes

Happy Tweeting.