Pro Installer May 2015 - Issue 26 | Page 7

7 PRO INSTALLER MAY 2015 PRO NEWS @proinstaller1 LUMINIUM In the third of the series on Social Media for Clearview, Sarah Ball, Communication Director at Balls2 Marketing talks Twitter. Twitter, hashtags and handles Bi-Folding Doors Slimline Windows With hashtags and handles, tweets and retweets, Twitter can all sound a bit alien. But it’s the favourite way for a lot of businesses to keep in touch with customers and prospects because it’s so easily accessible on your phone. If you’re not convinced try out a personal account to talk about the things you like and see what information is out there. If you’re into F1, Foo Fighters or Fast and Furious there’s loads of stuff you can find. Set up a personal profile and just play. Then, when you set it up for your business you’ll know the sort of things that work well. same words will help this, especially if the tweets link back to webpages or blogs on your site. You can post twitter only offers so that someone has to give you a code to qualify for a discount or freebie. You can also retweet interesting, funny or important tweets or answer other people’s posts. What to post Your first few posts should give a good reflection of your business. Photos of products, people and premises all show something unique about you. If you pay for SEO then using the 1 WEEK 2 WEEKS DELIVERY UNGLAZED DELIVERY GLAZED ANY COLOUR ANYWHERE IN THE UK ‘it’s really easy to stay local’ Join industry Tweeters There’s already a lot of activity from the window industry. All the major manufacturers have accounts and of course you can follow PIGS if you want to find out where in the UK the latest industry networking is going. Solidor has a door of the month where fitters can send in photos of their door installations and win a prize. You can follow @ProInstaller1 too. Aluminium doors and windows are only a week away How often Aim for three to six times a day. A lot of what you’ll say can be repeated because the shelf life of a tweet is only 7 minutes. I think it’s good to have a balance between scheduled posts and live ones. This means you will always have posts going out. Sliding Doors Lantern roofs Go local What not to post Don’t post anything th