Anyone finding Twitter useful for finding new clients?

[dot design]

Just asking what other experiences are, as I've found work through Twitter, more building up a relationship with people and then they decide I might be able to help them. Rather than ramming what I do down their throats, anyone else?

[JMCDesigner]

I don't really know much about Twitter, the thing that would put me off is that its more time to spend as well as facebook, etc to make contacts

[DougBarned]

I'm a huge twitter fan... Not found any work through it yet though. But I've not put much time into it yet.

[daulex]

I've been using it for quite a while, never found a single client, maybe I'm doing it wrong :)

[Toyegraphics]

I haven't really put THAT much into twitter, however i do believe i could really get some good customers from it. Had a couple of people being interested but no sales yet. only have 185 followers.. not got round to getting more!!

However i have found if you are prepared to put in time and effort for just one day, you can easily gain 10-20 real followers. in one day.

I optimised my bio to include my keywords and say a big shark in the amount of people who followed me.. its defo worth doing.

Start a conversation - people buy from people not from websites or promo material.

[printingdeals]

I don't think twitter, facebook, bebo etc are meant to find business. As all these website are social networking sites not business networking.. I won't waste time there to find business since I can't afford to spend ages to first make friends to get some business out of them.. I would rather use these site just to make friends..

I got some good clients from ecademy and linkedIn instead..

[dot design]

I don't think twitter, facebook, bebo etc are meant to find business. As all these website are social networking sites not business networking.. I won't waste time there to find business since I can't afford to spend ages to first make friends to get some business out of them.. I would rather use these site just to make friends..

I got some good clients from ecademy and linkedIn instead..

That's fair enough and everyone is different, I do think though that the boundaries between work and pleasure are blurring and that many people's work and social lives are overlapping, it works for me! G

[Kezz]

I've been thinking about using twitter...I had a talk on it at a networking club I went to last week. I may just give it a go, I heard from a lot of people that they use it as a way to keep up with things happening in there industrys. The networking women keep up with each others businesses by following each other on twiter supose it enables them to help each other and produce some synagy between the monthly meetings, a useful tools was the impression I got. When I get a minute I'll have a look. :-)

[Justin March]

I think that Twitter is good for some businesses and not so relevant for others, I can see that the Job sites would do well for instance each to his own and if it works for you then well done.

[TheOnlinePrintCompany]

I love Twitter and have developed many relationships that have produced profitable business via direct purchases and referals.

But not only this, I have also built some excellent relationships with suppliers and other services that I use regular whilst being able to keep up to date with events in my industry.

Must admit it did take me a good few months to achieve this but the best things do come to those that wait.