Back in December 2008 I posted How To Create A Custom Twitter Background. Basically it was a step by step tutorial for creating a custom Twitter background.  I received very positive feedback on the post since then. It became so popular that many bloggers commented on or linked to it. When you Google “custom twitter background“,  you can find it on the first page now. When I wrote this post, the idea of offering custom Twitter background design was at the beginning stage. In accordance with the popularity of Twitter, there are almost thousands of online and offline custom twitter background  designers. Which one is the best?

After having checked various online and offline custom Twitter background designers, my choice is TwitrBackgrounds.com. Let me tell you why I prefer them.

In addition to problogging I  provide social media consultancy for my customers. When I have so many customers who are desperately seeking for a custom Twitter background at the same time (such as Christmas holiday!), it creates trouble for me. Even though I can design custom Twitter background, timewise it is not a wise decision to do all designs manually by myself. On the other hand, not all customers are ready for paying high prices such as $100 or $250 for a custom Twitter design. When looking for an easy and quick solution, I discovered TwitrBackgrounds.com.

During Christmas rush, I was so happy to discover their  Happy Holidays Backgrounds service which let me install custom Twitter backgrounds to my customer via their website merely by entering their Twitter userids/passwords and uploading their photos in just about 5 minutes. You have two options; You can either install a free happy holidays background (see my Twitter background) or have a personalized one for as low as 4.95$.

They also design professional looking Twitter backgrounds for $250. These are really helpful for branding.

Benefits of a Custom Twitter Background

• A custom Twitter background immediately legitimizes your Twitter profile.
• You can build your brand and your Twitter presense with an attractive and informational custom Twitter background.
• It let users know exactly who you are, and earn the trust of your followers easily above other Twitter profiles and competitors.

Visit TwitrBackgrounds.com today and change your Twitter background with one of their Happy Holidays Backgrounds. Your Twitter followers will see the difference and you will have lots of fun. Happy holidays!

Especially in 2009 Twitter has become one of the most powerful marketing tools for bloggers. However, I noticed that not every blogger is using it effectively for personal branding and marketing. Here are some great Twitter tips for bloggers:

• Mention your Twitter profile under your e-mail signature.
• Do not sell products through your tweets.  Selling is a natural process in Twitter. Just keep sending your best shots (tweets) Build relationship with your followers. They will sooner or later buy from you if they trust you and perceive you as an authority.
• Make sure you follow the right people. Use Twitter Search to find the like-minded people.
• Think Twitter as a miniature blog. Even though you may use it for fun, do not forget to take it seriously for certain periods of the day.
• Think of it as a golden opportunity to pre-sell your blog posts without actually selling anything.
• Try to write the best tweets you can come up with. Don’t be shy; give people the URL to your blog in your profile.Don’t push them so much. Let them decide whether they want to read more or not.
• Someone can come across your profile, take a quick look at all your tweets and decide whether they want to follow you or not.
• Think of each tweet you send out as a headline. Try to grab attention of the people who are  reading your tweets.
• Think about some creative ways that you can get people interested in you and your tweets.
• Try keeping your tweets on what’s going on in your business, especially online business. This way you will become known as someone who provides a regular insight into that area, and people will start to look forward to your tweets.
• Share your new blog posts.
• Ask questions to your followers.
• Find your own voice (very similar to blog voice)
• Use keywords in your profile so that people can find you and your business via Twitter Search online.

These are my Twitter tips. Please do not hesitate to share If you have other tips that are useful to me and my fellow readers.

I still can not believe how Twitter became so popular during last year. The number of users still increase rapidly. As Twitter becomes popular, Internet marketers want to make money out of it. They are launching new Twitter products almost every single day. Twitter Traffic Exposed is one of them. This step by step Blueprint claims to expose how to profit from Twitter.

Twitter has become very popular nowadays. After reading Twitter Has A Big Month, Grows To Over 8 Million U.S. Users I am convinced that it will become even more popular by the end of this year. A few days ago Josh Spaulding has written a great article titled Using Twitter Search to find Buyers in the ACT! and stressed the importance of Twitter Search when trying to find potential buyers.

My name is Mert and I am a Twitterholic. I started Twittering on 2007-05-30 09:52:40. Since then I can not give up Twittering. I am ranked 8,492th on Twitterholic! (by followers). I am also ranked 2nd in my location on Twitterholic! (by followers in ‘Istanbul, Turkey‘)

Joke aside, Twitter is one of the most enjoyable and powerful marketing tools for bloggers. My tweets can reach hundreds of people everyday. I can follow some of the most important characters of blogging and Internet marketing. Information sharing has never been so easy before. I would like to share some of the most useful Twitter resources I used during my Twitter journey.

Today I would like to introduce an awesome Twitter tool developed by two clever, and young Turkish people. TwTip is developed by Baturalp Torun (http://baturalptorun.com), and designed by Eren Emre Kanal (http://erenemre.com). It is a handy tool designed for Twitter users to find out awesome tips that are shared by other Twitter users. It is for everyone who is hungry for quality knowledge. I have been using it since it has been launched early this week.

The idea behind TwTip is simple, yet brilliant. The developers created a bot which fetches all the latest tweets and picks the best valuable tips. You can easily find tweet tips in any subject, like Photoshop, Apple, Google and even cooking or health. It is very simple to get random tweets with Shake it up feature. Trending topics let you to find what’s hot on TwTip.com.

You may also follow TwTip tweets : http://twitter.com/twtip. TwTip has been launched this week , and the brain team is looking forward to receive your feedback and suggestions. You may send an email to hello @ twtip.com