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Twitter for Business

Did you know that Twitter, a microblogging service gaining more and more addicted devotees, can be a very useful business tool? Business consultants and business coaches use it to spread their wisdom, social media types keep up with the Jeremiahs, the business media and business bloggers send the latest business news updates, and business people of all types are using it to deepen their relationships with others -- using Twitter for networking, trendspotting, information gathering, and shall we say it - having fun.

Here is a list of interesting business Twitters to follow:

• NYTimes Business
• Financial Times
• TimesBusiness
• LA Times Biz
• Hoover's
• TechCrunch
• Small Business Trends blog - Anita Campbell
• Duct Tape Marketing - John Jantsch
• Zappos.com
• Woot.com
• Dell
• Work.com

If you have a great business Twitterer to recommend, please add to the comments.

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Discover the Best Marketing Secrets

Anita Campbell, small business expert extraordinaire, is founder of the Small Business Trends blog and host of Small Business Trends Radio, as well as a community leader at Work.com. It pays to let Anita know about the interesting and innovative things you are doing in your business - she always has good ideas and suggestions and she may even decide to interview you.

Anita has just posted great new marketing secrets from various marketing experts including Seth Godin (make promises and keep them), Yvonne Divita (show enthusiasm), David Powers (people don’t like to be sold - if they did, they would spend all their free time in car dealerships... instead, people want to be informed, they want to be educated), John Battelle (the best kept secret in marketing is to invest your time in eliciting and responding to your customer’s feedback, even if it’s negative...it’s the secret to building a network of evangelists who keep on giving back to your business), and Jennifer Laycock (use flickr to expand your online presence).

If you have your own great marketing tip, you can share it as well and increase your visibility at the same time.