Social Networking For Consultants - Use Twitter Hashtags to Add Value & Accountability to Your Tweet

Hashtags can help add value to your brand and- is a user generated wiki of hashtags. If you
expand your visibility quickly.don't know what any hashtag means or how to
On Twitter, hashtags are fun little tools foruse it, you can use the site search and get a
tracking topics, conversations, communities andwell-compiled entry explaining the meaning of the
live events. One popular (almost old) hashtag ishashtag
#followfriday. This is where people recommendCoaches, consultants and community leaders use
other people that you should follow. So they'd listhashtags to connect others to their niche, topic,
the twitter id of a person and include the hashtagclub or challenge. Talk about unleashing a viral
at the end of the post. For instance, if someoneeffect around a topic-- it does! If the topic is
was recommending me, they would tweet mysomething I'm interested in, I just jump right in.
user id plus #followfriday (and maybe they'dAs a coach/consultant, you make it easy for
include a note saying, "follow her, she's great").your followers and club members to converse
Personally, I don't go looking for hashtags. Theywith each other and hold each other accountable.
are usually already attached to a conversationFor example,Jeff Herring created a challenge called
that I want to add to. However, here are a few100articles100days. He set up the hashtag #HAHD
hashtag resources:to make it easy for participants to hold each
- #hashtags.org is the first place to find mostother accountable, encourage each other and
recent and hot hashtags with popularity trends.follow the conversation. Within two weeks, the
- is another useful resource for discovering andclub had drawn close to 800 members as a result
tracking new hashtags. It has a hashtag cloud.of the buzz created using a simple hashtag.