In addition to finding your fans very quickly, here are 15 other reasons to use Twitter:
- Sharing special offers and freebies
- Highlighting sales and coupons
- Promoting event Information
- Twitter provides the platform for mobile and quick conversations with fans and followers without giving away your personal contact information
- Announce your new products
- Link to your new (and old) blog posts, website and Facebook fan pages
- Link to your product and studio photos
- Ask for feedback about your work
- Ask for input on initial designs
- Hold contests
- Find partners
- Locate resources and subcontractors
- Share and shape ideas through rapid brainstorming
- Drive your followers where you want them to go for more information about you and your company (especially useful for sales!)
- Allow your followers to re-tweet your most brilliant thoughts, links and ideas; quickly and easily (now that’s a buzz builder)
** excerpt from Building Better Buzz for your Etsy Shop