Twitter - business and personal acount or just one account
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Hello,
I have a twitter account.
Do I need to make a 2nd twitter account for my business?
My current username is
BobWeikel
If I need a 2nd account, what would my username be? My company is called Bob Weikel & Associates.
Thank You!
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Thank you Justin.
So I've got 2 very different responses. I'd like to hear from more people if possible.
Thanks again!
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I used to think when doing SEO that personal life and business life would be two separate things. But after delving into the culture and shortly after joining SEOMOZ I had a total perspective change. Rand often talks about networking and being social with others members of the SEO field, and that a lot of his work was accomplished by people he knew, and connections he made on a personal level that allowed his business life to grow. All of my personal social media profiles are also my business profiles. The other day I had someone browse SEOMoz, recognized my username and one the websites I work on and out of the blue just gave me some free links to his sight just to be nice. You have to keep them together for them to be effective.
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I think it is a good idea. Usually your personal Twitter account is more focused on your identity as an individual and your business account is more focused on your identity as a business. You might not want to share the same things about your personal life on your business Twitter profile, but sharing those things on your personal account can definitely help build business relationships through shared interests. You can also have your employees contribute to the business Twitter profile to increase the frequency of updates and having conversations with people, which can help increase followers. An added benefit is that you can Tweet your own blog articles from both accounts, which can help a little in terms of getting the ball rolling with social media promotion of an article that you write.
Maybe something like BobWeikelCo or BobWeikelTeam would work.
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