Text messaging seems to be the topic of conversation in many areas of my life. I was just having a conversation last week with some other web developer friends about if texting creating a significant change in the way we communicate. I was actually in their office because they are including me in a new project they are working on about texting local events. I will post more on that when it becomes live.
But texting is here and you can exchange a lot of great info in 140 characters and it offers an opportunity for you to share info about your shop and your favorite t-shirts in a quick way. Here are some texting related tools things to check out:
- Plurk - new to the playing field, I have seen alot of talk about this lately. Kind of like twitter - but more features. Check out this post on Problogger about the difference between twitter and Plurk.
- Summize - this lets you search what other people are twittering - want to see if anyone twittered about your shop - just run a search in Summize and check it out. Click here to see what people are twittering about Spreadshirt.com. Chris Brogan talked about Summize in his post on listening today - he uses the term listening as a way of talking about what people are saying about you or your site or your shop. Check out the post here for some other great ideas.
Follow Spreadshirt on Twitter:
- Spreadshirtcom - yep - we have a twitter feed. I try to post something once a week - especially new coupon codes - a super easy way to stay up to date with Spreadshirt
- Jeggers - Jana is the CEO of Spreadshirt - she has a great blog (LifeonaShirt.com) but she doesn’t get a chance to update it all the time. Twitter is a quick way to see what she is up to - I just learned she was sitting in traffic this am- and she also posts interesting business bits. I am going to text her at Twitter right now to learn more about where I can read more about Zappos.
Do you have a Twitter account for your shop? To you tweet about your shop or t-shirts? How do you use texting on daily basis.
Dave
I setup an account for my TShirt blog/Spreadshirt storefront Militant Geek on Twitter - http://twitter.com/militantgeek . Currently I just republish the blog entries from MilitantGeek onto the twitter feeds; it just gives people a different way of getting the information since not everyone cares to check the site daily or setup RSS.
If I had more time to dedicate to the site I would probably do more ‘Twitter fans only’ promotional type geek ideas - things that could leverage the fact that people are able to get these updates at any time over a mobile phone - limited run shirts after a Apple keynote, or something. I’m sure there’s something there but I haven’t thought it all the way through. I’d love to hear other’s ideas on these lines.
thanks! I am now following you on twitter too. do you have a tool that automatically posts your blog posts to twitter or do you do it your self?
I’m currently using http://twitterfeed.com/ - you tell it where to find the RSS feed from the blog, give it your twitter account details, and then - on a period basis - it updates twitter. In that way updating the twitter account is as simple as writing a blog post.