I got a call from the newspaper looking for pictures of groom's cakes, and I thought of two people I know who are on my twitter followers list who I did cakes for. I tweeted them to see if I could give out their info, and they said yes.

I sent the contact info to the paper and also mentioned that one of them had an interesting business they might want to write about in the business section of the paper.

They got all the info and the story about the groom's cakes came out today. I twittered about the story and mentioned both their twitter usernames in my tweet. I also added the local hashtag for our city, so if anyone in town pulls that hashtag up, they'll see my tweet.

They also twittered about the article, and retweeted my tweet to their followers. The one who has the business also mentioned that they're going to write an article about him next month as a result of me giving them his info. He also put a link to my website on his newsletter that he sends out to his mailing list.

So, by using twitter, I got pictures of cakes in the paper, did some networking with former clients, got my name out to everyone on the two clients' twitter followers lists, got some free publicity over the local twitter network, helped a client get some free publicity for his business, and my website went out to a bunch of people I probably wouldn't have met otherwise.

Very Cool! But as I don't twitter myself, much of what you said was like a different language!! lol!

I bow to the Twitter master!

Very cool marketing, love it.

Thanx for the tweeting knowledge OP; anybody that's crying about not having enough business should do this

Thank you for breaking it down like this.

I'm dizzy! lol