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Enhance Your Twitter Profile Image For Better Engagement

Jack Hadley Jack HadleyMarch 23, 2015March 23, 2015
Enhance Your Twitter Profile Image For Better Engagement

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There is no perfect strategy that fits for every social media platform. That’s why we encourage our clients to understand the subtleties of each social media tool and think about them independently. What works for a dental practice’s Facebook page may not work on Twitter. What works well on Twitter, may not be right for Instagram, etc.

Over the years, one thing that I have learned about Twitter is that people don’t like engaging with a “faceless” brand. Twitter is a person-to-person tool, not a company-to-the-anonymous-masses tool. That means one living, breathing human being to another living, breathing human being. It’s hard to warm up to a logo.

Make Your Profile Image Personal

So many dental practices simply paste their logo in as their Twitter profile image. In many cases, their logo doesn’t fit very well. It ends up cropped weird, and difficult to see or read. But even more important, these profile images are not warm or memorable.

There are a couple of ways to do this better. Here’s an example from one of our awesome clients, Dr. Ann Marie Gorczyca’s, Twitter account:

Enhance Your Twitter Profile Image For Better Engagement

In Dr. Gorczyca’s case, she has not only personalized her profile photo, but also the header photo. Remember, people enjoy doing business with people they know and like. Personalized photos can really help.

Here’s a second idea for handling your profile image. I tweet on my personal Twitter account and I also tweet for My Social Practice. In addition, right now I’m tweeting for our Dental Digital Marketing Conference coming up in April. We wanted to include some branding for the two other accounts, but we also wanted to keep it personal by creating profile graphics that included a photo:

Enhance Your Twitter Profile Image For Better Engagement

If you have multiple people in your practice who share the tweeting responsibilities, create a graphic for each of them—then, rotate the responsibility week-to-week or month-to-month, changing out the profile image as appropriate.

Find & Engage With People In Your Local Area

Obviously, your practice is tied to a physical location, so it’s important that you try to connect with Twitter users in your geographic area of influence. For example, if your practice is in Michigan, engaging with people in Florida may not be a good use of your time. There are some great tools out there that can help you follow the right people locally on Twitter.

Not using Twitter yet? Start! The learning curve is a little steeper than other social media tools, but the rewards can be great. And as Twitter usage continues to grow among your patients, you’ll look back in a year or two and be glad you learned how to utilize this effective marketing platform.

Are you using Twitter? Have some advice, or questions? Use the comment section below!

Jack Hadley

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Jack Hadley

Jack Hadley is a founding partner at <a href="http://mysocialpractice.com">My Social Practice.</a> He has developed the curriculum for, and teaches, an MBA Social Media Marketing course at BYU’s Marriott School of Management in Provo, Utah. Jack is also the founder of the Utah Valley Social Media Club. An award-winning copywriter and former ad agency creative director, Jack has a rich background in all aspects of the creative process.
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2 thoughts on “Enhance Your Twitter Profile Image For Better Engagement”

  1. Dr. Ann Marie Gorczyca says:
    March 23, 2015 at 11:35 am

    I love Twitter! I have made so many wonderful connections there. I hope others will, too! Thanks for the shout out!

    1. Jack Hadley Jack Hadley says:
      March 23, 2015 at 12:58 pm

      Thanks for your comment, Ann Marie. And thanks for your good example of Twitter effectiveness.

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