Twitter: One tweet leads to $250K sale

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What began as a way to engage and support customers has evolved beyond even Avaya?s expectations. And if Avaya ever doubted its investment in social media, those concerns are now put to rest.

A recent quarter-million?dollar sale, which began on Twitter, soundly answered that question.

[alias]

These sales occur off the radar all the time, this is just more twitter hype. Go find a 250k sale and please report back [not just OP, anyone here.. .].

[d-null]

what a painful site you linked to

[candyflip]

I had a nice one for just over $13k. Lots of love for Twitter here.

[PornMD]

Originally Posted by alias

These sales occur off the radar all the time, this is just more twitter hype. Go find a 250k sale and please report back [not just OP, anyone here.. .].

Originally Posted by d-null

what a painful site you linked to

Their $250k tweet btw: "We have some highly trained techs who can help you understand your needs best and help you make an objective decision. Give me a call."

True meaning: "We have so mythically found your message by doing that mysterious thing called search and we're going to completely shock you by responding to it. All we showed you is we need...er sorry, WANT your business...what a shock given every business on the planet wants the business of their potential customers, especially when we're all hurt for money right now. If you're a sheep, you'll bite hook line and sinker and we're going to get you on the phone, figure out what you want (which is probably nothing that's rocket science), then tell you we can do exactly what you want (big whoop, so can everyone else) and why everyone else sucks (even though we probably also suck but we're not going to say negative stuff about ourselves) and probably try to get a 'yes' or 'no' from you before the call is up because we know after a lengthy call where you were supposedly 'objectively helped' that you won't want to say no to the 'helper'."

I hope the first time that customer has to deal with customer service, that company takes forever to respond...they'd deserve it by seeking what will be blatantly subjective analysis instead of doing the smart thing and talking to other people who are using or have used the services of the companies they were deciding between. Choosing a company because they are more proactive in sales and marketing is fucking stupid.

[ShellyCrash]

Originally Posted by d-null

what a painful site you linked to

Ditto to that- ouch.

[betabomb]

Ya, it's easy to blow prospective customers away by appearing to be "awake" on Twittter. Most of the business world is like WTF can I do with Twitter to help my business?, so when you appear to be on the ball, you don't just get the business because you asked for it, you get it for appearing a smart, progressive company.

[BlackCrayon]

Originally Posted by candyflip

I had a nice one for just over $13k. Lots of love for Twitter here.

selling what?

[SleazyDream]

so if i sell a $500,000 house on twitter does that mean a tweet made me a half million dollars?


ugggggg

[fatfoo]

$250 sale. Amazing.

[AaliyahLove]

Originally Posted by candyflip

I had a nice one for just over $13k. Lots of love for Twitter here.

I've gained webcam customers that spend almost every night I'm online, members to my website, photographers (I think Dean Capture and I set up a shoot thru Twitter), recruited webcam girls n met models n shot w them.

[Iron Fist]

Originally Posted by SleazyDream

so if i sell a $500,000 house on twitter does that mean a tweet made me a half million dollars?

Exactly.... the news story is retarded.

[maxjohan]

On the Internet a bucket, becomes a spade.

Every single day.

It's like I mention in a blogpost "I built a house with my $$money".

(Hiring construction workers todo it for us with $$...The point here,
people give credit, to the tamest things!)

It proves, the believes,....if our
presentation of "what we try to prove" is good,
and the majority are allready sold on Twitter,
it becomes quite is to sell the rock star story.

Originally Posted by SleazyDream

so if i
sell a $500,000 house on
twitter does that mean a tweet made me a
half million dollars?

And...why do we never hear any stories for the
house owners who NEVER used the Internet to sell
their house...Zzzz /point made.

Stop and think people, then, stop and think
some more before we fall in love, in a marketing method. There might be more effective ways
to use.

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

Originally Posted by betabomb

Ya, it's easy to blow prospective customers away by appearing to be "awake" on Twittter. Most of the business world is like WTF can I do with Twitter to help my business?, so when you appear to be on the ball, you don't just get the business because you asked for it, you get it for appearing a smart, progressive company.

which would in essence, actually make you a smart progressive company... no?

[PornMD]

Originally Posted by maxjohan

On the Internet a bucket, becomes a spade.

Every single day.

It's like I mention in a blogpost "I built a house with my $$money".

(Hiring construction workers todo it for us with $$...The point here,
people give credit, to the tamest things!)

It proves, the believes,....if our
presentation of "what we try to prove" is good,
and the majority are allready sold on Twitter,
it becomes quite is to sell the rock star story.

Once, I received a call on my cell while on my way home from someone inquiring about a domain of mine. Ended up negotiating a $16k sale with them while on the 805 parking lo...er freeway. Was that a $16k phone call? Is my cell phone worth $16k because I wouldn't have have been able to answer if they called my home phone? No - they could have simply fucking emailed me if they didn't reach me, in which case it'd be no different than 50% of the sales I make. It's kind of sad, some people are as into twitter as mac users into mac's, trying to justify why they spend several hours a day on it when they probably could be spending most of that time more wisely and valuably.

Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat

which would in essence, actually make you a smart progressive company... no?

It means you run a smart progressive sales department. It means nothing about you otherwise as a company. Peer1 for instance has a great sales department. Their customer service was absolutely atrocious, but how am I going to know that by them seeing my tweet saying I'm deciding between them and someone else for hosting and responding to my tweet?

[marketsmart]

i sold 14 kilos of cocaine on twitter... the feds are not monitoring this yet... its a great way to move drugs...

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

Originally Posted by PornMD

Once, I received a call on my cell while on my way home from someone inquiring about a domain of mine. Ended up negotiating a $16k sale with them while on the 805 parking lo...er freeway. Was that a $16k phone call? Is my cell phone worth $16k because I wouldn't have have been able to answer if they called my home phone? No - they could have simply fucking emailed me if they didn't reach me, in which case it'd be no different than 50% of the sales I make. It's kind of sad, some people are as into twitter as mac users into mac's, trying to justify why they spend several hours a day on it when they probably could be spending most of that time more wisely and valuably.



It means you run a smart progressive sales department. It means nothing about you otherwise as a company. Peer1 for instance has a great sales department. Their customer service was absolutely atrocious, but how am I going to know that by them seeing my tweet saying I'm deciding between them and someone else for hosting and responding to my tweet?

Ya, you'd have to be a dumb fuck, stuck in the past idiot company to have a smart progressive sales department. Sales drive the company. If your sales department is doing a good job of making sales, you're doing well as a company. Having a progressive sales department, imho, makes you a progressive company. But I can see we'renot going to agree on that...

If you take your business to the latest outlets and those outlets allow you to close a profitable sale, where the fuck is the failure in that? You're just getting with the fucking times. Soemthign that business NEEDS to do.

Your cellphone story is a perfect example of that. Now you might not think of having a cellphone as being "progressive" anymore, being as everyone and their uncle's dog has one now. But consider what may have happened to that sale, had you not been with the times and did not have a cellphone?

Now I'm sure you'll probably snap back with some explanation of how a cellphone and twitter cannot be compared or some other apples and oranges bullshit, but no. they are both a medium which facilitates the communication allowing the sale.

Is your cellphone worth $16k? No. Did it help you to make a $16k sale? Absolutely. Are you going to laugh at idiots with cellphones who've used them to make sales? Probably not, so why does Twitter stand apart from that?

Again, if Twitter (even as stupid as it is, and yes it IS stupid) allows for people to do business and works for the business in a way that generates revenue for the business. Where the fuck is the fail? WHERE THE FUCK IS THE FAIL????

I makes me laugh, that people laugh at twitter and it's business applications, even when proof of it's application is slapped right in their face. That IS progressive business using the latest trends to facilitate their business. End of story.

[EscortBiz]

if playing with dust makes you sales do it who gives a fuck

props to those taking advantage of every possible way of getting a client in the door

[PornMD]

Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat

Ya, you'd have to be a dumb fuck, stuck in the past idiot company to have a smart progressive sales department. Sales drive the company. If your sales department is doing a good job of making sales, you're doing well as a company. Having a progressive sales department, imho, makes you a progressive company. But I can see we'renot going to agree on that...

If you take your business to the latest outlets and those outlets allow you to close a profitable sale, where the fuck is the failure in that? You're just getting with the fucking times. Soemthign that business NEEDS to do.

Your cellphone story is a perfect example of that. Now you might not think of having a cellphone as being "progressive" anymore, being as everyone and their uncle's dog has one now. But consider what may have happened to that sale, had you not been with the times and did not have a cellphone?

Now I'm sure you'll probably snap back with some explanation of how a cellphone and twitter cannot be compared or some other apples and oranges bullshit, but no. they are both a medium which facilitates the communication allowing the sale.

Is your cellphone worth $16k? No. Did it help you to make a $16k sale? Absolutely. Are you going to laugh at idiots with cellphones who've used them to make sales? Probably not, so why does Twitter stand apart from that?

Again, if Twitter (even as stupid as it is, and yes it IS stupid) allows for people to do business and works for the business in a way that generates revenue for the business. Where the fuck is the fail? WHERE THE FUCK IS THE FAIL????

I makes me laugh, that people laugh at twitter and it's business applications, even when proof of it's application is slapped right in their face. That IS progressive business using the latest trends to facilitate their business. End of story.

Whoa, hold on a second dude. I think you took what I said to mean that companies SHOULDN'T be proactive on places like Twitter to market, achieve sales etc. Of COURSE they should - it's easy and practically free compared to other means of marketing. All I was saying is that it says nothing about how well they serve their customers, how good their product or service actually is, etc., just how effectively they do sales. Most companies could care less - sales = money. I'm just saying a potential customer should not look at a proactive sales response as a reason to go with a particular company over another. It's certainly not a BAD thing to the customer, but it should have little or no bearing on the meat of their decision. Buying something on the basis of that or what 99% of sales calls generally are ("what do you need? yes we can do it, our competition sucks, buy buy buy") is like converting to Mormon because a couple of nice Mormon fellows came to my door and wanted to discuss how my life could be improved by becoming a Mormon. The sad thing is it's still effective and works.