Time is money, and one tip for managing time and leveraging tools is using HootSuite.
This tool is an online resource to look at and deal with all your social media sites in a timely manner.
It works on Twitter and other social media like your personal Facebook, your Facebook fan pages and your LinkedIn profile.
MySpace and Foursquare are also accessed on HootSuite.
Some of the Features and benefits are: You can send updates to any of your networks.
You can watch all the conversations.
You see all the tabs of the networks.
You can watch conversations on your entire network from one place.
You can shrink links and track them.
You can see the stats for the links you sent out.
You can set up tweets to be sent later.
It's free software.
This is a great way to track your marketing.
You can do it online and it's really easy.
Viewing all the networks together is a huge time saver and helps with being consistent because you can take that time set aside every day and be on all your networks at once.
Take a bit of time to learn it and work with all the tools that are there.
You can save time and be consistent by managing time and leveraging the tools.
You use them, don't let them use you.
You will not sell a product or service on Facebook, for the only product that is acceptable to sell with social media is you.
But when you sell yourself, everything else falls in its place.