Hey guys, it's Keith Keller here in Melbourne, Australia and we're starting a brand new podcast today Twitter Tips 4 Tourism - it's a new 10 part series,

I'm here with my very, very good friend Ask Gadget Girl in Auckland, New Zealand. How you doing Tracey?

Tracey: Kia Ora Keith, how are you?

Keith: Very good, I'm look I'm really excited about this, I'm really excited about the fact that we're doing some videos down the track, we've got an ebook coming out. I'm doing gigs in New Zealand next week, we got all these new adventures coming around the world and a lot of people have been asking me this question - how do I use Twitter for my tourism brand?

Do you want to tell me what you're doing with your Twitter account and how you're using it? and then we'll throw it back into the laying the foundation idea.

Tracey: Sure, so about four weeks ago now, I met Keith on Twitter, he was one person that actually direct messaged me as a person rather than some sort of recorded animated thing and it was really neat to be able to engage, to be able to connect. So and that's one of the reasons why we're doing this today isn't it Keith really? that's how we met…

Keith: Yea less that four weeks ago, we thought let's make something, let's make some stuff and it's a fantastic way to network and meet people isn't it?

Tracey: Aw it certainly is and over the past four weeks I've learnt so much, I've done a lot of listening to your Twitter - Crack the Code or Crack the Twitter Code sorry and in it was one of the most interesting things that I found in it was how to do your three part, your three steps to magic really.

Your Twitter Magic 123 and that was following people, so I had no idea how to follow people - as in how many people I should be following, whether or not I should actually be heartbroken if they leave me and I did I was like oh I need that person because if that person goes I'm never going to get another one and so when I met you Keith I was tweeting not very well I was all over the place, I didn't have a blueprint for success, I had no foundations - I had 171 people and then in four weeks, it's nearly 1300.

Keith: WOW!

Tracey: Yea 1300

Keith: That is astonishing!

Tracey: I know, when I got to thousand so every, one of the biggest tips which was the greatest one that you said to me was - screenshot what you have, like where you are now and keep a track of it and I've used the screenshot so much that I'm that my button is wearing out!

Keith: Suddenly you've got the whole world, as your potential marketplace, when you get that mindset it's very exciting isn't it?

Tracey: So yea it's kinda like if you're going to have a business and especially if it's tourism don't just think in your backyard because your ideal client or your clientele might not just be across the backyard, it might not just be within your little town. You've got a B&B and you wanna, you know project it to the world, market it to the world, use Twitter you know - Tweet or to not Tweet, but it's why not Tweet?

Keith: I'm very, very excited, I can't wait to come back next week and keep this going for everyone.