Follow Friday 3rd July 2009 - Twitterers only

I love #followfriday on Twitter. It is a great way to thank your followers and to find people you might like to follow. (If you're not sure what it's all about read this #followfriday from my tweetmentor @NikkiPilkington)

However as it's popularity has grown so has the noise and to be honest it has lost some of it's meaning as people resort to long lists of people without adding a reason why you're recommending the person.

Now don't get me wrong I understand the list mentality, after all you want to recommend followers who you've built a rapport with. You feel bad if you get an #ff and you haven't reciprocated, well I do anyway. Plus it's not always easy to articulate why you're recommending that person in 140 characters. So, on the advice of my tweetmentor @NikkiPilkington, I am blogging my #followfriday recommendations. It takes longer to do but that way I'll be sure to have given it more thought and it will therefore reflect the tweets of that week. If you're a follower 2 things:

1. Thanks for the follow, I know you don't have to and if I'm being dull or can do anything for you just ask
2. If you're not on the list this week it doesn't mean I don't like you nor that you won't be on it next week :)

So eyes down for this weeks #followfridays:

http://twitter.com/mykitchenstore @mykitchenstore has a couple of great online kitchen and bedroom businesses plus a DIY store nearly ready. But that's not the reason to follow her as she Never plugs them. Instead she twitters for the joy, knowledge and engagement with her followers. Always supportive of other small businesses tweeters, she should definitely be followed
http://twitter.com/Neets68 @neets68 what a week she's had. Fell asleep on a train, got in at 4am but still sent out her daily cheery tweets about the people on her commute, copious fag breaks and chicken soup addiction. She's good fun, no business content, no meaningful quotes, just fun:)
http://twitter.com/PercythePigeon @percythepigeon. Percy is a bird on a mission, doing his bit to raise awareness about the issues of bullying. He has a book that your kids, school, children's club might want to consider buying, and lots of advice and links on the subject matter. Always helping his followers and promoting what they are doing
http://twitter.com/balloonbaboon @balloonbaboon This is a lady making the enormous step of getting behind her unique gift business and leaving the security of paid employment. In these difficult times why not support this kind of enterprise? The balloon models are fun, well priced and definitely different. You probably won't need one today but follower her as the aide memoir for when you want that unusual gift
http://twitter.com/shaungisbourne @shuangisbourne is worth a follow if you think you could/should be using the telephone more effectively in your business. Great mentor, lots of tips and advice. I took up his phonementor course ( more detail than you'll ever need). Anything not covered or you need to know he'll answer for you. If you have a phone calling related business you need to follow him
http://twitter.com/givemestrength @givemestrength just for fun nomination but be warned he is rude and does swear ( in fact he swears a lot lol) However his irreverent humour ( cue a mocking tweet) amuses me and his rants are epic. Couple of half decent horse racing tips too;)

That's my lot for this week, next week my recommendations will be around what is dearest to me CARS

So thanks for the follows and have a great weekend

Cool bananas
Martin