How to tweet intelligently

By now you know well the power of social media like YouTube, Facebook and especially Twitter, in directing attention to a specific issue. None could matter more to you than your online image and branding. Though Twitter has largely left its etiquette to individual discretion and an open source platform, here I address a commonly under-looked issue; your tweets.

Tweeting

Tweeting is all about cramming as much info into a mere 140 characters, much like text messages. That means you could simply bring your familiar short-hand text skills onto online messaging. It can build or break your followers. So be careful what you tweet about, and how go about doing it. Keep in mind to be yourself and focus on providing something of VALUE. Put intelligent thought into the kind of information you want in your tweets. Do be mindful of what topics are trending, which are conveniently displayed at the search box on the left of sign-in form, as well as news-style moving text at the centre-top of your Twitter account. In fact, riding on those trending topics could give you the needed exposure or even more followers.

#s

Including hash-tags ‘#’ is another way you can conveniently ensure your tweets appear in searches. Do take the time to find out the popular # categories. My favourite ones usually have to do with the most recent trending topics, #quote and #nowplaying.

RTs

On retweeting, it is by far the best way possible to let others know you find their content/tweets interesting and to build rapport with them by engaging after they thank you. Do not just retweet every single thing; Only those you find interesting, inspirational, or worth the time of your followers.

With that said, cultivate a more wholesome, intelligent strategy around Twitter. Using discretion and common sense can get you far on a medium still in its infancy.

Yasser Khan

I bet you can’t go one day without hearing about the Internet’s latest media darling, Twitter. Everybody from the mainstream media to celebrities to your Great Aunt Millie has at least heard of Twitter. Twitter has been used for everything from a critical communications link to the outside world during the Iranian Elections to Ashton Kutcher sharing a picture of Demi Moore in her underwear. As an Internet Marketer the profit making opportunity presented by those millions upon millions of worldwide users happily tweeting away should make your mouth water so much that your literally sitting in a pool of your own drool!

Guess what? You are not the only one with that idea and thousands of would be Twitter marketers are trying to grab their share of the gold rush before the claim pinches out. Most will fail. Twitter users are becoming more sophisticated and lest tolerant of blatant marketing efforts. Let’s make sure you are not a statistic. In this article we will provide you with the secret key to required properly mine Twitter for fame and fortune.

Twitter’s enormous popularity, like all social media, is built on implicit trust. As an example of that implicit trust mechanism, Twitter only allows you to DM (Twitter shorthand for direct message) those that follow you. The (truly) brilliant minds at Twitter assumed that if a person trusts you enough to follow you, that they trust you enough to accept a direct message.

So you probably think that what I am saying is that to truly succeed with Twitter as a marketing tool you must have thousands, or even better, millions of followers. How does that make my message any different from the hundreds of other Twitter gurus who recommend that you go out and buy an expensive tool, usually from their affiliate link, and mass follow complete strangers, hoping they follow you back and Twitter doesn’t ban your account? Well, don’t get me wrong, having your own legion of loyal followers is definitely an asset, but many Twitter marketers do not have that luxury when they are first beginning to utilize the Twitter system for marketing.

The true secret to utilizing Twitter as a marketing tool is to embrace the viral nature of the Twitter itself. You might only have 100 followers, but if each of those followers has 100 followers, now you have the basis of a campaign. But wait, what about the trust issue? You need to find a way of reaching the followers of your followers (or website and / or blog visitors). You need a bridge to get over the trust chasm that divides you from the hordes of faithful minions that follow your followers.

The best Twitter strategy to build that bridge and complete the chain of trust is to get your website visitors to retweet (RT in Twitter shorthand) your message to their followers. For example, provide a form on your website or blog that encourages your visitors to tweet your message. This is where your creativity needs to come into play. Craft a compelling Tweet with a subtle, but effective, call to action and then promise your visitor (and deliver) a free report or discount coupon after they complete the act of retweeting your message. For example, a very popular method currently is to conduct Twitter contests. In exchange for an entry into your contest, your website visitor agrees to retweet your message. One company just completed a contest in which they gave away one Macbook a day for ten days. During the span of the contest, this company’s retweets trended higher than Michael Jackson’s death!

It is such a simple concept that it is very common for even the most experienced Internet marketer to forget; viral marketing is successful marketing. Your website or blog visitors trust you. The Twitter followers of your visitor trust them. By encouraging your visitors to retweet your message to their followers, there is now an implied trust in you and your messag; the trust chasm has been bridged!

Viral marketing with Twitter also has a nice side effect. If your visitor’s followers are intrigued by your message, they will voluntarily follow you – no prodding or coercion required! Thus not only are you fully exploiting the very viral nature of Twitter, but you are also building up your ever important followers list, readily available for future efforts!

Self-promotion on Twitter is dead. Promoting your own message is the easiest way to lose followers and potentially get clobbered by the dreaded Twitter ban hammer. Don’t let others lead you to believe that Twitter itself is dead.  Twitter profits are still there for the taking, however now is the time to get creative and rethink your Twitter marketing strategy to fully exploit the very viral nature of the Twitter that makes the service so popular to begin with!

What’s all the Twitter about?

By now if you are not a user of Twitter, you have at least heard of it. It has experienced an almost unbelievable growth in its short lifetime. Twitter is a micro-blog that anyone can participate in. Each post, a tweet, is limited to 140 characters. That’s not very long so it’s pretty easy to read a lot of posts. Twitter asks the question “What are you doing?” Some people actually use it this way… you will see things like “brushing my teeth” or “going to bed” or “eating.” However, most use it to communicate things that they consider more important than those mundane examples.

There is a lot of good and worthwhile information flowing on Twitter every hour of every day. So much, in fact, it’s a bit difficult to keep up with. There is also a surprising number of celebrities (politicians, stars, athletes) using Twitter. You can follow them all and see what they are saying. Even Barack Obama is there, and I believe he is the most followed player.

You follow anyone you want, and people follow you. Of course the more people you follow, the more tweets you will be exposed to, and the harder it will be to develop relationships with your Twitter “friends.” You have the option to communicate privately with a friend (a follower that you are following) by using the Direct Message, or DM feature. All other postings are visible to everyone, but mostly to those following you.

Twitter is so new (started mid 2006) that appropriate Twitter etiquette and protocol is just developing. It is clear that many people have likes and dislikes about what others say and/or do. It seems that the majority of users dislike being contacted automatically with a DM. This is a fairly common practice when saying welcome to new followers, except they don’t like the automatic message because it’s not personal. This can get the relationship off to a bad start. In addition, many don’t like Twitter being used for commerce but I seriously doubt that will stop. Marketers will market where they can if it brings in business. The marketing I see personally does not bother me. Remember it’s limited to 140 characters and real easy to just skip the tweet.

So, should you get involved with Twitter? Why not? It’s going to be here for awhile and it’s growing. About one year ago there were 600,000 users and now the number is somewhere north of 6 million. Twitter subscriber numbers are doubling every month. I say you better jump on now while there is still room. I should warn you though, it can be addicting!

Happy Tweeting!

Wayne Weeks

As you probably know Twitter has become one of the biggest Social Media and Micro-Blogging sites on the internet.  This means that you have to get on Twitter as soon as you can or else you would be left behind.  If you are serious about your online business, Twitter can be great tool to get you loads of free targeted traffic to your websites, blogs or affiliate links. And who doesn’t like free traffic? 

We know that followers = leads.  The question is – how do you get a huge amount of followers on Twitter? 

5 Ways to get more Twitter followers:

1.  Use other social media, like Facebook.  Their are loads of Twitter groups where people are following everyone who follows them.  So join all those groups and post your twitter username, ie. twitter.com/bertuseng.

2.  Get on board a twitter train.  There are a bunch of these sites going around, where you have to follow a certain amount of members to get on the train, and then other people will follow you if you are on the train, you can do this multiple times a day, meaning a lot of random followers. WARNING: some of these sites have been found out to be phishing sites.

3.  Use the natural way.  Follow people you find on twitter that you find interesting and send them a nice message, if you are nice and have interesting tweets, people will follow you.  Look at the current twitter trends to see what people are talking about and join in the discussions.

4.  Mass follow people.  You can use some free sites, like Flashtweet and Mutuality to mass follow and unfollow people.  You can mass follow hundreds of people with flashtweet, and then just mass unfollow all the people that are not following you back once in a while.  This should make for a lot of new followers.

5.  Use an automatic targeted follower.  This is the most effective way to get followers, because it gets you targeted followers on autopilot.  You can also setup these systems to manage your follower list and to tweet to people automatically even when you are sleeping, so this is essential for people wanting to make money with twitter.  The best one that I can personally recommend is The Twitter Online System.

Building a successful Twitter profile doesn’t have to be a tough task and in previous articles I’ve described tips for optimising your profile for the search engines and to attract new followers. In this article I want to address further ways for making your profile successful and we are going to achieve this by “spreading the word” and creating backlinks to our Twitter profile.

One of the most popular techniques for building backlinks to a website over the past couple of years was made popular by Angela E. Edwards. The strategy involves setting up profiles on High PR forums in your niche and creating a profile with a link containing your keyword phrase which points back to your website. To get an idea of the backlinks that Angela has built then head over to Google and type site: goarticles.com angelae8654. This will return the highest ranking article that Angela has on Goarticles.

Now head over to siteexplorer on Yahoo and input Angela’s URL in the search field, select “inlinks” and you’ll get up to 1000 of Angela’s backlinks. Alas many of these sites have been spammed to death by people using this method, but you can also find your own. Here is a query which will reveal forums in your niche where hopefully you can drop some links:

inurl:”member.php?u” “Powered by vBulletin”

Once you have found some forums with a good page ranking, go and sign up and enter all of the details about your website and don’t forget to drop a link to your Twitter profile in too. Lastly use pingomatic to ping the profile you’ve created, this will get the search engines to spider your profile and create some backlinks for you.

Another great place to spread the word about your Twitter profile is Ping.FM you can use this service to update all of your social networks at once and it’s a great free tool. So head over to Ping.FM and you’ll see all of the social networks listed there and also links to register an account with them. Many of these sites will allow you to post a link to your Twitter profile, which will result in great exposure for your profile page and your blogs. Ping.FM is a great tool and an awesome method of updating many social networks with just one update, so make sure you do this step.

Yahoo Answers and Answer based sites are also great places to drop a link to your Twitter profile. Just write some useful posts and place your Twitter link in the resources box.

Also search for blogs in your niche and post useful comments and also drop in a link for your twitter profile. Once your post is accepted remember to ping the link with pingomatic.

These are just a few ways of sending traffic to your Twitter Profile (and your blog) and will help you to build a following of targeted and interested followers. Just make sure that you are sending useful updates to your Twitter profile and developing relationships with your followers, and then who knows…you could be the next aplusk!

Are you looking for a way to make more affiliate sales? Making money on Twitter is easier than you think! Thousands of people are getting more sales and traffic to their affiliate offers on twitter. How much you make depends on not necessary how hard you work but more importantly, how smart you work! If you intend to only use twitter as the social network it was intended to be, you can stop reading now! However, if you wish to use twitter as a way to get more traffic to you business, website, or blog: make money by selling your own digital product or affiliate offer, building your list, then keep reading. Twitter can do all of this!

Think of twitter as a database of millions of people thirsty for information. Why else would they be on twitter in the first place. They are looking for interaction from real people! Most are looking for other people who are tweeting about things they are also interested in. They create a network of like-minded people who tweet about a particular subject and that attracts more people. There are millions of these "conversations" happening everyday on twitter. What if you could slip into one of these groups and provide some information that would be beneficial to the conversation? People would take notice. Where else can you get this type of attention but on twitter? Nowhere! Even the best SEO tactics or email list is unable to deliver such a direct response.

Lets get to the specifics of making money. There are really only five steps to making money on twitter.

1. Create a Twitter Account – Use a name that relates to your product or niche.

2. Find affiliate products that you can market by including links in your tweets.

3. Build your list of followers with thousands of targeted users that are interested in what you are selling.

4. Send automated tweets and messages with your affiliate links to your followers with Tweet Adder software!

5. Collect your affiliate paychecks!

Those are the basic steps, but let me expand on these a bit.

I am going to assume that you know how to create a twitter account. If you do not, go to twitter.com and follow the prompts. Now, do not underestimate your twitter settings, it's a huge part of your success. You want to select an account name that reflects your niche or product. But it does not stop there, take advantage of your profile picture, a good picture is going to attract more followers. Let me say right now, more followers = more money! Under "account" make sure you include an affiliate or website link in the "More Info URL" and a description in "One Line Bio" This is usually the first place where followers will check you out! Make sure the "Protect my tweets" is unchecked. You want anyone to be able to access your tweets. The more followers, the better! The more twitter accounts you have the more followers you will get!

There are many theories on finding the right product to sell. If you have your own product, problem solved. However, if you do not have a product there are many affiliate products or PLR on the internet, It would take another article to discuss ways to pick the best niche or product to sell!

Building your list of followers is probably the most important part of your twitter campaign. Without followers, you are limited to the number of potential customers. So, how do you get more followers? There are only two ways to get more followers – manually or automatically. If you go with the manual option, be prepared to spend a lot of time on twitter finding and following other peoples followers who are interested in your niche or product. If you use an automation tool like Tweet Adder, you can follow other people by selecting keywords that pertain to your particular niche! This will save a tremendous amount of time! You can get up to the maximum of followers a day allowed by twitter on autopilot (500 followers a day).

Once you have a following, you will want to publish tweets that have you're affiliated link enclosed. When one of your followers click on your link, they will be redirected to your offer. Twitter goes on 24/7. Do you? The best way to take advantage of the worldwide audience is to have your offers available at any time. The manual aspect now becomes a full-time job.

Once you go automated, you can set up your tweets to run 24/7 in a few minutes. Tweet Adder allows you to schedule your tweets to run anytime, any day. More importantly. you can set up your first DM to your new followers. If you want to make money with twitter, Tweet Adder is the way to go! You can also select the amount of time a person has to follow you back before they are deleted. You do not want your following and followers ratio to be more than 1: 4.

Once you have your twitter profiles set up to run on autopilot, you can watch your followers and profits grow! So now you can see how easy it is to make more affiliate sales!

Search engine marketing and optimization types are all about finding the next big thing in online marketing to help their clients. And there is a juicy bit of gossip circulating right now about Twitter and Google. Well, maybe juicy is a bit strong. After all, it seems fairly obvious that search engine giant Google would be interested in Twitter – the hottest thing on the Web right now, at least according to some people.

The Toronto Star has been running endless “stories” on Twitter, many of which contain little more than a sampling of random tweets. The venerable Globe & Mail has been covering the same ground. All of this chatter about Twitter among the country’s two biggest newspapers led to a rather humourous critique in Toronto weekly Eye Magazine, which is, coincidentally, owned by Torstar. But I digress. This is not the gossip I was referring to in the title of this article. For that story, you can refer to any one of about 400 Google News items.

Google and Twitter – Search Marketing Dream Come True?

By the time you read this, the dust may have settled on the whole Google/Twitter buyout question, but there are some interesting points being made about the value of Twitter as a search engine marketing tool.

Online Media Daily pointed out in an April 6, 2009 article that if Google purchased Twitter, it would be a great thing for search engine marketers. Online marketing experts note the importance of Twitter’s real-time search capabilities. As one marketer notes in the article:

“Twitter Search has the potential to become a crucial tool for marketers in both understanding what’s being said about their brands online, as well as for timely communication with their customers…. A Google acquisition would likely only accelerate its importance to marketers because Google can give Twitter what it most desperately needs right now, which is the servers to power it, and a revenue model.”

Others disagree. While they don’t rule out a potential partnership between Google and Twitter, they doubt that Google will cough up the big funds needed to purchase Twitter. For one thing, Twitter is hardly a threat to Google. For another, Google investors would need some serious proof that Twitter could generate revenue – the one failing of the microblogging site.

Many people have pointed out the similarities between Google’s YouTube acquisition and rumours of a Twitter purchase. As Allen Weiner of Gartner notes on PC World:

“When Google bought YouTube, they did it because it was extremely popular, got tons of traffic and represented this new trend of video hosting and sharing. Now, Google still hasn’t found a way to effectively monetize YouTube in a big way…Does Google really want to spend another huge amount of money on another extremely popular service that hasn’t figured out a way to make money? I don’t see it happening.”

The lack of a revenue model is a double-edged sword for Twitter. While it makes the site less desirable for potential acquisition – allowing the company to be choosy about a buyer – it also places downward pressure on the selling price, if anyone does decide to make an offer, according to Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research, as quoted in the Online Media Daily article.

Whatever the final result, Twitter is making its presence felt as a search engine marketing tool. Whether it is used to build links as part of a search engine optimization strategy, or for market research, Twitter is having a tremendous impact on companies’ marketing plans. If Twitter does find a revenue model, you can bet that search engine marketing companies will be the first to capitalize on it.

Keep your eyes on this story and the two players involved. The world of search engine marketing could get a lot more interesting.

Social networking sites can eat your time, but only if you allow it. Instead, decide to make a plan and a schedule of how much time you will spend on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Managing your time in this way will help you to become more productive in other areas of your online business.

It will take you some time to initially set up your social networking sites, but once that is done you will want to limit the amount of time you spend on these sites every day. I like to teach my students to spend one hour a day total on all three sites for the first month, and then cut down to thirty minutes each day, in total, once you have established yourself.

For example, on Twitter you need to set up your account, find people to follow, and share interesting information about what you are doing online. Once you do that for the first month it is very easy to cut your time in half. People will find you and follow you, and you will be able to interact with those people in just a few minutes.

On Facebook it takes time to find friends who are interested in your niche and to set up a group. Once this is done you can spend much less time. My blog and tweets automatically show up on Facebook, allowing me to take one action and have it show up in several different places.

LinkedIn takes even less time. Unless I am setting up an event, adding someone to my network, or updating my status, there is very little reason to be there. Set up your accounts, automate them as much as possible, and then go on to more important activities in your business.

It took me a while before I could really understand what twitter is all about and I am always learning the power of twitter. One thing to know beforehand is that when things are not done in the proper way you will get your account shut.

Let’s jump right in to creating thousands of twitter followers in 90 days with these simple profile setting steps. Create your profile with information that people will identify you with. Your name, your website URL (not a sales page), your interests and why they should follow you. Keep it simple. In the location if you have lived in different places I would add this so people can find you and follow you on twitter, for e.g. “formally UT and now Port St Lucie, FL”. One thing to consider when you creating Twitter username, create one that is relevant to your market niche, like “NetworkProMLM”. It helps when someone is searching for the niche or business or keyword. Add a happy smiling attractive picture of you. Taking these simple steps, will easily create a profile where thousands of twitters followers will follow you.

Now it is time to connect and post information. To stand out and look good on twitter do the things that other don’t and don’t do the things other do. Almost everyone is selling something on Twitter. To stand out, add value and just don’t do what everyone else is doing. Relate with people and don’t sell. This will get you twitter followers who will stay with you and participate with you.

When posting on Twitter, there only two things to remember, @ and D. @twittername=mention, means you are publicly mentioning the other person. This is #1 way to get someone’s attention. Second Dtwittername=direct message, this is a private message that you and other person only sees. It is not used as often.

To get thousands of twitter followers in 90 days you must do the following.

• Use the rules of Attraction marketing and provide content and add value.
• Look to solve someone’s problem.
• Search out content and value and share with others
• Share motivational quotes and upload fun pics from time to time using twitpic.com
• Remember Twitter is Social Networking Tool so do not automate your tweets.
• You can however automate following those who follow you, automate your direct message, and automate notification of mentions.

One of the best tools that I have come across to automate some of the steps is called SocialOomph. Remember even using the automate tool do not spam or sell. 9 out of 10 marketers send out a sales page. This will not attract thousands of twitters followers instead they will “unfollow” you and Twitter might even shut your account down if it sees too many “unfollow” happening. One message that I see that works well is from book “Google Switch”, “You’re cool:p – connect with me on Facebook – “http://www.facebook.com/Yourusername” – Love connecting with cool peeps!”

This will save you tons of time and allow you to focus your time on income producing activities.

Having a plan to getting thousands of twitter followers in 90 days is very essential. One of the most important things to get thousands of twitter followers is consistency. To have consistency you need a daily plan of action.

• Discipline trumps talent. There is not a single successful person I have seen who did not have discipline even they may not have any talent.
• If you follow this plan of attack for 6 months, everyday, in less than 10 minutes per day, you will recruit, get traffic, and make tons of money.
• Read, Comment, and Retweet 10 MLM or Marketing blogs per day.
• Search out and Follow 20 MLM Leaders on Twitter Per Day
• Twellow.com
• Search.twitter.com
• Get 2-5 people to tell you NO to your opportunity Per Day
• Create One piece of Content per Day (blog, Article, video, etc) and share it on Twitter.

Remember Twitter is Social interaction tool. You’re building relationships online. Keep is informative, friendly and simple. Soon you will have thousands of twitter followers in 90 days.

What a great way of communication for the people has twitter become all over the world? Today, not only has twitter become one of the fastest growing websites worldwide but also it is the people’s favorite website.

In twitter, which is basically a free social networking website, such members have their own followers. These could be friends, family friends or people they are familiar to. The members send and also access messages that are called tweets. These tweets are available for the person’s followers to view them.

When people posts messages on twitter, they are able to restrict the viewers of the message. This could be to certain groups or friends. This is great and commonly people prefer it for it is cheap and easy to use.

Twitter has become very useful for business purposes in the world today. People are using it to advertise their products and to promote their businesses on. Twitter is making it possible for one to get a large number of people easily into his or her website and make money by advertising their web pages and sites on twitter.

Have a sale, promotions you are running or you need people to check out your website? Just inform or make them aware on twitter and you see the much twitter could be a solution to your marketing problems worldwide.

By having enough followers from this social working website, you can get them to start using your website and to click to links leading to your designed site.

As an internet marketer, do you have a problem figuring out how to get large crowds into your website? Why not consider twitter and reduce your worries?

With twitter, you are on your way to becoming a successful internet marketer. This is because you require large targeted traffic into your website which you get from this networking website from your followers on the site.