Twitter, the massive micro-blogging platform (140 characters, that’s all you get) could be your key to jumping in Google rankings and consequently getting more leads. This social networking site has been derided as merely a vehicle for teens and tweens to let their acquaintances know what they’re doing every nine seconds, but has gained reasonably a following in all demographics. The most notable is the Head, Barack Obama, whose Twitter page has over 800,000 followers and ranks second only to the actual Twitter site in a search for “Twitter” on Google.One of the keys that Twitter has given people who use its air force is SEO optimized titles that have had an immediate effect on rankings for the individual or group represented on the page. The simple reorganization of the Twitter page title from “Twitter / anytownrealestate” to “Anytown Real Estate (anytownrealestate) on Twitter” is making a BIG difference in how the page is ranked in Google.The wonderful thing about Twitter is that the 140 character limit releases one from the obligation to write a “real” blog post. One can dash off an “is waiting for the start of the Open House at 123 Anyroad, Anytown. Come stay!” (your name is involuntarily appended to each post). in a few seconds on a BlackBerry. Twitter helps keep your presence in your clients’ and contacts’ lives by inserting your name into their daily life when they read their Twitter page.One of the keys is to be appealing. It’s not enough to talk about or post links to homes you’re representing. Try to make your Peep appealing in a general significance. “…is representing this home (link). It is a classic Victorian “gingerbread” house, so named for the lavish ornamentation…” is better than “is representing this home (link)” Make people interested in the house for some reason. You don’t have to permanently do this when posting a link, but at least intersperse appealing facts and news about your area.Area events are fantastic ways of getting your name out there. “Are you plotting on coming to the (Area) community meeting? It’s at The Meeting Center: 123 Anyroad, Room 1 @ 7:30PM.” shows that you’re aware of events in your community and can also be followed by people wanting to keep up to date about area events. If you’re a go-to person for community information, people are more likely to reckon of you when they need a name to “go to” for a real estate transaction. (It also helps if you’re at the community meeting!)These terms are not only excellent for getting people’s attention; they are also excellent Google attention-getters. If you’re constantly talking about “Area homes”, Google is more likely to rank you higher for that. If you have relevant content that people are looking for, the more Google like you’re gonna get! Keep count pictures and information and be appealing! You will get more attention from people who are not real estate minded, but that only serves to drive up your popularity in general.Twitter, like so many other social networking tools, is one weapon in an arsenal. It can significantly help your online presence and keep people’s attention once you’ve got it. Being that it’s so simple to use and doesn’t require a lot of writing, it can be fantastic for the real estate qualified who doesn’t have a lot of time to compose blog posts and articles.
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Can You Tweet Your Way to a Home Sale?
Friday, February 12th, 2010To Twitter Or Not To Twitter-Is It Sweet To Tweet?
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Lastminute.com founder Brent Hoberman described it as “a fascinating zeitgeist tool. It’s an brilliant way of understanding trends, seeing what people are talking about and what’s firing their imaginations. It also feeds into our celebrity culture; the snooping that makes us human. There is permanently a name out there having a better time than you and you want a bit of it. “Brent is not alone; Barack Obama has been at it for ages…Right now it is the place to be, it’s got the PR and the momentum but it does not have the revenue model at present and it’s purely venture capital funded.To the uninitiated, messages are known as tweets and people who read your messages are called followers. Then there is the particular Twitter culture and mode of behaviour: sociability is enhanced by retweeting messages you find illuminating by rebroadcasting them to your followers. Among hardcore users, gratuitous self-promotion is frowned upon.Twitter has stumbled upon a formula that a total generation of internet start ups has been searching for: a way for people to connect with acquaintances, express themselves and find information that stands a chance of one day becoming as standard as other mass online trends such as blogging and social networking.Three years ancient, the Silicon Valley company only has 29 employees whilst the basic service will remain free, business users as on Linked In may be charged for extra functions. Meanwhile there is a viral network effect which is giving it fantastic growth. The Twitter phenomenon has much to do with the fundamental simplicity of the thought. Operating at a juncture of blogging, texting and social networking, the service defies simple categorisation. “Because it is undergoing such rapid evolution, it’s hard to slap a categorize on it” says Peter Fenton a partner at Benchmark Capital, who has joined Twitter’s board.Businesses have been keen to tap into a rapidly growing network like Twitter. The fact that users can choose which messages they want to receive could open the way to a new “opt-in” marketing says Bob Pearson of Dell. The computer maker for instance , issues a stream of tweets about new discounts on its harvest.In summary Twitter’s six secrets of online success: * Immediacy: Real-time flow of comments and adaptability to mobile handsets makes it more immediate than blogging. * Brevity: Limiting messages to 140 characters makes it simpler to produce and simpler to digest. * ‘Pull’ not ‘push’: The ability of users to choose whose tweets they follow makes it less random than email. * Searchability: Messages can be searched, making the content more accessible than the comments on a social network. * Mixing the public and the personal: A user’s personal contacts are on an copy footing with public figures. * ‘Retweeting’: By copying and retransmitting messages, users can turn the network into a giant echo chamber. * This past week Twitter has been in the news several times: * Life or death – A snowboarder was found dead but Twitter had been used in the search and kept searchers up-to-date.Twitter has been used very effectively to bring to somebody’s attention cash for Comic Relief, after the Twestival and the current hitchhike of Twitchhiker, the TwitterTitters have compiled new book of comedy all this raising well deserved funds for Comic Relief.On the commercial side-a US based IT company has urban a network of sensors that measure the amount of moisture in the soil and compares it to the optimum moisture amount. This data is sent to a local network. The data is then turned into a text or Twitter message, to tell you when you need to water your plants. So how cool it is that your plants can now Twitter you to tell you they are thirsty!Give it a go….Find out which UK and US politicians use Twitter the most: www.ft.com/twitteringclassesand some well known Twitterersâ?¦.Will Carling Russell BrandDemi MooreChris MoylesBritney SpearsLance ArmstrongJohn CleeseSnoop DoggNoel EdmondsBill GatesRichard BransonJamie OliverToby YoungBoris JohnsonOver to you, can interim management professionals meet the expense of not to join the Twittering classes?Inspiration for this blog from the FT, The Observer, Computing and Metro, thank you.To read the original post, go to Clive’s blog
Tweet and Tweeps
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010If you are looking for means to know the need of your customers as well as keep up marketing for potential customers, Twitter is going to be a huge help. This type of networking communication has been taken up similarly by companies and individuals in recent months and for many excellent reasons.
Twitter is a program that allows you to make very small, public posts. Postings are limited to 140 characters so that it can be easily sent to a number of different locations all at once. When you ““peep””, it will appear on Twitter website, on fleeting message air force, IM sites or even on third party applications such as Facebook or Twitterific. You can even add a script to your blog or website to show your newest post and the posts of others. Your Twitter messages the lingo that Twitter uses will appear to anyone who has chosen to a follower of your Twitter posts.
This type of communication is advantageous. First thing is that it allows a quick relay of information. The shortness of the message sets you to be brief and this can make interest for readers. “Tweets” evenly lead to frequent posting and this is brilliant when you are looking for people to communicate with. By default, Twitter is public but you can confine the people who will see your material by just setting this on your profile.
You cannot only post tweets but rather you can receive also. Want to follow a name’s updates? Or see what they are up to with their business or life in general? Just sign up with your Twitter account, type in their Twitter username or address, click on the “Follow” button and presto! You can get all the updates you want.
The amount of time you spend in reading the messages is very fleeting so you can be in contact with people and have a fantastic deal with them. With this, you can get to know each other quickly than if you were just reading each other’s profile or blog. Reckon about this, do you feel more connected to those in your messenger list rather than the blogs you read? This is the same way with Twitter.
So whether you are looking for acquaintances, clients, or a name to help you out with your problem, still getting in touch is vital. So Peep now!
Have You Heard These Words: Twitter, Tweet, Tweeting
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Have You Heard These Words…..Twitter, TWEET, TWEETING, Internet Marketing, Making Cash, Home Based income, or blogging for income?
Hi my name is Tom and I am a 40 year ancient married father of four and I have been hearing for the last several months about TWITTER.It is all over the news as well as the internet. Being a curous member of the Generation X I have started to look at several ways to increase my income. I am in the securities industry and well as we all know the market has had some huge drops in 2008 and 2009. Recently, I chose to take the plunge and I opened an account. At first there really did not seem to be much to it.If you look or Google you find tons of information that will just spin your head right off your neck! Well I am a kind of gotta have it now kinda guy and with family, and work, I just don’t have the time to hunt down all the info.Recently I exposed how cool HOW TO videos are and have been learning from some fantastic videos out there on Internet marketing as well as social marketing.Videos are the best learning tools that I have found. With that said, I came across The Twitter Traffic Apparatus, by a guy named Bill Crosby. At fist I found nothing but then realized I was typing in Bill COSBY who is neither a blogger or white bald guy with a significance of humor for that topic.
“The Twitter Traffic Apparatus” is a system that can build you a following of possibly 16,000 + followers in as small as 90 days.Currently Bill Crosby’s being followed by OVER 28,000 people as of 4/13/2009.The reason I looked at this opportunity is for the sheer traffic numbers that are possible. Imagine have a list of 10,000 people you can instantly give a link to.The possibilities seemed awesome.Well, I bought Bill’s product and guess what, it does what it says! Like I said earlier I like videos to learn internet marketing and how to material. Not only does this have videos but there is an ACTUAL GAME PLAN.This plot shows you how to duplicate his success.
I found Bill Crosby’s “Twitter Traffic Apparatus” so simple to know and implement. You just place the thing on autopilot and watch it build, making you more cash daily. And the price is so reasonably low, I spent more yesterday taking the wife and kids to dinner . The huge thing for me with internet harvest is this A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE! If you are not satisfied, FOR ANY REASON he has a 60 day, cash back guarantee! I reckon you owe it to yourself to check out and look at the videos on his info page. This I product and strategy I believe is going to be the marketing tool you’ve been looking for to skyrocket your traffic and sales! Just one word of advise, don’t show your age and say you twatted, heard that on a newscast and cracked me up.
Excellent luck all
Automatically Tweet Your News or Blog
Monday, February 8th, 2010Twitter is a fantastic tool. But it doesn’t replace blogging – even if it can suppliment it. There is a fantastic service out there called TwitterFeed that will take any RSS feed and send new posts to your Twitter account involuntarily. That is fantastic because people who are interested in your Tweets are probably also interested in your blog and this way you can promote your blog with no extra effort. And don’t forget you can use RSS feeds to involuntarily send new posts from your news or blog to other blogs, Facebook, etc.
What is Twitter?
Twitter is in the end a micro blog. So instead of writing a long, thought out post, you can keep it fleeting and sweet. In fact, you have to, as each “peep” is only allowed 140 characters. You can peep text, links and even photos and you can do it from your computer and even from your cell phone.
So why peep? Excellent question. It’s a fantastic way to let acquaintances and family know what you’re up to and share the small things that happen in your day. Evenly people use it for sharing a random pun thought or a fantastic website link or a photo of their kids. Professionally it’s a fantastic way to find other people with similar wellbeing and learn from them and share things you’ve found to be helpful too. Evenly people use Twitter for posting questions to acquaintances and colleagues as well.
Recently Twitter added the ability to search tweets. This is huge. Now you can see trends of what people are talking about right this second, unlike searching on Google and finding pages that were indexed days or even weeks ago. It’s like a giant, world-wide chat room. For example, your wife may be a huge American Idol Fan (This is all hypothetical, of course). You could search on the term “Idol” and find what a bazillion other people are talking about right that second regarding American Idol. And it’s usually pretty amusing.Will Twitter replace Google….I doubt it, but it does have it’s place for searching for things that are very time sensitive, like news.
4 Quick & Easy Ways to ‘tweet’ Your Articles
Friday, February 5th, 2010Article Marketing and Twitter is a powerful combination.Previous to I show you four powerful ways to repurpose your articles on Twitter, let me take a moment and tell you one thing “article tweeting” is not. It’s not sending your article out in 10-15 separate 140 character tweets on Twitter. That’s not article tweeting….that’s annoying.With that out of the way, I’m going to teach you four different strategies to article peep.Strategy 1 – AutomationBoth of these things you accomplish previous to your head hits the pillow tonight.Log into your EzineArticles account and you are in your Author’s Area. Then you click on Profile Manager, that’s the midpoint choice of the five choices in the top navigation bar. In the drop down box you click on Edit Author Bio, and then you simply penetrate your user name and your password from Twitter. For more details www.article-writing-secret.com.Once you’ve done that and hit save, every time you get a new article in print, EzineArticles involuntarily sends a message to Twitter, and Twitter puts out a micro blog post announcing to your entire Twitter list and to the list of everybody following you on Twitter.Strategy 2 – Self Announcing Your ArticlesOnce your article is up on Ezine Articles and announced on Twitter, you can follow that up with your own tweets directing people to read your article.Strategy 3 – Helping OthersPay attention to people asking questions and answer those questions and direct them to one of your articles. You’re responding to people and you’re helping them. That’s building community around you and building your expert-ability. It identifies you as the expert and people like it that you’re just being helpful.Strategy 4 – RT CampaignsRT on Twitter stands for re-peep. Some one sees the announcement of your article re-sends that announcement. People will do this voluntarily and you can also question those in your community to do so.I make a habit out of retweeting the posts of my students and of my followers, especially when they’ve got a new article out. This lets other people on my list know that there’s a new article by this person.Now follow me on this. Let’s say that you do an article peep and it goes to the Twitter page of all of your followers on Twitter. For more details www.ezines-success.com.It also is seen by but many thousands of people that are following your followers. Then it’s also seen by those people, and if they re-peep it then it’s seen by the people following those folks.This quickly goes viral and spreads your articles all over Twitter, brings in traffic, bring in prospects, and brings in profits when you do it right.
Twitter Marketing Tips – Using Tweet Later
Thursday, February 4th, 2010TweetLater.com Anyone?
No doubt that Twitter is one of the most effectual tools an affiliate peddler or an online business peddler can have. If you are a new online peddler and you have no thought what we are talking about here, let us break down the condemn above even further.
Twitter is a social networking website that allows users to post details about themselves in 140 characters or more. Your details that you micro-post are seen by those who follow your tweets. Twitter can be used by a peddler’s advantage through the following:
It allows a peddler to make known his or her goods and air force in a personal amount.It promotes traffic.
Just post your website link in your peep and question your followers to stay this so that they can [insert whatever hook you have in your business].For up and running affiliate sites, you can question for pointer on what your Twitter acquaintances reckon about your site.
You get to know what is the newest niche or topic in Twitter-land real time, with no cost. You can use this information to boost traffic to your site.Look for talents where you can outsource your work to.
Now, there is a particular tool connected to Twitter called TweetLater.com. Using TweetLater.com to your advantage will be most advantageous to an affiliate peddler to ensure constant posting without having to hire a name to post for you and without having to chain yourself to your laptop.
TweetLater.com is a tool that will allow you to continuously post tweets even if you are not in front of your PC, without typing the peep on your mobile or on your PDA. Use TweetLater.com to post your tweets for you right through the day. Its like making postdated tweets for future posting.
If you are excited to go about doing this, here are the steps.
Go to TweetLater.com and click on registerImportantly, use your Twitter account details in your registration.After registration, log in TweetLater.com using your Twitter username and password.Click the button that looks like a pencil which will allow you to edit your account. You can choose to have an automatic welcome message to your new followers and other events you want for TweetLater.com to do for you.To make post dated tweets, click on the link that says Scheduled Tweets and plug in the details of your scheduled tweets.
As a peddler, you have to acknowledge the power of reaching out to your audience.
So the more constantly and the more personally that you reach out to them, the more they will gravitate towards your business. Having a TweetLater.com account to ensure that your audience will evenly be reminded of you is a excellent thought to familiarize your audience more and more about your business. In this quick paced world where everything is instant, from coffee to mashed potatoes, if you spend even just a week away from the audiences, you and your business will by now be slipping away from your audience consciousness. With TweetLater.com, you will avoid this unfortunate occurrence as you take a quick vacation from your marketing tasks
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To Tweet or Not to Tweet – Tips on how to Use (or not use) Twitter as a marketing tool
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Â
Twitter has featured heavily in the news of late, from twitterers breaking news tales ahead of the news wires, to the power of the user community making and hurting brands.
Marketing professionals instinctively know they need to be in this space, but how; in what capacity; with what investment and what are the returns going to be? These are all valid questions and all deserve attention.
So, letâ??s take a step back and look at how Twitter is currently making an impression and some things to consider when deciding when to peep.
The Golden Rules:
1. Donâ??t Sell
First and foremost, Twitter, like any other social media channel is about community. The individuals that are there are not there to be sold to. So, rule number one is: Donâ??t push sales through this channel. First and foremost, this place is about communication and community.
2. Get Involved
Even if following users might provide companies insights into what the Twitter community is talking about, the point is to give information as well as receive it. Posting useful news about your brand or sector might end with your company gathering a host of followers that could very well become, depending on what you have to say, your brand advocates.
3. Add Value
The point of using Twitter is to place forward information. If your acquaintances are following you, you might feel comfortable talking about your morning walk into work. If a brand does that, users might find it a bit odd. So if youâ??re going to post information, which by all means you should, make it useful and relevant to your business, whether itâ??s about your company specifically or a touch relating to your industry. Twitterers tend to follow people that “peep” about things theyâ??re interested in, so keep information up to date and relevant.
4. Respond
Like most things, there are rules of etiquette that should be followed. When people follow you itâ??s because theyâ??re interested in what you have to say. When they “re-peep” what youâ??ve said itâ??s because theyâ??ve found it valuable enough to share. When a name takes the distress to comment on what youâ??ve tweeted, itâ??s only polite to respond, even if you donâ??t automatically like what they have to say.
This is where the real opportunity for user engagement lies. You can set up alerts that go straight to your in-box letting you know when people are talking about your brand. Whether the conversation is negative or positive, you can use this as a tool to reach people on a real personal amount. But whatever you do, do not try to choke the conversation. Allowing people to have their say is what Twitter is based on.
5. Watch your mouth (or be ready for the consequences)
Last month an ad outfit expressive was flying into FexEx Global Headquarters in Memphis to present on digital media on behalf of their outfit, Ketchum. Upon his arrival, he sent out the following peep:
“Right declaration but Iâ??m in one of those towns where I scratch my head and say â??I would die if I had to live here.â??”
The peep was picked up by a FedEx employee who promptly emailed it to all Directors and management within FedEx. The result was an mad letter to the offending twitterer regarding the amount of cash spent with his outfit and how offended FedEx was at the peep.
The moral of this tale is be careful about what you peep and be prepared to react to any negative response.
6. Be patient, be persistent
Engaging in social media takes time and stanchness and the things are not permanently immediate. But, through count value to the community, you can start to see the audience grow. What you mustnâ??t do is neglect this channel once you get started, otherwise, your followers will get bored and “unfollow” you. So, being consistent is vital. Over time, you may see more and more individuals following what you have to say, responding to you and giving you insights into what is happening in your marketplace. So, direct financial ROI might not be apparent, but by being a long term contributor to Twitter, you can be doing your brand a world of excellent. (As long as you pay attention to rules one to five)
Other Elements to Consider:
Measurability
One of the statements Iâ??ve heard a lot is, “It sounds excellent in theory, but I donâ??t reckon weâ??ll get anything out of it. If I canâ??t get a direct ROI, I canâ??t justify the investment.”Â
I awesome sight at this attitude given that the volume of budget that is spent on habitual marketing where accountability is hard (and in some cases) impossible to measure. With Twitter, you can monitor how many people are following you and set up alerts to tell you when your brand is mentioned.
You can add news pieces and blog posts to your tweets that can be tracked back to your site. Also, in some cases, people re-tweeting what you have to say can add to your overall link popularity if they include the URL. In addition, because Twitter is based on people following you because they are interested in what you have to say, it is consent based. Just donâ??t abuse this by trying to sell.
Being part of the Twitter community is about communication, engagement, value and trust. As long as you remember this when stepping into this channel, you can soon start to see the benefits of the rapidly growing network.
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Making Money Using Twitter – Tweet Your Way To The Top “>
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Twitter is a global phenomenon with hundreds of thousands of people unification it every month, that is hundreds of thousands of eyeballs that you have the chance to get to your blogs or websites!
As with anything online then you need to make sure you are not spamming the site, the internet certainly does not need any more spammers! But I’m going to teach you in this guide how to go about it the right way and be seen as a trusted advisor rather than a ruthless salesman.
It will require some work, this is not some spammy automatic traffic system that you can turn on and forget about – then again neither is it low feature spammy traffic (if you do it right). Using these techniques you can get high feature, qualified traffic keenly bearing over to nearly any link that you send.
Forget open rates on email messages, in Twitter every message is by now ‘opened’ for your audience to see!
Let’s get straight into this guide by talking about exactly what Twitter is…
To your profits!
What is Twitter?
Unless you have been living under a digital rock for the past year or so then you can’t help but notice the meteoric rise of Twitter into the public limelight, it is being talked about everywhere now!
Nearly every blog has applications committed for it, the news adores it, people are addicted to it, and as permanently, new ways to market with it are born.
For instance Namecheap, a standard domain registrar, did a Christmas competition where they would question a question every hour on Twitter, and the first couple of people who gave the right answer as a comeback in Twitter would get a free domain registration. I know this bagged them a lot of followers, which is a captive audience they can now market to again and again!
So what is Twitter?
Well the owners say:
“Twitter is a service for acquaintances, family, and co–staff to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?”
But Wikipedia gives us a clearer thought with its definition:
“Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in part.”
So it is a micro-blog where you make micro-blog posts called tweets. Its popularity stupefies most people, you either like it or you despise it, and most of the world still cannot know why anyone would want to know that you are ‘having breakfast’ or any of the incredibly mundane things that people post.
Yet it does have a silver lining, ’simplicity’ is a word I see the guys behind Twitter use a lot, and that is certainly part of the appeal, no groups, no clicking around constantly to find things, nobody varying the text to huge red letters as they type…
Just a window when you go in where all the messages pop up so you can see what you want to read, and the part of them (140 characters) makes people get to the point quickly!
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Twitter – Let Me Tweet You
Saturday, January 30th, 2010So how does Twitter work? – Well you make a free account and invite people to follow your updates. Â They see your “Tweets” in their timeline and their followers can now follow you etc. etc. Â So as you can see its pretty viral and your follower base can grow quickly.Â
For internet marketers like us Twitter is a precious tool.  Once you learn to utilize its power, Twitter makes a raving fan base that you can exchange into customers.Â
The key phrase here is “Once you learn to utilize its power!” Â
You see, like with anything else there is a right way and a incorrect way to use Twitter.  Just as easily as you can build raving fans you can also rub people the incorrect way and penetrate a downward spiral that makes the opposite effect! Â
I have excellent acquaintances that has permanently been my source for traffic tips and social media advice. Â When it comes to utilizing free traffic methods to get tons of people to your sites these acquaintances are valuable resource man and when it comes to building a HUGE subscriber base quick Twitter is your tool.Â
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Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service which can be synchronized to your other social network platform like facebook, plaxo, and myspace. Moreover, you can use your cell phone to send tweets and keep up with what others are tweeting about.
Twitter is a service for acquaintances, family, and co-staff to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages.