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Make Money Online With Twitter – Advanced Tweeting Techniques

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:02:23 +0000

I’m assuming here that you’re familiar with the basics of twitter. If you haven’t already got started and would like to know how to optimize your twitter account for Internet Marketing, read my article entitled ” Making Money Online with Twitter – The Wise Person’s Start Up Guide”.

Tweeting (sending out updates)

If your tweets invite responses, people will be more likely to answer! Just as you would at a party, ask questions and try to appear more interested in the other person than you are in yourself. Find out about them and look for ways to help them.

Interesting tweets often include links to other things available on the net: articles, pictures, videos, websites, blogs… Use these kinds of tweets in addition to your sensible advice to establish your reputation as an expert in your field – the kind of person who can help others.

When you read a really interesting tweet that you want to share with others, you should retweet it. People love having their stuff retweeted; it’s flattering.

If you don’t see anything to retweet and can’t think of anything yourself, use sites such as “stuff to tweet” or digg, where you are bound to find something interesting, but (unless it’s really brilliant) try to keep it relevant!

Don’t use tweets to plug your own stuff more than once in a while, or people will feel you’re too pushy. When you do promote your own site, be subtle, but make sure you mention some kind of must-have free offer – perhaps a pdf report. Ideally this free gift or report holds the answer to someone’s problem, so you have a legitimate reason for suggesting they check it out.

Getting into discussions

This is the important part: use “search twitter” to listen in on other people’s conversations. Type in a keyword that’s important to your business and find out who is discussing it already.

If you use the advanced search facility you can specify strings of words, and maybe a question mark as well – so you can find who is asking a question about your area of expertise. Results come up not just of people (anywhere in the world) who are asking right now, but also an hour ago or last night or a week ago.

Remembering that you’re helpfully offering expertise (and not trying to puff yourself up or hard-sell your product), you can join in these conversations and suggest solutions to the problems that people are discussing.

At the same time, other wise twitter users will be doing the same thing and searching for what you’re discussing. They may well decide to follow you, or send you a direct message asking for your opinion.

Links

Needless to say, your site and your blog will invite people to join you on twitter, and your twitter profile (and many of your direct messages) (each of which is a URL in its own right) will link to your other stuff. This is all good for Search Engine Optimization.

Use what you learn

You will inevitably gain valuable insights from listening in on conversations and finding out what people are tweeting about. These insights will help you add focus to your business and they will provide you with material for new tweets, blogs and articles!

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Ninja Rockstar on Twitter

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:02:20 +0000

How to become a ninja rockstar on twitter? It all starts with the number of followers you have – how many people get your message. It makes sense that the more followers you have, the more people that are actually reading your message, the more impact that you can have.

A new development has been twitter post search engines, searching twitter posts for any posts about a certain topic, or by certain people, or from certain geographic areas. This adds to your reach, but the number of followers seems to be the most important factor.

The more followers that you add, the more that will notice that, and follow you back. The more posts that you make, the more chances of being found on the twitter search engines, and the more chances of like minded people adding you to their twitter following list.

There are several tools that allow you to make more posts, more easily to your twitter accounts(s) – notice that you can have more than one twitter account – that’s a ninja twitter tip, right there!

Twirl, ping.fm – there are several desktop, or accumulating posting aids. Check in google under twitter tools for more. There are tools that take your wordpress posts, and add them to your twitter. There are other tools, or updating setups that will take Social Marketing updates, and add them to your Twitter posts.

My Squidoo account automatically makes a post whenever I update any of my Squidoo lenses – look for that on Squidoo settings – another ninja rockstar twitter tip!

Start out, as well all do, with nothing – get an account, make some posts, add some people that you follow, and start to build a following – much like blogging, but way quicker, easier and to the point to do it in 140 character bursts!

Keep at it, and soon you’ll be a Ninja Rockstar On Twitter!

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Cosmetic Surgery Marketing Tips: 5 Ways to Engage Patients on Twitter

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:04:38 +0000

1. Be yourself. There’s no substitute for conveying who you are in a real and personable way. With cosmetic surgeons, especially, it is extremely important to connect with people to build their trust. Sure, you have credentials that prove your expertise, but being a real person that they can relate to will help draw patients right to you like a moth to flame. They will want to hear what you have to say, will be more likely to click in to your website links, and will be glad to refer you to their loved ones when the time is right.

2. Post useful information to engage your patients for optimal cosmetic surgery marketing results. Before you post anything on Twitter, T.H.I.N.K. about it. T is for thought-provoking. Is your Tweet something that will really get your patients thinking? If yes, post it; if not, find something else to say. H is for helpful. Are you about to post something that will help your patients learn something new and will help them make a decision to come in to see you? I is for imaginative. Your Tweets should be somewhat entertaining. In other words, say what you have to say in a more imaginative way to better engage patients. N is for news. Something that is newsworthy is great to Tweet. It can be a link to a cosmetic surgery article in the news, a new announcement from your practice or anything else you think patients would be interested in. Finally, K is for knowledgeable. If you’re posting to your Twitter account yourself, you’ll have no problem with this one. However, if you hire someone else to do your cosmetic surgery marketing on Twitter for you, be sure they have some Internet resources and medical journals handy so that every Tweet is full of knowledge to impart on your patients.

3. Use the retweet function to give props to your Twitter followers! This is a big one, trust us. Your acknowledgement of their Tweet helps to build a relationship while positively acknowledging that what they said was important to you and should be shared. Retweet anything from your followers that you found interesting and add a short note in your retweet. Something like “Must-see tweet from @patientname.”

4. Reply to people’s Tweets. Sometimes, patients will ask questions about an article they found, they may have questions about a procedure, or may even have a specific comment about someone else’s Tweet. Scan through your followers’ comments and get into the conversation by replying. Offer short replies, links to expert articles you have found online, or offer to have them call you so you can answer their concern in more detail. Replying is a great way to reach out to your patients in a way that none of their other doctors are…guaranteed.This will dramatically boost the results you get from your cosmetic surgery marketing efforts.

5. Reach out to new followers. It may seem like it is completely unreasonable to keep track of dozens of new followers as they arrive at your Twitter account, but you can easily do this through free Twitter management tools available online. Hootsuite and TweetDeck are just two that work quite nicely. They can auto-send direct messages to your new followers the moment they follow you. Use the list of direct messages that the online tool has sent out to personally reach out to new followers within a week of their follow. It will take you as little as 10 minutes to build a lifetime relationship with potential patients.

These tips will help you engage your Twitter followers and grow your follower base. These are real, tangible ways to attract more patients to your cosmetic surgery practice. If you need help with your social media marketing, SEO, or would like a video made for your practice, we offer the following zero cost services: Website analysis to pinpoint SEO troubles and provide suggestions for improvements. Consultation with the owner for a customized cosmetic surgery marketing plan for your practice. 30-second video, customized with your practice’s information, ready to be put up on YouTube, your blog, or your website.

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Seeing Popular Tweets on Twitter Part1

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:04:37 +0000

Social networking sites have given a new life to the offspring of search engine optimization, that is to say, social media optimization and social media marketing.

One of the recent entrants in the field of social media marketing is twitter. The search results shown on Twitter help SEO professionals in properly executing the search engine optimization process on the website.

Twitter’s search results have undergone a drastic change in the recent past. The change is quite evident, at least to people who have used the search column on Twitter.com or search.twitter.com in past weeks. The search results in Twitter now show up to three most popular tweets placed above three most recent tweets.

Apart from the tweets, the search results also display the time of posting and the number of times it was re-tweeted. The new search display suggests that showing this information helps determine the popularity of the tweets.

Reality technician Taylor Singletary explained various web developers and SMO professionals about what determines the popularity of a tweet. He said that it is time to make real-time search even more valuable. This can be done by following simple steps such as sprouting the best tweets on a particular topic. However, you have to pay extra attention to what you choose as your topic. The next thing that is to be considered is that ‘how recent the tweet is’ along with the ‘interactions’ that go on those tweets. In other words, you have to analyze the profile of the author and count the number of times the tweet has been replied to, re-tweeted, or added to favorites.

How Twitter Hummingbird Can Automate Your Follow Process

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:04:36 +0000

Twitter is the newest “latest & greatest” fad in the internet marketing world. It allows for a very easy opportunity to send your message to thousands and thousands of people instantly. The trick is that you have to get a very large number of people following you (and hence, seeing your message) for Twitter to make an impact.
Lets face it, if you’ve only got 1,000 people following you & you send out an offer that gets a 2% click through rate… big whoop, you just got 20 clicks. Who cares?
The most common method of growing your twitter following is to follow mass amounts of people, and a certain percentage will follow you back.
The two most common ways of following people are:
a) Navigate to a leader in your market, look at their followers, and manually click the “follow” button next to each one of them
b) Have one of your outsourced minions do the above
Those two ways are ineffective. If you do it yourself, you’re spending a lot of your own time doing monkey work. It’s not fun. It’s not valuable. And if you rely on an overseas outsourcer to do this for you, they won’t always make the best decisions on whose followers to follow.
This is where Twitter Hummingbird will help. The software opens up & logs into one of your Twitter accounts. You navigate to someone’s followers and click “follow all.” That’s it. Done. The Hummingbird client will keep following until you tell it to stop, or until you hit one of the Twitter soft caps.
There are two other areas where Hummingbird is very useful:
1) Mass unfollows – you need to do this fairly often so that your ratio is within the 110% soft cap. Currently, there’s a free tool called Twitter Karma that can do this for you, but Twitter Karma will only unfollow 70-80 people at a time… which makes a large unfollow very time consuming and cumbersome. Since Hummingbird doesn’t use the Twitter API (it logs directly into your account instead), you can just press the “unfollow all” button, and it’ll take care of all your dirty work for you with no effort on your part.
2) Protected VIP’s – often, you’ll want to follow people on Twitter who will NOT follow you back. Most commonly, this will be celebrities or leaders in your market who you do not know personally. If you’re using a tool like Twitter Karma to do your mass unfollows, you’d have to manually look through your list & uncheck these VIP’s to prevent them from getting unfollowed. This is another huge chore. Hummingbird solves the problem by allowing you to create a “protected VIP list” – once you add someone to this list, they’ll get skipped over whenever you do a mass unfollow through the tool.
So if you’ve got an aggressive follow/unfollow strategy on Twitter, Hummingbird will make your life much easier for the above reasons.
However, that being said, there are 3 areas where Hummingbird could stand to improve.
a) No Mac Version – it’ll still work on a Mac, but you have to run it through Parallels or VM Firmware. That’s not ideal. Maybe they’ll come out with a Mac version eventually, but for now, it’s only PC based.
b) No hashtag support – it would be great if you could tell it to follow people based on hashtag use. This is not an option right now; the only follow method is to follow another Twitter user’s existing followers.
c) Can’t use it as your main Twitter client – its too slow and clunky. Although that doesn’t really matter, since you’d be doing all your tweeting either directly from twitter.com or Tweet Deck, or whatever your favorite tool is.

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Attracting a Following on Twitter for your Business

admin — Sun, 16 May 2010 14:02:34 +0000

Brent McLean is an Account Director at AlterSeekers, Inc.

As with any social media strategy, attracting a successful Twitter following starts with a clear, definitive plan. Spend the time to create realistic and measurable goals, then decide what kind of followers you want to attract. Study their behavior, how do they interact in Twitter? Learn to speak to your target audience in their language. How frequent are their tweets? Make sure that your Twitter strategy is flexible enough to be able to learn to interact with your followers on their terms.

Make Your Twitter Presence Known

Use your existing online and offline presence to promote and leverage your Twitter strategy. Put links to your Twitter account everywhere, not just in the virtual world, but in the physical world as well. Emails, print media, web pages, email signatures, other social media accounts, anywhere you can find a place, add a link. Make sure to completely fill the details of your profile; people are a lot more likely to follow someone if they can â??get to know’ them.

Have Something to Say and Say it Frequently

Tweet often, and make sure to leave enough time for your Twitter followers to react. Use a conversational tone and don’t hesitate to ask questions, because that is the fastest way to start an interactive dialogue with your Twitter followers. Sharing valuable information should be at the core of your Twitter strategy. If your content is good, people will retweet (repost your tweet) to their followers. Nobody is going to retweet meaningless drivel or spam, so make sure that your tweets are entertaining, education, and above all relevant. The more compelling, entertaining, and interesting your Twitter content is, the more retweets you will enjoy.

Use Hashtags to Find Relevant Conversations

Hashtags are used to group content and aid in keyword searches on a particular Twitter topic. Search for hashtag conversations that are occurring that are relevant to your business and jump right in on the dialogue. In the Twitter dialogues you initiate, use hashtags (#keyword) for your target keywords.

Track and Measure Your Results

As with any social media strategy, be sure to measure and track your Twitter results against your goals. Applications such as Twitter Counter will track your daily follower adds, and Qwitter can track how many people â??unfollow’ you. If you are not adding Twitter followers on a daily basis and rapidly increasing your numbers as quickly as you had expected, it is time to re-evaluate your Twitter strategy and make some adjustments.

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My Top 7 Essential Twitter Tools

admin — Sun, 16 May 2010 14:02:32 +0000

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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you have probably heard something about the new microblogging platform, Twitter, and how Twitter has taken the online marketing world by storm. The phenomenon has even spawned a new lingo, with new your new tweeps (followers) tweeting (making posts) you and discussing the state of the Twitterverse (you get the idea here).
While Twitter is pretty easy to use, there’s an overwhelming amount of tools, plug-ins and applications being developed to support it. I ran across one blog that listed over 100. How can you determine which ones will best support you in your use of Twitter?
I’ve tried to sort though all of the junk, and come up with my 7 essential Twitter tools:
1. TwitterFox. This is actually a Firefox browser plug-in that permits you to keep up with your tweets and any direct (private) messages that come your way. Tweetdeck and Twhirl similarly help your manage your tweets and tweeps and have gotten rave reviews from users, but I prefer the simplicity of Twitterfox. All I have to do is check the Twitter logo in the lower right corner of any browser window to check my Tweets and to reply to any of them that I want.
2. TweetLater. The primary function of TweetLater.com is to permit die-hard Twitterers to stock up Tweets that can be scheduled to be posted over a period of time. However, the reason that I like it is that I can forward the emails about who is following me to my TweetLater email address, and my will automatically get a direct message from me. I just love it when I can automate my marketing tasks!
3. TwitterFeed. This service will enable you to feed your blog posts to your Twitter account. You can control the frequency with which Twitter displays your blog post, as well as the text used to preface your blog feed. I use “Blog update” to preface my posts.
4. TwitterSearch. This site offers a quick way to search what people are posting about particular topics or keywords in the twitterverse.
5. TweetBeep. This is the equivalent of Google Alerts for Twitter, which permits you to track mentions of your name, products, company, or anything else you want to track.
6. LoudTwitter. LoudTwitter is the bridge that posts your daily Tweets to your blog Your blog takes care about the archiving of your tweets along with your other posts, which give more context. After all, if you have a blog and a Twitter, your blog is probably the core place where you want to be found and tracked.
7. Png.fm. While technically not a Twitter tool, I quickly tired of manually updating my status settings at all of my social networking sites. So, I began using Ping.fm. When you update your status at Ping.fm, the service will automatically update your status on all of your social networking sites, like Twitter, Facebook, Plurk, Pownce, to name a few (there are 21 you can update). Depending on the number of networks you use, it will take you 10-50 minutes to connect your Ping.fm account to your various social network accounts. However, once everything is set up, you simply log into your Ping account, post your update (no more than 140 characters), and your status is automatically upgraded on all of your social networking profiles. I use this tool to post Tweets, but use Twitterfox to post my @ replies to my followers.
Even though Twitter initially seemed like a fad, it’s not going away. Use these tools to maximize your use of Twitter and enhance your social networking!

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How to Use Tweet Cloud For Your Twitter Account

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:02:35 +0000

If you already have set up your Tweet cloud page, remember to pay close attention to the text on your profile bio that describes who you are and what you do. Ensure that there is a link to your website and make sure that your website is attractive and provide valuable information. For example Captivate Designs provide web design services, so it’s highlighted in my bio. It is important to remember that when potential customers take the time to read your bio, they want information that is interesting and helpful that will prompt them to visit your website or learn more about you.

Just like forums or blogs, you need to demonstrate that you are the expert, but you also don’t want to be too promotional. Provide expert opinions, directions and suggestions but also add in non business related tweets that’s not just all about you. Review tweets, or use the search engine to find tweets and be willing to offer bits of information or advice for free.

You can also do what is called re-tweeting. Re-tweeting is where you can repost a tweet from someone else. If you find a tweet that you consider to be of value to your followers, you can simply re-tweet this information on your page. The accepted way of re-tweeting is to type ‘RT’ followed by @ and the tweeter’s username.

All in all, Tweet cloud is a great tool that can expand your reach to customers and potential customers. It allows you to stay in touch and connect with people instantly. It can help drive your brand and communicate with customers in a way that you have never done before. Think about it? Never before have you been able to reach American Consumers by Millions in such a personal and one on one basis until the phenomenon of the tweet cloud website.

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Twitter is an Effective Tool for Internet Marketers

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:02:33 +0000

What is Twitter? Well, on the Twitter login page it is introduced as: a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?The concept of Twitter at first glance appears to offer a very unique method of communicating with people for casual banter. However, if you are marketing in any way on the Internet, this can be a powerful platform for providing information and for generating traffic.When entering a message (known as a Tweet), the user is forced to communicate effectively, because the content is limited to 140 characters. It does not take long to figure out how to concisely get your Tweet across.If Twitter is new to you, perhaps you have not yet grasped its true potential. It definitely has to be one of the best free traffic generators on the Internet. Its simplicity and accessibility has made this tool extremely attractive to over two million users, and that figure seems to be growing exponentially.Once you register to participate on Twitter (http://twitter.com), you will begin to follow other Twitterers. But, the real key for you as a marketer is to generate your own followers. Thus, giving you the opportunity to get your message out quickly and easily.As with any marketing headline, the goal of the Tweet is to capture the readers attention and lead them to where your moneymaker content is located (sales page, opt-in, article, etc). Within your 140 characters you hopefully entice the reader and provide a short hyperlink.Beyond the linked message area, the perks of this site are multifaceted. The page begins with an automatic welcome that introduces you to the reader and invites them to become a follower. Next, in a personal information area in the upper right corner of the page you can embed a link to a web page and provide a brief bio.Of course, if you are going to encourage folks to follow you (or to retain followers), your Tweets need to offer value. For the Internet marketer there can sometimes be a fine line between responsibly leading someone to more information or using a platform to blatantly spam an unwanted message.Take the opportunity to promote your Twitter page whenever possible. Place your Twitter link on your website, blog, ezine, article signature box, and so on. For example, this is my link: http://twitter.com/davidschaefer, and I encourage you to become a follower.Twitter.com includes a few more features not mentioned here – just visit the help section. And, everyday creative entrepreneurs are offering new products and services to independently support and expand the use of Twitter. The most important point is to take advantage of Twitters simplicity, effectiveness, and potential marketing reach.

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4 Of The Best Twitter Tips and the Posts They Came From

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:02:31 +0000

Twitter is one of the best micro-blogging (Web 2.0) channels available online that you can use to communicate with customers and leads. You can also use Twitter for marketing purposes to signal important information, new blog posts, services, help desk queries, etc. Twitter search is a great real time search engine built around the messages that are Tweeted by members. If you were looking for real time information on the “Holidays Las Vegas” and what people are saying about it, Twitter Search is the place to find this information. But if you really want to swim with the fearless and benefit from every single move on Twitter, read on.

Studies have shown that it is possible to intentionally create a Tweet worthy of a retweet. Ask to be retweeted and add the word “please” can be enough to encourage your Followers to do just that.

“What could be more annoying and less useful than a site where thousands of people are given 140 characters to shout out about what they’re doing at every moment of the day? The amazing thing is that enough people out there think this mindless stream of ephemera (‘I’m eating a tangerine,’ ‘I’m waiting for a plane,’ ‘I want a Big Mac’) is interesting enough to serve as the basis for a viable advertising platform.” as Mark Simon wrote back in September 2007.

Wouldn’t it be just great if you could find the most useful tweets and links about the hottest most interesting topics online, all in one place? Wouldn’t it be just convenient if you could link that valuable information to the tweeple who posted it so you can have continuous access to his/her tweets by following him/her accordingly?

Ask people to follow you at your Twitter URL. This might seem obvious, but most people still aren’t doing it. I admit, it was lost on me until about a month ago. This needs to be on everything – including your business card. Invite people to follow you by including a request, hyperlinked to your Twitter profile, in (1) your email signature and (2) the byline under blog posts.

So remember, while there are many help files, ebooks, blog posts available on the internet online for Twitter, the best Twitter Tips tool I have found is the Twitter Traffic Swarm.

Get more help and resources (including online links to valuable information) when you visit the original post on my blog.

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