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But now it’s evolving into so much more… a massive opportunity to generate income… IF you know what you’re doing!

Here’s how I see it’s importance… Twitter lets you know instantly what hundreds of thousands of people are thinking on any given topic.

When the Air Forced scared the heck out of people doing a “flyover” of New York City that reminded folks of “9/11″ they monitored Twitter to see how deeply they’d offended the populace.  A simple “Twitter” search on “trending topics” was all it took.

So what about your product? service? As I’ve mentioned elsewhere on the topic of “Real Time  Brand Management”, companies who have recognized Twitter’s potential have a staff of professionals monitoring Twitter for customer discontent so they can respond helpfully and in person.  This is a customer service and customer retention function of Twitter.

The more tricky issue is one of actual marketing. Twitter is averse to marketing and direct sales. The opportunity exists to market if one can time effectively and cost effectively identify interested parties seeking the kind of information you can provide.

This is the proverbial “catch 22″. Twitter offers immense value but could become a “black hole” of wasted time and effort if the plan devolves into online “schmoozing”!

How do you dive into the “Twitter Haystack” to find those needles  - the customers who want to do business with you?

Based on my own experience so far, here’s what I suggest:

1) Forget direct selling. Twitter is a long term strategy.

2) Focus on promoting information, tips, articles, etc. first and creating a strategy with one goal – listbuilding.

3) Use software to identify potentially interested followers but don’t let your Twitter Profile come on like a sleazy marketer… come on like a topic expert.

4) Feed your RSS through your Twitter account but don’t make Twitter just a broadcast medium for your site.

5) The most likely Twitter communication to get a response is a direct message or @ (reply).  I suggest the “@” to interact personally with people. In my experiments, such replies got 30 to 50% click through.

6) Intrusive, off topic “@’s” are likely to get you suspended. Frankly if you’re selling iPads right now, I don’t think this will work for you… just the name of what you’re promoting seems too much like spam! A few people “blocking” your account could mean you’re looking for a new account! And you may want to expect that to happen.

7) Automation can do too much. You may find 1,000 people talking about a “baby” for instance, but it doesn’t mean they are a person you should contact.  Someone may be saying something like “Oh baby that’s one hot momma!” Likely that’s not a prospect who wants to read your site’s articles on “how to survive a baby with colic”. See what I mean? Same thing for any key word or phrase.

8 ) In fact, Twitter searching is not like keyword SEO in Google in many ways. Say you promote articles on personal finance. Search for “Credit Repair” and I’ll guarantee you’re going to get almost 100% marketers - not real potential readers for your site or folks interested in your contact list.

9) The above fact requires that automation never be separated from human interaction. Human eyes need to verify an actual contact through some search strings will help you avoid “major” trash results. In the end, staff time must be allocated with “automation time”! Automation just makes personal time investment more effective.

10) Landing Page management is crucial. If you get huge click throughs but no email or rss sign ups, why bother in a sense? Even “Missionaries” for a cause would prefer the option of follow up contacts!

For that reason, I suggest constant tracking and testing of your landing pages to maximize results. Test video, hovering interaction, specialized footer advertising, etc. and other techniques and ruthlessly adapt all your pages to conform to the one most likely to build your list. Once you do this for Twitter, it will likely work for your other readers!

Failing at this last point, can invalidate all you other efforts!

Test the products linked to here. If you’re interested in Twitter Marketing Consulting, contact me!

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The software lets you:

• Automatically follow users with the same interest
• Automatically follow users that are in real need of your products and services
• Automatically follow the followers of users who are already popular in your niche
• Ignore users with no pictures and who tweet links to minimize following spammers
• Follow users from other users lists
• Follow users with your specified random number of users in a specified random time intervals
• Follow and unfollow users using the web browser and not API to appear more natural
• Auto unfollow users who don’t follow you back
• Auto unfollow users you followed in a specified number of days
• VIP list and protect very special users from unfollowing even if they dont follow you back

It does much, much more, but if you’re looking for a tool to help you connect on Twitter, this is a pretty powerful one.

Twitter Tool (affiliate link)

I’m still testing things, but Twitter  is a powerful tool – potentially – for marketing, “Brand Management”, and for actual selling at times. (By marketing I mean more frequently “build a list”  vs. an immediate sale.)

But right now I am beta testing a  Twitter marketing system that is amazing.

When I use this system properly, I get people to willingly click my marketing link 15% to 100% of the time! Wow! You can’t even get people to hardly open email these days let alone click the links!

100% click through? Yes on some tests.

I believe Twitter works best for MARKETING instead of sales but I know some are making sales  from  this  system too.

If you could get 100 clicks per day to  your “squeeze page” (lead capture page) would you like that? What about 200 click throughs daily?

I generated about 143 click throughs  to several tests last night in an hour’s time.

It’s the fastest results  on Twitter I’ve ever received while staying completely on topic and without spam.

The principles behind what I’m doing aren’t secret… you can see them in general here.

But how I’m getting results like this is, it seems to me, pretty unique.

When I’m done beta testing would you like me to email you with more information?

If so, email me at this address:

chuck   @   business-opportunities.biz

(remove the extra spaces around the “@” before you hit “send”!)

!!!!!!!!!But you MUST put “Twitter Info Please” in the subject line!!!!!!!!!

When the beta tests are over, I’ll email you some information on how this works and how you can get the same results for yourself. Fair enough?

Let me know. I look forward to your email.

It’s absolutely NO SECRET that Twitter is a complete waste of time for most marketers.

Twitter’s great to find out what your best friend had for lunch, it’s a wonderful way to waste your life, etc.

But it stinks for the average marketer.

Forget “building relationships” on it to “make money”. That’s like trying to win the lottery if you want to make money anytime soon (though it might in a blue moon help you get a job if you’re networking).

Forget the cheezy ads that everybody hates.

So what does work?

This video SHOWS you why and tells you how to use Twitter for marketing without spamming. It’s a tutorial that won’t waste your time!

Traffic Secrets – How to get more traffic to your site (fast)

Listen, Twitter doesn’t even “work” that way for huge companies like FoxNews or CBSNews or other twitter accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers!

So what does work?

It has nothing to do with putting all your blog posts on Twitter.

It has nothing to do with following 10,000 and chatting them up and “building relationships” (sorry).

Here’s what you DO need to get started for when I tell you the secret next week.

You need to have a product or service that solves or addresses a common problem.

You need your own website, follow up mechanisms, and a free report or information product that addresses the problem and serves as the “top of your marketing funnel”.

It may be a landing page on your blog that’s monetized with Adsense.

It may be a landing page with article and “email capture” system for your autoresponders, etc.

It may be a combination of information and affilate link.

If you don’t have that… no “secret” is going to work. Sorry. This is how to use Twitter to do MARKETING. You have to have a marketing system in place already!

Stay tuned for more information on using Twitter to market!

Q: What are you launching? What are Promoted Tweets?
A: We are launching the first phase of our Promoted Tweets platform with a handful of innovative advertising partners that include Best Buy, Bravo, Red Bull, Sony Pictures, Starbucks, and Virgin America — with more to come. Promoted Tweets are ordinary Tweets that businesses and organizations want to highlight to a wider group of users.

Q. What will users see?
A. You will start to see Tweets promoted by our partner advertisers called out at the top of some Twitter.com search results pages. We strongly believe that Promoted Tweets should be useful to you. We’ll attempt to measure whether the Tweets resonate with users and stop showing Promoted Tweets that don’t resonate. Promoted Tweets will be clearly labeled as “promoted” when an advertiser is paying, but in every other respect they will first exist as regular Tweets and will be organically sent to the timelines of those who follow a brand. Promoted Tweets will also retain all the functionality of a regular Tweet including replying, Retweeting, and favoriting. Only one Promoted Tweet will be displayed on the search results page.

Q. You said, “first phase”; what else do you have planned?
A. Before we roll out more phases, we want to get a better understanding of the resonance of Promoted Tweets, user experience and advertiser value. Once this is done, we plan to allow Promoted Tweets to be shown by Twitter clients and other ecosystem partners and to expand beyond Twitter search, including displaying relevant Promoted Tweets in your timelines in a way that is useful to you.

Q: Is this what you said we would love and would be awesome?
A: While we are excited about the platform in general, there are several specific aspects of the launch that we are delighted to highlight. Since all Promoted Tweets are organic Tweets, there is not a single “ad” in our Promoted Tweets platform that isn’t already an organic part of Twitter. This is distinct from both traditional search advertising and more recent social advertising. Promoted Tweets will also be timely. Like any other Tweet, the connection between you and a Promoted Tweet in real-time provides a powerful means of delivering information relevant to you at the moment.

There is one big difference between a Promoted Tweet and a regular Tweet. Promoted Tweets must meet a higher bar—they must resonate with users. That means if users don’t interact with a Promoted Tweet to allow us to know that the Promoted Tweet is resonating with them, such as replying to it, favoriting it, or Retweeting it, the Promoted Tweet will disappear.

Q. Anything else to say?
A. This is a new thing and we expect to iterate to make it better. We’re really excited to get it out to you and look forward to getting your feedback.

But if you’re advocating a cause or posting to see tangible results, you may want to know when your tweet is most likely to achieve results.

This post goes into the topic in more depth: When is the best time to tweet for maximum twitter traffic and exposure? but you can see some statistics from this man’s website. 1 pm to 2 pm Pacific Time were best. Of course you’d have to adapt the findings to your time zone which he tells you how to do at this link:a href=”http://www.garymccaffrey.com/blog/2009/03/19/when-is-the-best-time-to-tweet-for-maximum-twitter-traffic-and-exposure/”>When is the best time to tweet for maximum twitter traffic and exposure?

Most Twitter Traffic (Pacific Time Zone)

As the driver went by he captured this picture of the three with this headline… “3 Accused of Gang Rape in Monroeville!”

Sometimes Twitter and marketing don’t mix!

Epic Billboard & Twitter Fail!

Twitter has lots of appeal.

1. It’s free.
2. Thousands of potential followers
3. Huge potential viral impact if the idea takes off.

So instead of building the Website he dreamed of first, he tested the idea on Twitter.

The responses he got were mostly MLM Spam.

But it saved him hours of building a website.

So was this a failure or a success?

Frankly, I’d never considered it. In fact I’d like to say I understood it all perfectly, but I’m still taking it in.

If you’d like to read this free presentation (no affiliate link just an offsite PDF), it’s here:

How To Present With Twitter and Other BackChannels by Olivia Mitchell

Here’s the Table of Contents:

How Twitter changes presentations …… 4
The benefits of presenting with Twitter …… 6
Audience benefits ….. 7
Presenter benefits….. 9
Presenter control ….. 10
The three stages of presenting with the backchannel …… 11
Stage One – Survive the experience …… 12
Audit your presentation ….. 14
Prepare psychologically ….. 16
Ask for what you need …… 19
Connect with your audience…. 20
Read the Twitterstream…… 21
Stage Two – Respond to the audience’s needs …… 22
Getting started on Twitter ……. 22
Create a hashtag …… 24
Monitor the Twitterstream …… 25
Types of tweets to respond to……. 30
Follow-up …….. 33
Learning from the Twitterstream …… 34
Stage Three – Engage with the backchannel …… 36
Build relationships pre-presentation …… 36
Make your presentation tweetable….. 38
Set-up a home-page for your presentation …… 42
Which backchannel should you use? ……. 43
Introduce the backchannel …….. 45
Displaying the backchannel …….46
Audience participation with the backchannel…. 58

How To Present With Twitter and Other BackChannels by Olivia Mitchell