| For those of you who are not familiar with Twitter... | | | | upcoming program launch to his followers. He gave |
| (and yes, there are some out there, because I went to | | | | them a link to check it out. Many of them did, they liked |
| dinner with two of them last night)... I would like to give | | | | what they saw, they bought and within a day or so |
| a very brief description. Twitter is a way to | | | | my friend had made himself over $40,000.00. That's |
| communicate with others using a micro-message with | | | | the power of Twitter. |
| a maximum of 140 characters. It will give your | | | | Another great tool is Twollo. This is also fully |
| copy-writing skills a great workout. | | | | automated and it's allows you to follow targeted |
| When it first came onto the scene, it was used mostly | | | | people. You enter subjects that are of interest to you |
| by young people to send small personal messages | | | | and the tool will locate people who are having |
| back and fore to their friends. Forward thinking people | | | | conversations about those subjects. These people will |
| began to see potential in this tool, and dreamed up | | | | then automatically start following you. You can set up |
| ways to utilize it to enhance their business. | | | | as many subjects as you like. |
| The idea is to follow people. When you do this you get | | | | You have to keep in mind that not all the people you |
| to read the messages they are posting to everyone. If | | | | follow are going to follow you back, so you have to |
| you find one of those people interesting, you can click | | | | keep an eye on your statistics. Twitter will not allow |
| on their name and, after checking them out, decide if | | | | you to follow more than 2000 people, if you do not |
| you want to follow them yourself. The idea is to then | | | | have at least 1800 or so people following you. A few |
| have these people follow you back. One very neat | | | | times a week it's a good idea to clean out your |
| tool is called Tweetlater. You can set your account up | | | | account. By that, I mean go in and unfollow all those |
| to automatically follow anyone who follows you. You | | | | people who are not following you back. Here again, |
| can also create a personal message that will be | | | | some very smart person has come up with a tool for |
| e-mailed to them thanking them for following you. Here | | | | that. Go to friendorfollow.com, enter your Twitter name |
| again, you can use your copywriting skills to maximize | | | | and just like magic, all those people who are not |
| the opportunity to direct these people to your blog or | | | | following you back with appear. You can then choose |
| some other place. | | | | who you want to unfollow. |
| Some folks have well over 10,000 people following | | | | These a just a few Twitter tools that are available to |
| them. Just imagine for a moment the power in that. | | | | help you benefit the most from your Twitter account. |
| You can send a message in an instant to 10,000 | | | | Each day there seems to be something new to |
| people and suggest something to them. Even if a small | | | | enhance your Twitter experience. It's a good idea to |
| percentage of them check out what you are | | | | periodically Google 'twitter tools' to see what is the |
| suggesting, it has not cost you a dime. Twitter is free, | | | | latest and greatest. |
| as is Tweetlater. In fact, the majority of the Twitter | | | | Of course, if you are just interested in twittering back |
| tools that are now being advertised, are actually free. | | | | and fore with your friends, then these tools would be |
| What people in the internet marketing business want | | | | of no interest to you. However, if you are an internet |
| more than anything else, is free leads. Social media is | | | | marketer, looking for a way to generate free leads, |
| leading the way....in fact, it seems to be the only way to | | | | then Twitter is where it's at right now. You want to get |
| get those free leads. Twitter is just one of the tools | | | | yourself in front of all that traffic. Now is the time to |
| out there that's working for many people. A friend of | | | | build that huge following and take full advantage of the |
| mine, who has quite a loyal following, mentioned an | | | | Twitter phenomena. |