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Twitter Tips – How to Use Twitter For Social Marketing

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Chances are unless you’ve been completely living in the dark for the past couple of months – you’ve been hearing about the phenomenon called Twitter.com.

Twitter is quickly becoming one of the most amazingly popular social media networking sites on the World Wide Web. Now with over six million users (and growing) this microblogging site has attracted everyone from President Obama to NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal.

Twitter is the must-be-on place right now on their internet. It actually trumps Google but getting “real time” date about literally ANYTHING that is happening in our society today.

Admittedly, I didn’t jump on the Twitter bandwagon immediately. I heard about it over a year ago and I definitely underestimated the importance of how powerful this site really is.

But now, along with Facebook & YouTube, Twitter is one at the top of my priority list for Social Media.

So recently, a friend and colleague of mine was able to generate over 75 leads for his business just by sending out 1 tweet to his list of over 15,000 dedicated
followers.

How insane is that!?

75 Leads in 2 minutes…for FREE? Those same leads would cost $1-9 from a home based business lead provider. Say they averaged $4 each – that would have cost $300 for prospects that THEN YOU have to COLD CALL (blegh!)

Using Google AdWords? Probably would have cost DOUBLE THAT.

If you are looking to amass SERIOUS WEALTH online, then you need to be “tweeting.”

So, I’ve compiled a step-by-step guide thanks to my training with the MLM Mastermind System on how to dominate Twitter.

Twitter Tips #1. Create an Account

Go to twitter.com and create an account if you haven’t already. Be creative with your bio and make sure you include your website link. This could be a blog or a splash/squeeze page.

Twitter Tips #2. Set up a Professional Looking Background

Check out the free tools like: twitbacks.com or mytweetspace.com.

Twitter Tips #3. Manage your Twitter Account Automatically

Go to tweetlater.com and set up a free account with this ESSENTIAL Twitter tool. This will allow you to automate your “welcome/thanks for following” messages and create settings to unfollow those who do not follow you back. You can also schedule tweets throughout your day!

Twitter Tips #4. Purchase Twitter Friend Adder for $50

It’s not NECESSARY, but if you want a way to automatically add Twitter friends and build a following – this is is. If you’re on a shoe-string budget? Just add friends one-by-one by finding other people of like-minded values.

Twitter Tips #5. Find Like-Minded Individuals to Follow

twellow.com
search.twitter.com
twollow.com

Twitter Tips #6. Free Tool to Manually Unfollow Those Who Aren’t Following You

dossy.org/twitter/karma, but if you have Twitter Friend Adder, you do not need this because it does it for you.

Twitter Tips #7. What To Tweet?

Make sure your tweeting is full of useful content. DO NOT SPAM YOUR LINK OR OPPORTUNITY. Twitter success is dependent your willingness and ability to share content and info with your network.
Share anything:

*Interesting
*Educational
*Funny
*News-worthy

Twitter Tips #8. Re-Syndicate Content You Like

Can be your own videos, blogs, articles, or it can be stuff created by other people (especially popular content). digg.com is create source for other people’s interesting content.

Twitter Tips #9. It’s All About Relationship Marketing

Don’t just add friends. Interact with them! Send them DM (direct messages) or use the @ – feature by typing @theirusername to reply and message to their Twitter page.

Twitter Tips #10. Here are some other great Twitter tools:

tweetdeck.com
twitpic.com
bubbletweet.com

So that’s it! There are many other Twitter tools, but these are the ones I’ve compiled as of lately. Once you build a solid foundation of tweeting and building trust/rapport with your Follows, sharing valuable content, you can send out a tweet here and again promoting yourself or your product/service.

C’mon Tweeple! Let’s start tweeting and twittering and twollowing each other!

Online Marketing Guide For Local Businesses

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Online marketing can be tough for local businesses. It seems almost like a new subject that was never taught in school. There are so many factors that play into it. If I’m interested in online marketing, as a local business, what does that entail? Do I just put up an ad in an online business directory? What if I don’t have a website? How can I make myself an online presence without knowing where to start? We can help you understand Total Syndication Marketing for starters.

There are a few tasks that a local business can set out to do right from the start, even without a website. There are some online business directories that allow you to customize your advertisement. You can create coupons, add pictures of your business, as well as write some background information about yourself and/or your business. This will allow you to have an online presence without even having a website. Now, this is not to say that you shouldn’t have a website and that this technology can replace the functionality of your website. Instead, it allows you to have a presence while developing your website.

Another task that a company might do is set up a blog for themselves. People love blogs! People want to connect with each other, including businesses, on a much more personal level. The plus side to this is that you don’t even have to go out and develop a blog site yourself, if you don’t want to. You can create a blog utilizing a template from someplace like WordPress. There are numerous sites that offer blog services/hosting. Once you’ve done some basic steps to set up your blog, it’s as easy as posting a note every day or so letting people know what you’re up to. You don’t need to be an accomplished writer to maintain the blog either. People want to connect with real people, and that means if you occasionally make a spelling error or grammatical error, all that does is humanize you even more!

These are just two of the many, many tasks that a local business can easily accomplish to get them started on the road to online marketing success. The list is endless. There are other tactics like video marketing, pay-per-click campaigns, participating in social marketing, and much more. Ultimately you achieve Toal Syndication. However, the key point is to start somewhere…anywhere. Learn what you can about one online marketing tactic that really interests you, implement your knowledge immediately, and then begin educating yourself about the next tactic that interests you. Online marketing is where everything is heading…it’s revolutionary in and of itself. The key to having a successful local business is learning how to keep up with the revolution.