First it was Myspace, then Facebook, now Twitter is the place where everything on the Internet happens. Forget about getting the latest news from your local or global news, you hear everything first on Twitter. Twitter is considered a "quick" blogging site that started as a service for employees at Odeo and has been around since 2006. It really took off towards the end of 2008, as many people have opened up a free Twitter Account, including celebrities, politicians and of course Internet Marketers!
Me being an Internet marketer, using the power of FREE Social Networking Sites to get my story out and as I continue to "brand" myself in this industry, I understand that giving a ton of "value" and information that will help others, I will begin to build and form relationships with many like minded people that have an entrepreneurial spirit, just like me.
You see, I'm just a regular old guy that has been in the home based business industry for over 7 years . Struggling with no success, most of the time, using old school marketing, (taught by my up-line) and just burying myself in a lot of credit card debt.
But, late 2007, I found the power of these Free Social Networking sites and I understood the power of getting my story out and what information and experiences I had to offer and share with people. Since then, I no longer use the "old school marketing" techniques I was taught, very early in my online career.
Web 2.0/Social Media Marketing has completely changed my business structure and the best thing is that I don't spend any money on advertising!
Anyway, enough about my "drama" story...LOL
If you are not using the power of Twitter, what are you waiting for?!
It really is a Twitter Explosion! You will find an avalanche of friends and future business partners that have the same desires and interests as you!
With that being said, below you will find an awesome tool that I use to stay connected with my Twitter friends........Enjoy!
• Purpose: If you’re a Twittercelebrity (even in your own mind) and your main page is being overrun with replies and updates, TweetDeck may bring some sanity to your world. This Adobe Air based program allows you to separate your tweets into topic or subject based information feeds so that you can easily manage, read and reply to them.
I watch a lot of marketers, and what ever business you might be in you should be studying others that are experiencing good results because success leaves clues. Study other marketers, most of them are nice enough to sell you some of their techniques, but really watch what they do as they are selling you those techniques. It’s not mysterious at all, and it’s much more than just a numbers game.
The key word in this section’s title is “automatically”, and if you’re new this might not be something that you have really considered. You may have heard the phrase “the money’s in the backend” or “continuity” is the way to go, but let’s really look at what we’re building here. Just think before the Internet existed the life of one of your special reports would be a couple of days, and at that, the likelihood of someone mailing your special report to a friend was slim to none. Now, your special reports live forever. Think of every piece of content you create as an employee that works for you 24/7, never gets sick, has a bad attitude or arrives late. And yes, they live forever bringing you business as long as you want to stay in business.
Doesn’t that concept make you want to pay to have someone create 400 mini articles (employees) for you? Doesn’t that content make you want to make sure your content gets to as many places as possible using tools like TrafficGeyser, success leaves clues. A commercial on television runs for a couple of seconds and may or may not reach your (Tivo equipped) audience. A video on the Internet runs whenever an interested person plays it. Aha, you reached them. You have their undivided attention and they were looking for you.
Decision time. You know that you want to make money through using social media. But you have to decide do you want to promote your own brand or another’s. If you are more inclined to promote other’s brands then you should find an affiliate offer that makes you want to wet your pants with excitement. I would recommend a particular company, but it is best for you to research and find one. Resource links will be provided at the end of this chapter.
A lot of success depends on being in the right place at the right time and taking the right actions. There are a few websites at the moment that the search engines love, and so if you want you employees “pieces of content” to be working anywhere, then it should be in these places. The places that are most social are the ones that the search engines seem to love, because the search engines are providing the service of returning the best results. That is why social bookmarking websites are so dangerous. And it’s also why putting your great content in multiple places is great.
Okay, here are a few websites that will get your content noticed in the search engine in order or “current” importance.
Youtube.com
Hubpages.com
Scribd.com
Squidoo.com
Slideshare.com
Wetpaint.com
Flickr.com
Photobucket.com
Dailymotion.com
Viddler.com
Quizilla.com
Swik.net (It’s a search engine in itself)
Mylot.com
Here’s another thing to think about, third party reviews that are framed around the concept that you tried something out and it worked for you or it was worth the money sell better than self promoting. So here’s a cool trick that I learned. If you want to promote an affiliate offer effectively at any of these websites use the “inside the belly of the beast technique”. Basically shoot a video talking about your results beginning with your fears and reservations. Using screen capture software for digital products is golden. Everyone wants to see what they are getting.
Now, Squidoo did suffer a hit in the search engine rankings because it was being spammed a lot. The founder Seth Godin, recently explained that the website is regaining its authoritative status with the search engines because they have eliminated the spamming. If you release articles a part of your marketing strategy Ezinearticles is a great spot to put them, but it is not integrated with the SOCIAL capabilities that Squidoo has and that its developers continue to improve.
You make money with these automatically because they get ranked within a couple of hours. No more manually submitting your website, no more setting up search engine pinging services, and no more trouble with being found. Because these sites are social, people (the people you want to find you) hang out on them.
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