I wrote this a while back. I think it should be passed down:
Karma don't know me
But I did my best to treat her right
I even harbored my homies
Lent out when moneys tight
Karma you owe me.
Pass it on if you like it
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The Secret Strategy to Successful Twitter Marketing
I bet you can't go one day without hearing about the Internet's latest media darling, Twitter. Everybody from the mainstream media to celebrities to your Great Aunt Millie has at least heard of Twitter. Twitter has been used for everything from a critical communications link to the outside world during the Iranian Elections to Ashton Kutcher sharing a picture of Demi Moore in her underwear. As an Internet Marketer the profit making opportunity presented by those millions upon millions of worldwide users happily tweeting away should make your mouth water so much that your literally sitting in a pool of your own drool!
Guess what? You are not the only one with that idea and thousands of would be Twitter marketers are trying to grab their share of the gold rush before the claim pinches out. Most will fail. Twitter users are becoming more sophisticated and lest tolerant of blatant marketing efforts. Let's make sure you are not a statistic. In this article we will provide you with the secret key to required properly mine Twitter for fame and fortune.
Twitter's enormous popularity, like all social media, is built on implicit trust. As an example of that implicit trust mechanism, Twitter only allows you to DM (Twitter shorthand for direct message) those that follow you. The (truly) brilliant minds at Twitter assumed that if a person trusts you enough to follow you, that they trust you enough to accept a direct message.
So you probably think that what I am saying is that to truly succeed with Twitter as a marketing tool you must have thousands, or even better, millions of followers. How does that make my message any different from the hundreds of other Twitter gurus who recommend that you go out and buy an expensive tool, usually from their affiliate link, and mass follow complete strangers, hoping they follow you back and Twitter doesn't ban your account? Well, don't get me wrong, having your own legion of loyal followers is definitely an asset, but many Twitter marketers do not have that luxury when they are first beginning to utilize the Twitter system for marketing.
The true secret to utilizing Twitter as a marketing tool is to embrace the viral nature of the Twitter itself. You might only have 100 followers, but if each of those followers has 100 followers, now you have the basis of a campaign. But wait, what about the trust issue? You need to find a way of reaching the followers of your followers (or website and / or blog visitors). You need a bridge to get over the trust chasm that divides you from the hordes of faithful minions that follow your followers.
The best Twitter strategy to build that bridge and complete the chain of trust is to get your website visitors to retweet (RT in Twitter shorthand) your message to their followers. For example, provide a form on your website or blog that encourages your visitors to tweet your message. This is where your creativity needs to come into play. Craft a compelling Tweet with a subtle, but effective, call to action and then promise your visitor (and deliver) a free report or discount coupon after they complete the act of retweeting your message. For example, a very popular method currently is to conduct Twitter contests. In exchange for an entry into your contest, your website visitor agrees to retweet your message. One company just completed a contest in which they gave away one Macbook a day for ten days. During the span of the contest, this company's retweets trended higher than Michael Jackson's death!
It is such a simple concept that it is very common for even the most experienced Internet marketer to forget; viral marketing is successful marketing. Your website or blog visitors trust you. The Twitter followers of your visitor trust them. By encouraging your visitors to retweet your message to their followers, there is now an implied trust in you and your messag; the trust chasm has been bridged!
Viral marketing with Twitter also has a nice side effect. If your visitor's followers are intrigued by your message, they will voluntarily follow you - no prodding or coercion required! Thus not only are you fully exploiting the very viral nature of Twitter, but you are also building up your ever important followers list, readily available for future efforts!
Self-promotion on Twitter is dead. Promoting your own message is the easiest way to lose followers and potentially get clobbered by the dreaded Twitter ban hammer. Don't let others lead you to believe that Twitter itself is dead. Twitter profits are still there for the taking, however now is the time to get creative and rethink your Twitter marketing strategy to fully exploit the very viral nature of the Twitter that makes the service so popular to begin with!
Guess what? You are not the only one with that idea and thousands of would be Twitter marketers are trying to grab their share of the gold rush before the claim pinches out. Most will fail. Twitter users are becoming more sophisticated and lest tolerant of blatant marketing efforts. Let's make sure you are not a statistic. In this article we will provide you with the secret key to required properly mine Twitter for fame and fortune.
Twitter's enormous popularity, like all social media, is built on implicit trust. As an example of that implicit trust mechanism, Twitter only allows you to DM (Twitter shorthand for direct message) those that follow you. The (truly) brilliant minds at Twitter assumed that if a person trusts you enough to follow you, that they trust you enough to accept a direct message.
So you probably think that what I am saying is that to truly succeed with Twitter as a marketing tool you must have thousands, or even better, millions of followers. How does that make my message any different from the hundreds of other Twitter gurus who recommend that you go out and buy an expensive tool, usually from their affiliate link, and mass follow complete strangers, hoping they follow you back and Twitter doesn't ban your account? Well, don't get me wrong, having your own legion of loyal followers is definitely an asset, but many Twitter marketers do not have that luxury when they are first beginning to utilize the Twitter system for marketing.
The true secret to utilizing Twitter as a marketing tool is to embrace the viral nature of the Twitter itself. You might only have 100 followers, but if each of those followers has 100 followers, now you have the basis of a campaign. But wait, what about the trust issue? You need to find a way of reaching the followers of your followers (or website and / or blog visitors). You need a bridge to get over the trust chasm that divides you from the hordes of faithful minions that follow your followers.
The best Twitter strategy to build that bridge and complete the chain of trust is to get your website visitors to retweet (RT in Twitter shorthand) your message to their followers. For example, provide a form on your website or blog that encourages your visitors to tweet your message. This is where your creativity needs to come into play. Craft a compelling Tweet with a subtle, but effective, call to action and then promise your visitor (and deliver) a free report or discount coupon after they complete the act of retweeting your message. For example, a very popular method currently is to conduct Twitter contests. In exchange for an entry into your contest, your website visitor agrees to retweet your message. One company just completed a contest in which they gave away one Macbook a day for ten days. During the span of the contest, this company's retweets trended higher than Michael Jackson's death!
It is such a simple concept that it is very common for even the most experienced Internet marketer to forget; viral marketing is successful marketing. Your website or blog visitors trust you. The Twitter followers of your visitor trust them. By encouraging your visitors to retweet your message to their followers, there is now an implied trust in you and your messag; the trust chasm has been bridged!
Viral marketing with Twitter also has a nice side effect. If your visitor's followers are intrigued by your message, they will voluntarily follow you - no prodding or coercion required! Thus not only are you fully exploiting the very viral nature of Twitter, but you are also building up your ever important followers list, readily available for future efforts!
Self-promotion on Twitter is dead. Promoting your own message is the easiest way to lose followers and potentially get clobbered by the dreaded Twitter ban hammer. Don't let others lead you to believe that Twitter itself is dead. Twitter profits are still there for the taking, however now is the time to get creative and rethink your Twitter marketing strategy to fully exploit the very viral nature of the Twitter that makes the service so popular to begin with!
Monday, January 18, 2010
How To Make Money Using Twitter
There are a lot of things you need to know about Twitter and the many money-making practices being done through it before actually using the service to increase web traffic and overall sales for your own online business. This article is going to enlighten not only the truths about how to make money twitter but the tips and effective strategies in actually turning Twitter traffic into actual sales. If you think using Twitter to make money isn't working for you, most likely it is because you were misled into thinking that this famous micro-blogging service works just like the ads you see in other websites or in search engines like Google and Yahoo. It's time to change the strategies and adopt new tips and steps in earning money through Twitter, and that time starts now.
How to Make Money Out of Twitter
1. The first thing that you have to remember is that Twitter is a social networking website dedicated to connecting people all throughout the world with simple, 140-character updates called "tweets". This means that directly monetizing the site's services will not only jeopardize your chances of gaining more customers but will also make others feel that your only purpose is to make money through Twitter.
2. With that said, try to get to know people first by posting in your Twitter profile tweets about your day, yourself, how things went for you at the grocery store, and many others. You can then start following other people, friends or strangers, who you think share the same interests as you.
3. People you have followed are more or less going to follow your own Twitter updates as well, so to keep the connection going you need to update your Twitter profile by tweeting at least once or twice a day. This way, people will be interested in what's going on in your life and would even reply to some of your updates with their own comments. If this happened to you already, congratulate yourself because you're building relationships already.
4. So how do you keep your followers interested in what you have to say? By tweeting all kinds of content that would catch their attention. You can post videos, pictures from Flickr, quizzes and polls from Facebook, and all kinds of other interesting stuff that'll get people to read your tweets a whole lot more. You can also do the same for others by commenting on their content as well.
5. Lastly, after building a few good and stable relationships with Twitter buddies, you can then begin seeping in Twitter updates that are related to your career as an internet marketer. You can introduce your online business first and add a link or two to some pages of your website that people will find interesting to read through. Most likely those who find you trustworthy and reliable will take a look at what you have to offer, and if all goes well, they might even sign up under your mailing list.
Johnson Tan is a Singapore Based Author, Writer, Entrepreneur and Internet Marketer. As an avid reader since young, Johnson has develop his own style of writing which is based primarily on his life philosophy. Join him in his Internet Marketing Journey at http://www.imjourney.org where he shares with us the journey that he is walking on the path of being a millionaire from the very beginning.
How to Make Money Out of Twitter
1. The first thing that you have to remember is that Twitter is a social networking website dedicated to connecting people all throughout the world with simple, 140-character updates called "tweets". This means that directly monetizing the site's services will not only jeopardize your chances of gaining more customers but will also make others feel that your only purpose is to make money through Twitter.
2. With that said, try to get to know people first by posting in your Twitter profile tweets about your day, yourself, how things went for you at the grocery store, and many others. You can then start following other people, friends or strangers, who you think share the same interests as you.
3. People you have followed are more or less going to follow your own Twitter updates as well, so to keep the connection going you need to update your Twitter profile by tweeting at least once or twice a day. This way, people will be interested in what's going on in your life and would even reply to some of your updates with their own comments. If this happened to you already, congratulate yourself because you're building relationships already.
4. So how do you keep your followers interested in what you have to say? By tweeting all kinds of content that would catch their attention. You can post videos, pictures from Flickr, quizzes and polls from Facebook, and all kinds of other interesting stuff that'll get people to read your tweets a whole lot more. You can also do the same for others by commenting on their content as well.
5. Lastly, after building a few good and stable relationships with Twitter buddies, you can then begin seeping in Twitter updates that are related to your career as an internet marketer. You can introduce your online business first and add a link or two to some pages of your website that people will find interesting to read through. Most likely those who find you trustworthy and reliable will take a look at what you have to offer, and if all goes well, they might even sign up under your mailing list.
Johnson Tan is a Singapore Based Author, Writer, Entrepreneur and Internet Marketer. As an avid reader since young, Johnson has develop his own style of writing which is based primarily on his life philosophy. Join him in his Internet Marketing Journey at http://www.imjourney.org where he shares with us the journey that he is walking on the path of being a millionaire from the very beginning.
Step Your Follower Game Up
I have a 100% Guaranteed way to have you gaining followers in less than 10 minutes! Just to obtain that identity you've wanted on twitter. But before I get to that. Take a look at some other ways. Oh, the suspense.
As Twitter just continues to grow in popularity, more people are wanting to know how to expand their Twitter networks, and get more people to follow them. There are several different ways to do this, depending on how you use Twitter. Here's some of the things that have worked for me.
First, you can follow more people to get more followers. You can use twitter search which is much like Google. Just type anything into the search engine and you will see who last tweeted about whatever it was you wrote in there. And you can reach out to them if you would like as well. So if someone was looking for followers, there's your ticket.
Second, I link to a lot of articles/blogs/studies that I come across. I spend every morning going through my feed reader, and as I find interesting posts/articles, I share them with my followers on Twitter. These tweets are then shared by my followers, and that usually results in more people following me.
Lastly, the way that works no matter what. Visit http://www.tweetlarge.com/. Follow the three steps provided and BONG! you'll be stepping your follower game up in under 10 minutes like I promised. Now you can "Impress your friends with your Rockstar Status" you don't even need to follow back :)
Best Regards Everyone,
Jonathan
As Twitter just continues to grow in popularity, more people are wanting to know how to expand their Twitter networks, and get more people to follow them. There are several different ways to do this, depending on how you use Twitter. Here's some of the things that have worked for me.
First, you can follow more people to get more followers. You can use twitter search which is much like Google. Just type anything into the search engine and you will see who last tweeted about whatever it was you wrote in there. And you can reach out to them if you would like as well. So if someone was looking for followers, there's your ticket.
Second, I link to a lot of articles/blogs/studies that I come across. I spend every morning going through my feed reader, and as I find interesting posts/articles, I share them with my followers on Twitter. These tweets are then shared by my followers, and that usually results in more people following me.
Lastly, the way that works no matter what. Visit http://www.tweetlarge.com/. Follow the three steps provided and BONG! you'll be stepping your follower game up in under 10 minutes like I promised. Now you can "Impress your friends with your Rockstar Status" you don't even need to follow back :)
Best Regards Everyone,
Jonathan
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