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Twitter Setup:

By going to Twitter.com you can get started very quickly by signing up with your name and email address. If you are unsure about how to use twitter, go to Lynda.com and watch the video course. It will get you up and running quickly.

Considerations:

1. Use a Twitter nickname that presents the image that you are trying to promote.
2. Since you can’t use spaces in your nickname, use Capital letters to delineate the words. For example; which is more readable “winatthegame” or WinAtTheGame”?
3. Use a good picture of yourself.
4. For your website you will use your Blog URL if you have one, or your business landing page.
5. Make sure that “Protect My Updates” is NOT checked.
6. Set up a custom background that reflects your business image. You can use http://www.twitbacks.com or http://www.MyTweetSpace.com
   to create and upload a custom background for your Twitter page.
7. You will want to limit the email you receive from Twitter. Go to Setup -> Notices and select the email you want to receive. At the very least, you will want to turn off the New Follower email. If you are aggressively adding new followers, you will receive a large volume of email.

You will find that setting up Twitter is easier than you think. If you watch out for the issues listed above your account will be set up ready for a massive group of followers to come and visit you. Next in Part 3 we will discuss two simple ways to produce content for your twitter account and one automated method to produce content. See you next time.

[If you would like to see specific video instructions for setting up a Twitter account and automating it, purchase Twitter Traffic Machine. It will be the best $27 you will spend this week.]

I would appreciate any feedback you can give me regarding the usefulness of this blog post. If there are any omissions or errors, or if you are left with a burning question, please reply below. I am also interested to hear about your experiences on Twitter – good or bad. Please leave a comment below. If you have found it useful, then please bookmark it on Digg or your favourite bookmark site.

Dave Perry

Follow Me on Twitter: @DBPerry

Automating Twitter: Introduction

This series of blog posts are meant to be a starting point for building a targeted Twitter following that you will be able to market to. Each of the services mentioned have their own operating instructions so I have not included the step by step instructions here.

I have also not included instructions for marketing to a Twitter list. This is a discussion for another time. Your first priority is to begin building a targeted list of followers on Twitter. As in most mass marketing, you will only see results when you are able to reach a large group of people with your message. Your list should be over 500 people before you begin marketing to the list.

Note: If using internet tools scares you I would recommend subscribing to an excellent training service called Lynda.com. This service provides the best and most comprehensive video training available on the web today. The best part is the subscription price is only $25/month. You will be able to study topics such as Twitter, Google Search, WordPress Blogging, Blogger, Google Docs, Microsoft Office applications and a host of other software.

Another excellent resource that I would highly recommend is Twitter Traffic Machine. This short video course outlines step by step how to set up an automated Twitter account.

Twitter Definitions:

Follower – An individual that has followed you.

Following – A person you have followed.

Friend – A person who you have followed and they have followed you.

Tweet – A 140 character twitter message.

Updates – The number of Tweets you have made.

Timeline – Twitter’s list of current Tweets. These are always listed on your Home page.

Twitter users are identified by @username. My name is @DBPerry

I can view a Twitter site by going to http://Twitter.com/username You can visit me at http://Twitter.com/DBPerry.

For a short video explaining Twitter go HERE.

For additional definitions go to http://twittonary.com/

Cautions:

You need to use the automated techniques with caution. Twitter will cancel your account if you do the following too aggressively.

1. Add too many followers too quickly. 100 a day or if you have more than 2000 followers, 10% more than you have followers.
2. Do NOT Spam your followers. To many automated tweets too often will get you banned. Or at the very least have people stop listening to you.
3. Twitter is a “social” media site. You will need to socialize. Automation can help you build a large following but it can’t socialize for you. Only you can do that.

Every Twitter campaign has the following elements:

1. Twitter Setup
2. Create Content
3. Follow Interesting People
4. House Keeping

Part 2 will outline the critical factors you need to consider when you set up your Twitter account. Getting it set up correctly is the first step towards a successful Twitter campaign.

[If you would like to see specific video instructions for setting up a Twitter account and automating it, purchase Twitter Traffic Machine. It will be the best $27 you will spend this week.]

I would appreciate any feedback you can give me regarding the usefulness of this blog post. If there are any omissions or errors, or if you are left with a burning question, please leave a reply below. I am also interested to hear about your experiences on Twitter – good or bad. Please leave a comment below. If you have found it useful, then please bookmark it on Digg or your favourite bookmark site.

Dave Perry

Follow Me on Twitter: @DBPerry

As I am writing this I am looking out my hotel window at beautiful Lake Tahoe in Nevada.

This week I am at the Wealth Masters M2 conference in Lake Tahoe. If you have been following my email, you will know that Wealth Master’s International is the product we sell though Carbon Copy Pro.

Here is a picture of Lake Tahoe from my hotel window. I apologize for the darkness of the photograph but I took this early in the morning. We have been at seminars all day. In spite of the beautiful surrounding we are in, I have had no desire to go exploring outside of the hotel, since the speakers WMI have presented to us have a been excellent.

I will profit from this event in many ways.

We are only half way through the conference and we already have had 3 investment opportunities presented to us that are targeted to take advantage of the recession we are in. But that is not all, we have also had presentations on health and wellness and personal development.

Wealth Masters approach to wealth is a holistic one… body, soul and spirit.

The main topic of discussion as you can imagine is the recession. Everyone is frightened and confused. I was not aware that the last great transfer of wealth happened during the great depression of the 1930′s. We remember this time because of the hardships our parents, grandparents and great grandparents suffered, however, many of today’s millionaires were made during this time.

We are now in a perfect storm that will produce the next depression. We have a choice, we let this recession/depression wash over us and we cower in fear while we lose all that we have worked hard for OR we get ready for change, learn all we can and adapt.

The information presented this week has prepared me for this change. Wealth Masters International has the right training for this time in history.

I hope I sound excited about WMI because I am. You may be reading this and say Dave has really got caught up in the hype. NO, Dave is excited because he has learned some valuable investment strategies that will make him money over the next months and years…Even if we do go into a depression.

If I had known this information even two years ago it would have saved me over $60,000 in losses I have experienced at the hands of the investment industry “experts”.

But life is not only about money. It is about family and friends.

We heard from a nutritionist about whole foods and proper nutrition. Deana Latson shared how she got her father off 12 prescription medications through proper nutrition. I was able to speak to her after the meeting about helping a member of my family. If this information can help me get my wife off the 7 medications she is on… it would be worth the $7000 I paid for this conference. If this information can keep my kids from not following in their parents nutritional footsteps… It is worth more than the $7000 I paid for the conference.

This event has also been about meeting my online business associates. I have spent time with my sponsor Ann McLaren, the top female producer in this company. I have met Mike Dillard of Magnetic Sponsoring fame. It was Mike’s books that finally turned on the lights for me and allowed me to see the possibilities for a burned out former executive.

I have also met numerous other people who are just like me and just like you. I am looking forward to building strong friendships with these likeminded people.

My friends, if you want a life changing experience you must come to the next WMI M2 conference with me. What is holding you back? I am so glad that on October 5, 2008 I took the risk and joined this company. It is paying back in so many more ways than money.

You only have one life to live. You can spend it stuck in the same old rut, or you can take a calculated risk and live life to the fullest.

What will it take to get you off the fence? What are you afraid of?

(By the way, that is not a rhetorical question; if you want to email me or call me I would like to hear your answer. What I would really like to do is help you get over the fear.)

Oh, by the way here is a picture looking the other way from my room.

After my experience here, this has become more than a business for me; it is now about transforming people. It is about turning former burned out executives like me into successful, happy and free entrepreneurs… like me.

-DP

I just learned about a new product that Mike Dillard of Magnetic Sponsoring fame is releasing on Monday January 19th. I just wanted to get this into your hands so you can get an advanced look at it.

www.LeadsFromGoogle.com

Mike claims he nets… that’s nets … over $4 per lead on his Google Adwords PPC campaign. And this does not include the revenue from his primary business.

Wow…. If you have ever tried Google Adwords you know it cost money. In my opinion, money well spent.

I will be standing in line to purchase this on Monday.

If you haven’t seen his video yet you need to see it here…

www.LeadsFromGoogle.com

If this were any body but Mike Dillard I wouldn’t give this another look, but Mike Dillard wrote the classic text books on network marketing on the Internet. If you haven’t read “Magnetic Sponsoring” , “Building on a Budget” or “M/L/M Traffic Formula”, you owe it to your online or offline business to read these. Click on the text above to see these books.

I have talked to many of you and the common theme I hear is people are afraid of investing money in advertising. Well, if Mike is right, (and he makes millions of dollars each year doing exactly what he teaches), then this  may be the answer to your problems.

www.LeadsFromGoogle.com

Check it out now!!!

One of the problems we are faced with every day as we work on our internet business is finding safe and reliable places build friendships and to acquire information about doing business on line. Next to spam, and definitely related to spam is hype.

Since it is difficult to know what to believe, I am always on the lookout for “safe” communities. When individuals violate our trust by pursuing their own interests’ at the expense of others, the sense of community breaks down. This is particularly problematic in the internet marketing community. By very definition, the internet marketer is looking for people and places to “spread the word”.

I have been using an excellent site called “Better Networker” for
some time now. The Better Networker is “The Internet’s #1 Community for Home Business Owners”. It is the first place I will turn to when I have questions about internet marketing. The Better Networker, is site sponsored by Mike Dillard of Magnetic Sponsoring fame. It has been set up with a very strictly enforced set of rules that prevent individuals from objectionable self promotion.

If you have questions about marketing, internet tools or even if you want to network and socialize with other people in this business, this is the place to do it. This especially true for individuals who are new to internet marketing. If there is one thing newbies have plenty of is questions. The community here at Better Networker is eager to help you answer your questions. You might even find friendships here.

I use the Forum to ask questions and look for answers. The site also has excellent articles, videos, resources and Podcasts produced by its members.

If you are new to Internet Marketing or even if you have been in the business for a while, you should sign up for a free membership. You can go to Better Networker by clicking on the badge located on this page or by clicking HERE.

Go to Better Networker Now and sign up for a FREE membership—Do it NOW. You won’t regret it.

I updated my Microsoft Word yesterday to the latest Office 2007 version. I was delighted to find out that Word has an API interface directly to the WordPress blog. It also has interfaces to many of the popular blog platforms. It has always been a mystery to me why Microsoft did not support online mediums. If you tried using Word to edit text you wanted to place into a blog or even a web page, you would find out quickly that Word would leave some cryptic HTML tags that would have to be edited out before the text could be used.

So imagine my disappointment when I gave Word the coordinates to my blog and it returned a “Word Cannot Register Your Account” Error. After several hours of fiddling with Word, it finally hit me. There must be a setting in WP to enable this function. (this actually occurred to me at about 4:30 the next morning) Once I enabled this feature it worked like a charm.

To enable the XML-RPC feature in a WordPress blog:

• Log on to your admin account
• Go to Manage>Writing
  
• Scroll down to the section titled REMOTE PUBLISHING
• Check the Enable XML-RPC Publishing Protocol
  
• Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page
  

I have also read some reports since this revelation that would suggest that this setting may get changed when the WordPress blog is upgraded to a new revision.

I trust his helps.

I just finished shovelling 10 inches of snow from the laneway. We had a huge dump of snow last night. We are in the third day of winter and I am tired of winter already. We have had 4 snow storms in the last 10 days. In a normal winter in this part of Ontario, we would get only 4 or 5 major snow storms in an entire winter. I thought those of you in warm climates, would appreciate this picture of 5 foot snow banks. Today marks a mile stone for me personally. It was one year ago today that I quit my job and became a work at home entrepreneur.  I can honestly say that I have not missed the corporate world. I have been completely enjoying internet marketing with the Carbon Copy Pro system. Life is now fulfilling, balanced and exciting. I would like to wish all of you all the best of the holidays and a happy and prosperous new year.

David Perry

The Balancequester

PS.

Become my friend on FaceBook

http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Perry/1496895328

Congratulations you have completed your first post. Its time to share it with the world!

I have prepared this short video to explain how to promote your blog post with Social Bookmarking sites. You have seen and often overlooked the little icons at the bottom of blogs and web sites. Now you will find out what they are actually used for. I think you will be pleasantly surprised how effective they can be at promoting your blog.

Enjoy the video.

By the way, if you have any comments please leave them in the form below the post. I would love to hear your impressions of these videos. Are they helpful? Have I missed anything? Let me know.

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How To Promote Your Blog Post Using Social Bookmarking Sites

If this huge list of bookmarking sites seem daunting to you, take a look at this site. It is an uptodate listing of the top 30 bookmarking sites.

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social30

Here is the second part of Mike Dillard and Perry Belcher’s Social networking Video.

Click Here to View Video

Social networking and Web 2.0 is all the rage at this moment in time. People are Twittering, Blogging and checking their Facebook pages hourly. Up here in the frozen north we all know what a Skidoo is, but what the heck is a Squidoo?

Mike Dillard sent this email around the other day with a Youtube video by Perry Belcher. This video has received over 30,000 hit at Youtube. When you watch it you will see why. Finally, someone has explained clearly why we should be out there participating in the social networking sites.

Here is part 1 ….

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