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I want to share these two money making twitter products with you. If you are on a tight budget, this is for you.

Step One – Rapidly build your Twitter Following

The first product is Twitter Traffic Machine. I have used the techniques in this training video to build my twitter followers to 52,671 as of today. (Before you look at twitter in the side bar and call me a liar, I must explain these followers are across a number of accounts. But don’t try multiple accounts without understanding how to do this correctly. I will share this in a future post.)

If you want to quickly jump into marketing online, invest the $27 in the Twitter Traffic Machine course. Start building your Twitter following exactly as Bill Crosby shows you in the video. Consistency is the key here. You need to spend 15 to 20 minutes every day working your account to see the amazing results.

This really works folks.

Now here comes the money… When Bill walks you through setting up your Twitter Traffic Machine, he has you insert your affiliate ID into your account. So as people follow you they also get an opportunity to purchase the product through you. For each sale, you make $11! You can make back your $27 in just 3 sales…How cool is that!

For your information, Twitter Traffic Machine is the number 2 selling product on Clickbank as I am writing this. Thousands of people attest to the value of this product. There is a 60 day money back guarantee so you can’t lose.

Step Two – Other Products to Sell

1. Check out Super Tips Viral Ebook. This free ebook is worth reading simply for the insight into viral marketing techniques and for the entertainment value.But here is the big payoff. You can buy the rights to distribute the book yourself for $10.
2. How do you sell on Twitter:

• Don’t spam your ads. Send one ad for each 4 or 5 pieces of content you produce. See the Twitter Traffic Machine to learn how to automate your content.
• Use a free tool such as AutoTweeter to send out your ads at about 1 hour intervals.
• Create as many different ads as you possibly can for each product and alternate them in the text file used by AutoTweeter.
• Find out how other people are advertising these products and what ads they are using. Now use a different approach. To find out how other people are advertising, go to http://search.twitter.com and search for the product name such as Twitter Traffic Machine or Super Tips Viral Ebook. To build a new, compelling, and effective ad, check out
  7 Quick & Easy Headline Formulas – Your Instant Reference Guide to Creating Dynamite, Attention-Getting Headlines. This is a free download on my website.

So here’s the budget:

Product                        Cost     Payback

Twitter Traffic Machine $27    3 sales

Super Tips Viral Ebook $10    1 sale

Total            =========

$37

Good luck.

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Technorati Tags: automate twitter, social media marketing, Twitter

For advanced users:

Here are some other interesting utilities that are worth looking at.

• Twitter Traffic Machine – An excellent set of videos explaining how to setup an automated Twitter account.
• TweetDeck.com – Desktop utility for consolidating your Social Media sites into one application.
• TwitterCounter.com – Chart the growth of your Twitter account
• Bit.ly – Shorten and track the links embedded in your tweets
• TweetLater.com – Automated messaging and account management. Free and paid versions.
• Twitter Fan Wiki – A wonderful listing of Twitter software tools
• TwitButtons.com — Create a Twitter button for your Blog or website
• FutureTweets.com – Schedule tweets or reoccurring tweets for the future
• Twitter FriendAdder – Automates the Following and Un-Following of new prospects. Try the free demo first.

[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

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Dave Perry

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Technorati Tags: automate twitter, social media marketing, Twitter

House Keeping:

I’m sure we all know Aesop’s fable “The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg”. The moral of the story is “Don’t’ get greedy when you have a good thing going”. So it is in the Twitterverse, Twitter will allow us to advertise and to build a list aggressively, unless we get greedy. So here are the housekeeping details that will keep us on the profitable side of Twitter.

Always keep in mind that Twitter is a social media site. It will not tolerate abuse. If we abuse it Twitter will suspend our account and we will have to start over again. So here are the basic rules for maintaining a balanced Twitter account. I would suggest that you check each day if you are within these limits, if not you will need to remove people from your following list.

In reality, if these people have not followed you back after 1 or2 days, they won’t be responsive to your messages anyway, so you should remove them from your account and follow some new people.

Twitter’s following rules:

• New accounts can’t follow more than 2000 people until your follower count gets over 1850.
• Once your over 2000 followers, you can follow 10% more than are following you.
• For example, if you have 2000 followers, you can follow 2200 people.

You will need to remove people you are following that have not followed you.

• Use the free Twitter Karma tool.
• Sign in and select the “Whack” button – don’t worry it won’t do anything until you allow it to.
• The interface to Twitter Karma is not that intuitive so here are the instructions:

1. In the SHOW drop down box select “only following”
2. Check that only twitterers with a GREEN arrow are shown
3. Go to the bottom select “Check All” then “Bulk Unfollow”

• You should do this once every other day or when you are getting too close to your limits.
• If you are using an automated following tool like Twollo.com, you should make sure you have sufficient room to add new followers so the automated tool does not exceed the limits.

This series has only scratched the surface. We have covered the basics for setting up a Twitter account, producing content, finding targeted followers and managing the list. If you have followed these instructions and are building a Twitter following at 100-200 persons a day, you will be interested in the Part 6 of this series. In Part 6, I will give you a list of some interesting utilities that will help you further automate your Twitter account, and also allow you to start sending out marketing messages to your followers.

I would caution you to take this slowly. There are so many interesting Twitter utilities out there, that you could spend days trying them. I have evaluated many of these tools and have found a few that are worthwhile considering. Take care, not to spend all your time tinkering, or to attach so many tools to your Twitter account that it becomes unmanageable. The list of tools I will be sharing with you in Part 6, have been tested and are worth trying and will bring value to your marketing activities.

[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

Technorati Tags: automate twitter, social media marketing, Twitter

Follow Interesting People:

Here is where you start building a list of followers. It is important that you look for people with similar interests to yourself. These people are most likely to be interested in your business. In other words, you would probably follow people who describe themselves as an “entrepreneur” rather than as a “comedian”.

By targeting people that share an interest in the product you want to sell, you will build a twitter following that will be responsive to what you have to offer. For instance, if you sought out people who were talking about football, you would probably find a good market for anything football related. On the other hand, if your tried marketing cosmetics to this group … well you get the point.

Consider this to be the “secret sauce” for your Twitter marketing success, so pay attention.

Method #1

• As you read tweets in the Twitter timeline, follow people with interesting tweets and who’s Bio’s look interesting and are related to your marketing niche. By interesting, I mean people that you might like to meet.
• You can also send them a Tweet to thank them for their tweet.
• This is the social part again.

Method #2

• Use Twitter’s search utility to find interesting people to follow.
• Go to Search.Twitter.com to do a simple real-time search of the timeline.
• For a more advanced search that will allow you to refine your search more, go to Search.Twitter.com/advanced
• Or for yet a different view of the world use Twellow.com a Twitter Yellow Pages service.
• Once you have located interesting people, simply follow them

Method #3

• Find a person using method #2 above who looks to have similar interests to you and who has build a large group of followers.
• Click on this person’s image to go to their Twitter main page. From here, click on their Follower link. You will then get a list of their followers. Look through this list for people that you would like to follow and follow them.

Method #4

• Get a free account on Twollo.com
• This utility allows us to search for fellow Twitters with a keyword and automatically follow them.

Here is the Game Plan:

The most valuable person to your Twitter account is a “friend” a friend is a person who you follow and they are also following you. The least desirable person, is the person who you follow but they don’t follow you back. Got that? I know there were too many “follows” in one sentence.

So here is the plan:

• Follow interesting people
• 40%-60% of these people will follow you back within 2 days.
• Do your housekeeping (see part 5 for this procedure) and clean out all the people you are following but who are not following you back.
• Rinse and repeat. Follow more interesting people.

How Many People do I follow each day?

That is a very good question. The answer is as many as you can … within reason. In this case we are walking a fine line between using Twitter for what it was intended, which is to meet and communicate with friends on one hand. On the other hand, we don’t want to abuse the system by adding too many followers a once. This type of abuse has caused Twitter to put some rules in place to prevent over aggressive marketing people from spamming the system.

Here are some guidelines to keep you flying below the Twitter Spam radar.

• Add between 100 and 200 friends a day. From 40% – 60% of these people will follow you back and become friends.
  
• On a new account (under 2000 followers) you can follow up to 2000 people without having your account suspended, however, it is safer to maintain your “following” count 100 to 200 higher than your “follower” count.
  
• Once you reach 2000 followers you can follow 10% more people than follow you. So if you have 2100 followers you cant follow more than 2310 people.
  

If you will follow new people every day, your Twitter friends will increase at a very rapid rate. Using these techniques, I grew my account from 0 to over 1700 people in the first week. If done properly, these people will be very responsive to your tweets and when we start advertising, they will respond to your ads as well.

In part 5 we will put the last piece in place, House Keeping. As in all areas of our lives, if we do our daily housekeeping chores consistently, our Twitter account will grow to become exactly what we want it to be, an attentive, responsive group of friends. If we don’t, it may grow into an ugly, unpredictable beast that will break your heart. I’m exaggerating, but you understand the principle.

[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 email me. 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

Technorati Tags: automate twitter, social media marketing, Twitter

Creating Content:

I was cynical when I first heard about Twitter over a year ago. The stories I heard were about young people Tweeting about every moment of their lives. What time they got up … what they put on their cereal … what they had for lunch … and so on … and so on. I thought it was just a short term craze. But here we are today and Twitter is growing at 1000% a year! What is the attraction?

Twitter’s short, easy to create messages fulfill a need for the average person to stay connected. Tweeting provides a simple way to communicate without all the complexity of blogging or creating a websites. Content is so simple to add, it can even be created and sent over a cell phone using SMS messaging.

Simple communications, staying in touch, providing interesting content is the key to Twitter success. Even if you have not been successful with article writing or bloging, or you hate writing, Tweeting is so simple anyone can do it.

I am going to present three methods for producing content for your Twitter account. If you post good content to Twitter on a consistent, daily basis, you will be surprised how many people will read your 140 word posts. The secret to success is consistency.

I would recommend that you start tweeting your content to Twitter before you start inviting friends. The content you post will be seen by all Twitter users. Your content will build your reputation and provide an attentive and responsive audience.

Be Aware:

• All Twitter posts are public. Only say what you want to be heard in public.
• Once a Twitter post has been sent it can not be deleted or changed.

Method #1

• Enter your own updates several times a day. Greet the world a good morning. Tell everyone what you are thankful for . The universal law of attraction would dictate that by being cheerful and uplifting you will attract similar people to yourself. So be yourself, but this must be done consistently.
  
• Re-Tweet other people’s tweets that you find interesting. Always prefix the re-tweet with “RT @username” to attribute the tweet to the original tweeter. In the Twitter world it is a big complement to have your tweet re-tweeted.
  

Method #2

• As you “surf” the net during the day, select news articles, blog posts and other pieces of information you think would interest your followers and tweet the headline and link. Since you only have 140 characters to make your post, most twitterers (or twits for short), use a link shortening service such as Bit.ly.
  
• You can automate this by using a utility called TwitSnip. This utility allows you to select text on a web page and convert it into a tweet and post it to Twitter all with the click of a mouse. You can get it here http://twitter.grader.com/twitsnip.
  

Method #3

• Set up a RSS (Real Simple Syndication) news feed to your Twitter account. Websites with RSS feeds are usually identified with the symbol. See a short video overview of RSS feeds HERE.
  
• Create a Google search in Google Alerts (http://www.google.com/alerts) for a topic that would interest your followers. Set it to “Deliver to Feed”
  
• Use http://www.TwitterFeed.com to translate the RSS feed into a Twitter tweet. Alternately, you could use TweetLater.com ’s Premium (infer paid) Account to tweet your feed.
  
• Here is a list of sites other than Google that have RSS news feeds that can provide interesting content – “Top 100 Most-Subscribed-To RSS Feeds”
• For the technically capable, you can also use Yahoo Pipes to aggregate information off the Web. I would only recommend this if you have some interest in software programming.
• CAUTION: You should select the search terms carefully and only tweet one or two news items every other hour or so. If you are not familiar with news feed, you should watch the feed for a few days in a “Feed Reader” such as Google Reader. You can watch the content and see if it is appropriate for your tweets. If it’s not, you may refine your keywords by adding negative keywords or phrase match types. This could be interpreted as spam if you tweet too much of this type of content.
  
• To learn more about refining Google searches check out these resources:
  
  • Google Search Basics
    
  • Google Advanced Search Basics
    
  • Lynda.com
    

If you will use some manual and automated method for producing content, and do this consistently every day, you will build an attentive, responsive following. You will be able to promote your other Social Media sites to, as well as market your products.

In Part 4 we will look at three methods to invite people to follow you on Twitter. You will also learn one important secret to producing a list of followers that will respond quickly to what you have to say.

[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

Technorati Tags: automate twitter, social media marketing, Twitter

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

Technorati Tags: automate twitter, social media marketing, Twitter

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

Technorati Tags: automate twitter, social media marketing, Twitter