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November 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Tweet Attacks Review

I thought I’d review a piece of software that I’ve been using for several months now, and share it with my readers since many of you are also either on Twitter to protect, and promote your brand, or would like to use Twitter as more of a marketing tool, and help drive more sales, or visitors to your website.

I’m going to go over a few of the tasks that we’re all challenged with and explain how Tweet Attacks can help with those challenges, and help you get the most out of Twitter.

Scheduled Tweets:
It’s important to be active on Twitter in order to keep the interest of those that are following you, as well as to provide them with a certain amount of value for choosing to follow you as well. Now I’m not sure what your current level of participation on Twitter is, but I can assure you that you are probably missing a large portion of your Twitter audience due to the fact that we all live in different time zones, and have different work schedules.

Scheduling your tweets so that you can be tweeting throughout the times when you’re not able to physically be at the computer is a great way to promote your brand, drive visitors and sales, as well as to be more active in the Twitter community. And it’s a simple matter of responding to followers when you’re next online, or at the computer.

Try typing up some tweets that your followers might find useful, and of some benefit in their lives. This could be anything at all that you can think of, a mechanic could offer up tips to help keep your car running smoothly, or offer up advice on where the cheapest gas can be found in town, an SEO expert could offer up tips on driving traffic to people’s websites, and improving their search engine rankings, the sky is literally the limit here, and you are held back only by your imagination. (And the 140 character limit in Twitter)

Tweet Attacks allows you to load text files into it, and schedule your tweets to go out at either predetermined times and dates, or simply schedule them to go out every 15 to 30 minutes or whatever duration you decide is best for your audience. This way, you’re tweeting around the clock, and driving traffic to your site, even when your time zone is sleeping!

Managing Followers:
One of the challenges we all face is the management of our followers, trying to protect those that are following us, when we clean house as well as hanging on to those special tweeps we follow regardless of whether or not they follow us back because they offer information that is just that valuable. Tweet Attacks keeps a copy of your VIP’s so that they don’t accidentally get unknowingly unfollowed. It will also allow you to follow selected people, or their followers, or even setup a schedule to follow so that it does it all for you automatically.

Wait and Reply:
If you’ve ever tweeted about a subject only to have someone not following you reply to you with a message on the same subject you’ve probably seen this feature in action. As a marketer, this one could hold value, because it allows you to monitor the Twitter Stream, for certain topics and then respond accordingly. Imagine having purple widgets for sale, and being able to send a reply whenever someone tweets “I wish I had a purple widget!” Ok, that one may have been made up, but you get the picture. It allows you to reply to anyone, anywhere on Twitter who Tweets the phrase you’re watching for, with the response of your choosing, regardless of whether you’re on the computer or not.

These are just a few of the features you can find within Tweet Attacks, and I can personally tell you it’s an amazing piece of software that I can’t imagine not having at my disposal. If you’d like to know more about it, please visit their website at www.tweetattacks.com

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Twitter Traffic and Twitter Marketing

August 11, 2010 By 1 Comment

Twitter Traffic and Twitter Marketing

Most of us are familiar with Twitter, and have an account or two that we’ve linked to our blog, or website. We post our daily routines, chat with some old friends, make some new ones and basically have some fun with it. They say “life’s too short, might as well have some fun with it”. The same goes for Twitter. “Twitter’s 140 character limit is too short, might as well have some fun with it”.  Ok, that sounded better in my head!  LOL

Seriously though, if you knew how much traffic you’re leaving on the table, it might surprise you. I know you’ve seen claims where someone is trying to sell you some Twitter marketing software, and they claim Twitter sends them 100,000 visits a month, we all have. I’m not saying you can get anything close, but I will tell you that Twitter sends me thousands of visits a month! Now depending on what level your blog is at this might be a lot, or it might be a little, but either way it’s worth having!

Now, first thing you’re going to need is of course your Twitter account; I’m not going to go into how to get massive followers in this particular post but will keep it in mind for one later this week. A good rule of thumb with Twitter posting is to follow the 1/3 ratio, now this isn’t a hard and fast rule, but it serves a couple of different purposes. What the rule means is this; you’re going to send out one link for every three tweets.

Now for many of you who use Twitter daily to chit chat with friends this won’t be an issue, but for others who don’t have the time available to them to tweet throughout the day they will need to setup their tweets to go out automatically, and this is where the rule serves you well. It’s a good idea to provide one tweet of value, one of interest, and then of course your link… which in this case is a post to your blog which may also fall under the first two being of value, and of interest.

Next, open up your favorite word document program, because we’re going to start listing our tweets.
I use Tweet deck to make sure I’m keeping my tweets under 140 characters, and type or paste them first into there, this serves two purposes, because if I’m including a blog post link, it will automatically shorten it for me as well, then I just copy paste it into my word document. For my business Twitter account what I did was type up 175 different SEO tips that I could share, then I went in and listed 175 of my blog posts with titles, then 175 motivational quotes, on my account I also added 175 affiliate offers bringing my Tweet count to 700. (Keep in mind I’m using a ½ ratio on my account)

If you set up these to auto tweets every ten to twenty minutes you’ve got a week before you’ll repeat a single tweet. With this setup I’ll still be tweeting to people etc., but these will be going out automatically every ten to twenty minutes. Each hour I’m sending out a tweet pointing to a particular blog post on my site, and for those the title interests I get a new visitor.

I’m also providing motivation through the quotes that go out, which are great for getting retweeted, which also serves a purpose. It opens me up to a whole new Twitter audience where I can then get new followers.

I’m also providing an SEO tip, which for my followers is of direct benefit because many of them are blog or website owners. These are also great for getting retweeted; it also brings me in some SEO clients.

And then of course the good old affiliate offers or sales links. These are annoying to everyone because most people spam the heck out of them trying to get a sale. I’ve sprinkled these in because while they may be annoying, they also bring in revenue.

So as you can see these 4 types of “Tweets” all serve a purpose, and are beneficial to either driving traffic, generating new followers, or providing direct revenue to my business.
Once you have your scheduled tweets typed up, and ordered to your preference you can use a free service to send out your tweets, keep in mind it can be quite time consuming entering each one manually and setting the time to go out.
I personally use Tweet Attacks, I have a separate “scheduled tweets” saved for each of my Twitter accounts, and it can do all the other wonderful stuff like follow/unfollow, it can listen in to the Twitter stream until it hears a certain phrase such as “I want an Ipad” and then respond with your Ipad offer, and tons more. If you’re marketing on Twitter, chances are you already have it. If by chance you don’t here’s a link where you can check it out. (It’s an affiliate link)

Click here to learn more about Tweet Attacks

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Twitter Followers and Scheduled Tweets

July 12, 2010 By 15 Comments

Twitter Followers and Scheduled TweetsIf you’ve been involved in internet marketing for more than five minutes you’ve no doubt heard about businesses and individuals marketing on Twitter.  If you take into account the sheer number of people using this social media platform on a daily basis (Twitter now has 106 million users sending out 55 million tweets every day) you’ll soon see why it’s something that no internet marketer should ignore for very long.

Having a large number of followers on Twitter serves a few different yet equally important tasks for us as Internet Marketers. Feel free to add us on Twitter if you like, if you notice we haven’t followed back, it was in error, and simply send me a msg, and I’ll be glad to follow you back. www.twitter.com/plrnetmarketing

One, the most obvious advantage to having a huge list of followers is more followers equals more potential customers or clients for our website or business and in turn more sales.

Two, more followers mean a larger knowledge base with which to grow our business from. For example, my Twitter account is made up of hundreds, perhaps thousands of people in the Internet Marketing industry, how can I possibly make money from internet marketers? (A tough group to sell to) Well, maybe I can’t sell as often to them, but I can certainly share knowledge with them, I learn little bits and pieces from each of my followers, just like they do from me. I then in turn pass that knowledge and information along to my readers and followers which results in an indirect benefit to my bottom line.

Three, a large number of followers will be seen by many as a good indicator of social proof. Social proof is important in that if someone goes to a website and see’s the site has no comments, 142 follower, 34 feed burner readers, they are going to assume it’s pretty much a dead site. On the other hand, if they see there are thousands of followers, hundreds, or thousands of readers and so on, they will be more inclined to invest the time to check out the site giving it the attention it deserves. If you took two websites of equal value, site a. has 25 followers, and site b. has 20,000 followers, your subconscious will tell you the one with the bigger number is more popular, and hence more valuable. (Not true, these were equal blogs, remember… but it will often be perceived that way)

So what can we do help us market, and make more money on Twitter? Thought you’d never ask!
I’ve broken it down into two sections, the fist generating more followers, and the second covering scheduled tweets.

Getting Followers:

  1. The most widely used method for getting someone to follow you, is to simply follow them first in the hopes that they will see you as someone of value, and follow you back. This can be done manually (not recommended) or using software, or websites for the purpose I recommend Tweet Attacks (paid) or www.refollow.com (free)
  2. Make sure to include a follow me icon somewhere visible on your website or blog. I’ve placed mine beside my twitter counter, so that people can see they aren’t the first one’s to follow me. (Social Proof)
  3. As an Internet Marketer, I’m assuming you have a subscriber list. Include a follow me icon or link at the bottom of your emails.
  4. Personal correspondence is also a great way to let your friends, family, and colleagues know where to find you on Twitter. The idea is to make it as accessible as possible for people to find you.
  5. Other social media sites. PLR Internet Marketing has a facebook fan page that also has a direct link to our Twitter account, showing our tweets, followers, etc. as well as a place to start following us.
  6. Hold a contest in order to grow your list, perhaps your business offers a product or a service that you could use as an incentive for people to follow you. Be creative, there are any number of ways to entice people to follow you on Twitter!

Scheduled Tweets:

Capitalize on your “Tweet” real estate; this is a very important step that many overlook. Schedule your tweets…not all of them, but your business tweets for sure! For example, I’ve gone to the trouble to write out over 700 tweets that go out from my account every 4 to 10 minutes. I’ve broken my tweets into four different types.

  1. The first tweet that goes out from my account is a random quote. I love motivational quotes, and it turns out many others do as well; these are often retweeted dozens of times per day giving me and my business even more exposure to newer and wider audiences.
  2. Second tweet I send out is a link to one of my blog posts, of which I have over 200. That means I can tweet about 200 articles on the different topics I cover here on my blog, and that my followers if interested can click through to read, and then become potential clients or customers. These also get retweeted quite often, as they have value to my followers, followers!
  3. The third tweet I send out will be an SEO tip that I’ve written (and condensed to 140 characters) in order to provide value to my followers throughout the day. I’m constantly getting commended, and thanked for these, as they help my followers and usually lead to further discussion on what other webmasters are doing, or should be doing with their own sites.
  4. My fourth tweet is my “money tweet”; it’s usually an affiliate link promoting a product or service that my site recommends in exchange for a percentage of the sale. For instance I’ve been using Hostgator as a reseller, and affiliate, and I’ve been happy with them for years, so have no problem recommending them to my followers. If my followers are in the market for hosting, they can click on the link, and if they sign up for the service I get paid by the company for recommending a new customer to them.

For those interested in the software I use to manage these two daily tasks on Twitter, I’m using Tweet Attacks, the software is amazing, and paid for itself within just a few weeks.

Click here for their sales page

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