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Twitter For Internet Marketing Professionals – 5-Day E-Course

Doug Champigny — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:58:16 +0000

Twitter For Internet Marketing Professionals – 5-Day E-Course

What’s better than finding a 5-day e-course designed to teach Internet marketing professionals how to use Twitter most effectively? Finding the ‘Twitter for Internet Marketing Professionals‘ e-course with full PLR Resell Rights!

The private label rights to the course lets you put YOUR name on as author of each e-mail and add in the links to anything you want to promote. Now obviously the products or services you link to should be related to marketing on Twitter for best results, but some can also be anything else of use to Internet marketers, since that’s the target audience of this 5-day e-course.

You may already have your own Twitter-related products to promote using the e-course, but if not, don’t worry… Products like the Twitter Effect 2.0 Videos are available with Master Resell Rights, some like High Profile Social Media have PLR rights available, or you could join our affiliate program and use the e-course to promote our best-selling guide to Advanced Marketing on Twitter.

Once you have the links you want added to each e-mail you simply load it up into your autoresponder account, add the opt-in form to the squeeze page and then upload the squeeze page and confirmation page to your website. Both the ready-made squeeze page and confirmation page are included in the Twitter Marketing For Internet Marketing Professionals bundle, so as long as you can copy & paste that task takes almost no time at all.

But that’s not the only way you can make money online with this e-course… Lots of other Internet marketing pros like to get great info to send to THEIR opt-in lists too, and that’s where the Twitter For Internet Marketing Professionals PLR Resell Rights come into play… You see, not only do you get the PLR e-course and the squeeze page system to build opt-in lists, but you also get the complete website to resell the PLR e-course as well! Both the salespage and download page are included in the same bundle as the e-course & squeeze page.

Best of all, this e-course is just one of many available – all with PLR Resell Rights – from Optin-List-Building.com… Looking down the page there you’ll see -course on Internet marketing, affiliate marketing, niche marketing, increasing web traffic and over a dozen other topics all related to online marketing and promoting offline businesses online.

So get started today with the Twitter for Internet Marketing Professionals bundle, and take a look to see if there are other courses there you can use to build opt-in lists and to sell online. And one last tip – remember you can use the e-course on it’s own, use it to warm up new leads before sending them your own e-zine, or combine any number of the courses there into one bigger Internet marketing, affiliate marketing, niche marketing or offline businesses marketing course to maximize your online profits while delivering the most helpful information to your target market!

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Avoiding The Social Media – Salespage Disconnect In Your Advanced Twitter Marketing

Doug Champigny — Sun, 02 May 2010 03:25:59 +0000

Avoiding The Social Media – Salespage Disconnect In Your Advanced Twitter Marketing

There’s a noticeable disconnect between social media sites and salespages, one that a lot more Internet marketers and affiliate marketers should be taking notice of – and it applies to anyone marketing on Twitter as well…

When people, even targeted prospects, are visiting social media sites they are in a headspace that reflects that – social. They are not, generally, in a shopping frame of mind at that point, or they’d be cruising shopping sites and salespages instead. Makes sense, right?

So if that’s so obvious, why is it that so many marketers are complaining these days that marketing on social sites isn’t working for them when they consider posting links to salespages the extent of their necessary social media marketing strategies?

No matter how well written a salespage is, it’s still just that – a salespage. And to be effective it needs to be put in front of targeted prospects when they’re in a mood to buy! Ken Evoy long ago pioneered the concept of pre-selling your prospects before passing them along to your affiliate marketing links, and in most cases that’s just as true for your own Internet marketing activities too.

Common sense tells us that you can’t overcome that disconnect – can’t expect to reframe a potential customer’s mindset – in the 140 characters we have at our disposal in our Twitter marketing efforts… But we can STILL use that ‘headline marketing’ platform to build sales – and our lists – with a slight change in tactics.

Take a lesson from the current affiliate marketing playbook – right now the highest-performing affiliates are building squeeze page systems. They offer a free download aimed at their target market, then followup with an autoresponder course to sell the prospect into the product they’re promoting. Since the prospect signed up for their list to get the download, they know that person is a targeted lead – otherwise the gift wouldn’t appeal to them.

Take a look at the psychology involved – the free e-book, report or video demonstrated their expertise in the niche, the squeeze page got the prospect to trust them enough to provide their e-mail address, and now the followup will provide more helpful information on the topic and ‘warm up’ the prospects – many of whom could eventually end up buying the product through the affiliate’s link.

So as an online marketer, use that system for your own products. Write a complimentary report on a related sub-niche and set up your squeeze page funnel. Once it’s in place you simply drive targeted traffic to it – the site, download and followup all run on autopilot so the system itself doesn’t require any ongoing effort on your part once it’s in place. And now it’s not a salespage you’re directing traffic to, but instead to a free report full of good info for those interested in the niche you serve.

Next, write a blog post about the same topic as the report and link to your squeeze page from it – tweet the blog link too! Think not so much of your Twitter marketing experience, but of your usage of Twitter yourself – how much more likely are you to click through to a free download or a blog post than to a salespage?

And the same is true of any of the other social media and social networking sites too – you’ll do much better offering free downloads and linking to helpful blog posts than you will by linking directly to salespages – and you’ll be building your opt-in list along the way for the future benefits a larger list brings.

So if you’ve got a lot of experience online and know all the ins-and-outs of reports, squeeze page systems, autoresponders and the like, start with your current or best-selling product and get the funnel online for it – then send it traffic while you focus on the funnel for your next product. Rinse and repeat til all your products have funnels specific to them, then open up those funnels to your affiliates as well!

If you’re not up to speed on those technologies and/or aren’t that well versed at driving large amounts of targeted traffic, I suggest you consider enrolling in our PowerStart Internet Marketing coaching classes, a 4-week crash course that teaches all of the above and a lot more. Weekly webinars and over 1.5 gigs of custom step-by-step training videos are combined to ensure your success, no matter how new you are to marketing online. Classes start the first Monday night of each month, so start by checking out the video testimonials sent to us by some of our Internet marketing coaching program graduates – see you after you enroll!

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Get Tweet Traffic Rush Now For Free While It’s In Launch!

Doug Champigny — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:26:46 +0000

Tweet Traffic Rush has launched! I LOVE This New Free Twitter Tool – You Will Too!

This just launched today – it’s free, so get in now: Tweet Traffic Rush

As the author of Advanced Marketing on Twitter, I’m really picky about what Twitter tools I use or promote. This one, though, shows more potential than any others I’ve seen, since it builds traffic and your Twitter following all at once.

Better still, it takes 15 minutes to set up and then it runs on autopilot – push it hard for maximum effect or just sit back and take the residuals – either way you come out way ahead.

Not sure why my friend Raamakant is letting this go for free – there is a paid level if you want faster & better results, but the free level will suffice for all but the most ambitious marketers, so get into Tweet Traffic Rush now while it IS still free!

I’ll be writing a guide to getting the most from this system, so watch for that next week sometime. In the meantime, get your Tweet Traffic Rush account and put the widget on your blogs, sites, etc. and start building your traffic and Twitter following today!

Note the viral growth the system is designed for – get a few people under you, either through your promotional efforts or on autopilot through the supplied widget, and let it grow over time as the viral downline aspect builds your base passively. But either way, don’t be foolish – never pass up this powerful a tool when you’re getting it for free!

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Tie Google Buzz To Your Twitter Stream For Additional Marketing Mojo

Doug Champigny — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:01:13 +0000

Google Buzz has launched, and marketers and prospects have flocked to it en masse to set up their new profiles on the site – as examples, see Doug Champigny on Google Buzz and Teri Champigny on Google Buzz.

So what does that mean for you and your Advanced Marketing on Twitter efforts? Now, in addition to LinkedIn, Facebook, etc, your Twitter posts, or tweets, will also show up in your Google Buzz – and the Buzz of the people following you on Google’s new Web 2.0 property.

Will this help you get tweets indexed sooner on Google? Not likely – they try to bend over backwards not to give favor to their own properties in their search engine, it seems. But it DOES mean that much more exposure to your tweets and links you have in them, and as we all know, the wider the audience, especially a targeted audience, the greater the opportunity for sales and list building!

And like Twitter itself, the only people seeing your Google Buzz stream are those who choose to follow you or those who go to view your profile there, so you’re not spamming anyone by adding in your Twitter feed, no matter how much you’re marketing on Twitter.

Should you set up your own Google Buzz profile and add your Twitter feed to it? If you’re marketing on Twitter – especially if you’re following the steps in my Advanced Marketing On Twitter guide – of course you should! It’s free, takes about an hour to set up and fully optimize, and can help you get your messages out to a wider potential buying audience – why would you pass that up?

Get your Google Buzz on right now, add your Twitter ID and stream and give your advanced Twitter marketing one more shot of adrenaline!

See you at the bank!

About The Author…

Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketing coach, mentor, speaker and the creator of the PowerStart Marketing 4-week Internet Marketing Crash Course. To learn more about Doug or to book him to speak at your next event, contact him through his blog at http://DougChampigny.com.

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Using Twitter But Not Retweeting? How Gauche!

Doug Champigny — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:13:33 +0000

Using Twitter But Not Retweeting? How Gauche!

The Advanced Twitter Marketing System makes proper – and heavy – use of the Retweet aspect of Twitter. But even if you’re not using Twitter for Internet marketing or using Twitter for affiliate marketing, you should really be retweeting tweets each and every day. Not retweeting anything is egotistical and, well… gauche!

First, let’s look at what retweeting is, and why it’s necessary to fulfill your implicit promise to those following you on Twitter. The tweets you see streaming by on Twitter are from those people you’ve chosen to follow – and only those people – you create your own Twitterverse that way. And so does everybody else, including those who choose to follow you.

As a result, unless you’re both following the exact same people, each of you is seeing some tweets, probably a goodly percentage, that the others aren’t seeing. And that’s where retweeting comes in. If you see a really helpful, positively encouraging or funny tweet, pass it along to your followers so they can learn from it/visit the site/laugh at it too!

Obviously this passes along greater value to your Twitter followers than just sending them your tweets alone, since they get these as well as your own original tweets. But just taking someone else’s tweet and passing it along as your own is not only in poor taste – it’s one of the specifically prohibited activities that Twitter states it will close your account for. So just what is the correct Twitter etiquette for retweeting the messages you receive?

Assume the tweet in question came from my @SuperAffil stream. Simply highlight and copy the tweet, then in the update window put ‘RT @SuperAffil ‘ (without the quotes) and paste my message in after that. That first bit shows it’s a retweet of a tweet you received from @SuperAffil, and then it shows them what the original tweet said. While this is a bit clumsy in the Twitter.com user interface, 3rd party software like TweetDeck makes it much simpler – in TweetDeck, for instance, hovering your cursor over the tweeter’s avatar brings up 4 small icons, one of which is for retweeting. By just clicking that icon your retweet is put into the update window, ready to send with the proper formatting already done for you.

Hopefully Twitter will eventually add that function directly into their interface, but with most users already interacting with Twitter through 3rd-party software there may not really be a need for them to do so. Twitter growth has been so swift that they have their hands full with server upgrades, spambot checking and now fighting off Denial-of-service attacks, hackers and developers of blackhat software trying to get an unfair advantage at Twitter. However, Biz Stone and his crew have done a fantastic job keeping Twitter intact, growing safely and becoming more and more powerful in it’s usefulness to Twitter users, so don’t be surprised if a retweet function and other user-interface improvements show up from time to time.

So now that you know HOW to retweet, the big question is WHY should you retweet. Let me restate my belief that not retweeting is overly egotistical – you’ve decided no one but you has anything of value to offer your followers, and that they should be left on their own to find valuable tweeters to follow. Conversely, when you pass along the best of the tweets you receive you’re adding more value to the equation, making your stream that much more valuable an asset to those following you. And it also gives your followers a heads-up on other users whose tweets are good enough for you to pass on, giving them an easy way to follow that person as well.

Further, the ‘law of reciprocity’ is alive and well online – when you’re retweeting others, since their @username label is in the tweet they’ll see it too, and that you’ve retweeted them. This gives them a good reason to follow you too, since you’ve shown you feel you’re sending similarly-targeted tweets to your followers. And often they’ll then watch for your tweets, retweeting the best of them in turn and exposing you to their following as well. This ‘Twitter networking’ can be a powerful strategy too, especially if the people you’re retweeting are at the same or higher level in your particular niche. Most Twitter users find having their tweets retweeted flattering, and a bit of flattery to those above you, when genuine and not overdone, can never hurt!

So as you can see, retweeting helps your followers, enhances the value of your own tweetstream, helps to make the movers & shakers in your niche aware of you, and often leads to your tweets being spread to a wider audience, bringing you more followers and expanding your sphere of influence. This is a win-win situation for anyone using Twitter, but especially powerful for advanced Twitter marketers.

Put the power of retweets to use in YOUR daily Twitter marketing activities today!

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Advanced Twitter Marketing and Clickbank Pirate – Made For Each Other?

Doug Champigny — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:20:18 +0000

If you’ve read my Advanced Twitter Marketing System, you know how heavily I stress Twitter’s ability to drive tightly-focused targeted traffic to the links in your tweets. And I’ve said in numerous interviews since that the easiest links to get traffic to from Twitter are blog posts and free downloads, right?

Now, along comes Clickbank Pirate, almost as if in answer to that amazing powerhouse Twitter has become! These two sites were definitely destined to be used together by any advanced Twitter marketer who’s into affiliate marketing, or looking for a way to monetize their Twitter followers.

You see, as a member of Clickbank Pirate, each month you’re provided with new affiliate sales funnels already set up and hosted for you – you just need to send as much targeted traffic as you can. That’s right – THEY provide the free report and the squeeze page to give it away from, and THEY set up the autoresponder for you and write the follow-up e-mail series, with each funnel hopefully leading to sales of one affiliate product at Clickbank for you.

So with all of that already in place, and new ones set up each month, really all you need to do is find targeted prospects and get them to opt-in and download your free gift. Isn’t that exactly what we’ve talked about in Advanced Twitter Marketing? Targeted traffic sent to a free download?

It’s hard to think of two systems that would work better together, isn’t it? And best of all, Twitter is still growing by leaps and bounds – and as it does, your potential target market gets bigger and bigger. And as each month goes by at Clickbank Pirate, so does the number of free gifts you have to give away to increase your affiliate marketing commissions. Oh, and by the way, all payments, both from the affiliate sales funnels and the Clickbank Pirate affiliate program, are paid directly into your Clickbank account – and Clickbank has NEVER missed a single on-time payment in it’s ten years of operation.

Take advantage of this deadly duo today – get in on the goodies from Clickbank Pirate, and on the off chance you don’t already have your own copy of the Advanced Twitter Marketing System, then by all means download your copy today!

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Offline Businesses Beware – Twitter Is Watching…

Doug Champigny — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:53:06 +0000

For the longest time, large offline corporations of a certain ilk have used lawsuits and the threat of them to silence their critics. Even when in the right, most individuals don’t have the financial wherewithal to mount a legal defense against a battery of hard-nosed lawyers protecting corporate sharks from exposure. Not many would disagree that this is an immoral use of power and wealth, but since when did those with power & wealth exhibit any interest in society’s morals?

Well, the tide may be about to change, as they say. Apparantly offended by a tweet on Twitter recently, one company launched a lawsuit against the tweet’s author. I know neither the person nor anyone from the company involved, so this is neither a rant or a veiled mission – simply a caveat to offline businesses about the power of the new Social Networking world.

Twitter is set up so that only your own followers see your tweets, although some are later indexed by the search engines, where they may or may not be seen by others. In this instance it appears the author of the tweet had 20 followers – extremely limited exposure. And with hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of tweets flowing through for most Twitter users, one can assume a large percentage of followers miss any given tweet.

As a social media expert, I can tell you that left alone, that tweet would have had negligible impact. But it wasn’t left alone…

The company launched a lawsuit purportedly demanding $50,000US in damages, and the story was picked up by the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper. The marketer in me shuddered as I read the comments from a company spokesperson, but it was still a mostly-local issue…

Enter the Social Media… (anyone have the Jaws theme music? )

Pete Cashmore, one of the world’s best and most-respected bloggers, posted the story on his Mashable blog, arguably the top Social Media Guide blog in the world. He treated the issue fairly in my humble opinion, reporting the tweet and quoting the company as published in the Sun-Times story.

So what’s the effect of Pete’s post – after all, it’s just one blog right? First, in Technorati’s list of the Top 100 Blogs in the world, Mashable ranks 3rd as I write this. So popular, in fact, that ranking service Alexa shows over 15,000 incoming links to Mashable from other sites!

Suddenly this tweet is now being seen by thousands or tens of thousands of people – a far cry from those original 15 or 20 viewers. And it doesn’t stop there…

As I write this, there are 15 ‘trackbacks’ shown on the post – other bloggers covering the story who have provided a link to the Mashable post – bringing the attention to their audiences as well. Mot impressively, 1,950 – Yes, ONE-THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY – viewers have sent a tweet from the site to bring the blog post to the attention of the combined Twitter following, an audience potentially in the millions!

All this – and Pete just posted the information THIS MORNING… Already a search for the headline, “Woman Sued for $50,000 Over a Tweet”, shows how viral this type of issue is: searching at Google shows 5,000 references to the article, searching at Yahoo! shows 6 results, and searching at Bing shows 34 results.

And those are just the search engine results within 12 hours of the article being posted, so it’s fairly safe to assume those will continue to grow for a while yet as new sources are found, new tweets are made, and more bloggers take up the case…

Ignoring the post might have meant 15 or 20 people might develop a bad impression of the company concerned – by making it an issue, how many of the millions will feel that way? What does damage control cost on this new scale – and can it be implemented successfully by a company whose reps would make this type of move?

Face it – for offline businesses, the game has changed. Instant access and instant response has put the consumer in a position so powerful as to (almost) match the power of the big business legal front.

Ignoring Social Media is a major mistake for offline businesses – using it wrong or being ignorant of it’s power is far worse, and an offline business might soon sink or swim based on it’s online reputation. Just as offline businesses search Twitter, MySpace, FaceBook and the big search engines for background on employees, potential hires and suppliers, so now do consumers and potential corporate clients before making buying decisions. Can lenders and legislators be far behind?

Using Social Media correctly, however, can be a major boon to offline businesses, from little corner stores and home-based entrepreneurs to the largest global corporations. If your budget allows, hire a professional social media consultant to guide you through the potential minefields to the profitable pastures beyond – and be amongst the first of offline businesses to use Social Media to increase your bottom line while enhancing your company’s reputation world-wide or in your own backyard!

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About The Author:

Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketing coach, mentor and speaker and author of the Advanced Twitter Marketing System. A recognized Social Media expert, Doug Champigny was the featured Web 2.0 speaker at the Internet Marketing SuperConference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Twitter Marketing Just One Component Of A Successful Marketing Mix

Doug Champigny — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:29:41 +0000

Advanced Twitter marketing research has shown a lot of different ways to use Twitter in your Internet and affiliate marketing, but unfortunately too many novice marketers are now starting to use Twitter as their main, or only, form of online promotion. As much as I love Twitter and it’s potential profit paths for an online business, I STRONGLY recommend AGAINST using Twitter as your main marketing activity.

Why? First, Twitter doesn’t belong to you – meaning the owners could at any time shut it down. In almost 13 years online now I’ve seen a number of big sites come and go, and while Twitter seems firmly rooted at the moment, remember that they still haven’t monetized the service. Even with the business brilliance of Biz Stone & crew, and the small staff they’ve stayed to, they do have some good-sized expenditures for hardware, bandwidth, etc. Sooner or later the bills have to be paid, and I for one will feel much more comfortable about Twitter’s future once they have a monetization system set up and working well.

Second, the service could be doing fine – but still shut down YOUR account. There have been a few days recently when 50 or 100 accounts are suddenly suspended for ‘suspicious activity’. Seems the way they’ve kept the spammers out is by applying algorithms that knock out any suspicious behavior – but as with all such systems, some get clipped that haven’t broken any rules. So far Twitter has been impressively fast in restoring accounts caught in the crossfire, but what happens when the number of users and user accounts doubles or quadruples?

Having your account down for 3 or 4 days may not seem like much of a problem, but if it’s your main promotional vehicle and those 3 or 4 days coincide with your big launch, or the launch of an affiliate marketing opportunity, it could mean missing out on thousands of dollars in sales or commissions!

The third (and most important) reason is the same reason Twitter is so perfect as part of your marketing mix. Targeted traffic from Twitter is instant – you tweet, some of your followers see it and a percentage of them click through to your link. How many do depends on a myriad of factors – but mostly on how targeted your following is and how many see that tweet.

So why is that a disadvantage? Because within a minute or two, your tweet has scrolled offscreen for anyone except those that have you in their ‘VIP list’ in some interfaces. So to keep traffic coming in, you have to keep tweeting that same tweet a few times a day every day. As soon as you move on to another opportunity, traffic from Twitter to that first link dries up pretty quickly.

Compare that to article marketing, podcasts or video submissions, that potentially continue to drive traffic for you for days, weeks, months and even years in some cases. Blog posts are another great example of this, for while your current posts get the most action for you, some of your earlier posts may still generate a lot of traffic through being found in the search engines, blog directories, podcast directories, etc.

So just as when marketing in the offline world, keep your online marketing mix balanced using a combination of immediate traffic generation, mid-term strategies and long-term targeted traffic magnets. With a good balance you can have a good launch, then continue to see sales from that product, service or affiliate marketing promotion for some time to come as you turn your focus to your next money-making opportunity!

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Doug Champigny is a well-known Internet marketing mentor, speaker, super-affiliate and the author of Advanced Twitter Marketing. Learn the 14 traffic generation strategies that should be in your marketing mix from the Top Traffic Tips audio and e-book.
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Advanced Twitter Marketing on BlogTalkRadio with Willie Crawford Today

Doug Champigny — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:25:18 +0000

The buzz on the Advanced Twitter Marketing System continues to build, with no end in site so far… And no wonder, since it’s the only system for marketing on Twitter written by a professional marketer for professional marketers!

After great interviews with big names in the Internet marketing industry like Mike Paetzold, Joel Osborne and Alex Sysoef, today at 3pm Eastern (Noon Pacific) you can participate live online as I discuss Advanced Twitter Marketing with Willie Crawford on his BlogTalkRadio Show.

Listen in as we discuss why the Advanced Twitter Marketing System is so different from the other Twitter guides online, and have your questions ready to be answered live on the show – I’m looking forward to hearing from you! Just be sure you’re at:

Willie Crawford’s BlogTalkRadio Show

at 3pm Eastern, noon pacific, and I’ll see you there!

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Don’t Use Advanced Twitter Marketing To Build And Sell Twitter Accounts

Doug Champigny — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:41:06 +0000

The Advanced Twitter Marketing System is a powerful method of legally and ethically building a large targeted following on Twitter and making great leaps in your list building and online profits while you’re at it. How powerful is a big targeted Twitter following?

So powerful that at least one enterprising entrepreneur, popular voiceover artist Todd Gross, has created and built Twitter accounts to then offer them for auction on eBay – here’s a screenshot of his offering there today. In the interest of complete transparency, let me state upfront that to the best of my knowledge Todd is NOT using my Advanced Twitter Marketing System in his efforts.

So why bring it up then? First, because this is a new type of commerce regarding Twitter, and I want to keep you abreast of any and all forms of Twitter marketing I see, good or bad. Second, to consider the implications of this activity, and why I think this could be both harmful and possibly even illegal in my non-legal-professional opinion. And third, to just sort of smile that people would bid over $100 for this account at eBay, when for $47 they could learn the Advanced Twitter Marketing System and have an account that size of their own – in fact one for every niche they market to, in less than a month, and be able to continue building those using the same techniques.

Let’s look again at the implications of this new endeavor, and some possible ramifications should it start to catch on… Remember that I’m not a lawyer or other licensed legal professional nor do I have a business relationship with Twitter, eBay or Todd Gross, so these are just personal observations and opinions and nothing more or less than that, ok?

1) As Twitter was intended to be used, users sign up to follow those people they want to follow. Those are the only people whose tweets they recieve, allowing them to target their reading on Twitter to specific areas of interest. So my first question has to be are they signing up to follow the account or the person? Since it seems to me they’re following the PERSON, then anyone else sending from that account might have their tweets considered SPAM, as happens when a marketer sells people’s e-mail addresses without prior permission. Have we just got a better handle on that area only to see it raise it’s head on Twitter?

2) Who owns the Twitter accounts in question? Sure, you start and build your Twitter account – but doesn’t it and everything else on the site still belong to Twitter? And if so, What are the potential legal ramifications from selling something you don’t own?

3) Social networking for business purposes involves building your reputation amongst your followers as a provider of great information, tools, tips and resources. As a result, they trust your suggestions that much more and are much more likely to follow your links to build your lists or increase your sales or affiliate marketing results. You have no such relationship developed with an account you just bought, and in the time you can win them over you could have built your own account from the ground up using your own Twitter account and applying the Advanced Twitter Marketing techniques.

4) A sudden change of ownership in an account you’re following might allow unscrupulous parties to suddenly use that trusted account to send their followers banned materials like porn, warez, hate material or virii. These same people have used every new technology to try and offend/affect others, so why wouldn’t they be trying to use Twitter too? And while Biz Stone and his excellent Twitter team would shut them down fast, who knows what damage would already have been done, especially with all the RSS aggregators that publish people’s tweets on websites and blogs too?

5) Will Twitter users create a backlash against such practices? There are still a lot of head-in-the-clouds Ivy-League-Oldtimers who feel the Internet should be devoid of all marketing, ignoring the fact that the funding for most of the ‘net wouldn’t exist without the hosting, domain name, autoresponder, ISP, etc, fees paid every month by marketers with ever-growing presences on the Internet. On Twitter this is a non-issue – you create your own ‘Twitterverse’, seeing only the tweets of those you choose to follow. So the ignorant and unenlightened can follow just those of their own ilk just as easily as the rest of us can follow brilliant, forward-thinking individuals. But when an account changes hands, who knows what they might send, and to whom?

6) Even if you want to use Twitter exactly as it’s meant to be used and send your new followers exactly what they want from you, how can you do that if you’re not aware of how they were enticed to follow the account – especially if it’s not the type of tightly-targeted following you learn to build in your Advanced Twitter Marketing training?

7) Will Twitter even allow this practice? I assume they’ve already banned some individuals from using the system, unscrupulous types who would lovew to see this catch on so they could just keep buying accounts to keep ahead of Twitter and keep spamming it’s users. There’s already talk of Twitter finding a way to verify each account is legitimate, i.e. owned by the people they claim to be, and this might just pose another issue along similar lines. What if you paid $100, $200 or even $500 for a large Twitter account, just to have it shut down the next day – possibly even for activities before you bought the account?

If, between the Twitter user base and the owners of Twitter, a system could be found that kept the above concerns in check, then another profitable area of outsourcing will emerge that benefits both marketers and those who would become expert at building new Twitter followings – much like those who specialize in building sites or blogs and then selling them online. Perhaps some sort of marker or ID-extension would differentiate these accounts, so users didn’t follow them unknowingly.

So will Twitter users see Todd as an innovator, blazing the trail to new online profit centers or as someone caught trying to scam the system? Each will have to decide that on their own, based on their own pre-conceived notions of what Twitter is and/or should be, and on any decisions on the matter handed down by Biz Stone & his Twitter crew. In the final analysis, let’s remember it’s their site and their system, so they do and should have the final say on everything Twitter.

My personal feeling at this time is that users of my Advanced twitter Marketing System stay with starting and building their own Twitter accounts, keeping them tightly focused to just those followers who are truly interested in you, your tweets and your products and affiliate offerings. If the practice of building and selling Twitter accounts is generally approved of and officially condoned as time goes on, I’ll add a chapter on how to use Advanced Twitter Marketing tactics on the accounts you buy, since the system has been shown to help everyone from newbies just starting out to big dogs who already have large followings on Twitter. But until then my personal feeling is that it’s better to adopt a wait-and-see attitude toward this new practice, and keep building your own legitimate followings in each of your target niches until then, using the tried-tested-and-true Advanced Twitter Marketing strategies.

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Targeted Traffic From Advanced Twitter Marketing – Part Two

Doug Champigny — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:45:39 +0000

Our study of using Advanced Twitter Marketing techniques to drive targeted traffic from Twitter began with Targeted Traffic From Advanced Twitter Marketing – Part One. Please read that post first if you missed it, then continue on here…

As your interaction with others grows on Twitter, so will your following – and by extrapolation, so will the amount of targeted traffic you can send to your links. For maximum response, offer a free download – a report of interest to your target market, a sample software program if you sell software, perhaps a digital brochure with a money-saving coupon if you’re promoting an offline business.

Whatever market you service, you already know what the best lead-generators tend to be in your market, so those are the same incentives that will get you the most targeted traffic from your Twitter followers.

To maximize the effects of your targeted traffic generation activities on Twitter, you need to understand the logistics behind the site. First, you only see the tweets from those people you follow – likewise, only those following you will see your tweets.

Second, each of your followers will be following hundreds, or more likely thousands of other people too. As such, they potentially receive thousands of tweets a day – and no one can keep up with them all.

To combat that and keep your Twitter marketing effective, be sure to provide enough good solid information that your followers begin to watch for your tweets, and always respond to any messages they send you. Depending on which software they use to interact with the site, they’ll either have a special column for those whose messages they don’t want to miss, or they’ll only see the tweets that come by while they’re actually at the site.

So for maximum viewership of your tweets, divide the time you’ve allotted for your Twitter marketing into smaller blocks of 10-15 minutes each, and send your main tweets out two or three times a day – don’t hesitate to repeat your tweets, since for the most part a different subset of your followers will see them each time.

Advanced Twitter marketing can become the best way to get people to your sites instantly – and by using it to get them to your squeeze pages you’ll be building a list you can bring back time after time. But as effective as your advanced Twitter marketing becomes, avoid the temptation to spend more time there at the expense of your other online marketing activities.

You should be using Twitter, your e-zine and your blogs for short-term targeted traffic generation, and article marketing, podcasts & videos to keep targeted traffic coming in for some time to come. Neglecting any of these other activities will reduce the net gains you make from your targeted traffic efforts at Twitter, so keep it in perspective and part of your overall long-term marketing strategy for optimal success!

For more advanced strategies on using Twitter for business, read Doug Champigny’s Advanced Twitter Marketing Strategies.

An Advanced Twitter Marketing Case Study report is also available – click here for your free copy.

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Targeted Traffic From Advanced Twitter Marketing – Part One

Doug Champigny — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:16:44 +0000

Advanced Twitter marketing strategies all revolve around getting more targeted visitors to Internet marketing websites and affiliate links. While search engines are still probably the most powerful way to drive traffic, that only holds true for those people who achieve a first-page listing in Google, Yahoo or Bing – for the rest, response is limited or non-existent.

Over the last two years the social networking sites, collectively referred to as the Web 2.0 sites, have been gaining massive audiences and are now amongst the biggest portals online – and that mass audience has created tremendous opportunities for online marketers to grab a lot of free exposure for their sites, blogs, salespages and affiliate links.

Of these Web 2.0 sites, Twitter is rapidly approaching critical mass, sweeping it’s ‘competition’ aside in it’s wake. Both the instant gratification from your messages being seen instantly and the ego boost provided by garnering a large number of followers makes the site emotionally addicting to it’s users, who are spending more and more time there each day. People from every walk of life participate on Twitter, from kids discussing the latest hot boy bands to major offline news departments using the service to get instant feedback from their TV viewers. Where else can you get a message to Lance Armstrong, Demi Moore, Shaq O’Neill and MC Hammer within seconds? And often hear back just as quickly, for that matter?

This is a huge opportunity for work-at-home businesses and online marketers to develop a following and establish a reputation in whichever niche they operate in, and in fact in as many niches as they choose to target. With millions upon millions of users, Twitter can provide a mass audience geared toward any niche, activity or endeavor. So how do you use the service as a major source of targeted traffic? Here are some advanced Twitter Marketing tips to follow…

Start with a Twitter search for your primary keyword. This will being up a (probably long) list of messages, called Tweets, that people have sent using that keyword. Read through them, and choose to follow as many of these people as appear to be in your target market. Repeat the search now with your other keywords, again following the users whose tweets appear to indicate an interest in the solutions you provide. Don’t just follow everybody – you don’t want to be trying to build relationships with those not interested in your business activities. Use your discretion to keep the group tightly focused – you’ll pick up a lot of the secondary people to follow through your interactions in the normal use of the site as time goes on.

As you follow people, a number of them will follow you back. Start sending your own messages, or tweets, but be intelligent about it. You want to act the same way on Twitter as you would in an offline business – be polite, be friendly, engage in conversations, but keep it professional. You wouldn’t discuss subjects like religion or politics with customers in your retail outlet, so heed the same advice on Twitter – why risk turning off people who could be valuable long-term customers with a discussion or viewpoint not relevant to your business?

Watch for people you follow asking questions you can answer, asking for information your sites can provide, or looking for the solutions your products or services provide. Also, in each session you spend on Twitter, remember to send out an invitation to visit your latest blog posting, announce your newest or best-selling product, and/or post an informative tweet that includes your affiliate link. Most people have no objection to you pointing them towards helpful resources in the areas they have an interest, and your Twitter followers are no different.

These tips will get your targeted traffic flowing in from Twitter, and in Part Two you’ll get more targeted traffic tips to use on Twitter from Doug Champigny, creator of the Advanced Twitter Marketing System.

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Free Advanced Twitter Marketing Case Study Ready To Download!

Doug Champigny — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:14:36 +0000

All along Teri & I have been promising people we’d release the Advanced Twitter Marketing System Case Study”, detailing the creation, tactics and results achieved by the Captain Affiliate beta test – and it’s finally ready for downloading!

For those who have been watching the Advanced Twitter Marketing System evolve, you’ll remember that the intent was to find a way to reduce the time marketers had to spend at Twitter to achieve success, while finding ways to increase the targeting of their Twitter followers WITHOUT the risk of spamming the system or the users.

The Captain Affiliate (@CaptnAffiliate) account was created to allow us to test and tweak our system before releasing it to the inital beta-testers, and even we were surprised at how well that initial testing went. Even better, the results were then duplicated, and in some instances surpassed, by the beta testers. (Reference their testimonials here and here.)

And now, finally, we’ve had a chance to compile the information, along with the screen captures, into the Advanced Twitter Marketing Case Study. And to make it even more valuable to Internet marketers and affiliates, we’ve even included a copy of the squeeze page and download page so you can add your own opt-in form and distribute the case study from your own sites to build your opt-in lists… See? We told you it would be worth the wait!

So go ahead and download your free case study now, read it to help you make more money marketing on Twitter and distribute it to build your lists and make more money with your e-mail marketing – a nice profitable double-barrelled attack, don’t you think? Knew ya would!

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Top Twitter Marketing Affiliates Didn’t Get There By Chance…

Doug Champigny — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:33:35 +0000

Affiliate marketing on Twitter, or anywhere else for that matter, has certain techniques and tactics that make one more successful than other affiliates. For example, affiliates following the Advanced Twitter Marketing System are going to do better than those following common Twitter operating practices.

But what many people forget is that affiliate marketing, and all Internet marketing in general, is a business – and like any business, you’ll never get more out of it without putting more into it! Unsuccessful affiliates look to the super-affiliates and figure either they’re just lucky or they have some secret trick they use…

Well, truth is they do have a trick – but it’s no secret. It’s called hard work! Far too many would-be affiliates fail because they either don’t put in the effort it takes for successfull affiliate marketing, or they are putting in effort, but with no discipline to keep them on track and avoiding time-wasting and commission-shrinking activities.

Let me demonstrate a perfect example – the launch of the Advanced Twitter Marketing System. The product launched 1 week ago today, and 12 affiliates have sales there in that week. Mike Paetzold is in first place, followed closely by Joel Osborne – and they’re both far well ahead of the other 10 affiliates.

Now the playing field started out level – all of the Team Champigny affiliates had access to the Advanced Twitter Marketing affiliate resources. All of those with sales so far have been blogging it, tweeting it, some have put buttons and banners on their sites or blogs and others mailed it to their e-zine lists. Some of the affiliates behind Mike & Joel are newbies, while others are pros with bigger lists and more experience. They both have other sites, products and affiliate programs they promote, so it’s not that they have more time available – although both ARE full-time Internet marketers.

Based on all of that, they should be about middle of the pack, right? So what shot these two to the lead right off the bat and kept them there? How did they achieve super-affiliate results with their promos to date? BOTH TOOK THE EXTRA STEP TO BE SURE THEY SUCCEEDED IN THEIR AFFILIATE EFFORTS!!! Rather than just settle for the same amount of effort the others put in, and settle for the same income as the others, both went one step beyond what any of the others has done so far!

What type of extra effort does it take to lead in affiliate programs? Here’s what they did to pull out in front: Mike Paetzold held a teleseminar where he interviewed me about the Advanced Twitter Marketing System and then opened up the lines for a callers’ Q&A session, and made the replay available here. Joel Osborne recorded an interview on the subject and made it available here, then also recorded an affiliate video and put it online at YouTube. Each also created related bonuses to give away to those buying the Advanced Twitter Marketing System through theit links.

The results speak for themselves – Mike and Joel pulled well ahead of the pack the very first week out of the starting gate, and created resources that will continue to build their response as time goes on. They used Twitter & their e-zines to get sales started immediately, followed up with their recordings for both instant and long-term sales and used blog posts the same way. As a result, they’ve made more affiliate commissions from the Advanced Twitter Marketing launch than any of the other affiliates.

So the next time you see some super-affiliate buying another house, another sports car or another yacht, instead of being envious or figuring they’re just lucky, remember Mike and Joel – and how with not much extra effort they pulled ahead – just because they DID put that extra effort in. If you want the great perks that affiliate marketing affords the super-affiliates, watch what Mike and Joel do and be just like them – successful!

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More Advanced Twitter Marketing Reviews!

More Advanced Twitter Marketing Reviews!

Doug Champigny — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:30:14 +0000

The review of Advanced Twitter Marketing I posted yesterday by Willie Crawford created quite the buzz, and more reviews keep pouring in – here’s a few more of the Advanced Twitter Marketing System reviews…

Doug,

Your ‘Advanced Twitter Marketing’ cuts through the tons of bull crap I see so many ‘experts’ peddle nowadays and actually explains in real life terms of what is expected from you and how to properly act AND Re-Act. I think it will be a great tutorial for the majority of the people, at least the THINKING majority as the rest we simply ignore!

Superb Guide that gets my 2 thumbs Up!

Alex Sysoef
How To Spot ‘Er Blog
ExpertWordPress.com

Thanks Alex – Love your free blog & plugin installer – it rocks!

And here’s what Joel Osborne has to say in his review of Advanced Twitter Marketing:

Amazing information Doug that only you, as an expert traffic and Twitter marketer would be able to talk about.

I picked up several very powerful tips from ‘Advanced Twitter Marketing’, tips that I have already started to implement.

Congratulations on such a great Twitter resource, it will help a lot of marketers start using Twitter properly.

Joel Osborne
Joel’s Internet Marketing Blog
Joel-Osborne.com

Mike Paetzold’s Review of Advanced Twitter Marketing:

The information on building your following was excellent but the real key is the action plan you lay out on page 24. That alone is already adding subscribers to my email list and followers to my Twitter profile quickly and easily.

Mike Paetzold
Mike Paetzold’s Business Building Blog
PowerWordPressUsers.com

And the Advanced Twitter Marketing review from Anita Fiander:

This is a ‘must have’ tool to be added to your business marketing toolbox. It’s filled with Advanced Techniques you can use to take your Twitter Marketing to the next level!

Anita Fiander
AnitaFiander.com
Anita’s Time Management Blog

Thanks to everyone for their great support through these wonderful Advanced Twitter Marketing reviews! It really is a great product, and anything that can get this powerful marketing information into the hands of other Internet marketers and affiliate marketers is greatly appreciated! We want to help as many online work-at-home businesses and offline businesses to make money on Twitter as we can, so keep up the great effort!

And how about YOU, dear reader? Have you tried the System yet? If so, please send us your review… If not, why not pick up your copy of the Advanced Twitter Marketing System right now? Would love to add YOUR review once it’s helped YOU as much as it has these reviewers!

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Willie Crawford Reviews The Advanced Twitter Marketing System

Willie Crawford Reviews The Advanced Twitter Marketing System

Doug Champigny — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:00:43 +0000

Willie Crawford, one of the most famous and successful marketers in the Internet marketing industry, has had a chance to read and implement the strategies in the Advanced Twitter Marketing System and has sent us his Advanced Twitter Marketing Review:

Hi Doug,

Just finished reading Advanced Twitter Marketing and wanted to THANK YOU!

You answered “the million dollar question” of how to market on Twitter without offending those not interested in your niche or products. Since I am online largely to spread the word about what I do, I did want to use Twitter for that purpose too but struggled with how to do that. You laid out a nice step-by-step blueprint on exactly how to do that.

I’m already implementing what you taught.

Thank you for also pointing out some excellent resources that I didn’t know about AND for providing step-by-step instructions on how to make the best use of them.

You blueprint and your timesaving tips will make my time spent on Twitter many times more productive. That’s one of the things that I struggled with since TWitter is so addictive. Thanks for telling me how to handle that.

Willie Crawford
Founder, The Internet Marketing Inner Circle
Willie Crawford’s Blog
EasyPushButtonTraffic.com

With great testimonials like that from one of the Internet marketing giants, it’s not surprising that The Advanced Twitter Marketing System is flying off the digital shelves – grab your copy now!

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The Advanced Twitter Marketing System

The Advanced Twitter Marketing System

Doug Champigny — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:49:26 +0000

The Advanced Twitter Marketing System, the latest release from Doug Champigny, has just launched amidst much fanfare at http://www.AdvancedTwitterMarketing.com/system/. Already a recognized Web 2.0 targeted traffic expert (he was the featured Web 2.0 speaker at the Internet Marketing SuperConference in Las Vegas), Champigny has really outdone himself with the release of The Advanced Twitter Marketing System.

The beauty of Twitter is that it has become immensely popular with millions and millions of users – and huge crowds of new folks joining every day. This means the potential for Internet marketing on Twitter and affiliate marketing on Twitter is huge. But in The Advanced Twitter Marketing System, Champigny stresses that you can’t just rush out and spam the Twitter system or it’s users…

Twitter is representative of a broad cross-section of society, albeit that segment of society who are functionally literate and computer/internet users. So for argument’s sake, let’s assume the average Twitter user is better educated and more affluent than one finds in the general population. But the interests and ambitions of Twitter users is just as broad.

With every niche and mainstream area represented on Twitter then, obviously some are good potential clients for Internet marketers and Affiliate marketers, but many – at least half, aren’t. Fortunately the only people who see your tweets on Twitter are those that choose to follow you, so if you could find ways to build a Twitter following within your niche or specialization, and then find those Twitter users who have an interest in what you’re selling, obviously you’d be able to drive traffic with Twitter, build opt-in lists using Twitter and make money on Twitter each day, right? And that’s exactly what The Advanced Twitter Marketing System teaches you to do!

Rather than spinning your wheels, hour after hour, in a futile attempt to covert disinterested people into customers on Twitter, wouldn’t you rather zero in on those already looking for the information or products that you’re selling on Twitter? The Advanced Twitter Marketing System teaches you how to do that in 3 or 4 10-15 minute sessions a day, all the while building a big following on Twitter.

Once you have this powerful e-book with it’s step-by-step tutorial for making money on Twitter, it takes about 2 hours to set your system up, then just those short bursts each day. And best of all, the software, sites and resources in Doug Champigny’s Advanced Twitter Marketing are all free to download, access and use. That’s right – after a small investment to get the book and learn the system, you’ll be driving targeted traffic to your websites, blogs and affiliate links for free for as long as the Twitter site stays as it is – years, hopefully!

If you’ve been trying to make money on Twitter, or thinking about getting into any form of marketing on Twitter, do yourself a big favour and download Doug Champigny’s Advanced Twitter Marketing System right now!

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