Twitter Mastery: 21 Videos, E-Book & 3 Reports On Marketing On Twitter

Marketing on Twitter continues to be important to your online marketing efforts. Whether you’re Internet marketing, affiliate marketing, niche marketing or promoting an offline business online, Twitter is an ongoing must-have in your marketing mix. As it continues to grow it continues to rise in priority, and the addition of tweet locations make it even more important for those marketing offline businesses.

Now more than ever it’s imperative to stay abreast of what’s working and what isn’t for marketing on Twitter, not only regarding Twitter’s evolution itself but also which tools best support your Twitter marketing efforts. So the new Twitter Mastery video series is one new Twitter tutorial that’s an immediate hit with the online marketing community…

They, like you, know that Twitter has a massive user base that just keeps growing. And they know that anytime you have massive traffic, you have a mass market. So the issue isn’t ‘Is Twitter useful for marketers?’ but rather ‘How can I effectively market on Twitter?’

And effectively and profitably marketing on Twitter is exactly what the Twitter Mastery video series is all about. The 21 videos and e-book are broken down into 5 ‘days’ – although those pursuing their online marketing efforts part-time will most likely find each ‘day’ takes them 2-3 days. None the less, these how-to training videos will get you up to speed quickly in your promotional efforts, while showing you how to avoid spamming your following on Twitter so that you can build your target audience on an ongoing basis.

3 Bonus Reports on Marketing On Twitter

Twitter Marketing Made Easy, Twitter Profits and Twitter Traffic Mastery are 3 additional reports on using Twitter as part of your online marketing mix, and you’ll get all 3 as bonuses when you purchase Twitter Mastery. While each of these reports is easily worth the asking price for the whole bundle, when combined with the Twitter Mastery how-to videos you have one of the most complete tutorials available for using Twitter profitably.

Don’t miss out on this powerful new resource, or you’ll be leaving money on the table for the next social media marketing pro to gobble up – money that could, and should properly be yours! Add Twitter Mastery to your social media marketing mix starting today by first getting all the details from the Twitter Mastery page now!

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

©2010 Doug Champigny, 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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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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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!

©2009 Doug Champigny. All rights reserved worldwide.

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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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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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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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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Our Advanced Twitter Marketing System is a bona-fide hit – and it should be, since it’s the first book on marketing on Twitter to cut through all the crap that’s out there and present Twitter from a marketing expert’s point of view! From newbie to expert, everyone who has read and applied the strategies, techniques and tactics in the system has found they get signups and make sales within the first week or two of setting up a new Twitter account – try doing THAT with a mailing list or blog alone!

If you haven’t yet read the book or applied the advanced marketing priciples in it, you’re bound to have questions – can a newbie use the system, is there any expensive software needed, will it also work for someone whose already on Twitter, what type of marketing works best on Twitter, can you use Twitter for Affiliate marketing, etc.

Well, if you’re reading this today you’ll have a chance to ask me that directly tonight on the Advanced Twitter Marketing Simulcast – a webinar & teleseminar combined, so you can listen in online or by phone. The event takes place today, Monday, June 22, 2009, at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific). To join in, simply point your browser to http://instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=7946976 – that page has all the information as to the phone numbers to call in, how to connect on the web, etc.

This is a totally free event, although long distance charges may apply to those calling in by phone. There isn’t even a signup required – just go to that page and get your information for the simulcast. Get all your questions about the Advanced Twitter Marketing System answered live tonight – see you there!

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Advanced Twitter marketing involves a number of different marketing initiatives to achieve the best results and make the most profit you can make by including advanced twitter marketing in your marketing mix. For this post, I’m going to assume two things – first, that either you’re using my Advanced Twitter Marketing System already or have at least read the free case study that tells about how the system came to be, and second that you’ve already read my post on how I added ATM to my marketing mix to beat other super-affiliates like Patric Chan and Ian del Carmen in a launch this week.

Today I’m going to show you how to use the new Resell-Rights-Fortunes.com membership site in your Advanced Twitter Marketing activities to build your opt-in lists almost on auto-pilot. First, let’s look at why it’s important to move as many of your Twitter followers onto your lists as possible…

Twitter is a great social networking tool for instant communication, but it wasn’t set up specifically as a marketing resource, so there are a few holes in the service when viewed from a marketing perspective. First up, most busy Twitter users follow hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of people, so tweets are coming in en masse all day long. These scroll by, so most users only see those tweets that go by while they’re actively using Twitter, other than those directly to them or private Direct Messages – and with all the auto-DMs being flung around, many don’t even check their DMs very often.

Secondly, through mistakes or due to electronic glitches, people often end up no longer following some of those whose tweets they really do want to see. So even if they love what you send on Twitter, they may suddenly no longer be receiving your tweets.

Third, if they aren’t using the Advanced Twitter Marketing System they’re probably not getting great results and their time on Twitter will dwindle, if not end completely. Twitter is littered with accounts that have been abandoned, and if any of those people had been following you then you just lost your direct pipeline to them.

Fourth, marketing on Twitter is true ‘headline marketing’ – either you capture their attention and motivate them to click your link in less than 140 characters, or your tweet misses the mark. Even the world’s best copywriters can’t always manage that with just a headline – even David Ogilvy relied on a headline coupled with a great photo to hook people into his advertising.

Fifth, even if you become the most successful advanced twitter marketer and people click your every link, you haven’t had a chance to pre-sell them before they see the products or services you’re promoting – they’ve gone straight from the social environment of Twitter to an Internet marketing salespage, and that can be a jarring transition since the headspace of the two is so vastly different.

By contrast, the headline on your newsletter just needs to get the e-mail opened – an e-mail that sits in their inbox til they’re ready to read it. You’ve got that entire e-mail to presell them on the idea you’re presenting, and can even give them a couple of alternative items to check out. And as long as they’re on your list, it doesn’t matter whether or when they go to Twitter now. And an e-zine issue followed with 3 or 4 reminder tweets at Twitter can be a powerful combination for those who ARE still using Twitter actively.

That covers WHY you want your Twitter followers on your opt-in lists too – so now let’s look at the best way to achieve that…

Start with the fact that Twitter is a social networking platform, and all that entails about the headspace of users when they interact with it. Even if you are following the Advanced Twitter Marketing System to keep your following tightly targeted in your niche, it’s still not a true sales environment – but at least you know what your followers’ area of interest is and what they expect from you.

But there are certain truths common to almost everyone everywhere – certain things that break through whatever they’re thinking about and say ‘Hey – Look At Me!’ Traffic accidents, fights, parades, beautiful people… and anything that’s FREE!
Even if it’s not something they’d use, people still tend to check out anything that pops onto their radar as a ‘free gift’.

See where I’m going with this? Say you were going to sell me a Canon GL1 video camera – am I more likely to respond to a tweet like:

Buy your Canon GL1 here – {saleslink} Great prices!

or one that says:

Free report shows 12 reasons you should choose the Canon GL1 over others – {saleslink/free-report/}

The first one I might check out if I was already planning on getting a GL1 right now – but the second one would get me to download the report even if it was just a ‘someday…’ thought to get the camera. Bingo! I hit your squeeze page, join your list and get my report – thank you very much! You gave me helpful information, for free, on a topic I’m very interested in. Of course I’ll read the first few e-mail you send me, and if they’re well done, keep on reading them. I’ve identified myself as a prospect, now it’s up to you to warm me up and sell me the camera. Which you now can do, since I’m on your list.

Try it right now – log into your account at Resell-Rights-Fortunes.com and do a search for products that match your keyword, limiting the search to those products that can be given away free and come with a squeeze page. Pick two and take a few minutes to put their squeeze pages online with your opt-in code on them. Now send a twwet for each of them – something like these that have been working for me on Twitter:

FREE case-study with squeeze page – build YOUR lists giving it away – http://www.AdvancedTwitterMarketing.com/case-study/

Free Download: Build your list giving away ‘Article Marketing Overview’ – http://Start-Article-Marketing.com/overview/

If you’ve used the Advanced Twitter Marketing System to build a targeted following of thousands, you should see signups starting to trickle in from the first or second time you tweet your free downloads. Alternate the two, sending each 3 or 4 times a day and watch your followers pick up your reports and add themselves to your lists!

Don’t focus too much on this – it shouldn’t be your only form of list-building, nor should these be your only tweets – remember to retweet great posts from those you follow, as well as getting your own tweets in too.

Remember too that you can have more than one free download for each product, and can set them up for every niche you target – that’s the beauty of Resell-Rights-Fortune.com, in that the same search can be done in one niche or in any combination of them – and with thousands of e-books, audios and videos inside, they’ll never run out of great products for you to use with in building your lists using Twitter!

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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you are an online business owner, your first priority after developing your product or service is to find the people that will make your business a success. Marketing your online business is a huge task and Twitter can help in that regard, both from a customer service viewpoint and from developing an advanced Twitter marketing strategy.

By now you should have developed a plan for marketing your business – or you are in the process of doing so, right? It probably includes article marketing, blog marketing, social network marketing and viral marketing. In the social network marketing section, ou should focus mostly on Twitter.

Twitter is more than just a site for keeping up with the minute details of everyday life. Sure, you’ve heard that celebrities and others twitter about their dinner plans, vacations and pop culture – but those same people might be interested in hearing from you about your online business.

Twitter is a micro-blogging platform. You can use it to talk to anyone who wants to listen – about any subject that interests you both. It is a quicker way to get people interested in new product offerings, contests, prize giveaways and more. Twitter is free to use so you should post a link to your Twitter account on your business website, blogs, correspondence and business cards – even in your e-mail signature.

One thing that is hard to keep up with is customer service. Providing timely customer service is the key to customer loyalty and increased sales. It is hard to manage e-mail accounts when you are trying to market your online business and fill orders – and that’s IF the e-mail ever arrives in the first place!

As an alternative, turn to Twitter. When a customer posts a customer service question you can reply or direct them to different areas of your website quickly. Instead of sticking by the telephone or incurring the costs of an answering service (especially for small businesses), connect with your customers from your PC, your laptop or even your cell phone.

The Twitter platform is favourable for real-time communication with a group of people or one person at a time. Twitter allows you to send out new product information to your customer list instantly. Your customers can tweet back or follow the link in your tweet to the website or blog page with the new products.

You can use various Twitter tools to make your business account easier to manage, too. Applications such as TweetDeck, Twitterfeed, Twhirl and TrackThis can be used to manage business groups, get tweet notifications, send draft tweets to all of your customers, track packages and/or backup all business communication on Twitter.

Keep communication easy and quick for your customers with Twitter and watch your business relationships, and your profits, soar. In no time, you’ll wonder how you ever did business before implementing your advanced Twitter marketing and customer service operations.

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1. 5 Advanced Twitter Marketing Tips For Small Businesses

Twitter was launched in the market in 2006 and in the past few years, it showed extreme growth. In fact, last February 2009, the site ranked third next to MySpace and FaceBook. Many business owners are now utilizing the site to promote their business. However, a lot of them don’t know how to maximize the site to their advantage via Advanced Twitter Marketing.

Today we look at some advanced Twitter marketing for small businesses:

1) You can use Twitter for your market research quite successfully. Every business has its target market. Through Twitter, you can easily access your target market and get useful feedback from them. Many of today’s business owners fail because they don’t know the true wants and needs of their target market. With the help of social networking sites like Twitter, FaceBook, etc, you can easily listen to the needs of your prospects, the issues they are currently facing and the kind of help they want from you.

These pieces of information are vital to your business. You can create blog posts or write articles addressing the needs of your particular target market. You can also create a new service to meet such needs or perhaps you can conduct a teleseminar or webinar on a topic that you find out is of interest to your target market.

2) Use Twitter to build a targeted op-in e-mail list. Once you have your list, you can share your information via your e-zine newsletter, or turn it into a free report for your prospects to download. You don’t need to promote your business every time you communicate with your target market but be sure to mention it every now and then, providing links to your business’ online presence, your downloadable reports, e-zine sign-up page, etc.

3) Whenever you meet someone new on Twitter, try to establish a good relationship with them. You are a customer too – you buy from people who you trust and like. Your target market also behaves the same way. You must get to know your clients better and win their trust and confidence. Make sure the bulk of your tweets contain helpful information geared to your market’s needs and aspirations. By doing so, you can attract more prospects, subscribers and sales.

4) Learn how to create blogs. In order to show your expertise in the business, you need to post good related content to your blog(s) regularly. Be sure to use the Tweet My Blog plugin to let your Twitter followers know each time you put a new post on your blogs.

5) Hold informative teleseminars and webinars, and use Twitter to invite listeners, guests and participants. For maximum results, spend 30-40 minutes providing helpful information, open up the lines for questions for 10-15 minutes, then use the last 5 minutes or so to pitch your products or services. If the call was beneficial to your prospects, you’ll see immediate results.

Studying your target market is obviously very important for your business success. Identify their needs and wants so that you can be their solution. Remember, you must try to build trust and confidence. Twitter has millions of users from all over the world, including your local vicinity – just imagine how many of them you can get to patronize your business by mastering advanced Twitter marketing!

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Twitter is not just for fun but can also be used much like other social networking media to gain more targeted traffic – an important part of any marketing, and a specialty of Twitter marketing. In this case, you want to attract more targeted blog traffic. Twitter can be a big help with that.

Like other social networks, millions of people use Twitter. It is a micro-universe of potential visitors just waiting to be tapped. The question is how to get them to take a look at you.

First of all, sign up for an account. You can’t find the right people unless you get in the game. Target your Twitter marketing right from the start – look for followers in your particular niche.

Next, get involved. Read other people’s tweets; join as a follower for popular tweeters. You can use Twitter applications to track the tweets of others and also do keyword searches for interesting tweets. Comment on current tweets and get a feel for how it works and who everyone is following.

The best thing about Twitter is that it works in real time from your PC. You can ask questions to find out any type of information. If you are looking for followers interested in gardening (if that is the niche you’re marketing to), pose the question in a tweet and wait for responses. You’ll be surprised what you hear back.

Posing questions is one way to find suitable traffic for your blog. You want more visitors but the kind of visitors who are likely to come back and buy from you if you are selling a product. It is a research tool that returns immediate results.

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There are a few things to observe. In your tweets, use keywords. It might be hard with so few characters, but you want to include searchable words that anyone will enter into a Twitter search engine to find your tweets.

Use the site to find others with similar business interests or to pose interesting views and get feedback. Link to your blog regularly, and for advanced Twitter marketing use the free TweetMyBlog plugin to send a tweet with a link to your latest post each time you post to your blog.

It takes time to build up a following of followers on Twitter just like any other social networking site. The plus with Twitter is that the results are more immediate that with other social sites, making it easy to instantly guage and adjust your twitter marketing strategies. Find the targeted visitors you are after with a few questions and then join in the twittering to build a rapport that translates into more traffic.

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All kinds of businesses and work-at-home marketers are now on Twitter. Even technical writers are now using the social network to promote their documentation services. Once you have your own Twitter account, you should design a background that’s appropriate for your Twitter marketing activities.

When you create your profile page on Twitter, a default background is often given to you. If you want to create substantial impact for your business, you should use custom-designed backgrounds. It is an effective way of generate more traffic to your marketing websites, blogs and/or affiliate links.

How can you design a Twitter background for your business?

What kind of information do you want to convey to Twitter users? You need to choose the right information, palette, and color for the sidebar. You can see the background next to the message column. The image does not contain image maps and so you can’t insert HTML links. Once you switch the image, the default background is changed.

For a more professional and cleaner look (for those who want to use Twitter as a marketing tool), don’t include any tiling for the image – make it big enough that it doen’t have to repeat.

There are image editing programs that you can use like Photoshop that allows you to save in GIF or JPG format. You need to create a large image that can occupy the computer screen but without tiling. A rectangle of 1680 pixels x 1200 pixels is just right. If this size is not enough to cover the whole screen, you can increase the size by making it longer or wider.

For your information bar, you can line up your images or photos, business info, and website; this bar can be found on the upper left of the background image. It can also include your name, job title, blog URL, specialty, social network URL, and other important information. For an example, look at the background for Doug Champigny on Twitter.

Try to save everything as image. You can also create much smaller files by saving it ‘for web’ (if you’re using Photoshop). After that, click on the settings and then ‘Design’. Click on the link ‘change background image’. By clicking on ‘browse’, you can now find the image that you’ve previously created. Leave the tile check-box unchecked. Finally, click on ‘save changes’. After several seconds, you will have a custom Twitter background image.

Your background on Twitter tells a lot about your personality. If you plan to use Twitter for online marketing, make the background more professional. However, if you’re planning to use Twitter exclusively for making friends and staying connected, make your background more friendly and inviting. Make sure that it suits your image and personality. Cool backgrounds are great for youngsters. There are many editing programs that you can use aside from Photoshop – it’s up to you to choose the best one that can provide the best background ever.

For technical writers and other serious professionals, stick to simple and basic background designs. Having a formal look can also attract formal followers who are serious in their business. Hurry and change your background now. If you have a hard time in following the instructions mentioned earlier, ask someone who has been using Twitter for some time; perhaps some of your friends or relatives know how to edit the background.

Alternately, send a tweet asking for recommendations to a great designer – many do Twitter backgrounds for marketers and online bsinesses at a very reasonable rate. This is your business image we’re talking about – the first thing about you and your business many people will see. Be professional – don’t scrimp on this one!

Twitter backgrounds can be custom made. If you don’t want to use the default background, change the image now. Find an editing program and start making the changes. Choose the information well especially those contained on the information bar.

Be creative and simple to develop a sensible background appropriate to your Twitter marketing goals.

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Twitter is an exciting, cool, and extremely profitable social network site. Millions of people are now using the site to talk about various subjects. Indeed, it is a micro-blogging site for those who can’t stop talking. There are also common mistakes that most new users commit on Twitter. Before you start sending tweets, you must be aware of these common newbie mistakes.

Mistake number 1 – the picture on your avatar is not yours. Most new users don’t post their real picture. They often use cartoon pictures, company logos, or their pet’s pictures. Although the pictures are quite cute, most Twitter users will appreciate a real picture of you. When you post your true picture on Avatar, others will think that you’re real and that you’re confident enough to let others see you. If you’re going to upload a photo, choose the ones where you give a beautiful smile. A smile can easily brighten the day of others.

Sending direct messages automatically through the AutoDM; direct messages are often impersonal and pushy. If you send this type of messages, you can lose your followers. When you use these tools, messages are automatically sent to those who follow you. A message saying ‘thanks for following me’ is fine but sending automated messages promoting your business or product is not a good idea until you’ve established yourself on Twitter and most people will just ignore them until then.

Do you have any followers? If you want to have followers, you need to follow people or you can at least create an interesting profile page. You can get followers by regularly posting updates. If you keep on following people and yet you don’t make updates on your page, you won’t get enough followers.

If you see qestions from other tweeters that you can answer with solid, helpful information, be sure to respond to it. Remember that twitter is a 2-way street, and you’d want good answers to your own qestions, right?

Check your numbers regularly. It’s not good to follow many people when you have very few individuals following you. Try to achieve balance. Make sure that the one you follow will also follow you back and you should also appreciate the ones who follow you. This is the easiest way to make progress on Twitter. In general, Twitter will only let you follow up to 10% more people than you have followers, so follow others judiciously.

Use tools like Tweetdeck so that you don’t need to stay online all the time. Through this application, you can divide your followers into groups. Now, you can easily track them especially when they send direct messages and replies.

Above all, keep your tweets polite & G-rated. You must remember to respect others at all times. As you may have forgotten, Twitter is a social network.

You must learn how to communicate and build good relationships to make the most of your Twitter Marketing – when you see good information from others, be sure to ‘retweet’ it so your followers see it too!

These are the common mistakes committed by new and old tweeters. Take note of them and don’t commit the same mistakes.

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1. Twitter Marketing – Learning the Twitter Lingo

Twitter is the newest social networking tool that everyone is using. It is so popular that it has developed its own language and everything. If you want to use Twitter learn a few of the terms so that you don’t look silly your first time out.

It is just like instant messaging or text messaging. You feel like you’ve stepped into an alternate universe because everyone looks human but they are speaking some sort of gibberish. Well, it is not really gibberish but the Twitter language. You’ll think you are developing a lisp but that’s okay – everyone who uses it has one.

What are the Basics?

To get you started, here are some basic things to know. The site is called Twitter. Some interchange Twitter and Tweeter and that’s a faux pas. A tweeter is something that works with woofers in your car speakers. Now, you can use ‘tweeter’ to refer to someone who uses Twitter if you want to.

The messages that you send are called Tweets. Don’t confuse it with chirps. A bird chirps and even though a bird is the logo, the messages that you chirp out are known as tweets. Each message is 140 characters or shorter.

A person that uses Twitter is a Twitterer. You can say a Twitter user but twitterer is more accepted. Twittering (or tweeting) is the act of sending and receiving tweets and using various aspects of the service.

On Facebook you have friends, but on Twitter you have followers. Yea, it sounds like you are recruiting for a cult, but it distinguishes Twitter from the other social networking media out there these days. You can be followed or have people that you follow.

There are several tools or applications that can be used with Twitter service. All of these will either begin with ‘Tw’, hence the lisp. For example you have TweetDeck, Twhirl, Twitterfeed, Twitterrati and so on and so on.

Texting, Anyone?

Twitter does use some of the same lingo as text messaging or chat room users. With 140 characters, space is precious. Instead of typing ‘see you later’, change it to ‘CUL8R.’ so, not only do you need to be familiar with Twitter lingo but text messaging terms help as well.

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Remember the lisp? Many Twitter terms are recycled terms with a Tw- prefix. For instance, ‘twalking’ is someone who twitters (by text) while they are walking. ‘Twaffic’ is twitter traffic. You get the idea.

For a more comprehensive list of Twitter lingo go to twittonary.com. This Twitter dictionary includes text messaging abbreviations, Twitter lingo and names for Twitter tools. Keep this handy and you’ll always look like a hip Twitterer.

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