Twitter Marketing

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Twitter provides a great opportunity for anyone wanting to work from home, for entrepreneurs and business alike. In this video I look at a Twitter Marketing model that is fairly straight forward to implement using a few fundemental tools.

Like anything Twitter is a tool, I don’t care what anyone says, and the easiest way to pull traffic into your funnel.

The Autoresponders mentioned:
Wizard Responder for those on a low budget. Aweber, one of the most popular and Attain Response. (Attain Response Review)

Get more followers virally >> Viralfollowers

I also recommend you check this out - it’s a comprehensive video course from Alicia Pierce and Stephen Pierce on making money with Twitter:

<< Getting started on Twitter Video Tutorial <<

Twitter Video Tutorial - Getting Started

A few clients and associates have been asking about Twitter, how it works, what do you do? (Yes there is another world where Twitter is a mystery!)

Check out the video below on getting started with Twitter and the other tools that can work well with managing your Twitter marketing.

TweetLater, amongst other things, can schedule your tweets and auto people follow back and Direct Message them. BudURL tracks your links…great tool.

I also recommend you check this out - it’s a comprehensive video course from Alicia Pierce and Stephen Pierce on making money with Twitter:

If you’re already up and running on twitter look out for Part 2 that will look at getting more followers to increase your prospects, leads and sales.

Google Social Media Slap Hell

Michelle Macphearson has been discussing a social media slap from Google in her latest video.

This is affecting all those sites that have all their backlinks solely from social media and bookmarking sites…and this is where all those who have put all their eggs in one basket, flogged the dead horses etc etc are probably going to cry. This isn’t a social media slap on anyone using social media, and doesn’t mean social media is dead by any stretch of the imagination.

One word: DIVERSIFY

If you have all your links from one type of site it will be a problem, always combine the solid old school seo stuff: articles, press releases, remote content as well as the new: social media sites, video and vary the content you post on them.

Actually a great combination is Social Media Press Releases, how’s that for combination of old and new!

Social Media Press Releases include video, pocasts and all the functions of a blog. One idea worth looking at if you want to avoid the high prices involved with social media press releases is link from your normal press releases on the wires to a specialized multi-media newsroom section on your blog which acts like a social media press release. This would give you a lot more SEO benefit as well.

Sorry but I couldn’t think of a greater way to tie this in with the launch of our new new media world product
today.. (about 30 minutes I’d better shift my ass)  but We cover the whole sha-bang of content syndication and blogging, podcasting, social media and video in one fine 100 page book , along with video tutorials and mp3 interviews with Mike Koenigs, Scott Paton, Yaro Starak and many other experts!

So if you’re looking for a complete A-Z strategy to drive traffic, prospects and sales to your site or blog
using the latest AND the solid strategies and don’t want to be slapped around every 6 months check us out:

you couldn’t go far wrong in checking this out:

New Media Marketing

Podcast Interview with Scott Paton

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Scott Paton of Internet Marketing Unleashed for his regular podcast. You can listen directly here >> New Media Podcast

Scott is also one of the experts I interviewed on podcasting for upcoming project NewNewMediaWorld.com

Scott has many years experience in Internet Marketing working with small to medium size businesses and entrepreneurs and has interviewed Joel Comm, Robert Puddy, Simon Leung, Ken McArthur, Mike Rotkin, The Blog Squad, Chris Freville, Tim Knox, MIke Koenigs - I could go on all night!

I recommend you subscribe to his podcast via itunes and register for notifications for regular expert interviews! Go >>> Internet Marketing Unleashed

Why Podcast for your Business?

As the new media age immerses us across a multi-media online experience, marketing has almost completely re-emerged, evolving successfully through the virtual tools at its disposal.  None has been more effective in marketing success than the art of podcasting to promote and brand your name in an ever-growing marketplace.

The future direction of podcasting was summed up in a recent interview I did with Scott Paton, a podcaster at Internet Marketing Unleashed for my upcoming product New New Media World where he talked about a divorce between PC’s and the Internet - meaning we now longer need a PC to access the net with our mp3 players, iphones and other PDA devices.

While it is important to integrate new technology to keep your business ahead of the competition, it is necessary to understand how your business will be affected by technology such as the podcasting phenomenon and equally important to ensure that your business is ready to join the podcasting marketing revolution.

Podcasting is an extremely powerful business solution enabling businesses to harness the new technologies now coming to the fore – interfaces such as TiVo and DVR.  Today’s society is ripe for immediate information at exactly the time they want to access it and mobile devices such as the new generations of cell phones, ipods, MP3 players and the portable games’ players which disseminate an unending supply of global information and which businesses have been very quick to take advantage of.

Marketers are benefiting greatly from providing this emerging market with instant communication and information data, with big name companies such as the Disney Corporation, American Airlines, McDonald’s already onboard, amongst a rapidly growing influx within the business sectors.

Popular though podcasting undoubtedly is - what exactly is a podcast? Without making it seem more complicated than necessary, it is basically an audio programme which can be downloaded from the internet and listened to at a person’s leisure, that is, when they have time to listen – a discipline now known as time-shifting.  A podcast can be listened to on many hand-held devices such as an MP3 player, or many of the newer generation cell phones.  The website from which a podcast can be downloaded is known generically as an RSS reader, or an aggregator.

These websites are enabled to capture a diversity of media types.  There are many aggregators around, most notably Newsgator, Bloglines, and Google Reader. Software can now be embedded into webpages which make it easier for you to access podcasts – all you have to do is visit the relevant page, and click on the icon which represents the music. This software, known as an audio helper application, enables you to play the audio podcast straight from the webpage.  One of the webpages where this can be seen in action is Wordpress.

New New Media World launches Feb 17th and gives you the complete guide to podcasting, video, social media, micro media marketing.

Expert Interview Series Shaping Up

So far so hectic!

I have been extremely busy what with my New Media Marketing project New new media world launching very soon, keeping clients happy, trying to keep my hand in with other partnership projects such as Social Traffic Manifesto and many others.

One of my plans for this year to ’sharp focus’ on fewer projects more effectively, but it doesn’t feel that way right now.

However, I have had an immense satisfaction recently of carrying out some Interviews for the new new media product with some very professional and successful entrepeneurs.

Listen to Samples:

New new media focuses on the synergy of new media: blogging, podcasting, social media, video marketing and micro blogging…yes a vast subject, but my aim was to provide an simple guide that will benefit newbies and veterans alike with in-depth tips and strategies, supporting material such as video tutorials and a 10 day plan to follow.

I had an idea a while ago to enhance it with audio interviews but didn’t do anything about it. A recent decision to take some action and get things moving on it has resulted in a flurry of activity such as getting the ebook finished, setting up the membership area and then taking the Richard Branson approach of ’screw it-let’s do it’ and going for the interviews despite my being unsure about doing it.

Mainly using Skype and Pamela - which so far has been excellent. The only problem has been skype dropping a few times so that has added a bit of editing into the schedule.

First up for grilling was Maria Reyes McDavis, an expert in Social Media who has consulted fortune 100 companies, is a highly sought after speaker and trainer and is working on an upcoming book on what companies can learn from human behaviour for their social media marketing.

Then I interviewed Scott Paton of the Internet Marketing Unleashed podcast about the power of podcasting. He’s on a mission to get everyone podcasting and revealed some great tips and outlined an exciting vision on how he sees the Internet shaping up in the coming years and the opportunities opening up from that. He also interviewed me on my project which was great (but nerve racking

Gavin Allinson of outsourcersblueprint covered how to effectively use outsourcing to grow your business. This is a powerful element if you are looking for expanded growth.

I also got the pleasure of interviewing Yaro Starak, the very successful entrepeneur
who has made a great success from blogging. Yaro talked openly on his 6 figure success formula which  got my brain completely buzzing!

This element of the product is really taking a life of its’ own and there are more interviews to be added! The experience has been amazing - not just getting powerful information but the opportunity to make contacts with people who are so successful.

I’ll blog more here on the different subjects and key points raised in all of them but sure to look out for new new media world on Feb 17th

Automating your Social Media Presence

Publishing your content onto a blog and the power of RSS that comes with it gives you the opportunity to syndicate out to your social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and Friendfeed.

Wordpress Plug ins such as tweet my blog and twitter tools will notify your Twitter feed when you publish new blog posts. Following that you want to install a couple of applications in Facebook.  Just click on the link and install. (You will need to be logged into facebook)
Stumble Upon
Friendfeed
Twitter

Now then, there is another way - Ping.fm gives you the ability to do update all your social media site profiles from one dashboard. There’s a large selection here including facebook, myspace, mashable, twitter, friendfeed and a lot more. This is their Facebook Application..Ping.fm

So your blog post is published which informs Twitter, which in turn tells Friendfeed and a host of other services rippling outwards. You may get instances of double messages here and there, I had this on Facebook because Friendfeed was posting on there as well as Twitter (which was also on my friend feed)..more confusing than it sounds…trust me.

I have friendfeed and twitter set up in many other social platforms including eacademy, mybloglog, various Squidoo and various other remote content sites, you can see the power in this.

With the StumbleUpon application every time you review or give the thumbs up to any web pages this will also appear on your FB feed.

In MySpace upgrade your profile to 2.0 and go to ‘more’ in the main menu and navigate to ‘apps’ - do a search in applications for the above and add those there too.

Well worth setting up if you haven’t already!

There are of course countless others that can be interwined into this syndication spiral, but please comment if you have any twists to this strategy that can be included

Your Social Network Empire

Building Communities in your niche has been a big talking point for a while now as it is a fantasic way to build authority as well as a large valuable community. No doubt you’ve heard of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter - but what about the exploding growth in niche social network sites? Imagine the potential of dominating your market with social media, not only that but these sites can build into real value, there are many marketers that pay good money for social media sites.

OK so it costs thousands to build these things though doesn’t it? Well Hollis Carter and Marc Horne have developed a software system that enables you to easily build social network sites for autopilot income!

This video pretty much says it all - go check it out before it is taken down - there are limited spots for this!

>> Watch the Video

New Media Marketing Reports Bundle

This trio of reports focus on Vlogcasting, Micro Media and Satellite Content Sites. There are a few options available for getting hold of them, but firstly let’s break them down:

Vlogcast Domination.

This report incorporates some content from a previous ‘Blog Blitz’ report that FutureMarketingBlueprint members get. I really wanted to highlight to power of combining these new media elements. So imagine the set up where you write one piece of content and it is automatically pinged to the search engines, shows up on your twitter feed informing your followers of your new post and then pops up all over the internet on various websites and blogs. Well that’s what happens when you use the strategies in this report.

Satellite Love.

Getting Organic Search Engine Natural Traffic is essential if you don’t want to shell out vast sums of money on Google Adwords and other paid advertising. Valuable backlinks also play a part as the more of those ‘authority’ sites linking to you, the more that valuable Google juice brings you visitors looking for your services and products.

Micro Media Marketing.
Make Micro Media Marketing the latest cutting-edge weapon in your Web 2.0 Armoury for Maximum Profits. Well Twitter is certainly gaining a foothold on the list of essential social media sites and is a superb way to build realtionships with mavens of your niche as well as a following of interested prospects. Jaiko, Tumblr and Pownce are all similiar Micro networks that need your attention, but do it the wrong way and you’re likely to get banned from them.

Master Resale Rights and Salespages are available for all these reports at New New Media World for an absolute steal! (You will be offered the MRR for just $27 after purchasing the peronal rights reports)

If you’re an affiliate there is also a taster report that you can rebrand with your link for instant Paypal commissions! You can grab that right here, but it’s included in the package of course.

Alternatively you could just upgrade to Gold membership at FutureMarketingBlueprint which is still a measly $47 for lifetime membership which gives you access, not just to all the other web 2.0 and social media reports and resources we give you, but videos, excel sheets data, audios and reports mostly with rights so you can profit right away)..and of course these new trio of new media marketing reports!

I will be looking at this Gold member offer as soon as I get a few hours over the next few days and it will definately be GOING UP..probably $97, $147 or something as it’s currently completely under valued at the moment.

So join FMB and go for Gold..or buy direct from NNMW..and Let me know your feedback on the reports!

Twitter Squeeze - A New Strategy

A thunder storm is raging as I write this and the rain pounding the streets..maybe I shouldn’t have the computer on, …..anyway I need to tell you about this.

I’m talking about Twitter and tweeting, making connections, building friends or followers - this is what social media is all about. There has been great debate amongst marketers about how to monetize twitter.

Well if you build enough followers you can build a funnel stream that could be very profitable. We’re talking about your true fans. A true fan meaning anyone who will buy anything you produce and follow your progress avidly - artists, writers - creative people take note…but it applies to anyone with something to offer. You can read more about that at Kevin Kelly’s blog.

Internet Marketer Rick ‘Call em as I see ‘em’ Butts has come out with some eye opening and sublime training on Twitter and how to leverage this so if you see the potential power of Twitter, and you should, this is available for a measly $20…(until 1st Aug at which point it will more than double :-o… I assure you you will be impressed by the whiteboard videos and the upcoming stuff Rick has promised…

>> Twittersqueeze

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