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Today I would like to talk a little bit about Twitter – yes, as it relates to internet marketing and your online business. Some people seem to think that Twitter is nothing more than a big waste of time, used by kids and online geeks to see who can out do each other with their number of followers. But is there more to it than that? You better believe it!

Twitter has become a huge phenomenon in the past year, and is actually building in size more and more almost every month in signups and number of people “tweeting” each other. One reason for this is that many have found out about the viral aspect of the site, and how easy it is to get hundreds and even thousand of people to follow you in a short amount of time. The beauty of it is, you can chose a specific “topic” that relates to whatever you wish, and draw in followers that are also interested in this topic. Why is that important? Find a targeted market, send them good content, and you may just have the makings for some quick cash my friend.

How is that possible? Well there are ways to actually send targeted messages on a regular basis to your followers, and if it’s good content the more people will follow you as well. You say you don’t have time for this foolishness? Me neither, which is why I’m on TweetLater.com, which is a service with a free version and a paid version that can allow you to send out pre-written messages (tweets) at certain intervals of your choosing. With the paid version, you can even rotate different messages, send them at staggered times throughout the day, and manage multiple Twitter accounts as well. With TweetLater pro version you can do much more, including filter out spam by certain keywords. and do specific targeted keyword searches from other “tweets” to see what others are doing (spying on others tweets!). The possibilities are endless, but that is for the advanced users. To get started on the basics is really pretty easy!

So what are the basics? Just go to Twitter.com and signup, using a profile name that matches your business or topic of interest (such as “green-thumb-biz1” or “marketing_guru”). After that, check out some other nifty profiles and see if you can make yours a little more decorative, in other words don’t keep the basic plain background that they provide. It’s boring, nobody will take you seriously! You can add some pictures to a background image, or put some logo from your business, whatever you wish. Just make it look more professional and organized. Of course make sure to fill out some info on your profile about what you do, and a website address if you have one.

After that, start to check out the profiles of others in your area of interest by doing a search for some related keywords – you can search on anything from “golf” to “forex trading” to “cycling” and find probably hundreds or even thousands of people that share your interest. Nowadays,  many people are using it to build a business. So if you really want to build up a following fast, you need to make a nice profile, then get some serious content. Of course, you probably want to play around with it for at least a few days before jumping into a full-scale content assault. It’s been said that if  you build up too fast, they will kill your account. Also don’t follow too many people at once or your account will be flagged as “suspicious” which I’ve seen done to a few people. It just looks spammy, you know what I mean? You have to follow a few people to get started though, so started following a select few and hopefully most of them will follow you back and build up some credibility for you. Also, make sure you automatically follow those who follow you! This is very important; it will gain huge status very quickly for you. This can be setup in TweetLater, make sure you check out that setting.

After that, you can get some content – for free of course! Go to TwitterFeed.com and setup an account, then go find some content by setting up an alert on Google using keywords related to your business. Once again, this part is a little tricky. You have to change (or edit) the alert to be sent in RSS format, then copy and paste the anchor link from the alert into your feed. After that, just schedule it for whenever you want the feed to be fed to Twitter, say every couple of hours or so, and it works automatically! Just don’t go overboard and send updates every few minutes, pretty soon it will be obvious you are spamming, which is frequent messages that don’t help anyone. Good content sent infrequently helps people that are searching for good articles and info, so you can do that.

Another way to boost your credibility and gain followers is by “retweeting” people, especially people that have many followers. If you know someone in your business that has a lot of followers, retweet a few of their interesting tweets by using this format:  RT @username “message goes here”. Here is an example that I did recently:

RT @johnalanis If ignorance is bliss, the happiness quotient of the world has been steadily increasing these past few years!

Well that covers the basics, but there are more tricks out there – so get started an see if you can think of some creative ways to make money ( I’ll give you a hint, think affiliate products).

Happy Tweeting!

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Having recently come to the realization that I was spending more time submitting articles to article directories then I was writing them, I decided to purchase a popular article submission software with the hopes that it would automate many of the tedious details of submitting articles, and allow me to spend more time writing. After purchasing the software, I excitedly downloaded it and jumped right it wanting to put it to use right away. Unfortunately, after using it a few times, I discovered that it failed to live up to my expectations, and it wasn’t long before I discarded it altogether. This article looks at my experiences with article submission software, and points out several areas where this software fails to deliver.

The reason many people consider purchasing article submission software is the assertation that the software will eliminate much of the time consuming tasks. The claim is that once you sign up for a directory and submit your information, the software will automatically load your information the next time you login to submit an article. Unfortunately, what happens with many of the article directories is that when you login to submit a new article it will load the original article that you had submitted when you first signed up, meaning that every time you submit an article, you have to go back and remove the original article, and copy and paste in the new one. It doesn’t seem to matter how many articles you submit, the article submission software keeps loading the original article. Obviously, this issue becomes a bit irritating, and furthermore, a huge waste of time.

Another one of the alleged benefits of article submission software is the claim is that the software contains hundreds of pre-loaded sites that you can submit your articles to, allowing you wide exposure for your articles. However, what I discovered when trying to submit my articles to the directories was that many of the sites were no longer in business, and many of the sites would took so long to load that you would tend to get frustrated with them, and move on to the next site. While it would be unrealistic to expect perfection, one would expect that the majority of the websites would be active and functioning. In this case, it appears that the owner of the article submission software had more important things to do then keeping his software up to date.

While the previous issues might be enough to make you decide against using article submission software, it gets worse because many of the directories require you to use a different username and password and instead sends you an email generated one. While in theory this shouldn’t cause a problem since the article submission software is supposed to remember the information you entered for each site, in practice it often failed to do so, causing you to type in those two dirty words, “forgot password” repeatedly. While it may not appear to be a major issue, having to stop numerous times to check your email for a password is a pain, and sort of makes you wonder why you purchased the software in the first place.

If all of these negatives haven’t chased you away, you should be aware that article submission software can vary a great deal in price. Before purchasing software, I would suggest that you go to a few Internet Marketing forums to see what others are saying about the software you’re thinking of purchasing. You can also do a check simply by doing a Google search with the words ‘Article Submission Software’. As the saying goes, ‘buyer beware’.

As with many things in life, expectations are oftentimes greater than results. While Article Submission software promises to eliminate much of the dirty work in article distribution, it did leave this writer a bit disappointed with the results. While I found that there were some benefits to be had in using this type of software, they were more than offset by the problems I encountered. While my experience left a lot to be desired, perhaps it isn’t the norm, and there is indeed article submission software that performs as stated. Just be sure to do your research before spending your depreciating dollars on this type of software.

William J. Thomas works in Healthcare and spends much of his free time on the Internet with his Internet radio station. Bill also contributes articles on Internet Marketing, business and other related topics. Bill’s current website shows you how to earn excellent money from home with Affiliate Marketing.
http://www.billthomas.ws/

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