Blog Marketing

Lately I have been going around seeing which programs I use are actually worth my customers investment from the free to the paid versions. One that has fully impressed and surprised me is actually of the cheapest of all the programs I am involved in. The program of coarse is the Free viral tweet code.

I tried this program because although it has a fairly basic interface, it also was very cheap. I wasn’t expecting much truthfully but sometimes that just helps the surprise when you find out what you actually get. So what did I find when I payed the fee?

Well first of all you get a 100% downloadable version without ads of the viral tweet code. That however, doesn’t make this program worth investing in. However all the extra’s, absolutely do!

After paying for a professional account, I visited the membership/download page and found so much information I was just left in awe. First I see an entire collection of twitter howto ebooks so large that virtually ANY can be a professional at twitter very quickly. The ebooks include the following titles: Easy twitter profits (Easy Tweeter Profits), Twitter Traffic Magic, A Geek’s Guide To Promoting Yourself And Your Online Business In 140 Characters Or Less With Twitter, The Smart Planner For Twitter, The Twitter Power Guide, The Twitter Report, Twitter Handbook, Twitter 101, Twitter Strategy Cash Map, Using Twitter for Business, and Why We Twitter: Understanding Micro blogging Usage and Communities.

You also receive a collection of 10 twitter icons that you can use for whatever projects you wish. You also receive an exclusive guide for teachers that can also be used to help you find teachers on any subject! There are also a couple of PLR ebooks included that you can compile and resell. Finally there is a very complete and comprehensive list of twitter applications that you can download from the internet.

Basically what I am telling you is buying a membership into this system gives you access to so many things and so much information that it would be CRAZY not to check this out. It costs less the $10 and can be paid via paypal. I am happily impressed and have no problem recommending both the free and the paid version of this service!

Well after numerous recommendations and complaints I finally decided its time to talk about generating income. After all that is exactly why you are blogging and what you are wanting to do right? So for some time to come that is what I will be talking about. Various programs and ways of making money online that actually pay out and are not scams.

So today I am going to focus on twitter. There are a lot of ways to make money on twitter but after testing many of them I find only a few are worth investing in. Please keep in mind I do not involve myself with any pay per click affiliate programs. Pay per clicks involve high volumes of traffic and click ratios to be truly effective. I would rather make a percentage on sales, I have found this pays more in my experience.

AdCause
The first program on twitter I want to talk about is quite brilliant. Its called adcause.com. This program allows you to sell tweets based on a per tweet/monthly rate.

It sounds confusing but its really simple. For example you could sell 1 out of 20 of your tweets for an entire month at the price of $5.00. This means someone see’s your twitter advertising slot and has the option to buy it. If they do, they pay you $5.00 to your paypal, and for the next month, 1 out of every 20 of your tweets will be an advertisement.

Logically the more users and the more often you tweet, the more your tweets are going to be worth. However I have found that the best selling price is $1.00 or less for 1 out of 10 posts for a month. For those of you who have a bot with a LOT of followers, this is perfect. It just ads the advertisement to your stream!

Be a Magpie
The second twitter program I use is be-a-magpie.com. This is very similar to the way AdCause works except you don’t get to set a price, the advertiser gets to make you an offer. In my opinion this is better on both ends.

There is one drawback to this method from the publisher standpoint. Many advertisers (in fact a majority) who contact you with offers, want to do pay per sale. This means you are giving out free advertising unless you make a sale. I’d rather be payed based on tweet count.

However I have used both of these programs from an advertiser standpoint and I must say for those forking out the money, magpie is a much better solution.

TwittAd
The third program I want to talk to you about is called twittad.com. This is a very unique idea and honestly works well but it seems very few people are actually getting involved. Its probably because the website is very confusing and hard to set up, however trust me when I tell you it is well worth it.

Basically with this site, you post your twitter account to advertisers. You offer the advertiser a chance to promote a product or service using your twitter background. The advertiser then pays you based on the number of new followers you get while displaying the ad. This is actually VERY beneficial to both publisher and advertiser and I highly recommend the program to everyone.

Also they have great support so if you get lost in their dashboard interface, or can’t figure out how to set up your account, just contact them. They are very friendly.

Followe.rs
The last program is also the best program for generating money with twitter. The program is called followe.rs and how it works is so basic its brilliant. You buy an account with them (yes sadly it takes money to make money sometimes but a simple one month trial and you will be hooked) and they add every single person who is a member to your follower list and you follow them all back automatically.

How does this generate your money? Thats the brilliant part. They search out people on twitter who would also be interested in the service, follow them, and then send them a message recommending the service. You make money for each person who also signs up.

Think about what I am saying. You are able to offer people the change to get paid to build their follower list. Its that simple! There is no better selling, or easier to sell program on twitter. You can go from have zero followers, to 3000 in literally a few days time, and you get paid!

So now you have a few basic ways of using twitter to generate some extra money. None of these programs will help you get rich by themselves, but the more programs you are involved with, the bigger those checks become! Making real income online is all about being diversified and this is just one of many ways to do that.

If you have other “set up and forget” style twitter programs that generate money, please let me know of them, just make sure they are all quality. I don’t want something that hijacks links or anything like that. I am sick of those programs and refuse to open anyone’s link who uses them.

This is my most asked question lately: how exactly do I go about creating a twitter bot? Its really not as complicated as one would think. I will walk you through the process.

Step One: Creating a new twitter account for your bot

First you need to goto twitter.com and log out of any account you are logged into. Then you need to go through the process of creating a new twitter account that you will dedicate to being a bot.

When creating your twitter bot account, keep this in mind. Accounts with seemingly real names and a picture get followed more frequently then obvious made up names and accounts without a picture. The only time to veer from this general thought is when you want to claim SEO of your twitter page.

When I say claiming seo I mean picking a highly relavent name relating to the posts you will make. For example I have recently created a bot @problogmarketer. This name clearly states what my bot tweets will be about and who they will help. They are about marketing with blogs and anyone who has a blog would be interested in following.

Step Two: Make a twitter post
This is an important step! You do not want the first people to find your bot to say to themselves “great another bot”. Instead you want them to be saying “hmm a real person. I think I will follow”. This is a key to making bots! To ensure people think you are real you want to make a post as if you are using twitter for the first time. After all you have no followers at this point.

A simple twitter post like “I am new and trying to make some friends on twitter but not sure I understand things yet” will work wonders. Also your first posts you want to use your popular hashtags. For example I usually try to start out using words like #blog, #blogs, #seo, #sem, and #serp when I set up my marketing blogs.

Another trick to use when making your first post is adding a link to your myspace or facebook profile. For example a great first post could say something like “Hey everyone I am new to twitter but you can find me on facebook at http….”

These types of first posts make people want to follow you more then if you instantly start spamming advertising.

Step Three: Building a following with The MTF Dashboard

Now you want to load up MTF dashboard. If you don’t know what MTF dashboard is yet, check out my post Professional Twitter Marketing Revealed / A Complete Twitter Marketing Solution. This post includes the download link.

After loading MTF dashboard you want to login to twitter through the dashboard. When logging into the dashboard you really want to pay close attention to what account you are truly signed into. Make sure your dashboard has the correct name for the bot you are working on. Sometimes twitter messes up and logs you other accounts on the same computer.

Next you want to build up your follower list with the MTF dashboard. To do this, pick a very relavent keyword or hashtag – search terms like facebook, myspace, and chat work great for this! If you are using a hashtag note that you can’t use the # sign. You must use %23. So if you want to use the #fb hashtag it would look like %23fb.

Note: You want to disable email notices from your settings before continuing!

Now put the relevant search term in the “key word” box of MTF dashboard and set the “limit” box to 1000. Then just [start the task]. You want to have at least 100 followers before you go on to step 4. This is highly important. If you start step 4 before you have 100 followers, building your follower list is going to be increasingly harder.

After you get the 100 followers (this can take anywhere from 1 day to 1 week depending how good you are at convinsing people you are real) you are ready for step 4.

Step Four: Adding rss feeds to your bot

This is the fastest and easiest means of getting a bot going. Rss feeds allow you to post automatically to twitter based on titles, descriptions, and links found in the rss feed. So where do you get rss feeds? Well they are everywhere! The first place to look is your blog. After that you are definitely going to want a clickbank account. You can create one by clicking the clickbank link in the MTD dashboard.

Clickbank is a service that allows you to search and pick products to sell and earn commissions on. You are paid via paypal. After you have a clickbank account you need to use the dashboard to visit the clickbank feed generator.

To generate a clickbank feed just add a keyword, add your clickbank id, and create feed. Great keywords, especially for use with a twitter bot are things like “twitter”, “tweets”, and “seo”. After your feed (or feeds) is created, store the feed address somewhere. You will be needing this for step 5.

Gathering up all your feeds and storing them in a text file is what I find to be easiest because you will need this information quiet frequently.

Next you want to go back to the MTF dashboard and find your favorite “free twitter bot” service. My personal recommendation is the first one on the list http://twitterfeed.com/ so thats what I am going to use in this example.

So chose twitterfeed from the dashboard bot list and set up an account. The process is very straight forward and you only need 1 account. You can add as many bots as you need from this account. After creating an account with twitterfeed, login!

After logging in you should see the feed dashboard. Just click on create new feed, and then plugin the information you want. Note that if you use bit.ly shortening service when creating your bots you can monitor click tracking, HOWEVER its very probably that because of twitters close relationship with bit.ly that it may be monitored. The decision is yours (when I say monitored I mean that twitter may monitor or gain access to statistics and kick out spammers easier during spam sweeps)

My personal preferences when setting up my rss feeds are as follows: Check for new posts every 30 minutes; post up to 5 new updates at a time; Include title only; Shorten link through bitly with no api info given; Post new items based on GUID with sorted feed unchecked.

The next setting is VERY important and will come up later. With feeds you should always use the post suffix, never the prefix. Its just considered standard on twitter. And what do you put there?

Relevant hashtags. If you have a feed about dog products you might want #dogs #pets and #cats. If you have a feed about twitter you want a selection of #twitter #tweet #affiliate #marketing (you are limited by characters just pick favorite and switch them from time to time).

Repeat this process for as many feeds or bots as you want. When you create the bot bot you will be asked what account to attach it to.

Step five: Adding Auto Follow/Auto Dm features to your bot

For adding a DM and auto follow features to my bot, I use the second bot service on the MTF bot list called http://tweetbots.com/. This is very easy to set up. Just login to the service, click bots from the top left menu, click create new bot, add your account information, and check the auto follow and auto DM checkboxes.

When creating your DM avoid using any url’s. Tell people exactly why you are there, what type of information you will be giving them, or in some way say hello and thank them for following. People who get spammed in DM’s are twice as likely to block you.

Step Six: Tweet into the future

For this step I strongly recommend getting a paid account with tweet later. I recommend this because its the only service I have found that allows you to upload future tweets from a bulk text file upload. All the other require manual tweet creation.

However I am going to assume for the sake of this post that you don’t have an pro account. If you just can’t afford or refuse to pay for a professional account ,the work load is going to be nearly 100x but either weay its worth having. For future tweets use your pay dot com style affiliates. These are the ones who don’t provide you feed but instead give you hand selections to chose from.

Grab links to your favorite products and create your posts. Just like when posting via the web, all posts have to be 140 characters including the link. Then log into the first service listed under the tweet into the future of tyhe MTF dashboard. The service is called http://futuretweets.com/.

Create your accounts (you need one account for each bot you have) and login. From that point everything is self explanatory. Just click Schedule and make your posts one by one setting various times in the future. Make a tweet no more then 5 times before changing the wording around. Twitter will block to many of the exact same tweets with the same urls.

At this point you should have a fully functional twitter bot. The only feature it is missing is auto retweets. This is something that is a lot more complicated then a normal bot and I will explain that another time. If you simply MUST know sooner, post a comment.

http://followe.rs/

This is the hottest twitter application/service at the moment. Watch the video to understand. Basically put, they pay you to build your follower list. AWESOME!!! When I first found this program I didn’t expect it would work, or pay off. I am glad I paid the $1 for my two week trial cause this is just AWESOME! Get in on this before it is too late.

In just under 24 hours of using this program I have already made 2 sales and earned $20. May not seem like much but imagine making $20 a day off just 1 program? Thats $600 a month. Then you add all your other programs in with it, who wouldn’t want to join? This is the easiest and fastest way to grow followers. Check this out before it stops working.

How many ebooks have you seen that can “teach you to get rich in a month”? How many applications have you seen to grow your twitter following? Have you ever even considered one of these ebooks or softwares?

The fact is I have. I’ve actually invest in various ebooks and products that ALL fall short of what was expected or what was claimed. However I have picked up some tricks and tips from some of this reading.

Well I am not one who likes scams, lies, or half truths. So yet again I am going to bring you a secret the twitter marketers don’t want to let people in on. I am letting you in on the secrets of the professionals and I am not charging you one penny to learn them.

First let me start by explaining to you the three main reasons people are using twitter, because honestly it all boils down to three reasons. Some people use it to be social and interact with people on a live basis. They use twitter as a social website much like a large chat that saves what people say.

The others use it to watch their tweet feeds. They scan through see if they have any interesting headlines and if so they click them, if not they post to twitter for a few minutes then go about other business.

Finally we have those trying to market some product or service and make money. That’s the category most of us fit into (at least I assume so if you are reading this blog).

Honestly the first two types of twitter users are the ones we care about. The trick is to appease both types of people. For example, I have my main twitter account @bloggingforbuck. I hardly ever spam this account and when I do I make it plainly obvious by warning my followers first.

I also direct people to my twitter bot @blogging4bucks. The bot is used for one reason, to market goods and products. I do this to appease to those who are on twitter for the feed and not the interaction. In fact I have over 10 bots set up all over twitter under various names.

Why would I do that? Because twitter monitors smaller accounts less plus its just easier that way. If I can get each of 10 accounts to have 2000+ followers, thats effectively marketing to about 10,000 people (some will be duplicates thats why the low number).

So how do I go about building these followers and creating all these bots? Well I have created a free software just for that purpose. This software allows you to mass follow based on search terms, mass unfollow those who don’t follow back, mass unfollow ALL of your followers, create free tweet into the future bots, create free auto return follow bots, create free rss feed bots, create feeds of your affiliate links, and a whole lot more. This is all jammed into one easy to use dashboard.

So are you interested?

Download it now: http://theda420.info/MTF/MTF.zip

Please read the README file before installing!

This really has nothing to do with my blog at all but somehow people keep finding this blog by searching the topics “stop mytweetfollowers auto update” and “stop mytweetfollowers” and similar searches.

So I figured I would present those people with some nice advice, the fix is really easy because as you have likely figured out there is no “real” stop auto following option, nor a “stop spamming” option.

The fix is simply this, change your twitter password.

Yeah its a pain if a lot of services other then mytweetfollowers log into your account, but honestly its the only method I have found that works. Send twitter a compaint is my recommendation, but remember these guys are really busy with truly important issues (like loss of friends) so it may take time to get issues like this resolved.

This also works with most “get followers” automated programs.

If you want the one that honestly works, doesn’t spam, and was approved by twitter, look into http://www.twittgeek.com