7 Quick Steps To Explode Your Business With Twitter

Twitter is the hottest phenomenon right now in Web 2.0 and on the Internet in general right now. If you are unfamiliar with this service it is merely an online communication tool similar to text messaging on cell phones. It caught on like wildfire and has exploded into pop culture from Wall Street to Main Street and was even instrumental in the 2008 presidential election.

So how can you use this resource to explode your business? This quick discussion will focus primarily on affiliate marketing, network marketing and Internet marketing.

Step One is to set up your website or landing page that all your Twitter visitors will be funneled to. This is important because you want to provide value to your visitors and make their visit worthwhile. You can have a free course, a free report, a free evaluation, some samples of your work, some great articles, some great information or something that will grab their attention.

Step Two is to find the Twitter profiles of the top people and leaders in your industry. These people will usually have thousands of followers. When you follow them a certain percentage of these people will follow you back. You can get several hundred followers immediately after doing this or at least within 24 to 48 hours after following a respected leader in your chosen niche or industry.

Step Three is to grow your list. This will continue upon your initial quick burst of followers. You just repeat this process to grow your list. Market and promote your Twitter profile in your signature file or resource box all over the Internet. A good place to do this is on forums. You can also put your Twitter link in your resource box on articles. You can also put your link on your blogs and websites.

Step Four is to clean out your list of followers. Be aware that Twitter puts a cap on how large you can grow your list. The limit is 2000 followers. Give the people you are following about two weeks or so to follow you back. If they don’t return the favor within that time you can’t waste your follow space on inactive or non-responsive followers. Just unfollow them and repeat the process with more Twitterers in your targeted niche.

Step Five is to drive traffic to your website by interacting with other Twitterers. Don’t say something like “Hey come to my website and buy stuff!”. This process is methodical but simple. Just tweet about what you are working on throughout your day. Alternate that with social tweeting about your family, pets, hobbies, funny stories ,etc. Alternate also with replies to specific individuals about their tweets and comments about non-business topics and business related topics. This will show you as a real person and build relationships with prospects and future clients and customers.

Step 6 is not to get banned from Twitter. Don’t spam people your sales link in private messages. Don’t spam your sales link or affiliate links in your tweets. Don’t mislead or trick people into clicking sale links.

Step 7 is to rinse and repeat this process. Get a schedule for your tweets. Stick to this schedule for your business and information tweets. A schedule is good but not necessary for your social and non-business tweets as well. This helps to build up relationships with your tweeters and presents you as a likeable and respected person as well as an expert and a professional in your field and industry.

There is much more to marketing on Twitter as well as other social networking sites. I’ll be posting more info on this and other methods. Stay tuned for more helpful tips and tricks. It's Kev The Cash Flow DJ and I'm out. Peace!

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Hey what's up guys? It's Kev back on Monday for some inspirational self development to help us all build, rebuild or maintain The Winner's Mentality.

I just heard a very inspiring podcast today over at Chuck Bartok's Focus Society on Talk Shoe that you may want to check out. You can go here to listen. I do want to offer a few thoughts on their consideration and discussion of Chapter 4 of the book "The Miracle Of Right Thought" by Orison Swett Marden back in 1908.

The principles I will touch on are faith, persistence and action. The author Mr. Marden used the example of a ship on the ocean in a storm or dark dense fog. Faith is like the compass in dark or foggy seas. As long as the crew or captain have their compass they can use that to guide them as they go through the sea toward their destination. The storm waves may bash and crash against the ship but if they maintain laser focus on that compass they will go straight to their destination.

I am not a sailor so I haven't been on the high seas sailing in storms. The author said he had personal experience on stormy seas. I kinda pictured the stormy ship scene in the film "Forrest Gump". I'm a movie fan and some of you may remember that scene from the film. Faith is the compass on stormy seas. It's scary and dangerous but you have to keep your hands firm on the tiller during this type of weather.

You sailors may know what a tiller is. I guess it's the wheel. At any rate the scene he described and the analogy he used were inspiring to me. Chuck then asked "When is the best time to act?" The answer is now. But you want to act quickly and decisively without being rash and impetuous. Do you have a successfully proven plan, a strategy as some type of foundation? You need the step by step plan and more importantly time lines and deadlines on when step 1 begins, step 2 and so on.

What if your plan doesn't work or you run into some problems and difficulties. If the plan has been proven you just keep following the steps. You just stop, focus and look at the actions you did or did not take and see where the holes, flaws and misjudgements and miscalculations were. You then make the proper corrections and adjustments and begin again.

It may sound a little to simplistic to some. Think about it. Success has always been simple. It just hasn't always been easy. There is a difference. Chuck said you will have one of two outcomes. You can succeed quickly and greatly or you can succeed as you correct, fine tune and adjust any imperfect and raggedy mistakes and errors. This means that failure is not an option. It sounds like a cliche but this just begins to describe the mindset of faith, a plan of action and persistence.

There were more things that they talked about but these were a few of the kernels and some of my reflective thoughts on the principles and concepts they discussed.

Thanks for the visit. It's Kev The Cash Flow DJ. I'm out. Peace!

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