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		<title>5 Ways to Use Twitter to Become a Happier Person</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tdomf_2ae17</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people see me, you and others &#8220;Tweet&#8221; and wonder why they should get involved.  I am asked this question at least once per week.   Twitter is a great, great platform that we can all use to make a big difference in our lives if use it well.  Here [...]<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A lot of people see me, you and others &#8220;Tweet&#8221; and wonder why they should get involved.  I am asked this question at least once per week.   Twitter is a great, great platform that we can all use to make a big difference in our lives if use it well.  Here are some ways that I use Twitter to help me that you can use, too, and become a much happier person.</p>
<p><strong>1. Tweet to help people that you wouldn&#8217;t otherwise reach. </strong></p>
<p>Be intentional about sharing wisdom and lessons you&#8217;ve learned in life.  You might do this in concert with a blog or not, but either way, you&#8217;ll feel better knowing that there is someone out there benefiting from something you&#8217;ve learned.  They might be on the other side of the planet, but they&#8217;ll appreciate knowing someone else has gone through what they&#8217;re experiencing. <span id="more-3935"></span></p>
<p><strong>2. Tweet your goals and allow people to provide accountability.</strong></p>
<p>I like to Tweet about things with which I need help or encouragement.  Twitter can give you the powerful benefit of positive peer pressure.  For example, when you have planned to workout or skip the buffet today, tell people about it.  There will usually be a number of people who will reply with encouragements and even tips to help you with your challenge.  It also helps you to know that people are going to be expecting results from you.</p>
<p><strong>3. Tweet to direct people to your business and generate sales.</strong></p>
<p>This is an easy one so I won&#8217;t dwell on it. However, after you begin building a following, you&#8217;ll discover that a number of people will simply want to know what you do for a living.  Just tell them.  They may have been looking for you all along.  They already know and trust you now, so building trust to lead to a sale won&#8217;t be as necessary.</p>
<p><strong>4. Tweet to wind down. </strong></p>
<p>Tweeting when you&#8217;re pissed off, frustrated or otherwise needing to rant is a great thing &#8211; just watch some of your language &#8211; and it can be a lot less destructive than putting your fist through a wall or yelling at your spouse.  Tweets live forever, so keep it clean.  It&#8217;s well known that it&#8217;s better to let it out rather than keep it in, so use all caps if you need to do so!</p>
<p><strong>5. Make friends.</strong></p>
<p>I believe that we are who we spend time with.  I&#8217;ve been intentional to seek out and follow and interact with people who are going where I want to go in life.  In your regular life, it might be difficult to find people who create barcode art.  Twitter allows you to expand your reach.  Surely there are other people around the globe with your interests &#8211; no matter how obscure.</p>
<p>I have done all of the above.  I have found that using Twitter throughout my day and my week actually ENHANCES my week by increasing my focus on productivity.  This is in contrast to other social networking sites that often require a lot more energy of me than I get back in benefits.</p>
<p>Get to Tweeting!  Tweeting with purpose can benefit you a lot!</p>
<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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		<title>4 Twitter Tips for College Students Seeking A Career</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tdomf_2ae17</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;re a student in a college and you&#8217;ve picked up Twitter like everybody else in this social networking trend. However, Twitter is much different than Facebook or even LinkedIn. It&#8217;s more of a barbecue-type setting between professionals. Look, I didn&#8217;t believe it either, that was until I secured a very desirable internship in my [...]<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you&#8217;re a student in a college and you&#8217;ve picked up Twitter like everybody else in this social networking trend. However, Twitter is much different than Facebook or even LinkedIn. It&#8217;s more of a barbecue-type setting between professionals. Look, I didn&#8217;t believe it either, that was until I secured a very desirable internship in my field last summer because of Twitter. So how do you use Twitter to progress professionally? Simple, begin with these four basic steps, and expand accordingly.<span id="more-3912"></span></p>
<p>1.) <strong>Start searching for and following twitter accounts that post internships and jobs.</strong> Both in your desired field, and general ones as well. <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/search/Internship%20Queen" target="_blank">Internship Queen</a> has a ton of internships she posts, along with tips for finding ones.</p>
<p>2.) <strong>Search for and follow twitter accounts by respected members of that field, as well as companies, and business groups.</strong> For example, if you&#8217;re interested in PR work follow local PRSSA groups, follow <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/PRSAjobcenter" target="_blank">PRSAJobCenter</a>, follow people you know that are PR Gurus.</p>
<p>3.) <strong>Clean up your twitter, no more &#8220;Going to ____ bar tonight, PARTY!&#8221;.</strong> Make it professional. Start posting interesting articles that you find online, and ADD YOUR OWN INSIGHT TO THEM. Retweet interesting posts the professionals you follow, post or add your own insight to them. The main issue of importance here is to INTERACT on a PROFESSIONAL LEVEL with these people you now follow. Remember, these people are full of connections, and that is what Twitter is about! Try to make actual connections with these people.</p>
<p>4.) <strong>Keep your eye out for job and internship posts.</strong> And, don&#8217;t be afraid to ask a professional (through direct messages) for suggestions on how to get in touch with an industry/company you&#8217;re interested in. Most people want to help others, if you genuinely ask for help, someone will answer the call.</p>
<p>Hope this helps, there really isn&#8217;t much too it and it is that simple. It&#8217;s going to take time and effort, but it may be worth it in the long run. Remember, Twitter is an extension of yourself, and it can be used for professional benefit and to meet people while making connections that would otherwise be impossible.</p>
<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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		<title>It&#8217;s OK to Have Multiple Twitter Accounts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tdomf_2ae17</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important factors to being a good Twitter user is to be personable. This fact has sparked an argument that suggests personality lacks to those with more than one twitter profile. Why would you want more than one twitter profile and is this OK? Multiple profiles should be used to interact with [...]<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most important factors to being a good Twitter user is to be personable. This fact has sparked an argument that suggests personality lacks to those with more than one twitter profile. Why would you want more than one twitter profile and is this OK? Multiple profiles should be used to interact with multiple audiences, and yes, it’s OK.<span id="more-3699"></span></p>
<p>I have been using Twitter since it launched a few years ago, but have participated more actively within the past 12 months. For much of that time I have tweeted at the username <a href="http://twitter.com/printedproof" target="_blank">@printedproof</a>. This user name was a mirror to my printing resources website at the time. Originally, the only reason I joined Twitter was to promote my articles and make some money from affiliate programs. This all changed as soon as I begun to witness the true power of this popular social networking tool.</p>
<p>As many of you know, Twitter is much more than simply a place to plug your posts, market for money, or blog for business. Twitter is a networking, connecting, and interacting online powerhouse. Don’t get me wrong, it’s OK to promote your projects on Twitter, I would say it’s even required for online success. However, if you truly plan on sharing everything about your personal life as well as run your blog or business on Twitter, I recommend having multiple Twitter accounts.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s go back to my personal example: <a href="http://twitter.com/printedproof" target="_blank">@printedproof</a> has transformed from a targeted business execution to a place for me to just, well&#8230; be me. Since taking twitter flight years ago I have built hundreds if not thousands of mini-relationships. Some of these new connections I am proud to call dear friends and have chatted with on a very personal level. Many of these relationships share interests with me but do not necessarily share interest in my business.</p>
<p>My printing resources website has since taken a back seat to new projects. These new projects have taken new lives of their own with individual twitter profiles. In order to dedicate and target all updates and messages to the loyal followers of those new projects, I keep these profiles separate. Sure, I share some tweets on my personal account, as do I share great things from many of my friends on twitter. But bottom line, when a new user follows my profile on twitter, they bring with them a predetermined expectation of what they will read from my tweets. These expectations are built from important facts found in my bio, link, background, and updates. It’s important to use these things I have created to give my followers the correct impression of this particular twitter account and then deliver it.</p>
<p>One thing to remember on twitter is that people follow profiles because they share interest with that particular person, business, brand, or website. Followers want updates that are of interest to them. As a business owner, my goal is to provide the content that my viewers and customers require.</p>
<p>So relax, it&#8217;s OK to run multiple twitter profiles to meet those expectations. Do not lack the &#8220;personable&#8221; with your professional accounts; just be sure to deliver the updates that you promised.</p>
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		<title>Big Business: Don&#8217;t lose out to small businesses on Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tdomf_2ae17</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s true to state that different businesses take different approaches to using social media, whether that is blogging, tweeting, creating facebook groups and fan pages or utilising LinkedIn.
Small businesses have gained online advantage with their small size flexibility giving them the confidence to stand out for their brand and engage with their audience.  It&#8217;s [...]<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s true to state that different businesses take different approaches to using social media, whether that is blogging, tweeting, creating facebook groups and fan pages or utilising <a class="zem_slink" title="LinkedIn" rel="homepage" href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn</a>.</p>
<p>Small businesses have gained online advantage with their small size flexibility giving them the confidence to stand out for their brand and engage with their audience.  It&#8217;s key to online success for all business sizes that the &#8220;social&#8221; element of social media and twitter is really appreciated.  Both the smaller, and large businesses which do well in social media are those who embrace with open arms the opportunities it gives.</p>
<p>Small businesses are doing well because:<br />
- They are taking advantage of their size and &#8220;knowing their customer&#8221;<br />
- They often have just one person tweeting for the firm and no chain of command to define the social media approach.<br />
- They socialise and build real business relationships on <a class="zem_slink" title="Twitter" rel="homepage" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a> and other social media platforms, in the way that traditionally they would offline at places like the Chamber of Commerce.  And &#8211; it is much cheaper to do so!</p>
<p>Larger businesses shouldn&#8217;t be afraid to get involved on Twitter and other social platforms.  As an organisation you can learn from listening to what is already happening in your area of expertise by using Twitter Search to check out content, tone and discussions, as well as googling to find out if competitors are using social media, and how.</p>
<p>Twitter and other socialmedia platforms can work well because business does work on trusted connections, and the online medium of Twitter is just the new extension of that.  Businesses will do best when they work within the context of their own environments and answer the unspoken questions (Is it safe for my business, won&#8217;t it take too much time, what if it goes wrong, what if an employee talks about us or our work&#8230;) honestly and up front before taking action online.</p>
<p>At the same time, if you&#8217;re not involved you&#8217;re missing a great opportunity, and if you don&#8217;t test the waters, you&#8217;ll never know if it works for your business.  When you do dip a toe in the water, you&#8217;ve got all those experiences built from networking offline in the &#8220;real world&#8221; in the corporate environment.  Use the right people, who are interested in social media and your subject, and you&#8217;re off and running and born to tweet!</p>
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		<title>My Extreme Makeover: Twitter Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rebecca Maxwell of My Adventures in History &#8211; Follow her @rmaxwell142.
Call me old fashioned, but I am one of those people that value community and relationships with people. As a child of the 90&#8217;s, I&#8217;ve learned to adapt to our technological age where we can keep up-to-date with people without ever seeing them in [...]<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By Rebecca Maxwell of <a href="ttp://myadventuresinhistory.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">My Adventures in History</a> &#8211; Follow her <a href="http://twitter.com/rmaxwell142" target="_blank">@rmaxwell142</a>.</em></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2326" style="margin-right: 5px;" title="bathroomremodel" src="http://www.twitip.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/bathroomremodel-225x300.jpg" alt="bathroomremodel" width="180" height="240" />Call me old fashioned, but I am one of those people that value community and relationships with people. As a child of the 90&#8217;s, I&#8217;ve learned to adapt to our technological age where we can keep up-to-date with people without ever seeing them in person. While this is not my preferred method of contact, the last couple of years I have seen myself rely more and more on online interaction than face-to-face. Recently though, I&#8217;ve been frustrated with the alienation of social networking sites to the point of taking some extreme measures, especially regarding Twitter.</p>
<p>I originally signed up for Twitter as a way to keep in touch with those interested in my history blog and network with those who have blogs similar to mine. As more and more of my friends on Twitter found me, I found myself following and being followed by people I knew in real life. While this wasn&#8217;t bad at first, I soon found myself &#8220;unfollowed&#8221; by those I was following. People I knew in real life wouldn&#8217;t follow me. Then, of course, people who knew nothing about me or my blog began to follow me out of the blue. <span id="more-2325"></span>This might be a provocative statement, but I believe this is due to the fact that Twitter is becoming more of a popularity contest than a real way to connect with people. No big surprise there. Anyone on Twitter can relate to the obsession of getting more followers. While this may be &#8220;cool&#8221; to have 10,000 followers and only follow about 300, it is an immediate turn off when viewing someone&#8217;s profile. Obviously, someone like that doesn&#8217;t, or even can&#8217;t, interact with over 10,000 followers.</p>
<p>I soon found this game of following and unfollowing pretty exhausting and disheartening. It wasn&#8217;t creating any sort of networking or connections with people I wanted. So I decided to take actions that could be called pretty extreme:</p>
<p>The first thing I did was block those who did not seem interested in me or my blog at all. It is pretty obvious which tweeters were just following me to see if I would follow them back. I don&#8217;t want to be reduced to a statistic on their profile.</p>
<p>I unfollowed those who did not follow me back. If they are not interested in following me back, then fine. I allowed a few exceptions for those I really wanted to follow, of course. Overall, though, I&#8217;ve found many bigger name organizations and tweeters are more than happy to follow me in exchange.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m pickier about who I allow to follow me on Twitter. If someone is genuinely interested in me or my blog, then I have no problem letting them follow me or reciprocate by following them back.<br />
My Twitter updates consist of many different things, from my blog updates to interesting links. It&#8217;s good a variety for all types of people, but I want my connections to actually mean something.</p>
<p>I realize that Twitter should really be about more than who follows who but this obsession with getting followers seems to be the trend right now. I see it my social circles, both online and offline. It might be a little childish to take some of the measures I have, but I desire something more out of Twitter. Here are a few suggestions I have to make your Twitter experience better:</p>
<ul>
<li>Be extremely picky about who you let follow you. Don&#8217;t just let people follow you just for the sake of doing so.</li>
<li>Make sure that people who follow you and who you follow seem genuinely interested in interacting with you.</li>
<li>Go through your followers and following list periodically. See if there are any tweeters you want to stop following or keep from following you. Make sure that you are still interested in those you follow.</li>
<li>Make a sincere effort to interact with those you follow. Getting connected with others is what Twitter is all about, right?</li>
</ul>
<p>What about you? How have you made your Twitter experience more meaningful?</p>
<div><em>[Image credit: <a rel="cc:attributionURL" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtnbikrrrr/">mtnbikrrrr</a> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0</a>]</em></div>
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		<title>Treating Twitter as an Investment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Hangen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nathan Hangen, follow him @nhangen.
I know, it sounds strange in theory. But think about it like this: you spend a lot of time building a network on Twitter, engaging with your followers, and creating powerful partnerships, but what would happen if this single asset went belly up? You don&#8217;t put all of your cash [...]<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By <a href="http://nathanhangen.com/blog" target="_blank">Nathan Hangen</a>, follow him <a href="http://twitter.com/nhangen" target="_blank">@nhangen</a>.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/monojussi/3338500451/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2259" style="margin-right: 5px;" title="piggy-bank-upsidedown-monojussi-flickr" src="http://www.twitip.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/piggy-bank-upsidedown-monojussi-flickr.jpg" alt="piggy-bank-upsidedown-monojussi-flickr" width="240" height="160" /></a>I know, it sounds strange in theory. But think about it like this: you spend a lot of time building a network on Twitter, engaging with your followers, and creating powerful partnerships, but what would happen if this single asset went belly up? You don&#8217;t put all of your cash into a single stock, so why should you invest all of your social capital in a single service?</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I like Twitter, but I want to be prepared in the event that something kills my favorite social tool. I&#8217;ve never invested this much time in any other platform, nor have I met so many great people all over the world. Twitter excels at connecting people and helping them share ideas, but it can&#8217;t be the only way to connect, especially if your business or personal brand depends on it. <span id="more-2258"></span></p>
<p><strong>Diversify</strong></p>
<p>Since we&#8217;re going to be treating Twitter as an investment, it is time to start talking about diversifying your capital (social in this instance). The type of friends and associates I have on Twitter generally fall into on of several categories:</p>
<p>•	Real life friend<br />
•	Business partners<br />
•	Hobbyist<br />
•	Someone I support or admire<br />
•	Blog readers, customers, and supporters<br />
•	People I&#8217;d like to know more about</p>
<p>I usually group them as such within Twitter using TweetDeck, but there are other places I&#8217;d like to interact with these groups too, so I start diverting them to other sites or properties of mine. Some I&#8217;ll send to Facebook, some I&#8217;ll send to a business platform, like LinkedIn, and some I&#8217;ll send to my newsletter opt-in. Others, I&#8217;ll simply follow where I can.</p>
<p>For instance, obviously you probably already connect with your friends on Facebook, but consider meeting up with fellow hobbyists there as well. As a Triathlete, I take part in many bulletin boards and forums, where I&#8217;ll often find others to connect with on Twitter. However, I don&#8217;t stop there. Over time, I&#8217;ll connect with them on Facebook and if all goes well, ask them to check out my <a href="http://thetriathlonman.com">Triathlon Training Blog</a>. The goal is to move from an asset that I don&#8217;t own, to one that I do. In the event that the forums close down or Twitter disappears for a while, I can still connect with them on Facebook or on my blog.</p>
<p>If the relationship is one of a business nature, I&#8217;ll make sure to connect with them on LinkedIn and either ask for or offer a recommendation. The power of LinkedIn lies in its ability to connect powerful businesses with powerful business minds, but for some reason many people don&#8217;t find the time to hang out over there. I think that is a mistake. The networking within that community is intense and making sure to invest some capital in that site will do wonders for your portfolio.</p>
<p>As a way to stay in contact with your fans, supporters, and readers, consider creating a Facebook Fan Page or at a minimum, making sure they know about your email list. Send blog readers to follow you on Twitter and Twitter readers to follow you on your blog. You should be constantly redirecting people to as many parts of your web portfolio as possible. This is the only way to ensure that the hard work you&#8217;ve done on Twitter won&#8217;t disappear in the future.</p>
<p><strong>Integrate</strong></p>
<p>All of my social sites, at least the ones that allow me to, have a badge, icon, or link that tells people how they can find me on Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook. From those sites, I send people to internet property that I own. Fairly simple concept really, but it is one that people often overlook. In the past, I set up auto-DM&#8217;s to let people know how to find my blog and Facebook profile, but the anti-auto-DM lobbyists convinced me otherwise. Still, from time to time I&#8217;ll send out a Tweet to make sure that people know where to find me outside of Twitter.</p>
<p>Use the left side of your Twitter background to your advantage and offer links there. If you have a blog or website, consider crafting your links like this:</p>
<p>•	myblog.com/twitter<br />
•	myblog.com/facebook<br />
•	myblog.com/youtube<br />
•	myblog.com/linkedin</p>
<p>What I&#8217;m getting at here is not that people are nothing more than property or an investment, but that you need to make sure your relationships are safeguarded in the event of a Twitter catastrophe. If you read my post about <a href="http://www.twitip.com/why-twitter-isn%27t-going-anywhere/">Why Twitter isn&#8217;t Going Anywhere</a>, you&#8217;ll know that I don&#8217;t expect this to happen, but after last week’s DDoS attacks you can never be too sure. I&#8217;ve met more exceptional people on Twitter in the past year than I&#8217;d met in the previous 20 and if the past is any indication of the future, then I expect this trend to continue.</p>
<p><em>[image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/monojussi/3338500451/" target="_blank">monojussi</a>]</em></p>
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		<title>5 Steps To Take To Prepare For A Post Twitter World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Poster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chris Johnson of Guerrilla.me &#8211; Follow him @genuinechris
Twitter is hot right now. It&#8217;s inevitable that it&#8217;s not going to last. It&#8217;s the Ecclesiastes rule of the Internet: everything will wash away.
Is it going to be 2 years? 5 years? 10 years? I have no clue. It won&#8217;t be mothballed, just as myspace.com will have [...]<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By Chris Johnson of <a href="http://guerrilla.me/" target="_blank">Guerrilla.me</a> &#8211; Follow him <a href="http://twitter.com/genuinechris" target="_blank">@genuinechris</a></em></p>
<p>Twitter is hot right now. It&#8217;s inevitable that it&#8217;s not going to last. It&#8217;s the Ecclesiastes rule of the Internet: everything will wash away.</p>
<p>Is it going to be 2 years? 5 years? 10 years? I have no clue. It won&#8217;t be mothballed, just as myspace.com will have content of some sort in 10 years.</p>
<p>But, let&#8217;s think long term: I consider twitter an important way to connect. There hasn&#8217;t been a single social media service that has survived and stayed king. Each one has learned something from the mistakes that happened before, but we saw everything from Geocities to Yahoo Chat to LiveJounral to MySpace have their day in the sun&#8230; then begin the march towards irrelevance.</p>
<p>Twitter may last longer, but is it gonna be &#8220;it&#8221; in 10 years?<br />
Probably not. But we&#8217;re making friends here. We&#8217;re connecting.<br />
We&#8217;re building tribes. But, how do we ensure our value is OURS and not Twitters? How do we make sure that we&#8217;re not dependent on twitter?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how to make your tribe yours&#8211;and not just people you met on Twitter: <span id="more-2231"></span></p>
<p>• <strong>Really engage, really connect.</strong> Take the relationship off of twitter, exchange emails, and enter everyone into a CRM/SYSTEM. (But see #3: The point is to help them, not just you).</p>
<p>• <strong>See people in person.</strong> If you&#8217;re getting local, seeing people off of Twitter is a big way to keep &#8216;em in your tribe.</p>
<p>• <strong>Connect people.</strong> Connect people that need widgets with people that have them. Make it a habit. Do it for free, don&#8217;t put your foot in the door (big mistake I made, always wanting a cut).</p>
<p>• <strong>Do favors. Unbidden.</strong> Don&#8217;t ask for anything in return, be the nice guy that people always remember. Help folks. Nobody wants to be &#8216;drip marketed&#8217; to, but they do remember when someone helps them. Be that guy. Don&#8217;t even think that they owe you one. Kill your <em>entitlementality</em>.</p>
<p>• <strong>Be mentally ready.</strong> I&#8217;m guessing that there will be Twitter for 20 years. I&#8217;m also guessing that at some point it will become a nostalgia site. Be ready for that day. When twitter dies, you&#8217;ll be prepared because you&#8217;ve practiced the essentials of networking. When it erodes, we will have used it to gather a good tribe, and then our tribe will go off wherever we go when twitter meets with it&#8217;s inevitable doom.</p>
<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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		<title>Poll Results: Why Do You Tweet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lara Kulpa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I asked TwiTip readers to share their primary reason for using Twitter, and the results weren&#8217;t all that surprising:

I&#8217;m personally a little disheartened here, with the number one result being &#8220;Promoting my company/blog (as opposed to networking).&#8221; Granted, networking and learning are close behind, but it seems to me that people are more [...]<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week I asked TwiTip readers to share their <a href="http://www.twitip.com/poll-what-is-your-primary-reason-for-using-twitter/">primary reason for using Twitter</a>, and the results weren&#8217;t all that surprising:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2191" title="why-do-you-use-twitter" src="http://www.twitip.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/why-do-you-use-twitter.jpg" alt="why-do-you-use-twitter" width="489" height="228" /></p>
<p>I&#8217;m personally a little disheartened here, with the number one result being &#8220;Promoting my company/blog (as opposed to networking).&#8221; Granted, networking and learning are close behind, but it seems to me that people are more out for getting their business in front of others&#8217; eyes as a number one priority.</p>
<p>Do we blame this on the &#8220;social media experts&#8221; who push the idea that Twitter is good for business, or is it more just a selfish need to try anything to drum up more clients? What happened to communication on Twitter? Look at the results for &#8220;To talk about anything EXCEPT business.&#8221; at only 9% of the answers&#8230; I was hoping that number would&#8217;ve been a little higher at least.</p>
<p><strong>What do you think? Is Twitter the same as it always was, or has it become more of a place where people advertise more than they connect?</strong></p>
<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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		<title>Twitter Real Estate Listings: Now with an Easy Button</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 13:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Poster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brett Weaver of SpotlightVT &#8211; Follow him @spotlightvt
I wanted to point out a brand new tool called TweetLister that was built specifically for  marketing real estate on Twitter. I&#8217;ll also give you a quick one-two punch for using it to build a Twitter feed that any home seeker would be glad to subscribe [...]<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By Brett Weaver of <a href="http://spotlightvt.com" target="_blank">SpotlightVT</a> &#8211; Follow him <a href="http://twitter.com/spotlightvt" target="_blank">@spotlightvt</a></em></p>
<p>I wanted to point out a brand new tool called TweetLister that was built specifically for  marketing real estate on Twitter. I&#8217;ll also give you a quick one-two punch for using it to build a Twitter feed that any home seeker would be glad to subscribe to.</p>
<h3>How it Works</h3>
<p>You sign up for the free service using your existing Twitter credentials.  <a href="http://www.tweetlister.com">TweetLister</a> provides a form to collect all the usual property listing data such as address, square footage, number of rooms, etc.  Most of the fields have drop-down menus with the most common choices which minimizes typing.</p>
<p><span id="more-1967"></span><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1970" title="tweetlister-addlisting" src="http://www.twitip.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/tweetlister-addlisting-300x298.jpg" alt="tweetlister-addlisting" width="300" height="298" />As you enter data into the form, a Tweet is automatically built in real time and it&#8217;s very self explanatory.  Once the listing is saved, you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create a posting schedule for the Tweet (daily, weekly or monthly with time of day control)</li>
<li>Track Clicks on your listings</li>
<li>Collect Leads</li>
<li>Change the listing&#8217;s status (active, sold, etc.)</li>
<li>Control the period of time that the schedule runs.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Build an awesome Real Estate Twitter Feed</h3>
<p>Here&#8217;s how you can create a very useful Twitter stream that home seekers will be glad to follow:</p>
<ol>
<li>Load up TweetLister with all your listings and set them to post at a frequency you are comfortable with.</li>
<li>Post a &#8220;personal&#8221; Tweet at least once a day or every other day with great tips about buying homes in your area or other items of news that would be of interest to someone looking for property.</li>
</ol>
<p>Once you have a few posts on your feed, promote the fact that your potential clients can subscribe to it in their RSS reader.</p>
<p>When using TweetLister, I would caution against posting your listings too frequently.  Remember that Twitter and other social networking tools are meant to be social.  If you set your schedule to post ten listings daily you will annoy your followers quickly.  Posting weekly is probably ok, but spread out the listings over the week and even have them post at different times of the day.</p>
<p><strong>Bonus:</strong> At the top-left of TweetLister you&#8217;ll see a link named &#8220;search listings&#8221;. This is a very handy tool for searching Twitter for real estate Tweets based on a number of criteria that you can specify.  I think this would be a handy stand-alone app for home and property buyers.</p>
<p>Start using TweetLister today. Especially if you are an agent who is using Twitter already.  If you&#8217;re not using Twitter yet or you just started, this tool is perfect to help you get your feet wet.</p>
<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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		<title>Review of Laura Roeder’s Backstage Pass To Twitter Webinar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Rowse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been a number of teaching resources to help people learn about Twitter lately &#8211; one of which is The Backstage Pass to Twitter Success by Laura Roeder. I&#8217;ve heard a few people say that they found Laura&#8217;s training helpful so I asked one of them &#8211; Dave Navarro from The Launch Coach &#8211; [...]<p>© 2008 <a href="http://www.twitip.com">TwiTip Twitter Tips</a>.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There have been a number of teaching resources to help people learn about Twitter lately &#8211; one of which is <a href="http://www.autowebbusiness.com/app/?af=929394">The Backstage Pass to Twitter Success</a> by Laura Roeder. I&#8217;ve heard a few people say that they found Laura&#8217;s training helpful so I asked one of them &#8211; Dave Navarro from <a href="http://TheLaunchCoach.com">The Launch Coach</a> &#8211; if he&#8217;d be willing to write a review of it. Here&#8217;s what he came back with.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.autowebbusiness.com/app/?af=929394"><img style="float:right;" src="http://www.twitip.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/logo-trans.png" alt="logo-trans.png" width="300" height="86" /></a>I’ll be honest &#8211; I’ve been on Twitter longer than Laura Roeder has (well, only three weeks longer, but still, I have to claim what I can). But there’s one big difference between how the last 12 months have played out for the both of us. While I have a healthy enough Twitter following &#8211; almost 1.5 followers per person I follow &#8211; Laura has a staggering 8 followers per person she follows.</p>
<p>Clearly, Laura knows something I don’t. Maybe a whole lot of somethings. So when she launched her “<a href="http://www.autowebbusiness.com/app/?af=929394">Backstage Pass to Twitter</a>” webinar a few weeks ago, I had to take a look … and here’s my review.<br />
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<h3>Part One: Establishing Credibility</h3>
<p>Usually when you want to look into someone’s credibility, you Google the heck out of their name and look into what other people are saying about them. But since this is Twitter, I went to TwitterCounter.com instead and graphed her Twitter growth as compared to mine:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.twitip.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/twitter.png" alt="twitter.png" width="395" height="264" /></p>
<p>TwitterCounter is a nice enough service, but it doesn’t show the whole story. To be fair here, at the beginning of the graph I’m way ahead of Laura, mainly because it was around this time that I started following lots and lots of people in my niches, so I naturally had a good portion of follow backs.</p>
<p>But Laura’s growth was strictly organic (she only follows 1 person for every 8 that follow her). So where I started out with twice as many followers as her because I was following people like crazy, she leapfrogged me because people were following her like crazy. So, establishing credibility is done here.</p>
<h3>Part Two: Who This Webinar is For</h3>
<p>Surprisingly, this webinar covers a lot of ground, weighing in at a mighty 5 hours of content. That’s gives Laura the time to cover a wide range of content, for a wide range of Twitter users. Overall I’d say the content balances out at about 30% entry-level content (what Twitter is, Twitter etiquette, etc.) and 70% mid-level and advanced tactics.</p>
<p>If you’re totally new to Twitter, this webinar will take care of you with no worries. You’ll go through the entire 5 hours of content and get up to speed pretty quickly. With almost 2000 followers right now, I’m a more seasoned user, but there were still some good nuggets I got out of the beginner sections, especially when it comes to choosing what user name to use (something I flubbed on in the beginning &#8211; once I changed my name, my followers increased faster) and how to handle your profile link/custom background.</p>
<p>But I really look at this webinar as an advanced course that throws the beginner stuff in there for free. What caught my attention was Section Two (Maximizing Twitter Time). Looking back, I spent a lot of time building up my follower list, and I would have loved to have kept that time with a minimum &#8211; and on top of that, I’ve felt like keeping on top of Twitter was getting a bit unmanageable. So even as an advanced user, this webinar held a lot of value for me.</p>
<p>Bottom line: I can’t really think of anyone this webinar wouldn’t have value for.</p>
<h3>Part Three: What’s In the Webinar</h3>
<p>Here’s a breakdown of the four sections of the webinar (each clocking in a little over an hour)</p>
<p><strong>Section One: Beyond The Basics of the Tweet</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Getting started: usernames, photos, backgrounds, link</li>
<li>Settings/notifications in Twitter</li>
<li>Advice on following: Should follow everyone who follows you?</li>
<li>When it’s appropriate to use @ message as opposed to direct messages</li>
<li>Avoiding Twitter profile mistakes</li>
</ul>
<p>As I said, this is the section that advanced users can skip at first, but it would be a good idea to come back to it later. there are a few “Oh snap” moments in here where you may discover you’re making a simple error in how you handle your profile that can negatively affect your follow rate.</p>
<p><strong>Section Two: Maximizing Twitter Time</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Free tools to streamline your time on twitter</li>
<li>How much time you really need to spend on twitter every week to see results</li>
<li>How to update all of your social media sites at once</li>
<li>How to make your twitter account and website to “talk” to each other so that they’re promoting and sending traffic to each other</li>
<li>Laura’s “ten minute twitter drill”</li>
</ul>
<p>This section is worth the price of the entire webinar, in my opinion. Time is money, and I got a lot out of learning how to leverage Twitter more efficiently so it wasn’t such a time drain. After going through this section I’m spending a lot less time on Twitter and seeing better results for the time I’m putting in.</p>
<p>Section Three: Twit-etiquette and Twitter Culture</p>
<ul>
<li>The commonly sent message that makes newbies look bad</li>
<li>What topics are OK on twitter and which ones are taboo</li>
<li>How to introduce yourself to new people on twitter</li>
<li>How to increase your follower list without using spammy methods</li>
<li>Laura’s big strategy for getting hundreds more followers than Dave, even though he’s been on Twitter longer than you, Laura (ok, let’s just say this is a sore spot for me, I’m working through it!)</li>
<li>How to form authentic connections with twitter VIPs</li>
<li>The real reasons people unfollow</li>
</ul>
<p>As an advanced user (and coming from a heavy marketing/customer relations background), I came into this section knowing a lot of it, but for those who haven’t been doing self-promotion for the last 10 years, there’s a lot to learn here &#8211; especially when it comes to forming real connections with people farther up the “food chain.”</p>
<p>This is huge, because if you’re looking to build your business by networking and getting exposure on Twitter, this is the section you need to listen to at least twice. Personally, I’d say that 50% of my revenue growth over the last year can be attributed to Twitter, so don’t underestimate what it can bring to your business.</p>
<p><strong>Section Four: Selling &amp; Promotion on Twitter</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The twitter monetization method that is guaranteed to backfire in the end</li>
<li>How to avoid certain promotion tactics that will make you lose followers</li>
<li>How to woo potential clients without ever being sales-y or pushy</li>
<li>How to get others to retweet your sales messages and have them spread virally</li>
<li>Laura’s personal strategy for under-the-radar selling on twitter</li>
<li>The common mistake that ensures that your followers will never become buyers (and what to do instead)</li>
</ul>
<p>Whoo, this is an important section for all twitter users. Selling is always a touchy issue unless it’s done in an exceptionally elegant way, and it’s the little things that make the difference between a pushy message and a message others want to spread for you. Again, with a marketing background, I had figured out a lot of this on my own, but I still learned a lot from this section in terms of subtle tactics that let you promote without being pushy.</p>
<h3>Part Four: What I Liked / Didn’t Like</h3>
<p>I liked the content, plain and simple. It was useful and relevant, and I really liked how the two “beginner” sections (One and Three) actually had things in it I hadn’t thought of before. I’m not sure if Laura did this on purpose, but she included one bullet point in each of those sections that made me say “Crap, I thought I could skip this section, but now I’ve got to know this.” And by doing that, it forced me to listen and learn new things from topics that I thought I was already well-versed in.</p>
<p>I also liked Laura. She doesn’t come across as a know it all, and she backs up all her recommendations</p>
<p>with good, real-world examples that you can immediately use (I’ve even had her guest post about Twitter on my own blog because I like her style).</p>
<p>I also liked her 6-month guarantee. Not many people have the guts to push a guarantee this long.</p>
<p>What I didn’t like &#8211; and this is a very personal thing &#8211; was that there weren’t any transcripts with the webinar. I’m big on transcripts, because I speed read and I can go the transcript and take notes in a fraction of the time that watching video takes. In fact, I didn’t watch the videos &#8211; I downloaded the MP3s of the sessions and played them at double speed so I could move through them quickly (what can I say, I’m impatient).</p>
<p>I’d recommend to Laura that she throw in some transcripts because they’re coming to be a more “expected” feature of information products these days.</p>
<h3>Part Five: Is This Worth It For You?</h3>
<p>Price is a big area where people get easily hung up, so I just want to tell you that you need to frame your expectations to this or any other info product according to the wise words of Warren “I’m the second richest person on Earth” Buffet: “Price is what you pay, value is what you get.”</p>
<p>Now, Laura’s selling this webinar for $197, which may seem high to a lot of people (and I know this in spades, given all the crazy comments I received from my own $97 ebook featured here on Problogger). But as I said in the comments there, price is irrelevant when you’re thinking about value.</p>
<p>If you’re just going to dabble on Twitter, and you like having lots of people to chat with, then this probably isn’t the product you need to be buying.</p>
<p>But if you’re using Twitter as a business building tool, then the only question for you is how much business you want to bring in via Twitter. For most people who are building a business online, this price is a non-issue because it’s easily recouped with a few product sales or a new client or two. And if you’re a blogger (which, if you’re reading this, you probably are), it’s a question of how much traffic you want to bring to your site via Twitter. Thinking about the $197 is small-time thinking. Focusing on what you can get is the criteria you should use with every buying decision.</p>
<h3>Part Six: The Bottom Line</h3>
<p>What Laura doesn’t realize is that she’s just given me the ammunition I need to turn the Twitter tide and overtake her in followers (I’m coming for you, Laura, the game is ON). If you want to bring in more business this year using Twitter, then you’ll want to take a closer look at <a href="http://www.autowebbusiness.com/app/?af=929394">Laura Roeder’s Backstage Pass To Twitter Webinar</a>.</p>
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