My name is Matthew Bredel and as of March, 2007, I am a full-time, work-at-home internet marketer.
For close to 10 years, I worked for a defense company which was an OK job, but I was so uninspired in life and frankly, I needed some more money. That is when I first discovered internet marketing! Now I admit that I didn't start making thousands in my first couple of months (in fact, I lost my shirt!), but I finally saw the "internet light"...
I have to admit that I am slowly becoming a twitter-addict. I have TwitterFox running on all of my computers now and I can’t seem to ignore it. In fact, it is probably a BETTER way of getting a hold of me these days versus email.
(And that is funny because I have recently made SO [...]
I have to admit that I am slowly becoming a twitter-addict. I have TwitterFox running on all of my computers now and I can’t seem to ignore it. In fact, it is probably a BETTER way of getting a hold of me these days versus email.
(And that is funny because I have recently made SO much effort in NOT checking email very often - about 3 times per day - to increase my productivity, but now I spend about twice as much time “tweeting” instead).
The trade-off is good, though. Emails really do seem to bog down my time (and in most cases, accomplish nothing). Twittering allows me to engage with my friends, my clients and, in general, network!
Has it helped increase sales and marketing efforts?
Absolutely!
So right now I spend a lot of time both engaging with my followers as well as learning from some of the top “twitterers” online (such as people like @DaveTaylor, @LynnTerry, and @emailcopywriter). In fact, twitter has even helped me finding joint venture partners.
And over the last month or so, I feel that I have gotten into my “Twitter-groove” by establishing my own guidelines and techniques on what I write, who I reply to and who I follow.
What do I write? - Almost anything. I do try to create a mix of internet marketing discussion (”Spending the day testing Google Chrome”), personal BS (like “I just had the worst coffee of my life”), general links sharing (”Check out this story on CNN about a 10 legged squirrel…http://www.cnn.com/blahblah”) and I even slip in a cloaked affiliate link once in awhile (”Contemplating to buy a new FlipHD camera…check it out: http://cli.gs/blahblah”).
Who do I reply to? - I try to send at least one reply to almost any person who replies to me. I will also reply to any post that I can actually contribute to (and possibly be humorous about). Writing “Great Tweet” is lame.
Who do I follow? - This is the most interesting question! I know that a lot of “power-tweeters” choose to follow everyone that is following them. Personally, I don’t really like this. Yes, it feels great to have John Reese following me on twitter, but let’s get real, do you really think he is following my tweets? No. I really think that to use twitter properly requires a bit of give and take. I DO read nearly all of the tweets of the people that I follow and engage them when appropriately. Having too many people to follow only results in losing contact with the people that you really do wish to engage with.
How do I pick out these people? I first chose to follow the leaders in my industry. I also choose personal friends both in the industry as well as outside the industry. From here is where networking becomes critical! If people choose to write to me or engage with me (beyond “Great Tweet”), I will usually follow them. If they took the time to read my tweets and reply to me, these are people I want to have in my social network.
I admit that as I grow on twitter, following more people becomes more complicated…but IF they are engaging with me, the time is well spent!
So I guess a good banner to conclude this blog would be…
“FOLLOW ME…
ENGAGE WITH ME…
JOIN WITH ME…”
I’m at TWITTER
http://twitter.com/MatthewBredel
cheers…matt
|
Don't Buy Another Money Making Product Until You Watch These FREE Videos! |
I in fact made a decision to just say screw the issues of holding out months and years for a decent following and made use of a twitter followers program to get me 1k followers. They in fact have all stuck around and I’ve gotten 40 retweets in the prior weeks time, 40 additional than I had ever gotten previously. Bliss. Really however there are a bundle of those individuals to choose from, but I deemed them professional. Also you can get some free pieces of software and such in other areas but I am not a developer so won’t be able to bust them out.
August 28th, 2010 at 1:59 pm