Archive for the ‘Marketing On Twitter’ Category

A Twitter WARNING - Is Your Twitter App About To Get BANNED?

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Have you checked out MarketMeTweet yet?
http://timic.org/TwitterWarning

Twitter recently announced all Twitter Apps will
have to migrate to something called OAUTH by June
of 2010.

What does this mean?

Well, most Twitter Marketing Apps do not follow
Twitters rules, and will stop working once the
change happens.

But not MarketMeTweet!

MarketMeTweet is one of the only Marketing Apps
that follows all Twitters Rules and Regulations.

Tammy Fennell, Co-Founder of MarketMeTweet, has
been working closely with Twitter to make sure it
is 100% Twitter compliant. So when you download
her tool, it will continue to work, and continue
to improve!

She shared during a recent interview that I did
with her, that all updates for this awesome
desktop app will be free!

Grab your copy here:
http://timic.org/TwitterWarning

Willie

PS: If you love the branding Tweetbrand gave you,
you’re going to REALLY love the added functionality
of MarketMeTweet. Watch the tour video here:
http://timic.org/TwitterWarning

How To Get Paid $17 Just For A Tweet…

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

On Monday, February 15th, I released a product called
The Secrets To Selling More Big Ticket Products.”

In that product I explained my BEST tactics for how I
make more sales of my own AND affiliate products, and
how I often do that by getting others to do all of
the hard work.

The report is pretty good, if I do say so myself. A
lot of buyers think so.

So, how does that make you $17 for a tweet?

The product sells for $17, and has a 100% commission
program, paying that $17 INSTANTLY to your Paypal
account, as soon as you make a sale.

So… you do need to buy and read or listen to the
product. You get both the MP3 and a PDF transcript.

When you download it, you’ll also be offered an
opportunity to register as an affiliate. Grab your
affiliate link, read or listen to the product, and
then tweet about it… using your affiliate link.

If that tweet makes you just 2 sales, you’ve
recouped your $17 PLUS made a $17 profit, PLUS you
will have picked up some EXCELLENT affiliate
marketing tactics that very few marketers will share
with you because most don’t think the way that I
do.

Make 10 sales from that tweet (or blog post) and
that’s $170 in commissions. Not really that hard to
do :-)

My methods flat out WORK for me, and they should for
you too, though I do need to tell you that I’m a
SUPER AFFILIATE, with 13 years experience as an
“Internet Marketer.” So, my results aren’t typical.

Grab a copy though, read it, tweet about it, and
both make some instant cash, and learn how to make
more sales of higher priced products, which means
much bigger commissions!

Get it here ==>> http://timic.org/bt

You’ll be pleasantly surprised!

Willie

Why I Split Up With My Long-time Companion For A Sexier, Sleeker, More Powerful One!

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Yes, it’s true.  Today I split up with a companion
that I spent time with practially every day for the
last several month.

No, it’s not my wife.  We’ve been together for two
decades and hopefully will be together a few more.
We seem meant for each other :-)

No, I split up today… sadly… with my Twitter app…
TweetDeck.

For months, I had used TweetDeck to keep me VERY
organized as I read tweets, retweeted, posted
new tweets, read direct messages, monitored
people discussing certain topics, did research
based up keywords, etc.

Today, I started using a sleek, more powerful,
newer app called Market Me Tweet.

You can check it out at: http://timic.org/2-16
Yes…there is a significance to the 2-16… you’ll
discover it later.

For now, just check out my new babe. I think that
you’ll fall in love with it too.

There’s no need to feel guilty… you can’t help
yourself :-)

Willie

Twitter - How Serious Business People Are Using It

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Twitter is still seen by many as a time-wasting, silly,
too-much-info site – reserved for those with too much time on
their hands.

No longer!

Kevin Riley’s short video shows you why you can no longer ignore
Twitter, if you want to make money online – or even offline.

Go now and watch this important video:

http://timic.org/twitter

Do not miss this boat.

Willie

A Rare Insider Interview With Peter Drew, Creator Of The Brute Force SEO Software

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

I interviewed Peter Drew, creator the Brute Force
SEO software back in December, 2009.

I had trouble hearing/understanding Peter during the
interview and understand that he had trouble
hearing/understanding me too.  So I didn’t release
this audio at first, but after doing  some heavy editing,
to improve the sound quality, I realized that this was
simply too valuable to NOT share with you!!!

I did find the MP3 easier for me to understand when
I listen with my headset or ear plugs! So, you may
want to do the same.

You may download the MP3 directly by clicking the
link at the bottom of this post. I won’t force you
to join any type of list.

I DO ask you to register for a free trial of the
software here: http://timic.org/bruteforce

and THEN download the free MP3.

In this interview I asked Peter some fairly tough
questions and things we covered included:

Discussing automation and why you should use software
to do  your SEO.  How software can be much “smarter”
than users who doesn’t need the understanding and
experience.  Know-how is programmed right into the
software.

Peter once had 5000 software generated websites…
back in the AdSense hey-day!

Peter’s Mom was making too much from AdSense (based
upon what he taught her) and it threatened to affect
her pension,  so she had to scale-back :-)

Peter has been creating software for online marketers
since 1995.

Peter once had the ability to send messages to any
of 40 MILLION ICQ users!  They once sold affiliate
product via ICQ and was constantly in the Top 5 for
any product that they jumped on! That’s where Pete’s
team honed their skills in software development!

They could even send ICQ messages sorted by country,
gender, and age :-)

The ICQ software product was strictly used in-house!

People approached Pete during the AdSense hey-day
because he was having such phenomenal success, and
that’s where those in the Internet marketing niche
(insiders) got to know him.

Peter discover processes that worked and his
programmer, Max, developed software to automate
those processes… and things just grew from there!

What common mistakes are people making in their
SEO?

What are the two MAIN things people need to
understand before they even start refining their
SEO?

What constitutes a great keyword phrases… and
what’s the best way to determine the competition
for a given keyword phrases.

How to instantly identify which niches and keywords
will be  incredibly tough to rank for  and therefore
not generally worth focusing on… when there are
many easier pickings!

What’s THE big key to effective backlinking?
How do you want to structure these backlinks?

Why you should NOT use automated tools to check
your rankings!

How to use article directories to gauge if you’ll
be able to get a top ranking on a given keyword
phrase.

How does Brute Force SEO work, what does it
actually do?

How to make your outsourcing staff 10 times more
productive!

Video tutorials and PDF’s are also available that
explain how to use Brute Force SEO but in the
process teach you some valuable SEO tips.

What is The SEO Fight Club and how do you get in?

Why search engines, directories, etc. don’t even
know that submissions are being made by the
Brute Force software… rather than a person!

“Brute Force SEO Automated What Humans Can Do -
Nothing More, Nothing Less!”

How Is Brute Force SEO EVO2, Different From The
Original Brute Force SEO? How is it 1000 times
stronger?

How does Brute Force SEO benefit sites posted
to?

How to TOTALLY dominate in local listings using
Brute Force SEO, and the best strategy to use!

Why and how Brute Force SEO allows you to test
different markets, and keywords that you wouldn’t
normally bother with.

How should long-tail keywords and LSI figure
into your efforts.  How does targeting less
competitive keywords provide LEVERAGE in a way
that most people are totally unaware of?

He swapped a relative new domain for an expensive
camper trailer.   Listen to the interview and
see how :-)

The interview is really good, and I’ve actually
listened to it several time in the past 2 days. I’m
also having it transcribed, now that I’ve made
the audio easier to understand!

So, first register for the free trial of Brute
Force SEO EVO2 at http://timic.org/bruteforce

It IS important that your register for the free trial
first.

Then download the MP3 recording of the interview here:
http://timic.org/DirectDownload

I guarantee you’ll be blown away!

Willie

Free 2-Hour MP3 - How To Make 100 Times More Affiliate Sales

Monday, February 8th, 2010

That is the title of a 2-hour audio interview that I
recorded with Super Affiliate Doug Champigny.

In it I share the exact in-depth tactics and
techniques that we use to generate many times more
sales than your “average” affiliate.

I share with you how I sometimes easily generate as
much as $70,000 in affiliate sales in mere days,
during a major product launch, using tactics that
ANYONE can use.

My secret is that I do have a system and I’m very
methodical, deliberate, and do things that have
proven to work for me and my peers.

How do you get this free MP3 audio?

Just visit The International Association Of Joint
Venture Brokers
member-only forum. The link is near
the top  of the forum.

We’re offering this MP3 for free to generate more
members and activity in IAJVB.

*** You can get the Silver Membership  free at:
http://IAJVB.ORG

The heart and soul of the IAJVB site is a database
of upcoming product launches and events. This is the
perfect place for your to find out about product
LAUNCHES early!

If you have any product launches or relaunches
(or live events) coming up any time soon, you DO want
them in the IAJVB database. We just launched a
MASSIVE membership drive. You do want your products
that you are looking for JV partners or affiliates
for to be in that database.

Willie

Losing The Excuses — Why Don’t You Have A List… Again?

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

I’ve been online since 1996 now, and during MOST of that
time, I’ve been steadily working at growing my database…
my list of subscribers.

Consequently, I have a substantial database that spans
numerous niches and sub-niches.

For practically every product that I sell, ever website
that I build, and every free or MP3 that I give away, I
incorporate list-building into the process somehow. It’s
NOT always with the use of a forced opt-in (a squeeze page).

I sometimes give a direct download link and then in the
product or on the download page, ask them to join my list.
In those instances, I’m delivering value and proving that
it’s worth being on my list BEFORE asking them to join it.

I was taught, very early in my online career, that you
should have an opt-in form on practically every page of
your website. So, I do that, except on pages where the
opt-in form would pull webpage visitors away from another
objective that the page is set up to accomplish.

You should be doing the same.

I publish regular newsletters, or have autoresponder
sequences set up in many niches. It’s pointless to build
a list (or database) if you are not going to communicate
with them regularly. It’s just wasting disk space and
resources.

If you contact your list infrequently, they forget about
you, and file spam complaints on those rare occasions
when you DO email them… since they often honestly don’t
remember how they got on your list.

I hear too many people  who have been online a year or
more, in comparing themselves to me, say that my big
advantage is that I have a list.  My response to that is
“So when are you going to start building yours?”

Some people aren’t as prolific or as comfortable writing
as I am.  My answer is that as you do it more, you grow
into feeling comfortable with it.  I still make many
mistakes, but as long as my message is reaching (and
benefiting) my intended audience that’s all that REALLY
matters.

If you really don’t feel up to putting together your own
ezine, grab this collection of 24 pre-written ezine
issues:  http://timic.org/YourOwnEzine
Set them up to go our once every two weeks. That covers
you for a year in delivering solid content to your
subscribers.

On the weeks in-between issues, send out a solo mailing
promoting a product that you REALLY, REALLY believe in,
and that you know will REALLY, REALLY help your customers.
If you need help finding new products, join the IAJVB.
You’ll find a database of new product launches (and
relaunches) there.  Take the free silver membership if
you are just an affiliate marketer, and don’t have your
own products that you want to list in the database.

Get the free IAJVB membership at http://IAJVB.ORG

Publishing your ezine can then be as simple as having
an issue pre-scheduled to go out every other week. On
the other weeks, you can send out  one of the
cut-and-paste emails provided by one of the affiliate
programs that you found at: http://IAJVB.ORG

One of my most effective, and simplest list-building
techniques is to offer free MP3’s or PDF’s of
interviews that I’ve record, posting to places like
Twitter (or posting to dozens of sites using Sokule
http://timic.org/Sokule ).

An even better technique for building a list and traffic
is to set up a simple affiliate program selling an
inexpensive product, paying 100% instant commission,
and having OTHERS send you tons of traffic and new
subscribers. That’s how I literally get THOUSANDS of
new subscribers some months :-)

I’ll write about that in my next blog post. For
now do two things:

1) Join IAJVB, taking the free Silver Membership
at http://IAJVB.ORG

2) Get the PLR ezine, with 24 pre-written issues,
edit them slightly, and get them online… and
building a list (and building your relationship
with that list). Get those at:
http://timic.org/YourOwnEzine

Ok, so we just took care of that excuse. We’ll
tackle another one in my next blog post!

Willie

Beginners - Here’s An Easy Way To Actually Build Your List

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Everyone knows that it’s impossible to
make any real income on the internet
without a list.

But how do you build a list if you’re
just starting out?

For many it’s the one problem that they
just can’t seem to figure out.

If this describes you, I have some
great news for you!

http://timic.org/social

This is just starting pre-launch now.

This is an amazing ebook on the exact
methods you can use to generate a
huge list using social media.

*How to set up your networks
*How to post to 50 sites at once!
*How to build relationships fast
*How to convert them into buyers

and way too much more to list.

The best part is you can get this
now for $7 while it’s in pre-launch!

AND you get to keep 100% of the profit
in their affiliate system. Hey, 7 bucks
paid instantly to your Paypal is a great
deal.

So grab it now, learn to generate a massive
income with the business of social media
and make instant commissions at the same
time. Pretty awesome!

http://timic.org/social

Willie

Video - The Smart Way To Shorten Your URL On Twitter And Other Places

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Click here and grab a copy of Your Own Short Url now.

Installation is so easy that even I could do it, and it works great :-)

Willie

URL Shortening Services Are Holding You Hostage - Fight Back!

Monday, January 4th, 2010

URL Shortening Services Are Holding You Hostage - Fight Back!
Copyright 2010 by Willie Crawford

One of the most useful tools to come along in recent years
for online marketers is url shorteners.

There are sites where you can paste a long, ugly url into
a form, and the site will give you a much shorter url to
use in your emails, newsletters and promotions.

There are also scripts that you can install on your server,
that allow you to generate your own shortened urls, which is
what I prefer, due to the great control it gives you.

In-case you are not using the tiny urls, you’re probably
losing a lot of sales and traffic. The benefits of using
shortened urls typically include:

- They allow you to conserve space when posting to micro-
blogging platforms such as Twitter, where each of your posts
is limited to a mere 140 characters.

- They look more professional than long, unwieldy affiliate
urls (especially if they have your own domain name in them).
Longer urls can wrap to two lines in your emails, forcing
many readers to copy and paste the pieces of the link before
they can visit a recommended page.  Many won’t jump though
that hoop!

- They allow you to log into a control panel and change where
a particular link sends traffic without you having to track
down all of the places where you have placed that link and
manually swapping them out.  This comes in handy if you are
promoting a particular product, and due to whatever reason,
you decide to promote a different product in the same
category.

There are also times when affiliate programs change the
software that power things, forcing you to change your
affiliate links for a given product.  If you use the right
url shortener, you would merely need to log in to your
control panel, click an edit button, change the
destination link, and all of your links scattered across
cyberspace now STILL point to where you want them to.

This is essential for ebooks, because once an ebook is in
your customers’ hands you can’t update those links in most
cases.  Only ebooks that connect to the Internet each time
that they are read (which most of MY customer don’t like)
allow you to change links inside the ebook after it’s
distributed.

There are literally dozens of third-party link shortening
services
.  I’ve used several of them and they work great
except  that they control YOUR links.  If they get any
complaints, or simply decide to change their business model,
they could kill off all your links instantly.

Premium, third-party url shortening services also hold you
hostage. They charge you a monthly fee for extras, or for
the ability to have more than a handful of urls on their
platform. Some charge you extra if you generate more than
a few thousand clicks - they penalize you for being
successful.

If you stop paying for these premium services, they often shut
off all of your links INSTANTLY.  Once you have all those
links floating around cyberspace (in ebooks, articles, ads,
press releases, ezine editorials, etc.) you don’t want to
just kill them off, so you’re STUCK often paying hefty fees,
month after month.

I recently looked at one service that had the audacity
to charge $97 per month to allow you to “white label” their
third-party service, and use your own domain name with their
service. Using your own domain name within shortened links
is a great idea because it brands you and your domain. If
properly configured, it also passes along “link love” from
the search engines, and helps you to rank higher for your
keywords.

However, paying a monthly fee is unnecessary, and therefore
wasteful.  Instead invest that money in another area of
growing your business.

Here’s the better solution that I use…

I’ve installed an inexpensive link shortening script, that
works just like those third-party hosted shorteners, on my
OWN server.  I paid less than $40 for this script AND I own
it and can  use it forever, on as many of my own domains as
I want to (in-accordance-with the terms of their license).

Think about it. If you’re using one of those services that
cost just $30 per month, you’ll save $360 per year using
the solution that I use. You’ll save  $1164 per year compared
to that company charging $97 per month!

Heck I could even offer MY OWN url shortening service to my
customers if I wanted to, using this same under-$40 script.
I don’t because spammers love these services, and would harm
my brand and the reputation of my domain name.

That’s another reason why you don’t want to use a third-
party hosted url shortening service. Many ISP’s get so many
complaints about emails containing urls from some of these
services, that they filter against emails containing some of
their domain names. It does no good to build a list of
50,000 if only 20% of your email gets through because of a
poor decision that you made.  You’re missing 80% of potential
sales.

If you are the only one sending out from the domain name that
your url shortening script resides on, and you market ethically,
you should not have this problem of being blocked by spam
filters.

I’ve just shared with you some things that most marketers using
url shortening services never really give much thought. Now
that you understand these things, you can set up links that will
work for you long-term, brand you and your domains, cost you
very little, and provide all of the benefits that led many
marketers to use those third-party hosted solutions in the first
place.  The big difference will be that you’ll be in-charge of
your links instead of being a hostage to those third-party url
shortening services.

————-

Willie Crawford is an Internet marketing consultant and super
affiliate who has been marketing goods and services over the
Internet for over 13 years. To closely track his promotional
efforts and to cloak ugly affiliate links he recommends using
a url shortening script hosted on you own domain. Willie’s
favorite script is at:  http://YourOwnShortUrl.com