Twitter Education

Ever thought social media had a science to it? Well it does. I took a brush up course from my mentor - Ghyslain Lefavbre - and learned a few new things to Twitter.

Need a personal background? Try http://twitterimage.com or http://twitterart.com. Both can help you create a personalized Twitter background for fees around $120.00

Need a good Twitter follow/unfollow manager? For a one time price of $97.00, Hummingbird is the answer. There is Hummingbird I and Hummingbird II. Ghyslain recommends Hummingbird I (but only if your followers get to the number that is too hard to handle yourself with everything else in your schedule), so I gave it a try. It's good.

 Don't forget the importance to adding quotes to your tweet so visit http://brightquotes.com

Google "interesting facts" for sites that contain interesting tidbits that relate to your business or the message you are trying to get out to your followers.

Sign on to http://socialoomph.com for planning and scheduling your tweets especially during your busy times.

Don't forget to look at http://ezinearticles.com and http://youtube.com to find relevant articles and videos to send out to your followers.

Don't forget that the marketing education I receive through CarbonCopyPro is the best there is. I learn something new at every turn. Thanks Ghyslain!

Sokule.com

I have taken on another challenge - Sokule It is a leader in inter-planetary communications. Sokule offers an ingenious service that lets you make instant cosmic contact with all your favorite business and marketing personalities. Forget email. You can manage ads and form lists for your email campaign. Check it out.

The training videos are great and easy to follow.

One click service that can send you messages through the web to more than 20 sites. Sokule is like Twitter but Monetized. Grab your affiliate link today. Tamara Cobbin

Why Use Twitter and How?

There are many reasons to use Twitter; meeting friends, share a chat, market a business, drive traffic to your website, get inspiration or get a pulse on what the world talks about, just to name a few. It is a very social media tool.

I joined Twitter as an experiment. I wanted to see how social media could expand in my world beyond Facebook. I didn't really know what I was doing and really only played with it.

Then I decided to take some Twitter training which was offered to me through CCPro. I learned a whole new world to Twitter that I didn't even think I would have discovered if I hadn't utilized the free training offered.

After signing up an account, how do you start? I wrote down my interests, especially the ones I wrote briefly in my bio. Then I went in "Find People" and looked up those interests as a subject. For example, Photography, Photo Gurus, Pet Photographers....

Other examples; Social Media, Internet Marketers, Travel Experts, Book Enthusiasts.....

Carefully read each bio of the Twitters that pop up and follow each if they fit your interests. Remember to start training yourself early to follow the 20% rule of following and followers. This rule becomes important as soon as your each 200 following. The rule states that once you have reached 200 following you may not let your followers fall below 20%. For example, if you have 2001 followers you must at least have 1801 followers before you can keep following.

Now how is this done? Make sure who you follow are following you. If a following is not a follower - unfollow. If you do not have the Twitter following you then your tweets are not getting to that person and a relationship is not building between the two of you. That's a wasted tweet. So make sure your tweets are being recycled by always following those that follow you and unfollow those that don't.

There are a few ways to keep on top of your following/follower ratio. Google this question to find them all listed. But a couple I know of are:

My Tweeple

Social OOmph - previously known as Tweeter Later

We'll talk more later about how to manually keep our ratio intact and how to manage tweets.

How Did I get Started With CCPRO and WMI?

Part 1:

I joined Twitter one day to see what all the tweeting was about. I loved Facebook, so how hard could it be?

I Continued playing, experimenting and then it got exciting. I met the most amazing people online from all over the world. I shared so many interests with so many people. I didn't even know there was such a big online world out there. I have traveled to so many far and away places, but I met more people on line and didn't have to purchase a ticket. (This will not stop me from travelling. I love it too much!)

From these new twitter friends, my Facebook population grew, and I found even more people that I shared same interests with. Talk about a snowball effect.

Suddenly from out of the blue I was slapped silly by this tweet about working from home. curiosity had me into the site. (Lucky I am not a cat. It didn't kill me.) First, I saw the huge income potential that could be made from hard work. Then I saw the infrastructure of the organization and I started to get that quiver in my stomach and that feeling of "Uh Oh! - another MLM scheme."

This brought back instant day-mares of MLM attempts gone past. All the phone calls, the $ spent on flyers, emails, promotional kits, upgrades, lugging "junk" from one show or demonstration to another. Long nights (early mornings, I should say) afterwards going over submitting orders, working out numbers, drinking coffee, avoiding a migraine, praying my kids would sleep just a little bit longer. NO THANKS. Never again. End of story? Right? Well obviously not.

I decided to research and research and research this company. I could re-sight the company policies and promises in my sleep. I kept checking in the mirror hoping to see my face on my shoulders not the images of the founders. It was creeping me out. I was getting to familiar with them.

But you know what I? I couldn't find a hitch. No MLM. No shows. What gives.?Well it is my hard work at learning the internet marketing curve that will help me to be financially independent. I could handle that. I am always game to learning new. I don't ever want my kids to think of me as too old to learn new tricks. Plus if I stay on the learning curve this sets an important example for them to follow. (Who am I kidding? They are grown adults and know way more in their twenties than I do nearing fifty. But that topic is for a whole other blog.)

So I started small. Just filled out the application and hesitantly pushed send. Then waited.......