Setting up on Twitter
Twitter is growing fast and is a great way to communicate, build relationships and a following that handled correctly can get you plenty of traffic as well as sales and leads.
Getting started on Twitter is straight forward just head over to www.twitter.com and hit the sign up button.
When you are taken to the page above there’s not a lot going on. This is because you are not following anyone to see their messages in the main content area.
So let’s go through the basics of what you need to know breaking down the different areas:
1. Messages
This is where you post your tweets! The maximum amount of characters is 140. When you type in your message you’ll see the amount of characters you have left are shown. If it goes red and to a minus you will need to trim down your message to fit.
When you click update this will be published and shown in the timeline of your followers. (You’ll also see it appear)
2. Main Feed
All tweets will appear here from all your followers including any
Open messages to you with the @ in front, so @yourusername followed by the message will show and be seen by everyone who is following that person.
3. Toolbar
Home: Displays your public timeline
Profile: This displays all the public messages you have sent out
Find People: Various ways to search for people on Twitter
Settings: Personalise your account by updating your bio, changing password: set up your mobile SMS, update your picture, your background design and Notices for your timeline
Help: Helpful information about Twitter
Sign Out: Log out of your account
4. Picture Icon.
You can click on this and see all the public messages you have submitted (same as Profile in Toolbar)
5. Status Line
Clicking on either followers or following displays that relevant data
6. @yourTwitterID
By clicking on this you will only see tweets that have been directed at you or included your Twitter ID
7. Direct Messages
Here you can see all the private direct messages (known as DM’s) from and to you. You can reply by clicking on the envelope icon that appears when you hover over the messages.
You can use keyboard shortcuts in the message area.
D Direct message. To send someone a private direct message you can prefix a ‘D’ followed by the persons name.
So for example a dirext message to Jake might look something like this:
D Jake Hi Jake, let’s catch up soon
Twitter will change the text to ‘Direct Message to: Jake’ to make clear what you are doing.
9. Favorites
Lists any tweets you have saved as a favourite to refer back to at a later time. You can also click the star on the top right hand side of the and when the star turns yellow your message is saved.
A shortcut for Favorites is FAV
So FAV Jake will save Jake’s last tweet as a favourite
10. Lists
You can create a list which can be friends, associates, your inner circle or whatever you like. If you’re added to a list by someone else it will also show in this section.
The default background for your Twitter profile isn’t very interesting and should be changed. This can be customized and should, if possible, be consistent with your brand which can be carried across all your blogs and other social networks. A quick search on Google for Twitter backgrounds should bring up plenty of designers or you can contact us as we offer this service.
Once you’ve signed up to Twitter take your time and see who you want to follow. Don’t blitz through as many as you can; you just won’t be able to follow everyone. Choose the mavens, the people of influence in your niche.
When you do they will receive an email telling them that you are following them with a link back to your profile. Although this notification can be switched off, it is on by default
The Tweets Facebook RSS Combo
This is a quick audio explaining the use of a wordpress plugin that can feed your blog posts to Twitter. You should also at least have the 3 apps in your facebook profile so that your status updates automatically.
Click here for Tweets Facebook RSS Combo Audio
It’s a New New Media World!
We have finally released our trio of reports focusing on Vlogcasting, Micro Media and Satellite Content Sites. There are a few options available for getting hold of them, but let’s break them down:
Vlogcast Domination.
Imagine a set up where you write one piece of content and it is automactically pinged to the search engines, shows up on your twitter feed informing your followers of your new post and then pops up all over the internet on various websites and blogs. This report incorporates some content from our previous ‘Blog Blitz’ report. I really wanted to highlight to power of combining these new media elements.
Satellite Love.
Getting Organic Search Engine Natural Traffic is essential if you don’t want to shell out vast sums of money on Google Adwords and other paid advertising. Valuable backlinks also play a part as the more of those ‘authority’ sites linking to you, the more that valuable Google juice brings you visitors looking for your services and products.
Micro Media Marketing.
Make Micro Media Marketing the latest cutting-edge weapon in your Web 2.0 Armoury for Maximum Profits. Well Twitter is certainly gaining a foothold and is a superb way to build realtionships with mavens of your niche and a following. Jaiko, Tumblr and Pownce are all similiar Micro networks that need your attention, but do it the wrong way and you’re likely to get banned from them.
Master Resale Rights and Salespages are available for all these reports at New New Media World for an absolute steal! (You will be offered these for just $27 after purchasing the personal rights)
If you’re an affiliate there is also a taster report that you can rebrand with your link for instant Paypal commissions! You can grab that right here, but it’s included in the package of course.
Alternatively you could just upgrade to Gold membership at FMB which is still a measly $47 for lifetime membership which gives you access, not just to all the other web 2.0 and social media reports and resources we give you, but videos, excel sheets data, audios and reports mostly with rights so you can profit right away)..and of course these new trio of new media marketing reports!
I will be looking at this Gold member offer as soon as I get a few hours over the next few days and it will definately be GOING UP..probably $97, $147 or something as it’s currently completely under valued at the moment.
So join FMB and go for Gold..or buy direct from NNMW..Let us know your feedback on the reports!
Twitter Connections
FMB will have a great series of reports for the Gold Plus members coming up very soon including Micro Media Marketing. It took a while longer than we thought but the latest craze of Twitter is well and truely covered in there.
Let me re-phrase..latest craze? ok we wouldn’t recommend you just follow latest crazes but services such as Twitter are great for conversations, enhancing your reputation and building relationships.
Don’t just jump on there and follow millions of people, choose the ones that have influence and provide your own tweets with worthwhile breaking news in your own niche.
You can also use tools such as Twitter Tools or Twitterfeed to automate the process of adding blog post links to Twitter, in fact Troy Wray just gave me a heads up on Tweet My blog as well..at initial glance it looks pretty darn good.
If you post to your blog a lot you may be in danger of overwhelming your readers – if that’s the case try just using your best blog posts and submit those. Readers will just be put off by a whole list of blog links with no conversation. The worst tool we saw on someone’s twitter account recently was a ‘currently browsing’ plugin from FireFox…yes every website was listed on this guy’s feed…don’t go there.
Look out for our report onTwitter which guides you through the whole process with some revealing tactics to making the most of it!
Twhirl overload?
Erick Schonfeld at Techcrunch seems to have had a bit of a nightmare with Twhirl Tweets taking over his desktop (check out the screenshot)
Of course the development of all these micro media apps do clutter our lives to a certain extent but if controlled these can surely be very useful tools.
I have been writing about Micro Media for the next FMB report so whatever happens I will be installing twhirl.. :-0
