Will An Automated Twitter Account Result In Do More Harm Than Good? (Part One)

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Will An Automated Twitter Account Result In Do More Harm Than Good? (Part One)

Accounts that automate Twitter generally is a bad idea, if overdone any way. People that are legitimately just hanging out and mingling with their pals won’t run into this problem, however, if we are attempting to use Twitter for a advertising and marketing platform it may possibly only bring failure should you over do it. Automation may work with other aspects of online marketing such as, article submission or social bookmarking. Social marketing is just that – sociable, while bookmarking is more like merely letting people know that you are out there ready to link up.

Like I said, a certain amount of Twitter automation can be fine and sometimes vital so long as it’s not over done. For instance, the main concept of marketing with Twitter is to get yourself a substantial follower base – but what benefit is it to build thousands of followers if they are college students and single parents if you are promoting relationship counseling? 500 targeted followers is much better the 50,000 untargeted followers. For that reason, bulk following or blasting software will be a bad approach. Yes they might add thousands to your account, but half of them are not interested in you and the other half have sense disappeared and not been on Twitter in many months or years. There are many paid services that will let you enter keywords and phrases and then they’ll go get targeted followers on your behalf and add them. On that note, twollo (dot) com allow you to add two keywords at no cost. More then 2, you pay.

The manual alternative for the paid websites are sites like ‘twellow’ ‘justtweetit’ and ‘whoshouldifollow’. Manually plug in a search term and get loads of choices. Not automated, but a bit of elbow grease will get you a sizable TARGETED follower base.

The next most monotonous part of a Twitter account is monitoring the new followers, following back, posting welcome messages, catching those that un-follow and maintaining a balance between followers and follow’ies. In other words – account maintenance.

This is just one of those ‘must have’ automated Twitter tools. One popular program is SocialOomph (dot) com. Once known as ‘TweetLater’ this website lets you auto follow and auto un-follow individuals. This on it’s own ıs really a enormous time saver. At the same time it enables you to immediately deliver a direct message to the new followers. This brings up another judgment question..

Just what exactly ought to be the first tweet I send my new friends?

Picture this. In real life, do you go up to a fresh potential customer and begin showing them the cool goods you have to sell? Yeh, you can, but probably not have a job as a salesman very long. Direct Message manners will go something like this:

• Never: ‘Thanks for following me, now go have a look at my $hit @ . . . ‘

• Maybe: Offer a free gift by pointing them to your squeeze page

• Better: Offer a free gift with no optin page – let the e-book steer them to you websites if they’re curious.

• If all else fails: Don’t send out a message at all! Like my mama used to say.. ‘If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.’

Personally I’m in favor of the last 2 choices.

Twitter Traffic Machine The Automated Growth & Money Making System

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I am currently using this system to generate alot of traffic to my current website just by using a new web 2.0 system called twitter. For those of you who live underneath a rock for the past few years; twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets.

Twitter is exploding onto the market and it’s one of the fast growing social networks on the web. Currently, twitter is the third largest social network (besides Facebook and MySpace) with 55 million visits a month.

I have learned alot of tricks using Twitter to build my online business. How couldn’t it work for your online business?

Imagine, 1 month from now, you have thousands of people following you on Twitter, who all respect you and value what you have to say.

Imagine thousands of people recognize your name or your business name, and regularly visit your website or Blog.

Imagine making a ‘tweet’ (post on twitter) and instantly, thousands of people go to YOUR website and buy what you are selling, or fill out your affiliate offers, making you money instantly!

Imagine being able to build your lead list at lightning speed, and then monetizing that list to make constant money from it, because the people on your list now respect & trust you.

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Are Automated Direct Messages to Your Twitter Followers Reputable?

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I am also relatively new to this whole twitter following – even though I have a marketing screen and nice branding. I’m still getting used to it – the whole twitter thing. What I’m not getting used to is the “automated direct messages” that come up at least in 1/3 people I twit follow. I do find them annoying as you might have already experienced as well because they’re not personal. Remember when email came out in like 1999 and was popularizing really fast. It was the “cool” thing, everyone loved email, it was extraordinary and amazing. But in 2002 it was quoted as “time consuming” and even “work”. So it no longer became a personalized message to someone but a form of communicating business messages and work and it became a nuisance to open.  Don’t get me wrong automating your messages via email and twitter is a great way to do nothing and have the “system” do the work for you.  Do get me right though when I say that being more personal will get you more followers and will keep them.

There is an ongoing wave that is still rising and curling and on that wave Twitter is on top.  Although on this rising tidal wave, the people that have direct message are usually affiliating those messages with a website or a “make money from home”, “make $250k in 12 months” and it does get annoying to users who are marketing their business. Do you think those twitter followers read any messages you send them? In my experiences, this is not the case. I have messages other online marketers like myself and even though their direct messages have reached me the first time, I haven’t got my 1st reply or my 2nd reply back from them. The case and point is if you don’t brand yourself to your twitter followers and personalize your messages to them, you are the annoying one.

I’m not saying that Automatic Messages are innately bad.

But obviously its not building your brand and your reputation online – unless of course you just want to have the largest twitter following on the planet earth and you have nothing to market you just want the largest list ever.  Good for you, but most people relate to other people who can relate to them back. It’s a reciprocal thing and this goes for your @messages and what you’re doing. In my humble opinion to this Twitter trend as I see it growing steadfast is this: personalize who you are or twitters will not listen to you. You will be a cow lost within the masses. You will be doing what everyone else is doing. Yes in some cases the automatic messages work and you will build leads. As it has worked for me in the past, it ended up getting 2 or 3 leads from twitter solely when I used Twitter strategies to attract more traffic to my website.

Folks on Twitter seem to be against bad marketing as well.

And I truly mean this because recently I was so fed up receiving these messages in my email inbox of irrelevant crap that I turned off all marketing. I don’t even check my direct messages anymore. I do sort through the ones I see as “real” people, but everyone else is just trying to sell you. I think it was Jeffrey Gitomer who said it this the best way: “people hate being sold, but they love to buy”. Case and point again, the folks on Twitter respond to Twitter as a form of Marketing. And just to test this theory before I wrote this article to prove myself right, I added 500 random strangers just from other followers that I have following me back. Out of those 500, only about 200 added me back while another 300 have no idea who I am and will probably never respond back to me. Out of those 200, and all the ones I visited, they are newbie’s with less than 200 followers and are very personalized (I think I visited like 5 profiles). Out of the 200 that added me back about 109 messages were Automatic Messages with “Hi I hope you have a great day” – not very original in my opinion). Or “Hey great to have another follower – check this out www….” – again not very original.

Case and Point.

I think with any new culture in web 2.0, your brand is your power. People can see right through you when they think or they think they know they are “being sold”. Do the automated messages if they work for you, but you won’t see any from me. My content is original, I don’t post content about how you should try this or that website because it’ll make you millions of dollars. You can probably already do that. What I post is what I’m doing. The fish I caught on the weekend, or the photo I took while I was at the beach. This kind of stuff brand the real person in you. Like I said, people relate to people not to what you’re selling.