Make Friends On Twitter

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Make Friends On Twitter

On Twitter if you are authentic, have a strategic plan, and understand how to effectively use Twitter, you can influence people and make friends in ways that will benefit both you and them. (Now while you could do this for political causes, in this article I’m only talking about creating relationships to promote your brand, book or business.)

The first step to influencing people and making friends is to be someone whom others on Twitter know, like and trust. And this step has several elements:

- You Twitter profile must be authentic – your real name along with your username, preferably a headshot of yourself rather than a logo or icon design, an informative bio rather than a silly one or none at all, and a link to your website or blog. If you do not have a website or blog, then link to your LinkedIn or Facebook profile.

- You must have more than a couple of tweets, especially more than a couple of tweets from two months ago. You need to demonstrate you are a serious participant on Twitter by tweeting several times over the course of each week.

- You must share information that will be valued by the people whom you hope to influence and by the friends you hope to make. This does not mean sharing what you ate for dinner (unless you are a chef). It does mean sharing worthwhile information in the arena in which you hope to influence people and make friends. This could be sports, media, films, medicine, military, aging. Whatever. But you want to create a consistent image of who you are on Twitter so that, when people check out your recent tweets, they find an interesting person who understands Twitter etiquette and contributes to the Twitter zeitgeist in a positive way.

Now that you have established yourself as a contributing citizen of the Twitter universe, you can start to use the various Twitter and third-party search applications to seek out people who you might want to influence and people with whom you might like to make friends.

Again, this should be carried out strategically. It does not accomplish a great deal, for example, if you spend a great deal of time trying to influence and make friends with people in Orlando, Florida, although your goal is to try to get changes to city government in San Francisco.

That’s why the bragging of people about the huge number of people they follow and/or are following them may be meaningless. Are these people that you want to influence and/or become friends with? Or are these simply numbers used to impress people with how important you think you are on Twitter?

Once you’ve identified people with whom you’d like to connect, you should start engaging in conversation with them on Twitter. Be careful not to act as if you are someone’s best friend after an exchange of one or two tweets. While friendships can develop rather fast on Twitter, do not expect them to do so.

Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? Slow and steady won that race. If you are an authentic participant on Twitter, you will be here for the long haul. Thus you have time to grow your influence and friendships.

Always remember that Twitter is a two-way street. It is not a place where you look only for people who can benefit you. You must devote equal time to benefiting others. And if you follow these guidelines, you should be well on the way to influencing people and making friends on Twitter.

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Twitter- 6 Easy Ways to Use it to Make Friends and Increase Traffic

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Have you heard of Twitter? It seems like there are new ways to promote your business online and Twitter is a very good one. It is one of these cool social network ways of staying in touch with people.

In this article let’s talk about 6 ways you can easily use Twitter to make friends and more money!

1. First and foremost Twitter is a great way to stay connected with people who are following you and who you are following. You do this by posting short messages called “tweets.

This has become known as micro blogging because you are limited to 140 characters in your messages. The key is to build up a large list of followers. You can do this at various sites like Twellow.com and then start following people who have similar interests to yours.

2. Make yourself stand out by offering things that are unique. I like to offer updates about what I am blogging on. Avoid selling all of the time and offer useful content and your followers will appreciate it.

3. You have to get your Twitter link out where people can find you. This means adding it to your email sig file, in forum posts, on your website, on your blog sidebar, in article resource boxes, and so on. People will follow you if you have some credibility which you should haveve doing it this way.

4. Be consistent when posting new updates, or tweets. If you have something to offer say it. This is like posting in your blog. If you let in stagnate you will lose your effectiveness.

5. Social networking is all about being a part of a community. Twitter is no different. If you are an asset to your followers people will want to see what you are up to. You can include a link in your Tweets to anything you want by creating a TinyUrl.

6. Understand all of the ways you can benefit from Twitter. For example you can find new joint venture partners just by posting what you are up to in your internet business. Another way to benefit is outsourcing things you need done by posting a tweet for work such as blog articles, graphics, website design, and so on.

These are 6 easy ways to use Twitter to make new friends and make more money by attracting traffic. Because it is here to stay, and the ways to use it will only increase, this is something you are going to want to learn more about.

Would Twitter Encourage a Charge for Making Friends?

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Though money is the ultimate aim of building any website or settlement of any profession, the establishment of Twitter was not for this reason. Now it’s a common eagerness in almost everyone to know how Twitter can earn funds easily. Nowadays, everyone wants to make on the universal arena, the main question takes place “Can we get good friends through paying for them?” “Would Twitter charge from us for friends?”

Now Twitter is going to offer its wonderful services to make friends from all over the world through paying for them procedure. To begin such an excited service, Twitter is firm to build some suggestions adequate high-flying in the user knowledge. Moreover, it’s going to improve the excellence of free-of-cost references. Though these references are not able to attract all users in present conditions, they would prove amazing for them with the passage of time. The concept of providing service to make friends on behalf of some charges lets user think what is special in this offer?

In fact, folks don’t have so much time to stay anymore to find out the reasons why they should go with Twitter to make friends on a charging process. However, Twitter can prove a good platform for bloggers to search new friends for new scopes. In present times, Twitter has become more and more popular and so, the idea of making money through paying for friends doesn’t look a source of riches. In fact, people should think differently and special about this wonderful step of Twitter that is taken for sake of people.

Moreover, time will disclose what the new step of Kevin Thau brings for users! We can only hope for the best and expect something an exciting model in coming time that is not far from us. It’s also a great point to think whether people would like to spend some money in seeking friends while they can make friends without paying anything. Since the twitter is a renowned service provider, which takes care of users’ interests rather than its own. It can be anticipated that new launch in friendship field will also be rocking and advantageous for people who are regular visitors of the site.

Lastly, it’s not a good idea to pay for friends and I don’t think that Twitter has any sense of making money behind the new plan. So, it would be better to wait and watch the results that would be visible for everyone in coming times!

Twitter For Friends: The Art and Science of Efficient Communication

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Although Twitter is great for people of all walks of life and professions, it is probably best for what it was designed for originally: keeping in touch with friends. Twitter makes keeping in touch with friends easier and simpler than ever before.

Because you can tweet, or update, so many different ways, it’s flexible enough to be used from anywhere, which lends itself to being used more frequently than sites like MySpace or Facebook.

Keeping in touch with friends on MySpace/Facebook can sometimes be a challenge because you have so much other noise from people and things you may not care about. Maybe you have a handful of people that post the same bulletins frequently and they clutter up your bulletin board or mini-feed and you sometimes miss a bulletin that your close friends post. Twitter eliminates all of this because there is inherently less noise, and all tweets are limited to 140 characters or less.

There are no friends requests, event invitations, application requests or any of the other distractions you can find on MySpace/Facebook, there is only the status update. The status update is really all that’s important when it comes to keeping up with friends because it allows you to see at a glance what a bunch of your friends are up to.

Twitter detaches the status update from your computer and even your web browser. Users can tweet via text message, desktop Twitter clients and IM. This allows for a social network with more flexibility than most others. Sure, Facebook has a great mobile iPhone version, but not everyone has an iPhone or even a phone with a web browser.

Updating Twitter via text message is something that anyone with any phone can do and that is why it is better than MySpace/Facebook for keeping in touch with friends.

But what are some of the ways that friends can use Twitter to communicate more frequently and make a tangible difference in their lives?

Making Plans via Twitter

Twitter makes making plans simple and fast. Once your core group of friends that you hang out with regularly are using Twitter, you might find that you’re all hanging out even more because now everyone knows what’s going on for the next outing.

Now if you’re trying to get everyone together for the midnight premiere of Indiana Jones, you don’t have to call each person individually and then negotiate the time to meet up and the theater to watch it at. All you have to do is post something along the lines of “Whose down to see Indy tonight at midnight in Alhambra?”

As long as everyone checks Twitter at some point during the day, everyone will reply saying yes, no or suggesting other plans. Bam! Plans suggested and made within minutes with one 140 character message on your part. Beautiful.

Announcing Good News

Now when something good happens, it’s easier to spread the word. Let’s say you just got promoted, maybe you wouldn’t bother to call your 10 closest friends to brag, but that doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t be happy for you and glad to hear about it. Twitter makes it easy to get a virtual round of high fives within minutes of announcing your good news.

Sharing Photo Album Links

How many times have you gone to an event where one of your friends is taking pictures all night? It sure would be nice to get those pictures, but somehow it rarely ever gets done. It’s only when you had an exceptionally great trip or fun time that you get to see your friend’s pictures. Now it’s easy to post a link to a zip file uploaded to zShare and then share it with your friends through Twitter. Just upload it and post the link for everyone to see.

Get their attention by using @replies and you’ve just sent it to them in a hurry and they can all download the zip file and then talk about the pictures and the good times.

Sharing Regular Links

Sharing links to new web sites, music or videos is also made more efficient now, thanks to Twitter. Gone are the days of IMing everyone with some new viral video. Now all you have to do is Twitter it and all your friends, who likely have the same taste as you anyway, will now see that you think they should check out this new find.

Chances are, you don’t tell everyone you know about every cool thing you find on the internet, but that doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t be interested if you let them know. It’s the same idea as using it to spread good news. Just because you don’t want to take the time to tell them, doesn’t mean they wouldn’t like to hear about it.

I hope you now see some ways to use Twitter that you hadn’t thought about before. At it’s best, Twitter can really help bring people closer together and I hope this post can bring you closer to those you care about.

Speaking of bringing people closer together, you should follow me on Twitter! If you have some other friend-related uses for Twitter, please post them in the comments.

Facebook Marketing Strategies That Won’t Annoy Your Facebook Friends

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A huge market

Facebook is currently the third most visited site online as indicated by Alexa.com. Global internet users have reached 1.7 billion people according to the 2009 stats on online users. 29% of global internet users (510 million people) visit facebook. Any serious internet marketer must learn how to market on Facebook to create leads for their business opportunity.

Network marketers the globe over jumped in, to market to all the thousands of Facebook users and all the other social networking sites. The problem with most of the Facebook marketing strategies is that it is very in your face and can be very annoying to the Facebook user.

Read on to get some Facebook marketing tips that will assure you success and stop you from annoying people.

Take off the billboard around your neck

Think about it. What is Facebook? It is no different to a club or a party. A place to run into new people.

Have you really thought about your Facebook marketing strategy before you started marketing on Facebook? Everyone seems to follow the trend to do active marketing by adding many friends daily. What is the purpose to invite someone as a friend only to tell them about your business when they say yes to your “request to be a friend”?

NO one attends a party with a billboard around their neck stating: ” Hi I am so and so and I sell this or that”. You will be tagged as weird and everyone will avoid this “strange person” at the party. It is sad that in the online world we continually do what we will perceive as strange in the real world -we talk about our businesses all the time to everyone even if we have just met them. This is appalling but happening daily on Twitter and Facebook and other social media sites. We teach our downlines to do the same and to hunt down new friends only to hand our business cards to them. Take off the advertising board on your back and be a real friend and leader.

Connect with people and build relationships

The reality is, people are on Facebook to build relationships and connect with other people with similar interest. They do not care about your business and they do not want anyone to sell them business opportunities all the time. Unless they know you, they also don’t care about you. They choose to connect with people that interest them. Most people are naturally attracted to a leader. A leader is different, adds value and do things different to anyone else.

Use Facebook to promote yourself as the leader you ARE and show the value you have to offer. But be real and be a real person. Let attraction marketing work for you.

Six tips for success in Facebook marketing

Here are 6 tips that will assist you to use Facebook as a marketing tool without annoying your friends

1. Ensure your profile information says who you are and what you stand for. Keep it brief and truthful. Leave the hype and the sales pitches.
2. Do not put your mlm company replicated website link in the website field of your profile. Rather put a link to your blog where they can connect with you and learn more about YOU.
3. Think about your business and your own unique selling proposition. Why would somebody join you in your business? The answer to this question is critical to your success. Make a 20 word summary of who you are and add it to your profile. If you do not have an answer, this is probably the reason for not being successful.
4. There is no point to add hundreds of friends daily if you have no intention to connect with them.
5. If you have an active Twitter account where you tweet many times in one day, do not connect Twitter and Facebook. You will surely irritate and annoy your facebook friends if you have hundreds of status updates daily.
6. Make an effort to search for people on your opt-in list by searching for their e-mails and request them to connect with you on Facebook.This will make your e-mail stand out from the 20 other e-mails they receive from other lists and will increase your e-mail reading rate.Most people open e-mails from their friends first.

I use Facebook marketing in conjunction with my other marketing strategies. Applying these few fundemental tips will add a lot of great friends (with an added bonus of converting many into leads), make you a LOT of money and all that without annoying your Facebook friends!

Jim Chao , my mentor, has made an exclusive free webinar on Facebook Marketing Tips. This is very valuable and offers a new strategy to help you to stand out from 99% of other network marketers using Facebook for marketing. Jim believes in building relationships and connecting before marketing and will show you you how to, as well.