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		<title>&#8230;what about YOUR next 100 Days?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Master</dc:creator>
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Obama has served 100 days in the White House.
A 100 days. &#34;Success or failure?&#34;, the 2 camps are still debating.
A policy here. A ruling there. Intervention all around. Some people call the President&#8217;s moves brilliant. Others call it plain dumb.
Yes, the voices are crystal clear. The first 100 days are always forgivable ones. You need [...]]]></description>
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<p>Obama has served <strong>100 days</strong> in the White House.</p>
<p>A 100 days. &quot;Success or failure?&quot;, the 2 camps are still debating.</p>
<p>A policy here. A ruling there. Intervention all around. Some people call the President&#8217;s moves brilliant. Others call it plain dumb.</p>
<p>Yes, the voices are crystal clear. The first <strong>100 days</strong> are always forgivable ones. You need to get your feet wet, to clean up the mess of the previous administration, just to learn to juggle the various egos of the others in power.</p>
<p>The first <strong>100 days</strong> are about research, and policy discussions, and rounds and rounds of meetings to fix what&#8217;s wrong about the country.</p>
<p>Yet, the same media voices claim the next<strong> 100 days</strong> are THE MOST CRUCIAL ONES to determine whether Obama succeeds as president&#160; or is a flash in the pan.</p>
<p>You see, <strong>the next 100 days are about IMPLEMENTATION</strong>. To stop talking and take action. And the anticipated results will determine his destiny.</p>
<h3>How have you spent the last 100 days?</h3>
<p>Did you set your goals? New Years Resolution? A fierce determination to succeed and prevail through this difficult recession period?</p>
<p>Now, whether you see results or not, it&#8217;s crunch time.</p>
<p>Just like Obama, it&#8217;s your next <strong>100 days</strong> that determine whether you sink or swim in this moment of crisis. Whether you make a comfortable living or become yet-another-statistic.</p>
<p>It depends on you.</p>
<p><strong>And right now you want to take the street fighter route and use any weapon to not just survive, but thrive.</strong></p>
<p>This is when Twitter comes in. A marketing channel that doesn&#8217;t cost money, yet has unprecedented opportunity. Oprah, Ashton, CNN&#8230; Twitter&#8217;s now mainstream baby, and it&#8217;s time to learn how to harness Twitter for maximum ROI.</p>
<p>Internet wealth specialist Stephen Pierce says that its far easier to dominate a marketing channel that it is a niche. In other words, you reap more profits from focusing on one channel than trying to challenge the existing Goliath&#8217;s in their niche.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re probably going to <em>clobber </em>you.</p>
<p>You still have first-mover advantage on Twitter. In fact, I guarantee you that if you focus on Twitter marketing for the next <strong>100 days</strong>, your business will accelerate in a way you never thought possible.</p>
<p>Picture this&#8230; Once you master Twitter&#8230; Your prospects suddenly transforming into evangelists&#8230; A steady flow of leads without spending a red cent&#8230; Your personal brand spreading like wildfire across the Internet.</p>
<p><strong>It is possible.</strong> In fact, in less than <strong>100 days</strong> after coming on Twitter as an unknown, I established a 5 figure business from scratch&#8211;with no name, no list and no website. And a <strong>100 days </strong>later, I&#8217;m among the elite marketers in this world.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m handing you the keys to the kingdom. This is the age of acceleration. The whole old-fashioned, white-knucked slave-till-dawn was the old rule of successes. Now, it&#8217;s to springboard off the opportunities and devices that make leapfrogging your predecessors so much easier.</p>
<p>So come on! Your next <strong>100 days</strong> is do or die. Seize the moment and take that step of faith to succeed today.</p>
<p><a title="Twitter Salvation" href="http://salvationsystem.com" target="_blank">&#8212;&#8211;&gt; Carpe Diem!</a></p>
<p>P.S. <strong>100 days</strong> may seem short. But miracles can happen in that time. A <strong>100 days</strong> ago I was still unmarried. A <strong>100 days</strong> before that I was still an unknown copywriter trying to make a living. Take the <strong>100 days</strong> challenge and rise up now.</p>
<h3 align="center"><a href="http://www.salvationsystem.com" target="_blank">Twitter Salvation System. Doors Now Open.</a></h3>
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		<title>Can You Really Make Money on Twitter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Master</dc:creator>
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This is the (literally) million dollar question everyone has been asking since Twitter started. 
And man, have we seen all nature of attempts to profit from this hot micro-blogging platform.
Tweeter Getter and its dozen variants. Magpie. TweetAds. Spam accounts either with fake gurus or fake women tweeting links to Robert Allen’s latest shindig.
Now… We can [...]]]></description>
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<p align="justify"><em><strong>This is the (literally) million dollar question everyone has been asking since Twitter started. </strong></em></p>
<p align="justify">And man, have we seen all nature of attempts to profit from this hot micro-blogging platform.</p>
<p align="justify">Tweeter Getter and its dozen variants. Magpie. TweetAds. Spam accounts either with fake gurus or fake women tweeting links to Robert Allen’s latest shindig.</p>
<p align="justify">Now… We can buy “Featured User” spots on certain popular Twitter tool websites so that we can have our mug pasted for hundreds, even thousands of potential follows.</p>
<p align="justify">You know something?&#160; I smile and shake my head whenever I get one of those “Getting 16k followers in a month DM’s”, and when I click on their profile, they have around 40-50 people.</p>
<p align="justify">Poor souls who’ve been conned into buying the dream of massive Twitter viral success.</p>
<p align="justify">Yet, marketers are a persistent lot. They may be thinking, “Surely we can squeeze money from something that’s such a wild media phenomenon.” Must be something to do with Oprah.</p>
<p align="justify">It could be the demographics look promising enough. Predominantly in the 25-40 and 45-60 “deeper pockets” age range, more and more businesses are jumping on board the Twitter bandwagon in an attempt to tap those pockets.   <br />In fact, Twitter is fast becoming the top B2B social media network in the world.</p>
<p align="justify">Maybe you’re on Twitter to do just that… To make some decent coin and sustain your business during this recession period.</p>
<p align="justify">But what’s the secret to making money on Twitter when hyperbole and chest-beating exist everywhere?</p>
<p align="justify">Is it to tweet your self-promo links as much as you can? Is it to network like a whirlwind? What’s the best way to make legitimate money on Twitter?   <br />Well, let me propose an answer.</p>
<p align="justify">As a disclaimer, I’m not trying to proclaim I’m an expert or something. I’m just someone who stumbled on to Twitter in a moment of desperation, and managed to directly monetize it by launching a 5 figure business in under a month.</p>
<p align="justify">Anyway, here’s how you make money on Twitter…<a href="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/twitterbird.jpg"><img title="twitterbird" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 5px 15px 0px 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="191" alt="twitterbird thumb Can You Really Make Money on Twitter?" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/twitterbird-thumb.jpg" width="156" align="left" border="0" /></a></p>
<h1><span style="font-size: medium">You Tame the Animal Spirits!</span></h1>
<p align="justify">Huh, what do I mean?</p>
<p align="justify">Let me explain.</p>
<p align="justify">A little known Keynesian economic principle that is gaining popularity this year—thanks to renowned economists Robert J. Shiller and George Akerlof— is something called the Animal Spirits theory. He basically says that the economy is directly influenced by “primitive animal instincts” like fear, hope and greed. In other words, the economy is driven by psychology.</p>
<p align="justify">That’s the reason why as fear increases, the economy gets worse and worse. Government policies are rendered ineffectual if the dominant emotions continue to escalate in paranoia and distrust.</p>
<p align="justify">What this means for you—and this obviously extends far beyond the realm of Twitter Marketing—if the problem is a psychological one… The solution is also a psychological one!</p>
<p align="justify">And in my opinion, Twitter is the single BIGGEST fear removal device on the planet. If you strategize correctly, every Tweet you send out can chip away at your prospect’s mental barriers and convert them into buyers in record time.</p>
<p align="justify">You see, what’s the opposite of fear? Trust. And how do you make people trust you? You demonstrate that you can be trusted!</p>
<p align="justify">A tweet to your blog post that displays your expertise. A ready answer in their time of need. A quote to motivate their day. Even just plain ol’ friendly banter…</p>
<p align="justify">All of a sudden, something magical happens. You actually see RESPONSE in your response rate. You get flooded with word-of-mouth recommendations. You achieve “Digg effect” traffic with your blog posts even though you’re not a power user.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>And here’s the cool part…</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Once you send out your promo links, you start getting mad sales. Your followers are actually not mad that you have a link to a sales page!</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Heck, even your <em>promo</em> links get RTed over and over again. </strong></p>
<p align="justify">Too good to be true? It&#8217;s happened to me many, many times.</p>
<p align="justify">Congratulations, you&#8217;ve just successfully tamed the animal spirits. Granted, it is pre-selling. But pre-selling has never been this potent nor this accelerated.</p>
<p align="justify">Every tweet has the ability to move your prospect through the buying process. And how many Tweets can you send a day? 50? 100? Carefully plan your Tweets and you could get hungry buyers from previously cold prospects in as little as a day.</p>
<p align="justify">In a few days, I’m going to reveal to you my Twitter-centric business model to generate an insane amount of leads and sales. They are the exact same strategies I used to fund my wedding and honeymoon &#8211;in under a month.</p>
<p align="justify">They are the exact same techniques that made me a recognized authority in my copywriting niche.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Here’s why.</strong></p>
<p align="justify">The mantra of both my course, the Twitter Salvation System and my marketing is this, “psychology, not technology.” You may have the latest nifty Twitter tools that can enable you to spread your message spread far and wide, but if you can’t grasp the Twitter user’s mindset, you’ll never be able to sell a dime.</p>
<p align="justify">Instead of doing tired “Buy or Die” tactics, I&#8217;ll give you some sound advice to demonstrate the full potential that my little labor of love can do for your business.</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rt3.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-355 alignright" title="rt3" style="border-right: 0pt; border-top: 0pt; margin: 2px 8px; border-left: 0pt; border-bottom: 0pt" height="151" alt="My life is my message. ~Gandhi" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rt3.png" width="265" /></a>Indeed, I&#8217;ve used the very same principles to launch a 5 figure biz from scratch nearly exclusively using Twitter—and that was even <em>before</em> I discovered any of the Twitter tools. Purely by using the web interface we’d made $10k in 3 weeks—with no list, no name and very little money. And now by replicating these same techniques over and over again, I have got a sizable income rise, speaking engagements and more JV projects <span style="text-decoration: line-through">that I have to turn down</span>.</p>
<p align="justify">Here’s a sneak peek of the 3 BRAND NEW MODULES that I included with the package:</p>
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<div><strong>How to get 1000 followers in a day,</strong> and transform them into evangelist—with just 1 Tweet? Yes, it’s possible. A sprinkle of persuasion magic is all it takes!</div>
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<div><strong>How to unleash the power of social influence marketing</strong>. Often, it’s not the what but the who that matters in marketing. If you’re respected, everything you say holds more weight. A simple way to accomplish mavenhood in as little as a month.</div>
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<div><strong>A step-by-step Twitter for newbie’s module.</strong> Look, I know some of you came in from the nudging of Ashton&#160; and Oprah. It’s nothing to be ashamed about. Here’s a quick and easy blueprint to get you up to speed. You’ll be tapping into Twitter as a lucrative marketing channel in no time.</div>
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<p align="justify">Here’s the thing. There are strictly limited copies available.&#160; We’re limiting it to 500 copies because me and my wife Laura do all the customer support ourselves &#8211;we believe in personalized support for each and every client we handle.</p>
<p align="justify">There’s been a bit of buzz about the Salvation System so I want to make sure you get first dibs on one of the hottest Twitter products around.</p>
<h3 align="center"><a href="http://salvationsystem.com" target="_blank">Claim your Salvation here</a></h3>
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		<title>My Totally Biased Rant On Twitter Marketing</title>
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Some people on Twitter have wished me ill. Somebody even asked me to choke to death.
Why do I incite such animosity?
It&#8217;s because I have a way of doing business on Twitter that ticks off a lot of people.
 I have opinions on doing Twitter marketing that ruffles a lot of feathers.
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Some people </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">on Twitter</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">have wished me ill</span></strong><strong></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">. Somebody even asked me to choke to death.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">W</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #800000;">hy do I incite such animosity?</span></strong></p>
<p align="justify">It&#8217;s because I have a way of doing business on Twitter that ticks off a lot of people.</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/googlevstwitter.jpg"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; border-right-width: 0px" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/googlevstwitter-thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="Googlevs.Twitter" width="244" height="193" align="left" title="My Totally Biased Rant On Twitter Marketing" /></a> I have opinions on doing Twitter marketing that ruffles a lot of feathers.</p>
<p align="justify">And before you go on, a warning to people who do not use <strong>Twitter for marketing</strong> nor use <strong>Twitter for business</strong>: with all due respect, if that&#8217;s the way you connect on Twitter; if you don&#8217;t actually use Twitter to make money online, then you don&#8217;t have to read on because this blog post <em>isn&#8217;t</em> for you.</p>
<p align="justify">It&#8217;s for those who want to make money on Twitter and want to know what the fuss is about on Twitter in terms of marketing and business-building online.</p>
<p align="justify">This is, in a sense, an open letter to all my haters, and this is my totally biased opinion on how to do Twitter marketing online.</p>
<p align="justify">There are several objections I get on my Tweetstream from the people who write back to me. They’re generally very nice people and they write back to me asking why I do things the way I do. Now, I&#8217;m going to address 3 such objections.</p>
<p align="justify">The first is this:</p>
<p align="justify"><strong><span style="color: #800000; font-size: large;">1. Why do I tweet so much?</span></strong></p>
<p align="justify">Most people equate a lot of tweeting &#8212; or tweeting the same tweet over and over again &#8212; as being a spammer. But I say sometimes, it&#8217;s necessary because there&#8217;s just so much <strong><span style="font-size: medium;">noise</span></strong> on Twitter. Most people follow more than 30 people on Twitter, and statistically, if you follow more than 30-50 people, you will already be overwhelmed with tweets. And 30-50 is just the bare minimum.</p>
<p align="justify">Most people follow between 400-500 to 1000 people on Twitter. How do you keep up with everybody if you&#8217;re following so many people? The bottom line is this: your message will actually get lost is a crowd of 500-600 people; you need to shout louder in order to be heard.</p>
<p align="justify">You might have the most well-crafted tweet in the world with the best copy, and the best headline or bullet, but <strong>if nobody sees it, there&#8217;s no point</strong>. And that is why I Tweet as much as I do. I don&#8217;t tweet this way about a lot of things though&#8211; only when there&#8217;s a launch or something coming up, and I want to get a lot of traffic to one site. I have done my research &#8212; the more you tweet, the more traffic you&#8217;ll get.</p>
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<p align="justify">It&#8217;s the same way in which if you&#8217;re doing autoresponder marketing, the more emails you send out, the more money you make.</p>
<p align="justify">Of course, the thing to really consider is this: <strong>are you willing to ruffle the few feathers that will be annoyed?</strong> Because the truth is, some people will be annoyed. Are the people you&#8217;re bringing in through the funnel enough to supplement/make up for those who unfollow you? That is what you have to ask yourself.</p>
<p align="justify">If you are not brave enough to do this, please don&#8217;t.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong><span style="color: #800000; font-size: large;">2. Kenneth, why aren&#8217;t you using Twitter to build a relationship?</span></strong></p>
<p align="justify">Isn&#8217;t Twitter about building relationships? Why are you just trying to sell stuff?</p>
<p align="justify">The thing is, Twitter IS about building relationships, it is. But what&#8217;s the end result you want on Twitter? Is it to have a good time? Do you have a service you want to introduce to the world? Is it to interact with the people you connect with?</p>
<p align="justify">Those are all good reasons, but if you&#8217;re a marketer who&#8217;s using Twitter to measure ROI, to spread your product and boost your sales, if you&#8217;re using it as a <strong>marketing channel</strong>, then you need to look at your relationships form a profit-potential point of view.</p>
<p align="justify">Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I am about relationships. There are many people that like me.  If you look at the <a href="http://twitter.com/emailcopywriter/favourites">favourites tab</a> in my Twitter profile you&#8217;ll see that I&#8217;ve got tons and tons of <a href="http://twitter.com/emailcopywriter/favourites" target="_blank"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/favouritestab.jpg" border="0" alt="favouritestab My Totally Biased Rant On Twitter Marketing" width="306" height="250" align="right" title="My Totally Biased Rant On Twitter Marketing" /></a>raves because I do give out a lot of value and a lot of content, and I do get a lot of retweets.</p>
<p align="justify">I really do want to talk to everyone and converse with everyone, but the only problem is time &#8212; you can&#8217;t be on the Tweet stream the whole day.</p>
<p align="justify">And that&#8217;s the little sneaky confession I&#8217;m making, I do use automated posts/tweets from time to time in order to allow me to stay on top of things (because I now have a wife, and I need to take care of my wife; if I tweet too much she&#8217;s gonna divorce me).</p>
<p align="justify">At this point in time, you want to create relationships that make your followers so familiar and so friendly with you that they will trust you and hand you over their money to. They&#8217;ll even spread your marketing messages (which my fans do).</p>
<p align="justify">I believe I&#8217;ve cracked the code to doing this; there is a reason why I&#8217;m called the Puppet Master. And that is because I use <strong>accelerated intimacy techniques</strong> rooted in human psychology and in a bit of persuasion in order to simulate a bond that otherwise wouldn&#8217;t be there.</p>
<p align="justify">I mean, you can take the hard way and take 10years to build a following, or you can use what I use and get fans and followers who are warm to you from the first tweet, from the time they follow you. These are some of the powerful strategies I have in my arsenal.</p>
<p align="justify">The other objection is this:</p>
<p align="justify"><strong><span style="color: #800000; font-size: large;">3. Why do you follow so many people, since you can only keep up with a few? </span></strong></p>
<p align="justify">For me, the answer is this: that&#8217;s a valid but misguided mindset. Because when you follow tons of people, it&#8217;s not about you &#8211; it&#8217;s about <strong><em>them</em></strong>.</p>
<p align="justify">You see, in a recent article from TechCrunch, they said that Twitter is a thought-stream, which basically means that Twitter is a stream of people&#8217;s hopes, fears, dreams, thoughts, comments and opinions.</p>
<p align="justify">What you have right now is probably the most powerful marketing device in the world. If you only follow a few people, that&#8217;s alright too &#8212; but you only get updated with your group of friends, your own clique.</p>
<p align="justify">You won&#8217;t really know what&#8217;s going on in the marketing world, though, because <strong>not even Google can tell you what Twitter can</strong>.</p>
<p align="justify">TechCrunch says that while Google is good for what people are searching for at the moment, Twitter is amazing for what people are thinking of at the moment.</p>
<p align="justify">Robert Collier said that the key to good marketing is to enter the conversation in your prospect&#8217;s mind, and Twitter is one big conversation. I use Twitter for <strong>Psychic Market Research</strong>.</p>
<p align="justify">Right now, at my fingertips, I know what works instantly. I know that when I tailor my marketing in a certain way, people will bite; I mean look at how many retweets I get for my links; how many click-through I get for my tweets &#8212; they work because this is what people want, and I’m just giving it to them. That is why I&#8217;m wildly successful at what I do.</p>
<p align="justify">These are only 3 of the objections &#8212; there are probably a lot more issues that we can address, but if you want to know more about them, I encourage you to sign up for the Twitter Salvation System Teleseminar that I&#8217;ll be hosting this Tuesday night, 31st March, 9pm EST.</p>
<p align="justify">I invite you aboard to sample and witness my unorthodox style of doing Twitter marketing. Again, it’s a free call: no strings attached.</p>
<p align="justify">There a re a lot of ways to do Twitter Marketing online, but I believe although other methods may works, my methods works and is proven. you can check ROI, you can track and test, you can really build your presence online not on touchy-feely things like being a rockstar but on how to really build a business online using what I believe to be the most powerful marketing device on earth.</p>
<p align="justify">I welcome you and ask you to come aboard.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE: The call replay is available here:</strong></p>
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I&#8217;d like to share my views about the recent developments in Twitter Marketing that have made me sick to my stomach. You see, there&#8217;s a lot of misinformation and even some utter nonsense out there on “Twitter Marketing”.
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<p align="justify">I&#8217;d like to share my views about the recent developments in Twitter Marketing that have made me sick to my stomach. You see, there&#8217;s a lot of misinformation and even some utter nonsense out there on “<strong>Twitter Marketing</strong>”.</p>
<p align="justify">There are a lot of inaccurate assumptions and statements that just get me stark, raving mad. There&#8217;s actually 2 types of people I&#8217;d like to take to task here.</p>
<p align="justify">The first are the non-marketers; the second &#8211; <em>surprise surprise</em> &#8211; are the marketers. And both are guilty on different ends of the spectrum.</p>
<p align="justify">The non-marketer says… <a href="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/fan2021345.jpg"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 20px 25px 5px 0px; border-right-width: 0px" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/fan2021345-thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="On one hand, there's people emphasizing the quality and on the other hand there's people emphasizing the quantity, but no-one has ever really found a balance the balance that will make Twitter become the weapon that Guy Kawasaki purports it to be, to become the weapon that just a select few are able to tap into online. " width="244" height="184" align="left" title="Im Mad As Hell And I Cant Take It Anymore!" /></a></p>
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<div>Follow your own friends,</div>
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<div>It&#8217;s &#8220;quality over quantity&#8221;;</div>
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<div>I mean, 10 people who give a rip about what you say is better than 100 who don&#8217;t care -</div>
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<p align="justify">I say that&#8217;s <strong>rubbish</strong>. They do not make a dime on Twitter.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Why are YOU on Twitter? </strong></span></h3>
<p align="justify">Because Twitter will affect your bottom line. Twitter will boost your profits. Twitter is a viable marketing channel. And if you listen to these guys, you&#8217;re never going to make a dime because they don&#8217;t make a dime.</p>
<p align="justify">Because what is a direct marketing fundamental 101? <strong>Marketing is a numbers game.</strong> And even on Twitter, you need the numbers to justify your efforts. You need the numbers to increase your conversion rates or to get even better results on your conversion rates.</p>
<p align="justify">After all, everyone agrees on the <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>80/20 rule</strong></span>. But the bigger the %100 &#8212; the bigger the initial pool, the bigger the 20% will be; 10 people who like what you do and 100 people who like what you do make a lot of difference towards how successful you are online. But the only way to get those 1000 fans or those 1000 evangelists is to spread your net wide.</p>
<p align="justify">Most non-marketers don&#8217;t get it. But we can go easy on them; we can forgive them, because maybe they really don&#8217;t know how good it can get.</p>
<h3><strong>But what about the so-called marketers? </strong></h3>
<p align="justify">I believe that for the longest time, (no offense), a lot of online marketers have not had much direct marketing knowledge or marketing fundamentals. They see what other people are doing, and they just copy without seeing the fundamentals behind it.</p>
<p align="justify"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><em>And on Twitter, you see that proven time and time again. </em></strong></span></p>
<p align="justify">They may see the value of followers, they may emphasize a lot on the value of followers, but they don&#8217;t emphasize anything on value or on pre-selling those followers. Like, how many of you get automated DMs (direct messages) that say &#8220;Here&#8217;s how to get 20,000 followers and make money in the process, affiliate link here&#8221;, but when you click on their profile, they only have 100 or 200 people following them?</p>
<p align="justify">They&#8217;re not even living the example they&#8217;re trying you get you to follow. They&#8217;re probably pushing some product to you that not even they themselves have used.</p>
<p align="justify">In short, you can’t just blast off links.</p>
<p align="justify">These people are trying to proclaim themselves Twitter gurus and trying to jump on the bandwagon because yeah &#8212; Twitter is getting more popular, Twitter is becoming mainstream, there&#8217;s a tipping point to Twitter, <em><strong>but </strong><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>they just don&#8217;t have a clue about how to use Twitter for marketing</strong></span></em>. And they use their old-school, pushy, ineffectual marketing principles and try to push them onto a social space that will instead get the fried and booted off the playing field and out of the game. <img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; border-right-width: 0px" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/fan2021377.jpg" border="0" alt="If you listen to these guys, you're never going to make a dime because they don't make a dime." width="260" height="200" align="right" title="Im Mad As Hell And I Cant Take It Anymore!" /></p>
<p align="justify">These kinds of marketers give all of us a bad name and send automatic DMs and unfollow and refollow using all the robotic scripts for what, $3? $5?</p>
<p align="justify">You’re not going to make a lot of money from this if you do it this way.</p>
<p align="justify">That&#8217;s not the right way to make money on Twitter, that&#8217;s not the right way to monetize Twitter as a marketing channel.</p>
<p align="justify">How many of you (raise your hands), have made a sale from an automated DM? Not that many I&#8217;m sure.</p>
<p align="justify">On one hand, there&#8217;s people emphasizing the quality and on the other hand there&#8217;s people emphasizing the quantity, but no-one has ever really found a balance the balance that will make Twitter become the weapon that Guy Kawasaki purports it to be, to become the weapon that just a select few are able to tap into online.</p>
<p align="justify">And that is why I am setting the record straight. The Puppet Master is doing a call, the Puppet Master is doing a <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>teleseminar </strong></span>to reveal the right way of using Twitter. The right way that has created me an army of 15,000 followers, most of them &#8212; a lot of them are fans, a lot of them REtweet my stuff, a lot of them like what I have to say, and <strong>A LOT OF THEM BUY.</strong></p>
<p align="justify">And as a result, I want to teach you the same. I want to clear the misinformation and hype because all these lies have been going on for far too long.</p>
<p align="justify">If you&#8217;re interested, <strong>sign up for the call</strong>. It&#8217;s only 60minutes, and it&#8217;s free &#8212; that&#8217;s the best thing.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to teach you how to use Twitter the right way; how to be the Twitter rockstar you deserve to be. So come on board and hear what the Puppet Master has to say. The same secrets that financed my wedding, launched my business, and created a <strong>5-figure business in a month</strong> will be yours to have.</p>
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