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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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I nearly puked at the gym last Thursday.
I did something called interval training for the first time, and man, was my body unprepared for it!
The second I stopped cycling I lay my head on the handle, in an attempt not to hurl and create a humiliating scene.
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<p>I nearly puked at the gym last Thursday.</p>
<p>I did something called interval training for the first time, and man, was my body unprepared for it!</p>
<p>The second I stopped cycling I lay my head on the handle, in an attempt not to hurl and create a humiliating scene.</p>
<p>Thankfully, I recovered after 23 minutes of crouching down without moving. I still have trouble walking today but to think of the nastiness it could have turned out to be&#8230; Whew!</p>
<p>Anyway, this &#8220;hard work you&#8217;re not prepared for&#8221; situation reminds me of the kind of blood, sweat and tears in the quest to build a fat profitable list.</p>
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<p>Articles. Link-building. PPC. All taxing. All tedious. Unfortunately, all essential.</p>
<p>How about a much more relaxing way to build your list on autopilot? Get ready to experience the unbridled joy of sending ONE EMAIL and watch cash pour into your bank account&#8230; almost like magic:</p>
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<p>To Pulling Heartstrings and Pursestrings,<br />
Kenneth Yu<br />
~ The Puppet Master</p>
<p>P.S. The person I&#8217;m introducing you to is one of my Top 3 marketers I learn from. He&#8217;s as sharp as a knife and his perspective on list building is refreshing to say the list. Start mining gold from your autoresponders now:</p>
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		<title>28 Profitable Internet Marketing Lessons for My 28th Birthday</title>
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I cried during my birthday.
I mean, don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8230; My wife Laura planned a heck of a celebration, and it was a fun day.
Still, it was bittersweet. Maybe it was the realization that life isn&#8217;t as easy as we like it to be, or reflecting back on the ups and downs of the year [...]]]></description>
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<p><em>I cried during my birthday.</em></p>
<p>I mean, don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8230; My wife Laura planned a heck of a celebration, and it was a fun day.</p>
<p>Still, it was bittersweet. Maybe it was the realization that life isn&#8217;t as easy as we like it to be, or reflecting back on the ups and downs of the year that was. Maybe it was just the built-up toll of a year&#8217;s worth of hard lessons.</p>
<p>Maybe I&#8217;m just a drama queen. <strong>But these are 28 valuable lessons on marketing, entrepreneurship, social media and copy that I  learned over the past 1 year.</strong> Read it, take action and reap the financial rewards.</p>
<h3><strong>1) The More You Mail, the More Money You Make</strong></h3>
<p>Here&#8217;s something that may surprise you, the more blasts you send out, the more monetizable your list becomes. Keep making offers to your list with emails written in your own voice, and you&#8217;ll make money while filtering non-interested parties through their unsubscribing.</p>
<h3><strong>2) Twitter is Adwords-of-Mouth</strong></h3>
<p>If PPC is AdWords, Twitter is AdWords-of-mouth. PPC and Twitter&#8217;s similarity is that they&#8217;re really good lead generation tools, but really crap when it comes to sales pages. Like PPC, use it to build your list, not direct linking it to your affiliate link and hope to God for some sales. Twitter is pre-selling, not selling.</p>
<h3><strong>3) Work Ain&#8217;t Life</strong></h3>
<p>There were times during the past few months that I approached burn-out. Setting up a business from scratch is like giving birth to a baby&#8230; You invest your heart and soul for relatively little return. Remember that if you fizzle so does your business, so keep tabs on your mental health by taking constant breaks and vacations to stay refreshed.</p>
<h3><strong>4) BAD NEWS!</strong></h3>
<p>Through extensive testing, paparazzi headlines in the vein of National Enquirer or the Sun works wonders for your response rates. The press knows that well, negativity sells. Human nature is just inherently attracted to train wrecks. Inject a dose of doom and gloom into your sales letters and emails and enjoy positive returns.</p>
<h3><strong>5) The Answer is &#8220;Yes&#8221;</strong></h3>
<p>What&#8217;s the best traffic generation method? PPC&#8230; CPA&#8230; SEO&#8230; Banners&#8230; The answer is yes&#8230;. yes&#8230; yes&#8230; yes&#8230; All marketing techniques work, you just need to know the best practices. Master them one at a time with careful testing but master them all. The more mediums your customer encounters you, the more response they will be.</p>
<h3><strong>6) The E-Myth Revisited</strong></h3>
<p>Michael Gerber wrote what experts deem the &#8220;entrepreneur&#8217;s Bible&#8221; many years ago. The main thrust was most entrepreneurs work in their business, not on their business. This means most business owners get trapped in the day-to-day rather than doing things that actually bring profit like sales or maintaining JV relationships. Work towards outsourcing and begin to focus on the things that matter.</p>
<h3><strong>7) Your Online Marketing is Already Outdated</strong></h3>
<p>By the time you&#8217;re reading this, your closely-held SEO and PPC strategy has already halved in effectiveness. The internet marketing scene changes at the speed of light and you need to keep up. Keep track of the trends and what guru&#8217;s tout as the Next Big Thing because you know what? Cut through the hype you realize they&#8217;re right.</p>
<h3><strong>8.) Don&#8217;t Put Your Eggs in One Basket</strong></h3>
<p>Twitter is notorious for going down when you need them the most. I was in the prickly spot of having my rice bowl cut off simply because I could not do any money-getting efforts on my one-and-only marketing medium. Ouch. Diversify. Stop relying on ONE traffic method and you&#8217;ll be invulnerable to Google Slaps, Twitter Fail Whales and other system failures.</p>
<h3><strong>9) Above-the-Fold Placement, Above Average Results</strong></h3>
<p>When it comes to anything email marketing related, anything above the screen where the reader does not need to scroll down is the most optimal. So set up squeeze pages and landing pages that are strictly one-pages. Short emails tend to work better as well when you place all your copy above the fold. Test it and let me know.</p>
<h3><strong>10) The Microcosm Traffic Method </strong></h3>
<p>What&#8217;s a microcosm? A microcosm is a mini-ecosystem that&#8217;s a representation of the larger ecosystem as a whole. Google loves that&#8211;a huge network of sites that&#8217;s a hub of activity as a representative of that niche. When I implement this scientific principle into my traffic generation strategies, my results went through the roof. Watch this space when I unveil my master secret to the world.</p>
<h3><strong>11) Twitter is Better Than Conferences</strong></h3>
<p>Most experts say JVs you find at conferences can boost your profits through the roof. I say Twitter can have the same effect&#8211;minus the travel and accommodation expenses. I had not left my native country of Malaysia, but I&#8217;ll been securing speaking gigs and strategic alliances nearly effortlessly. Put your social skills to work and see the results.</p>
<h3><strong>12) Cling On to The Vision</strong></h3>
<p>The online marketing world works very much like the bricks-and-mortars one&#8230; There&#8217;s a lot of elbow grease involved and a lot of hard work. You can make money in your underwear, but that doesn&#8217;t reduce any of the blood, sweat and tears involved. In the times of maximum effort and minimum return, you need to hold on to Magnificent Obsession of why you&#8217;re doing what you&#8217;re doing.</p>
<h3><strong>13) The Magic Ratio</strong></h3>
<p>Getting responsive leads isn&#8217;t really a mystery&#8211;Give them things of value to soften up their credit crunch-harderned defenses, and then make an offer relevant to their needs. The ratio of value to offer differs from medium to medium For emails its 1:1. for Twitter is 5 value-laden tweets for every 1 self-promotional one. Your results may vary.</p>
<h3><strong>14) The Medium <em>is</em> the Message </strong></h3>
<p>You can&#8217;t take what works in one medium and apply it to another. What is acceptable as sales letter copy is downright intrusive as an email. That&#8217;s why you may be getting poor results with your social marketing. Each medium has its own tone, manner and language. Learn them and you&#8217;ll see stellar results coming from every front.</p>
<h3><strong>15) &#8220;You&#8221; Rock</strong></h3>
<p>Human beings are essentially self-serving creatures. That&#8217;s why the word &#8220;you&#8221; is the most alluring one in the English language. Good copy is about them, them, them. What your product or service can do for them. In fact, the easiest way to hypnotic copywriting is to use &#8220;you&#8221; as much as humanly possible in your copy. Try it.</p>
<h3><strong>16) Twitter = Traffic Domination</strong></h3>
<p>Once you mastered writing compelling tweets (something taught in the Twitter Salvation System), driving traffic to your website or blog is one of the easiest things on the planet. ReTweeting gives you viral traffic you otherwise can&#8217;t tap, and its all FREE traffic anyway. That&#8217;s how I own 60% of the entire Most Viewed Articles on EzineArticles for all my categories. Unfair advantage, I know.</p>
<h3><strong>17) Step Up Your Bum Marketing</strong></h3>
<p>Bum Marketing was one of the big buzzwords of the past few years&#8230; Write an article, direct them to your affiliate link, collect commissions. Unfortunately, this method has lost a lot of its effectiveness over the past year or so due to the massive increase in bum marketers. So ramp up your game, outsource your articles, spin them all and submit more unique articles to as many article directories and web 2.0 properties as possible. Which brings me to the next point&#8230;</p>
<h3><strong>18) Quantity, Not Quality</strong></h3>
<p>Quality content may be nice, but unfortunately, Google does not really distinguish quality content from mediocre ones. Google rewards consistency of unique content rather than the awesomeness of them. Do ensure that they&#8217;re somewhat passable in quality, but eschew Dan Brown quality writing for just loads and loads and loads of content in as may websites as possible.</p>
<h3><strong>19) Purpose Attracts</strong></h3>
<p>Humanity is repelled by purposelessness. Give a reason why to every aspect of your business&#8211;from the existence of your product to your offer to the tribe you created. Give your customers a purpose bigger than themselves, and you&#8217;ll raise yourself an army of word-of-mouth evangelists to spread your cause to the ends of the Earth.</p>
<h3><strong>20) Positioning Matters</strong></h3>
<p>One of the key reasons the Puppet Master has risen up the ranks in record speed is because of the unique personal brand I&#8217;ve created. If I were to become yet another Beach Bum or Everyman Marketer, I&#8217;ll probably will not experience the kind of results I&#8217;m getting, even with the same content. Ask yourself&#8230; What is the ONE THING you want to own in your prospect&#8217;s mindshare? And take the steps to own it.</p>
<h3><strong>21) Tweet in Blocks</strong></h3>
<p><strong> </strong><br />
This was one of the main breakthroughs in my Twitter marketing efforts. In the Twitter Salvation System I&#8217;ll reveal what blocks are the most effective and what content proves to convert the best. All I can say is that it has drastically simplified my Twitter lead generation and affiliate sales processes and increased overall profits by 34%.</p>
<h3><strong>22) The Other Side of Social Media </strong></h3>
<p>Most experts harp on the personal branding and customer connection side of social media. It&#8217;s all well and good, but you&#8217;re probably only experiencing a puny 17% of the upside if that&#8217;s all you&#8217;re using social media for. Google LOVES social media sites, and they&#8217;re amazing for backlinks. That&#8217;s one of the components of the Microcosm Traffic Method I&#8217;m working on, and you&#8217;ll start seeing social marketing in a new light real soon.</p>
<h3><strong>23) Twitter for SEO</strong></h3>
<p>On the subject of SEO, Twitter is often overlooked by Search Marketing experts because they don&#8217;t give any link juice. However, like Youtube and Facebook, their PageRank score is through the roof. Just do a few RSS submissions and social bookmarks and you&#8217;ll start seeing your tweets rank in the SERPs. My personal Twitter account is a Pagerank 5 site at the moment from this method.</p>
<h3><strong>24) Transcription Riches</strong></h3>
<p>Article writing can be tedious process. Unfortunately, it is also an essential one, because it is one of the key ways of getting traffic. Here&#8217;s a trick, record yourself talking, send your audio to Elance and get transcriptions done. Now you can cut-and-paste portions of the transcrips for instant articles!</p>
<h3><strong>25) The Fortnight of Fandom </strong></h3>
<p>Studies have shown your leads are hottest starting from the day they sign in and start tampering off after the 2 week mark. This apply for Twitter, Facebook and autoresponder marketing. That&#8217;s why the first 2 weeks should be the site of your most vigorous promotions. Strike when the iron is hot, that&#8217;s the most effective window of opportunity you got.</p>
<h3><strong>26) Facebook Followers are Different from Twitter Ones</strong></h3>
<p>Even in similar sites and the same niches, your followers respond differently to different topics for the different sites. That&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t really encourage the Twitter-to-Facebook app that&#8217;s so popular. You could be wasting your hot links on Twitter on a Facebook audience that&#8217;s disinterested. So find out what each of them want individually, and give it to them.</p>
<h3><strong>27) Even in Social Media, It&#8217;s About ROI</strong></h3>
<p>My pet peeve with the whole social media phenomenon is how much hype is thrown around but people have little results to show. When it comes to Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, Youtube,etc&#8230; you still need the numbers&#8230; A marketing channel is only one when it can be measured. By all means jump on to the bandwagon, but have your metrics in place.</p>
<h3><strong>28) People ReTweet Before They Read</strong></h3>
<p>This is killer. People tend to retweet stuff before they click on the link. It may sound insane but with the amount of noise on Twitter, they make snap judgements about what they pass on to their followers. Retweetable content includes lists, quotes, and weird/curiosity type tweets. Try constructing your blog post as a list and experience a surge of viral traffic.</p>
<h2>Bonus Tip:</h2>
<h3><strong>29) Never Compromise On Your Marriage</strong></h3>
<p>In the midst of busyness, it is possible to neglect your spouse. It was a wise pastor who once said with a strong marriage, you can conquer the world. But if you have a weak one, even minor obstacles seem like major ones. Keep your marriage strong and you&#8217;ll rise above the pressures of life.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the condensed version from me, we can sit down over a cuppa if you&#8217;d like to hear more <img src='http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="28 Profitable Internet Marketing Lessons for My 28th Birthday" />  Do let me know your thoughts &#8211;for example, which of these tips do you find the most helpful?<strong> </strong>Would love your feedback in the Comments Section below.</p>
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There&#8217;s a Twitter marketing myth that&#8217;s really prevalent in the Twitter community, and it goes something like this:
“It’s about the quality of followers, not the quantity.”
Their rationale is, who cares if you got thousands of Twitter followers if nobody cares what you have to say.
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<p>There&#8217;s a Twitter marketing myth that&#8217;s really prevalent in the Twitter community, and it goes something like this:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“It’s about the quality of followers, not the quantity.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Their rationale is, who cares if you got thousands of Twitter followers if nobody cares what you have to say.</p>
<p>I admit, there’s a grain of truth. If all you do is harvest followers, you’re nothing but a spammer. But here’s why this reasoning is flawed&#8230;</p>
<p>No matter how much so called quality Twitter followers you have, the dismal percentages remain the same.</p>
<blockquote><p>2% click-through rate. 5% if you&#8217;re lucky.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here&#8217;s 3 surprising reasons why:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>There&#8217;s too much noise. </strong>Your followers follow hundreds of others. Hence  your tweets being lost in their tweet-stream as thy&#8217;re assaulted by noise.</li>
<li><strong>Not everyone is on at the same time.</strong> The US has six different time zones. Then there&#8217;s the rest of the world. People wont see your tweet because they&#8217;re not online at that time.</li>
<li><strong>Your followers are not targeted. </strong>People can follow you over a Chuck Norris Joke as much as sound marketing advice.</li>
</ol>
<p>So here&#8217;s the deal, Guy Kawasaki says&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>“Twitter is a numbers game.”</p></blockquote>
<p>To overcome lower response rates, you need to get more followers to compensate that lack. And the good news is Twitter is phenomenal when it comes to <strong>generating leads really fast</strong>.</p>
<p>You see&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li>The more followers you have, the more influence you wield.</li>
<li>The more followers you have, the more chances of RTs.</li>
<li><strong>The more followers you have, the more SALES you make.</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Here’s the simple answer that make pumping the numbers so much easier.</p>
<div id="attachment_403" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 378px"><img class="size-full wp-image-403" title="how to get more Twitter followers" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/hummingbird.jpg" alt="How to get more Twitter followers" width="368" height="277" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Hummingbird Twitter review</p></div>
<blockquote>
<h3><strong>HUMMINGBIRD.</strong></h3>
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<p>Honestly, I thought this Twitter app was a piece of crap a few months ago when I first bought it. It was so bad that I ended up doing my list building manually.</p>
<p>However, after I checked back a week ago, I was delightfully surprised that Hummingbird creators Mesiab Labs made massive improvements to this Twitter tool.</p>
<p>Hummingbird has truly become a push button solution.</p>
<p><strong>With just one press of a button, and less than a minute&#8217;s work&#8230;</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>You can get up to 500 followers a day!</p></blockquote>
<p>Skeptical? Here’s <strong>proof</strong>&#8230;</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-411" title="how to get more followers on twitter" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/howtogetmorefollowersontwitter.png" alt="twitter hummingbird review" /></p>
<p><img src="file:///Users/kennt/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="moz screenshot Why More Twitter Followers? The Great Twitter Marketing Myth and Hummingbird Review"  title="Why More Twitter Followers? The Great Twitter Marketing Myth and Hummingbird Review" />You saw right, since using Hummingbird over the past 7 days, I have got <strong>2378 FOLLOWERS IN A WEEK.</strong></p>
<p>So now, I&#8217;m unabashedly recommending Hummingbird to get big on Twitter fast. Put the massive lead generation and traffic generation of Twitter for your business right now.</p>
<h3>Due to a special arrangement, your Hummingbird order can get a WHOPPING 15% DISCOUNT when you type the word <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>RECESSION</strong></span> into the coupon section when you order.</h3>
<p>Hummingbird guarantees you see results in as little as 3 days, so check it out now while this special offer remains:</p>
<h3><a title="Yes, I want 500 followers a day on Twitter now!" href="http://budurl.com/MoreFollowersRock" target="_blank"><strong>Yes, I want 500 followers a day on Twitter now!</strong><br />
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		<title>Free Website Traffic Generation &#8211; The Puppet Master&#8217;s Easy Push Button Traffic Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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If you want to learn how to generate traffic the quick and easy place, then what I&#8217;m about to reveal here can increase your website traffic with lightning speed. 
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<p>If you want to learn how to generate traffic the quick and easy place, then what I&#8217;m about to reveal here can <strong>increase your website traffic with lightning speed. </strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;m about to pull back the curtain on Puppet String Marketing&#8217;s method of attracting qualified traffic that has elevated us into a six figure marketing company really, really fast.</p>
<p>The answer lies in one word:</p>
<blockquote><p>Articles.</p></blockquote>
<p>I must admit its not the sexiest of terms, but article marketing is really the best way to overcome Google Slap. Google and other search engines loves content and as long you&#8217;re not recycling PLR articles, you will become a darling and be rewarded with cheap search engine traffic. And after you incorporate article submission strategies, you&#8217;ll go to the next level in online money.</p>
<p>This is SEO at its easiest.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the thing, old school marketing fundamentals work. And even though I&#8217;m one of the world&#8217;s top <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Twitter-Marketing-Tips---7-Unorthodox-Strategies-to-Use-Twitter-For-Business&amp;id=2421525" target="_blank">Twitter marketing</a> mavens, I focus on the psychology instead of technology, and that&#8217;s how to make money fast.</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s my rather obvious marketing process.</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Write an article that my customers love. Of course, I use Twitter for Psychic Market Research and and give them what they want so they starting biting and converting them into sales.</li>
<li>Submit articles to the article directories.</li>
<li>Covert the articles to press releases by making them read in the third person.</li>
<li>Submit them to press release directories. I&#8217;ll often use PR Web&#8217;s paid submission as well.</li>
<li>Convert the articles to podcasts by recording the words and turning them into teleseminars.</li>
<li>Submit them to podcast directories. Podcast submission software most welcome here, since there&#8217;s so many of them.</li>
<li>Convert the marketing article to video by speaking over PowerPoint or Camtasia and submitting them to video sites like Youtube.</li>
</ol>
<blockquote><p><strong>You just read my million dollar web promotion blueprint. </strong></p></blockquote>
<p>If you actually implement these article marketing strategies and stick to them, you&#8217;re on the way to cool recession-proof online money.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the catch:</p>
<p>The creation of articles is all well and good, since outsourcing is relatively simple. The painful bit is submission of your content. You want to get the most bang for your buck.</p>
<p>With hundreds of article, podcast, video and press release directories, there&#8217;s no way to spread your content as far as possible.</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s the thing, you can&#8217;t afford NOT TO cast your net. Internet marketing is an numbers games, because the lower your reach, the lower your sales.</p>
<blockquote><p>So here&#8217;s what the Puppet Master does &#8212; <strong>he leverages technology. </strong></p></blockquote>
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<p>You see, one of the stumbling blocks for many people is the it take so much time out of their day.</p>
<p>Well, this software cuts your time down to a few minutes a day. Imagine&#8230; With just one click, you&#8217;re now able to push your content and get your articles out to as many as prospect&#8217;s wallets as possible.</p>
<p>My friends, that&#8217;s what smart internet marketing is all about, combine the psychology of articles with the time-saving power of Easy Push Button Traffic, and you&#8217;ll get the quickest way to make money online.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what Easy Push Button Traffic is all about:</p>
<p><a href="http://budurl.com/simpletraffic">Tap into the secret marketing weapon of the Puppet Master now&#8230;</a></p>
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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.
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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>
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		<title>3 “Swine Flu” Twitter Secrets to Wild Viral Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Swine Flu is the latest epidemic that’s hitting the news and causing worldwide panic, following the likes of Ebola, Bird Flu and J.E.
Already, it has already caused much chaos.
In a few short days, Swine Flu caused as many as 103 deaths in Mexico, and an additional 1,614 reported cases have been reported in Mexico.
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<p align="justify">Swine Flu is the latest epidemic that’s hitting the news and causing worldwide panic, following the likes of Ebola, Bird Flu and J.E.</p>
<p align="justify">Already, it has already caused much chaos.</p>
<p align="justify">In a few short days, Swine Flu caused as many as 103 deaths in Mexico, and an additional 1,614 reported cases have been reported in Mexico.</p>
<p align="justify">In the US and across the world, emergency measures had been used to contain the virile spread of the virus. In fact, you see people wearing flu masks at a lot of the State airports, uncannily akin to a scene out of some killer disease apocalyptic future.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Now picture this, if you give it a positive spin, don’t you wish that your marketing messages had that kind of viral power?<a href="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rt7.png"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 20px auto 0px; border-right-width: 0px" title="rt7" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rt7-thumb.png" border="0" alt="rt7 thumb 3 “Swine Flu” Twitter Secrets to Wild Viral Success" width="244" height="158" /></a> </strong></p>
<p align="justify">Imagine sending out a promo link or blog post and getting 2,000 impressions in less than 5 minutes—without spending a red cent on PPC?</p>
<p align="justify">Or generating highly targeted traffic at will with all of a minute’s work? Or getting your name or brand spread across the far-flung corners of the web and hauling a treasure chest of profits?</p>
<p align="justify">You probably know the answer—Twitter. There’s a reason why is everyone and their grandmother is hyping Twitter as the ultimate viral tool. <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">At least far better than those forced “tell-a-friend” scripts that fell flat on its face a little while back.</span></p>
<p align="justify">However, you might be wondering if this is—as expected by marketing press—sheer hype. You might be thinking, “<em>why aren’t I getting the kind of ReTweets and Digg-effect traffic that the Big Guns like Mashable and Guy Kawasaki seem to enjoy?</em>”</p>
<p align="justify">Of course, the fact they have hundreds-of-thousands of followers does help, but what about the rest of us? Some of the most viral-friendly Twitterers are in the achievable 5-6k range. Of course, I get an unbelievable a mount of traffic to my sites as well, 2-3k in a week or so. Free.</p>
<p align="justify">(Incidentally, I have mastered the art of getting as much as a thousand followers a day. But more of that in a bit.)</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>Here’s a radical theory… The more your viral marketing imitates the traits of an actual viral outbreak, the more widespread your messages can get. You find out more in a minute.</p>
<p align="justify">I got at least a dozen secrets to why I’m called “The Master Fisherman”, that I’m able to get the elevated clicks, response rates and ReTweets I do. Here’s just 3 of them—based traits off the “Swine Fever” virus explosion. <a href="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rt4.png"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px 15px; border-right-width: 0px" title="rt4" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rt4-thumb.png" border="0" alt="rt4 thumb 3 “Swine Flu” Twitter Secrets to Wild Viral Success" width="244" height="171" align="right" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>1) Mutation</strong></span></h3>
<p align="justify">Why the Swine Fever virus is so scarily contagious is because it is a mutation. Startlingly enough, the virus contains genetic code from bird, swine and human.</p>
<p align="justify">As a result, what originated as a bird flu strain mutated in pigs and is now able to spread into human form—with deadly effect.</p>
<p align="justify">The key factor to its spread is because of the virus’ ability to take new form. In the same way, your generic marketing message will get more potent when you combine it with new ideas to create something irresistible to the human attention.</p>
<p align="justify">Here’s a simple formula for you. Take a generic benefit and combine something TOTALLY unrelated to it. The mind is attracted to incongruence, as a result you click through something you perceive is weird, bizarre or curious.</p>
<p align="justify">So why not exploit this neurological quirk?</p>
<p align="justify">All you need to do is this:</p>
<p align="justify">Take a benefit like Twitter marketing, and you can write a Tweet that reads like “The Secret to Marketing on Twitter.” Solid, although unspectacular.</p>
<p align="justify">Now, let’s think of something that’s TOTALLY different from Twitter. Well, I just watched Charlie the Unicorn (which incidentally is a huge viral hit on Youtube). So now your Tweet can read like this:</p>
<p align="justify">The Miserable Unicorn Secret to Marketing on Twitter link Plz RT</p>
<p align="justify">Doesn’t that sound more intriguing? Something that makes it something somebody wants to pass on. Mutation is the shortcut to Twitter success.</p>
<h3><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">2) Carriers</span></strong></h3>
<p>The Swine Flu would have lived and died with the pigs. Unfortunately, farm-hands handle them, and it spread to them. Internationally, it spreads to the handlers in various countries. <a href="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rt1.png"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border-right-width: 0px" title="rt1" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rt1-thumb.png" border="0" alt="rt1 thumb 3 “Swine Flu” Twitter Secrets to Wild Viral Success" width="244" height="179" align="right" /></a></p>
<p>And then the morbid gifts go on, and the virus now spreads across the world.</p>
<p>So what makes the virus spread? <strong>Carriers.</strong> People who are susceptible to disease at that point in time and pass it to others.</p>
<p align="justify">In the same way, some of your followers are more predisposed to ReTweeting and forwarding your stuff. In fact, 80% of my Tweets are RTed by 20% of the same people over and over again.</p>
<p align="justify">So how do you infect them? Easy. Find out what they want and give it to them over and over again. It may seem strange, but the more your feed them their diet of interests, the more zealous they would be for your Tweets.</p>
<p align="justify">Crazy but true.</p>
<p align="justify">The Twitter Salvation System has several ways how you can read your prospect’s mind and make them fall in love with you—you are now their Tweet Knight in Shining Armor.</p>
<h3><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">3) Sneakiness</span></strong></h3>
<p align="justify">One advantage that the Swine Flu virus and other epidemics have over us humans is the element of surprise. It’s because they take the form of everyday flu. Often when they realize it’s already too late.</p>
<p align="justify">Often, there are some human fatalities before people discover that a brand new disease is on the rise. By then, it has the potential to already be a worldwide scourge.</p>
<p align="justify">In the same manner, Twitterers often have a knee-jerk reflex to things, before they realize the actual content of the Tweet.</p>
<p align="justify">You read that right. Tons of Twitterers forward Tweets without actually looking at them. They make a snap decision in their mind’s eye and before you know it, your message is RTed by hundreds, even thousands of folks.</p>
<p align="justify">So how d0 you <strong>replicate</strong> that?</p>
<p align="justify">Easy. You write your Tweet to match the dominant emotion of your followers.</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rt8.png"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border-right-width: 0px" title="rt8" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rt8-thumb.png" border="0" alt="rt8 thumb 3 “Swine Flu” Twitter Secrets to Wild Viral Success" width="225" height="146" align="left" /></a>Dominant Emotion is the overall mindset and hot topic of the day that are top-of-mind for your prospects. The closer you are to them, the quicker they spread because its of relevance to them.</p>
<p align="justify">As a result, they spread Tweets on a subconscious level because it’s a topic that’s on their mind.</p>
<p align="justify">For example, one of my most successful Tweets ever contained the word “Oprah” in it. Because Oprah on Twitter was the biggest news, I have gotten a whopping 119 RTs and nearly 2000 click-throughs in a space of 5 days.</p>
<p align="justify">Not bad for a no-namer. <img src='http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' title="3 “Swine Flu” Twitter Secrets to Wild Viral Success" /> </p>
<p align="justify">As you can tell, that’s why I used the term “Swine Flu” in my blog post title. It’s because I want to make sure each and every piece of marketing material I send out becomes a viral hit.</p>
<p align="justify">… Wait, did I just say marketing material?</p>
<p align="justify">Yes, I must admit I am selling something. And what I’m doing now is to whet your appetite. Twitter Salvation System 2.0 is launching tomorrow, and I’m working day and night to have all the components in place.</p>
<p align="justify">However, instead of doing tired “Buy or Die” tactics, I decided to 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/rt6.png"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto 5px; border-right-width: 0px" title="rt6" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rt6-thumb.png" border="0" alt="rt6 thumb 3 “Swine Flu” Twitter Secrets to Wild Viral Success" width="244" height="156" /></a>Indeed, I 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  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.  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>
<p>You’re in? Great!</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://salvationsystem.com">Your Twitter Salvation is Here<br />
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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.
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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>
<ul>
<li>
<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>
</li>
<li>
<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>
</li>
<li>
<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>
</li>
</ul>
<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>4 Urgent Reasons Why Oprah Matters to Your Twitter Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Master</dc:creator>
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Stop the presses!
On Friday, Oprah sent out her first tweet, and in the space of 3 days, she had over 300,000 followers.
Twitter is now officially uncool. (Actually, I&#8217;m kidding there. :p)
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<h3 style="text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Stop the presses!</span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify">On Friday, Oprah sent out her first tweet, and in the space of 3 days, she had over 300,000 followers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Twitter is now officially uncool. (Actually, I&#8217;m kidding there. :p)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">But on a serious note, I personally believe that when Oprah Winfrey got on Twitter on Friday, that represents one of the most significant things to ever happen to your business and to your marketing if you are using Twitter as a marketing, branding and business channel.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">I&#8217;d like to discuss with you 4 urgent reasons why Oprah matters to your marketing, and why you should take note and take action as quick as you can.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: justify"><strong><span style="font-size: medium">1. Twitter has just had the Oprah Effect</span></strong></h1>
<p style="text-align: justify">As you know, Oprah is one of the most influential people on earth. Love her or hate her, her endorsements have turned otherwise obscure books into New York Times best-sellers; she is the reason why <em>The Secret</em> is the world-wide phenomenon it is today as opposed to a niche viral video.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">And now, Oprah endorses Twitter above Facebook and Myspace and all the other social media of before.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>It doesn&#8217;t take a detective to know that whatever Oprah endorses becomes successful.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify">We can already see the spike she&#8217;s caused; over 1.5 million more users were added on Twitter because of her arrival.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Shaq, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore have used Twitter and brought it into the mainstream market, but Oprah has just stepped in to open the door to a much wider demographic.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">And here&#8217;s why it matters to you.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">1. Now you have <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">a fresh audience on Twitter</span></strong>. Twitter&#8217;s grown immensely over the last year (1000%) and it&#8217;s probably going to grow another 1000% in the next few months because of the Oprah endorsement.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Hence the tipping point.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">2. The second point is the acceleration of a trend that&#8217;s already growing on Twitter, namely that <strong>the <span style="text-decoration: underline">older demographics</span> are the first to get on board the Twitter wagon</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">The 25-35 year-olds and the 45-60 year olds are by far the biggest users of Twitter right now, as opposed to teenagers or kids.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">The Oprah audience is largely of this demographic as well.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">This demographic <strong><span style="font-size: small">has money</span></strong>, is <strong><span style="font-size: small">eager to do business</span></strong>, and have the <strong><span style="font-size: small">disposable income</span></strong> that marketers and businesses covet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">It&#8217;s not a fact ignored by many corporations either, because tons of brands are getting on Twitter.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Although Twitter has one seventh or one-eighth of the audience of Facebook, there are more businesses on Twitter than there are on Facebook already.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">In short,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">(i) You have a new dimension of audience on Twitter</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">(ii) And for the first time in history, this early-adopter/cusp of mainstream audience is a group of people with money; people with a financial security and disposable income.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong><em>That&#8217;s really good for business when you have a marketing channel filled with people who have the money to spare.</em></strong></p>
<h1 style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: medium"><strong>2. The Pareto Principle is now in Full Force</strong></span></h1>
<p style="text-align: justify">You see, Oprah&#8217;s audiences have been dwindling due to some mistimed moves.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Her audience has been dropping but she&#8217;s still the most influential person on television (as far as I know). But what is happening is a very clever strategy especially in the recession period: the Pareto principle, which is, as you probably know, <strong>20% of your customers contribute 80% of your sales</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">This means that if you have an existing brand like Oprah or you&#8217;re a small business owner and you&#8217;re actually getting people to follow you or to subscribe to your Twitter channel without much promotion or pushing, or just by promoting it to your customers, they probably fall into the 20% of your customers because they&#8217;re willing to sign up to what they know if a marketing channel and <strong><em>they&#8217;re interested</em></strong> in what you have to say.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Twitter succeeds in being a filter of sorts between the 80% of your audience who don&#8217;t care so much about what you have to say vs. the 20% of your audience who really care and actually sign up to be hit from multiple marketing channels with more marketing angles by you.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">This is really good because as you know, 2 out of the 3 ways to make money are (i) to sell to an existing audience and (ii) to increase the size of purchase for every transaction. Twitter does that really well; it creates a pre-sold audience that&#8217;s already interested in you and can create a 20% that&#8217;s already interested in you just like The Cult Of Mac.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">And Oprah knows that &#8212; she knows who her 20% are, as opposed to the 80% nominal viewers; she knows who the consumers are who&#8217;ll buy from her over and over and over again.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">As you know, the backend sales will normally surpass the front-end ones, and it&#8217;s this 20% of your buying population who&#8217;ll do that.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong><em>Twitter easily and effectively separates the nominal 80% from the 20% of raving followers.</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify">And the beauty of Twitter is that through certain strategies, even that 80% who may be lukewarm to you on Twitter can be converted into your 20% raving followers ratio.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: justify"><strong><span style="font-size: medium">3. You &#8212; Like Oprah &#8211;</span><strong><span style="font-size: medium"> Will </span></strong><span style="font-size: medium">Now Know What People Want</span></strong></h1>
<p style="text-align: justify">Oprah now has what is probably the most effective channel of knowing what people are thinking of or about at the moment. Remember that I&#8217;ve said before that Google is good for what people are searching for at the moment, while Twitter is good for what people are thinking of at the moment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>No market research is as immediate and as precise as what&#8217;s happening on Twitter at the moment.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Oprah now has all that information; she would know what her 300,000 fans have to say; she&#8217;d know their thoughts by simply using the ultimate, free research tool: <strong>Twitter</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">If the celebrities are going in, in full force, to get this direct connection with their fans on Twitter, it&#8217;s best for you to go in and to know your customers in a more intimate way too because on Twitter you&#8217;ll probably have people tweeting you their hopes, dreams, fears &#8212; uncensored and in a very safe and personal setting.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">As you may know when it comes to marketing research and focus groups, <strong><em>a lot of focus groups don&#8217;t really work simply because people in that kind of setting will give an answer they think you want to hear as opposed to what they really think. </em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify">On Twitter, it’s uncensored and spontaneous; you get a true feel for your market&#8217;s demographic and you can craft marketing angles one after the other to create really excellent response results.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: justify"><strong><span style="font-size: medium">4. You still have room to dominate this marketing channel</span></strong></h1>
<p style="text-align: justify">Stephen Pierce, the great internet wealth expert and motivation speaker said something really interesting recently. He said that it&#8217;s easier now to dominate channels that it is to dominate markets.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">What does that mean? It means that<strong> it&#8217;s easier now to dominate a certain channel of marketing for a particular niche as opposed to dominating the niche itself</strong> (unless of course the niche is really small and is at its beginning stages).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">We&#8217;ve reached a point where nearly any and every niche is crowded.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">You go into the marketing niche and there&#8217;s a thousand pretenders; you go into the financial niche and there&#8217;s a thousand other people competing for your share.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">What you <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">can</span></strong> do is <strong>be an authority in a specific marketing niche.</strong> And because of the newness of Twitter and because of the pioneering aspect of Twitter you can go on Twitter now and be the expert in your field for that particular channel.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Because of Twitter&#8217;s mainstream acceptance, when you position yourself as a Twitter expert, you have a large inbuilt list of buyers and prospects that you can reach out to that will see you as an authority, as the channel expert in your field on Twitter.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">There are many ways to dominate this channel, and many ways in which you can position yourself as an authority.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">For me, the world of copywriting is somewhat saturated, but on Twitter I am my own man; I am &#8216;the king&#8217; of copywriting and email marketing with close to ten times the followers of most copywriters on Twitter which gives me credibility in this niche on Twitter.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>Twitter has given me the authority and the edge I otherwise wouldn&#8217;t have if I’d followed the traditional route.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify">That is why I urge you to sign up today so that you can dominate Twitter so that no one else can. This is first-mover knowledge, it&#8217;s first-mover intelligence whereby I teach you how to dominate Twitter, to be a Twitter expert and to claim your market share as much as possible.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">It&#8217;s so easy to get really big on Twitter simply because it&#8217;s easy to get new followers fast.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Just tap into my secrets to find out how you can be wildly successful on Twitter.</p>
<p style="text-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 style="text-align: justify">Instead of using tired “Buy or Die” tactics, I give you sound advice and demonstrate the full potential that my little labor of love can do for your business.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">I used these 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.</p>
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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>
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Twitter gives you a lot of opportunity to be famous in your niche.
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Twitter gives you a lot of opportunity to be famous in your niche.</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In fact, they seem to have an organic system that actually rapidly elevates you to maven-hood if you play by their loosely defined rules.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There are several ways to put your personal branding on steroids, but one of the best ways is through Follow Friday.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In case you do not know what Follow Friday is about, <a title="#Follow Friday" href="http://www.twitterpowersystem.com/blog/follow-friday-how-it-works/" target="_blank">go here.</a> This blog post however is for those who not just know what Follow Friday is about, but who also want to be the belle of the Twitter ball.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">#followfriday</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/All%20Users/Documents/My%20Pictures/New%20Folder/Images/Super_Hi/FAN2021347.JPG" alt=" 3 Sneaky Ways to Becoming a #followfriday Favorite on Twitter"  title="3 Sneaky Ways to Becoming a #followfriday Favorite on Twitter" />Getting endorsed on Follow Friday really reaps tremendous benefits. And it&#8217;s not just for stroking for your own ego, even though that&#8217;s nice.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: justify;"><img class="size-full wp-image-294 alignleft" style="border: 0pt none; margin: 1px 8px;" title="happyfollowfriday" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/happyfollowfriday.jpg" alt="happyfollowfriday 3 Sneaky Ways to Becoming a #followfriday Favorite on Twitter" width="191" height="144" /></h1>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For starters, you not only enjoy an easy way to gain followers, you get &#8216;em WARM. Master persuasionist Joel Bauer says that <strong>you &#8220;live vicariously through the opinions of others&#8221;</strong>. In other words, the more endorsements you get from an outside party, the more credible you become. As a result, those who follow you from a recommendation are  likely to be more predisposed towards you. Consequently, that means they are more willing to ReTweet your Tweets, listen to your (marketing) message and eventually&#8211;BUY YOUR STUFF.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here&#8217;s something even more potent. Dr. Rachna Jain, president of MindShare and social media expert, says that <strong>familiarity leads to likability</strong>. This means that the more people see your <a title="@emailcopywriter" href="http://twitter.com/emailcopywriter" target="_blank">@username</a> appearing in Tweets, the more they&#8217;ll actually think you&#8217;re cool. This is because they&#8217;re thinking that if large amounts of people are endorsing you, you must be a pretty okay person. So even if they don&#8217;t bite the bait and follow you the first time round, they will EVENTUALLY come to you because they keep seeing your name everywhere.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;ve personally experienced all the social proof positives. @emailcopywriter is a frequent fixture on the #followfriday listings, with an average 15-20 shoutouts from people per week. As a result, I&#8217;ve been making pretty brisk sales with my products&#8211;nearly exclusively through Twitter&#8211;since I not only get followers, I get FANATICS.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You probably think that you must do something really spectacular to get that kind of word-of-mouth treatment. Or be one of those internet celebrities. <em>Far from it</em>. Honestly, it takes very little to appease the human mind. Here are 3 shortcuts to pull off some voodoo to make your Friday the best of the week!</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">1) Give a lot of quotes, especially inspirational ones</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For some reason, the human mind is attracted to inspiration. We live in big bad stupid world, so when it sees something that&#8217;s positive, insightful and thought-provoking, it&#8217;s like an oasis in the desert of the mind. Quotes get ReTweeted A LOT. And there is a measure of gratitude for the person who introduced the quote, which you can cash in on later. Becoming a treasury of quotes is easy; just log on to <a title="BrainyQuote.com" href="http://brainyquote.com" target="_blank">BrainyQuote.com</a>, <strong>Tweet the quotes you like</strong> on the front page and voila, #followfriday magic!</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">2) Be a Twitter gossip</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For perhaps obvious reasons, Twits dig Twitter-related Tweets a lot. Be it a how-to, news items or blog posts, anything Twitter related gets tweeted a lot. The rationale is simple&#8211;your followers are probably thinking, &#8220;I&#8217;m here on Twitter, so what I can do to maximize the Twitter experience?&#8221; They will appreciate any help they can get. Better still, you don&#8217;t have to come out with any of your own, just ReTweet someone else&#8217;s. Bonus if it&#8217;s in list form (3 ways, 5 secrets, etc). <strong>Lists are irresistible</strong>.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">3) Get personal</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Unless your mom is on Twitter (and mine is), you can tweet your hopes, fears, dreams, aspirations, failures, success, etc. Vulnerability is seductive and will set you apart as human in a world of bots. People are attracted to nudity. Do a <em>twiptease </em>dance and dazzle people with your heart-to-heart spell. DISCLAIMER: Just veer away from emo teenage brat territory, unless your target audience is other emo teenage brats.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now, these 3 ways should get you more #followfriday recommendations nearly effortlessly.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But you know something? #followfriday is really child&#8217;s play, relative to the sheer moneymaking potential that Twitter can offer your business.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Through Twitter, I have made friends with the top dogs in my industry. Through Twitter, I have BECOME the top dog in my industry. Through Twitter, I have been able to carve myself a nice living when the world outside collapses. Honestly, right now I have to turn down projects since I already have so much on my plate.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There is such a wealth-attracting force to Twitter that goes beyond any &#8220;15 k followers in under an hour&#8221; BS or some rehashed Clickbank eBook.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">With a few simple tricks, you can unleash 5 different income streams through this micro-blogging platform.  call on Twitter Marketing; monetizing Twitter the RIGHT way.</p>
<p align="justify">There&#8217;s too much fluff out there, it&#8217;s time to bring some proven techniques on maximizing Twitter for your business to the table. I want you to be sure that each and every piece of marketing material you send out hits its target point blank.</p>
<p align="justify">… Wait, did I just say marketing material?</p>
<p align="justify">Yes, I must admit I am selling something. And what I’m doing now is to whet your appetite. Twitter Salvation System is now available, and I’ve worked day and night to have all the components in place.</p>
<p align="justify">However, instead of doing tired “Buy or Die” tactics, I decided to 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/rt6.png"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto 5px; border-right-width: 0px" title="rt6" src="http://salvationsystem.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rt6-thumb.png" border="0" alt="rt6 thumb 3 Sneaky Ways to Becoming a #followfriday Favorite on Twitter" width="244" height="156" /></a>Indeed, I used these 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>A step-by-step Twitter for newbie’s module.</strong> Look, I know some of you came in from the nudging of Ashton  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.  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 quite 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. Don&#8217;t miss your chance.</p>
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