Let’s face it, Twitter is the new online revolution whether you like it or not. I have resisted to the pull of social media marketing for a long time now and only use sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and others on a rare moment of personal insanity. To be honest I never got the fascination about social media but then I spend too much time online anyway, so when I do get some space I usually like to switch off from the Internet altogether.

In the case of Twitter I do admit to having to make an exception. I kind of like Twitter, especially since I discovered TweetDeck  (a free application that allows me to tweet on the fly.)

Finding followers on Twitter is time consuming and boring, unless you know where to go.  The following eight Twitter Directories and search engines are too cool to be ignored, simply for their ingenious ability to find followers for your Twitter profile on the fly.

1. If connecting my people in your country, city or region is your priority then give Geo Follow a spin.
2. TweetFind is the free for all yellow and white pages directory of Twitter. You can list yourself to be found or search for others in your industry or interest.
3. If you want to become the next stalker of one of the top tweeple in any topic try your hands at Tweet Top. This is a search engine that allows you to find the top tweeple to follow in any of the hot topics right now. Updated  every 15 minutes.
4. Twibs lets you find businesses on Twitter. Think marketing, think promotion, need I say more?
5. If you are of the true networking kind then Twitter Groups will appeal to you because you can join and create groups of interest. This will allow you to network with like minded people.
6. Have you ever followed a so called celebrity only to find out they weren’t who they claimed to be? Fear no more. With Valebrity to you can make sure you are following the real deal only and not some posey poo.
7. Twitterloo is technically speaking a Twitter search engine that allows you to search for #popular hashtag topics. A great way to find people with similar interests.
8. Twitter Advanced Search is often overlooked by the Twitter crowd. In reality this tool can reveal a lot of potential Twitter buddies to you if used correctly.

By now you should be armed with a ton of great sites to increase your Twitter followers on the fly. I will have to dig my nose into those myself and do a bit of searching for the old pal to increase my follower count.

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A common problem I see among the online newbie crowd is the general consensus to become rich overnight. Proof of this is the evergreen market of info products, especially in the Internet marketing industry. People want everything NOW. Nobody has patience these days. Short of expecting miracles overnight without needing to lift a finger many online newcomers are getting their fingers burned time and time again.

The common scenario is like this: They see a program that promises to make them x amount of dollars by the end of this week. They convince themselves that this time they found the right product, the product that will make them rich once and for all.

With baited expectation and excitement they rip open the packging after they spend their last dollar and start reading until…

… they hit the first hurdle.

This hurdle is usually a call to action or having to face an unfamiliar scenario.

Does this sound familiar to you?

Escaping the vicious circle:

In order to give yourself a realistic chance of online survival you need to stop buying and start doing. If you recognized yourself to be one of the millions of “victims” above then chances are your hard drive is cluttered to busting with info products.

Unless you take one of them and follow the steps bit by bit with diligence you will never  make money online.

The truth is hard, but I’m not here to lie to you or stroke your ego. My aim is to help you wake up to your own shortcomings so that you can turn your life around from misery to success.

Avoiding the sky syndrome:

I call aiming too high the sky syndrome. You need to avoid it unless you have already achieved measurable success in your online ventures. This syndrome has you held hostage within its icy grips and instills  a false sense of belief in you when it comes to making money online.

Don’t get me wrong, I love to aim high, but then I already have success in my business. It wasn’t always so. Once I was where you are now. I had bought thousands of dollars of info products and was close to desperation about my lack of success. I lied to myself about my work ethics and wasted months.

Until…

… I had no other option than to face an employer again for the rest of my life (at that stage I was at the end of running a failed MLM business.)

My hate for my job ultimately fueled me to TAKE ACTION. It was the much-needed catalyst to see me turn my life around and eventually reach success with my online business.

Greed fueled society:

The problem with aiming too high when your focus is lacking is that you get led astray by your own greed. Then your lazy side kicks in and you are being pulled this way and that. You need to remember that every success starts with a simple step. Much like a bay learns to walk you have to do the same with any online venture.

At times you’ll fall over and sometimes you manage to walk from the kitchen to your room without falling. Keep this in mind and focus on your NEXT STEP instead of aiming your vision high when you have no business foundation.

I hope this helps you finally find your feet online and wish you much success.

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If you market and sell your products and services online then you already know how hard it can be to make sales. The reason being is that commonly used urgency calls hardly work these days. The following reasons show you why:

• Site visitors are blind to action words such as “Today,” or “Now.”
• There is a possible lack of trust between you and your visitors.
• Your visitor is smart because he or she knows the price will be the same tomorrow and the day after when they read sales copy that states “If You Buy Today You Will Receive…” or “Get It For A Special Discount Price Today Only…”

It would be more realistic to replace outdated and non performing copy with something more realistic. For example:

• “Thanksgiving Day Special Discount Offer”
• “Easter Only Bonus Offer”

Both of the above clearly state to the visitor that the offer is special only today because “today” happens to be one of the US National Holidays. Therefore the visitor knows fully well the price will rise by tomorrow or else the special bonus will disappear.

The problem with either of the copies above is that unless you physically change the sales copy for and after each Public Holiday, chances are you are losing sales!

Because of the circumstantial complications to do this by hand most marketers never bother and therefore settle for a reduction in their earnings.

To help you overcome this obstacle I have created an advanced PHP tool in my lab. The tool is preloaded with 60 US Holiday dates and will automatically insert an urgency call on each Holiday.

Here is what the “Holidays Sales Booster” tool will write for you on autopilot:

• “Thanksgiving Day Special Discount Offer”
• “Halloween Special Discount Offer”
• “Christmas Day Special Discount Offer”
• “Mother’s Day Special Discount Offer”
• “Independence Day Special Discount Offer”

Here is my sales page on non holiday days:

Then on Thanksgiving Day, Nov 26 2009:

Then every other day there isn’t urgency call banner on the top of page:

Then again on Christmas, Dec 25 2009:

etc…etc…

Once you set up this system it will automatically display an urgency call on every Public Holiday date throughout the year.

If you want to change the banner text or add a discount coupon code you can do this easily by editing the PHP file.

For those of you unfamiliar with PHP (can be edited with Notepad) and FTP you might first want to learn about them as my tool will be harder to use.

The Holidays Sales Booster tool is great for people who know how to FTP files to their server and edit PHP files to make simple changes.

I have preloaded the current version with Holiday dates for 2009 and 2010.
You will receive free updates for 2011 at the end of 2010.

Script Requirements:

• You need PHP on your server.
• Your sales page should be in .php format as you need to insert one line of php code on the top of sales page.

Free Download

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If you want to make money online then the following five business ideas in a box will get you earning money fast, provided you take action right now. Who wouldn’t want to earn some extra cash for Xmas to buy presents for family and friends. Or perhaps you just want a financial break from the gloom of an empty bank account.

Whatever your motivations are to make money use the following business ideas as a guideline to build your own.

You don’t have to feel pressured to follow them step by step; if you think of a better strategy along the way implement it.

Fact is that millions of people are coming online to make money. Most of them never do. Only around 95% of online marketers truly earn a decent enough income while the biggest portion of people never earn a dime.
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SEO articles are hot property on the Internet. The reason being is that every self-respecting marketer uses SEO optimized articles (keyword rich) to help their site rank in the organic  search engine results.

Writing SEO style articles is easy. It comes naturally if you are knowledgable on the topic. It takes me about 10 minutes to write an optimized quality SEO article on a topic I’m familiar about.

When you know your niche it is easy to come up with content. I see it as telling  good friend about the topic in a conversational tone. The only difference between talking or writing the article is that by writing you can focus on inserting your keyword in key positions within the article itself.

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