Decide what you want from Twitter.
Do you want to keep intouch with friends and family or do you want it to help increase traffic to your blog or customers to your list?

Getting your purpose straight will help you focus.

Start following people.
If you follow them, they will most likely follow you. Thank people when they follow you.

You can use the search feature and find the people you want, for example,if you want to find flower arrangers in Glasgow, go for it. Just search.

Be interactive and send messages (tweets) out to people.
Make sure you give value to the community.   You don’t have to say anything profound – just relevant. You could even tweet famous quotes, or jokes, but you need to make sure they are clean.

Start “tweeting” right away.
The best way to get followers is to say something. Your tweets will come up in searches, so make sure you say things that reflect you well. Say things that are relevant and not just sending out sales pitches. Don’t be afraid to give a word of encouragement or a suggestion to someone.

Do not send “spammy” messages!
Let me repeat: Do NOT send spammy messages! If all you do is send out tweets that scream, “Buy from me! Buy from me!” you will quickly lose followers. Just don’t do it!

Don’t get discouraged.
Learning Twitter is just like anything else – it takes time. Soon you will be twittering and tweeting with the best of them. Just jump in and take action.

If you haven’t set up your Twitter account yet, watch this video for some tips.

Do you have more than one Twitter account, but want one tool to manage them all.  Check out this post – Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts.

If you want to learn more about using Twitter, see our Twitter Treasure Chest today!

Many people like yourself have landed up on this page because you’re looking at the most fool-proof way to start your Internet business. Starting one isn’t as easy as you think after all the trials, difficulties and challenges you will face along the way and the heaps of competition you will discover online.

Want proof? Simply Google ‘make money online’ and you’ll discover how much competition you have – probably in the hundreds and thousands of them!

Worse still, some unethical marketers who want to make a fast buck out of you by selling all kinds of crappy and irrelevant information to you.

It’s misleading alright…no, it’s plain wrong to waste any newbie marketer’s time and effort like this!

Fact is, there will be ‘gurus’ and ‘experts’ who will be more than happy to exploit clueless marketers who are quick to draw out their wallets to make a ‘life-changing purchase’.

Lets get something straight…there is no such thing as a life changing purchase!

Even the best money- making blueprint will not work for you unless you put it into practice, and in most cases, actually making the system manifest in real life is the hardest challenge you’ll face…

Read More: Beyond The Newbie Stage

Have you heard about the new WordPress Plugins that Ken Reno and Richard Wing have just released?

It’s called Commissions Automator, and it makes posts to your WordPress blog, and your Twitter account, that contain YOUR affiliate ID, so you earn instant commissions, directly to your PayPal account.

The shocker is that instead of $67, they are letting BETA users get access right now for less than $5! I know, right?

Read More: Commissions Automator

We all know that time is money and being efficient is the key to any successful marketer, especially when it comes to keeping your list builders and safelists working to their highest potential.

Viral Mail Profits does just that and you will clearly see why top professionals are saying that VMP is revolutionizing their email marketing.

You won’t believe how much time you will save and how many more signups you will get.

Viral Mail Profits is the program you never knew was essential, until now!

It’s free too….

Think about it, how many times have you missed an opportunity to mail out to one of your lists? I’m guessing quite a few. It’s something we all do, keeping track of all your mailings, all the time, is just too darn difficult. Until now!

Think about just how many signups you lost because you never had time to mail, or you forgot a mailing was due.

Never again!

Viral Mail Profits understands how important list builders can be to your business and helps you take your mailing to the max the fast easy way.

It’s so simple…

Mail to the Max!

Find Out For Yourself!

Marketers Traffic Vault is a new site that says it guarantees more web visitors and online advertising with very little effort or cost.  More importantly, it promises higher CONVERSIONS–signups and sales.  So I decided to put it to the test…

My first impression was the site looks professional and clean, with an attractive look and feel.  It is easy to read and understand.  Joining the site was easy and painless–they do offer 2 upgrade options but they are not required to gain the benefits.

The Members Area is very well laid out and intuitive–I could figure out what to do after only a few minutes and was able to get up and running in less than 5 minutes.  Inside the site, you create links and ads–the links you simply enter any URL links you use into the generator and it transforms them into “Marketers Traffic Vault” links.  You create ads for anything you want to promote using the Marketers Traffic Vault Ad Generator, which is very easy to use.  You can create as many links and as many ads as you like.  And they are organized in a logical way–links are displayed in the order you create them but also your 5 most recent links appear on the main page for quick reference.  Also, since the link generator is the tool you’ll use most, it is also right at the top of the main page when you login.  Very smart!

After you’ve created at least 1 link and 1 ad you can start to generate traffic.  Just use and promote the new Marketers Traffic Vault link instead of the original source link you had.  Every time the Marketers Traffic Vault link is clicked, the page loads followed by a small ad window in the lower right corner.  It displays 3 ads PLUS an image with your affiliate link that goes back to Marketers Traffic Vault.  So if anyone clicks the Marketers Traffic Vault image they see the site, and if they signup they become your referral.  It’s a great viral feature because you can build referrals without even trying to just by using the site.

Now every time the ad window displays (your Marketers Traffic Vault links get clicked) you earn credits that get YOUR ad displayed in the ad windows when other members’ links get clicked.  So the more clicks, the more times your ads get displayed.

And this works virally–meaning as you make referrals into Marketers Traffic Vault (either by promoting it or just using it and visitors click the Marketers Traffic Vault image on the ad window to join) you also earn ad credits on THEIR link clicks.  And this works up to 5 levels deep.  So you can create a massive amount of free ad views and web traffic by referring others to Marketers Traffic Vault also.

I didn’t get to test the full effect of a big downline yet (I just got the tool) but I can tell you the rest of the site works exactly as stated–my links got clicked, I earned credits, and my ads got displayed.  Marketers Traffic Vault even tracked my results so I know how many clicks and how many ad displays.  That was an impressive unadvertised extra feature.

There is one more benefit and feature which might be the best of them all–downline emailing.  You can email your downline with offers, promotions, or whatever you like, and here is where Marketers Traffic Vault really shines.  They took time to make the emailing often enough that it’s valuable as a user, but no so often that it’s a burden to your downline.  But the best part about this feature (and actually the credit earning too) is that it tells you exactly how long until you can mail again.  Now THAT’s cool.

Overall I have to say I am impressed with Marketers Traffic Vault.  It is simple yet powerful, and delivers on its promises.  Highly recommended to anyone who wants to increase traffic and advertising.

See it and join Marketers Traffic Vault here.

I don’t know about you, but I spend way too much time searching for just the right theme for my blogs, and I end up changing them more often than I should.

On my expeditions to find the right theme, I have found 4 that look great, can be edited to suite most niches.  The themes are listed in no particular order.

Cutline

Out of the box, this theme is very plain, with header images.  It is very easy to change the header image to whatever suites your niche.

You can set it to have 2 or 3 columns, with the sidebars on both sides or on one side.

iNoereN

This is another theme that you can change the look of quite easily.  You can change the header image and the background graphic by overwritting the image.  Simply create an image the same size as the one used in the theme, save it with the same name, and upload.

Flexibility 2

I really like this theme, and I would probably use it on more than one site, but it doesn’t seem to work unless you have installed your blog through Fantastico in your Hosting cpanel.  I tried to use it on a blog that I had installed through ftp, but it didn’t work.  Not sure why.

This one comes with an Options page that you can access through your Blog Dashboard.  From the Options page, you can change all sorts of things, like the colour, layout, header and background images, and a great deal more.

This is the theme that is currently on this blog.

Arthemia

This is a great looking theme.  It is a magazine style theme and takes a bit of getting used to.  I am still in the process of getting my blog looking just right with it.

It may have more features than you want or need, but the website gives you a lot of information on how to set it up and get it running the way you want.

All of these themes are free to use, although there is a couple of them that offer a premium version.  All work with WordPress 2.7.1