I have been mulling around my Twitter niche strategy in my head for a while. Today I want to tell you about easy ways to do status updates on Twitter.

I am always trying to keep up with the latest whiz bang kind of stuff as far as social media goes but sometimes there is an easier way and a more simple way and having a Twitter niche strategy really helps for each of your niches.

I have a lot of sites and niches that I manage as a lot of marketers do and a few months ago I made a twitter account for each of my major sites.

This in itself is a great idea since trying to keep up with all of the players in each market can be tough using twitter makes it easy by having lots of people in one place and just by following you can see the updates from everyone. The trouble is Twitter can be a time suck if you do not have a Twitter niche strategy for posting. You will end up reading a lot of useless info.

Here is my Twitter Niche strategy step by step

1. Have a website in the niche. You decide on your niches, I decide on mine. As long as there are people there is a reason for a Twitter niche strategy and integration. Read the rest of this entry »

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I keep seeing stories today about Google Wave opening up to everyone. Still in beta? Anyway when Google launched Google Wave it looked like it was going to be an email game changer type app and I would love to know how widely used it has been, I know i dropped using it after the first week.

Google Wave is supposed to be a lot more collaborative than email including having small groups sharing a wave conversation and then splitting off parts of the convo for another specific topic.

If you have not tried wave then by all means go to Google and get an account now and then send me a wave message. My wave account is billthetechguy@googlewave.com

I am never sure how many people know about socialbot. I visit a website called the Warrior Forum and about a year ago I heard about a set of bots created by a guy named Big Mike.

I have always been worried about anything to do with bots as most bots like Googlebot are used to index things and are of no use to me at all. Anyway I saw posts one to many times I guess and I looked into it. It ends up that Socialbot is a program that simplifies posting to web 2.0 social sites like Digg, Reddit, and about 30 more sites. The two great reasons to post to these social bookmarking sites is to firstly get traffic, and secondly to get more backlinks to your sites.

One of the scams of backlinking is that many of these sites have a no follow tag on all links so the backlink does not count at Google but there are also many that do count and are do follow.  Socialbot 5 should help us with this by having more speed, more on this later though.

Well in getting more of these “bots” I have come to learn that Big Mike and his team have actually built in better features into the newer bots. I have to say that once it is setup I can submit a page to the 30+ sites in about 10 minutes or so with the only work for me being entering captcha codes.

The newest version of Socialbot coming out is slated to be Socialbot 5.  I read a post last week saying that the testing is done and the new version is going to be out in a few days. Apparently Socialbot 5 will have multithreading built in. Multithreading in Socialbot 5 will allow me to probably cut that time to submit a page to all the sites to about 5 minutes or probably less.

I am also hoping that Socialbot 5 adds more sites so that I can spread my pages around even more.

Twitter is mainstream, since it is mainstream of course there are many marketers looking at Twitter as a spot on the internet with thousands of people to market to and to profit from. This is something that can be done with Twitter but also something that is not as easy as you may think at first blush.

Some marketers are looking at their Twitter followers as some great mailing list that they can market to a few times a day. I would love ot see numbers but I am sure that Twitter followers are nothing like a mailing list and making $100 per follower a year is just a stupid idea that is not doing anyone any good. Read on and you will see why Twitter works but is completely different than any internet marketing medium before.

Monetizing the Internet

The internet has been a great place to make money for many years. Email delivery is essentially free. marketing messages can be created and tested easily, and the people that are on the Internet tend to be affluent and able to make purchases safely and easily. Really almost anyone can put together one of perhaps dozens of strategies to make money online within a weekend.

As the internet has evolved marketers have found ways to capture visitors and then extract money from the visitors by keeping on message Twitter is not quite the same for a few reasons. Read the rest of this entry »

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When you look at the sites that you go to on a daily basis or the RSS feeds that you read you may notice that the most popular bloggers are more then words on a page. no the top bloggers are real people and that reflects in everything that they write.

There is now although there probably always was an interest in people. It is often said that the most read part of newspapers is the opinions section. The reason thath this is interesting to people is becasue where in a paper you only have stories with facts in the opinion or editorials section of a paper you actually get the passion that individuals have instead.

So read through some of your favorite bloggers and see what they say and how they say it. Darren at Problogger seems to be a friendly family guy that enjoys photography. Jeremy at Shoemoney is always stirring the pot. Robert Scoble is interested in technology and gets to do a lot of photography but is still not to much of a geek so you can still stay interested in what he has to say.

John Reese gives us a great example of just opening up and saying what he thinks is right from a marketers opinion. Being on Twitter a lot of people follow John Reese and he once posted on there to watch your message, then after Mashable mocked him he retaliated and now on the eve of Traffic Secrets he has a goofy picture on Twitpics that makes him look like just another guy that we can all relate to. All of these are different aspects building an online persona.

So sure you can have opinions but it is even better to build your entire self out to the internet. What are your strengths, weaknesses, personal ticks, how do you think? What do you do? The internet is about so much more than facts, in this day it is more important to stand out by laying out who you are as a person.

Start to build yourself up and your readers will have a much better time following you because they will read from your voice instead of their own.

I am right now listening to a great social networking call. Free call and it is 81minutes long. This is a call done by Michelle Macphearson talking to Alejandro Reyes where she talks to another guy (missed his name) and he is talking about how to add more contacts in social networks and how to make these connections work. Also they are talking a lot about how we as marketers should not be selling and selling on these social networks.

They talk a bit about garyvee, one of the top guys on twitter. Gary Vaynerchuk has a wine site and book but does not spend all of his time pusing it but definitely gets a lot of sales thanks to his attitude and support on Twitter and the users of Twitter.