So it's Friday and I've been working with Twitter and associated programs all day. As a new member in the internet marketing world/society/group/whatever, I had to start somewhere. It seems that there are a lot of internet marketers and some just generally smart people on Twitter. This is why I chose to start there. Twitter in and of itself is a really easy to use simple program. The problem comes in when you want to network with thousands of people. Then you have to seek help. I have found a few good sites that I would like to share with you. They are TweetDeck, TweetLater, and TwitBacks.
TweetDeck is just as easy to use as Twitter is. It's a really simple external program that really breaks down everything that is going on on your twitter page into manageable bits. Am I some sort of Super Decker? No, I have maybe 3 hours of experience with the program, but in that time I've got it down enough to know that it is a very useful tool. I suggest that everyone, who really wants to put Twitter through the paces, should download the program. www.tweetdeck.com/beta/
TweetLater is another really awesome twitter tool. For anyone with thousands of followers who wants to stay visible, I suggest this tool. It allows you to schedule tweets to be published at a later time while you are not even on! This is an awesome tool that will help you stay connected with people around the world and in all different time zones. It's also pretty simple to use. I've already scheduled a few tweets just to play around with it. BUT by far the best option that this program gives you is the auto respond option for new followers. When you are getting scores of new followers a day you don't always have time to send each one a new message, but with TweetLater you can set it to send them all a thank you message. Really this one is a must.
www.tweetlater.com/
If you've already searched through twitter, you might have noticed where a lot of people have nice backgrounds with lots of extra information in them. Just today I was searching around and saw an ad for twitter backgrounds. I went and checked it out and it was what I was searching for. It was great they had all these examples of backgrounds with pictures and side bars and they all looked REALLY nice. Until I saw the price. They were $100 a piece! I said nevermind in a hurry and went to my friend Google. Did a quick search for "free twitter background" and the first site was Twitbacks. AVG said the site was clean so I went on in. What I found was a bit more watered down than the $100 dollar version, but it was still sufficient for my needs. I registered for a free account and quickly (less than 2 minutes) made myself a background. It was super easy to use and has step by step instructions on how to load it into your twitter page. It also had an auto load feature, but I couldn't get that to work correctly. For a free program it was great. Much better than waisting $100 on something just a bit more refined. You can see an example of the work on my twitter page here: www.twitter.com/trossk
www.twitbacks.com/
I would suggest all of these sites to anyone using Twitter to build a business on a budget. They have really helped me and I am sure that I will see good results with all of them.
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