Personal Branding Defined

How To Package Yourself To Create Influence In Your Prospects

Personal branding is the science of packaging and marketing yourself as an entity rather than your company or products. You in effect become the product that you market and your company and products are merely the system that is in back of you, giving you the financial and logistical support that is required for you to build a global empire.

Think of Tony Robbins for a moment. There are no doubt tons of motivational and life change experts out there in the industry but there is only one Tony Robbins. Tony Robbins is the brand and the products he has created and promotes are the system that is in back of him.

Think of Robert Kiyosaki. There are finance trainers and teachers all over the planet but Robert Kiyosaki has created a brand that makes him stand out from all others in his field. And not only has he branded himself but he has also branded the products he created.

Should You Totally Stop Marketing Your Company And Products?

I have seen a lot of debate on this issue in forums and discussion groups online but my answer to that is NO, you should not totally stop marketing your products and services. The reason is that there are potential prospects out there that are looking for your products and company by name.

One of my businesses right now has just released a new fat loss product on the market. I have a website promoting this product and I have created videos and Google Adwords campaigns around this product name. I am currently seeing people join my business because they have searched for the product by it’s name and not the term “fat loss”.

But once these people join my business and my team they soon become aware of the fact that I am more than just a network marketer with a product. They soon begin to realise that I have a lot more to offer than just another biz op.

Personal Branding Is Your Point Of Differentiation

Something that you must achieve in your marketing to become successful is to create a point of differentiation.

What is a point of differentiation? It’s that quality of uniqueness that separates you from everyone else out there that is promoting the same company and product. It’s that point where you are no longer just like all the other distributors or MLMers out there that your prospects can chose from.

If you don’t develop an effective point of differentiation you will simply become another sales rep for your company.

This quality of uniqueness will become apparent in your marketing materials and it is this quality that others will become aware of very quickly. Without differentiation you fail.

There Is No Competition

Once again think of our first example with Tony Robbins. What competition does he have? Who is out there ready and waiting to knock him off his number one spot?

I can tell you that no one is there to do that! No one can take away from him what he has because there is only one Tony Robbins. His marketing is unique because he is unique.

To put it simply, when you develop yourself as your own brand you eliminate much of your competition because there is only one you.

Easier To Create Status, Value And Influence

We have mentioned status and value previously but personal branding will create a much higher level of status and value in the eyes of your prospects.

The more effective your personal branding and the better you can convey that the more status and value you will achieve.

Personal branding will also help you develop and promote influence and power in your marketing which will enable you to connect at a higher level with your prospects.

How Do You Develop Personal Branding

This is something that will come with time and practise but just being aware of it in the beginning will help you on the road the personal branding.

One of the keys to doing this is to create within yourself a mindset of value, to fill your mind with valuable information that will be of a major benefit to your prospects so that they perceive that you are an expert that can help them.

For myself I have spent a lot of time studying principles in this industry that work. I have filled my mind with as much information as I possibly can so that I can help others when they are looking to me for help.

Along the way I have experimented with marketing and made many mistakes but in all of it my mind has been opened up to some amazing concepts. I am now in a position where I am putting what I have learnt to work in my marketing.

When I was studying music I used to listen to as many different musicians as I could in order to fill my mind with ideas. I would study different music styles and practise these styles until I became good at them.

But then when I had studied and listened to all of this I would then take those styles that I personally liked and implemented them into my own music style. I was creating my own style as I was learning and growing.

This growth process is vital to your business and you need to be aware of it when creating your own marketing systems. It’s all about taking what you have learnt and creating your own style out of it. And then from that style you will begin to attract those to you who are attracted to your style.

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Creating Hungry Home Business Prospects

How To Create Desire In Your Prospects That Turns Them Into Hungry Distributors

Become A Solution To Your Prospects Problems

I would like us to go back and re-examine the old school paradigm of network marketing for a moment. You join a brand new MLM company which of course you are very excited about and you can’t wait to get started. You grab your list and pick out someone that you haven’t seen for a while but you figure this person will be hot for the opportunity.

Now let’s assume that your friend has some financial hassles and they are very short of money. So you trot on down to your friends place thinking that they have a great need for the business and layout a presentation about how this business can change their life and set them free financially.

Now ultimately what you are saying about your business is true, it can help them financially and set them up for life. But there is a reality that is closer to home that most distributors never see about their business opportunity.

You see, even though you have a business opportunity that can potentially help them financially, in the end just having the opportunity in their hands wont do much for them. Why? Because they need more than that.

You must remember that your business opportunity is just part of the system. Like having a McDonalds store without the hamburgers. It’s not complete. In order for you to make money from McDonalds you have to have a product, not just own a store. And it’s the same principle here.

By simply bringing people into your business doesn’t mean that you have a real network marketing business. You may just be selling product. A real network marketing business is having people you have sponsored continue in the network marketing paradigm, not just on-sell product.

But getting back to our story… by simply just offering someone a business opportunity doesn’t really do much for them unless you can help them market that opportunity and get them to a point where they can begin to make money themselves.

See… most old school MLM is simply giving people another headache in their life. You aren’t actually helping them solve a problem, you are creating another one. How are they going to market this new business opportunity in order to make money?

The Deception of The Promise

I have personally seen people join an opportunity with the expectation of making money and all their sponsor could tell them was to make a list of their friends and family and hand out flyers. Now that might work for some people but it doesn’t work for most and people these days are looking for more than that.

Do you see the deception in the promise in this example? They haven’t been given the whole package, they have affectively been sold short and they were drawn in by the deception of the promise.

The truth is that those people who you have approached about your business opportunity have not been laying awake at night waiting for you to come around and pitch them on your deal. They probably have not been wishing to get involved in MLM either. In fact until you came along they may not have even heard of the opportunity.

You see… in reality people aren’t looking for a network marketing opportunity. They are looking for what that opportunity can do for them. Which brings me to the next topic…

If You Want To Sell Drills, Teach People How To Use A Drill To Drill A Hole

Mike Dillard put me onto this in Magnetic Sponsoring. Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill, they wanted a hole. So if you want to sell drills, give people information and teach them how they can successfully drill holes using your drills.

It’s that simple… the truth is people only want the end result. That is what they are looking for. So if you want people to join you in your business opportunity, give them information and teach them how to successfully build a home based business using your information and systems.

Doesn’t that make sense?

In effect you need to become a solution provider… not a problem creator. And the better you can do that the better your business opportunity will grow.

In fact this is how you turn average prospects into hot prospects. Your prospects need to have their hot button pushed so bad they can’t stand it. Have you ever been exposed to some form of marketing where you just couldn’t help yourself, you had to take out your credit card and buy the product on the spot. That’s what we are looking for.

Position Yourself As An Expert That Can Help Them

Your goal in all of your marketing efforts is to position yourself as an expert in the eyes of your prospect and as someone who can help them get to where they want to go in life and business.

You are actually becoming a solution provider to your prospects and when people perceive that you can help them they will flock to you by the truck load.

Your company and product at the time of prospecting is almost irrelevant to your prospect. Don’t get me wrong it is vital that you have a great product and company to back you up, but initially your prospect is looking more at you and what you can do for them rather than your business opportunity.

This form of marketing was almost unheard of to the old schoolers. Once again the old school paradigm was that of you chasing them down, trying to close them in on the deal rather than having them come to you with their credit in hand and ready to go.

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Attraction Marketing

How Top Industry Leaders Are Using This Strategy Right Now To Attract Up To 250 Leads Per Day Into Their Marketing Funnel… And How You Can Too

The Attraction Marketing formula is a paradigm shift (mindset), it’s a major change in the way people do business and if you are not yet aware of it then you need to be… for the sake of your business.

You have to understand that this industry is NOT about trying to get people into your business. That’s the wrong paradigm. If you are trying to get people into your business… STOP, that’s not what this industry is about. This industry is about being a professional and applying principles that will attract those people to you who absolutely want what you have to offer.

Attraction Marketing is simply that… creating an ‘air’ or a special ’something’ in your marketing that attracts others to you. It’s creating value in the eyes of your prospects so that they perceive that you have something that can help them achieve what they are looking for.

Old School MLM Is Dead

I liken the old school way of doing MLM to the cave man days. You know the story that back in the cave man days if a man wanted a wife he would go out to look for a woman he liked and when he found her he would hit her over the head with his club to knock her out and drag her back into his cave.

The old school MLM way of doing things is all about you chasing your prospects down and you closing them on the deal. Perhaps you have done this… you make a list of family, friends and people you know and then you systematically work through the list in order to present your opportunity to them.

The paradigm or intention is you chasing them and you closing them into something they had no desire to get involved with before you came along.

Can you imagine if you started a real world business like a franchise of some description and that was how you built your business. Out of a list of your friends and family. Thankfully we have marketing systems that we can implement to attract others to your business.

I used to hate it, and I still do, when someone you haven’t seen or heard from for years will all of a sudden ring you up just for the sole intention of pitching you on their newly discovered business. The have contacted you to re-establish a relationship just for the intention of making them money.

As much as I believed in the principles of success old school MLM generated it was still a horrible way to do business.

Thanks fully that form of business building os now dead and gone.

New School MLM Has Arrived

Thankfully we are in a new age of network marketing where we can create marketing channels that systematically attract others to us and it’s called New School MLM.

New School MLM is simply this… it’s the art of using technology combined with the principles of attraction to systematically draw those people to us who want what we are offering.

Can it get any simpler than that?

With attraction marketing you can position yourself in the market place and have prospects closing themselves into your list and into your business with little effort on your part.

Once a prospect has opted in to your list you can systematically market your products and services to them because they have given you permission to market to them.

Seth Godin, world renowned marketing expert, calls this form of marketing “Permission Marketing” and it has become the basis of how all successful network marketing is being achieved.

How Would You Prefer To Do Business?

Think about that for a moment… how would you prefer to build your business? Making lists of friends and family and chasing them down, trying to cultivate relationships with perfect strangers in order to try and pitch them on your business or would you prefer to have your prospects chasing you down, asking you how they can get involved in what you are doing and closing themselves on your deals.

I spent close to twenty years trying the old method and I was a total failure at it, mainly because deep down inside of me I really didn’t like what I was doing. I hated trying to be something I wasn’t just to try and build a business.

But that is one of the greatest things about this new way of doing business… you can be yourself and like yourself in the process. You can be who you are and build a business from that. How good is that?

It’s No Longer Selling But Consulting

It has been interesting for me to observe this phenomenon taking place in my own business but the new school way of doing MLM has changed the paradigm incredibly.

With the old way it’s all about you becoming the seller and closer. You are the one who has something to sell them and your goal is to close them. You haven’t been invited into their world to help them make a decision, you have somehow made your way in to theirs and are trying to close them.

In effect you have become the hunter.

Now consider the new school way… the prospect has seen your marketing materials, makes a decision themselves that they will contact you, they have invited you into their world and have given you permission to sell them.

You are now in a position of power and leadership and it’s no longer about selling but consulting. Instead of being a seller you are now in the position of a consultant offering expert advice and guidance on how they can best achieve their goals with your system.

You are the guru and they want you in on their world. You have become the hunted and are no longer the hunter.

All of the barriers associated with the selling process have been removed and suddenly you are in a position of status and value. They perceive that you have status because you have gone before them and know something that they don’t and that your expert advice has value.

This mindset is so powerful that these days you simply cannot be affective in this industry without it. If you cannot make the change to this style of business building you simply have no business.

How To Create Status & Value In The Eyes Of Your Prospects

Creating a perception of status and value in the eyes of your prospects is NOT difficult to achieve but it can be a lengthy process and it’s the people who can apply themselves to the process that will rise to the top. And this is true of any profession.

For you to be perceived that you have value in your prospects eyes they have to see in you that you have knowledge and skill that they are looking for, that can help them achieve what they are looking for.

And you get this by simply filling your mind with incredibly valuable knowledge of how to create success in the industry using technology. If your prospect perceives that you have the knowledge, skills and systems that can help them in their journey to success you will be perceived as being a person of value.

If Your Prospects Perceive That You Can Help Them Achieve What They Are Looking For, They Will Flock To You By The Truck Load

I have spent hundreds to thousands of hours reading marketing information, watching videos, participating in forums and a host of other mediums just so that I could develop the mindset to achieve the success I was after.

I also wanted to be able to not only walk the walk but I wanted to talk the talk as well. I wanted my prospects to perceive that I knew what I was talking about.

I have been through this process in other areas in life as well… I was successful in the computer industry before I got into marketing. And I was also a successful musician and achieved high levels of respect in both industries. And it was because I immersed myself into the topic so that I became the expert.

For you to achieve value in this industry you need to fill your mind with all the knowledge that you can about the industry. In your own eyes you need to become an expert. In fact you have to become an expert to yourself before others will perceive it in you.

Status is a little easier than value to achieve. Quite simply, when you have achieve some level of success you will have the status. The two go hand in hand.

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If you have come to this page from following me on Twitter you have come to the right place. Thank you for the follow!

My name is Greg Martin and I have some very brief information here that will help you benefit from using Twitter in a big way.

Just below here is an introduction to how I am using Twitter to automate and market. As you may already know there is power in automation and what I have below for you is exactly what I am doing right now to build a Twitter following and market to that following on complete autopilot.

Below that there is some background on me for those that like to know who they are dealing with. I hope you like it and that we can connect.

If you haven’t come here from Twitter and you would like to follow me then you find me here @web2greg

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Twitter Marketing Tips

Here is a brief overview of what you could be doing…

Promote other people as much as you can - this shows people that you are not just interested in pushing your own agenda and that you have others interests at heart.

Post valuable and helpful information - that hasn’t come from you that you think would benefit those who are following you. Remember that people are looking for answers to their marketing problems and if you are providing valuable content that helps them you will be seen as a valuable person that is worth following.

Post valuable information that you have created - finally it’s time for you to promote your own content. There is nothing wrong with promoting yourself as long as it isn’t all sales and spammy. I like to direct people through to content on my Blog that can help others in a big way. My goal is quality first before quantity.

Answer the questions going on in your followers minds - This is an important tip, like any other form of marketing online you need to consider what the conversation is that is going on inside your prospect or followers mind. They have followed you for a reason and you need to be catering to that reason.

I personally think it’s ok to be posting non-marketing content like “having dinner at my favourite restaurant”. But if that is all you do then your followers will get a little tired of that. Your postings still need to be targeted to the niche of people who are following you and that is best achieved by asking yourself the question “what is going on right now in my followers mind?”

Thank people for following you - this is the right thing to do but it can become a time consuming issue if you don’t automate your activity. I will get to automation in a moment but thanking those that follow you is very important and you need get this happening ASAP.

Engage in conversation - This is a powerful way to get followers. You need to realise that whenever you do this the entire following of the person you are conversing with gets your posts with your Twitter name on it. This works powerfully when you are conversing with top industry leaders who have large lists.

My first encounter with this was with @Mike_Dillard who at the time had a following of over 12,000 people. From the brief conversation I had with Mike I saw my follow numbers escalate for almost a week. Believe me it works.

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Twitter Automation

This is seriously awesome and worth your attention. Automation is your key to growing a profitable list.

Social Oomph combined with Twitter has become the fastest method I have ever engaged in to create traffic. Twitter is very responsive and by using this service you can be guaranteed of instant response to your postings.

Social Oomph is a free service which is great to get you started however you may be interest in the Pro account. With the Pro account you can create a series of posts that can be sent to your list 24 hours a day completely on Autopilot.

Of course there is a fee for the Pro version but the return I am receiving from my Twitter marketing more than recovers the cost of the Pro service. It’s a great way to generate leads and revenue at the same time.

Rather than me telling you about it here just follow the link and check out Social Oomph.

Check Out Social Oomph Here

Check Out My Twitter Spam Post Here

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Automatic Exponential List Building

I would like to introduce this totally free service to you as a great way to build your following on Autopilot. I don’t recomend that this be your only way of building your following however it is a great way to at least get started… and very simple to use.

I guess you could say that this is a combination of Twitter and network marketing.

Check out Tweeter Getter Here

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Follow Those Who Interest You

Another great tool I use for folliwing people automatically who are in the same market I am interested in is Twollo.

With Twollo you can automatically follow anyone that uses certain keys words. For example if you are into Search Engine Optimisation or SEO for short, you can enter SEO into Twollo and it will automatically the person who posted SEO in their tweet.

I have dozens on word combinations I am tracking and have followed hundreds of people automatically with this tool. And they are all discussing the subjects I am interested in.

How cool!

Click Here To Go To Twollo

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Advanced Twitter List Building & Marketing

Once you have grasped the basics of Twitter etiquette & automation it’s time to get involved in some serious list building techniques.

The program that has opened my eyes in a dramatic way to building a large list fast is Brute Force Twitter. Using the techniques described in the training I am watching hundreds of people follow me everyday. Some days I have had close to a thousand follows but you need to keep in mind this is being done over multiple lists.

As of this writing I am still in the early stages of my list building activities so what ever you do, don’t take my word for it, go and check out the guys page and read it for yourself.

Click this link to visit Brute Force Twitter

Additional Notes - As of July 2009 I have just updated this post now to include this new tool I am using called Hummingbird. In fact after using Humming Bird for two months now I can safely say that there is simply nothing else you should be using to build a large Twitter list with.

Click here to check out the Humminbird Review I did… and click here to check out the Hummingbird site.

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Engaging The Twitter Community

You may have already noticed that using the Twitter website to interact with the community is a proverbial pain in the butt. It’s not designed for ease of use.

The best tool I have come across for to engage with my Twitter following is either Seesmic Desktop or Tweet Deck. If you haven’t yet used these services then you are not getting the best out of Twitter. It’s an absolute must.

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Tracking Your Traffic & Clicks

If you are thinking of marketing like a professional on Twitter then you are going to have to track your traffic and clicks.

As of this writing I am receiving around 1,500 to 2,000 clicks per day from two lists of around 12,000 followers. These tweets are being sent for different blog posts and for different target audiences. But that’s the overall result as it stands now.

That’s not a bad effort and the way I can know how I am doing is by using a service called Bit.ly I have also used Budurl but I like the graphs on Bit.ly better.

Google those terms and open your free account, add your links and include the shortened links into your tweets and your away.

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Who Am I And What Am I Doing?

In May of 2008 I started using the Internet to help me build my home business that I was involved in. Since then I have studied and learnt from some of the top Internet marketers on how to use the net for marketing and attracting prospects to you to build a successful home business.

I now have people from all over the world contacting every week wanting to know how they too can use the Internet to build their home business. I currently build more than one home business as well as being involved in marketing many affiliate products online.

I also consult to successful home business builders that are wanting to use the Internet to build their home business.

If you would like to connect with me then please feel free to click here and visit the contact page. I appreciate all enquiries. Or you can network with me below…

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Network With Me And Market Your Business

I am building a nice little online community and I would love to see you there. It’s called That’s Business… Check it out and maybe I can market your business for free on the internet.

Click here to go to That’s Business

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I am perplexed about this topic of Twitter SPAM so I thought I would write this post to give my angle on it but also to get your opinion as well.

Who knows I may even get some “hate” tweets from this as it is such a hot topic of debate.

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How Did It Start?

Someone tweeted me this message about an article I wrote called Twitter Marketing Tips…

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“Your article sends mixed messages; you rightly say don’t spam, then promote automatic list builders like a prime spammer”.

This person was upset because I mentioned in that post that you should not spam but then promoted an auto posting service called TweetLater. I think in his mind he related automatic posting to SPAM for some reason.

When I read this persons tweet my first thought was this…

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“Does the use of an automatic posting service mean that your posts become SPAM”?

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Scenario Example

I am currently promoting Hummingbird and TweetLater as the two tools of choice for building a list fast and then posting to it while you’re not at your computer.

Now if I send out a single post to my Twitter lists that goes something like this…

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Hey this tool has really helped me build multiple Twitter lists in virtually no time at all – Click Here

Is that a SPAM posting? Most people I think would say that it’s not SPAM as it is only single tweet. It’s ok to promote your product through Twitter like that. After all most people are promoting something on Twitter… aren’t they? And it is only a single tweet right? How could that be considered SPAM?

Now let’s say that I take the same post and manually Tweet that out say 4 times per day. Does that make it SPAM? Can a single post tweeted multiple times over a day or even over a week make it a SPAM tweet?

Ok now let’s say for the sake of convenience that instead of posting manually which can become very tedious and boring, I decide to employ the facilities of a service like TweetLater which is an auto posting service? And instead of sitting at my computer to create these tweets and manually post them, I rather set them up to be automatically posted at a time that is convenient for me.

Does that then turn the original single post message into SPAM?

Also… in this instance are there any hard and fast rules that are documented that would dictate to us what Twitter SPAM actually is? Who made those rules and where do they come from?

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The Comparison With Email SPAM

If we stop and think about this in terms of email SPAM, does that fact that an email that is posted to us either at a single time or multiple times change the fact that it’s SPAM? Not really, it’s still SPAM whether you received it once or many times.

SPAM email is SPAM email whether we receive it once or a thousand times. So then we really cannot use the argument that a single post promoting our content or anything that we sell is acceptable while multiple tweets of the same post are not.

When someone sends me an email that I do not want or haven’t subscribed to then it’s a SPAM email. It’s SPAM because I haven’t asked to receive it, and I didn’t want it. It was sent to my personal email address which they had no right to send to.

There are laws that are supposed to protect me for that crap.

To me it’s an invasion of privacy because I had no choice in the process. And I certainly did not choose to subscribe to the spammers email list.

But with Twitter you have a choice; you are not powerless over the fact that you receive tweets.

The entire medium of Twitter operates on choice. From the time you join you are either following people or people are following you by choice. You can’t use the software until you have followers. Who is going to receive your tweets?

So you receive tweets from others by choice and others receive tweets from you by choice.

It’s a medium of mutual consent.

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How Does This Relate To Twitter And SPAM?

When someone is posting advertising tweets either automatically or singularly on Twitter it’s totally unlike email SPAM. First of all it’s not addressed to your personal Twitter account, it’s just posted on the medium for all to read, and secondly you have complete control over whether you want to receive that persons tweets or not. You have the freedom to decide.

You are not powerless in the process.

Twitter to me is like a magazine with ads in it. You accept the fact when you purchase the magazine that there will be ads in it. It goes with the territory. You can’t gripe about the fact that the ads are there, they just are.

The ads or not there just for you alone, they are there for everyone. Some people will read the ad and respond while others won’t. But you can’t get upset and criticise the magazine because there are ads there. If you want to read them then read them, if you don’t then forget about them.

Twitter is the same… if you like someone’s Tweets and you want to follow them then follow them; if not then don’t follow them. But this also means that you will receive their advertising tweets as well. It goes with the territory.

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Subscribing To The Gurus List

Twitter to me is like subscribing to the “gurus” list.

Like most people on the internet you are more than likely subscribed to some of the marketing “gurus” around the place. I could name people I am subscribed to but that’s not necessary.

Ok you got me; I am going to name one. I am on Frank Kern’s list. Chances are you are as well.

Have you ever noticed that most of his emails are selling stuff? I mean how much real information does he put out there that’s educational and free? Not much, with Frank you have to pay for it.

But I stay on his list and it’s my choice that I do so. I want to receive Frank’s emails.

Now the truth is I have no right to call Frank up and abuse him for spamming me with marketing emails. He would laugh in my face and tell me to unsubscribe myself.

Do you see the principle there? I guess what I am saying is that a person really has no right to call another person a spammer on Twitter. To me that’s an absurd position to take.

I don’t accuse people of spamming… I just unfollow them. If I don’t want to receive Frank Kern’s marketing emails then I am in control over the process… not Frank. I can unsubscribe any time I like.

I have the power… and so do you.

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The Profile Of A Spammer

I want you to think for a moment about a real spammer… not a so called Twitter spammer. You will notice that someone posting marketing materials on Twitter has a totally different profile to an email spammer.

You will find that an email spammer operates anonymously in the background. They are sending you emails about products and services or whatever it is they promote and you may never know who they are. They don’t want you to know them.

They are not up front about themselves and they hide themselves away and prefer not to be known.

They operate from an angle of deceit and deception just to get you to open your wallet and purchase what they have sent you. And they certainly have not gained your approval to send them marketing materials.

Now compare that to someone who is automatically posting on Twitter. I know with myself, even though I post automatically on Twitter, I have profile pages and Blogs that clearly identify who I am.

You can easily reach me. I am not trying to hide myself away from anyone and if you want to contact me through Twitter or my Blog then you can.

There is no deceit and no hiding. Just plain and simple marketing, if you like what you are reading then respond, if not then don’t respond.

I get feedback to my posts, and I have people retweeting these same posts every single day. It’s totally powerful. I also have followers telling me how great the information is and how much they appreciated it.

Compare that to a real spammer. Are you going to forward a spam email that was sent to you to your email list? Hardly!

In my opinion there is a big difference between a person that is sending spam emails and someone who is automatically posting on Twitter. The two are totally different.

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Conclusion – You Cannot Spam Twitter

This is my conclusion to whole Twitter SPAM argument.

There is no such thing as Twitter spam, it’s a medium for you to use anyway you want. It’s up to your followers to decide if they want to follow you or not and whether or not they want to respond to your tweets or not.

We have no right to accuse someone that is posting marketing materials on Twitter of being a spammer. Our only choice is to unfollow them. That is how the medium was designed to be used.

Twitter spam to me is actually on oxymoron (Conjoining contradictory terms, as in deafening silence). The two terms cannot go together. They are opposing terms that do not work together.

Now of course you are entitled to your opinion and I would love to here comments about this subject. And if anyone can help me see otherwise then please let me know.

But that is how I see it for now.

Well done if you have read this far. You are obviously very passionate about this subject and I hope you gained a lot from reading this post.

Regards, Greg Martin

Twitter - web2Greg

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PS… if anyone is interested in promoting their business and creating more exposure for themselves then you may like my business network that I have created here… That’s Business.

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If you have ever wanted to see inside the Twitter automated follower software Hummingbird before you buy it then this video will show you how it works.

See for yourself how good it is…

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Twitter is about opt-in relationships between people. No one is under any obligation to follow you, or listen to what you say. And they wont, unless you are adding value to their feed in some way.

How you choose to do this is up to you, but take some time to emerse yourself in the Twitter community. Understand the culture and participate every day. Once you’ve established yourself as an authority, you will find that your Twitter growth becomes viral.

Controlling Who You Unfollow

Hummingbird lets you fine tune who you unfollow. For instance, we all have certain friends we want to protect from being unfollowed. Also, if a user with protected updates, gives us permission to view their tweets, we typically do not want to unfollow them either.

Hummingbird makes it easy to control these subtleties, automatically.

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Protect Mutual Followers

By default, Hummingbird will not automatically unfollow people who follow you back. These users are highlighted in green in Hummingbird.

Protect Previously Unfollowed

HummingBird has the ability to maximize your return on those you follow. The application acheives this by not following those whom you have previously unfollowed.

Those you unfollow are remembered (based on the Twitter account currently logged in) so that when checked those users will never be added again.

This also helps to prevent users from flagging your account as spam. If you continually follow, then unfollow users they will deem your account “spam”!

Protect Users w/ Private Updates

This is checked by default to protect your following of these users. If you unfollow someone who has protected updates, it is highly unlikely you will ever get to follow them again. Best to keep this safe-guard turned on.

Twitter Follower Limits Explained

You may notice the first couple time you use Hummingbird, Twitter stops you from adding more than 2000 users. This is the first limit you will encounter. Once you get the pop-up message from Twitter indicating you’ve reached this limit, press STOP. Your daily “add” is complete.

This is where you will wait the 24 hour period for people to get around to following you back. In order to add more users, you will need to “unfollow” some users. You will do this after the 24 hour period (recommended time frame).

Unfollowing all people who don’t follow you back is the preferred strategy in maintaining a strong ratio. Hummingbird does this automatically.

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I wanted to put together this post together on using the Funded Proposal System in your marketing efforts.

Are you generating leads for your business yet? Are they good quality leads… do they cost you anything or are they free?

Well I have some information here on a very successful method I am using right now to get highly qualified leads coming to me on autopilot.

And the best part of the deal is that not only am I getting these leads coming to me at zero cost to me, I also earn a commission on these before they join me in any of my businesses.

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Introducing The Funded Proposal System

So what is this powerful lead generating system I am using? In the industry it’s called the Funded Proposal system and I use it to attract leads to me and pay me upfront commissions 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

Perhaps you have heard of it. Well all I can say is that it works indredibly well. And what I am going to do here is break it down into two easy steps so that you can see exactly what it is I am currently doing.

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Step 1. - I have been using Twitter to post regular Tweets to with an active link shortener like Bit.ly in it to drive traffic to my capture page. I use Bit.ly because it is so good for tracking your clicks and it has great graphs so I can visually see how my tweets are doing.

Here is a sample post – What’s the quickest way to online $$$ success? Attraction Marketing & List Building! Free videos show you how http://bit.ly/SqGyH

I rotate around about 10 – 15 tweets like this per day accross multiple Twitter accounts and I am getting thousands of visitors going to the capture page I am using every week. That’s pretty good traffic.

Next you are going to need a high converting capture page that your visitors will want to opt in to.

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Step 2. - I am using Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring web page to capture my leads. This is a great website because it converts so highly (people easily opt in), and on top of that I have one of the industries top leaders closing people into the sales funnel and also into buying the product.

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How Easy Is That? If you are struggling to get leads for your MLM business then you could easily implement this system to get you started.

I can’t begin to tell you how well this system works for me. I have tried creating great capture pages like that, and they worked, but nowhere near as well as Magnetic Sponsoring.

So that’s how I am using the Funded Proposal system to attract leads to me completely on autopilot and get paid upfront commissions before anyone joins me in my businesses.

If wan’t a reall good breakdown of what I am doing with Twitter then check out my two Blog posts I have here for you…

Twitter Marketing Tips

Hummingbird Review

Those two pages describe how I got started and how I am currently building my following.

So there you go, I hope that helps you with your marketing. If you want to ask me questions about what I am doing then by all means contact me from this Blog.

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