So…are you in the tweet mode yet? You gotta be if you have been reading any online attraction marketing stuff at all. If not, I believe you are missing one of the biggest oportunites ever to explode your propect list, and better yet, develop a closer realtionship with them.

In the past few years the social media market arena has exploded. There are a ton of different ways to get millions of different people saying unique (positive I hope) things about you. Personal Branding at its greatest. But nothing like twitter has been around. This is phenomenal! Let me explain…

Twitter allows you to micro blog. You use short messages of 140 characters or less to stay in touch with your followers on a minute by minute basis. Sounds like alot of intrusion right? That’s what I thought but have just recently re-visited the idea and have been studying how to use it effectively.

Estimates vary, but there are over 6 million users on Twitter–and it is growing exponenitally. So what does this mean to you? PROFITS. How? Now you can instantly message your followers, handing them valuable tips while also giving them a glimpse into your day. You have the opportunity to provide value to them in a totally different way and at the same time you can foster a stronger more intimate realtionship. Building trust over a period of time is a key factor is developing an online presence. Here are a few ways to leverage twitter.

1) Be transparent–Be you. Talk about your life, your family, your work. Allow your readers a glimpse into your life, the good, the bad and the ugly. People want to know you. Let them see you and be able to realize the challenges and joys you have are probalby the same as theirs.

2) Retweet on a regular basis. Retweeting (or RT) is a fast, easy way to pass along something valuable you’ve found from someone else by simply clicking on an icon. This is content sharing and giving back in its purest form.

3) Tweet (write) with frequency and add value. One of the best ways to do this is to download a free desktop program called TweetDeck. This is a powerful way to keep tabs on who’s talking about you–without logging in and out all the time. I will be doing a few vids on tweetdeck coming up.

Those are a few things to help you grow your list of followers. But if you REALLY want to jump in quickly I recommend Joels book as well as a check to Mike Klingers site at Marketing Merge Network. Mike’s site has a bunch of really high quality free content specific to attraction marketing.

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Oh, and if you want to follow me on twitter here you go: twitter.com/tim_oneill

How do you become a total prospect magnet in your industry? Be You, stand up and be recognized. Here are 16 ways to be set apart from the massive number of competitors in your market.  These attraction marketing strategies from Ann Sieg will help make you and your opportunity or product the chosen way for people to do business.  By the way if you gagged because you see the dreaded mlm or network marketing word some where on this page, this is for you.  If you are not in the direct sales industry pay particular attention to what is being said here because these techniques are definitely not being taught many places outside of mlm, and guess what,  they will work that much better.

One of the biggest keys to doing business online is being unique.  Not blending in with everyone else.  Be a contrarian and shout your individuality from the virtual rooftops.  That is one of the secrets to getting your prospects undivided attention. 

A key point in using attraction marketing is to tap into the universal law of attraction.  Much like gravity this law works unseen, probably mis-understood, and constant whether we “believe” or not.  One of the principles of this law is a very real desire to help others first.  This translates to giving away useful, pertinent information that adds value to your prospect whether they do business with you or not.  Provide free information that can begin to show them how to build a business.

After you give away information keep there attention by specializing in teaching them.  Carve out a niche within social media marketing and become an expert in that area. Spend time and work diligently to become one of the “go to” people in that area.  Some examples are the “Ezine Queen”, become known as the twitter guy or facebook gal. The idea here is to narrow the field just a tad.  You will actually draw more people this way then you would shooting for a wider audience.  The good news…there are a ton of possibilities, micro niches, that one can make money with online from home.

Here’s a list of 16 very specific examples from Ann Siegs “The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto” that should help spark an idea or two. These are from the Ann’s landing page.
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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

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1.) Goal-Setting
2) Mindset
3) Time Management
4) Communication Skills
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TRAFFIC GENERATION/ADVERTISING
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5) Article Marketing
6) Video Sharing
7) Social Bookmarking
Blogging
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SALES AND MARKETING
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9) Market Research
10) Keyword Research
11) Copywriting
12) Phone Skills
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OTHER STUFF
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13) Tracking
14) Outsourcing
15) Contact Management
16) Split Testing

These are many of the components of  internet marketing.  Do you have to become proficient in all of these things to get started?  No way.  Pick one. Most of it you will never have to even worry about how to begin to make money.  But do pick a niche that appeals to you, anyone of them has the ability to provide more qualified prospects than you can possibly work. Keep in mind you don’t need to be an expert.  It may even preferable that you are not.  After all an ex is a “has been” and a “spurt” is a drip under pressure.  You simply need to know a tad more than others do.  That really is not as hard as it may seem at first glance.  Remember whatever your level of comfort with computers and the internet that there are a bunch of people flocking to the net RIGHT NOW that know less than you. Cool huh?

 Ok so how do you begin to climb this ladder of becoming more knowledgeable than a few others?  Simple. 

 Read a few blogs, pick out a book or two, a few magazines or ezines and read the material, absorb it, then relay that information to your prospects via blogs, twitter, facebook ect. There are many people eagerly searching for someone who will guide them.  Check out Mike Klinglers mlm network marketing training.  His content is very specific to attraction marketing and he even offers a step by step approach.

Remember there are over 15 million network marketers in the United States and an estimated 53 million worldwide. BIG number. The majority of these people have never turned a profit with there direct sales business.

If you enjoyed the ideas presented here you owe it to your self to check out Ann Siegs book.  Ann presents a very compelling 75 page special report specific to attraction marketing.  This information took 8 months to research, edit, re-edit, and re-write (a number of times)to distill into a compendium of the very best training material on attraction marketing, best of all….it’s FREE.  This free report is now released.  To secure your free copy, click on the link below and fill out your name and email info.  I will let you know as soon as it comes out.  http://timoneillbiz.marketersmanifesto.com

Until next time, Live-Love-Laugh.

tim

This is a reprint from my journal and from a blog I no longer have up.  It was originally posted April 22, 2008.  INCREDIBLE difference that 10 months makes.

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Ok, I watched this webinar that was very cool.  I am experienced at brass roots bricks and mortar marketing but not a tech guy at all.  I have been researching the whole social marketing or attraction marketing gig now for about 6 weeks.  Maybe 8 weeks.  I have spent a ton of money, even though there is a bunch of free stuff out there.  So check this out…I sat in on a webinar this evening presented by Renegade University.  It was way cool.  Again for a guy who is technically challenged this was a godsend.  WOW!  Conceptually I can see what needs to be done but…how to get there?   Ok, Ok, I am getting ahead of myself.  I hooked up with the Renegade University maybe a week ago.  In fact I had to open another page as I am writing this because I couldnt remember who the host is.  That is how new I am.  Ok, I looked it up…sorry Mike.  Mike Klingler, thats who the host was.  This particular webinar was on email marketing.  Mike spent some time talking about why this method is effective for network marketing or anyone wishing to have contact with a group of like minded people.  What was really cool about this gig though is he walked through it step by step.  Ya…truly.  I now have an account with icontact that can help me with my email contact list. Lots of tools that will help me manage the list….only I don’t have a huge one yet.  Good news.  Between Ann Siegs Renegade Network Marketer, and the Renegade University I have everything I need to learn how to get a list coming…  Cool.  Anyway I just wanted to leave a short blast to talk about that.  I don’t even know how to get a link on the site yet.  I told you I have always hired that stuff out.  I am a marketing geek not a computer techie.  So if you want check out Renegade University there is a ton of great information and….its FREE!   

ps: I found out if you just click on the link button in wordpress it has a box for my link.  There is hope for the technically challenged.

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Just a quick note regarding Renegade University if you clicked on that link.  Even greater things are coming but….you have to be patient.  The doors are closed in preparation for one of the buggest launches in internet history.  This will be cool.  Stay tuned.

Do you think it is possible for your website to become a powerful marketing weapon?  Are you interested in building your business with social marketing? Can you separate your website or blog from your competitors so it is immediately obvious you are the person to do business with?  Is it possible to make the advantages of doing business with you so great that clients draw this one conclusion…”I would be an idiot if I did business with anyone else…no matter what the cost.”  I think so.  As I walk through the learning curve of attraction marketing and internet marketing, one of the big challenges we have is determining the level of hype involved in sales letters. Judging by how much money I have paid in “stupid tax” to online vendors my BS detector must be broken.  So how can we tell what is real?  I am still not sure.  Here are a few things that I have figured out.

1- If it sounds to good to be true…it is.  I know we learned that in first grade, but somehow it doesn’t stick when an astute copywriter is pegging all of my emotional hot-buttons.

2- Contact information.  If it is not there don’t buy.  Again this seems to be common sense but so many of the long form sales letters don’t have that information.  Most people think well, I can check this out for the 10 bucks or whatever…if it was 100 or 1000 then I would do a little more due diligence.  Ok sure, but here is a story I have just of late. I hooked up with a trial for $1. Informative sales letter and it hit a niche area I was looking at.  It was a subscription gig and I knew I was not going to buy into the monthly deal.  I plunked down my dollar and in a few days after I could not access the free info, I tried to cancel before the subscription hit.  You guessed it.  No contact info, just a series of blind email addresses.  How much time am I willing to spend to get my 100.00 back because that’s how much it was after the subscription hit 7 days after the trial….  Not much.

3-Affiliates, joint-venture partners or testimonials don’t have decent contact info.  No-brainer.  If there is a product launch and the product or service is over a few hundred bucks, they can afford to take a few minutes for a legit check.  I mean I understand the whole volume and distance thing because Mike Klingler or Jeff Walker could not talk to everyone who wants to talk with him.   I get it.   But somebody in the company should be there at least an affiliate or JV partner who will know the main vendor well.  If you are a one man shop like me…well hire a service for a few hundred bucks I don’t know. At least have a working email address for service.

4-ok, here’s a novel idea.  How about don’t buy from someone you don’t know.  Huh?  Well I mean if it is an expensive product or service surely there is prudence in communicating with that person a few times.  I am not talking about a 100.00 item.  The volume of that is so high you won’t get that chance.  But, again at least an email address.

5-A website or blog.  Gee…I didn’t think of that.  Truly though.  Many times we are introduced to a product or service through a link and an opt-in or squeeze page.  That’s ok.  We have them and they work great.  But still find out more like a blog or a website.  Not that someone cant just bail if they have that stuff.  They can and they do.  It may be a little less likely is all.

Okay so there are a few ways to maybe curb the number of times your hosed.  I mean maybe I am the only guy that has bought anything on hype and been scammed.  Shame on the idiots out there who rip people off.  The web is a great tool. Just remember that ultimately the gold (our list) in this business is not a name, a number or an email address.  It is the person behind that address.  Relationships.  That is the way to build a long term nice residual income.  No different than it has been for a long time. Find a place place to learn step-by-step how to build your business on a budget there are many places to choose from.  So communicate and we will celebrate you baggin your JOB.