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Social Media Management Via Twitter - Making it Easier
By Brian L. O’Connell

Getting traffic to CPA websites is an ongoing visualize. Engaging people through sociable media like Twitter helps move that project forward. Here is a tool that makes managing Twitter that much easier.

Organized Viewing. CoTweet is an application which allows easy managing of your Tweets and engages your followers. Best part is, it’s free. It provides a great way to listen for conversations and monitor your CPA firm’s total image (which is part of branding).

Multiple Users. CoTweet provides a simple user interface that allows for multiple user accounts. Comments and conversations happen fast on social media websites. When more than one person keeps a thumb on natural process, it is easy to catch trends.

Most people don’t have trouble coming up with messages. It is easy enough to Tweet about their CPA firm or current events; it’s finding the time for all of this each day that is sometimes a challenge. CoTweet allows more people to manage the account, which means you can each spend 10 minutes a day to leverage all that Twitter offers.

Multiple Search Results. CoTweet makes searching Twitter much more easier to do. Multiple search results show in different smaller windows. That way, it’s simple to compare results of searches and find trends.

Multiple Accounts. Does your CPA firm have multiple Twitter accounts? CoTweet makes it easy to manage all of these accounts from one location. If you only have one account, consider opening additional accounts. It is often easier to target a extra purpose or audience when you use multiple accounts.

Social Media websites like Twitter and Facebook have the potential to help market web sites for CPAs. Keep reading the CPA Site Solutions blog for more helpful tips and ideas on marketing.

About The Author

Brian O’Connell builds CPA Websites for accounting firms throughout the United States. Please take a look at our growing list of CPA Website Designs to get design and content ideas for your own website.

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Six Basics of Tweet Etiquette on Twitter
By Shirley Lee

Twitter is a community of people seeking knowledge. Like any other community there are guidelines for how to communicate with and treat others. Below are a few basics related to appreciation, grammar, and sharing of information to remember if choosing to recognize others or communicate with followers on Twitter.

Express Gratitude

• If others retweet (RT) something you have sent as a tweet, you should send out thanks messages. Regardless of whether they write it as a new RT with a mention (@) of the account name or if the built-in Twitter retweet option was used. The thank-you message may be sent as a direct message (DM) to only their account. Or the thank-you may be done as a mention using @ or the mention option in a new tweet that may be seen by everyone following.
• If a general question is sent to followers, be sure to send back a thank-you via DM, mention, or reply option for any helpful responses.

Don’t Be Rude

• If others mention your account, a thank-you with the appropriate response and a reference of what was in original tweet may be tweeted back via a mention of their account. If the response is not going to be positive, it is better to do it as a direct message so rudeness is not spread across the twitasphere. Recognition of a mention is nice but it is not considered required by most users on Twitter.
• Also, do not be crude. Although it happens in most communities, curse words or symbols indicating them and other obscenities are not nice, nor appreciated by most readers, and can even be confusing to some. So unless the desire is to be unfollowed or blocked, avoid doing this.

Grammar Rules

• You only get 140 characters in which to share your message in a tweet. Therefore most readers believe it is ok to abbreviate words and use numbers or letter to replace full words when necessary (Example 2=to/too, 4=for, w=with, n or +=and). However most prefer to be able to quickly understand what they are reading so avoid doing this when he message will fit in less than the Twitter maximum character range.
• Although some tweeters occasionally use texting formats, which is acceptable if the majority of their followers do the same and these people are the only target audience. Complete sentences following standard grammar rules are preferable for a clear communication to a large audience. Full text sentences are easy-to-read and understand. Not using proper grammar may give the impression that the sender is not literate.

Share Good Stuff

• When receiving a great quote, good article link, or other interesting information from a follower or other resources, feel free to share it with your followers via a retweet or a custom tweet. Many on-line article sites and blogs have a button set up where you can instantly share a link to the article as a tweet if logged into a Twitter account.
• If during a Twitter search for a particular topic of hashtag (#) a good tidbit is found, feel free to retweet it too. Also, check out the original Tweeter by clicking their account name to see if they present lots of relevant information in case following is also desirable.

Don’t Spam

• Sharing is good, however sending too many tweets can get you labeled a spammer. There are some people who send a tweet every 1-2 minutes after a while others either quit reading those tweets or choose to unfollow, block, or mark as spam these multiple tweeters. So think about it before setting-up one of those auto-senders to create tweets, hiring someone to tweet on your behalf, or spending all your time on the phone or computer developing tweet material.
• This does not mean that sharing products, services, or freebies should not be done via Twitter. It just means do not overdo it. After all, most people like to find out about free offerings and be the first to know about a new product or business. Many on Twitter will even be willing to try these things out and communicate their finding to followers via new tweets or retweets of the original text.

Process Direct Messages

• If someone sends a question via DM, it is polite to answer back via DM especially if you have something relevant to share. However, every DM does not require a response as many are strictly “For Your Information” (FYI) to let you know more about the person who is newly following you.
• If it is to be a private conversation, use the TO option in the direct message window and not @ so that the information remains between two users and not made available to the twitasphere.

These basics for showing gratitude, sharing information, responding, and grammar usage should help make Twitter a better communication tool for letting followers know what they might find interesting. Remember Twitter is a community of people seeking knowledge, but not expecting information overload as can happen when proper etiquette is not used.

Shirley Fine Lee, author of “R.A!R.A! A Meeting Wizard’s Approach”, has worked as a training and development specialist since 1986, and an independent consultant since 2000. She has extensive experience, helping organizations with their team building, training development, meeting facilitation, presentation delivery, and other communication needs. This work involves developing productivity tools, presenting workshops, and writing. For instance, she has authored numerous training manuals and guides, on a wide variety of topics. Her programs include time management, getting organized, problem solving, and team building. Sign up for Shirley’s free productivity newsletter on her website or visit her leadership blog. Find out more about her and options she provides on her website at http://www.shirleyfinelee.com.

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Hummingbird versus TweetAdder on Twitter Marketing Performance and Service by hummingbirdpro

I have actually lost count how many twitter programs there are on the market today that claim to lead you to success. It appears that there are a couple of them that are taking the lead with today’s professionals so we decided to test some of them to see what results you might expect with them.

First on the list for top professionals is Hummingbird which comes in a couple different versions as of April 30th. The second program is TweetAdder that seems to have a small following and a simple interface. We also did some other tests on programs like Tweepnet and another program that was being marketed as the greatest program in twitter history for success :-). Seriously if you believe half of the marketing claims that these companies put out there we should of all been millionaires by now right. This article covers just the first two programs that we tested.

When looking at these programs we looked at a couple things.

1. The ease of use of the program - can anyone really use it.
2. The support of the program from the company. If you have a challenge what support tools do they have and how responsive are they.
3. The results of the program - what is the follow back percentage that you can expect using them.

Our findings:

#1. Both Hummingbird versions were very easy to use and we also found that TweetAdder had a very simple interface as well. With TweetAdder you needed to build up your lists and you also had to figure out that you had to have a separate program running for each account in order to send automated tweets. TweetAdder has automated tweets and dm’s where Hummingbird does not have them yet. (NOTE: We did get our accounts suspended for the automated tweets and it appears that twitter identified the accounts on the machine as being from the same machine suspending all the accounts that we had created for the test within a month.

#2. Both Hummingbird and TweetAdder has a support system. We found that Hummingbird would provide support always on the same day and sometimes within the same hour or in just a couple minutes. They were very impressive in the support they provided and also the different tools of support. TweetAdder was quite the opposite. We waited for days for a response and some of the responses were just acknowleging that they had problems with no resolution. It does appear that they are very quick to give you your money back instead of providing you support though. So for support and a company that backs you we would have to say Hummingbird is the winner without a doubt.

#3. Follow back percentage or building up our following lists. Both Hummingbird 2 and TweetAdder had a lower follow back percentage because of how the auto-follow engine works in our opinion. We did find that Hummingbird 1 had a follow-back percentage that was around 70% and if we were paying attention to how we used it we could even get better a better percentage. This means that for building followers Hummingbird 1 is the king of the programs for percentage and fast following. (Note: Hummingbird 1 only works on a PC at the time and it has no restrictions so you should not leave the program alone to just run.

Summary of our test:

We would have to say that considering you can purchase Hummingbird today for 97.00 and you can manage as many twitter accounts as you want we would have to say Hummingbird would be our choice for auto-follow engines. TweetAdder has a compact program but the cost structure of per account and the fact that they are very poor in support leads us to say that TweetAdder is not even our second choice today.

We will be posting more information on more tests and also some tips to help you improve your success on twitter.

Dr. M. G. Fox
Twitter Professional Marketing Group

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Fast CPALead affiliate program money with Twitter by cystic acne

CPALead is a great affiliate program that suitable especially for new internet marketers. The reason is very simple – you don’t have to build a website, write content, exchange links, wait 4 months till your site will rank well on Google or invest a lot of money in PPC advertisement. You just need to put on the web something that people want so badly that they will fill surveys for it, and also a simple way to drive traffic.

Twitter is a great way to find instant traffic to monetize your website or products with CPALead. While it is not the best place to sale on the internet, it is great for offering free stuff there. The most common free offers you can post there are online coupons, discounts and vouchers. Another great idea to attract traffic is free online games and even game codes that help the player to win in games such as world of warcraft.

After you registered to CPALead and set the html code on the page where your product is, you just need to drive traffic from twitter. Getting followers on twitter is very easy; just start following after 40 people a day and you will get more followers. There is much effective way to get more followers and to automate your tweets with your link embedded. Here is how to do it:

Browse to “Google alerts” and create rss feeds for each keyword you would like to target on twitter, for example “free coupons”, “games codes” and etc. Set the feeds to update as it happened and keep the rss URLs handy with you.

Next visit Twitterfeed website. This is a free online service that allows you to spread the rss feeds from Google alerts into your twitter account automatically. So after you set it up you have an automatic twitter account that tweets every few minutes about your selected keywords. To make it more effective there is an option to add your link on every tweet, in this way lots of users might click on it, complete the CPALead surveys and make you rich!

Copy from my success, register to CPALead today and start making money right now! For more tips and tricks download my free CPALead eBook.

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