Ok, so I haven't gone to bed yet. I guess there's more money to be made, or work to be done, or something. Before bed, I want to make a quick (or not so quick) post about a website that you can use to schedule tweets on Twitter, automatically send direct messages to your new followers, and automatically follow anyone who follows you.
The website is TweetLater.com, and it has some very handy (and FREE) features that can be leveraged to manage, build, and interact with your followers on Twitter.
Why does all this matter? Because Twitter is a great way to market and brand yourself and having a large following there can prove to be profitable in more ways than one.
In future posts we will dig deeper into some of the ways Twitter is profitable, but for now I'd like to highlight a few nice features at TweetLater.
TweetLater's main draw for me is the ability to automatically send a direct message to all of my new followers. I simply entered my Twitter details at TweetLater, then created an intro phrase and now all my followers get a message "directly" from me once they've clicked to follow my tweets. It's a simple yet effective (FREE) method of interacting with like-minded peers with very little effort on your part. For those of you who asked how this was done, now you know.
And now for some juicy tidbits!
I noticed earlier today that TweetLater has extended their direct message system so you can now rotate the direct messages that are automatically sent to new followers. This means that we can now easily test different intro messages, as well as put an affiliate link or two into the rotation without spamming every new follower we get. Hopefully you're starting to get some ideas on how you can use this feature.
Another feature offered is the ability to automatically follow every new person who follows you. If you say "so what?", think about it from another angle... other people are using this feature to automatically follow their followers on Twitter. Lots of other people are using this. So... if you want a bunch of followers on Twitter, all you have to do is start following a bunch of people. Those using auto-follow will automatically follow you back! As a bonus you will get many more followers as well who aren't using auto-follow. You may not use the auto-follow feature yourself, but that doesn't mean you can't benefit from it!
So there we have it... a few simple ways to leverage online tools that save time while building your Twitter identity.
One final tip: No online brand building, promotion, or money making method will ever be 100% guaranteed or proven. Things can and will go wrong so all we can do is take methods that make money for others and tweak, tweak, tweak until we find what works for us.
(All this coming from a sleep-deprived, lazy online money maker who slipped into zombie mode three tacos ago. Imagine what a normal person could accomplish.)
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