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By Phyllis Zimbler Miller in Featured

Almost every book author wants to know: When is a good time to start marketing a book? While still writing the book, while looking for an agent or publisher, while going through the self-publishing process? When the book is available on Amazon?

There are few certain replies to this question except for one: It’s rather late to start marketing your book when it is already out on Amazon.

So what’s the answer as to when is the best time to start marketing a book? It depends.

And what it depends on is a great number of variables, including is this your first book, do you already have an online reputation, are you a renown newspaper journalist who is about to write a first novel, and any other variable that you care to name. (Such as, do you have a famous last name, such as Mary Higgins Clark’s daughter had when she started writing mysteries?)

If we can agree that we can’t pinpoint an exact right time that applies to everyone, are there general guidelines that can help all authors?

Yes, I believe there are. First, if you’re interested in promoting online, the earlier you start establishing yourself online the better. And the first step is to decide on your brand as a book author.

What do I mean by brand? I mean how you plan to position yourself in your marketing and promotion. What is it that will make you stand out from other writers of non-fiction or similar fiction? What will make people interested in you (and hopefully want to buy your book)?

The strategizing of your brand definitely takes place as early as possible in the publication quest for your book. And as part of this brand strategy, it’s very important to consider the proposed title of your book. This is even more relevant if you’re going to self-publish. You should check out your title with others even if you love the title.

Does your book title “read” the way you think it does? Or does your proposed tile have a different meaning to some people? For example, today I saw someone’s proposed book title that will be very hard to remember, let along spell on Amazon or for a URL. This is probably not the best name for a book.

And does the title stand out? Does it create an image in a potential reader’s mind so he/she can remember the title? A generic title such as “A Good Trip” doesn’t create a specific image, whereas “Six Sunny Days in Paris” creates a strong sense memory.

Once you are clear about your brand and have a good “working” book title (it still may change), you can begin to add elements to your brand positioning.

You can, for example, have someone create short videos (less than three minutes) of you talking about the stages you’re going through in researching and writing your book. Then you can use software such as Sony Vegas Movie Studio to edit the video and to put text such as your name and, if you have a website, your website’s URL on the video.

And you can upload these short videos to YouTube and other video-sharing sites. Remember, it’s important to tag these videos with good keywords that relate to you and your brand so that people will have an easier time finding your videos.

You can start a blog, detailing the stages of your book’s process and sharing sample chapters with your blog readers. Getting feedback early on can help you refine your book. And you can offer to write guest posts for other people’s blogs, again staying true to your brand in what you offer to write about.

And then you’re ready for a website – a site that you can control yourself without waiting days for your web master to make one little change. That’s why I recommend having someone build you a website using WordPress.org. Once all the backend steps are done, you will have a website (and blog if you want) that is hosted on your own site and can be completely controlled (read “changed”) by you.

Finally, it’s time to establish a sincere presence on social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn as well as various book sites and other social media sites. Gradually build up your presence on these sites by engaging in conversations with others, offering advice when you can, and establishing relationships that will come in handy when your book is published.

Having a website or at least a blog hosted on another site such as blogger.com provides you with your own arena of visibility when you set up your profiles on social media sites. By using your website URL or blog URL as part of who you are on the internet, you’re more firmly establishing an online foundation for your book’s publication and marketing.

Phyllis Zimbler Miller (@ZimblerMiller on Twitter) has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is an Internet business consultant. If you liked this article, you’re going to love her free report on “The Top 3 Internet Marketing Elements” – download the report now from www.QueensofBookMarketing.com

By admin in Featured

Whether you’re new to the world of running your own business or a seasoned veteran there are traits that all successful entrepreneurs have, or develop, to give them the edge and the best chance of success.

These are what I call the ‘must do’s’ for running a successful business, so keep this list close at hand and review it on a regular basis to keep you on track:

1. Develop the ability to see what others want/need/desire through your own research, findings and searching. As my business partner Neil Travers always says, “keep your head up and eyes open, opportunities are all around.”

2. You don’t have to invent a brand new product to be successful. Look for the gap in the market gap for a new product/service or the development and improvement of an existing product or service. Richard Branson wasn’t the first to have an airline, but he successfully built his businesst on the premise of improving on what was already being offered.

3. Focus on service, service and service as too many businesses and entrepreneurs overlook this simple business premise. They focus all their efforts on the ‘front end’ of the business with little or no regard for what happens next.

The technology now available with help desks and virtual assistants means there is no excuse not to give exceptional customer service, no matter what the size of your business is.

4. You have to start somewhere, and you have to get started now, not spend time thinking about it. That first step of registering a domain name meant I had begun that business, then I had to keep going, but you go nowhere if you havent’ made a start.

STOP putting off what can be done today and get started NOW!

5. Start small and grow to ANY size you want to. An Information Marketing business can get started for a few hundred pounds and grow into a multi million pound business by reinvesting your profits.

6. Keep using the Internet and other sources such as your local library for acquiring new information about your market, customers, competitors and ideas!

7. Generate and create entrepreneurial excitement about your business and keep that feeling as you continue to grow.

8. Always charge the most you can for your products to create bigger profits for you and your company. Having good profit margins will give you the advantage when developing marketing campaigns, new products and for meeting any problems head on.

9. Develop a strategy that helps your customers grow, enjoy, improve or profit from the information, products and services you sell them.

10. ALWAYS maintain honesty and integrity in your dealings and stay true to your values.

11. Every business owner is going to have to deal with anxiety, frustration and problems so cope with them by developing tenacity and perseverance.

12. Always be on the look out for mistakes and how to avoid them. Remember the saying… “to trip over a rock in a campsite is an accident, to fall over it twice is a warning and to fall over it a third time is stupidity.”

13. Remember, you must continue to win back your customers over and over again. You cannot take them for granted.

14. Constantly review your numbers, results and checkpoints within your business. Having control and an understanding of your business will help you as you grow.

15. Diversification within your business is the way to offer more to your costumers and prospects by bringing related products and services to them. It will also strengthen your position in the market.

16. Look to sell your business when it no longer interests or excites you.

17. Look for something that is worthwhile, fun and enjoyable to do with the money you earn. Otherwise why are you doing it?

There are other things I could add to this list, but it’s a great place to get started.

Are you missing any, or could you add some more?

Neil Stafford – The Internet Marketing Review is the UK’s longest running PRINTED Internet Marketing Newsletter. ‘Test drive’ it for FREE – Visit this special web page for more information: http://www.InternetMarketingReview.com/sya

By Julie Ann Ross in Featured

sem - search engine marketingSearch engine marketing (SEM) has evolved to become the most reliable strategy for reaching your target audience and driving conversions on the internet. It compels your market to visit your website; it boosts your company’s exposure within your space; it positions your product as the solution to their problems. As a result, your sales increase. Your ROI rises. Your revenues and profits swell. Your business enjoys stronger customer loyalty and branding in the process.

Many of your competitors are already using SEM in an attempt to capture a larger portion of your market. There has never been a better time to protect and expand your territory. This article will explain why search engine marketing should be a critical piece of your online marketing strategy. You will discover the value of hiring an SEM expert versus going on your own. We’ll also describe how SEM PR and SEM social media tactics converge with SEO and PPC to produce a groundswell of momentum.

By John Sylvester in Featured

In Britain, all internet service providers will soon be required to keep records for a year of every customer’s personal communications: in other words, and to paraphrase Sting, every phone call you take, every text message you make, every email and website visit you thought opaque, they’ll be watching you.

Britain is fast becoming the reality show of the oligarchic society of the Oceanian province of Airstrip One, envisaged in George Orwell’s book 1984, and will finally bring into being the harbinger of Orwell’s vision of state spying.

Remember his world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, public mind control and the voiding of citizens’ rights? Well, it is about to become law in Britain, according to an article in the Telegraph newspaper.

In the book, Winston Smith, an intellectual and editor responsible for historical revisionism, lives out a meagre existence in a one-room apartment on a subsistence diet. In an alcove beside his “telescreen”, he believes his thoughts can remain private, but he is found out by the Thought Police, or Thinkpol, who spy on everyone, and is sent off for interrogation, electroshock and reintegration.

Perhaps exaggerated beyond its social significance, it is still true that there is widespread opposition to the almost exponential volumes of surveillance and invasion of privacy in Britain. And let’s not forget that this is a country that already has one and a half times as many surveillance cameras as China: in Britain today there are 4.2 million closed-circuit TV cameras; one camera for every 14 people.

Now, according to the Telegraph, it is recommended that, “653 public bodies will be given access to the information, including police, local councils, the Financial Services Authority, the ambulance service, fire authorities and even prison governors”.

Not only that, but these bodies need not seek the permission of a judge to obtain this personal information, but “simply the authorisation of a senior police officer or the equivalent of a deputy head of department at a local authority”. While the authorities will not have access to the content of personal emails or mobile phone calls, they “can see the internet addresses, dates, times and identify recipients of calls”.

Just like in Oceania, the new law will expose citizens’ personal data via the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which for years has been established as a euphemism for “fighting terrorism”. That term, presumably, excludes state terrorism.

The shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, said he feared the abuse of data intercept: “The big danger in all of this is ‘mission creep’. This government keeps on introducing new powers to tackle terrorism and organised crime, which end up being used for completely different purposes. We have to stop that from happening”. Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, criticised the cost of the scheme, and said it would in effect be “state spying”.

According to the Daily Mail newspaper: “The government also deploys millions of security personnel, which include uniformed, official security guards who work along side police, patrolling the streets and others who bug phones, scour the internet for sensitive material and block international TV news bulletins…Figures released showed that in Britain the number of Big Brother snooping missions by police, town halls and other public bodies has soared by 44 per cent in two years.”

Remember, in Britain and coming soon: every single day, every word you say, every game you play, every night you stay, they’ll be watching you.

By SEO Sapien in Featured

TwitterWhen most people think of customer service, long wait times on the phone, rude phone operators, and impersonal emails come to mind. Thanks to Twitter, however, customer service no longer has to have such negative connotations.

Twitter has redefined customer relations. Not only does Twitter enable companies to resolve customer problems very quickly, it also contributes to brand building efforts while reducing costs.

By Steve Shaw in Featured

When you’re writing articles for Article Marketing, it is not enough just to convey facts in your article–to make a good article great you need to inject some passion into it. If you can convey passion in your articles, your articles will make a deeper impact on your readers.

Are you a passionate champion of your field?

If so, how do you convey that in your articles?

We each have our own writing styles and personalities, so not all of us will convey passion in the same way, but if you’re looking for some pointers on writing articles that touch people’s hearts and minds, give these ideas a try:

  1. Think of yourself as a teacher. In my opinion, this is the key to a successful article and writing with passion. With article marketing we are submitting educational articles, which means that we should be teaching our readers something new with every article.
  2. Empathize with your readers. Put yourself in your readers’ shoes–do your remember what it felt like when you were just starting out in your field? You are an expert in this topic now, but at one time you were a beginner. Remember how that felt and the emotions associated with feeling a bit out of your depth. Acknowledge those emotions in your articles, and you will make a deeper connection with your readers and convey your intense desire to help them.
  3. Encourage your readers. Your job is to help others who are interested in your field to make that journey from newbie to a person of more advanced knowledge. People need encouragement to go from Step 1 to Step 2. In your articles, encourage your readers. Tell them what they have to look forward to. Assure them that they can learn the things that you are trying to teach them.
  4. Share information that can change people’s lives. If you are passionate about your topic, then no matter what your niche is you do believe that learning about your topic has the potential to change people’s lives. Every article that you write should be a bountiful offering of insightful information geared to teach your reader something about your topic.
  5. Always be on the lookout for new ways of thinking about your topic. The best teachers never stop being students.
  6. Write on a level that beginners can understand. Simple is better–your job as the teacher is to break a more complicated topic down into bite size pieces that are easily consumable by your readers.
  7. Focus on answering questions. Choose article topics centered around answering frequently asked questions in your niche. Listen to your customers’ questions and look for topics that need further explaining. If a couple people are asking about an issue, then most likely there are many others who are also wondering the same thing.
  8. Write for one person. Make your readers feel like your article was written just for them. Be very specific on your article topics–what specific lesson are you teaching?
  9. Write in a conversational style. What if you were sitting across the table from your reader–how would you explain your topic to them in every day language?
  10. Experiment! Explore, ask questions, think of new approaches to your field. Just because you’re an expert doesn’t mean you’re done learning about your niche. Constantly work to expand your knowledge of your topic and approach it from different angles. People who are passionate about their fields are leaders and trailblazers.

Are you writing as passionately as you could be? Pick a few of these tips and apply them to your next article. Writing with passion is a skill that takes time to learn, and you will improve with the more articles that you write.

Steve Shaw is an article marketing expert, and founder of the popular article directory at http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles. Discover how to use the power of article marketing to reach tens of thousands of potential prospects for your website – download a powerful free report on successful article marketing from http://www.submityourarticle.com/report

By Phyllis Zimbler Miller in Featured

BlogTalkRadio.com – an internet radio “station” that offers anyone the opportunity to host his or her own show for free – is an ideal opportunity for book authors to promote their books on a regular basis while providing valuable content to their target audiences.

To begin with, no technical knowledge is needed. You simply sign up at BlogTalkRadio.com, follow the directions, and you can become the host of your own live show. You don’t even need a microphone. You call into a number at BlogTalkRadio to be the host, and your show guest – as well as show listeners who want to ask questions – call into the same number. Show listeners can also “chat” questions during the live show.

Wait you say! How do you think of topics to talk about? Let’s answer this by taking two imaginary book projects. We’ll take both a fiction and a nonfiction book project.

We’ll imagine that Janice has a novel titled “Sally Smith Confronts Her Ghosts” – and the book centers on a protagonist who realizes she has undiagnosed PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and seeks help. When the help fails her, she goes on a quest to cure herself.

Janice decides to have a half-hour show once a week with the title “Confronting Your Ghosts.” She invites psychologists and other mental health workers as guests on the show. Sometimes the topic is PTSD, sometimes eating disorders, sometimes any number of “ghosts” that people face. At the beginning and end of each segment, Janice announces that she is the author of “Sally Smith Confronts Her Ghosts” and gives a brief blurb about the novel.

Then Janice uses her weekly show to get more exposure for herself on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the other social media sites on which she is a member. She tweets and posts Facebook updates about the guest topic for that week’s show.

Now what about Paul, whose nonfiction book “How to Speak to Your Plumber” provides tips on how to speak the language of the various repair people you use in your home or office. Paul starts a BlogTalkRadio show with the same name as his book – “How to Speak to Your Plumber.”

Each week Paul has a person from a different occupation as the show’s guest – an air conditioning repair person, an upholstery cleaner, a fence builder – talking about information for that specific specialty.

And, yes, Paul also uses his social media accounts such as Twitter and Facebook to get the word out about his show, which gets the word out about his book.

One of the benefits of doing a BlogTalkRadio show is that, after doing the live show, the recording of the show is available on your show’s page for downloading. People can listen on the site – and guests can download the show onto their own website or blog.

Build a fan base for your BlogTalkRadio show by offering quality content, and you’ll have a weekly platform for promoting your book.

Phyllis Zimbler Miller (@ZimblerMiller on Twitter) has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is an Internet business consultant. If you liked this article, you’ll love her free report on “Power Marketing’s Top 3 Internet Marketing Tips” – download the report now from www.QueensofBookMarketing.com

By Tinu AbayomiPaul in Featured

Web-2.0First, let’s define the term Explosive Results for our usage.

A standard social media campaign helps spread the word about you and encourages other people to as well.

An explosive social media campaign has inherent viral exposure, inspires community driven communication, helps make the web a better place, and even brings joy to people, however fleeting.

When you share in social media, if your goal is just to get more people to see your links, you’re on the right track, but at the same time, you’re limiting your potential. You may think that getting explosive results from social media will take more time, energy and money, but this doesn’t have to be the case.

By admin in Featured

If you got behind the wheel of a car without knowing how to drive, chances are, you’d crash. Yet, every single day on the Internet, thousands of newbies are performing the equivalent of the aforementioned driving analogy, by putting up a website without having the slightest idea how to promote it. And guess what happens – they crash!

In my opinion, starting a business – any business without having even basic marketing skills is not only putting the proverbial cart before the horse – it’s downright foolish!

Now some might argue that a business plan is more important than marketing ability. And others might argue that knowing how to manage a business is more important than having a marketing acumen.

Well, I agree with the former argument. A good business plan is like a GPS system. It will keep you on course, and headed in the right direction. A business plan is an absolute must, and you should definitely develop one before you start any business.

However, I reject the  latter argument. Why? Because you can be the greatest manager in the world, but if you don’t know how to market your wares, your business will fail – I don’t care what you’re selling.

That’s why I consider competency in marketing the most important business skill that you can have. If you become proficient in the art of marketing, it will allow you to become profitable that much quicker. Then you can afford to either hire a manager, or take  a business management course.

A Simple Classified Ad

How important is it to acquire marketing proficiency? Believe it or not, writing a simple classified ad is considered both an art and a science, seriously! Publisher and mail order legend, Melvin Powers actually wrote an entire 240 page book about classified advertising titled, “Making Money with Classified Ads.” In an advertisement for the book Powers writes:

“I’ve run thousands upon thousands of ads, month after month, year after year and have made millions doing it. I’ve learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t. I found that, as with most things, making money with classified ads is easy when you know how.”

Author and  master copywriter, Robert Boduch also wrote a book about classified advertising titled “Classified Magic …How To Make Your Small Ads Pay Off BIG!” In an advertisement for his book, Boduch wrote:

“After years of running ads — trying out various approaches — I began to collect the key ideas that worked. I wanted to figure out what made some classified ads so successful. And I kept testing new approaches until …I finally figured out …what works and what doesn’t.”

By the way, while we’re on the subject of writing ads, do yourself a favor and start reading Brian Clark’s outstanding copywriting blog, CopyBlogger. You won’t get a better ad writing education anywhere on the Internet – and it’s free! You can thank me later.

How Do I Get Free Traffic to My Website?

I’m a member of several small business forums, and without fail, whenever newbies visit the forums, the two questions they ask most often are: “How do I promote my website?” or, “How do I get free traffic to my website?”  Those two basic questions get asked by newbies every single day.

Newbies, are you starting to see my point about the importance of acquiring marketing skills? You need to know the answer to those questions, before you build a website. As I demonstrated a moment ago, even writing something as simple as a classified ad requires  a certain degree of competency.

The Seduction of Internet Marketing Newbies

In his book “Seduction,” author and social theorist Jean Baudrillard writes:

“Many social behavior theorists classify seduction as a specialized form of persuasion. Seduction can also be viewed as a form of power that relies on psychological mastery rather than the use of coercive power, money, or intellectual appeals.”

I couldn’t agree more. Seduction is indeed a “specialized form of persuasion that relies on psychological mastery.” That’s one of the reasons why so many newbies come online believing that they can succeed without any type of training – without any marketing knowledge whatsoever. They’ve been psychologically seduced – mentally manipulated into believing that they can – much like gamblers are seduced by the dream of striking it rich in Las Vegas casinos.

Allow me to elaborate: Naive and highly impressionable newbies see stories on tv about ordinary people getting rich on ebay. They see the slickly produced “get rich quick on the Internet” infomercials. They read the newspaper and magazine articles about people starting an online business with little or no money, and seemingly making millions overnight.

In addition, brilliantly composed and ultra persuasive get-rich-quick ads literally saturate the Internet. They’re everywhere! At virtually every turn, newbies are bombarded and seduced with stories, and images of ordinary people making extraordinary amounts of money on the Internet. And as is human nature, they want to get in on the action too. In essence, newbies are being seduced with unrealistic visions of the “pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.”

And because the seduction methods being perpertrated are so powerful and effective, they almost have a brainwashing effect. Most newbies are incapable of determining for themselves what’s true and what isn’t. They can’t comprehend that the “flavor of the month” success stories they see in the media and on the Internet are the exception, rather than the rule.

Now many of you reading this may erroneously come to the conclusion that I’m against capitalism, and free enterprise. I can assure you, I’m not. I’m all for everyone making as much money as they possibly can. After all, that’s the American way. That being said, I also think it’s important that newbies coming online be told the “truth” about Internet Marketing – that it’s not nearly as easy as it’s being presented.

The Truth About Internet Marketing

Because of fierce competition and ratings pressure, the tv media especially tends to glamorize certain news items. As a result, newbies are being fed a daily dose of sensationalized poppycock! The truth is, Internet marketing is hard work. No, not ditch-digging hard – but hard work nonetheless. And for every “rainbows and lollipops” success story that gets publicized, there are at least a thousand gut-wrenching failures that get swept under the rug.

The point of this article is to cut through the hype and B.S – to tell newbies the truth about Internet Marketing. It’s a business, like any other business. And it requires preparation, effort and dedication. So how can newbies realistically succeed on the Internet? In my opinion, the easiest, safest and best way for newbies to succeed online is with affiliate programs. What are affiliate program?

In a nutshell, an affiliate program is where you agree to promote another company’s products for a commission, or percentage of the profits. Affiliate programs are perfect for newbies, because for the most part, you don’t even need a website to get started making money. You also don’t have to worry about billing hassles, stocking inventory or shipping products. That’s all handled for you by the merchant. You simply promote the daylights out of the link the merchant provides you. And when you make sales – collect your money.

But what about if you don’t know anything about marketing? Glad you asked.

The best and most successful affiliate programs like Dr. Ken Evoy’s 5 Pillar Affiliate Program or The Internet Marketing Center (IMC) Affiliate Program take you by the hand, and help guide you through the marketing process. They work with you to help you become successful. They’ll do their part – but you have to do your part as well. That means you have to work hard, and faithfully study and apply their proven marketing techniques – and learn how to promote their programs. They’ll teach you what you need to know to become successful, and allow you to progress at your own pace.

There are also some excellent books on the market, written especially for newbies. One of the best is “Street Smart Internet Marketing” by Justin Michie.

So if you’re a newbie reading this, do yourself a favor, and pick up a copy of “Street Smart Internet Marketing.” It’s selling on Amazon for as little as $4.99 – a relatively painless investment in your marketing education.

Free Internet Marketing Resources for Newbies

A really great website for newbies is the original newbies site, Joe Robson’s The Newbie Club. This site has some incredible free resources, including articles, free tutorials, newbie software, newbie books and e-mail courses.

StartupNation is another fantastic site for newbies. It pretty much has everything a newbie would need, all on one website, including blogs, forums and a marketplace where you can promote your business for free. It’s a very impressive site.

Also, check out Lynn Terry’s Self Starters Weekly Tips website. Lynn has been working online for over a decade. Her website has plenty of free resources, including a popular forum and blog. And from what I’ve observed, Lynn goes out of her way to help newbies.

Another good site for newbies is Mike Merz’ im4newbies. Mike has been helping newbies for nearly a decade. Our paths have never crossed, but word is, Mike’s one of the truly good guys on the Internet – and his site has some excellent free resources for newbies.

In closing, Internet marketing is serious business – so be sure to treat it that way. Because unlike the movie, “Field of Dreams,” where “if you build it, they will come.” On the Internet, if you build a website without knowing how to promote it – nobody’s coming!

David Jackson is the owner of Reviews-by-Customers.com – verified customer reviews of reliable online services. Newbies, if you would like to learn how to make money with affiliate programs, read this: http://tinyurl.com/yl5hega

By admin in Featured

It’s common for new Twitter users to get overwhelmed after joining. This article presents 10 Twitter tips which will help you get started while ensuring that your time on Twitter is both productive and efficient.

Top 10 Twitter Tips for Beginners

  1. Choosing a Username: A lot of Twitter users choose nicknames that are unrelated to the information they are offering. If you are using Twitter for personal use this is okay, however, if you are going to use Twitter to offer high quality information related to your area of expertise, you should choose a username that reflects your area of specialization. When people see your username they will know exactly what you are about.
  2. Retweets: Retweet are also known as RTs and are used to resend a message sent by someone else. If you think the content of the message is relevant and useful, you always have the option of forwarding that person’s message. If you wish to send a retweet, all you have to do is type “RT @name” in front of their message and then proceed to post it. Whenever you post the tweet, always remember to acknowledge the person who originally created the message.
  3. Communicating with the @ Sign: In order to reply to people who have posted tweets, the @ sign is used. If you wish to post a reply, simply place an @ sign in front of their username and then type in your message.
  4. Locating Your Friends and Searching for Topics of Interest: You can use the Search function to find your friends and topics you may be interested in.twitter.com. It functions much like a search engine with the only difference being that you are using Twitter to find people and information that would interest you.
  5. Receiving Mobile Tweets: If you have a cell phone you can receive tweets from Twitter on your mobile device by simply entering your cell phone number under the Devices tab in your Twitter account settings online.
  6. Mobile Twitter Clients: Twitter provides mobile clients which enhance your experience with using Twitter. The clients include Twitterific and Twitterberry and work with a cell phone that contains Wi-Fi.
  7. Categories: On Twitter, you can easily categorize your tweets so that other users can easily find them. If you are posting a tweet about a topic that is currently popular, all you have to do is place # sign in front of the topic of your tweet.
  8. URL Addresses: URL addresses are website addresses that you can provide in your tweets if there is a page you want others to view. More often than not, website URLs are long and exceed the 140 character limit. Because of this, Twitter users prefer to shorten URLs with URL shortening services.
  9. Direct Messaging: Any tweet you post on Twitter, the message can be seen by everyone, however, you can use the direct messaging service to send private messages.
  10. TweetDeck: If you become a frequent Twitter user, it would be wise to install a desktop client like Tweetdeck on your PC or Mac. A desktop client application will help you to easily manage all of your communications on Twitter

There are a lot of other ways that Twitter can be used but these are the top 10 Twitter Tips that will help you understand the basics and get started using Twitter.

Martin Sejas is the author and main writer of Twitter Tips Central, a blog dedicated to providing the latest and best Twitter tips to improve user productivity and efficiency on Twitter.

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