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If you’re a home business owner, you’ve probably heard about how Twitter can be a great tool to grow  your business. It’s the talk of the online world right now.

Just about every famous person is on it…from Oprah to Jamie Oliver. Actually, the latest numbers show that over 6 million people are on Twitter.

I found out about Michael Jackson’s death on Twitter before it even hit the CNN home page…..so it’s pretty powerful stuff.

I’ve taken a while to actually start twittering, cause it just didn’t make any sense to me. I thought it was a real time waster…and I still agree it can be if you don’t use it smart.

The best way to use Twitter is for list building. The big idea behind it is to drive people to your site where they are presented with some great content and are made an offer they can’t refuse and sign up to be on your list.

So if you’re new to Twitter, here’s a run down on how to get started and some extra tools to use to make your life Twitterific!

1. Create Your Account

Inject some personality into your bio and make sure you put your website address in there somewhere…but please DON’T put your company’s replicated website or an affiliate link for a product….best bet is to put a link to your blog where you’re not selling anything.

2. Setup An Eye Catching Background

You can get some great images at http://www.twitterimage.com, http://www.twitbacks.com or http://www.mytweetspace.com. Keep it fresh and original. Be sure to include links to Facebook, your blog and if you want, your phone number…along with something else fun/attractive or interesting.

3. Setup Automation

When people follow you it’s a good idea to respond to them and introduce yourself. I was doing this manually at the beginning but it’s a time sucker…so use a tool like http://www.socialoomph.com to automate the process. Don’t put messages that try to sell them something ….just be friendly and say Thank You for following…maybe give them a free gift or ask them what they do in order to start a dialogue. You can also use this to automatically follow and unfollow people.

You can use a tool like http://dossy.org/twitter/karma to unfollow people who don’t follow you.

4. Find Some Friends

You can use a tool like http://www.livelybrowser.com, http://www.twellow.com or http://www.twollo.com to find friends who are your target market. Here’s a great tip: Let’s say you’re looking for people who are interested in nutrition…you might look up a large retailer like “Whole Foods” and take a look at all their followers. Follow some of them, and they are bound to follow you back.

5. Start Twittering

If you’re not sure what to twitter, you can check out this site: http://www.stufftotweet.com for interesting, fun stuff…but you’ll also want to tweet about things your market will be interested in. You can retweet other people’s tweets…but don’t go overboard on that one. The key is to share valuable content and not sell…at least you don’t want to be seen as always selling. People will unfollow you faster than you can say “Bye Bye Tweetie Bird”.

6. Interact With Everyone

It’s great to twitter about your own stuff…but remember to be a real person. Use the @Reply features to actually start dialogues and share other people’s ideas and interests as well.

Additional Tools

http://www.tweetdeck

http://www.twitpic.com

http://www.bubbletweet.com

If you’ve followed along with my videos on how to jump start your online MLM business, then you’ve already got your blog setup. Now it’s time to start blogging. But maybe you’re not sure what to blog about of if you do…you want to make  your blog posts persuasive so that people will actually read them.

Just finished watching Lesson 3: Copywriting Mastery Formula from my MLM Traffic Formula 2.0 course – trafficformula-2.com – and Ben uncovered 10 simple ways to create persuavie blog headlines for your blog.

Here’s the breakdown:

1. Shock Effect

2. Curiosity

3. Straight Benefit

4. Bizarre

5. Play on popular quotes/phrases

6. Contrast

7. Play on book and movie titles

8. TV & movie characters

9. Challenge existing dogma’

10. Mix and match the above

For more detailed information on this 10 ways, be sure to see trafficformula-2.com.

The very first thing you need to understand about getting leads for your products is to get into the minds of your potential customers. What are they looking for? What are their pain points? What are their fears, aspirations and dreams?

Then understand how your products can solve these problems. Can your products alleviate pain, save them money or give them a better life? Tap into a specific pain point. Don’t be too general by saying things like “It will make you healthier” or “It will save you money”. Be specific and address specific problems.

Some examples would be:

“Relieve those pounding headaches”

“Save $300 a year on your phone bill”

“Sleep 8 hours soundly every night”

These address specific problems.

Don’t spend too much time trying to target friends and family in this regard. They know you too well and they know what you’re an expert at. Headaches, sleeping and saving $ on phone bills probably isn’t one of your areas of expertise so they will not immediately consider you the expert.

Generating leads from the internet from people who are looking for these specific problems are your hottest form of leads.

First you’ll need to know what people are searching for online. Use a keyword research tool such as Google keyword.

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Next create a capture page with some text which includes your keyword phrases, some images and using an autoresponder to capture their email address. On this capture page you should give away something of value. People don’t just give out their email addresses for nothing in return.

Next steps are to drive traffic to your capture page. The two best ways to do this are by writing articles with a strategically created bio and 2 links and videos. Discuss some of the points you give away in your free offer on your capture page, or why people need your product. Keep everything professional, this is a reflection of you personally.

After you start getting some traffic to your capture page and you have their email address and from this point forward you can start building a relationship with them where they will start to trust that you know something about relieving headaches.

Over time and as you add value to their lives and help them with their problems, they will eventually trust you enought that they will buy from you. At this point you can start to introduce them to your solutions.

This is really just an overview of how to generate leads for your network marketing products. For more indept information download “Sweet Leads” and you will receive some videos that will jumpstart your online presence and teach you how to build effective capture pages.

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This course will teach you how to generate leads for your network marketing business. I have the original course and found it invaluable in building my business.

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Mike Dillard has just announced that his new, updated version of Traffic Formula 2 will be launching on June 3rd, 2009. As a prelaunch gift he is giving away the secrets behind his Traffic Formula the original version.

Mike has identified that the internet is a huge leveraged device that can help network marketers to generate thousands of online leads to their businesses. The old ways of generating leads isn’t cost effective anymore.

With more and more people flocking to network marketing as a valid home based businesses, this type of training is not only timely, but effective and current.

Mike gives away the secrets behind the original Traffic Formula on a 30 minute online DVD where he shows anyone how to create “You Inc.” that protects you from any mishaps in the industry and can generate immediate income that most network marketers wait years for.

With this launch, Mike Dillard will show network marketers the step-by-step actions necessary to build a successful business even in such a quick changing internet and SEO world.

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