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I’d like to introduce you to our guest author today, Harris Fellman. Harris has recently launched CoupDeTwitter – that is a course on how to properly get started and be successful with twitter by, getting a  lot of followers, and then turn those followers into cash.

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Harris is by no means a Social Media Expert, but still he teaches what he considers to be the “right way” to interact on Twitter & other Social Media sites without spamming people your offers and links.  Harris has a years of success in internet marketing and is a good friend I met  in San Diego earlier this year.  I am very honored to have him as a guest author today.

Here is a an interesting article about ”How to Take Over Twitter”:

We hear about it on blogs, newspapers, the nightly news and books at Amazon.   Tweet Tweet 

It’s Twitter. And whether you like it or not (yet) it’s going to be around in some form or another for a long time I suspect. Might as well get used to it, right?

A couple of months ago I was in the same boat many of you might be in right now, wondering whether all this Twitter madness was of any use to me at all or whether it was just a bunch of noise, literally. But I started to hear a lot of Twitter related stories and talked to people that I personally know who were using it in ways that I hadn’t considered before.

And the lightbulb finally went off for me. There was some serious power in Twitter! People were not only using Twitter to make connections and network with others, they were making money too. Some of them making LOTS of it as I came to find out.

The biggest thing that stood out for me is this…

From a marketing perspective, Twitter = Listbuilding. Plain and simple. Proper listbuilding is all about building a list AND building relationships with the people on that list. And in many cases the people I was talking to confided in me that their Twitter contacts were more responsive than even their e-mail lists were. As a long time email marketer, I was pretty shocked. But I started doing research and I discovered several truths that I want to share with you.

There’s a right way and a wrong way to go about using Twitter, and some rules of thumb to keep in mind along the way. But there are several crucial steps you’ll want to take note of.
Here’s how this works:

Harris and Clay Hanging out in San Diego

1. Get followers.
Sounds simple right? But there’s a lot of stuff out there that will make you think you can just automate the process and be done with it. BEWARE, Twitter is watching. If you do it wrong, you’re sunk. Account Suspended. Tweet no more.

2. Build a relationship with your followers.
Yes, that’s right, you’re going to need to start talking with your followers! You want to treat them like you would anyone you might meet at any other social gathering, stipulating that you’re not at a professional wrestling event and everyone is already yelling at one another.   Tweet me right and tweet others like you would like to be tweeted <G>

3. Get them Clicking & ReTweeting. 
Once you build that relationship with them you want to encourage (gently) them to start clicking links you provide with items of interest and most of all to get them Retweeting your posts. Why? Because the *real* power of Twitter is NOT in your own list of followers. Nope. The real power is in the power of the exponent. If you give things of value to the Twitterverse, the Twitterverse will return the favor… Tenfold As your tweets get retweetedd the number of people that see your tweet grows exponentially.

4. Last but not least. You want to make money right? 
Of course you do. Once you’ve completed steps one through three, there are a ton of ways that you can start to monetize your followers…their followers and their followers followers. But also beware: Twitter spam is on the rise and people are becoming wary of anyone who just jumps into the pool and starts shouting “Buy my Stuff” at the top of their lungs. You have to be very careful to craft your Tweets so that people are still getting maximum value from you. You have to be part of the conversation.
Seemingly simple steps, and they’re not rocket science, but they do take some finesse and time to do properly. If you’d like to learn more about how to properly implement these 4 steps, I welcome you to join me and my Coup De Twitter system. It will teach you how to do Twitter the RIGHT way as well as 7 easy ways to make money with it plus a handful of advanced tactics as well. Please visit Coup de Twitter to watch a free 35 minute video that I have prepared for you (no opt-in required).

Thanks for reading – if you liked this article, let me know on Twitter – my ID there is @harrisfellman.
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Harris Fellman
CoupDeTwitter

How to Find Interesting People to Follow on Twitter
One thing special about twitter is the endless stream of useful information.  By following positive hard working individuals you will be exposed to an endless stream of useful information about your area of interest.  To find people to follow that inspire you try a search at http://search.twitter.com for your favorite thing like cooking or marketing or hiking and you will find interesting tweets with your search term.  Then click on the picture and go to the users profile and see if they are someone you want to follow.  Once you find someone that interests you, check out who they follow by clicking on their following link under their picture and look at who they are following.  You can click on the picture of the person to go and check out their profile and see if they are someone you want to follow.  I suggest finding about 20 new people to follow each day for a week if you are doing it for a business.  Some people only follow their real friends and a few celebrities. 

http://twitter.com/invitations/find_on_twitter  Twitter offers to search your email contact list to see if anyone is on twitter registered with the email address you have.  Twitter then has an easy way to follow all the contacts found on twitter.  If you are looking for someone specific, try searching their name in search.twitter.com try it a few ways like @ClayFranklin, ClayFranklin, Clay Franklin.  This works for people that use their real name.  Many twitter users use the name of their business or interest.  You can also try this search on Google and even try, person name twitter, in the Google search window.

http://wefollow.com There are a lot of twitter search sites, one I like in particular is wefollow.com.  It is a great site to find twitters with the same interest as you.  Type in your interest and all people who registered there under that term will show up.  The ones with the highest follower count show up first so click see more at the bottom and you can see everyone who registered in that category.  The homepage shows the most popular categories and top number of followers.  It is interesting to see who has the most followers and then go look at their profile and read some of their tweets and see if you want to follow them also.

http://Twitterlocal.com   is another site that offers suggestions on who to follow based on your location.  You can find people in your city, or any particular city, state or zip code.  Then you can expand the search to include a area within a range of miles from your search area or location.

http://www.twellow.com is the twitter yellow pages.  What is nice about twellow is that you can go to your area of interest and find the top twitter users in that category.  Say you go to media, then sub category social media then sub category social media training and you get a listing of over 300 people in this category.  Include your city and state in your twitter profile so you can be found when others search your city and state.

http://mrtweet.com Follow Mr. Tweet and he will send you direct messages with recommended people to follow.

http://twitter.grader.com is fun to find your twitter grade but also has a wonderful database you can access for free.  Click on the Twitter Elite tab and check out what they have to offer.   I like the top twitter users by location function and have used it to find twitter users in my geographic area.  The search is also a useful tool if you have a keyword or name you are looking for.

http://twibs.com is a good search tool to find businesses on twitter.  They have a search box to search your favorite businesses.  It retrieves the business and the latest tweets from the company.  When you click on the business logo, they bring up twitter followers that relate to the business.  This is another interesting and fun place to poke around and see what businesses are tweeting.

http://www.twazzup.com is a good search tool to find people on twitter who share your interest.  Search your term and see what others are posting about it.  When you click on the picture of the person, it brings up their latest tweet.
Another place to find fun people to follow is by going to your friends profile pages on facebook and check if you are following all your friends.  Often the link to follow your Facebook friend on twitter is posted on their facebook profile page.
To Happy Followers,
@ClayFranklin



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I am amazed at how fast twitter has grown. When I singed up there were only 40,000 users. Now there are over a million users and growing every day.
New tools have been developed to help everyone keep up with there best friends and business customers using search terms and automatic feeds.

I am surprised at how fast twitter has become a defacto place to post your updates and keep in touch with freinds and relatives around the world.

I will be posting a survey, but today please leave a comment right now on what you would like the first video and trainings to cover.