Why Twitters?

If you are creating a blog with the expectations of generating traffic then there are few means and tools to achieve it.

Though being a king in the contents’ quality is a default condition, it is not the only factor which will be essential to be successful.

Managing the contents and knowing those methodologies to attract/generate traffic will give you the kingdom where you can prove your supremacy.

Twitter is nothing but micro-blogging platform which along with the powerful tools, support applications, and plug-ins will be capable to create the much needed popularity for developing your blogs.

The possible ways in which Twitter can help you save and make money as an entrepreneur are that they can be fun filled and interesting, thus will attract more traffic and it goes without saying that with improved traffic your business will grow tremendously.

You are not required to make big investments with Twitter or spend extensively on other expensive marketing strategies, thus you can save money too. Online business with Twitter could have not got better than this.

Advantages of Twitter for Entrepreneurs

Twitters, in short, is very popular in social networking which enables the users to update their status which consists of almost 140 characters.

You can make the best use of this by using the updates to post interesting information about you or your business along with the URL of you blog/website. It is possible that the onlookers can get mildly interested in what you have got to say with your updates via Twitter and can eventually end up visiting your website.

Remember that Twitter is just the tool which will initiate the potential traffic to your blogs; it is to be understood that you should have good quality contents, attractive profile, browser-friendly options, and more importantly, stay true to your promises if you have to sustain the potential traffic generated by Twitter.

It is indeed an art to survive and succeed in this internet world where thousands of new blogs and websites are cropping up each day.

• Twitters are indispensible in bringing home long lists of prospective customers in a really quicker period. At times, it is arguably even better than the ezines or other similar websites as the visibility while participating in Twitter is quite noteworthy.
• The best part is that you can continue to stay connected even if you are not around in your office as some of the latest Twitter can be used even from the cell phones. There are innumerable features in Twitter for you to ease your work, for instance, the services which the options for you to set up the daily “tweets” while you can arrange for automatically sending them out too.
• Twitter plays an important role in informing your followers the details about you and helps you to have an identity for yourself. Though this is much possible with webinars, seminars, blog updates, or with the articles written by you, Twitter is more efficient and friendly.

As an entrepreneur, to ensure the maximum success with Twitter, you can resolve to tweet regularly and make attempts to go beyond just selling.

Few mistakes which are common while using Twitter are being too sales based, not updating your blogs/source as much you update your Twitter, and lastly, becoming a twit-addict.

Some of the popular Twitter shortcut tools which will save your time are Tweetdeck, Twellow, Tweetie/Twitterberry, Grouptweet, Monitter, Twitterfox, Twitthis, Hashtags.org, WhoShouldIFollow, TweetBeep, Twitterfeed, and so on.

Remember that time is also money and you can still make the best use of Twitter without having to spend much of your precious time.

Mark Victor Hansen Speaks To Us About His New Book “The Richest Kids In America!”

I was fortunate to met up with Mark Victor Hansen at Ryan Lee’s recent Continuity Summit. Mark is one of the most inspiring people I have ever met and when I told him about the Young Entrepreneur community at Retireat21 he was blown away! Mark and I had quite a number of discussions and the more we discussed, the more we realised we had a lot in common - in particular our passion to help young entrepreneurs.

Mark Victor Hansen makes the case in “The Richest Kids in America” that America’s hope for getting out of the current recession, may be down to successful young entrepreneurs such as those featured in this book. In the book he interviews 20 successful kid entrepreneurs and shows how they made their first millions — naturally, I recommend it very highly.

Mark Victor Hansen Interview

Buy “The Richest Kids In America: How They Earn It, How They Spend It, How You Can Too” at Amazon.com

Get ready to meet some amazing entrepreneurial superstars who are living their dreams and making a big difference doing it. They’ve shared their stories to inspire you, teach you, and show you that your own opportunities are endless. How did they discover their passion? What were their first steps to building their business? Who supported them along the way? Why do they all choose to give back to their community? In this book you’ll learn the key principles that catapulted each of these incredible young entrepreneurs to success and how these same principles will lead you to a life of ultimate fulfillment.

Check out Mark’s website at:
http://www.markvictorhansen.com

To our success,

Michael Dunlop

Your website has to succeed on many levels to pull a visitor or prospect into your marketing agenda.

Without adequate initial curb appeals, your web site does not have a chance to strongly establish itself in visitor’s thoughts. Without strong content, visitors do not have a better reason to stay on your web site long enough to determine what you have to offer.

With the lack of reasons to return, visitors might never build enough interest to visit your site regularly.

Catching the Viewer’s Attention

There are only five seconds - that is right - five seconds to make a lasting first impression. That is not enough time for a web site visitor to read your content and understand your idea.

It is only enough for their emotion-based brains and perceptions to react to layout, design, color, navigation (perhaps), and maybe a headline. If you have not caught people attention by then, they are gone quickly, probably never to return again.

Smart web design may try to catch visitor’s attention with rotating images and catchy slogans.

Fonts, activities, images, everything on the web site must appeal to the target visitor you are trying to reach out. You should not put pastels on a site targeted for teenagers or vivid colors on a web site selling pet ashes urns.

A high-tech web site in black and silver has a very different feel and look than one selling country interior decoration with duckies and gingham. A site selling high-priced products needs lots of empty (white) space to look spacious and rich; a discount web site does well with crowded pictures.

That is why I advise finding a web designer who understands about marketing communications.

Understanding Stickiness

Stickiness is a technical jargon for keeping visitors on a Website. If the average viewers go to fewer than a couple of pages of your web site or stay no more than thirty seconds, most of them read only your home page and flee!

Generally, you want the average site visitor to stay with the site for at least three pages and a minimum of a few minutes. Otherwise these visitors have not spent enough time to find out what you have to offer.

You need to lay down a sticky trail with an impressive content, calls to action, interactions with site elements, things to do and media to download. Every click they make, every action visitors take, binds them kinesthetically to a web site.

Bringing Visitors Back for More

Studies reveal that many people do not buy on the early visits to a web site. Some use the Web only for research before deciding on a purchase in a real life store. Others research many sites for comparison shopping and return only if they decide to buy. You can offer visitors many reasons to return, from great articles, great prices to attractive contest.

All in all, the rule remains the same - you’ve only got five seconds to make a lasting first impression.

Multi-millionaire Internet Marketer Tellman Knudson Says Study Direct Response Marketing

Mr Overcome Everything, Tellman Knudson of OvercomeEverything.com and mega successful multi-millionaire Internet Entrepreneur shares some of his tips for success in business.

Tellman and my father, Barry Dunlop recently got to spend 6 days on Necker Island with a small group of amazing entrepreneurs and Sir Richard Branson the Billionaire Founder of the Virgin Group.

Both Tellman and Barry are passionate about helping young entrepreneurs get started and succeeding in business and during a brief rest from all the kite boarding, sailing, cliff jumping and partying etc they managed to record this video along with a transcription.

Enjoy and please comment.

Michael

Transcription:

Tellman Knudson: This is Tellman Knudson with Overcome Everything, Inc.

Hey Michael, how’s it going man? So I’m 32 years old. I have a multi-million dollar Internet-based company called Overcome Everything, and it was my eighth business. I started my first business when I was 19 years old out of the dorm room at my college. It was a salsa company and I basically ran that into the ground.

I started with no money and slowly and slowly built it up, but I really wasn’t interested in studying business or marketing. The primary reason for that… Sorry about the “get your booty on the floor” song, somebody left the door open out there, we’re going to have to just rock out to it, I guess. A little retro-techno.

Barry Dunlop: [laughs] It’s a young audience, they’ll be fine.

Tellman: They’ve probably never even heard this song. So anyway, here’s the point: I avidly didn’t want to learn or study business or marketing when I was 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. At 27, things kind of flipped in my brain and I started getting a little smarter. I’m hoping you’re going to get smarter faster than I did.

I personally had to start all of my businesses on my own funds. I had terrible credit. I was putting myself through college. By the time I finally started my Internet company, which I started on 50 bucks, I was over $200,000 in debt and just barely able to pay my rent. I had to start studying marketing or I was not going to make it.

I really didn’t like working for other people even though I could keep a job and wasn’t fired, I was frequently bored and I went from job to job because I would quit them right before I was going to get fired because I could feel it coming on when I’d start showing up late and that kind of stuff. So I’m the kind of guy that really isn’t very employable because I have my own ideas about stuff and I tend to be fairly erratic in my thinking, actions, and everything else.

So, my biggest advice to you is not study business and marketing, I would advise against that. I would also advise against studying business and marketing in college, personally. Sorry I don’t know if that’s what you are studying or not, I don’t know if you’re in college or not. But most of the people I know that studied business and marketing in college didn’t really learn squat from it, whereas people that studied something they really, truly loved in college got something substantial out of it.

That’s the first piece, if you’re in school whether it’ high school or whether it’s college, if you’re a young entrepreneur study something you love. That will give you a much deeper connection with what you’re working on in your life because that’s really what business is all about is doing what you love and finding a way to make money doing it versus studying lame business tactics just to make money which usually results in some money and a lot of unhappiness.

The second piece is if you’re going to study marketing, study direct response marketing. Most entrepreneurs, especially in the young crowd, either have Attention Deficit Disorder, have a bunch of symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder or think they have Attention Deficit Disorder. They’re very, very, very much quick start people for the most part.

If you’re looking at things online that are only accentuated, accelerated, you’ll find more and more of that. So my recommendation to you is study online direct response marketing because it will give you an immediate response. It’s virtually free to do and you can scale it starting from 50 bucks up into a multi-million dollar company if you’ve got some coffee and you’re willing to put some elbow grease into it.

That’s my best advice for young entrepreneurs is study direct response marketing early. You can use ugly, simple web pages with absolutely no graphic design experience in order to make amazing, amazing things happen. You can do it from something like a dorm room with a crazy idea doing something that you love.

Hopefully, that’s helpful for everybody and young entrepreneurs go ahead and kick some ass. I think you guys are ready to rock and if there’s anything that I can do to help let me know.

Barry: That’s fantastic, Tellman. Do you want to quote anybody in particular from direct response who’d maybe be a good person to study or look at?

Tellman: Well I would selfishly say myself.

Barry: That’s a good place to start because we know, Tellman, you’re on top of the game.

Tellman: If you haven’t checked out any of this stuff, just check out listbuildingclub.com. That’s great and it’s a great beginners program to start learning the basics of all this stuff and start ramping it up and making it work.

Barry: Thank you very much, Tellman, I really appreciate that.

Tellman: Thank you for the opportunity.

Find out more about Tellman at OvercomeEverything.com

PS: Check Out:
http://runtellmanrun.com — Coast to coast Run — barefoot for charity!

http://www.virginunite.com

31-year-old Entrepreneur Tellman Knudson will run 3,000 miles coast to coast across America to raise one hundred million dollars to help homeless kids find home, health and happiness again as they rebuild their lives with the help of Virgin Unite and The RE*Generation USA network of shelters and volunteers.

If you would like to support Tellman — please visit the above site — and please pass the word along…