It was the brand management tool in MarketMeTweet that really got me excited, the marketer in me loves to see cool ideas like this.

Now for my Market Me Tweet review…

The first thing that you might be thinking (I know I was) is why is it worth switching to MMT (Market Me Tweet) when there are already many other Twitter management tools out there, many of which are free, like TweekDeck. That’s a good and valid question, and I will focus on the difference between TweetDeck and Market Me Tweet, as TweekDeck seems to be the most popular, at least for online marketers like myself.

Yes, MMT does a lot of the same things that TweekDeck does…

• You can create groups,
• You can follow/unfollow people,
• You can have multiple Twitter accounts hooked up (without having to log off and back on),
• and of course of all of the other general stuff too.

But that’s where the similarities end because Market Me Tweet is also a powerful Twitter business/brand management tool.

Let me get right to the exciting part, at least for me it is … the Brand Management tool.

At the end of every tweet sent by everyone is a little line that says something like this, “11:24 PM Feb 17th from web” or “about 5 hours ago from TweetDeck“.  What this says is simply the time and date of that particular tweet and from the source it was sent. “Web” means that it was sent from the user’s main Twitter.com page, and “TweetDeck” means it was sent from within TweetDeck. Those are just two of the many different messages that you can see.

Let me ask you a question; Don’t you think it would be cool to have your own custom message show up in the “from” field in each of your tweets?

I thought about this before, but since I know very little about programming or anything to do with an API, I didn’t pursue the idea… but I am glad that Market Me Tweet did! Yep, you CAN customize that message to have it say anything you want AND have it click to any link you want! (I can see the wheels turning in your head)

As soon as I saw that I knew I had to get MMT, and I think you will too. So here are a few screen shots to help you better understand what it does…

The above is a shot from Willie Crawford’s Twitter stream where he was talking about a very cool new product which he just released (maybe I should review that too) . In this post he used his name in the “from” field and linked it to his main site. Click here to see this tweet live. BTW, thanks Willie for telling me about MMT!

This is a tweet from my own Twitter stream when I was sharing some of my cool followers who tweet great content. You can see that it says “Highly Recommended”, which links to a product. Click here to see this live tweet. But this branding feature gets even cooler…

Not only can you set up your own custom words that link wherever you want, you can also CHANGE what it says and where it links to whenever you want!

When you go check out those tweets from my Twitter timeline you will notice that some of my Tweets still say “from TweetDeck” as I am using both at this time. Keep reading to find out why.

There is also a “Reply Campaign” tool inside MarketMeTweet. I havn’t started using it yet, but it sure does look great for easily finding new potential customers and helping to create a conversation with them. I don’t think I can explain well enough about how it works and the other included tools either, so check out their main page here for more info and a video.

One important aspect to any program that you use that a lot of us overlook at times is whether the company is actively updating and fixing any bugs or adding new features to it. I am happy to say that just in the past few days since I started using MMT, they have updated it 3-4 times already! The better news is that they are listening to their users and giving them what they want, and not just small useless add-ons, but things that will help make the product even better,

With that said, Market Me Tweet is a pretty new program, which means that there are some minor bugs still to be fixed. But I am honestly not worrying about it since they keep updating and are very open with what future updates will come.

This is the reason why I am still using TweekDeck. At this point I am finding MMT to have some small bugs which can stop me at times from being able to see all of the tweets from the people I am following, so I switch back and forth from TweekDeck and Market Me Tweet. However, I have full confidence that MMT will keep getting updated and will only become a lot easier to use and A LOT more powerful as well.

For all of these reasons I highly recommend that if you are an online marketer and you use Twitter (or want to start), that you need to check out Market Me Tweet. Right now you can get MMT for a very good price, but with everything that it does already, I don’t see why they wouldn’t move to a monthly payment down the line, or at least charge a lot more.

Click Here to start branding your tweets and grab Market Me Tweet!

This blog post is a continuation on my Happy 2010 post where I shared 4 ways to make money online this year.

If you want to work as a freelancer to get paid for doing something for someone else, here are a few jobs which people will pay you for;

• Writing articles or ebooks,
• Market research for niche keywords,
• Creating graphics for web sites,
• Link building,
• Social/Web2.0 marketing,
• Copywriting,
• Programming,
• Web site creation.

Here 6 steps to help you start your freelance carrier;

Step #1: What are you good at?

It doesn’t matter how good you think you are (or how bad), all that matters is if there is someone out there willing to pay for your work. So your first step would be to go look through some of the freelance sites to see the types of jobs being offered and the requirements needed.

For simple article writing jobs, a grade 10 level of writing is all that many people require. But if you know some programming to create software, than there can be some big requirements in order to get the job done.

Take a look at what you are able to do online and compare them with what people are paying for. Then move on to the next step.

Step #2: Sign up with the popular freelance sites.

In the first step you should have taken a look at some of the freelance job offers, so this step might need to be done at that point, but not all sites require you to join just to look around.

Below are some of the more popular freelance sites, but there are many more out there. When first starting out it is important to be regularly checking them all for possible jobs.

• Elance
• Freelancer (use to be GetAFreelancer)
• RentACoder
• Guru
• oDesk

The sites listed above are in no particular order. They each have their own way of doing things and different types of buyers and sellers go to each site. So it is important to sign up with many of them and keep a watch to see the kinds of jobs and work being posted.

You can also check out forums and marketplaces within your niche for other spots where you can advertise your freelance work.

Step #3: Get some samples ready.

This step may depend upon what you are good at doing, as it might be possible that a sample can’t really be made ahead of time. For the most part, if you write articles or make software, graphics, or do SEO, then it is very important to have some previous work or at least some samples ready to share with potential buyers.

When you first start out as a freelancer, you will not have any previous user rating at the freelance sites which means that the buyers do not know if you will do a good job or if you will scam them. Make it as easy as possible for them to say “Yes” to you.

Step #4: Start posting your bids!

On the freelance sites they usually work on a bidding process, where the sellers/freelancers bid for the jobs posted by the buyers. This means that all of the other freelancers who are good at writing articles will also see and bid on an article job. This is where samples, user rating, and your bid price become very important.

You should already have some samples or previous work ready to show, but you won’t have any user rating yet (but you will get some over time). So now your bid has to be good to grab the attention of the buyer.

Your bid shouldn’t be too high or too low. You might think that the lowest bid will be a good way to go, but in most cases that is not true. Too cheap and the buyers will think that the job won’t get done well and that the freelancer might just run off with the money. Too high and the buyers will ignore you.

Since you are new your bid should be on the low side, but make sure to state in your bid why it’s low (because you are knew and want to gain their trust). It really does depend what other bids are there and what type of work it is. But a lower bid without being the lowest and a good bid description with links to samples should help you get noticed.

Step #5: Get to work.

Once one of your bids has been accepted, it is now time to work. The great thing about being a freelancer is that you know you will get paid for the work you do, instead of just hoping you will if you write an ebook to put up for sale on some web site.

Make a good first impression by getting started on the job as soon as you can and keep in regular contact with the buyer. If the job is going to take weeks to complete, then make sure the buyer knows that and tell them how it’s going several times throughout the job.

Buyers want to know that they made a good decision to hire you, so make sure that they know that.

Once you have completed the job and have sent the files to the buyer and have been paid, make sure to rate the buyer and ask them to do the same for you. Most freelance sites have some sort of user rating.

Step #6: Repeat the process.

If you want to keep doing freelance work, then make sure to keep posting your bids. You will not get accepted to all of the jobs you bid for, probably not even half of them. There are a lot of freelancers out there. But keep at it and keep doing a good job so that you will become a highly rated user with a lot of previous work to show.

As you can see, just about anyone can start making money online as a freelancer. It doesn’t require any website of your own (although that might help) and you don’t have to go looking for traffic. You just have to go tell others what you are good at and hope they accept your bid!

I discussed in an earlier blog post about how important it is to learn from people who are taking action and are where you want to be. I just wanted to touch on that again in this post, as I think many people skip past it without realizing just how important a teacher/mentor/coach can be.

One big trap that a lot of beginner marketers fall into is the feeling that they can do and learn everything themselves and still be successful within a few months. For the most part that can not be done, simply because there is so much to learn and so many distractions that will pop up.

I remember when I was starting out online I thought that way too, I wanted to do everything myself, and so I did. Since then I have learned to do just about anything that I could ever need to get done… but has it cost me a lot of time and money in the process? It probably has.

I spent probably days on end in the beginning to learn how to make a web site and figure out all of the hosting issues, but I did eventually get it done. I also learned over the years how to make some cool web graphics, how to use an autoresponder, 100+ ways to drive traffic to my sites, how to build an email list, how to write an ebook, and so many more things which I could never mention them all.

Note: As a beginner there are certain things that you really should learn how to do, but there are also many things which you don’t necessarily need to learn. They might be nice to learn, but it might be worth a lot more to get someone else to do it for you.

What I am getting at is that when you have a good mentor or coach who is helping you along and pointing you towards success, your job as a beginner becomes A LOT easier. If the coach is giving you step-by-step actions to take, you no longer have to worry about what your doing or if it will be successful, because your knowledgeable coach already knows it will be.

All you have to do is follow what they teach!

My good friend and “big dog guru” Doug Champigny is one of those mentors who knows exactly what needs to be done and can tell you how to do it, how to make 2010 your best year yet online.

Doug has set up a 4-week high-intensity PowerStart coaching program where he will walk you through the steps to get your own online business set up and ready to go. If you can follow instructions and want to get an internet business started up, then I strongly recommend this coaching. Don’t worry, this is not one of those thousands of dollars outsourced coaching programs. No, Doug will be there with you every step of the way.

Click here to learn more about the PowerStart course and to register.

I am often amazed at all of the money making opportunities around us online, there really is many more than any one person could implement. The problem comes when you are starting on a new project only to learn about an interesting new tactic that you want to try out. You have to be careful to plan out your attack and stay focused… or else you will never get anything done.

With that said,  the below money making ideas for 2010 should only be used when you are NOT working on another project. Take action… but be focused and complete a project before starting another one.

#1. Sell your services online.

This is probably the easiest way to make money online as it uses your existing talents and allows you to work only when you are sure you will get paid for it. You don’t have to write an ebook or spend time creating a web site… all you have to do is tell people about what you offer and complete the work once someone commits to hiring you.

Here are a few services which you might be able to provide;

• Writing articles or ebooks,
• Market research for niche keywords,
• Creating graphics for web sites,
• Link building,
• Social/Web2.0 marketing,
• Copywriting,
• Programming,
• Web site creation.

All of those (plus more) are a great way to get started making some money online.

#2. Create niche web sites.

This method to make money is also fairly easy to do and it can be done for very little money, just a few bucks.

Set up a web site which contains great content about a particular topic, something interesting and something which people are looking for information about. You will have to do some niche keyword research and write some articles, but for the most part once the initial work is done you don’t have to do too much with it any more. Place ads on your site for related products or services, or use Google AdSense to bring you in some extra money.

The real power in this method is to create multiple web sites which all do the same thing, all targeting different keywords and all receiving some traffic every day. Individually they probably won’t make you rich, but with 10, 20, 50, or 100 sites, that’s where the magic happens.

#3.Create your own product line.

If you really want to take your business to new heights in 2010, start creating your own products to sell online. By doing this you will be able to leverage so much more, it really does take you to a new level.

• Go into a popular market,
• Find a niche within that market that is looking for an answer to a question,
• Research the answer and create a product,
• Deliver that product to sell to make money!

There is so much more that I could write about this method, books have been written about the individual steps, but I will try to go into a bit more detail in the future.

#4. Build your list!

This is probably the single most important thing that you can do for your business in 2010. If you are not doing it yet… DON’T WAIT any longer!

Your email list allows you to do so much more and gives you so much more freedom, as you can be anywhere and still make money with it. In any market, the easier and faster you can communicate with your audience, the more chances you have to making more sales… and a list can do that.

**** Over the next little while I will go into more detail about these topics to help you get a better understanding about how to do each one. Bookmark or subscribe to the RSS feed to be updated when I post new content to this blog.

I wish you all the success in 2010… just don’t forget to take action and set out a plan to make 2010 the best year yet for you!

But how can we keep buyers coming back over and over again to purchase our products? Well there are many ways to do that, but I with this post I wanted to touch on one very important, but many times over-looked aspect to keeping happy customers.

The quality of customer service is very important in keeping happy and satisfied buyers. If we are continually thanking and giving back to our buyer, the more likely they will stick around and purchase more products from us in the future.

Like most, if not all of my blog posts, come out as a result of an experience I have had recently, and this post is no exception. Over the past month or so I have purchased several different internet marketing related products from marketers who I was not all that familiar with, although I was confident enough in them to purchase. (Note: the products themselves where good, and this post has nothing to do about the individual products).

However, I did have questions that I wanted to ask the marketer about, either to clarify an issue, to expand upon something, or just a general question about the topic. This brings me back to the customer service issue and keeping buyers coming back for more…

… not one of those marketers have responded to my initial (or repeat) contact to them, even though I contacted them in the way that they stated to do so (email, forum message, etc).

If a customer contacts you for almost whatever reason, it is always best to respond to them, either to answer their question or to at least state that you will get back to them by a certain date. None of which these marketers did for me, and it’s been 1-4 weeks since my initial contact.

So how can you keep buyers coming back to purchase from you instead of one of the other thousand marketers? Deliver quality products with quality support systems in place.

“How do I do that when a lot of what I have done in the past hasn’t worked for me?”

Here’s the not so secret tactic that we all need to use this coming year in order to become more successful, and that “secret” is…

Learn from those that have been where you want to be in the coming year!

That is the single most important thing that you can do for your online business right NOW and in the New Year.

There are a few ways that you can learn from other marketers…

• Buy their products. When you purchase a product from them (like a home study course), you can learn A LOT, but you will also spend a lot of money, which is ok if you can afford it.

• Get a mentor/coach. This can be a great way to learn the insides of their business and it can really boost your own success… but again it can cost a lot to do it, but many times it will pay for itself.

• Get their products when they have a massive sale or decide to give it away. This is actually a very do-able tactic, as many big “guru” marketers are now heading towards selling their courses for very cheap, or even giving them away for free.

Hint: Grab Mike Filsaime’s amazing offer here before it’s gone.

But like the “hint” above stated, many times when marketers give away or greatly reduce the cost of their course, they often times will limit the availability…
… which means that if you want to learn from someone who has been where you want to be, you need to act quickly.

Don’t just let next year be the big year for you… why not START RIGHT NOW?!

P.S. If you have a few thousand dollars and can afford home study courses to learn from, by all means go and use it. But if you don’t and you still want to learn as much as you can, taking advantage of giveaway or free + shipping offers is the way to go.

One important area that any business needs to focus on is promotion/advertising, how to get the word out about your product or service. There are countless ways to do this, but one method I have thought about in the past was about the professional singer/rock star music CD’s and world tour concerts aspect of offline business.

We all know that rock stars can make millions off of their music CDs and their concerts, so how can we use similar principals to get our message out there like they do? Sure, we can go out and purchase a lot of offline advertising and spend millions of dollars… but how can we do similar things and keep it all online?

What I wanted to touch on in this blog post was the idea of going out there online and doing a world tour to promote ourselves and our business, like a blog word tour.

• How much exposure do you think we could get if we started showing up on all kinds of different web sites within our niche, sites where we normally wouldn’t have been seen?
• What if we spent a few months going from one site to another doing “concerts” like the professional musicians do?

Offline concerts help to expand and grow the audience of musicians, to reach out to more people and spread their product. Why can’t we do that online?

We can, and my friend Nicole Dean has just done that this past summer. She visited several different blogs within her niche and provided quality content to them, and the result of that was even better than she had expected.

You can see for yourself what Nicole did on her blog world tour, it was great to watch and see the following of people she had.

Consider going on your own blog word tour and see how much success you can get from it! Go here to learn all about it.

*** Side note: If you have not yet received all of your list building material from Jeff, you can go sign up now at Send Button Profits (free, only pay shipping).

Here is a video I just put together to pick the winner of the blog. Watch it all the way through to see if you are the winner…

Click Here to watch the video to see who the winner is of the blog contest

I want to thank everyone who participated in this contest, it allowed you to grab some amazing free content from Send Button Profits and at the same time allow one of you to win a new blog.

Over the weekend I finished putting together the blog which I will be giving away for free to one lucky winner! Here is what the blog looks like, you can visit the blog here at Big Traffic Boost.

So all you have to do to be entered in to win this blog is to sign up free to Send Button Profits, but you have to do it before 11 am EDT tomorrow. Visit this blog post for more details.

Here are some of the details about the blog and what’s included;

• New original content on the topic of getting more traffic to your web site,
• A customized blog theme to make it look amazing,
• Custom graphics to go along with each post,
• Google AdSense and ClickBank ads,
• A video about traffic to help keep visitors on the site longer,
• Includes a powerful SEO plugin.

The blog is ready to go! If you win it, you can either keep it hosted where it is for 3 months for free or you can transfer it along with the domain name. I can help you change the ads to have your links in them and show you how to post new content. If you win it, it is yours and you can do what you want with it!

**** But first, there is a new product being launched soon by Jeff Dedrick, but before it launches he is giving away some amazing content for free! He already has over 1,500 people commenting on his blog about his free stuff… people are loving it! Check out Send Button Profits before the gifts are gone.

I want to encourage you to join the free Send Button Profits list to get your gifts, and to say thank you for doing so I will be giving away a brand new web site to one lucky person who joins the site using this link; www.SendButtonsProfits.com.

This is not a  joke, someone will win a brand new Internet marketing related blog just for signing up for free!

• This blog is not some cheap “seen all over the place” type of web site. No, this will be brand new!
• The blog will be filled with NEW content! It will be ready to go for you!
• The winner will also receive a brand new domain name for the blog!
• Hosting will be provided free for at least 3 months (or you can transfer it if you want).

You can visit the blog here.

**** Here’s how to get your chance to win this blog…

1. Sign up for free to Send Button Profits using this link; www.SendButtonsProfits.com
2. Wait until Tuesday Oct. 6th  to see who won the blog!
3. Check your email on that day and check this blog as well for the winner. If you win I will contact you using the email address you provided when signing up.

Here’s some important information…

• You must sign up to Jeff’s “Send Button Profits” free list using this link in order to be entered into this contest draw.
• If you have already signed up using that link, you will already be entered.
• The contest winner will be contacted via the email address they used to sign up to Jeff’s site.
• You must sign up before the draw date (Tues. 6th) at 11 EDT.
• You don’t have to do anything else, just sign up for free!