It’s Out with Tweet Adder and in with Tweet Attacks
This is just a quick post to mention the two pieces of Automated Twitter Software I have good experience with, Tweet Adder and Tweet Attacks.
I have been using Tweet Adder for a long time for all my Twitter Automation tasks but it has recently let me down in a massive way. One by one, all of the critical features I rely on have stopped functioning for no good reason. It started with the Direct Messages (DMs), which I consider to be a critical part of Twitter Automation, as the y let your new followers know immediately about your website or whatever welcome message you wish to display to them. After several emails about this to Tweet Adder my technical support ticket was finally passed to the ‘development team’ who proceeded to go completely quiet, despite my protests.
Next came the Auto Following problem, being that it now refuses to follow anyone at all for me, instead generating an error message stating that I ‘cannot be authenticated’ which has never ever been a problem in the past, but now seems to be a permanent issue. Again, their customer support have been absolutely useless in helping me to fix it. I send them very specific detailed emails explaining the issue and the steps I have taken to try to resolve it and all I get in return is a generic response which is entirely irrelevant to my problem. Tweet Adder have now wasted weeks of my valuable business time due to software issues and useless customer support, which is enough to make me want to vent about it on here and warn other marketers to steer clear.
I have switched everything I do in Twitter over to Tweet Attacks and am highly impressed with everything they offer so far. Their software is more advanced, their supporting materials are way more detailed, their updates are more regular and so far I have had no issues at all with any of my basic Twitter automation tasks! So for me it’s out with the old and in with the new.
Followers of this blog can click the image below to get a massive 50% discount off the software.
Goodbye Tweet Adder, it was nice knowing you.
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Today sees the launch of this brand new training program covering all aspects of FaceBook ‘Pay-Per-Click’ Advertising by Jonathan Budd, a young yet highly successful MLM / Multi Level Marketing Professional and Trainer.
Based on his phenomenal success and his previous string of high quality training products and materials, I fully expect this to be a hugely informative and successful product.
The new course is retailing at $297 and there are some fantastic bonus materials available for the decisive fast movers.
You can go straight to the product page for GetTraffic 3.0 here
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When it comes to Email Marketing and Management, there are only a handful of top names in the industry to mention. These include IContact, GetResponse, Constant Contact, Vertical Response, MailChimp and perhaps a couple more.
However, ‘AWeber Communications’ was the crowned king in this field when I started out back in 2008 and still is today, by the accounts of my many esteemed colleagues. Let’s check out a few key tips from AWeber’s CEO, Tom Kulzer.
Email Deliverability Tips
Ensuring requested opt-in email is delivered to subscriber inboxes is an increasingly difficult battle in the age of spam filtering. Open and click thru response rates can be dramatically affected by as much as 20-30% due to incorrect spam filter classification.
Permission
Confirming that the people who ask for your information have actually requested to be on your list is the number one step in the battle for deliverability. You should be using a process called confirmed opt-in or verified opt-in to send a unique link to the attempted subscriber when they request information. Before adding the person to your list they must click that unique link verifying that they are indeed the same person that owns the email address and requested to subscribe.
Subscriber Addresses
When requesting website visitors to opt-in ask for their “real” or “primary” email address instead of a free email address like Yahoo or Hotmail. Free emails tend to be throw away accounts and typically have a shorter lifetime than a primary ISP address.
List Maintenance
Always promptly remove undeliverable addresses that bounce when sending email to them. An address that bounces with a permanent error 2-3 times in a 30 day period should be removed from the list. ISP’s track what percentage of your newsletters bounce and will block them if you attempt to continually deliver messages to closed subscriber mailboxes.
Message Format
Usage of HTML messages to allow for text formatting, multiple columns, images, and brand recognition is growing in popularity and is widely supported by most email client software. Most spam is also HTML formatted and thus differentiating between requested email and spam HTML messages can be difficult. A 2004 study by AWeber .com shows that plain text messages are undeliverable 1.15% of the time and HTML only messages were undeliverable 2.3%. If sending HTML it is important to always send a plain text alternative message, also called text/HTML multi-part mime format.
Content
Many ISP’s filter based on the content that appears within the message text.
Website URL:
Research potential newsletter advertisers before allowing them to place ads in your newsletter issues. If they have used their website URL to send spam, just having their URL appear in your newsletter could cause the entire message to be filtered.
Words/phrases:
Choose your language carefully when crafting messages. Avoid hot button topics often found in spam such as medication, mortgages, making money, and pornography. If you do need to use words that might be filtered, don’t attempt to obfuscate words with extra characters or odd spelling, you’ll just make your messages appear more spam like.
Images:
Avoid creating messages that are entirely images. Use images sparingly, if at all. Commonly used open rate tracking technology uses images to calculate opens. You may choose to disable open rate tracking to avoid being filtered based on image content.
Attachments:
With viruses running rampant and spreading thru the usage of malicious email attachments many users are wary of attached documents. It’s often better to link to files via a website URL to reduce recipient fear of attachments and reduce the overall message size.
CAN-SPAM Compliance
The January 2004 Federal CAN-SPAM law introduced a number of rules regarding the delivery of email. It’s important you have your legal counsel review your practices and ensure you are in compliance. The two most important rules include having a valid postal mail address listed in all commercial messages and a working unsubscribe link that is promptly honored to remove the subscriber from future messages.
Reputation
Reputation services are often used by large ISP’s as a way to vet email senders regarding their email practices and policies. Businesses listed with these services are then given less stringent filtering or no filtering at all. Several reputation services are:
http://www.isipp.com/iadb.php
http://www.bondedsender.com
http://www.habeas.com
Relationships & Whitelisting
Contact with major ISP’s and email providers is essential in letting them know about your requested subscriber email. Many large providers such as AOL and Yahoo have specific whitelisting programs and postmaster website areas to ensure your email is delivered as long as you meet their policies and procedures in handling your opt-in list.
Email deliverability is about ensuring requested opt-in email is delivered to the intended recipient. While no single tip will enable you to get 100% of your email delivered each one utilized as a group can go a long way to reaching that goal.
Click Here to go to the AWeber Site
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Auto Traffic Avalanche
This recently launched product consists of both training and an innovative software tool aimed at generating and monetizing high quality traffic. It’s been put together by Kieran Gill, Imran S and Mike Wright, who were the secret insiders of Chris X’s monster launch of ‘Affiliate X’ a while back.
Having purchased and completed the program myself, I can reveal that the material contained within relates primarily to advertising on FaceBook (along with one other lesser known platform which is touched upon in a smaller section of the course).
The course itself does not take long at all to complete, with just over an hour of video, accompanied by written material.
On the plus side, Kieran gives a nice overview of his approach to advertising on FaceBook, with some nice examples of what’s working for him personally at the moment.
On the downside, the software tool and its accompanying training materials are not yet complete (13/10/10) and we are currently restricted to practising our advertising techniques, based on Kieren’s teaching.
I would therefore recommend this course to beginners who want a quickfire overview of what making money on FaceBook is all about (get the nuts and bolts here and get started fast, without wading through hours of course materials).
For more advanced marketers however, I am sure you will find the materials here a bit too limited, and perhaps your money would go further on a more in depth course.
I hope that’s helpful, please leave a comment below with some feedback if you’d like to.
Bonus Tip: If you want to get a free beginners guide to making money on ‘Twitter’, once you visit the product page and view the material, close the page in your browser then hit cancel on the pop up screen.
Click Here for the Auto Traffic Avalanche Product Page
Auto Traffic Avalanche
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