Again…  thanks for all the comments and interest in this Twitter thing.

It was GREAT to have Kenneth post his great success story on Tuesday

http://www.makepeacetotalpackage.com/kenneth-yu/twitters-startling-secret.html

As you (and I) can see, there is some great money being made with Twitter.

I am testing out Kenneth’s Twitter package, the Twitter Salvation Package.  What I am calling my new Twitter Twaining…
sounds a little Elmer Fuddish… but I’ll run with it.

You would think with all the buzz out there, with the successes starting to roll in, that there must be something of use.

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But there are some problems I have yet to find an answer to.
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1) When I went out to my massive Twitter following of 250+ people and asked them for help with a Twitter Etiquette guide…
no one helped.

So I guess that means you and I are supposed to just figure it out on our own…  hopefully avoiding any huge mistakes along the way that causes everyone to unfollow us.  For example, when someone retweets your tweet (basically, they forward your post to everyone on their database), am I supposed to thank them each time it gets retweeted?  Or is that cluttering up a VERY cluttered Twitter Inbox?

Or… gasp… does it mean the only way to figure out Twitter is to buy someone’s package that shares the real information on how to make it work?

My question was a simple one…  but no one was willing to help.

Interesting.

When I asked Kenneth directly about my dilemma, he DID help me understand it.  So maybe there is hope.

It’d be nice to find out how this can work…  without pissing off every one of my followers!

2) If you are not following other peoples Tweets (meaning you are reading Twitter ALLLLLL day) you very quickly lose the conversations going on.  And if your income relies on you actually focusing on something, then reading Tweets every hour is not a good tactic for staying focused (meaning you will lose momentum and money).

3) It seems to me that in order to do this properly, you need to be posting multiple times a day.  Fine and dandy…  if you have the time and content to share.

As Steve Newdell said in his comment to my post last week…

“If a busy man like Clayton Makepeace were to waste his energy Tweeting he’d be miserable and unproductive. I think the entire “social media” gig is a flash in the pan and will follow Chrysler to the Internet Graveyard.”

Which I wholeheartedly agree with!

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Twitter is NOT for everyone.
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- If you need to stay focused on the task at hand…  and HATE distractions…  this is not for you.

- If email management is enough of a pain in the arse already…
this is not for you.

- If you don’t have the extra time to figure it all out properly, before diving in head first, this isn’t for you.

- If you are already making boatloads of money without Social Media… stick with what is working!

- If you are just getting started and have the time to figure it out, then do.

- If you haven’t figured out email marketing already, then this is probably not for you.

- If you constantly over analyze things and buy way more courses and seminars than you could every implement…  this is not for you (it will just distract you further, keeping you away from doing anything worthwhile or productive).

My personal thoughts are changing on this media.

For the right person, and a whole bunch of implementation, this could make you some great coin.

[note: if you want to follow me on Twitter to give me your feedback on how I am doing, you can find me at http://www.twitter.com/troywhite

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The results are there…
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I’m a believer! I know of a car dealership that has sold over $1,000,000. of cars using social media especially Twitter.
Tweet On! Mark Bond

Or?

Great post – Twitter has been huge multiplier factor in my business, and I am getting a ton of traffic and new clients just from interacting with my twitter followers.

It does take some time, and you have to be yourself – you can’t fake it. But it has been a great tool for me and my business too.
Adam

Or the video from last week -

http://blog.mrtweet.net/twitter-to-go-how-one-local-coffee-shop-used-twitter-to-double-his-clientele

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Then again…
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Comment by Jeremy …  April 28, 2009 @ 1:26 pm Twitter is so much noise keeping me from real work. No thank you.

Comment by Marc …  April 28, 2009 @ 1:53 pm I guess I?m a Luddite, but I don?t see Twitter, Facebook, etc. as anything but new diversions from productivity. People don’t return phone calls and emails in a timely fashion, why, or more accurately how, is social media going to help an already technologically overloaded world get more done? I’m going to go out on a limb here and say social media will lose its sheen rapidly, right at the point in time the next “big thing” is poised to be shoved down our throats.

By John Deck…
“…No time for newsletter! Then how will they have time for twitter/facebook/etc.

The biggest problem with social media is that it is the latest set of shiny objects that distract from doing solid marketing fundamentals. ”

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Let me just repeat this:  Twitter is NOT the panacea for entrepreneurs.  It is a tool.  Nothing more. Nothing less.  It is not a mandatory tool you need to use.  It is yet another option in the tool kit.
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I will continue to find new success stories from all kinds of different industries…  all it takes is one good one that can give you a million dollar idea.

I will continue with Kenneth’s Twaining :0) and see what I can do.

Because…

…  I don’t like contact distractions.

…  I don’t like even more email to manage (Twitter is a distraction and is just like emails pouring into your inbox).

…  I don’t typically follow the crowd or do what everyone else is…
just “because guru X is”

… and I DON’T like my time wasted.

But I see a glimmer of hope that this just may help me and my clients… only time and testing will tell.

And that takes COMMITMENT.

Speaking of…

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Today is our 10 year wedding anniversary!
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Kari, my beautiful, oh-so-patient wife has stuck with me for 10 freaking years!

Yahooo.

Who’d have thunk it?

We got married May 1, 1999…  a drunk priest is to blame on why we are not “officially” married.  That is a great story for another time.

Needless to say, it was a FUN party.  Even the Hells Angels showed up briefly…  yet another story for another time. That one best left alone ;o)

10 years together… 7 of that in my own business.

Good thing she was raised in an entrepreneurial family…  she knew what she was getting herself into!

We are dumping our twin 8 year old daughters off at the neighbors tonight, going to a great restaurant for dinner, then off to their Jazz club in the basement.  Sounds like a GREAT way to spend the evening with the woman I love.

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The only reason we are still together?
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My ability to put up with crap.

Kidding.

More like her ability to do just that…  TIMES 10.

The real reason?

We both know that you have to stick with things through thick and thin, good times and in bad, and FIND ways to make them work.

It helps both sets of our parents are still together after 40+ years…  so we had GREAT role models to follow.

Both Kari and I have entrepreneurial parents, so we have learned that success with anything is much about give and take.

Anyhow, thought I would share our big news today.

Have a great week!

My Twitter Twaining continues,
and I still want to hear your success stories.

I am open to the challenge and will go through Kenneth’s program with open eyes and ears.  I want to find a way to make this work for my business, if I can do it without taking me away from everything else.  It is a fascinating medium, with huge growth and potential.

Have a great weekend!

Troy White

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