Big market — 25+ million Small Businesses.

More importantly it is a big market where you can easily be an expert.  I recently wrote about being an expert and how everyone is an expert at something.  In that post I spoke about how I am an expert at traffic generation.  You know getting eyeballs on someone’s website, whether it be my own or a client’s.

One of the most important tools I use is video and web 2.0 marketing.  Video conveys a concise message and people on the internet and Search Engines love the content.  I have videos that put up over 2 years ago that still rank on the first page of many search engines.

So what’s in this for you.  Why have I asked you to read this?

Simple:  Go look at Main Street Marketing Machines.  It is an a great blueprint for earning money using your internet marketing skills.  I already use most of the system and it has helped me land clients who have at times paid me over $1500 per month to help them. I will be upgrading myself when it comes out to get some of the newer tools and tricks that they are offering.

If you are looking for a business where you can start helping people soon and make some money doing it, then go watch the video at this address.

There’s a bonus involved

I have taken that system and added to it so I can get even better results.  Send me your email address and I’ll send you a notification ASAP on how I can help you and your soon to be new clients.  I’ll be putting together a bonus that will help you jumpstart your new business.

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Has Mike Gone Nuts? (No he hasn’t)

The Internet Marketing World is full of people who have a lot of knowledge and know how to build lists or sell affiliate marketing products, but aren’t making any money.

Does that sound like anyone you know?

I was like that for a long time.

Mike Koenig’s new program Main Street Marketing Machines is poised to change all of that.

• No more scambling to sell $27 ebooks
• No more wondering how you are going to create your own product

This is all about building a real business.

I use a program very similar to this to get great search engine rankings and to help clients do the same thing.

The best this to do is to watch the video listed up above.  It is a great introduction to this program.  (It should be out very soon).

Ohhh.  and pay attention because I like this program so much that I’ll be putting together a superb bonus to will make this an even better deal.

Add your name to the email list on the right sode of this page and I’ll be sure to send you info on the Bonus when I release it.

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You are an expert.

We all are. It’s just that most of us don’t know it (Yet).

Me. I’m an expert at traffic generation. I know how to drive internet traffic to offers. I can do paid traffic, tracking and I even know quite a bit about Organic Traffic (SEO Web 2.0 kinda stuff), and Video Marketing.

So that’s what I do. I take those skills to local businesses (anyone really) and work with them to drive people to their business

Go ahead and take the time to figure out what it is that you do and then go talk about it.

1. Make a blog and start posting. This is where you can start a conversation with people.

2. Shoot a video about what you know. If you can shoot a video showing what you know. (It’s more powerful) The post it on your blog.

3. Start a list (an email list). Start sending your listeners information (don’t just sell stuff). That’s why I have a list.

Take some time and write out what you are an expert at.

Then go talk to people about what you do and show them what you do. You’ll be amazed at the responses that you get.

Technorati Tags: Email List Building, Expert Marketing, Internet Marketing

It was located at the top right of my page and gave me Really focused recommendations.  I follow some health related blogs so these suggestions were accurate and helpful to me.  I added some of them and skipped others.

Pay attention to this if you use google reader.  It will provide you more content to link to or just give you more related information.

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http://business.twitter.com/twitter101/best_practices

I use twitter to talk about my niches AND make comments through the day if I happen to see something I like.  I occasionally tweet something personal, but that is about 20% of the time.

I find blogs to follow and then tweet about those blog posts.  I occasionally put my own blog post into the twitter stream.

I do not auto follow people who follow me.  I just end up with spammers. I will go through my followers and follow back people who are interesting and engaging and REAL.

I do not send an auto DM (Direct Message) to people when they follow me.  That is usually a useless thing to do.

I do have a program that I use to follow people.  It searches for people with common interests or searches for people who fit my demographic for a particular market.  I use Tweet Adder for that.  Do not overuse something like this.

You should get your name if you can.  My Twitter URL is www.twitter.com/DaveAustin

You can get your business name too.  Getting both is a good idea.

I don’t tweet about stuff that is useless.  “Going to bed now.”  “Have a coffee” etc.  That does not ad value to the twitter world.

Use TweetDeck to group people so you can focus a small group of people to talk to.  I have an small group of people and I care about what they say and I engage them.  I have to have this group because otherwise I have to watch a stream of 7500 people who follow me.  It’s full of crap.  Setting up a group is a very effective way to focus who you listen to.  I usually am adding several people a week to this group, because I see that they have something valuable (to me) to say.

My Summary:

Try to add value.
Try to Engage people.
Talk to people who say things that are interesting.
Talk to people in your market.

DON’T get sucked in.  Just twitter a couple of times a day in a block of time and then leave twitter so you can get other stuff done.

Hope this helps.

Here’s why.

You have to step back and look at why you need the product.  Ask yourself…

–> Will it help grow my business from where I am RIGHT NOW

If you get a real Yes answer to that question then consider buying.  If you are just getting distracted by bonuses then maybe you aren’t focusing on the correct thing.  Again go back and look at what will grow your business, not just what you want.  i.e. the next great internet marketing product.

Why am I bringing this up?  I was watching the last Stompernet Launch (as of today it is still going on and yes that is an affiliate link).  Have you seen how many bonuses they have?  It’s insane.  Almost Too many.   Something like 20 something different bonuses worth over $25,000 or whatever.

OK STOP…..

WHO CARES ABOUT THE BONUSES.

Is the underlying offer that Stompernet is putting out worth it TO YOU.  I’m already a member of Stompernet and have been for a while.  I made that decision already.  It is worth it to me.

Just decide whether the underlying “stuff” that stomper (or whoever) is offering you will help you NOW.  If not, then pass and get back to the one thing today that will drive your business forward.

Now Do this for EVERY product you are considering buying.  Remember…Slow down, really decide if you need it and THEN decide.

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It really is the best deal ever.

I’m a member and I highly recommend looking at the the Offer.

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I used Tweetlater and would send you a DM then I realized that I never read them when I received them so I stopped.

Then.. I would autofollow you back if you followed me.  Seems reasonable right?  WRONG.  I don’t need to follow Shoe Stores and Porn sites.

I will follow people I like, I will follow many people in a day if I think you are interesting and have something to say.  BUT even then I have to set up a smaller group in TweetLater to be able to handle actually following your conversations.

So Enough is Enough.  No more auto follow and now I have to go back and cull my crowd, clean up my twitter stream.

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“Good Morning”

“Good Night Twitterers”

“Having Coffee”

You should. That is if you want to communicate with your Tribe of people and have them LISTEN to you.  If you are just twittering with a couple of friends or family then knock yourself out talk about your coffeeshop visits.

If you want to have people follow you for what you have to offer, then start sending them what they need or want to hear about.  What I found is that finding stuff to talk about took A LOT of Effort and Time.

It Doesn’t need to.

Here’s What I do.

I use Google Reader and Hootsuite to manage a lot of my tweeting. There are other platforms, and I’ll get to those in another post, but for now, let’s just talk about these two.

In Google Reader I do 2 things.  I follow specific blogs and I have blog searches piped into the reader.

Step 1:  Follow a bunch of Blogs and put them into your reader

Step 2: Do a Google Blog search and then put the RSS feed into your reader.

Step 3: Categorize all of these “feeds” into one folder within Google Reader so you can review them all in one place.

Step 4: Review the posts that you want to tweet about and use the “Hootlet” to directly tweet from the blog post.  So you would visit the blog post or web page that you are interested in and if it looks like it will be interesting to your readers then use the hootlet to schedule the tweet to your twitter account.

That’s It.

Here’s the best part.    By having the Blog search set up for keywords, I can find new authors and blogs and I can then add their specific blogs to my reader for future review.

After getting this all set up, it takes me about 10 minutes a day to get a bunch of quality tweets sent into my twitter account and scheduled for the day.

Got any other ideas, then comment below.

Technorati Tags: Google Reader, Hootlet, HootSuite, Twitter