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Twitter Special Report: Business Essentials for Today

February 12, 2011 By Marc Zeale 3 Comments

Twitter Business Essentials report

At My Twitter Toolbox, we know that many of the people who visit the site regularly use social media for business as much as pleasure. Twitter is as much a marketing tool as a means of communications between friends, family, and business associates. Because of this, we provide resources for professionals who want to improve their proficiency and productivity with their favorite social media site.

Our latest Twitter special report, titled Business Essentials for Today, is tailored specifically for this audience. This 19-page report reveals the many applications available for companies involved with social media marketing, tools that help them establish a powerful presence online by building their company brand, manage employees, and drive traffic to their websites.

This special report is loaded with inside information on specific aspects of marketing online with Twitter. On page 9, for example, you’ll learn how big-name businesses like Hertz and Sears use a social media application called TweetMyJobs to find the best employees and freelancers to help their companies grow. Page 12 reveals the four distinct ways that Twitter maximizes a company’s customer service policy.

You’ll also discover a vital tool for filtering social media conversations called BuzzGain on page 16. BuzzGain currently reviews over 150 million media sources and provides subscribers custom lists of the sources most relevant to their industry.

My Twitter Toolbox not only provides these Twitter special reports as a free service for our members, but also allows affiliates to download them as rebrandable reports that can be tailored for their own specific audiences on their websites, using their links to drive traffic and increase their authority as social media experts.

Be sure to also check out our Partners page for more details on how to become an affiliate of this site and get access to some quality affiliate tools designed to increase your social media knowledge and drive traffic to your online business.

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My Twitter Toolbox Extends Incentive Program through January 2011

December 22, 2010 By Marc Zeale 1 Comment

screen shot of cruise ship from My Twitter Toolbox

win yourself a Caribbean cruise from My Twitter Toolbox

I know the holidays aren’t over yet, but how’d you like to win yourself a new 13” MacBook Air laptop, or maybe go on a cruise with a friend to the Caribbean to soak up some badly-needed sun in a warmer climate than yours? You can, you know. All it takes is getting involved in our Incentive Program, attracting new members to one of the best sites for Twitter tools and applications that increase your Twitter power exponentially.

Our founder David Perdew announced today that he’s extending this special promotional period through January 31, 2011 to allow more affiliates to join the ranks of those already busy promoting MTTB to their friends, site visitors, and associates. Every sale earns them an instant 50 percent commission, something lots of online affiliate programs never do.

Plus, the potential to earn a wide range of bonus incentives is reason enough to get involved as soon as possible. In addition to the MacBook Air laptop, affiliates can earn themselves Amazon or Visa Gift Cards, and Amazon Kindle, an Apple iPad, a Sharp AQUOS 42” LCD TV, and more.

Learn more about this exciting incentive program by reading today’s press release in our Press Room, and become one of our valued Partners today.

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Filed Under: Partner News Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad, Caribbean, Incentive Program, Press Room, twitter tools

MTTB Partner Program Provides Great Bonuses For Affiliates

December 16, 2010 By Marc Zeale 1 Comment

MTTB Partners Earn Content and Commissions

My Twitter Toolbox issued a press release today to remind affiliates about an exciting bonus program for partners of our membership site. This Partner Program between the site and its valued members provides special reports, videos, and training documents designed to help them share valuable information with their own audience and refer new members to our growing social media resource.

As an additional incentive, partners can earn 50 percent commissions on referrals for paid members who join My Twitter Toolbox. Instant commissions are deposited into a partner’s PayPal account as soon as their referral’s membership is approved.

Affiliates can also “re-brand” our reports with their own links to share on their own sites to generate even more traffic for their products as well as ours. With a growing list of over 750 Twitter tools available for review, MTTB is becoming a prime resource for a wide variety of applications that increase the productivity and range of what social media can do for those who use Twitter most often.

You can check out the press release and learn more about the program on our Press Room page.

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Filed Under: Partner News Tagged With: affiliates, bonus program, instant commissions, My Twitter Toolbox, PayPal, press release, Press Room, social media, twitter tools

My Twitter Toolbox Announces Incentive Program

November 10, 2010 By Marc Zeale 1 Comment

Today, we’ve announced a special sales incentive program for My Twitter Toolbox partners and affiliates. Anyone is eligible to participate. Partners and affiliates can earn awesome rewards between Nov. 16 and Nov. 30.

Notice, we called these rewards – not prizes. This is a new concept in affiliate programs. Just as if you were gathering frequent flier points, you can work up each of 8 levels to grab the rewards. This is not a competition, but incentive to help you achieve the extra goals for your own sales. Refer the right number of people and you’re on your way toward your first sales goal. The more sales you refer, the more options you have.

The rewards are:

$25 Amazon Gift Card
$100 Visa Gift Card
Amazon Kindle
HP Mini Computer
Apple iPad
Sharp AQUOS 42-inch HD TV
4-Day Caribbean Cruise for Two Including Airfareto Miami
Apple 13-inch MacBook Air

Check out the special affiliates page to see all the rewards and to get your affiliate link.

And we’re making it even easier to convert new members by creating two life-time memberships levels priced to sell:

Monthly payments of $5.99 per month for 10 months
Or, a one-time payment of $47

My Twitter Toolbox is committed to becoming THE online portal for news, training, techniques and all the best Twitter applications in a single location.

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Filed Under: Partner News, This Week In Twitter Tagged With: affiliates, iPads, membership plans, My Twitter Toolbox, press release, rewards, sales incentive program

Find Restaurant Wait Times via Twitter

October 1, 2010 By David Perdew Leave a Comment

At one time or another, it’s happened to city dwellers everywhere: it’s dinner time, you’re hungry, and there’s little in the house to eat. You call a friend or two and arrange to meet at a favorite restaurant. When you get there, the line extends out the door. The hostess tells you that the wait is “about forty-five minutes”. You’re too hungry to wait, so you go to another restaurant and find nearly the same situation: a thirty-minute wait. You curse yourself for not staying at the first restaurant.

The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club, an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion, has launched a Twitter service that will tell restaurant-goers in a half-dozen cities what the wait times are at popular restaurants.

The idea was conceived by A.V. Club managing editor, Kyle Ryan. It seems that Ryan and his coworkers were considering a trip to their favorite hot-dog stand, Hot Doug’s in Chicago. The wait time at Hot Doug’s is frequently 45 minutes. Ryan says, “it’s a commitment going out there.” So, the A.V. staff set up a Twitter account and encouraged followers to tell them the wait times in popular Chicago restaurants. The idea later expanded to include phone calls to the restaurants and tweeting of the call results.

The service, called Wait-List, is strongest in Chicago, the home base for the project. The service is developing in New York, Milwaukee, Madison, Denver, and Minneapolis-St. Paul. The service is still trying to build a user base. “The more people who use it the more effective it is,” says Dario Meli, a co-creator of the project. Currently, there are too few people using the service for it to be truly effective in some areas.

It’s often said that you can discern the best restaurants by how long the lines are. Great restaurants will always have long lines, but if Wait List catches on, maybe you won’t have to wait as long to get fed.

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Filed Under: Partner News Tagged With: A.V. Club, Chicago, Dario Meli, The Onion, Twitter Apps, Wait-List

Ride Share

September 22, 2010 By Marc Zeale Leave a Comment

In 2010, almost half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. The United Nations predicts that in another 40 years, that figure will increase to 70%. If you think it’s difficult to find a parking space now, just wait 40 years; finding a place to park in the city will be as difficult as finding an honest politician.

Add to parking woes the high cost of owning and maintaining a car, including registration fees, insurance, interest charges, and repairs, owning a car in the city will become a very expensive and aggravating proposition. With public transportation so readily available in the city, why own a car at all? Why not just rent a car for long trips, and share rides around town?

Mobility on Demand

Transportation planners at MIT envision a system called MoD: mobility-on-demand. A MoD system would involve a comprehensive network of services in which city residents can rent a car, scooter, or bicycle when and where they need it in order to bridge gaps in the public transportation system.

The Mobility on Demand market already has a few entries; online ridesharing services like rideshareonline, erideshare, and rideshare-directory provide electronic “hitchhiking” services. Zipcar provides a car sharing cooperative. MoD takes ridesharing to a whole new level.

Car2gether

Diamler Corporation has announced plans to kick off a ridesharing project called car2gether in Ulm, Germany on September 18, 2010. Car2gether allows city residents to set up a personal profile on the Car2gether website, then post offers and requests for rides. The offers and requests are posted in live-ticker format and available through a free smartphone application. The rides update every fifteen seconds.

Car2gether will identify and match up passengers and drivers who are going in the same direction. In the beginning, passengers are advised to pay drivers 9.5 cents per minute in cash, but Daimler is currently working out the details of a cashless payment system.

Coming to Twitter

For now, Daimler is partnering with other MoD providers, but is working toward an independent car2gether network. Car2gether is currently setting up a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Twitter’s move toward push notification is a perfect match for a project such as Car2gether. Hitchhikers can begin to give their thumbs a rest; there’s a new way to hitch a ride, coming soon to your smartphone.

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Filed Under: Partner News Tagged With: Car2gether, Daimler Corporation, mobility on demand, MoD system, twitter, Twitter marketing, urban sprawl

Find Love Using 140 Characters

September 20, 2010 By Marc Zeale Leave a Comment

Forrest Gump would have described the typical online dating service like this: “Online dating is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re going to get.” Indeed. If dating sites matched members according to what they have in common, one commonality would always be an exaggerated personal profile. Study profiles all you want, but you never actually know what you’re going to get until you show up for the first date!

Know What You’re Going to Get

Plenty Of Tweeps, the dating site for Twitter users, allows you to “sample the chocolate,” so that you know what you’re getting before the first date. A user’s activity stream – what they like and dislike, who they follow and how they present themselves – can tell you much more about your potential partner than a “canned” bio on a dating site. With Plenty of Tweeps, you are able to:

• Find single users in your city. You can search by age and location; find someone nearby, or in any city in the world.
• Add a detailed bio and upload photos; add as many photos as you like.
• Signal interest toward anyone on Twitter: click the “like” button on their profile and Plenty of Tweeps will send them an anonymous notification. When they log in, they’ll find out who “liked” them.
• Send private messages; be notified instantly when a new message arrives in your box.

Expanded Conversations

Plenty of Tweeps doesn’t limit you to 140 characters; when the conversation starts, the Plenty of Tweeps messaging system allows you to have lengthy conversations. Neither are you limited to just members of Plenty of Tweeps; you can “like” anyone on Twitter and they will be notified – privately – of your interest. As a rule, Twitter users tend to be well-educated and up-to-date, just like you are. Talk about having something in common!

Easy to Join

Plenty of Tweeps promises a 30-second signup and the ability to cancel at any time. With Plenty of Tweeps, you can meet, mingle, and get to know your potential partner before the first date; and that’s nothing like a box of chocolates.

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Ask A Curator

September 18, 2010 By Marc Zeale Leave a Comment

September 1, 2010, was a red-letter day for museum curators. On that day, curators turned away from their books, their mummies, and their freeze-dried exhibits to walk into the bright light of Twitter.

Jim Richardson,of Sumo design company, organized a global event entitled “Ask a Curator.” The event enabled museum curators from 23 countries to respond to questions asked by the general public.

Event Born of Frustration

Says Richardson: “The inspiration (for the event) is really a frustration, I guess; in the museum world you have a movement towards more open and engaging museums which is often referred to as Museum 2.0 — the idea that a museum can evolve and get better by interacting and involving the public. In too many institutions, social media is seen only as a marketing tool, and people like curators don’t seem to be given the chance or want to use this kind of digital tool to engage with the public. With Ask A Curator, we are, on mass, taking Twitter out of the marketing department and putting it in the hands of curators, and at the same time giving the public the chance to hear about interesting subjects from these passionate individuals.”

Easy to Participate

The website’s location at askacurator.com was well laid out. The menu items “How to Ask” and “Who to Ask” gave clear instructions on how to participate. A grid of 23 countries enabled participants to choose a country and a museum.

Mixed Response

The responses to “Ask A Curator” appeared to be mixed. Some intelligent questions were asked, such as:

#askacurator what are some ways in which your sustainability efforts have changed the curation process for you?

#askacurator How do you encourage audiences to interact with your fashion exhibitions? (programs, touchables, education?)

Early in the day, the project was overwhelmed by spam and a tactical change was made:

@AskACurator: #askacurator has shifted to #askcurators to avoid spam

Rebranding

The jury is still out on whether the event was of benefit to curators. Like librarians, curators are accustomed to quiet so that they can focus. The overwhelming noise on Twitter made focus difficult. Ask A Curator was an excellent start to rebranding museum curators as an approachable source of information.

Photo courtesy of Peter Morgan

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Filed Under: Partner News, This Week In Twitter Tagged With: ask a curator, feedback, public museums, public opinion, twitter events, twitter forums

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