Twitter Tools - Finding your Twitter Niche.. and
...Applying Social Network Science to your Marketing Efforts
I have been receiving questions about How to Find a Profitable Twitter Niche? I am writing this Blog Post in the Hope that I may be able to Shed some Light on this Subject (especially for our Affiliate-Bivocation Gold members).
If you visit this Blog, you will see a Twitter Search Ap that I have just placed to the right... this Twitter Tool allows me to analyze Real-Time Niche possibilities for a Twitter Market. I will supply you with the Code to add a Twitter Niche Tool like this to your Site or Blog in a few moments... but first, let me explain what my "Twitter Niche Query Tool" is doing for me...
I have adjusted the code for this small and easy to use ap, so that it is giving me real-time results for the Search Query "I need money"... Once you Grab the Code for this tool, you can adjust it to give you real-time niche results for your Target Market... However, I placed these search words into the ap to show you that with the right keyword centric Twitter Searches, you can find some Really Great Markets this way. Simply watch the results as they scroll through the list of Hundreds of Tweople who are currently posting "I Need Money" on Twitter.
Since we, as Affiliate and Internet Marketers, need some kind of reference when it comes to finding a Niche and the Right keywords or KeyPhrases... having real-time results can truly kick-start your brain whenever you get stuck or are experiencing a Brain Block (kind of like writers block for marketers... maybe we can call it Twit-Block or Niche-Block... whatever...). Anyway, this technique of analyzing real-time Tweets scroll by, really helps my brain begin to see patterns within a particular keyword search on Twitter.
Since Marketing is really about offering something to people on the Internet based on Their Needs, Desires , Wants, Dreams and Passions, I can sometimes just watch the results from a simple search of one of those words. Example: The keyword "Want"... I will sometimes place "want" or "need" into the search query and just sit and read the Tweets as they scroll by... This technique has an uncanny ability to reach into the logic center in my brain and trigger "Sudden Bursts" of Niche and Keyword Inspiration, so that my head is suddenly swimming with ideas for a Blog Post, a Tweet, an Article, or even an entirely new market or strategy that I had not considered before.
Focusing on the Needs and Desires of other people, instead of our own feelings about being ineffective and blocked, will usually provoke a good response from deep inside of us. This will get your Marketing Juices flowing and Allow you to see some of the Very Obvious Niche Markets that you previously just couldn't quite wrap your head around.
Okay, now that we have used a simple ap and some basic keyword specific queries to find a new market on Twitter, the next step would be to get our message in front of our New Niche. We will want to take a subtle approach at this point, so that we don't scare off the very people that we are trying to help with our offer. Yes... as a Marketer, I believe that our job is to help people... help them find the information they are searching for... help them find a product that suits their immediate need... or simply to supply them with a route to their Dream. However you look at it, it's about helping other people. But an aggressive approach will often Scare People Off faster than you would run and hide when a "Jehovas Witness" rings your door-bell (that's what most people do).
People can really be put-off by a marketing approach that is too direct. That's where this technique has helped me out of hundreds of disasters and Marketing Mistakes. When I read the actual words that someone is Tweeting, and Tune In to their world, I begin to see things from their point of view, instead of my own. This will often result in a new Marketing Promotion that will actually be successful and make me some much needed Money.
Now that we have a possible New Niche Market, let's take a moment to consider some Social Networking Science. Did you know that within any Social Network, there are certain people who have Huge Amounts of Influence and seem to be Connected to Thousands of People... have you seen this phenomena and wondered why you are Not like them? Don't you wish you had "Clout". Don't you wish that you were like some Internet marketers who seem to be Known and Trusted by everybody...
In the Science of Social Networking, these people are known as "Hubs". Hubs exist inside of any Social Network, from a Church Social to a Bee-Hive, you will always be able to find Hubs. These Hubs are a person, animal or even a computer network that has Huge Connections to a Vast Resource of Influence. "Human Hubs" are often recognized by many other people and have a great amount of influence on those people... even if they don't even realize that they are a Hub.
There is a very sweet lady in my church that is a Hub, and she has No Clue Whatsoever that she even is one. She seems to know everyone in our small city (even in the suburbs) and a huge amount of people know her. She has Vast Potential to Influence Hundreds of People, without even Realizing that she is doing it. As a Pastor, I will often use subtlety to Tap into Her Power of Influence. If we need more volunteers for a certain cause or project, all I have to do is give her a gentle suggestion, and she will bring me dozens of volunteers to complete the project. She has no clue that Nobody Else in our little church has the Power to do this. And I'm not going to be the one to tell her either, because I need her to be On My Side for one thing, and also because the Source of ability to act as a Hub within our Social Network is a "Hidden Gift" that God has given to her. It is a secret between her and God that I am not going to expose.
Okay back to our Niche discussion... If you want your next Marketing Campaign to Plow a Path to your Bank Account, Faster than a Freight Train through a Stand of Tumbleweeds, you will stifle your Compulsion to Attack your newly Found Niche and you will start looking for Hubs within that particular group of Twitterers... Tweeters... Tweople (I don't know what to call them)... the people who are writing these posts on Twitter! Okay?
Start Following the people who are Hubs within any Group on Twitter. Take a little extra time to look at the "Profile Pages" of your New Target Market on Twitter and see... 1) How many Followers do they have? 2) Look at their posts and see if they have Influence (you will know this by how often they "Retweet", "Reply" and by the Quality of Content in their posts...
Only Follow the people that are HUBS. They will have enough influence and power to Help Your Campaign. Since they are very active and very willing to Reply their Followers and Retweet the posts of other Twitter Users, you can rest assured that if you build a Trusting and Honest Relationship with them... they will definitely help your Next Marketing Campaign reach new levels of Success.
Now... toward the beginning of this post, I promised I would share my Twitter Niche HTML Code with you. It's really simple and you can post it to any of your Sites, Blogs or even a personal web page that you don't share with the public. I have placed the code in a "Notepad" text file for you to download. The code is at the beginning, and my Instructions on setup are below a line that reads "Do Not Copy Past Here" so you won't accidentally get mixed up. I am offering this code to you because I believe you will use it to Teach your Social Network How to be Better Markleters. So you have to promise that you will only use it for Good, and post it on Sites or Blogs that Actually Help other Marketers.
I generally Only Give Away my Best Twitter Marketing Tips and Tricks to my Gold Members and my Email List, so I am going to ask you to put your name and email address into the form below. Don't worry I am not a pushy Salesman, and I will NOT hound your Email with Spam and endless Offers for you to Buy something from me. I try to use this List to Instruct more than Market and your Privacy and Trust is of Utmost Importance to me. if you doubt my sincerity you can simply ignore the first email which asks you if you really want to Join my List. This is a Double Opt-in List and you can unsubscribe at any time, but I think you will find the information, tips, tricks and Marketing methods that I teach to be entertaining if not instructive (a lot of words to say your privacy means everything to me and I will Never share your info with anybody else)!
So, if you want the Code (and if you want to learn what I am about and what we are up to as a Winning Marketing Team), just fill out the form below and the file will instanly download for you.
Thank you for Sharing some time with me
May God Bless your every Marketing Dream,
Charles Beason
...from Affiliate-Bivocation...
www.bivocation.spruz.com/PastorCharlie --- (my Money Making Profile)
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