Having just spoke at the AWSCPA annual seminar I received a question from one of the women there asking me how I communicated with my tribe and what I learned in building that process.

Great question, I love it when people get serious about creating success…clarity + purpose=success.

Here is what I shared with her…I use Aweber because they have the best delivery system and support I have seen on the market.  I made this decision a couple of years ago and I wanted to know from asking and listening to what others had experienced building their list.  Here are some of the concerns that were expressed then by savvy users:

5 Things To Look For When Choosing Good Auto-responder Email Delivery Platform

1. deliverability
2. live customer support
3. tutorials
4. up to date tools
   
5. satisfied customers

I also learned do not pick a platform that might seem free right now to have to move your list to later on as you will lose 25% or more of them when you move.

Hair Pulling Choices

Now, I thought to myself WHY go to all this work to :

1. have to move them because my purpose is to grow a large list

2. have to move them because they are not being delivered

3. have to move them because I couldn’t figure out the other program as their knowledge support and tutorials were not there or as strong

4. have to move them because the ability to created easy powerful email campaigns was limited

5.  have to move them because “the other place” performance on all 5 levels did not satisfy my needs.

I am about creating solutions for my business not more work-I want happy clients

So I choose Aweber because ANY time I have a question or problem it is solved RIGHT then either via phone or their live chat feature

I choose Aweber because my emails get to my tribe’s email boxes as promised (best deliverability in the industry)

I choose Aweber because the give me updated tools to create my opt in boxes as well as email newsletters and campaigns

I choose Aweber because no matter how I learn via video, reading tutorials, listening to audios or asking someone LIVE-I can find answers that suit my learning style.

I choose Aweber because even when I make mistakes (and I have) I get help RIGHT AWAY-do not have to hire an email expert (with a banana) to get me back on track.

You want to give it a trial run?  Here is a FREE Trial Run-my compliments-

(yes, if you chose to use them with this test drive I will receive an affiliate commission-it helps pay expenses on this blog, thanks)

I have been giving this blog a rest while I allowed myself to uncover the best use for it existence.

Since everywhere I go I continue to get bombarded by “Why should I be on Twitter telling everyone what I am eating” KEEPS coming round and round like a merry go round… I am here to say STOP-get off that ole tired horse already. You sound like a puppet for media who doesn’t like twitter (they just say they do on air-to look cool) They and I know Twitter is YANKING all their glory to be FIRST on the scene with a story.

Now, I will drop the desire to say NANANANANA, I TOLD YOU SOOO!!!!!!!! and instead embrace “How to Properly be Riding That There Horse” -(As we say in Texas).

You can come here now and look for resources and tools to help you achieve the outcomes you want for you and your business.

Let’s start with Twinfluence

Here is a shot of mine, check it out, look at yours then ask yourself a couple good questions:

1. Have I optimized my profile properly?
2. Have I followed the basics so people will want to engage in conversation with me?
3. What recon or homework did I perform so I can intelligently talk to someone about THEM?

Here is today’s heads up for new folks on Twitter. YOU create the news!  Yes, you so how are you using that power to help yourself and others.

I love the movie validate, it embodies the message to so many need to “GET” on their core level.  When you come from that place then growing your brand, your tribe , your business turns into what we talk about now…a place that people are telling your story, a place that they send their friends because they value you and what you do for them and you INTERACT with them in this medium.  You came to their ball field, you came to their arena, you showed them first you valued them and built a vacuum for them to fill with their experience you offer.

Watch this movie it is longer than 2 min and yet it very POWERFUL, then tweet me or leave a comment that you did not think of a way to use that message in your business TODAY>

I see you for what you really are—you are great-you show everyone who comes in here that you care about their business.  I am so impressed I am sending you…
Here is where we discuss how to do just that, join us.

My Friend Alex Karis does a great job at asking the good questions. Twitter like life is really what you make of and with it. It was very interesting to see where people’s minds are from what they are attracted to and want to absorb. Thanks for your comments and remember you are the creator for your business and life so what are you focused on?

The Twitter Power System provides a complete set of information, tools and resources that will allow you to harness the enormous reach of Twitter to build your business. Today that is no longer an option, you must have a presence on Twitter so make it a smart presence.

The package is divided into several different elements, including a quick start guide and videos showing you the basics of Twitter, and the main Twitter business strategy manual showing you how to build up your Twitter account to achieve your business objectives.

The best Twitter tools (over 90 by my reckoning) are then outlined in the Twitter Tools guide, allowing you to find the right tools according to the powerful results that you want to achieve.

Finally, the package is completed by a selection of resources to accelerate your Twitter business success.  You know that your companies bottom line is counting on YOU to build a presence in Twitter so what are you waiting for?

Mindmaps provide you with a visual reminder of the main techniques and a viral tweets tool allows you to create messages that other Twitter users can retweet at the click of a button. Using multiple modalities to allow for more comprehensive learning. Twitter Power System gives it ALL to you in easy to learn forms.

A selection of follow lists provide you with information about the best people to follow in a variety of the most popular subject areas. Making this a no-brainer and easy choice for YOU!

Overall, the Twitter Power System is an extremely impressive package that will allow you to supercharge the growth of your business. It contains several powerful techniques that will benefit both new and experienced Twitter users alike.

The only potential drawback is the speed at which the Twitter network is developing. Techniques, attitudes and tools alter, appear, disappear, improve and deteriorate on a daily basis.

However, this situation has also been taken into account, as the secure members’ area will be updated to take account of these changes on a regular basis. So , how cool is that when things change you get updates so you can shift with them, seemlessly.

Here you go, TAKE ACTION NOW

TwtBizCard - your twitter business card

How Cool is this we have a 21 centrury way to exchange business contact information.

Here is our last interview with Felipe Coimbra enjoy CLICK here!

TwtBizCard is your new Twitter business card. Forget exchanging business cards with friends at a tech meet. Just send them your TwtBizCard.

Before you can start sending out business cards on twitter, you need to create one at TwtBizCard. Once you have created a business card, just send an @reply to any twitterer with #twtbizcard in it. The business card would then be available to that particular twitterer.

The site displays stats of the number of business cards you sent as well as the number of business cards received by you. You can also view how many twitterers retweeted your twitter business card.

Quickie

• Twitter business card
• Send an @reply with #twtbizcard in it to send your business card to a twitterer

Thanks to developer Felipe Coimbra, I have had him on several times on both radio show Twitter Today (which is now a segment on -Breakthrough Business Strategies) and on Two Chicks Creating- Which morphed into Breakthrough Business Strategies. Every Monday at 12pm EST, we bring you the top experienced and well known guests in Web 2.0 and Mindset technologies.

TwtBizCard Says

Say goodbye to business cards as you know it!
Send a Twitter Business Card!

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• TwtBizCard - Your twitter business card

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@twtbizcard - Say goodbye to business cards as you know it. Send your Twitter Business Card by adding #twtbizcard to a @reply.

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  Felipe Coimbra TwtApps

@twtapps - We develop simple and useful business social media applications. Check out: @twtpoll, @twtvite, @twtQpon, @twtjobs…
@twtfelipe - Sotware engineer, entrepreneur. Developed I-stats, YowTRIP, twtapps. Organizes Montreal NewTech Meetups.

Felipe how can we ever thank you for all your brilliant innovations for us?  Oh yes, Tweeps you can honor Felipe using his branded services!  I support our developers and you want to as well!

Twitter has brought so many fabulous opportunities, how are you utilizing them in your business?

Have you tried all of the innovative applications Felipe Coimbra has developed for us?

I really love Twt Poll, give it a try, learn what your customers really are thinking in real time!

Twitter Today was the brain child of Michele Price, The Breakthrough Specialist as she saw a need for a connecting place for twitter users to come to learn about more than new applications for Twitter but a place where people would be taking that next step in the process of building business relationships stat started from Twitter.  The intention behind Twitter today is to bring “tweeps” (twitter language for people on twitter) together is a forum and in meaningful ways where you really learned more about who they are and what they do to be able to engage more, refer each other business.

“Hi, I loved Twitter Today and yet it seemed like an awful lot of work where in my already busy schedule there was not time for a completley seperate show.  You may have noticed that I am going through a rebranding.  Continuing to get clear about who I am as a business owner and what I offer you my clients and listeners.  You see I walk my talk and put into action what my guests who come on air with us each week teach.  I trust you do too!  Now, Twitter Today will be a segment on Breakthrough Business Strategies” Michele Price.

After taking polls of listeners it was an easy choice to combine the radio shows and bring you what you wanted in a single format. Starting May 11, 2009 every Monday at noon 12pm EST Michele brings you high profile guest as well as regional experts to share with you how to use Web 2.0 techniques and Mindset technologies for the growth and success of your business.  this new show is called Breakthrough Business Strategies and will be on a new channel.  All of the previous shows for Two Chicks Creating, RADIO EFT and Twitter Today will remain on their current channels on Blog Talk Radio.

Join us, share with your fellow business owners the simplicity of tuning in while wriitng your blog posts, leaving your comments on other’s blogs, writing out your thank you notes to clients or even making this your time to learn, absorb and put into action your strategies for your business.  this is a great way to have a coaching session each week that you can count on to really give you knowledge, tools and techniques for your success.  The show blog posts are on Who Is Michele Price every week, along with the links to each guests twitter profile, their site, books or even program specials they offer listeners to Breakthrough Business Strategies

My Choice Is Participating With Influence, What’s Yours?

Every morning I look for new thought leading article and inspiring writing about social media and Twitter.  I am very impressed with the thoughts laid out here by Micah Baldwin.  I trust you will find it informative, through provoking and engage your mind in ways to create new ideas of how you can apply these principles to your business TODAY.  We are in a time now where influence is not controlled by the top any longer.  It is only as powerful as the participants will accept their own influence and claim it.

Otherwise it is like my friend Heshie Segal (from JetNettingConnection) says “It is like one hand clapping”.  Look at how you can step into your influence and recognize that the playing field is being leveled like never before in history.  Will you be a part of the game or will you be a spectator whinning “I saw it happening but didn’t want to risk it as it could have failed and besides I am just a little guy” mentality.

HOW TO: Measure Online Influence

Here is post by Micah Balwin from Mashable (You can click on his name and go to his blog post and leave him a message)

Obsessed with the idea that Google () doesn’t have the one right answer, in late 2008 Micah Baldwin joined Lijit Networks–his sixth startup–which believes each blogger has a right answer.

Influence is difficult to ascertain online. What about that guy on Twitter with 25,000 followers? Isn’t he influential? What about that woman who has 5,000 RSS subscribers? She has to be influential, correct?

People who are truly influential become conduits for human based filtering and content discovery within their communities, as members of the community look to the person of influence to connect them to people and content they should trust, and fuel positive community growth.

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Understanding influence

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Influence is defined as “implicit or explicit effect of one thing (or person) on another,” which online can be further simplified to “can someone’s words (and/or video) make you think or do something?” While this certainly can be negative (think of Jim Jones or David Koresh), let’s focus on the positive.

It becomes easier to understand influence when it’s broken down into its core components: Brand, Expertise and Trust. While there is much debate around online branding, it is clear that personal branding is important to online influence.

Interestingly, Google does not provide a definition for personal branding but provides 48 million results on the topic. What is personal branding? Corporate branding is the messaging effort by a company to make people feel positive about their products. Personal branding is the sum of your online activities and sets an expectation about who you are.

Personal brand is truly an aggregated representation of online activity. Can you build a personal brand by interacting on only one social service? Sort of, but it’s incomplete. It’s impossible to gain a true picture of who you are simply by looking at your photos on Flickr (), or just reading your blog. Trust grows by being able to view a person’s social content in aggregate. This is why life streaming applications like FriendFeed () have grown so rapidly.

In terms of measuring online influence, the stronger the personal brand, the more influence one wields online. The most important component of online influence is trust. Trust is defined as creating a consistent expectation that a person will always act in your best interest when given information.

Expertise is another core component of influence. One can gain knowledge on a specific topic, but expertise is a title that can only be given.

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How does one become influential?

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How does one get the title of expert? In the simplest terms, other people trust the knowledge you have accumulated. It’s why self-proclaimed expertise is not respected.

Personal Brand, Trust and Expertise. Understanding each is imperative to measuring influence, which can be expressed as:

Influence = (Personal Brand * Trust * Expertise)

Of course, since Expertise = (Knowledge * Trust), we can further refine the equation to:

Influence = (Personal Brand * Knowledge * Trust2)

Which shows the increased importance of trust. You could refine it more and extract trust from Personal Brand, but that begins to complicate things.

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Measuring influence

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Now that we have defined Influence mathematically, how do we measure it? Well, it is difficult to apply direct numerical measures to each component, but here is a starting point:

Incoming Traffic - Pageviews, Incoming traffic from search engines, rss subscribers

Incoming Links - Primarily manual links such as blogrolls, in-post deep links

Reader Engagement - Internal searches, time on site

Recommendations - Retweets, share stats

Connections - Number of mutual connections, number of mutual connections on multiple sites

Track Record - Age of domain, number of blog posts, length of engagement

Engagement - How often and long a person has engaged with a service online

If we look at a blog as the center of someone’s online universe, several blog tools/widgets together start to provide an interesting picture into someone’s online influence.

PostRank - By taking several measures, PostRank provides a quick overview of the general “importance” of specific posts. They have a widget that surfaces the top posts based on “engagement” metrics (derived from such services as Twitter, Delicious, and Digg ())

Outbrain / WP-PostRanking - A rating widget that also collects scoring data. Has a “top posts” sidebar widget that lists your top posts based on rating data.

Feedburner / TwitterCounter - Both provide chicklets that show respectively RSS subscribers and Twitter followers. Certainly a measure of trust and expertise.

Zemanta - a recommendation widget that works alongside your post as you are writing it. Interestingly, it also allows you to build a related content list at the bottom of a post by hand, which, because of the explicit action, makes the related content almost a personal recommendation for similar content.

While these widgets give you a quick view of online influence, and since Technorati’s Authority Rank stopped consistently updating (read: lost the trust of bloggers), there hasn’t been a single tool for measuring the potential online influence of an individual blogger. Until that happens, the best measure is getting recommendations from friends.

After all, there is nothing that will beat a simple recommendation for uncovering influential people both online and offline.

Micah Baldwin is VP and Lead Evangelist for Lijit Networks, a search widget that allows a blogger to make all of their social content (Flickr, Twitter, Youtube (), etc.) and some trusted sources searchable from one place, their blog, demonstrating the bloggers expertise and influence. Lijit also offers detailed search stats and an ad network. He can be found on Twitter () and at his own blog at LearntoDuck.

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Oh yeah, How are you building your know*trust factor?

You are invited to tune in every Thursday at 10AM EST for Twitter Today radio.  Where we showcase and talk with everyday “tweeps” as well as bring Twitter new thought leaders on to share with you their latest inventions, applications as well as practices for Twitter.  This is a tribal connecting place where you come to build a network and relationships you will take action with and partner with and refer business to each other.

Your comments and questions are welcome as we use that information to produce the best show for YOUR needs.  Send them to TwitterProfit *at* gmail.com.  Here is Tweeting To Your Profits! Oh and follow me on Twitter already!

Twitter Today is a tribal connecting place for “tweeps” (people on Twitter) to come learn, share and continue building their relationships they have started in Twitter.  Each Thursday at 10am EST we showcase Tweeps and give you a way to uncover more about:

• Who they are
• What they do
• What solutions they offer
• Who are their ideal clients
• Their favorite twitter tip or technique

I am your host Michele Price, The Breakthrough Specialist and I saw an opportunity for us to really learn on a much deep level how to build, create and generate sustainable growth for our businesses in a time that really favors solopreneurs and micro-business owners.  These changes are scary for some, these changes are new to many.  I choose to step into these opportunities as I see the impact of shifting thoughts, ideas and expectations so that I am connecting with my client in ways that they want, desire and will act upon.

This is not our father’s marketing or business arena any longer. (yes, Buick had a good point) That requires us to learn how to be able to stand in these new social venues and learn to listen with new and unused skills as we are developing them and growing with these changes around us.  Join us at Twitter Today and you will uncover the techniques with us.

Today I welcome Heshie Segal is a professional speaker, trainer, consultant and executive coach. She helps top executives, managers and individuals build their business through relationships. Corporations, colleges, universities and individuals alike seek out her powerful presentations. Her warmth, energy, and expertise lead to substantive change regardless of the venue.

Heshie Segal teaches her clients how to turn a business card, a presentation, and even a chance meeting into lasting business.  You can follow her on Twitter.

The offer Heshie made for you to learn more about bringing your skills in alignment with your goals fro your business is here–>>>>Heshie’s Offer, Take her up on this, it will change your business BIG time.

You can follow Michele Price on Twitter and talk with her about how she can help you find your path while on Twitter. She offers you a FREE Twitter Video series in her desire to help you start this journey so that you are building your following ina ways that will support your business for years to come.

Michele asks you to visit her video submission to(click, comment & Subscribe)—->>>>> Ford Fiesta Movement &   <<<—-(see that link)leave a comment and subscribe to her channel there.  She appreciates your support with this program.

Twitter Today (click and you will go straight to show, shazam)is a tribal connecting place for users of Twitter=”tweeps” where you can come learn more about Twitter.

This week we will be showcasing Staci J Shelton, she’s a connecting and relationship building powerhouse!!!  Staci teaches you how to improve your business by building solid relationships with customers, clients, other business owners and friends.  Follow Staci on Twitter.

Stay tuned because Michele Price and Staci J Shelton have some great programs coming to you in 2009.

In showcasing and building a bridge for Tweeps to create profitable connections from Twitter comes a great story about the power of Twitter from Deborah Woehr. I will not ruin the cool story we share, you will have to tune into Twitter Today March 19, 2009 at 10am EST.  Deborah Makes great Twitter Backgrounds and profile pages, look at mine giggle!

Follow her on Twitter.  Deb also has great blog on self publishing through lulu-visit here!

Judith Stephens, the Money Lady, is a Money Strategist who advises individuals and groups on how to attract and manage money smartly. Judith specializes in teaching success-minded small business owners, entrepreneurs, and professionals to embrace the inner and outer aspects of asset and wealth building. Follow her on Twitter.

See how Twitter Today brings together people to build community?  There is plenty for us all as the people who resonate with us will be drawn to us like magnets.  I love building this energy, will you join me?( meet me on twitter-Prosperitygal, giggle let me know you want to join our community, tweet me!)

Charrise McCrorey is a certified business coach and creator of a program called Full Out & Fearless.  She is an expert in the area of fear, and helps people live bigger lives through a discovery process designed to better understand how fear stops us, and designing action to rise above it. Follow her on Twitter.

Every Thursday we meet at 10am EST to showcase Tweeps so you can build a strong and deep networking well to draw much cool water from whether it be to quench your clients thirst or your own.  tune in, tweet up and lets tweet to your profits!

Michele Price, The Breakthrough Specialist your host on Twitter Today has made a reputation by validating others and building that “Know, Like & Trust” factor using her ability to shift your mindset into profitability as well and clear your limiting beliefs that prevent you from stepping into your divine right.  Whether you want to Increase Your Income Thermostat or clear your Ancestral Money Patterns, Michele Price has assited her clients in releasing their limiting beliefs so they are able to truely move into their dreams and desires for their business with confidence and powerful results.

She has successfully combined her strategies with her networking skills to build a massive responsive following on Twitter of 11,000+ in 90 days organically. After sharing, Michele has uncovered she has valuable strategies so she is offering a power packed class March 25, 2009, two times noon EST or 9pm EST.  Come learn how she has propelled her presence into #1 in Houston and Top #12 in Texas with power users like Perry Belcher and Barefoot_exec in the same areas, she has pulled herself into this position and you can too!

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