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Update: (3:30p): Twitter has turned the Lists feature back on.

Some people have been asking what happened to the Twitter List feature today.

Currently the Twitter list feature is down as reported by Twitter.

“Starting about 10 minutes ago, we began experiencing a very high rate of errors and we are working on the underlying problem. Update (1:30p): We are now recovering from this unexpected downtime. The Lists feature is temporarily unavailable as we diagnose the cause of the outage.”

Watching out for you, one tweet at a time -TwitterWatchDog

Use Twitter the right way with a step by step Training and Support System

Isn’t that what every business owner wants to hear from people… “Can I buy from you”?

With Twitter, it’s easier and faster than ever to have people ask you that question, “if” you implement the 3 simple yet highly effective keys. That’s the secret.

First lets identify a common problem. Whether they realize it or not; some entrepreneurs, business owners or salespeople alike are ramming, jamming and cramming their products and services down our throats in tweets and/or direct messages on Twitter. If you or anyone you know is doing this, people will burp up the information and it’ll leave a bad taste in their mouth. Then you’ll be looked upon as that pushy salesperson. So what ever you do, don’t be that person.

With that being said, we know that people HATE to be sold to, but LOVE to buy.
People especially love to buy from those they know, like and trust.

So how do we get to know people and have them like and/or trust us? With Twitter, It’s much easier than you think, can happen fast and with no out of pocket expense.

Check back soon on TwitterWatchdog to discover the 3 major Keys on Twitter to position yourself and your business so people will say “Can I buy from you”?

What would you recommend people to do or not to do when it comes to marketing and sales on Twitter?

Watching out for you, one tweet at a time -TwitterWatchDog

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The key to making Twitter or social media a useful tool is to identify your strategy for how you want to use it. Many businesses jump on Twitter with no strategy and start sending tweets expecting to get more traffic and customers. That is just not how social media works, especially Twitter.

Leverage Your Time with Twitter

Before building a business with Twitter ask yourself a few simple questions:

1. Do you want more traffic?

2. Are you looking for brand awareness?

3. Do you want more followers?

4. Are you trying to sell a product?

5. Maybe you want to build a mailing list.

What ever your reason for marketing your business on Twitter, you must have a strategy to increase your ROI.

Start using tools like Twitterfeed (Twitterfeed) that will help you automate your feed. Take advantage of bit.ly (bit.ly) to track your clicks in your tweets to see whats working and track your competition to get ideas from them. Let’s not forget about twellow (Twellow) the people search that Twitter should’ve built to locate people in your niche.

These are just a few of many great tools to help you leverage your time while building your business using Twitter.

Once you have a strategy, the only thing left is taking action. Don’t let this keep you from building your business with Twitter. Just remember, you don’t have to be perfect, use some common sense and make adjustments as you learn along the way.

Watching out for you, one tweet at a time -TwitterWatchDog

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Follow me on Twitter @skeeterhansen

- by Timothy Caron

For those of you who are on Twitter, one way to make sure that you stand out from the crowd is via your avatar/photo and your Twitter Background. Your Twitter Background is the first image people will see when they view your profile. This can be a great way for people to get to know you better and in deciding whether to follow you or not.

Why use one of Twitter’s stock backgrounds when you can have a custom Twitter background that will not only make you stand out from the crowd but also provide an excellent marketing opportunity?

If you’re using Twitter to promote something you’re missing out on its full potential if you don’t consider the background as part of your promotion.

Your online image is important. The right personal or business image can make an ordinary company look great and help you succeed. Here, at Twitterwatchdog, we believe the right image is a big difference maker, aside from providing value (which is a must)

A Twitter user has three options, first to use the Free Twitter Backgrounds on twitter, secondly to use free Twitter Background websites or third, get a custom background designed by a professional for your specifications that will allow you to stand out from the crowd.

Below are some samples of holiday templates that we have created for our Twitterwatchdog friends and followers. Simply Right Click on the image and save it to your desktop, then upload it to your Twitter Profile and enjoy.

Free Holiday Twitter Backgrounds

If you would like to have any of these free backgrounds customized, just hop on over to my blog and send me a message via my contact form. Or simply click on any of the images will open a new window. Then in your browsers menu bar at the top click on file then choose “Save Page As” from the drop down list. Then upload it to your Twitter Profile under design settings.

Timothy is a website designer and developer and can be contacted at @TimothyCaron on Twitter and over at http://timothycaron.com/blog/
Have a happy holiday season…

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Wishing you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving~

Or since we are on Twitter, would that be a Happy Tweetsgiving?!

“Thank You” for allowing us the opportunity to serve you each and everyday.

What are you thankful for today?
(Feel free to post in the comment section)

Thanksgiving quotes about Gratitude:

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
–Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
–Samuel Johnson

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? No—here’s to the pilot that weathered the storm.
–George Canning

What soon grows old? Gratitude.
–Aristotle

Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,
The bee’s collected treasures sweet,
Sweet music’s melting fall, but sweeter yet
The still small voice of gratitude.
–Thomas Gray

My life has crept so long on a broken wing
Thro’ cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear,
That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
–Alfred Lord Tennyson

One single grateful thought towards heaven, is the most perfect prayer.
–Minna von Barnhelm

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
–Catullus

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
–George Eliot

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure for them, but because obligation is a pain.
–Samuel Johnson

A man’s indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
–Ruth Benedict

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
–Sophocles

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
–Sallust

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
–John F. Kennedy

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
–Brian Tracy

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
–Carmen Sylva

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
–William Arthur Ward

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
–John Milton

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
–Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
–Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Gratefully,
-Al Ferretti and Skeeter Hansen

If you are a regular Twitter user, then HootSuite is the perfect Professional Twitter application for you.  Some of the basic highlights of HootSuite include the following where you can:

• Create and manage multiple Twitter accounts
• Share your Twittering duties with other trusted users
• Manage your RSS feed directly from HootSuite
• Track how many people have clicked on your links that you have tweeted.
• Pre-schedule your messages or feed to post on your blog or Twitter account
• Use Ping.fm to post to multiple social networking sites at once.

Now, HootSuite has added some new cool feature and expanded the capabilities as listed above.  So, I just wanted to provide you a brief overview of what I just reviewed on the HootSuite website.  Some of these new features as listed include:

• Creating and importing Twitter list
• Linking directly to Facebook and LinkedIn
• Scheduling Facebook and Linkedin status updates

Create and Importing Twitter List

HootSuite now allows you Read the rest of this entry »