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Christmas Day I was over my head with company and a 30 pound bird, potatoes, desserts…etc. My family wanted to help and they went scrambling looking for cheese cutters, carving knives, salad servers, etc.
Sadly, all of those implements reside in two “junk drawers” in my kitchen. They opened them and rummaged through the mess to find what they needed.
I was so embarrassed, and I’d been meaning to clean them up and empty the extra screws in there, the nutcracker that had begun to rust, etc.

So, as soon as I was done with the all that food preparing, I measured those two errant drawers and went to Bed, Bath & Beyond to buy drawer organizers and all shiney new cutlery. It felt great, just looking there…not for company…but for myself. I even threw away the spatula that had lost the handle.

Somehow it brought to mind Twitter, and maybe it was time to clean up my followers too (I often get on these cleaning jags).

So, I sat down yesterday, and decided to clean out my followers by “unfollowing” people who don’t follow me, haven’t tweeted in months, have some old account.

I went up to: http://friendorfollow.com and typed in my name. It showed a hand patting a rabbit and said that if I was popular it might take a while to find all the people I follow, that don’t follow me back. So, I left it running and went out to a party.

When I returned I found that there were over 1400 people I followed like that. I even found that Al Ferretti (I’m President of his fan club) had an old account I had there. One by one, I went through the tedious task of unfollowing people who hadn’t tweeted in months.

I also found people I thought liked me, but weren’t following me (maybe my red pictures popping up got on their nerves). Made it through about 340 and felt great.

I’d made a dent in cleaning up my Twitter followers.

I like to do this, because it gives me room to start picking people of quality, ones I can learn from, talk business with and enjoy.
So, maybe you might want to give it a try. It feels great…and let me know what you think about the process by leaving a comment below or sending me a tweet
Out with the old. In with the new. Happy 2010!

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Let us take just a moment to begin this new year and decade by saying, thank you.
Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to serve you. It’s truly an honor and privilege to have this opportunity. For that, we are truly grateful.

Here are 15 gems (that we gathered) to not only live by but to live better on and off of Twitter in 2010 and beyond.. Read the rest of this entry »

May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace, the gladness of Christmas give you hope, and the warmth of Christmas grant you love.

Merry Christmas!

-Al and Skeeter

I mentioned that I would address why you should have a twitter account for your business and it comes as sort of a gift in time for Christmas, especially for those who are first timers to TwitterWatchDog.com. Just to give you a little background on where I live – I live in Centralia, Illinois, which is in southern Illinois, barely within the St. Louis metro east. Centralia is a very small place. It is a city that has a annual Balloon fest that attracts a lot of people from over the region, and a large yearly Halloween parade, much larger than some of the city parades I have seen growing up.

I have the privilege to talk to a lot of small business owners. Centralia is a place where people are still a bit hesitant about the internet, but those in business are contemplating if they need a website. The problem is, a lot of them do not have that much money to fork out for a shiny website made by a big kahuna web design company. I offer my services. I often talk to them about Twitter as I believe any business should plug into the social network.

This is helpful on several levels. If you use Twitter to connect with others, and they find you trustworthy, you build a reputation that is easily searchable. You help your business virtually get on the map, and furthermore, you get your town/city on the map. A lot of smaller cities do have a website, and for places like Centralia, it is great to see business coming in from anywhere. The brilliant part about Twitter is – IT IS FREE!

There are many tools to find people in your general area or even in your niche. You do not necessarily have to have an e-commerce site, but if you have products you like to feature that are unique to your business versus others in your niche, Twitter would be one of the great places to share that information. You never know, you might either make a good transaction over the phone, or actually set up an e-ecommerce site.

Another thing is that you can use Twitter to provide Live Support too. There are several places already that do, like Best Buy’s Twelp Force. Even though they are a larger business, small business can use that as an example to help others.

Going further, Twitter is great for freelancers. Freelancers are small business owners in their own right too. Using Twitter allows them to connect with others in their niche. The number of projects I have paired up with other freelancers who needed my skills are more than I can count, and a lot of them came from connecting with them on Twitter.

There are more reasons, but I thought I would allow some room for conversation. If you are a small business owner, what are your reasons? How have you used Twitter so far for your business?

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Since December of 2008 Skeeter Hansen and myself (Al Ferretti) have been giving back to the Twitter community by teaching, training, and providing valuable Twitter tips and tools to tens of thousands of twitter users and business owners through radio stations, conference calls, blogs, training guides, and much more. For that, we thank you for allowing us the opportunity to serve you.

In case you may not know me, I’ve had a nice run of success and my share of failures as a leader in the corporate world and as a business owner on and offline since the early 90’s. Now, I’m dating myself and for those of you doing the math, yes I am 29 with 10+ years of experience.

So where am I going with this? Well, when used the right way, Twitter is the single most productive business tool I have ever experienced compared to other methods of communication, advertisements and marketing tools. And I’ve learned that people are looking for fast and simple ways to generate traffic, leads, and sales in their business with the least amount of expense.

The problem is that most people don’t know how or have enough money to successfully build, grow and monetize their business online or with Twitter. That is one of the reasons why Skeeter and I are launching Tweet Formula to the world this holiday season.

Tweet Formula is a proven and simple step by step system that teaches you how to successfully build, grow and monetize your business with Twitter, the right way. This has not been seen anywhere else and we believe that you’re really going to appreciate it.

Skeeter and I are dedicated and committed to teaching, training, and providing you with the support and tools that you need to be successful online(aka making money) and so much more.

With that being said, I personally invite you to get on the early bird list today and be the first to have exclusive access to Tweet Formula. Take advantage of this opportunity and let us help you attract new customers that want to buy what you have to offer. So what are you waiting for? Let’s work together and make 2010 the best year for your business…

Wishing you and your family all the best during this holiday season.

Send us a tweet and lets connect.
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@skeeterhansen