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The graph below shows an upturn in the number of searches Twitter gets from Google in Ireland.
As you can see Twitter is on the rise.
And so too are the number of people looking for businesses on Twitter.
I often use Twitter to help get in contact with businesses - if I have a problem with a product I will simply tweet the company and they typically respond within minutes.
But what about when you are looking for prospects or clients? How easy is it to find a restaurant in your area?
Well it’s not really that easy to do. If you were to use the advanced twitter search you could enter a keyword and a location and pull up a series of results based on that criteria, but what if you did this search:
This will return all tweets with the words Restaurant in them. I want to FIND businesses that are restaurants, not people tweeting looking for or talking about restaurants.
So how do we find businesses on Twitter based on their bio and location? It’s simple – we turn to Google (surprise surprise).
Google indexes Twitter accounts and includes the Twitter profile data. This data includes a bit called the Bio. See image below:
Notice in Bio you can see the word Restaurant. Also notice in Location you can see Dublin.
So I want to use Google to return to me Twitter accounts with Restaurant and Dublin in the profile. Simple
The concept is simple but the search syntax is not so. In a bid to make this easy I’ll paste the query I use into this blog post, but please note that if you do these searches rapidly Google will trigger a “Sorry… this looks like an automated query” page. No problem, just enter the captcha and you’re good to go.
The query:
(intitle:”restaurant * on twitter” OR intext:”bio * restaurant”) intext:”location * Dublin” site:twitter.com
Simply paste the above query into Google and it will return for you your desired results.
Or for those who don’t like my wit: Google.ie
So that’s how you can find businesses on Twitter by location.
I have an Excel spreadsheet I use which incorporates this search query in beautifully. The video below demonstrates how to use this spreadsheet.
If you’re interested in a copy of the spreadsheet its yours for €5
I’ve been asked “but how do I find those people so as I can offer my product to?” and my answer is simple: “go search for them!”
There are various strategies people use to find what they need on Google’s search pages, and this strategy is one that will dig up hungry enthusiasts looking for what you have to offer.
I use this technique to look for forums and discussion boards where people are talking about Vedic Maths. On finding these discussion sites I register a free account with them to become a member of the site.
The last thing I do is start promoting my product on post number 1. People will ignore you, flame you and possibly get you banned for promoting yourself.
Rather than doing this (which the majority fall foul of doing) I sign up and post useful, helpful replies to people. Then after possibly ten or 15 posts I’ll add a signature to the bottom of each post that will offer people a link to a maths ebook that will help them with their maths studies. This provides me with greater credibility amongst the board members and doesn’t invoke a “spamming the discussion” response. This has worked wonders for me and my ebook and I suggest you too try this subtle but highly effective approach.
So – just how do you find these discussion sites?
Simple, we go back to Google again for this (read this fully before trying*).
In the Google search box I type in:
intitle:”forum” + “vedic math” + (”powered by vbulletin”) OR (”powered by phpbb”)
What I am asking Google to do here is return results that have the word “Forum” in the page title, along with “Vedic Math” and the words “powered by vbulletin” or “powered by phpbb” in them.
Why those two? Well I know that discussion forums typically have the “Powered By” text on each of the sites pages. Returning results with those words in them along with my main keyword search phrase strongly suggests that they are related to what I am looking for.
*I suggest that you only try these search queries once every few minutes as Google will flag up a message as they think the queries are automated.
Ok I’ve been meaning to put this up for some time and now I’ve come into a bit of free time I thought I’d share with you a list of some forums based on Internet Marketing with varying page rank.
Many of you are probably aware of the benefits of having a link from a High PR site back to yours is, and if you don’t well in a nutshell it helps add weight to your site’s overall PR value when links from other relevant websites, blogs and forums also link with your portal.
So here’s a list of links to forums related to or have association with “internet marketing” AND have a minimum of PageRank 4.
If you’re interested in having your own custom PR report mad for your niche, at an affordable rate, contact me through the Hire Me image on the right.
The ideal world of affiliate marketing does not require having your own website, dealing with customers, refunds, product development and maintenance. This is one of the easiest ways of launching into an online business and earning more profits.
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So I’ve enrolled myself on Chris Howard’s Ultimate Marketing Seminar which is to take place next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (2 – 5 September 2009) in Ballsbridge.
I attended an event organised by Chris Howard before whilst in Sydney. It was one of these “Wealth Creation” type of events, and to be honest didn’t really take to the whole thing and didn’t attend the next day.
So a marketing event rolls around here in Dublin and again Chris Howard is involved… Perhaps I should stick it out for more than the one day – after all it is the Ultimate Marketing Seminar and with a name like that I should expect to pick up a trick or two 
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Every now and again I blast out an email to my subscribers list to ask them for their opinions and ideas for content they would like to see on in the email newsletters they receive.
On Saturday 8th July 2009 I decided to do the same again, and this time share the results with you.
I sent a broadcast message to my vedic maths newsletter requesting information on what else they would like to see and if there was any way i could improve the email delivery.
Within two minutes of the broadcast going out I was receiving emails into my inbox (and just one in now whilst I type this!).
Take a look at the video below
These are all personally written emails containing tonnes of useful ideas that they, as subscribers would like to see in the newsletter.
The power of a large, focused email list can become apparent when things like ideas start to run thin. So never forget that while you are providing material to your list, know that they too are full of ideas and are more than willing to help you when the opportunity arises.
Having some 16k+ newsletter subscribers to http://www.vedic-maths-ebook.com I feel adequately qualified when it comes to trying different advertising methods over the course of a couple of years.
But there’s one affiliate marketing program that has stood out amongst the rest, in my opinion, and has helped bring in more cash into the old Clickbank account moreso than any other program I’ve used.
That program is called “Clickbank Message Sets”.
I have been contacted by several budding internet marketers with the common question “What other ways are there to find a niche market?”
Niche Marketing is, in my opinion, a clever way to make some money online. Rather than promoting those weight loss products or 6 pack abs programs we so often see strewn across the web, we are marketing towards those areas of commerce where there may not necessarily be millions of people searching. (more…)
When I created my ebook website it became important for me to know exactly where my visitors were clicking when it came to the style of graphic, icon or play button I had added to my site.
I initially started off by having a picture of the video and the words “Click Here” to play the video. Clicking anywhere in the picture would play the video, but I wanted to monitor how well either the “Click Here” and actually clicking on the actual picture was doing. You can see the “Click Here” to watch and then the actual picture of the video on the left.
I’ve been using Google Trends for many years to help demonstrate the examples of seasonal searches on the Google search engines.
It would make sense that there would be more searches for “Easter” around March/April time than at say September and the good thing is you can see these trends of searches in a graphical form. Take a look at this graph.
It depicts the peak in searches since 2004 right up to present day. You can see that the peaks are at almost exactly the same location each year. (more…)
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