Yesterday saw the launch of the new program from Walter Bayliss called Totally Tweetable.

Let me start out by saying that I am a big fan of Walter’s sites.  I use Instant Blog Subscribers every time I update my blog.  It’s a great program.  So I was very much looking forward to see what Walt’s latest project was going to be.  I have to admit I was very disappointed to find out that it was a new Twitter marketing tool.

I like Twitter.  I have Twitter setup as my homepage in my browser.  I don’t tweet a whole lot but I am following some interesting people and I love reading my updates throughout the day.  So when I started seeing automated messages sent by Totally Tweetable through the Twitter accounts of some of the people I was following I knew this was going to be a problem.  I say “was following” because I have no interest in having my Twitter feed filled with advertisements.  I have been unfollowing Totally Tweetable members since the site launched.

I was going to totally ignore Totally Tweetable until I started to see some glowing reviews from other marketers who’s opinions I respect.  I figured I should join and take a look for myself to see if it’s as bad as it appears.

To be fair, Totally Tweetable starts out pretty good.  It’s essentially a safelist/viral list builder.  As a free member you can send an email (not a tweet) to 100 members every 7 days.  You can earn additional credits to send your ads to more members by reading the emails sent by other members.

No problem there.  I love safelists so that’s right up my alley.

The problem comes when you read your emails and claim your credits the program automatically sends a tweet from your Twitter account promoting the ad you just read.  Yes, it’s good for the advertiser but it basically turns your Twitter into a spam account.  If you read 20 emails a day to earn credits that means you are going to be sending 20 tweets a day promoting other people’s sites.

Why would anybody want to do this?

Want to know the fastest way to lose Twitter followers?  Use Totally Tweetable.

It appears there are ways around this.  You can create a fake Twitter account to use exclusively with Totally Tweetable.  You can even skip the Twitter verification part to prevent the site from accessing your Twitter account.  But what is the point of this?  If your ads are being retweeted with Totally Tweetable you can bet that most of them are either going to garbage Twitter accounts or they are being sent along with dozens of other automated tweets pissing off that member’s followers.

I don’t know why Internet marketers have to try and turn everything they touch into a spam tool.  Twitter is far too powerful to be abused like this.  If you are a Twitter user you should be following people you want to follow and tweeting the things your followers want to read.  Twitter is a “social” platform.  It’s not for automated spamming!

To sum up… Totally Tweetable appears to be a good looking safelist/viral list builder that you can use to email your ads to other members.  However if you link it to your Twitter account you might as well kiss all of your followers goodbye.  If you choose to join make sure you setup a fake Twitter account or skip the step that gives Totally Tweetable access to your account.

Happy Saturday!

You don’t see too many big sites launching on a Saturday but today my good buddies Darren Olander and Jared Silver are opening the doors to their new site… and it’s full of affiliate landmines.

Don’t panic!

Affiliate Landmines are a GOOD thing.

It is the concept that your referrals will be fed into a multitude of other programs without ANY extra effort on your part.

The best part is.. with Viral Bonuses you get to do it by giving great value away!

And giving great stuff away… well it doesn’t get any easier than that.

Here’s how it works:

* Top website owners will provide you with valuable free offers such as advertising credits, membership upgrades, or other products.

(these are exclusive bonuses that people actually pay for, but Viral Bonuses members get them for free)

* Viral Bonuses keeps a running rolodex of these programs (10 at one time, swapping one new bonus in each week), where you get to plug in your affiliate IDs so your referrals will join these under you.

(and they’ve made extra precautions to ensure your downline DOES join under you)

* You can even claim these bonuses yourself… literally thousands of dollars  worth of quality stuff.

And it’s all 100% Gratis.

Click the banner below to join now!

Click Here to Join “Viral Bonuses”

Now this is cool!

Last night while hanging out at TE Live I had the fortune of witnessing the birth of a brand new concept in downline building.  It’s a new program that is being called “TE Teams“.

TE Teams was created from scratch over the last week by Tim Linden, John Guanzon, Austin Hallock, and Jon Olson.  The idea is to build your downlines in a variety of programs using teams instead of trying to do it alone.

The new site is very slick and is designed to build your downlines in TrafficWave, TEToolbox, Thumbvu, StartXchange, I Love Hits, Traffic Splash, and Dragon Surf.

Since I was there for the unveiling I was lucky enough to snag a position of “team leader” for my own team called… (drum roll)…  EXCELSIOR!

So far, i’m loving it!  In the few hours since I have been a team leader we have rocketed to the top of the teams list and we have even generated a few referrals for our members.

TE Teams is totally free to join.  There are no OTOs or upgrade offers.

If you are interested in building your downlines in the above programs and you feel that you would like to contribute to Team Excelsior we would love to have to on board.  Simply click the link below to join for free.

Click Here to Join “Team Excelsior“

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for February 8, 2010.

JV Giveaway Events

Feb 8 – The Seven Dollar Giveaway
Contributors: 238  Gifts: 228

Feb 9 – Happy Birthday Box of Gifts Giveaway
Contributors: 278  Gifts: 224

*Feb 13 – New JV Talent Valentine’s Giveaway
Contributors: 431  Gifts: 341

Feb 15 – Traffic Tsunami Gifts
Contributors: 227  Gifts: 150

Feb 15 – Members Only Giveaway 2
Contributors: 207  Gifts: 134

Feb 19 – Internet Marketing Giveaway
Contributors: 140  Gifts: 92

Feb 22 – 2010 Prosperity Giveaway
Contributors: 112  Gifts: 93

Feb 28 – St. Patricks Day Giveaway
Contributors: 155  Gifts: 87

March 1 – Luck of the Irish Giveaway
Contributors: 157  Gifts: 97

*Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for February 1, 2010.

JV Giveaway Events

*Feb 5 – EZ-IM Giveaway
Contributors: 1429  Gifts: 306

Feb 6 – Valentine Giveaway
Contributors: 222  Gifts: 146

Feb 8 – The Seven Dollar Giveaway
Contributors: 171  Gifts: 153

Feb 9 – Happy Birthday Box of Gifts Giveaway
Contributors: 205  Gifts: 146

*Feb 13 – New JV Talent Valentine’s Giveaway
Contributors: 342  Gifts: 257

Feb 15 – Traffic Tsunami Gifts
Contributors: 158  Gifts: 95

*Feb 15 – Members Only Giveaway 2
Contributors: 137  Gifts: 88

Feb 22 – 2010 Prosperity Giveaway
Contributors: 41  Gifts: 43

Feb 28 – St. Patricks Day Giveaway
Contributors: 91  Gifts: 43

*Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

I send these updates out every week to the members of JV Giveaway Tactics listing all the new giveaway events that are looking for contributors.  I figured I might as well post them here too.

If you are trying to build a list these events are a great way to get new subscribers fast!

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for December 7, 2009.

JV Giveaway Events

Dec 7 – Real MLM Network Marketing Giveaway
Contributors: 137   Gifts: 71

*Dec 12 – Seasons Greetings Giveaway (NEW!)
Contributors: 518   Gifts: 211

Dec 14 – Seven Dollar Giveaway (NEW!)
Contributors: 96   Gifts: 84

Dec 14 – Shop4Bizness Giveaway (NEW!)
Contributors: 70   Gifts: 50

Dec 31 – It’s a New Year 2010 Giveaway (NEW!)
Contributors: 114   Gifts: 61

*Jan 1 – New JV Talent 2010
Contributors: 247   Gifts: 158

*Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

Hooray!

I’m about a month late but yesterday I finally released my new ebook/website called JV Giveaway Tactics.  You can check it out here:

http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

The book shows people how they can build their list bigger, faster, and easier using JV giveaway events.

I started using giveaway events about a year ago to build my list and was shocked at how well they worked.  Before this I had heard about giveaway events but never understood how they worked.  It turns out that giveaway events are actually pretty simple but here are a lot of little things that need to be done ahead of time to really get the most benefits from them.

Since most of the really big  jv giveaway events are scheduled around major holidays I figured this would be the perfect time of the year to release a book like this.  There is even a calendar inside the website that alerts members to all the great new giveaway events that are coming up.

The JV Giveaway Tactics site launch went eerily smooth.  Its been about 15 hours since it launched and so far there are 298 members.  Not bad for a free ebook.  I gotta give a big shout-out to Jerry Reeder for helping me out with my sales page copy until 4:00 am the night before.  Thanks Jerry!

I woke up at 9:00 am to make some last minute changes and opened the doors to the site at 10:00 am.  A few hours later I did what any new business owner would do at his first day on the job… I took a nap.  Lol.  Yep, I slept good too knowing that my system was all in place and everything was running smoothly.  In fact, I still have not received one support email (well, there was one but it was spam so at least I know the support room works).

Word of mouth has been good and my members are making money so I would say this launch has been a success.  This gives me a little more confidence as I go into my next project which is going to be bigger and badder than anything I have done so far.  Stay tuned!

T-minus 1 week to launch!

Launch is set for Monday, June 8th @ Noon EST.

Everything is set and ready to go for my first membership site… and much sooner than expected.

Last week I hired Jay Hines (Quick Tab Change) to do a little custom programming on the site.  I knew that was something I was going to need to do after I finished my product but I was factoring in at least a week for him to get it done.  I spotted Jay in the Affiliate Funnel conference room and told him what I wanted.  20 minutes later it was done!

With the site completed I spent some time last week sending out emails looking for JV partners.  I wasn’t expecting a huge response but I was surprised by how many people didn’t bother to respond at all.  The good news is that I got a few people who I know are going to be able to bring in a huge amount of traffic to the site.  The important thing to remember is that it never hurts to ask.

For the last few days I have been writing emails to put into my autoresponder.  That has taken longer than expected.  It’s been almost a year since I have written an entire email series but I think I have gotten much better at it.  I have essentially written an ecourse on Internet marketing that I will be sharing with the members of my site.  I am pretty excited about it.

If you are not sure how to write autoresponder emails I highly recommend reading Soren’s Internet Marketing Success Formula.  Really good stuff.

With everything being done I am not quite sure what to do for the next week.  I’ll probably write a few more promo emails for the members but otherwise I am ready to go.

Maybe I will get a head start on launching my 2nd membership site.