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Does Tweet Attacks Work? Bareknuckle Review

Tweet Attacks PhotoWhat is Tweet Attacks?

Tweet Attacks is the only Twitter application that doesn’t use the API.  What this means in simple words is that unlike other Twitter applications, Tweet Attacks won’t get you banned.

Below you’ll find my review on Tweet Attacks and exactly what I think of the software.  Do I still use it?  Would I buy it again?  Have I found anything better? No BS, just an honest review from me.

If you’d like to visit the official page with a special $20 discount you can do so here.

It’s no secret that Twitter has huge traffic potential.  Unfortunately many people fail to grasp it’s full potential.  Using it the right way can be tedious and time consuming to get the desired affect.  Tweet Attacks takes out the hard work, and trims it down to a powerful marketing tool.

What Can Tweet Attacks Do?

  • Automate twitter marketing without getting noticed
  • Build thousands of followers without worrying on API limits
  • Post and schedule thousands of tweets
  • Make money in twitter with or without any followers
  • Reply on thousands of users looking for your offers on autopilot
  • Protect your account from getting banned
  • Anti Spam Filter contacts only real people
  • Use An Unlimited Number of Accounts

Will Tweet Attacks Perform Like it Says on the Box?

In one word: Yes. I’ve been thoroughly impressed with all of the features in Tweet Attack.  Especially how really easy it is to set everything up in several different accounts all at once, and have everything randomized to look completely natural all at once.  It goes beyond what it says on the official site, and really delivers a top of the line piece of equipment.

What Can Tweet Attacks Be Used For?

The best use I have found so far is definitely traffic.  I’m sending my links directly to hundreds of people everyday who are interested in my products, and the result is a flood of traffic.  It’s faster and easier than any SEO work I’ve ever done, and way cheaper than PPC.

I’m also getting SEO rank increases from the backlinks.  I’m using several different accounts all at once, and retweeting my main backlinks, which ends up getting me tons of traffic and backlinks to my most important sites.  My retweets are even getting better CTR than normal tweets.

Warning About Tweet Attacks!!

Like many powerful pieces of software it’s important to not go crazy all at once.  Don’t try to get 10,000 followers by tomorrow.  Just take your time and go slowly.  I never follow more than 300 people in a day and I’ve never had an account get banned.  Others have mentioned doing 400 a day.  The key here is to take it “slow”.  Besides you can easily just set up another account, and have it contact a completely different 400 people anyway :D

If you take your time, and don’t abuse the system you can have achieve big results with Tweet Attacks.

How to Take Advantage of The Application Now?

This application has made a huge impact on my traffic, backlinking and general internet marketing strategies.  I now use it every day, and every time I have a new project it’s one of the first places I turn to.  If you would like more information on Twitter Attacks, including more customer testimonial, a special $20 discount, free guides, and videos Click Here Now.

How Important Is It To Update Your Sites?

We’ve all heard it or read it one time or another.  Search engines take into account how often your site is updated, when it ranks you in the top ten.  But how many of you have old sites sitting around that haven’t been updated in forever?  I did.  And unknowingly to me at the time I just used this simple technique to get serp boost!

You see, I had a site sitting around for almost over a year now that has steady traffic, ranks for it’s keywords in the top 10, but to be honest with you, I have no interest in the niche anymore.  Every time I start working on that niche I end up wasting MONTHS on irrelevant “research”.  Atleast that’s my excuse for playing video games…research honey, it’s for research.

A few days ago, I was updating a few WordPress blogs to 3.0, and decided to go ahead and do that old site as well.  Result?  Almost double the traffic.  It was hanging out in position #3 for a keyword that I didn’t even know it was ranking for, and after the update it jumped to #1, and is getting about an extra 30-40 visitors per day now.  Not huge, but definitely something that will convert into more sales in the long run.

I always thought that the “updating” would have to be posting a blog or something actually relevant, but obviously not.  So if you have any old sites sitting around, consider adding an extra . where it’s not needing and updating that dinosaur.   Sometimes your next . = $ in the bank.

Never Pay Upfront

Outsourcing can and definitely has been for me one of the most exciting parts about working online.  I get a project idea, and someone else does all the hard work.  Unfortunately, finding the right people to do the job to the standard you want can and definitely has been for me a challenge.

When I was 18, I was the manager of a small car lot.  We were doing pretty good, and I needed to find an extra person to help with cleaning cars, small repairs and the like.  I put an ad on the corner, and had to take it down by the end of the day.  But finding the right person was really easy.  I chose the hardworking clean cut young guy who wanted to do something with this life.  He was a great employee.  I knew he wouldn’t grow old and retire there, but hell I knew I wouldn’t either.

Unfortunately when it comes to finding an outsourcer online, it’s a little more difficult.  If you’re needing some graphics created, you can’t exactly ask for a 30 minute Skype interview first.  Well I guess you could, but it’d be weird…don’t do that.  You’ll also find that a lot of outsourcers want to get paid upfront.  They have to worry about people giving them jobs, completing the job and then never getting paid.  And you have to worry about paying for a service that never gets completed.

Once I have a solid reputation built with someone, and I know they’ll do the work no matter what, I’m happy to pay upfront…to me that’s just another step in the process that’s out of the way.   But before you get to that stage in a working relationship, you really have to be weary of people online.  Never Never Never pay in full upfront to someone that you have never worked with.

It’s simply too easy for them to say ok here’s an incomplete project, and I’m done…then you’re stuck having a project that needs completed, dishing out more money to get it done.  A simple answer is to pay half upfront, and half upon completion.  Or if it’s a really big project, you can even pay in installments upon certain parts of the project being completed.

Another great solution that I like to use is an escrow service.  Sites like GetaFreelancer will allow you to put the money into an escrow account, then once the project is complete, and you have reviewed it and are satisfied with the final product, you can release the money to the outsourcer.

If you come across someone who is unwilling to do either of these, just let them know that you’ll be taking your money to someone else.  It’s not worth risking the money or time lost in dealing with someone who doesn’t understand your concerns as well.  If they aren’t willing to work something out with payment, what will they say if you’re unhappy with their performance?  Don’t take the risk, there are a lot of really bad outsourcers out there, keep bases covered, and never pay everything upfront.

Ridiculous PLR Products

I’m a big fan of PLR products.  I like to pick up free ones and have then re-written, add more content and sell ‘em.  It’s a pretty quick and easy way to get a new project going.  So when I see a new plr offer I like to look.  So today when I saw an offer in my email box from 3 different marketers, I of course checked it out.

Skimming through the 20 niche ebooks I got a pretty good laugh.  There’s ebooks about some really ridiculous topics in there, that although it’d be hard to believe that anyone would actually give their name and email for the product I’m sure there’s even a few out there who are dumb enough to pay for them.

Then there are a few that are actually in good niches, but just lack the meat and potatoes of a good product.  If you’ve ever thought about looking into PLR, I highly recommend it.  Even if it’s just for a good laugh to see what others are marketing, to get new niche ideas, or pick up a good platform of material to remake for a new project.

How to Find Outsourcers

After hiring my first full time outsourcer a few weeks ago I have learned a few really important tips on the subject that I would like to share with you now.  Hopefully this will help you find a better outsourcer, and avoid some potentially costly mistakes.

I use Getafreelancer when I need something outsourced, because I like their escrow payment method.  It’s a great way to protect yourself from scam artists.  It gives you the opportunity to fully review a product before paying for it.  This is a much better feeling then handing over your money and hoping something gets done.

Before you place your ad, make sure you know exactly what you want done, and have a ball park figure of what it will cost to get it done.  If you’re not sure you can take a look around getafreelancer’s posted jobs and get an idea.  Make sure you include everything you need done, and your expectations of the winning bidder.

Once you start receiving bids, take the time to do a little research on each one of the prospects.  Read their feedback, see what they’re bidding on, and most importantly get a chance to talk with them on Skype to get a feel for them, their Engrish skrills, and just some general info.  Depending on your project, some details will be more important than others.  Once you’ve decided on a freelancer, award him or her the job and give them any final project details.

If your project is going to take several weeks to complete it’s not a bad idea to get daily updates on the process of the work.  I’ve learned this the hard way with outsourcers who say they’re going to be done in the next few days, only to write them an email a few days after their own deadline to find out that they haven’t even started on the project.  But don’t worry they’ll always get it done later.  Until later of course when it still isn’t completed.

If you have a large project and want it done fast, consider giving a bonus if it’s completed in time.  This will give more incentive for the freelancer to work on your project and not another.

Once your project is complete take the time to review it in full, and request any necessary changes.  Then release your escrow payment to the freelancer.  Juggling freelancers can be a bit of work in it’s own.  But the amount of time you save for the amount of money spent is fantastic.  If you have never worked with any freelancers or outsourcers before I highly recommend it.

Are Link Wheels Dead?

I came across a post today saying that LinkWheels are dead.  I thought I should bring it up here and let you all in on a little secret.

They aren’t!  That’s the good news.  Now let’s see the bad.  The OLD style of link wheels are longer effective.

The old style, the closed loop method, is easily traced by the google algorithm and no longer passes the link juice it once used to.  The open link wheel method also doesn’t pass the link juice it once did.  You see, google doesn’t want everyone to go out and build manual links in the first place.  So if there’s an easy method that makes your site jump to the top really fast….they’re going to fix that loophole.

Bad news complete.  Back to the good!  Open LinksWheels are still effective.  I’ve been having great success using them in the past few months I’ve moved quite a few keywords up in the big G and other search engines just by setting up the first link wheel technique.

What exactly are Open LinkWheels?
Lets use the example of 4 web 2.0 properties:A,B,C, and D.  And you money site: $

Site A links to B and $
Site B links to C and $
Site C links to D and $
Site D links to $ and $

That’s a “complete” open linkwheel.  The wrong way to do a linkwheel, is by pointing your sites back to one another, and not in a “straight line”. You can continue this process for as many sites as you need.  Just make sure you never point back to one of your older web 2.0 sites.

10 Places for Great Niche Ideas

Sometimes all you have to do is get a drink from the fridge, take a 10 minute break, and BAM there’s a new niche idea.  Other times it can take a little longer, here’s 10 places that I’ve found to really help get the Niche Ideas flowing.

10 – Take a break.  Grab a drink, take a leak, notice the bath towels…hm…bath towel site…maybe?  But taking a short break and giving your mind a chance to clear itself is always a great way to get a niche idea.

9 – Take a drive.  Take notice to all the little things that you might not normally pay attention to.  What is that park bench advertising?  What kind of businesses seem to have a full parking lot, even at 2 in the afternoon, what are they selling?

8 – Take a walk.  Grab the dog, leave the car keys.  Take it slow, enjoy the air, and be a little snoopy…not stalker like though.  What are people up to?  Are all the kids in the street playing with a new toy, does it seem like everyone has a satellite, do you see any hints as to what people do for their hobby?

7 – Take a look in the Yellow Pages.  What types of businesses are advertising there?  Could you prospect them for an offline client?  Could you have an ebook about how to start a business like theirs written?  What types of problems are these business solving, could you help solve those problems online?

6 – Watch some tv.  Pay attention to what they’re doing.  Fishing, driving on a road trip, having a baby, going to a sports event.  Everything they’re doing has tons of keywords and niche ideas, just waiting to be dominated!

5 – Stumble the net.  If you’ve never heard of Stumble Upon, let me help introduce you to a fun site that allows you to not only add your site and others, but also visit a random website.  You can even add it to your tool bar, which makes it really convenient.

4 – Article Directories.  You might not think of these as a good place to get niche ideas, but boy oh boy are they!  Here’s a chance to see what other marketers are currently promoting.  Just take a look at the recently released articles, other articles in that category, and related sections of the directory.

3 – Chat up a friend.  Find out what their hobbies, find out where they like to vacation, what kind of movies they like, what kind of problems they’re facing in their life.  If they had won the lottery what would they spend all that money on?

2 -  The Mall.  Not only is a great place to pick up clothes, but niche ideas are every where in a mall.  If you go to the mall and didn’t get a new niche idea, you weren’t in the right store.. keep looking.

1 – The Magazine Stand.  How about a few hundred niches, new products, fads, and opinions all in one easy to use location?  Niche ideas never come any easier than at a magazine stand.  Pick up a few magazines, and let the creative juices flow.

Once you get a few niche ideas, just plug a keyword in the Niche Research Tool, and it’s all down hill from there.  Make sure if you’re going out to get niche ideas that you have a way to record your ideas!  There’s nothing worse that getting a great idea, and forgetting it, but only remembering that it was something really good.

How lots of people lose credibility, before it’s ever built!

Take a quick look on this blog layout, and it’s easy to understand why I’m in the market for a layout. As I was perusing the wares at the warriorforum member for hire section, I came across a member who’s offering some really good looking layouts.

As I was looking through them to see if there was anything that I liked, I came across a great looking site from an internet marketer. I won’t name any names or anything like that. Not that it would be anyone that anyone would know. His site looks amazing. Very professionally done, with a video next to an opt-in with a decent video that he made of himself talking about working online.

So curiosity bit me like a cat, or whatever it does. I started browsing to see what he had to say about working online, and to see how he’s doing. He’s an MLM (Multi Level Marketing) guy, and although I’ve been there and done that, I wasn’t going to hold that against him. :D I still remember some great stories of mlm when I was just 10…but that’s another post in itself!

He has a few videos up, the first one I saw was titled day 3 of my 45 day challenge to myself. That’s really similar to what I’m currently attempting on this blog, so it peeked my interest fast, and I decided to check it out. He talked about working online, made some good points about staying productive, end of video. Ok…I still didn’t know what his 45 day challenge was so I decided to look at his other videos.

Unfortunately he only had one other video up from day 2, and it also didn’t say what the challenge was! Though it did make some great points about staying on track, and sticking with it, because working online is very doable. He even asked that people not give up too early.

Ok.. Next video.. But uh.. there wasn’t one. He didn’t explain his challenge, and he hadn’t posted anything else since…MARCH. I couldn’t believe it. He has great potential, and there’s no doubt in my mind that if he were to stick with it, he could successful with his website.

I wasn’t interested in his free ebook, but honestly even if it were something that I was interested, and even after he had done such a great job selling it(which he did) I still wouldn’t have downloaded it, I still wouldn’t have joined his list, and although he could provide some good advice, it was just obvious that he wasn’t SERIOUS about working online with that site.

He lost all his credibility. It didn’t bother me that he failed his 45 day challenge. Or that I never got to find out what exactly the challenge was…but what really hurt his site more than anything, was that he was attempting to be an authority site, and it hadn’t been updated in over 3 months.

If you’re trying to run an authority site, make sure you update it! Don’t have a blank site with 10 posts, talking about how you’re about to do so much, and over the next X amount of days you’ll be there all day every day, because it’s what you love/know/want to share with the world, and then dissapear. People read what you have to say.

By the way, if you were wondering what my Challenge is, you’ll have to keep reading more posts :D

Copywriting Tip – Belongs on a Sticky Note

Yesterday, I attempted to link back to a post that had magically disappeared from WP. Normally I would just go on my way and not think twice about it, but the information that was in the post was so powerful, it now resides on a Lime Green Sticky Note, hanging on my monitor.

I think the last time I used a sticky note, I put gum in it…probably more than 6 months ago! To say the message made an impact on me, would be a slight understatement. Want to know what the note says? Well read on for that, but first it’s important to know how I came about it.

You see, this blog is pretty new. I’ve only recently started adding content to it. I still have some initial start up work I need to do on it.. get a decent looking theme… and a really good free report to give away being the two most important projects. My focus on this blog is to help internet marketers improve their business. I came to the conclusion that a Free Copywriting Report would be a powerful tool with the ability to help IM entrepreneurs improve their online business.

As quickly as the idea came, so did the fact that I have no idea at all about Copywriting. But I knew that I could easily outsource this project to a fantastic copywriter. Since I know nothing about the topic, I started doing a little research about copywriting. While I was reading a free report, I noticed a video in the sidebar of the webpage and decided to check it out. What was said in the video blew my socks off.

You see, I had just finished reading a report that said you should Tell not Show. Talk about how you’re making X amount of dollars a day using (insert process here), but don’t SHOW them how you’re doing it.

But the video said the EXACT opposite, so it quickly grabbed my attention to see where they were going with the tip. Show don’t Tell. Remember earlier in this post when I mentioned that the information from my missing post was so powerful that it now resides on a Lime Green Sticky Note, hanging from my monitor?

I could have easily said, the post was great, I’m going to rewrite it. But instead I showed you not only that it was important information, but I drew a mental picture for you. Almost everyone who reads that will imagine the lime green sticky note, and many will also think of it hanging from a monitor.

The reason it’s now there is because using this simple writing method, you stimulate your readers. You get their mind flowing, their juices flowing, their interests peaked. On the right page it can increase your ctr, opt-ins, or orders.

Go with what you know

Hey WordPress, where’s my post? After attempting to link from my post from yesterday, I now notice…it never posted. It never autosaved either. Too bad, that was a fantastic post with a great golden nugget tip on Copywriting. I guess I’ll have to rewrite that one.

Instead I’ll just give a shameless inner link back to… my Niche Research post. It’s because of that software that I’ve decided to can my idea and go with what I know. You see in my disappearing post, I mentioned that I had been doing some research on a free report to give away on this blog. I wanted something that would help the average Internet Marketer to make their business better.

So I decided copywriting would be a great subject. Unfortunately my copywriting isn’t fantastic, so I would need to do some heavy research, or most likely…ok 100% likely I would have had the report outsourced. Then after playing around with the Niche Research Software I realized I’m better off writing my own personal report on a subject that I know a lot about…Linkbuilding.

I’ve spent about 6 months engulfed in the subject. I have offer a backlink building service. I’ve tested countless different techniques on various affiliate sites. I know what works. I know what doesn’t. So if I write the report I know it will be grade A quality content. And that, in my opinion is more important than anything else when it comes to any Internet Marketing report, whether it be a paid or free one.

And yes, although my report will be highly detailed link building mastermind report, it will be free. It will be my baby. Instead of going with my original idea to have a copywriter write a report for me, I’m going to go with what I know. Continuing with my outlook on business…you don’t have to recreate the wheel, just roll with it.