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	<title>Comments on: How Twitter Helped Me Grow My Blog and Business.</title>
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		<title>By: Twitter tools</title>
		<link>http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2009/06/30/how-twitter-helped-me-grow-my-blog-and-business/#comment-2373</link>
		<dc:creator>Twitter tools</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Twitter tools...&lt;/strong&gt;

2. Limit number of tweets per day, and charge for anything over. This will probably sound horrible to most Twitterers, but it could work out. Craig’ s List charges for certain types of ads. This has the dual effect of creating a revenue stream while pr...</description>
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<p>2. Limit number of tweets per day, and charge for anything over. This will probably sound horrible to most Twitterers, but it could work out. Craig’ s List charges for certain types of ads. This has the dual effect of creating a revenue stream while pr&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: The Blog Week in Review — July 16, 2009 &#124; MintaMail &#124; General Blog</title>
		<link>http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2009/06/30/how-twitter-helped-me-grow-my-blog-and-business/#comment-2372</link>
		<dc:creator>The Blog Week in Review — July 16, 2009 &#124; MintaMail &#124; General Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] shares an inspirational email he received after the recent Oregon Small Business Boost giveaway.  How Twitter Helped Me Grow My Blog and Business &#8212; Trunk Club Expert Lisa Bruckner writes about her experience using Twitter to grow her [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] shares an inspirational email he received after the recent Oregon Small Business Boost giveaway.  How Twitter Helped Me Grow My Blog and Business &#8212; Trunk Club Expert Lisa Bruckner writes about her experience using Twitter to grow her [...]</p>
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		<title>By: The Blog Week in Review &#8212; July 16, 2007 &#124; Business in General</title>
		<link>http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2009/06/30/how-twitter-helped-me-grow-my-blog-and-business/#comment-2371</link>
		<dc:creator>The Blog Week in Review &#8212; July 16, 2007 &#124; Business in General</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] shares an inspirational email he received after the recent Oregon Small Business Boost giveaway.  How Twitter Helped Me Grow My Blog and Business &#8212; Trunk Club Expert Lisa Bruckner writes about her experience using Twitter to grow her [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] shares an inspirational email he received after the recent Oregon Small Business Boost giveaway.  How Twitter Helped Me Grow My Blog and Business &#8212; Trunk Club Expert Lisa Bruckner writes about her experience using Twitter to grow her [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Miles Technologies</title>
		<link>http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2009/06/30/how-twitter-helped-me-grow-my-blog-and-business/#comment-2370</link>
		<dc:creator>Miles Technologies</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great information on how to use Twitter to gain business exposure and interact with target customers.  A powerful social media tool, Twitter should be included in every company&#039;s online marketing campaign.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great information on how to use Twitter to gain business exposure and interact with target customers.  A powerful social media tool, Twitter should be included in every company&#8217;s online marketing campaign.</p>
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		<title>By: Sahail Ashraf</title>
		<link>http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2009/06/30/how-twitter-helped-me-grow-my-blog-and-business/#comment-2369</link>
		<dc:creator>Sahail Ashraf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks so much.   Great to hear positive comments.

Will return to get in touch again soon, and thanks for the support on the blog, it is all new and exciting!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks so much.   Great to hear positive comments.</p>
<p>Will return to get in touch again soon, and thanks for the support on the blog, it is all new and exciting!</p>
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		<title>By: LisaBruckner</title>
		<link>http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2009/06/30/how-twitter-helped-me-grow-my-blog-and-business/#comment-2368</link>
		<dc:creator>LisaBruckner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Martin,

It&#039;s so great to hear from you.  Thank you for google image nudge.  I fixed the link right away!!

I use TypePad for Wasabi Nights and find WordPress to be similar, but a slightly different language for me.  Aaaah, the life of a guest blogger!

I hope you and your blog are doing well and I will send you a tweet to say hello.

All the Best to You,

Lisa</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Martin,</p>
<p>It&#8217;s so great to hear from you.  Thank you for google image nudge.  I fixed the link right away!!</p>
<p>I use TypePad for Wasabi Nights and find WordPress to be similar, but a slightly different language for me.  Aaaah, the life of a guest blogger!</p>
<p>I hope you and your blog are doing well and I will send you a tweet to say hello.</p>
<p>All the Best to You,</p>
<p>Lisa</p>
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		<title>By: LisaBruckner</title>
		<link>http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2009/06/30/how-twitter-helped-me-grow-my-blog-and-business/#comment-2367</link>
		<dc:creator>LisaBruckner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello Sahail!

Thank you for your comment.  I welcome you to the Trunk Club and would love to see how we can help you look your best!

I had the exact same experiences when I first joined Twitter regarding heavy marking contacts.  I checked out your blog.  You have a great focus and some great content.

I guess the best advice I would offer at this point is to spruce up your blog a bit with at least one interesting image per post and perhaps a photo of you on the about page.  I would also recommend you move the wonderful description on your about page onto a &quot;Feature Post&quot; so that it appears at the top of the screen everyday and helps save new readers time in figuring out what you and your blog are about.  I&#039;ve realized people have short attention spans for content so you need to grab them quickly.

Regarding Twitter; figure out what your niche and goals are.  Then, use Twitter as a search engine to give you a focused index of people who are in your niche and can help you reach your goal.

Start following them.  Many will follow back.  If you aren&#039;t sure where to start, find one person in the search who looks interesting.  Look at who they follow and start following those people too.

Read their tweets and websites and re-tweet or tweet honest comments about them.  They appreciate the PR and will usually reciprocate.

Some people you will click with well.  They become your friends and keep in regular contact.

As long as you are on Twitter regularly, it&#039;s easy to quickly build a targeted following and it just grows exponentially from there.

Lastly, figure out what the best time(s) are for you to tweet your blog posts.  I&#039;ve found most men in my niche tend to read my blog early in the morning, lunch time or late in the evening.  I&#039;ve had the most success in reaching people via Twitter in the morning or evening.

Best of luck and I will look you up on Twitter and follow you.  I am excited to read your future posts!

Best,

Lisa</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Sahail!</p>
<p>Thank you for your comment.  I welcome you to the Trunk Club and would love to see how we can help you look your best!</p>
<p>I had the exact same experiences when I first joined Twitter regarding heavy marking contacts.  I checked out your blog.  You have a great focus and some great content.</p>
<p>I guess the best advice I would offer at this point is to spruce up your blog a bit with at least one interesting image per post and perhaps a photo of you on the about page.  I would also recommend you move the wonderful description on your about page onto a &#8220;Feature Post&#8221; so that it appears at the top of the screen everyday and helps save new readers time in figuring out what you and your blog are about.  I&#8217;ve realized people have short attention spans for content so you need to grab them quickly.</p>
<p>Regarding Twitter; figure out what your niche and goals are.  Then, use Twitter as a search engine to give you a focused index of people who are in your niche and can help you reach your goal.</p>
<p>Start following them.  Many will follow back.  If you aren&#8217;t sure where to start, find one person in the search who looks interesting.  Look at who they follow and start following those people too.</p>
<p>Read their tweets and websites and re-tweet or tweet honest comments about them.  They appreciate the PR and will usually reciprocate.</p>
<p>Some people you will click with well.  They become your friends and keep in regular contact.</p>
<p>As long as you are on Twitter regularly, it&#8217;s easy to quickly build a targeted following and it just grows exponentially from there.</p>
<p>Lastly, figure out what the best time(s) are for you to tweet your blog posts.  I&#8217;ve found most men in my niche tend to read my blog early in the morning, lunch time or late in the evening.  I&#8217;ve had the most success in reaching people via Twitter in the morning or evening.</p>
<p>Best of luck and I will look you up on Twitter and follow you.  I am excited to read your future posts!</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Lisa</p>
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		<title>By: Martin Lindeskog</title>
		<link>http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2009/06/30/how-twitter-helped-me-grow-my-blog-and-business/#comment-2366</link>
		<dc:creator>Martin Lindeskog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wrote a comment before, but it didn&#039;t show up.

Lisa, Great to hear that you have been so successful with using Twitter in your business.

All the Best,

Martin
P.S. Your link to Koka Sexton&#039;s articles includes a Google image.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wrote a comment before, but it didn&#8217;t show up.</p>
<p>Lisa, Great to hear that you have been so successful with using Twitter in your business.</p>
<p>All the Best,</p>
<p>Martin<br />
P.S. Your link to Koka Sexton&#8217;s articles includes a Google image.</p>
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		<title>By: Sahail Ashraf</title>
		<link>http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2009/06/30/how-twitter-helped-me-grow-my-blog-and-business/#comment-2365</link>
		<dc:creator>Sahail Ashraf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi,

and by the way, I do want to buy clothes the right way, really into Crew at the moment.   Can&#039;t quite understand the &#039;young&#039; feel of Hugo Boss!  (maybe because I am not young?).   Looking forward to seeing what you guys do...

Anyway, on point.   I found Twitter as frustrating as you at first.   Really weird heavy marketing guys following me, me trying to spark a conversation and failing miserably.   Promptly gave up.

Got a new blog (check it out, but no pressure!), and would like to meet like-minded people for friendly chat.

Any step-by-step advice?   Would like organic, sensible growth via Twitter...

Thanks again for a great post...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p>
<p>and by the way, I do want to buy clothes the right way, really into Crew at the moment.   Can&#8217;t quite understand the &#8216;young&#8217; feel of Hugo Boss!  (maybe because I am not young?).   Looking forward to seeing what you guys do&#8230;</p>
<p>Anyway, on point.   I found Twitter as frustrating as you at first.   Really weird heavy marketing guys following me, me trying to spark a conversation and failing miserably.   Promptly gave up.</p>
<p>Got a new blog (check it out, but no pressure!), and would like to meet like-minded people for friendly chat.</p>
<p>Any step-by-step advice?   Would like organic, sensible growth via Twitter&#8230;</p>
<p>Thanks again for a great post&#8230;</p>
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