I have tendency to check out everything twitter… especially anything that is designed to automate what can be an otherwise pretty manual process.

And as some of my other posts indicate, I am definitely looking to both have fun and make money with my twitter time.

So when I saw a tweet about the Twitter Traffic Machine (TTM), as I am sure you will also see, assuming you haven’t already, I was curious.

The sales page video was fun and the price was $27.  So I figured, what the heck… if I learn one thing that makes my life easier or allows me to provide better content to my followers, money well invested.  And it has a 60 day money back guarantee.

The Twitter Traffic Machine is a series of training videos, 6 videos, created by Bill Crosby, using camtasia, that walks you through:

1. Setting up your Twitter Profile.  Basic but good information.  Probably nothing you wouldn’t have found with a little effort, but then again that is the whole idea of buying information so you don’t have to chase it down yourself.
2. Setting Up & Leveraging TweetLater.  I love Tweetlater so this video didn’t provide much more than the one on my blog here, but again useful information.  And very much part of the “system” as we learn later.
3. Setting Up & Using a Web Service that will provide automatic, targeted followers.  Given TTM is an information product, I am not at liberty to give away all its secrets.   Suffice it to say that this is a resource I wasn’t aware of and appears to be quite effective at doing what it is designed to do, find and automatically follow people based on specific keywords.  I use Hummingbird Software for this function, but this will work, if not quite as automatically.  And this service, like all of the solutions recommended by Bill, is free!
4. Content Factory Automation.  This is where Bill got creative and is the piece I definitely LEARNED from and made the $27 investment way worth it.  He describes in detail how to provide your followers with “some” automated content so not every single tweet needs to be from you personally.  Now this is definitely an area where, in the wrong hands, twitterville could get inundated with useless tweets.  But used intellegently, it could be useful for people that just can’t be at their computer all the time but want to at least appear to still be “connected”.  Tread carefully here.  Twitter is 100% permission marketing/optin based.  As I have said before, treat your followers as you want to be treated.  Nuff said.
5. Finding People.  Shows how to use Twitter’s search tool as well as another to find people that are interested in what you are interested.  Again, useful information, primarily for people new to Twitter.  Or at least quite a bit newer than me, now.
6. Setting Up TTM to Market TTM.  Not surprisingly, Bill is looking for his customers to be affiliates for his product.  Very viral.  He walks you through all the steps and if the product makes sense for you… well it probably makes sense for other new people.

If I had found this when I first started with Twitter (all of 6 weeks ago) it would have been a very valuable resource at all levels.  As it is, I still found a few nuggets that made it worthwhile to me.

You will have to decide for yourself, but if your intrigued, then by all means get it here

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