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I don’t pay for any twitter tools and I recommend you do not as well. There are plenty of free ones out there. I don’t claim to be a Twitter expert, but I wanted to write this after seeing that many of you don’t have a lot of Twitter followers. I consider that to be less than 200 for many and less than 50 for even more. If the only reason you use Twitter is to keep up with friends and fellow sellers that’s fine, but if you want to market yourself on Twitter that won’t work. My purpose in using Twitter is to get sales and market to people that might be interested in my products. To use Twitter as a marketing tool you MUST get MANY followers that are interested in your product line. As of right now I have 1,100+ followers. I’ve been with Twitter only about a month and I do not pay to get that many followers. A lot of people will ask if you want thousands of followers and they’ll want you to pay for a tool, but who knows if you’re targeting your niche market with those techniques.

How have I gotten 1,100+ followers? Twellow.com (and Search.twitter.com sometimes) and Tweetlater.com. Allow me to illustrate. I did post these two tools in another post but I wanted to post them here to encourage everyone to take full advantage of their tweets.

Twellow:
*People fill out profiles on Twitter. Find the people that are interested in what you sell and start following them. If you’re lucky they will start following you. If they don’t follow after a few days or weeks (whatever time limit you set) UNFOLLOW. You don’t have space for that. I’ll revisit this topic further down. The interest I look for is pretty easy. I sell Dog Supplies so I just have to find people that are interested in dogs. If you have troubles figuring out what your customers may be interested in or who to direct, post here and I or someone else may be able to give you suggestions. If you sell antiques I bet there is an interest for antiques. If you sell rummage sale items you can probably find people interested in rummaging. Rummaging interest could probably also be for antique sellers. If you sell kids clothes look for moms.
*Twellow.com is where I found most of my followers of late.

I use twellow in conjunction with Tweetlater.com. Some points about tweetlater.com:
1. Unless you are really interest in what someone has to say (like for me it’s celebrity dish) don’t follow the person unless they follow you. Some people start following you just so you follow them then un-follow you once you are following them. You don’t have space on your account to follow people that aren’t following you. You have a max of 2,000 people you can follow before Twitter starts looking at the ratio of followers to following on your account. I don’t know what the ratio is but I hit 2,000 the other day and they wouldn’t let me follow anyone new so I knew it was time to clean out a bunch of people that were following me. I give people a few days to follow me before I will un-follow them. I try to keep the follow to followers ratio pretty close.
2. I don’t recommend un-following people that are following you just because you think

you got ‘em. If you do that to someone like me I will un-follow you automatically.
3. Tweetlater has sooooo many functions. One being to un-follow anyone that un-follows you AND to automatically follow anyone that follows you. This is such a time saver.
4. You can also keep your multiple twitter accounts here so you can tweet from one central location.
5. You can set it up to receive emails when people tweet about keywords like your store name, something you sell or whatever you think

you need to watch out for. I should note this tool

hasn’t worked for me as I only received one email from it.
6. Tweetlater also allows you to set up tweets when you’re away from your computer. If you want people to constantly get messages from you set it up here. Remember that MANY people that will be following you will be following 1,000 others. So you want to make sure they read something from you everyday. If you only tweet once or twice a day you are going to get lost in the shuffle.

Don’t just post about your store on twitter. For me, that gets boring

. If someone is following you that is only following 50 people they are going to get frustrated if all you put up all day is visit my store with a link. Frustration leads to an un-follow. Tell everyone about your day so you are seen as a real person. See what everyone else is tweeting about. It can be dumb stuff like “I just got the laundry

out …. I hate laundry

.” You might start a conversation with someone else that hates laundry

. It makes you more personable.

I hope this helps everyone! I want to see higher numbers out there from everyone… if you want to use Twitter as a marketing tool

.

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We Have 10 Sites To Pick From for The Best Site Contest for May!

We will have two (2) Winners
You can vote up to 4 times

http://www.bonanzle.com/shoppingnetty
http://www.westonsjewelry.com
http://www.JubileeRhinestones.com
http://www.overnightauctions.com/cgi-bi ... MagickalMe
http://www.gregspresents.mybisi.com
http://www.presentsanddecor.blujay.com
http://www.mylilguyz.com
http://www.FullerBrush.myBISI.com
http://www.Stanley.myBISI.com
http://www.JubileeHomespun.com

You may want to ask yourself the following:

1. Does the site give it's visitor enough information about his/her site?
2. Does the site have a navigation system to make it easy to navigate each page?
3. Does the site distract the visitor with blinking text, scrolling text, animations or unnecessary sound files?
4. Does the site have image backgrounds that load too slow or take your eye away from the products?
5. Does the site have easy to read font?
6. Does the site have any spelling errors?
7. Does the site look pleasant and is easy on the eyes?
8. Does the site have enough information about the products for sale?
9. Does the site have an easy shopping cart/checkout system?

Voting Starts: April 1 at 12:00 a/m Eastern Time
Voting Ends: April 30 at 12:01 a/m Eastern Time

Best Site Contest Winner - 1st Place!
"At Livvie's Corner we sell clothing for girls, infants through little girls (4- 6X). We specialize in the fantastic styles from Rare Editions and Bonnie Jean. At Livvie's Corner, we carry adorable, quality dresses, outfits and sets at affordable prices."

Our customers are important to us. Our #1 goal is to always provide great customer service. Please, relax and take a look around..
Visit Livvies Corner Here

At Vintage Rose Collectibles I aim to please you. I search high and low for collectibles that are vintage, cute and affordable.

You can also shop with confidence that your information is secure here and that your credit card information is not logged on my website, since you will either use paypal or google checkout. I do combine shipping and if there is anything you are looking for, please let me know and I will do my best in locating it for you.

Thank you for stopping by. Barbara
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Sign Up To Be Added To The Best Site Contest

We have a Best Site Contest each month and would love if everyone could participate in this fun activity. This not only gets visitors to your sites, but also get visitors looking at what you have for sale and helps up your page ranking.

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Why Are Forums So Important
Forums are a great place to share your ideas, learn, interact and advertise for free. They are a good medium to discuss, and make friends with people who share a common interest, and in our case it happens to be selling online.

Participating in forums in your niche is a great idea, if you want to drive some traffic to your website and create some valuable back links.

With forums, it is very important that you remain active. Contribute on a daily basis and try giving outstanding pieces of advice to fellow members of the forum. It is also important that you position yourself as an expert in your niche. The main reason here is to earn some value and credibility. When people notice that you have something to offer, they will come visit your website and some will buy the products you recommend.

Forums allow members to add what is called a signature file to their posts, so anytime you summit a new post or comment on someone's post, a link linking back to their website appears at the bottom of the post. Just as in article writing where your article is your Give and your Resource box is your take, with Forums, the good advice you provide is your give, while your signature file is your take. Put your full information and if possible contact details in your signature file.

The unique links to your website which you generate while posting messages on forums can be of some help to you as far as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is concerned. The search engine spiders crawl forums and will give your website a high rank based on the links you have in your signature files. So make sure you include your signature file in all your posts.

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Bonanzle
Article by Shar's Boutique
It is rare to have an opportunity to join a website in it's puberty and ride the wave to it's maturity and hopefuly old age. Bonanzle is that site and I am so proud to be a part of what will be the greatest site on the web. My journey began in October 2008 and since then the member count has grown from 10,000, 20,000, 30,000 and recently 40,000 with over 1.5 million items listed. Sometimes the item count goes down drastically and everyone wonders why. It happens because the Boyz of Bonanzle actually monitor this site and have no problem deleting fake items and sometimes 'fake' sellers.

There are a group of Bonanzlers who have heard the calling so to speak. Why don't we get a bunch of Bonanzlers together in Seattle and have lunch with the Boyz? Why don't we get a bunch of Bonanzlers together in Mobile and have an auction with all proceeds going to St. Judes? Why don't we get a bunch of Bonanzlers together in Wichita and have speakers talk about helpful ways to make it on Bonanzle? Well, that is all being done as we speak! A big 'Thank You' goes out to Scott Pooler who created a special website that showcases all BonanzleUp events. If you are interested in attending any of these events, please go to www.bonanzle.com for contact information for each event.

I could go on for hours talking about all of the exciting things that are happening at Bonanzle, but I would rather you find them out for yourself. Joining is free, listing is free with a teeny weeny FVF fee when an item is sold. And then there are the forums, a never ending collection of posts. Anyone who has a question usually has an answer within minutes. 'We Are Family' pretty much sums up the feeling you get when you become a Bonanzler. Try it, you'll love it. www.bonanzle.com

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I will go through all submitted sites and pick which one will be added to the upcoming Newsletter. I will save all submitted sites to be featured in upcoming Newsletters.

I will need the following for your site submittal:
1. The name of your site
2. The URL of your site
3. The Description of your site
4. A Banner for your site no wider than 500px

Contact Me About Your Site!

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Helpful Info:
The Selling Lounge appreciates all members adding helpful content to the forum to help others and I strongly encourage it.

Welcome Members
Please stop by the Member Center - Introduction Corner to welcome new members from time to time. This not only is a kind gesture, but a way to get to know other sellers and to get your links out there.

Your Signature
The Selling Lounge gives a great deal of space in your signature to place many links to your selling venues, so please add your links. This is a wonderful way to get your links searched by search engines.

Banners In Siggys IMPORTANT PLEASE READ!!!
Please check the size of your banners in your signature as we are going to limit the size in everyone's siggy area. I'm thinking the size limit for banners should be no larger than 140px (height) by 500px (wide). Members have to scroll too much because of the siggy area and I would love for all of us to take the time to fix the size of our banners. I will allow ample time for us to clean up this area. Thank You for your cooperation in this matter.

Special Thank You
I want to take this time to thank everyone who has taken the time to voice their opinions of what they like and dislike of the forum set up. We are in the process of the new face lift and changes with many of your ideas at hand. Please know that we can't make every change, however we are trying to give you what you want in a forum. The new forum should be live in a few days and hope you enjoy the new look we will have.

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October Referral Contest October 1st - 31st You can either post your referrals in the referral contest thread or you may email them to admin@sellinglounge.com and make sure you put in your username along with your referral. The more the merrier!		October 1st, 2008 1st Edition
		In this issue: September Referral Contest Introducing The Selling Lounge Featured Advertising Spot Featured Website Featured Auction Site Introduction Corner
The Selling Lounge Hi, I'm Debi the proud owner of the Selling Lounge. We are a friendly forum where sellers help sellers to help our/your online E-Commerce Business grow by having a place of resources and support along with help in promoting ourselves and each other. I have been selling on line since 2003 in which I started out with eBay where I was doing very well as a Power Seller until all the fee hikes and changes. I then opened up my first Website almost 2 years ago and have been a member of a few very nice informative E-Commerce Forums and have learned so much about this new world of online selling that I wanted to have all my information in one place to help me succeed and by doing that, helping others at the same time. I want to welcome each and everyone of you and please make yourself at home in the forum and add your links to the various places we have for you to help get you and your products out there and noticed. We have a Blog which I would love for each of you to take the time and send me your site description with a banner and the url to your site so that I can post it on The Selling Lounge Blog. I would love to take a moment and thank Suzanne for all her help in getting The Selling Lounge going, I could not have done it without her. Suzanne is the owner of www.explorz.com and www.wahmadvertisement.com. I would also love to Thank our Forum Moderators for all their time and help as well! We have EagleScoutMom2 and out-of-the-attic-2u as our site wide Moderators and vinewood is our Moderator for our Introduction Corner and our Chat Central. EagleScoutMom2 is our Editor for our Newsletter and has done a wonderful job in putting it together for us. If you should happen to have a question or problem please feel free to contact me any time at admin@sellinglounge.com. Thank You so much for being a part of The Selling Lounge, Bays/Debi Help YourSelf by Promoting The Selling Lounge Please feel free to post our banner along with The Selling Lounge address around the net. Members Please Check This Out!		Featured Advertising Spot Explorz.com If you haven't heard about Explorz, we invite you stop by and check us out. The Explorz Shopping Portal service was created as a one-stop search portal for buyers and a central place for sellers to promote their products. The service allows sellers to have more control and flexibility over the venue they use to sell online. Explorz’s goal is to help sellers invest in themselves, one seller at a time. Explorz’s revenue is generated through site advertising, which means that there are no costs to sellers for displaying their products on the site. In addition, there are no featured listings, so every seller’s listing has an equal chance of catching the eye of a potential customer. You can also submit coupons to promote any specials/discounts you are offering. Submitting your products to the Explorz Shopping Portal is FREE, fast and simple. visit Explorz http://www.explorz.com View over 60,000 products now on Explorz http://www.explorz.com/deals.html Learn more about our coupons: http://www.explorz.com/coupon_promotional.html All products displayed on Explorz direct the buyer to your store to purchase, nothing is sold directly on Explorz. Compatible Online Selling Venues http://www.explorz.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=9 You may have as many stores as you want, and you can manage them all with ease from just one account. http://www.explorz.com/stores.html Below is a seller with several stores, showing how multiple stores (set up under one account) will display on Explorz: http://www.explorz.com/profile/renagadesrelics.html One of their individual store pages http://www.explorz.com/store/Renagades-On-Bonanzle.html Be sure to try out our MySpace application, display your products on your Myspace page. http://www.explorz.com/myspace.html Hope to see you on Explorz.com! Suzanne
Featured Auction Site OvernightAuctions.com My name is Crystal or Crys as my friends call me. I have been selling online since 2000, starting on eBay under ID bmomof3... which still exists but is rarely used... and then I discovered Bidville and OvernightAuctions.com. I started out mainly as a hobby and something to do, some way to get rid of my children's excess clothing they outgrew and so forth. Over the years, my Seller ID changed from bmomof3 to bmomof4 and finally I adopted CraftsDucksNMore2 since that is the majority of items I sell (crafts, rubber ducks, etc.) I grew to love online auctions so much that when the chance came up to buy out and take over ONA, I jumped at it, bringing my husband Mike (djind) on board with me. Mike and I intend for OvernightAuctions to get back on track, at least, if not better than, the way it used to be when it was in its prime. We are growing at a rapid rate and I could not be happier! We plan to take this site Worldwide and give everyone a chance to join, buy, chat, and lots of other things for free! Keep in mind, please, we have two sites, both are linked to the same business name of Overnight Auctions. One is at http://www.overnightauctions.net, which is less than two months old, and in the PhPProbid format that many prefer, and the other is at http://www.overnightauctions.com, which is a highly upgraded RScript format. Thru October 5th, we are having a BOGO registration, if you join on one site and pay the $3 Verification Fee on there, you may join the other site for FREE! You also receive your $3 back in Site Credits on the site you registered on! I want to thank Bays for the chance to be Featured in SellingLounge's first Newsletter. It is truly an honor! September Referral Contest Winner: Vinewood The first place winner will win their website or eStore in our Banner Rotation at the top of our forum here along with many other sites that Bays has which will include, Bays Blogs (She has many), Bays MySpace, WordPress, Bays Google Page, Bays Google Site, At least on of Bays WebSites, Bays Squidoo, Bays Top 100 Sites (She has two). Congratulations Vinewood on winning The Selling Lounge's First Contest.		Featured Website SportsCards4All Sportscards4all is featuring many stars and rare rookies from the 1960s to 2000, including such sought-after cards as inserts, vintage football, baseball, and basketball sets from its 2,000,000 card inventory. These cards include some of the limited issues of following: Topps Chrome, Bowman Chrome, Topps Traded Tiffany, Upper Deck SP and O-PEE-CHEE Baseball greats include Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Nolan Ryan and Pete Rose, as well as the recent Hall of Fame electees Cal Ripken, Jr, and Tony Gwynn, plus present players and future Hall of Fame shooins Roger Clemens, Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriquez, to name but a few. Football rookies, Hall of Famers and All Pros include Bart Starr, Jim Brown, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Tom Brady, Emmett Smith, Troy Aikman, Peyton Manning, Brett Favre and numerous inserts of rookies from all years. Basketball cards include Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Jerry West, Kobe Bryant, and other selected Hall of Fame and All Pro players. WNBA players include Lisa Leslie and Sheryl Swoopes,Katie Douglas,Becky Hammon,Tamika Catchings, Lauren Jackson, Katie Smith, Jennifer Azzi any many others. Featuring card from : 1997, 1998 Pinnacle, 1999 to 2002 Ultra NASCAR greats include Dale Earnhart, Sr. (and Junior), Mark Martin, Matt Kenseth, Kyle Bush, Jeff Gordon and many others. Autographed memorabilia is also available in several sports, as well as graded cards. Numerous nonsports cards include: Magic "the Gathering" and Star Wars treasures. For the past twenty years, Wes has hoarded the best and rarest cards in the business, and he is finally ready to release his favorites. All items are 100% guaranteed. For additional information, or requests of your favorite player please email Mr. Cardboard, alias Vinewood, the brainchild behind this vast treasure chest. Introduction Corner Stop into Introduction Corner and read your welome thread and leave a welcome for other members. Let's make everyone feel at home at The Selling Lounge. As the moderator for Introduction Corner, you will find Vinewood there doing a great job at welcoming everyone. http://www.sellinglounge.com/viewforum.php?f=4
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