How To Brand Your Tweets With Your URL And Why You Should

Posted on 27. Jul, 2010 by Web Design in Photoshop, Web Development

I know for a fact that you are all web designers who use social media to market and promote yourselves.

I also know for a fact that you use Twitter to make connections with customers and learn web design tricks and techniques.

What if I told you that every one of your tweets is promoting other people’s business?

Here’s proof:

I just sent out 2 tweets promoting my web design articles using 2 different Twitter clients – MarketMeTweet and SocialOomph.

One of those tweets was branded with the Twitter client I used to send out that tweet, and one wasn’t. Why was my MarketMeTweet tweet branded with my own website url and how in the world did I do that?

I bet you didn’t know that “SocialOomph” and “WebDesignDev” are actually hyperlinks pointing to the urls.

So every time you send out a tweet you are advertising someone’s product with a link to their site.

You are promoting them absolutely free. They get a great free advertisement, don’t they?

Unless you change that.

Now wouldn’t you want to use this valuable Twitter real estate by

• branding your own tweets with your business’s name
• including a link back to your portfolio website or blog with every tweet you make
• getting a link back to your portfolio website every time someone retweets your tweet?

Just like this:

You see how my tweets through SocialOomph were branded with SocialOomph’s website, both on my direct tweets and retweets by others, and how my other tweets were branded with my own website? Well, you can do the same like I do, and I will show you how.

MarketMeTweet

PieDog Media just released an update to their already extremely powerful and featured packed social media management tool called MarketMeTweet.

At this time, MarketMeTweet is the only fully featured twitter client that brands your tweets.

The video below provides a nice overview of MarketMeTweet v2.0:

Check Out MarketMeTweet!

Now that Google and Bing are displaying real-time Twitter and Facebook search results, it’s very, very important to have a presence on social media.

With access to real-time information becoming the norm, and soon possibly affecting rankings of your website, can your web design business afford not to be using social media?

MarketMeTweet is for businesses (small and large), such as web design, as well as power-users, bloggers and even newbies.

If you use social media to promote yourself as web designers, then MarketMeTweet is for you.

MarketMeTweet lets you easily promote your web design business online, get new customers and make more money.

Brand Management

My favorite feature in MarketMeTweet is the ability to brand your tweets. This means every tweet you send is branded with a link back to your website.

See the video below to see how easy it is to set up and configure your brand:

After you set up branding, every single one of your tweets will be be branded with your own URL:

This is an awesome feature that will give your web design business that competitive edge over your competitors, and create additional brand awareness.

Unlimited Accounts

MarketMeTweet lets you add unlimited Twitter accounts. This is especially useful if your business has multiple departments or if you have multiple web sites or blogs with a specific Twitter account for each (i.e. you have a business and personal twitter account). MarketMeTweet lets you add a new Twitter account with a click of a button. You can manage all of your accounts from the one interface.

Scheduled Tweets

MarketMeTweet offers tweet scheduling.

They offer 2 ways to do this: 1) the standard method where you can schedule your tweets to be sent out at a future date and time; 2) a feature that is unique to MarketMeTweet, is the ability to schedule tweets using Google calendar.  In order to schedule tweets using Google Calendar you first must enable Google Calendar.

The beauty of MarketMeTweet is that it also lets you schedule bulk tweets at once. Here’s how it’s done:

Click on Schedule:

Next, click on Import Tweets:

Then copy/paste your scheduled tweets into the box. Make sure they are in the format %T% This is my tweet %D% – they must start with %T% and end with %D%.

Then, select Use Override Interval. If you don’t, all your tweets will go out at once instead of being scheduled 1 by 1. Drag that little circle right below Overide Interval to set the interval at which you want each tweet to go out. For instance, I set it at 30 so that my tweets go out every 30 minutes:

Next click on Import pasted text:

Now click on Save Tweets:

And watch the progress bar:

Now you’ve scheduled 244 tweets for this week (so in less than 2 minutes I scheduled tweets to go out every 30 minutes for 5 days in a row, what a time saver!):

Twitter Management

No other Twitter business software has a comprehensive management side.

You are able to see your friend’s time lines, replies, mentions, retweets, search, customize panes, easily manage and delete direct messages, groups, expand the interface and much more.

Facebook Integration

You can set your tweets to be posted and scheduled to your Facebook profile and AND unlimited Facebook fan pages!

MarketMeTweet lets you to view your Facebook activity in a gorgeous interface (I like it much better than any other interface) and makes keeping up with friends and contacts a breeze.

Location Targeted Following

Matches for new followers can be in the same place as you, making the quality so much higher.  You can input your location and MarketMeTweet will automatically find followers. This feature is insane for you web designers – imagine how easy you can find local clients!

Reply Campaigns

MarketMeTweet’s reply campaigns lets you to find users in your niche and start conversations. The best part is that it’s completely user controlled to maintain the highest quality.

Language Targeted Tweeting

Grow a mass following of users who are relevant.

Build a following of users who speak the same language as you!

Automatic RSS Tweeting

For maximum exposure import your blog’s RSS feed directly into MarketMeTweet.

Every time your RSS feed is updated you can have it post automatically or have it scheduled.

You can tweet your posts to all accounts at the same time.

MarketMeTweet makes sending RSS feeds to Twitter and Facebook a breeze, all within the one application.

Free Updates

MarketMeTweet is continually being upgraded and all users get FREE updates.

Multiple Computers

This is epic: MarketMeTweet software engineers have found a way for you to take your marketing data anywhere you go, and access it from whatever computer you wish to access it from.

Price

MarketMeTweet has four different pricing options to give as many people as possible access to this tool.

So getting started with this application a no-brainer, and there is a money-back guarantee.

Twitter Search

With MarketMeTweet’s search feature you can easily keep up to date with all the latest tweets from Twitter.

You can stay up to date on who is searching you and your web design business, and respond with deadly accuracy.

Ping.fm Integration

Ping.fm is a service that lets you to update many different social networks at once. You can update all, or just a few of your favorite social networks.

Updates can be made from your email, browser, SMS… and now MarketMeTweet.

Smart Following & Unfollowing Algorithm (user controlled)

MarketMeTweet lets you to stay in control of your account by finding highly targeted followers, and unfollow those who aren’t adding value to your account.

Unlimited Twitter Accounts

You can use as many Twitter accounts as you want from this app, making your life easier and more concise.

OAuth Secure

The new requirement from Twitter is OAuth security encryption, and MarketMeTweet has it. This means that your Twitter username or password is NEVER stored. Now are you sure your other Twitter tools do this…

Group Management

Groups in Twitter is an easy way for you to filter your friends’ tweets and keep up to date.

Post To All

Do you have more than one Twitter Account? Facebook Profile? Fan Page?

You can post to all of them with one click.

Forum

MarketMeTweet also has a fully supported forum where you can:

• ask for support
• make feature requests
• read tips and tricks

This certainly provides a peace of mind for your investment.

Finally…

MarketMeTweet is a tool I personally use with my Twitter account with 28,500 followers. I highly recommend it.

If you are serious about social media marketing, social networking and your web design business, get yourself a copy now.

Click Here to Get MarketMeTweet