Product Camp Austin 2009, photo by BWhichard

I spoke at Product Camp here in Austin on Saturday.  If you follow me on Twitter (@EagleChris) you saw that I streamed video during some of it. Wifi was very busy with 400+ people tweeting and blogging so at times it didn’t work for me.

I gave a presentation of Twitter For Small Business.  The biggest question was why small businesses should even use twitter. Many feel it’s a big waste of time.

I spend about 30 minutes a day on Twitter.  I use it as a one front end to my marketing funnel.  I don’t make any money directly with Twitter and I don’t know anybody that does. It’s a front end to get people to know you. They then get on a call or webinar you are doing. Or your blog RSS or newletter.  They get to know you more and some of them with buy a product from you.  Twitter is just a create front end and I choose to invest some everyday on it because of the phenomenal growth in social media.  I also enjoy social media. To me it’s a cocktail party where I get to meet a lot of interesting people. Some will get to know me better and some of them will buy my products, but my attitude is to have fun and give out interesting information.  I summed up my social media philosophy at TwitterForSmallBusiness.com in a free report.

The presentation by Jonas Lamis on how he uses Google Adwords to test a business idea was received well. I’m been doing this technique for years and you do really learn quick whether your idea has a market very fast, like a day. Jonas make a great point that this is good for discovery but it’s enough for deep analysis. And nothing happens until you start selling something. That is the real proof.

At another session I learned why link building is still a lot of work.  Check out hubspot.com and buzzstream.com.  I just ran the website grader from hubspot.com on this website and got a great score of 97.9 out of 100. I’m very happy with that.

I’ll be back at the next Product Camp.  Check your local area if they have a product camp near you. It’s great to have a group come together and brainstorm together.

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Do people in a multi level opportunity need their own website?

Even if your company provides you with a self replicating website or even gives you one whether you like it or not you need your own website because you need to build your own list not the company you work for.

People offline and online connect with people. When you share your own story on your own website and invite them to learn more, you are connecting with them.  Plus if the company you work for goes out of business you can easily switch to a successful competitor and just email your list the new opportunity.

What is the best type of website for a business opportunity?

From the successful websites I’ve seen it is the video squeeze page. In the video you share with your audience proof of your lifestyle and yourself. Give them lots of proof that you know what you are talking about. People see and hear you which helps in credibility. People interested in your business opportunity will contact you and then you continue the conversation with them on the phone or in person.

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People are tired of talk.  They are tired of sales text with no proof.  Show the proof and you’ll convince them fast.  Don’t show them and you’re lose them faster.

Proof is what really counts.

Right now Twitter marketing programs are extremely hot.  I get a direct message on Twitter every few minutes about one.  But there is no proof it works when it’s an affiliate program and the person sending me the direct message has 100 people following them.  Let me take that back, it’s proof that it doesn’t work.  I can get an account with the first 2000 followers in a couple of days.  100 is nothing.

P.S.  I started TwitterForSmallBusiness.com to help allevate the spammers selling junk products.  They are ruining Twitter and me and my clients don’t want that to happen because Twitter has been good to us in business.

Or at same seminar I showed my Alexa ranking of this website.  It’s gotten better since them but right now it is #229,850 which is extremely good.  I’d be happy with a bigger number honestly, but I’m very happy where is it right now and would love for it to get better.  I showed proof that I know what I’m doing and I got several clients out of it who are working on getting their Alexa ranking better.  If you would like to do the same call me at 1-512-772-2798.

What proof are you showing?  What elements of your business can you proof that you know what you are talking about?

Show that.

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