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​Kevin - that's a really good point about the untapped Organic Traffic sourcing - going to be exploiting and experimenting around that suggestion, thanks. davepilgrim, thanks for that comment, I'd been researching various ways that I could drive further engagement on the platform. Another tactic that I find works well for further personalizing your metrics, is that of actively retweeting the postings of people that Follow me. It shows them that I'm paying attention to what they say and commiserating with them by spreading their words farther than they'd be able to by themselves, therefore exposing them to another audience who may not have known this person was in the community or that they had a connection. Since I made that initial post, I gotten another twenty Followers just as a result of my constant, daily blogging on the platform.

marsha32, here's the TezakTrafficPower Users' Manual - I'm surprised that it's not offered on the site itself. Mr. Tezak has a rather large profile in the Online Marketing niche and I can't imagine that this wouldn't be somewhere on the site for users to gain a deeper intimacy with site usage practices. I'm not a member of any of his sites (not 100% sure about that, though), but I downloaded this when I came across it online as I was doing a comparative content piece on safelists, mailers, and other advertising networks. Hope this helps...

The main advice I'd give about using Twitter as a traffic/referral tool is that you have to INCREASE YOUR USE OF IT in order to see your number of Followers rise. It's not something that you use sporadically. If you notice, the Google headline tag is , "Twitter. It's What's Happening". The key word being "Happening". It's a moment to moment information stream about the happenings within the chosen pursuits of users' everyday lives. If you want to increase your engagement metrics (with number of Followers being a main quantifier), then you need to be in that homepage feed DAILY. At any given moment, twenty to thirty feed stream posts are occurring and it's just a ruthless user-barrage (lol!). You must be fleet of finger, and persistent of post to start to force your signal through that unruly onslaught of (potential) information overload. ​I've been a user since 2011, but it wasn't until these last few weeks that I was fully able to understand the real power of constant engagement and the reciprocal response on the platform. The more I posted throughout the day and night, the more the homepage feed profile gave what I was posting about weight, and consequently, attention. Whatever you do on Twitter has the potential to connect with someone, and you have to put in work daily to stay in the stream so that you do start to attract those that you have commonalities with. I ran an experiment named #AllNightTwitter (as I'm a natural insomniac and sleep MAYBE 3 hrs nightly), where I just ran wild posting, crazying out, and just having a good ol' time in general. But, I kept it within the pool of my divergent interests. I found that my engagement efforts netted me a triple-fold increase in the number of Followers I was able to attract and am still benefitting from that surge from the experiment. ​I find that when you're chronicling your efforts daily, you're getting increased exposure even in competition with all the other voices in the stream. The benefits don't just stop there. You'll start to get a more detailed overview of your daily operations and see the areas where your game needs work. As well, you'll start to get a natural sense of the posting ebbs and flows throughout the day and week, and can even prepare a blizzard of posts that can help you dominate the homepage feed during those daily ebb periods. Because of the clarity that this experiment brought me, I'm able to know how to drive traffic and convert signups to my brand-new publishing platform.

​This is much more for my own sense of organization, but I want Marketing Checkpoint members to benefit from it. These are all tools that I've stockpiled over the years (all being street-legal to give away, AND, in the case of any PLR/MRR/RR Rights materials, all licenses are included to allow you to conduct ecommerce with it at-will). I'm going to be using this thread to catalog my vast collection of marketer/commerce-based scripts, software, content, and any other resources that help bring organization and propulsion to your current online enterprise; HTML Articles Template Package | Head Start Audio (PLR/MRR) | $150 Per Day Bum Mktg. 21st Century Networking (MRR) | 25 Ways To Reuse PLR Content | 29 Website Tricks ​45 Places To Promote Your EBook | 50 Great Jewelry-Selling Techniques | 50 Tumblr Traffic Tricks ​750 Traffic Tactics | Affiliate Marketing Ideas | Blog And Traffic | Encyclopedia Of Free Advertising ​Essential Traffic Generation For Internet Marketers | HomeOffice Info Compendium #1 ​How To Build A Social SEO System | How To Build An SEO Content Factory How-To Deep-Web For IT | How To Make More Money Easily | I Hate PHP ​Mailing List Secrets | The Best Freebie Book In The World...EVER! | TurboChargedTraffic ​Ultimate Checklist Canadian Anti-Spam List | Understanding Social Media Marketing Unicode Emoticons | Web 2.0 I think this'll do for the inaugural session. I plan to leave these here since my storage allows me as much as I need and I'll change out everything about every six months or so to keep the rotation fresh. That should be enough time for people to stumble across it and for it to be of great use to many people. Feel free to contribute any (legal) download lists you have as well here in this thread. Thanks for reading.

​Welcome, Miro! Hope you get everything you're looking for here. Feel free to get in contact if you have questions about anything related to the subject matter here. Thanks for joining and best of luck with your offline life!

​The freely-available autoresponder script/service field seems to have narrowed since the last time I did a field overview survey in 2012 with ListWire (have PERSONALLY had the service and will attest to the fact that it does INDEED work), and the LeadsLeap OTO Script (mentioned previously in this thread by Inga) being the readily-referencible examples in the forefront of marketer consciousness. However, Google, being a willing accessory in the search aspect, can be accessed with the query, "free autoresponder scripts", comes to 1.6 million results and lists free web-based resources as well as downloadable freeware. The only ones from my previous list still managing to hang on were; ​Emailsequence: PHP Autoresponder script for those too cheapskate for Aweber. As an email marketer you can contact your lists at-will with offers related to a nicheAs a site owner or admin you can remind contacts to word-of-mouth your siteAs an app owner you can enforce that limited time offer is only valid until too late!The possibilities really ARE endless… You’ll need hosting with.. PHPA MYSQL databasePHPMYADMIN or similar database management toolCronjob accessIf you don’t know what any of the above are, then probably best to go to Aweber instead. The provided link is to a direct download, since the original site seems to have been relegated to the Internet Archive. ​DIY Tutorial Article: An older (but updated) article, but still pinning down the step-by-step basics required to do it yourself (and may be good for you to read anyway). Infinite Responder: Believe a member mentioned this earlier in the thread, but I didn't see a link. ​ 4SHARED Search: If you're willing to dig and test, there are a number of different available options. Start using The Internet Archive also. There's a few codes I was able to track down with the use of the Internet Archive, which I routinely use when something I'm trying to find isn't even cached in the search engine results on Google. I was able to track down another version of a PHP Autoresponder Script and saved it to the hard drive for later experimentation. Good luck to everyone, regardless of the path they end up choosing.

​Hey, captkirk, thanks for friending me here and I'll always vouch for you, Chief, as you're one of the hardest-working in Marketing online today. In fact, I've been tracking you for a few years now as I saw you were all over the place and always in the Top 5 for many marketing event competitions. Looking forward to seeing what's in your bag of skills currently. Keep me in the loop? Thanks again.

​Hello, I'm Lee Davis and I'm a web developer creating coding, content, and graphic solutions for a range of different niches. I started out in this like a lot of people do; looking to escape the soul-crushing tedium of laboring for arrogantly-indifferent to outright abusive individuals who all thought that my Human Dignity should have to take a hit to satisfy their loathsome egos which were proportionally-inverse to their valuation of my skills and the reflection of the sadness-maker pay scales that only allowed a subsistence-living standard. I remember the pivotal moment when I'd just about had enough: I'd been at this telemarketing (excuse for a) firm, and, while I managed to fob off the office political minefield by strictly being about the work, it didn't take long for Management to try and use me as their office weapon. Because I understand the nature of hierarchical group-peer relationships, there was no way I was going to be able to just come into any type of managerial position and not be an integral part of the office social network. They thought they were going to promote to their circle and then have me do the dirty work of discipline/firing, etc. How was I going to be able to pull that off smoothly when there'd be all kinds of resentment against me as the current stranger getting promoted over those who'd been there for years? ​A rock and a hard place - the rock because I had just gotten married and we were a little struggly at first and the monetary aspect of the promotion offer was significant enough to help in that respect. But the hard place was the juxtaposition of the prior concern coupled with the fact that I wasn't quite sure that the tactics that the company was using to create "sales" were as borderline-legal as their lawyers would have led them to believe and I didn't want to suddenly be arrested because there was a cross-border class-action lawsuit (and, having heard some of the confirmation phone calls, my concerns were only heightened) by the RCMP as a friend of mine I worked with later on had been - and who was only the secretary of her telemarketing firm at the time. Having successfully fobbed off the promotion (and wrangling a decent raise in the process), I came in one day to find that I suddenly had a "group" and a "group boss" because some brash swaggart had waltzed in and dazzled them with a whole marketing song and dance (AND, more importantly, his own customer contact lists, lol!) and I just wasn't going to be able to be about doing the job and getting out at days' end anymore. I had only gone to the bathroom as a matter of trying to buy time sort out exactly how I was going to handle this new encroachment on my self-imposed work-bubble. The only thing keeping me sane was the fact that I could walk in ten minutes before, phone-call mantra up, and then just hit it until lunch, then hit it until 5pm. I then just decided that there had to be something better than hiding from my life in a bathroom stall. Something broke that second that made me just get up and walk out. I thought to myself, "I will NEVER again work harder for someone else than I could for myself". And I just never looked back. And it was also, quite possibly, one of the scariest moments of my life. When I walked out of the bathroom and then made a beeline for the elevator, I knew I wasn't going to be employable ever again. Which brings me here, after a considerable amount of time mastering the technical aspects of coding, and web mastery. I hope to make a real dent here by providing information/resource location and application that helps propel members forward in whatever online discipline they've chosen to follow. ​Thanks for reading this and having me here @Marketing Checkpoint.