Vegas Vince Makes Twitter History Today! (Warrior Case Study)

[Frank Bruno]

Ok guys, VegasVince just made Twitter history today!

VegasVince Gets Twitverginized

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drKb3SLEnxA

So we're having a Live Warrior Twitter case study on VegasVince
To find out How many followers he can get to see how well Twitter works!

More on that in a sec, but first....

Here's the lowdown in case you aren't in the loop on this.

If you guys have been following some of the previous Twitter threads the last few days (and week) you'll know that there's been quite a few discussions about how twitter can be used to reach your market, brand your name, create social buzz, build your list, and make more sales.

Quite a few people don't understand how twitter works or how it can be used for marketing your business. (this included me up until about a week ago)

So I took the plunge and was ”converted” from a “what the hell is Twitter”, “Twitter is stupid”, “what's the point of Twitter”, “how can I use twitter for my business”, to a Twitter believer after following the “herd” with all the social proof about Twitter.

So with a little help from warrior Twitter queen Dana_W I managed to get over 700 followers within a week. Not bad for being totally clueless about Twitter.

Things broke wide open when I posted a video into the Warior Forum of my actual traffic that's been hammering my blog straight from Twitter including a documentation video of my Gmail account getting pounded from getting 3 or 4 new followers literally every minute.

So what's happening now is that other people are seeing the social proof of how twitter works and how it can work for them including VegasVince himself.

So were making a live Warrior case study out of VegasVince to see just how good Twitter can work.

You can participate by following VegasVince and making tweets on twitter about this thread to create social buzz.

Were going to find out just how far this can go and how many followers Vince can get within a week.

Everybody will be able to see how many followers Vince's account is getting live.

So everybody follow VegasVince right now and spread the word!

Here's VegasVince's profile....

http://twitter.com/VegasVince



Frank Bruno

[Sylvia Meier]

I just tweeted about Vince and this thread. If there is someone to follow Vincie boy is the one.

[Chuck Evans]

OK Vinnie, I'm on your trail!

chuck

[Dana_W]

Can the Twitterverse handle Vegas Vince? They want the truth? They can't handle the truth.

[Frank Bruno]

Vince will kill it on Twitter!

Frank Bruno

[Anna Thomas]

Very interesting, thank you!

[AaronSnider]

following closely

[Jose Delgado]

How come I didn't get this much attention when I signed up for twitter.




Just for the record, HE followed ME. So I HAD to follow him.

[Sylvia Meier]

Originally Posted by Jose Delgado

How come I didn't get this much attention when I signed up for twitter.




Just for the record, HE followed ME. So I HAD to follow him.

This is Vegas Vince were talking about, of course it's newsworthy.

[Dana_W]

Yes, if Vegas Vince is following you on Twitter...you WANT to follow him back!

[Jose Delgado]

Originally Posted by Sylvia Rolfe

This is Vegas Vince were talking about, of course it's newsworthy.

[DougBarger]

I followed Vegas Vince too and his blog is pretty cool in his one of a kind Vegas Vince way.

[Sylvia Meier]

to you too.

Wow 22 followers already. Go Vince.

[Alex Sol]

Nice! Should be interesting!

[VegasVince]

This twittering thing is cool.

And to you'se who follow me, I promise an experience better then the best springy mattress action you've ever had!

Thanks goes out to Bruno for his video guru powers....and because after this...he'll need a new line of work.

A quick shout out to Dana W who decided I should save my outsourcing money...and she walked me through the set up over the phone.

I fully expect book and movie deals to come out of Twitter Pile.


xxxVegas Vince

I twitter. I am.

[Dana_W]

And your Twitter homepage link is...? Twitter / VegasVince

[JordanFrancis]

This complete clueless twitter guy is in!

Translation - I just joined...first time ever...and it's gone 3am here so I really need to be somewhere else

o/

Jordan

[Frank Bruno]

ok Vince now has 30 followers within an hour.

hmmm. this may be interesting....

Frank Bruno

[Frank Bruno]

Originally Posted by JordanFrancis

This complete clueless twitter guy is in!

Translation - I just joined...first time ever...and it's gone 3am here so I really need to be somewhere else

o/

Jordan

mmmoooooooo........follow the herd. LMAO!

Good move my friend.

Frank Bruno

[Andyhenry]

Why is everyone suddenly joining and raving about Twitter? It's been around for ages and many people have been advocating it - what's changed?

[Terry Brazil]

Ok I am simply having to much fun getting my feet wet in the IM industry again. It has been awhile and to tell you the truth it has been pretty lonely working in other niches.

It has literally been over a year since I have done anything other than participating in JV Giveaways and promoting the occasional product. My sole focus has been outside of the IM niche and to be honest I hardly ever came by here until recently.

So I to took the plunge and made a Twitter account for my IM stuff. I am not sure how much time I will devote to working on it but I know it has lots of potential. I have been a user of Twitter since it first opened and barely anybody ever spoke of it. Social Networking FTW!

I have to say that I will be following your progress as well Vince. It is great having the opportunity to talk to you recently even if it was by accident.

Go Vince!

[Jose Delgado]

I don't know.

I think they're actually raving about some dude called Vince.

No Idea who that is.

[Dana_W]

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

Why is everyone suddenly joining and raving about Twitter? It's been around for ages and many people have been advocating it - what's changed?

We all just discovered it and we are mindlessly following the herd? No really, I make money off it, that's all I can tell you.

[valerieSONORA]

Well I can say Twitter still looks kinda dumb to me and I don't really get it or why people "follow" people, so I would have never considered signing up for twitter, but Vegas Vince has forced me to do it.

[Keith Goodrum]

This is cool. Followed Vince earlier today... Hope I didn't jump the gun on the case study.

I'll 2nd what Dana says about making money on Twitter, plus it drives traffic to my blog.

Keith Goodrum

[Andyhenry]

Originally Posted by Dana_W

We all just discovered it and we are mindlessly following the herd? No really, I make money off it, that's all I can tell you.

Ok, so this is a new bunch of 'make money using twitter' events.

Just because you can make money from something - doesn't mean you have to or should, does it?

I've been happily using twitter to keep up with friends around the world and I find it really useful, but the only stuff I ignore is when people start posting links to stuff they're promoting or trying to get me to follow them to their blogs. If that's what you're all joining Twitter for then I won't be following you.

If you'd said you just realised how useful it was for find new and interesting people and markets - I'd have happily followed you. Making it all about making money from it just turned me right off.

Have fun though, maybe you'll find other benefits you weren't expecting.

Andy

[Dana_W]

I use it both to socialize and to make money. Pretty much like working in an office. But I would spend less time there if I weren't using it to market.

Although if you look at my Tweets, I actually think I socialize too much and don't self-promote enough these days.

[Andyhenry]

Originally Posted by Dana_W

I use it both to socialize and to make money. Pretty much like working in an office. But I would spend less time there if I weren't using it to market.

Although if you look at my Tweets, I actually think I socialize too much and don't self-promote enough these days.

That's a difficult balancing act but one you need to master if you're making money in the social niches.

I usually split my money making activities up from my socialising as otherwise the line can become fuzzy and I have no interest in making money from my friends - making money together is a different matter though.

Twitter certainly makes the world a much smaller place and I talk a lot more to warriors on Twitter than in the forum these days.

When you start to combine making money with your social activities you just need to be sure you don't infect the relationships that were personal with promotional activities.

It's a lot like Facebook. I was using that for keeping in touch with friends and relatives, and making some money using their systems for marketing, but when IMers all joined, the whole landscape changed and I started getting pokes and requests and messages and videos and eventually practically stopped using it as it was overrun with people pushing links and promoting their stuff. It ruined Facebook for me.

Andy

[BrianMcLeod]

Andy,

Dude... You're the life of the party!

Smile, brother.

Nobody said they don't use Twitter to meet and network with like minded others. You're coming off just a wee bit sanctimonious.

Yes, some of the people reading this thread will do a complete face-plant on their entry into Twitter.

Then they'll get it or they'll be unfollowed into that Twitter-Abyss of users that tweetlater into nothingness.

Who cares if somebody's tweets equal amusement for them, or income, ego stroking or any of the myriad reasons or ways anyone chooses to use Twitter. It's just a freakin' social network after all.

This got long fast. Just sayin'...

Brian

[Dana_W]

Well, Andy, as far as people who post affiliate links in their tweets...or send me a "Thank you for following me! Check out my site!" and the link leads me to Clickbank...I do truly hate that. So do most people here on the WF as far as I can tell.

[Andyhenry]

Don't worry Brian,

It's just part of my master plan to not have people following me who don't know how nice I really am.

I already got rid of one follower today by saying I don't want to see promotional links

I'm just playing to see what the effect is. Some people take this stuff too seriously and I'm just doing some 'social weeding' to see who stays

Originally Posted by LoudMac

Andy,

Dude... You're the life of the party!

Smile, brother.

Nobody said they don't use Twitter to meet and network with like minded others. You're coming off just a wee bit sanctimonious.

Yes, some of the people reading this thread will do a complete face-plant on their entry into Twitter.

Then they'll get it or they'll be unfollowed into that Twitter-Abyss of users that tweetlater into nothingness.

Who cares if somebody's tweets equal amusement for them, or income, ego stroking or any of the myriad reasons or ways anyone chooses to use Twitter. It's just a freakin' social network after all.

This got long fast. Just sayin'...

Brian

[Sylvia Meier]

I just think its great...makes you feel like you are working in a real social environments with adults instead of 5 little ones

[VegasVince]

Hey Andy, I with you'se.

Just had a Grandmother from Ohio twitter me...offer to buy some future consulting package from if I was willing to take her ugly daughter out on a date.

Done deal.

Love me some Twitter already.

It's almost as good a date with Rachel Rofe.


xxx Vegas Vince

[drmani]

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

Why is everyone suddenly joining and raving about Twitter? It's been around for ages and many people have been advocating it - what's changed?

On this thread, I see 3 things, Andy...

Personality - Vegas Vince
Fun - Frank Bruno
Smarts - Dana W

I'm learning from it.



All success
Dr.Mani

[Richard Tunnah]

I 'tweeted' you Vince. Now where's my bird seed? [:P]

Rich

[Dana_W]

Originally Posted by drmani

On this thread, I see 3 things, Andy...

Personality - Vegas Vince
Fun - Frank Bruno
Smarts - Dana W

I'm learning from it.



All success
Dr.Mani

ooh! I get to be the smart one? I am liking Dr. Mani already!

[tommygadget]

Vince followed me and I'm always up for new friends on Twitter and then I saw this post. Well, I am on his list! Funny stuff. And Andy, I am following you because I like your posts on the WF. I joined Twitter to gather thoughts from other warriors in real time. It is not a money maker for me, just like a distributed mastermind group

TomG.

[Andyhenry]

Originally Posted by Dana_W

ooh! I get to be the smart one? I am liking Dr. Mani already!

And I had you down as the pretty one, but he's gone and noticed your brains too. He's always one step ahead.

[Lance K]

What good is a "case study" on twitter when the followers obtained come through a thread that would generally be deleted due to it's promotional nature? How is that case study going to provide details to others on how to make money?

Don't get me wrong, I love me some VV. But the whole deal sounds a little like a fabricated testimonial to me. Perhaps I'm the only one. And perhaps I'm wrong.


EDIT: I guess I'm not the only one. It seems an almost identical thread was already moved to the Off Topic forum.

[BrianMcLeod]

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

And I had you down as the pretty one, but he's gone and noticed your brains too. He's always one step ahead.

Oohhh. Smooth, man....

Good work.

Brian

[VegasVince]

Originally Posted by tommygadget

Vince followed me and I'm always up for new friends on Twitter and then I saw this post. Well, I am on his list! Funny stuff. And Andy, I am following you because I like your posts on the WF. I joined Twitter to gather thoughts from other warriors in real time. It is not a money maker for me, just like a distributed mastermind group

TomG.

Thanks bro.

I'm glad you forgave me for the whole burn down the house with the Mr. Coffee Pot and the frayed chord thing.

xxx Vegas Vince

p.s. Dana W......you have to get up at 5am. Why are you'se posting!

[BrianMcLeod]

Originally Posted by VegasVince

frayed chord

Cool band name...

[tommygadget]

Originally Posted by VegasVince

Thanks bro.

I'm glad you forgave me for the whole burn down the house with the Mr. Coffee Pot and the frayed chord thing.

What? I loved that idea, just didn't know which house to use it on

TomG.

[Frank Bruno]

Originally Posted by drmani

On this thread, I see 3 things, Andy...

Personality - Vegas Vince
Fun - Frank Bruno
Smarts - Dana W

I'm learning from it.



All success
Dr.Mani

Cool, kinda like the SuperFriends....

This thread was made all in good spirit. Just look how all of us are coming together as one big happy family.


Frank Bruno

[Daniel Molano]

Holy crap! Almost 1k subscribers in 24 hours.

Gotta love the power of networking and social buzz.

I bet this is all a gigantic scheme to monetize your canoe trip.

Way to go Vegas Vince!

[Jose Delgado]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

Holy crap! Almost 1k subscribers in 24 hours.

Gotta love the power of networking and social buzz.

I bet this is all a gigantic scheme to monetize your canoe trip.

Way to go Vegas Vince!

That's actually the people HE is following.

So far he's got 133 followers which is still good.

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by Jose Delgado

That's actually the people HE is following.

So far he's got 133 followers which is still good.

Ohhhhhh, so that's how it works!

LOL I have absolutely no idea about twitter at all, I guess I'll jump into the bandwagon at one point or another.

[Dana_W]

Vegas Vince is at 191 Twitter followers...overnight! From Twitter "virgin" - you know, it's really hard to put that word in the same sentence with Vegas Vince - to Twitter dominator!

[VegasVince]

Joined Twitter last night around 7pm east coast time.

It's now about 6:30 am.....and Vince is off to bed...cuz I do the whole graveyard insanity schedule.

Anyway, in a little over 11 hours....Vinnie got 191 followers on Twitter (and counting)....many of whom I know...and thanks to all of you'se.

I don't know if those numbers are good, bad, ugly, or indifferent....but I know that most of my Twitter homies are damn good marketers....and if they hit me up..they got spirit too.

My home girl Dana_ W ......proved she really is a Twitter Diva...and my main man Frank Bruno can do stuff with video that Richard Nixon's boys would be turning in their graves over.

In terms of relevance.....lots of new visits to my blog....and lots of nice comments about "the bad guy" here. Thanks 2 all of U.

Twitter is juice.... definitely worth the squeeze.

Peace

xxx Vegas Vince

[Michael Mayhew]

Originally Posted by Dana_W

We all just discovered it and we are mindlessly following the herd?

Moooo! Moooo! In this case, just follow the herd! It's a phenom?