Social media has become a new force in local internet marketing in many business owners eyes. The ability to reach a targeted group for free in your local market with a single mouse click is extremely powerful for the local internet marketer that has the right automated systems to produce those massive numbers of local targeted followers. The fastest growing social network is currently Twitter. It is becoming a local Internet Marketers dream very quickly for those that act now.

Twitter is that website where it asks what are you doing now?, and then gives you 140 characters to answer. It takes only a few seconds to register, and another few seconds to post your message to all of your friends or in tweeter language your “followers” who then receive the message on there computer or their cell phone.

Lately, internet marketing promotions have been discovering how powerful Twitter is for marketing things online. People like Mike Filsaime and Seth Godin are twittering now, and building a following of people who get every update they post.

Now, no one wants to hear what you have had for your mid night snack, or any of the other many boring activities we all do each day. However there are a growing number of people who have learned how to post very funny or useful updates “tweets” on twitter, and have in turn developed a following of hundreds of people who actively look at what they say. Barack Obama is one such person who uses twitter to announce his public appearances and speeches. Doing this has grown his database, and increased the number of people who are interested in him, and now support him. In short, twitter is a powerful online marketing software in it self and even more powerful if you know what programs and systems to use to automate your tweets and follower requests.

Here are 4 secrets to get your internet marketing promotion started:

1. Refrain from posting what you are doing right this minute! Dont post everything you do, but rather just the things that are of interest or value to others, or things you want others to see. It could be something in the local news, or an event that is happening in your city, or a discount offer you are making – just anything that could benefit someone else and not turn them off. It sounds simple, but it becomes a little challenging to do when you get anxious to promote. So be sure to ask yourself the question does this offer value to my followers”? and only post if the answer is yes.

2. Find popular people with lots of followers and follow them. To do this, you simply search through twitter or use your online marketing software to find something that interests you or even better runs in line with you internet marketing promotion. Soon you will find some people that have interesting things to say, and when you click on their user name, twitter will show you a button called follow that lets you follow that person or your online marketing software will do it automatically for you. By following a person, everything they post will go into your personal time line, that is the thing you see when you login to twitter. If you decide you do not wish to follow someone any longer, simply click on their name and then on the unfollow button.

3. Go to twitterfriendadder30 (a free website) and login with your twitter account info. twitterfriendadder30 shows you everything in conversation mode and lets you reply to people simply by logging in and clicking on Twitter cockpit. You can even have multiple twitter account messages all funneled in to this one page and even color code which account it is coming from. In short, you can enter the conversations of others at that site from all your twitter accounts and be able to directly respond to each message or send a single message to all your followers on multiple accounts to generate massive website traffic.

4. Use an online marketing software to automate your internet marketing on social networks and watch your followers grow to the tens of thousands. Normally when I send a message on Twitter I get a 2% conversion, meaning if I send a message to 10000 followers, 200 will see my message and will take action on the message, meaning they will click on my link in the message. 200 poeple visiting my website by sending a single message and that my friend is powerful online marketing software.

More internet marketers are learning how to use Twitter internet marketing promotion to develop their marketing database, contacts and business. Now you can, too.