MarketMeTweet: Will It Help You Find Clients on Twitter?
Posted February 26, 2010 in Marketing, Social Media
Lately, I’ve been playing around with MarketMeTweet, a new Twitter application for marketing and branding.
MarketMeTweet allows you to manage multiple Twitter accounts to promote your business. You can send tweets, as well as get your replies and direct messages, retweet, and send messages to others. It works with PC, Mac, and Linux.
Will MarketMeTweet help you find clients on Twitter? The short answer is, “Yes, but….”
Useful Features for Freelancers
Three features stand out, which could be potentially very useful for freelancers:
1. Scheduled Tweets
If you’ve been using Twitter for some time now, you know that you need to send the same tweet several times over a specific period, to reach as many of your followers as possible.
You could just as easily do this for free. Prior to using MarketMeTweet, I was using the free version of SocialOomph. However, with SocialOomph, I had to type a captcha code every few tweets. It was getting pretty annoying and time consuming.
2. Brand Management
This is a cool feature I never even knew I wanted. In a nutshell, this feature allows you to brand each tweet you send out through MarketMeTweet. At the bottom of your tweets, instead of seeing “via MarketMeTweet,” it will say “via (Your Brand)”.
In addition, your brand is hyperlinked to any landing page you specify, such as your blog or a special page for Twitter users.
This is particularly useful if you have a Twitter name that’s different from your company name. Or you just want to get more exposure for your brand.
3. Smart Following
MarketMeTweet will find Twitter users you can follow, based on keywords and negative keywords you specify. You can even follow users from specific countries only. This will help you find new contacts from a particular industry, field and geographic location.
Not-so-great Features
Now for the downside. My primary misgiving about MarketMeTweet is the ease with which you can spam others using this tool.
1. Reply Campaigns
Now I know why I occasionally get a random tweet from somebody I don’t follow, and who doesn’t follow me, and said tweet often makes no sense! It’s because of services like Reply Campaign.
Here’s how it works: you specify keywords and standard replies. The app goes and looks for tweets with your keywords. Anytime it finds one, the app replies to that Twitter user with one of your pre-loaded template replies.
For example, say my keyword is “freelancing.” And let’s say one of my template replies is “So you’re interested in freelancing? I highly recommend http://www.freelancefolder.com”
But what if the actual tweet was, “@somebody when did you start freelancing?” Now you can see why the person who receives my standard reply would go, “Huh? Who IS this weirdo?”
Therefore, this is one feature I don’t recommend you use. If you want to engage in conversation with anybody on Twitter, do it manually. The way real humans do.
2. Twitter Management
This is the part of MarketMeTweet that lets you see your friends’ tweets, @ messages to you, direct messages, and Twitter search.
Maybe I’ve just been using Tweetdeck too long, but I find MarketMeTweet’s display area to be way too small. Basically, my friends’ tweets, @ messages, DMs and groups are smooshed together in two columns. I have to scroll up and down a lot to see more than two messages at a time. I miss my columns!
3. Search
Twitter’s search feature is a valuable tool for freelancers. Not only can we find prospective clients, but we can also do real-time market research, get our questions answered, and find practical help instantly.
Unfortunately, because of the very small display area in MarketMeTweet, you can only see one set of search results at a time. If you want to search another keyword, you’ll lose your previous one. Once again, Tweetdeck far outperforms MarketMeTweet in the search area.
The Bottom Line
There’s plenty to love and hate in MarketMeTweet. If you schedule a lot of tweets, or manage multiple Twitter accounts, you’ll get your money’s worth (MarketMeTweet requires a one-time fee of $39.99. This is not an affiliate link.).
However, the casual Twitter user is better off using the many free, albeit less convenient, Twitter applications available. Other free and paid options include:
- TwitHawk
- Hootsuite
- SocialOomph
What’s Your Take?
Do you use MarketMeTweet? If so, what are your thoughts about it? Or do you know of a better alternative? Do share!
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- 5 Reasons Freelancers Can’t Ignore Twitter
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54 Comments
Damian
February 26th, 2010 at 9:41 amI picked up MarketMeTweet on the second day it was released based on the recommendation of an online marketer I’ve come to trust. He said he was using it and it was a fantastic tool.
Well, I discovered he ISN’T using it, and I’ve been thoroughly underwhelmed by the features of this product. $40 I could have spent much better…oh well.
Lexi Rodrigo
February 26th, 2010 at 9:45 am@Damian – Did you get a refund? There’s a 7-day money-back guarantee. It ought to be longer. Thanks for your feedback!
Damian
February 26th, 2010 at 9:52 am@Lexi – Nicely written article, by the way. Just checking out the Savvy-O-Meter, actually.
I had asked for a refund immediately from the company because Twitter was not initially allowing the branding feature. I emailed again. No response, no refund.
I think it’s only two folks doing the whole thing and they are in way over their heads. They released an app before it was ready for prime time. Just tweeting within the application is grating on the eyes. Not very well done, and it COULD have been.
Plus, I LOVE Adobe Air, but that’s not enough to get me to like it. I never use it…
crazywabbit
February 26th, 2010 at 10:14 amI knew they would somehow try to make money out of twitter. Not going for it, sorry. Meeting people in person is much more exciting.
Jordan Walker
February 26th, 2010 at 10:19 amI am not one to pay for applications, I agree with crazywabbit that meeting in person or over the phone is much more valuable as a freelancer than twitter.
Glenn Sorrentino
February 26th, 2010 at 10:50 amLooks like it’s worth a try at least. Too bad there isn’t a Lite version.
Amberly | Web Designer
February 26th, 2010 at 11:58 amAwesome stuff.. Thanks for sharing.
I’m going to give it a try
Lissa Duty
February 26th, 2010 at 12:53 pmThanks for this post. I had been considering using this app because I think the branded tweet idea is a great concept. However, like you I love my Tweetdeck and use the professional version of Socialoomph. I feel the negatives would out weigh the positives.
I have one question for you, with MarketMe Tweet, you can brand your tweets: Can you say brand one twitter account to say LissaDuty.com and another Twitter account to say JohnDoe.com or would they all be branded the same, even though managing multiple accounts? Look forward to your response.
Lexi Rodrigo
February 26th, 2010 at 1:09 pm@Lissa – I do believe it’s one branding for each Twitter account. I only have one Twitter account myself, so I can’t go and find the answer to your question. Sorry I couldn’t be more help. By the way, if you already have the pro version of SocialOomph, I think you’ve got tons of functionalities there already.
As for Tweetdeck, I still keep it open to track @ messages and DMs to me, but for scheduling tweets, MarketMeTweet has definitely grown on me.
Damian
February 26th, 2010 at 1:15 pm@Lexi – Excellent point about keeping Tweetdeck open, as I do the same with Seesmic when using MarketMeTweets. One of the reasons I’m disappointed with the overall product is that it was advertised as an all-in-one solution. Guess it’s my fault, though, for thinking Twitter can be handled by just one app.
Curious as to what other Twitter sites and apps people use, because almost all of them could complement MarketMeTweet.
Michael Hart
February 26th, 2010 at 1:54 pmGreat post Lexi! Not to long ago I did an article comparing HootSuite and CoTweet’s features over here: http://www.michaeldhart.com/blog/2010-02-01/twitter-power-tools-hootsuite-vs-cotweet.
It’s really interesting to see new players in the Tweet management game. Have to agree with you though, MarketMeTweet doesn’t look like it will be winning me over. I’m sticking with HootSuite.
Nicole Foster
February 26th, 2010 at 3:26 pmThough MarketMeTweet seems very interesting and I love the idea. I currently don’t have that money due to freelancing downtimes.
Nonetheless, I’m happy with Hootsuite and Twhirl by Seesmic.
Tammy
February 27th, 2010 at 7:31 pmHi Everyone, Thanks for the comments and the great post. I just want to let you know that we did provide damien with a refund, immediately, as we don’t want anyone to be unhappy! Also, we’ve added a bunch of other features, and all updates are FREE. And the branding is back. We spoke with twitter extensively and fought to get this feature on b/c we think that you own your own brand, not the app you are using. Next week we’ll be updating with Twitter List integration, giving a “choose this reply” to the reply campaigns and a few other fun things. And facebook integration is coming very very soon. Let us know what you think and follow us on the development blog. We’re a very young company, a tiny company actually, trying to help people use twitter to stand out in their niche, but yeah, we do have to make a living ;)
Damian
February 28th, 2010 at 9:25 am@Tammy Just for the record, you misspelled my name Damian — another sign of great customer service — and my emails for a refund for were IGNORED.
I can’t believe a legitimate biz owner would comment on here and lie about what happened. It really leaves a bad taste in my mouth. If they wanted to offer me a refund, why not do it now and prove it?
Tammy
February 28th, 2010 at 9:36 am@
Damian I didn’t comment to start a fight. If you believe i’m mistaken then PLEASE just fill out a support ticket and I will have it taken care of by tomorrow. We gave out about 4 refunds since we started, and I thought yours was one of them on that day that we thought we had to pull branding (which by the way was twitter not us, and we fought for our customers and won!) support.marketmetweet.com. It will be taken care of first thing tomorrow as i’m out most of the day today. You can keep trying to defame us, but I think you’ll find it’s hard when you’re dealing with a genuinely nice company with people who give a crap :)
Thomas
February 28th, 2010 at 9:51 am@Damian, People have been misspelling my last name for my entire life, my school, the government, o2. Yet i have never gone on a mini-rant about their customer service being poor. Also as Tammy said, we are a small company. I don’t think we have ignored any of the people who have contacted us yet.
Mr. tøjbutik
March 1st, 2010 at 2:25 amSounds like a very interesting product, too bad not so many are satisfied…. but maybe there will come a new and better version – I hope so :-)
Duncan
March 1st, 2010 at 4:05 amWell. It looks like a good idea and I might look at it in the future, but right now I am more than happy with what TweetDeck has to offer me.
scott
March 1st, 2010 at 4:45 amintresting post, do you think scheduled tweets are that important? I’m finishing a windows app (called twitterbrite) and it’s currently in beta (see http://bit.ly/c5tSNr ) if scheduled tweets are a killer function I’ll add them in
Phil de Gruchy
March 1st, 2010 at 9:33 amLove the idea of branding the Tweets. Now it’s been done though, I imagine it will feature in the next release of all other Twitter apps. Still, great to get in there and be the first to use it – People notice that kinda stuff. Thanks for sharing!
Sandra
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:33 pmSAVE YOUR MONEY
Bought the product last week.
Have been unable to use it since I cannot login even though I am using correct login.
Tried emailing, use of their support system and ZERO response!
Tammy
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:01 pmSandra we don’t have support email – we have a support ticket system so if you’re emailing i’m not sure where you are sending it?! Just go to support.marketmetweet.com
:)
Damian
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:40 pmJust wanted to say that I DID get my refund after all from Tammy and MarketMeTweet, no questions asked. Thanks for the forum here!
Marketing and Management
March 5th, 2010 at 5:49 amTwitter is best social bookmarking site. I am member of twitter through which we can get more client.
Ryan
March 5th, 2010 at 7:44 pmJust use Tweetdeck and Hootsuite. Goodness, how many twitter apps are out trying to cash in? And bloggers and social media experts love them if only because it’s another app to review and write about.
Sad Customer
March 7th, 2010 at 11:11 pmI can’t login to marketmetweets. I just paid $40 for it. And I can’t login. Sure hope my support ticket gets handled pretty soon or i’m going to be pretty sad…
Tammy
March 8th, 2010 at 9:53 amI’m really not sure how this has become the support forum but please, just fill out a ticket it is handled every day!
Sad Customer (still sad)
March 8th, 2010 at 5:57 pmMy problem wasn’t taken care of. You said that my password was reset, but I tried it and it still didn’t work. I used the exact login details and I repeat, it did NOT work. I really would like a refund, but now I have to wait another day (and who knows if i’ll ever get it?) Luckily there is a PayPal dispute process which will annoy us both to no end if i’m not refunded by this time tomorrow.
I can’t even login to your website. I never received a comfirmation email after I signed up and paid. There is an issue on your side – i’ve tried it on multiple computers.
Tammy
March 8th, 2010 at 8:14 pmPlease reply to the support ticket – putting it here won’t do anything. We’re nice people and we work hard to fix any issues, we will fix it.
but replying here wont’ get it done…
Laura Spencer
March 8th, 2010 at 8:42 pmFreelancers, this is a product review.
We at Freelance Folder have no direct connection with the MarketMeTweet folks, so if you have specific questions for them please contact them directly rather than leaving your questions here.
Thanks! :-)
Saddd Customer....
March 10th, 2010 at 10:01 amGoing on the THIRD day and still no refund :’(
Tammy
March 10th, 2010 at 9:55 pmThank you Laura!!! Sad Customer – we asked you for info in the ticket system.
Tammy
July 4th, 2010 at 8:48 amJust letting you know v2 is out. It’s getting some pretty amazing feedback. Check it out.
Tech Reviews
July 17th, 2010 at 8:25 pmI’m going to have to check this out, you would not believe how much trouble I have had trying to get to grips with twitter, when I have had no trouble at all with every other marketing technique!
This tool might help, but I am also trying out seesmic!
Tammy
July 19th, 2010 at 9:15 amHi TechReviews…
You should write a review of V2.
Also, the author of this post – might wanna update. It’s a new tool now!
john
December 2nd, 2010 at 8:00 amKeep it up
Lynn Brown
December 4th, 2010 at 5:54 pmInteresting software and I have found many mixed reviews. I have used TweetDeck and love it so I appreciate you sharing your comment here as it just isn’t enough for me to switch from TD to this new software. I guess it just depends on your goals for your business and how you utilize Twitter.
Tammy
December 6th, 2010 at 8:23 amYou really gotta head over to MarketMeSuite.com – this review is SO old now and really needs to be updated – the whole interface is different!
~Tammy :)
123 Contracting
December 17th, 2010 at 8:20 amWe love Hootsuite – great piece of kit for keeping in touch with what our clients think.
Accountants
December 17th, 2010 at 8:21 amWhen we surveyed our clients and asked them what they used – Tweetdeck came out on top by quite a margin.
Tammy
December 17th, 2010 at 8:32 amTweetdeck would – it’s the first and very well known. But first doesn’t always mean best ;)
Tammy from MarketMeSuite
July 27th, 2011 at 5:20 amJust wanted to pop on and say the whole interface is different now. We’re up to version 3 :)
~Tammy
SEOChemist
December 14th, 2011 at 4:03 pmI usually use Tweetadder for Twitter marketing, great tool for list building.
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