To tweet or not to tweet, and what to tweet?

We at Adsmarket are active tweeters. We tweet to each other, we tweet to the twitterverse, we tweet about the importance of a daily cup of coffee and link to pictures of us goofing around at conventions, and I admit that we tweet our registration pages for those who aren’t yet part of the Adsmarket family. We know how important Twitter is as a platform for affiliate marketers, so we try to learn as much about it as we can. Stay tuned to our Twitter account, actually, for some cool improvements, thanks to CoTweet.

Anyway, it’s cool and all to tweet, and to use the myriad of fun applications that make Twitter more functional and easy to use, like Twhirl, TweetDeck, and the rest. But sometimes I sit down and am totally stumped about what to say! It’s only 140 characters, but I am so intimidated by those that we follow who are dang good at getting something down that grabs my attention!
So, today I came upon an article by Joel Comm about the 14 types of tweets. And it has solved my twitter woes, at least for today. If ever I am in doubt about what to tweet, I can go to this list for reference and hopefully The Spirit of Twitter will inspire me to tweet with magnificence. Or not.
For those who have this problem: what the heck do I tweet?, This article is a goldmine.

In the next 2 weeks, we will reveal some of our TwitterTeam members, bringing you one step further into the Adsmarket Social Scene!

For now, as the person in charge of Adsmarket’s social media efforts, I happily invite you to follow me.

We left our cards in San Francisco

Okay, that was a cheesy title.  I wonder how many other affiliate networks will name their ad:tech blog posts the same way?

Our team just got back from ad:tech San Francisco, and after a 4 day whirlwind of meetings and parties, Ben Weinstock, our Director of Publisher Relations, and Liat Arbesman, one of our Publisher Recruiters, had this to say about the world-famous affiliate marketing exhibition:

“My personal feeling was that despite the atmosphere of economic recession, or perhaps because of it, meetings and conversation were much more profound and thorough.  People are looking into how to enhance quality traffic and make sure they get the highest return on their buy.  After all at the end of the day it’s all about ROI. 

Another amazing thing is that most of the stronger players in the social media field come from the Bay Area, which made it a great opportunity for me to me to meet all of them in 72 hours.”                

-           Ben Weinstock

“The conference was great! Our purpose was to meet as many of our clients and to find new potential affiliates and publishers that are interested in international campaigns to monetize their traffic. All the big players were there!

One cool thing they did was set up an area called the Affiliate Garden on the second floor which was a good place to mix. On the first day for example, they did a happy hour with free drinks.  It was a good way to start the parties.  There were so many parties, it was hard to choose where to go!

And the Twitter Monitor was really cool – I got constant updates about the conference on the monitor all weekend.

Great show, I wish I had had one more day to catch all the parties I missed!”

-          Liat Arbesman

All in all, it was a great conference! 

We are going to be at a bunch more coming up: eComExpo from July 8-9, Affiliate Summit East from August 9-11, and ad:tech London from September 22-23.