Vince Craine’s - Marketing Journey

From Desk of Vince Craine:

Now before I show you the results, I want to make one things clear. First, we had nothing to do with this. About a few weeks ago after we launched TweetElite Pro we were approached by a gentleman who name was Pol. He said he was interested in our product and wanted to do a comparison with three of the favorites out in the Internet to see who’s was better.

Well because of the free exposure we said why not, if we come in second to the #1 twitter software on the planet we would be pleased. We really did not have any idea what the real income would be. All we knew was, “we” my partner Jay and I put our minds together for many months coming up with marketing strategies and features to build the best software we could - TweetElite Pro. So here are the results below, copy and pasted right from MLM Success Media Site.

Results by Pol,

Looking at the three – Day 7:

Three of the top auto following software for Twitter go head 2 head. We let them loose to see which follows best for a week. We were looking at numbers, percentages, but also in the final tests, to see if there is a difference in how the followers react. Will they follow a link?

Let’s see how they did. Let’s go straight to the bottom line and then we’ll give you our “so far” recommendations and why.

Hummingbird: Bottom line? 1.06% upwards change in followers in the last day and 1.38% since we began. Total numbers of followers in one week: 2056

Tweet Elite Pro: Bottom line? 1.07% upwards change in followers in the last day and 8.91% since we began. Total numbers of followers in one week: 2530

Twitter Snipe: Bottom line? 1.05% upwards change in followers in the last day and 1.37% since we began. Total numbers of followers in one week: 1177

Tweet Elite is definitely in the lead here, but had started slowing down in the last couple of days. Twitter Snipe got passed up by Hummingbird and ended up last. I’ve put up total numbers as well as percentage changed so you can see how many people actually followed us back, not just who we followed.

I think there is no challenge here when it comes down to it. The only thing that might sway you away from the clear leader may be price and features, as well as support. So we’ll look at that as well.

All three follow “gurus” automatically. Keyword follows are not yet implemented in Hummingbird but are supposed to be there this month. Twitter Snipe does it real time and shows you who they are following and even the conversation they followed. Tweet Elite follows by keyword, but it’s all done automatically behind the scenes. You can see a list afterwards.

Tweet Elite Pro is more powerful in added features and the only real draw back is the limited accounts you can run it for. It now supports two Twitter accounts, but one at at time. Hummingbird was the easiest to switch accounts with and can handle seemingly limitless accounts. So if you have many Twitter accounts then you may consider Hummingbird. The drawbacks with Hummingbird is that you actually have to run a program to get it to do anything. You have to time when it is right to follow or unfollow. You have to figure out when to restart the program if you hit a Twitter limit. And it does not, yet, do keywords follows. That’s a major drawback in my eyes, but we’ll find out next week for sure when we do the “Rabid Link Follower Check”

Twitter Snipe is cool looking, but seemed to be the worst at getting followers to follow back. It also needs to have regular intervention to run it. Twitter Snipe works from my website, so it has the hardest installation and I had to have an open browser and the computer running to get it to work. You could have more than one account and it was not too difficult to switch between them once it was setup (just a drop down menu to pick).

Support for Hummingbird seemed to mostly consist of a forum (with lots of people that seemed to be on it) I had trouble getting a hold of Twitter Snipe support, but when I got them they were very helpful. Tweet Elite had a customer support team that was quick at returning emails and had good followup. None of the three seemed to monitor Twitter for their own company product names, which is hard to believe since it is so easy to do. I put out a couple of Tweets on a few different Twitter accounts and didn’t get a response from any of them.

So, price:

Hummingbird cost $197 for the program they have a special deal right now, where you use the code RECESSION and you get 15% off. They also have a couple day free trial.

Tweet Elite cost $147 for the full program one time or you can get it monthly for a $37 per month fee or you can get a trail version for $6. Right now if you tweet and follow them you’ll get a discount of $50 off the one time price or $5 off the monthly or the trial versions. Let’s see cheaper, has more features, gets more followers. This one is my choice IF you have a few accounts. Notice I had shortchanged the total numbers before – now it’s updated with actual numbers – which are much higher.

Twitter Snipe is the least expensive at $77 and does have the cool Sniper Live Feed which lets you see the person you’re following and even the keyword that triggered the follow. But it also had the least amount of followers following back in the test and was the hardest to install. Definitely not for the tech challenged, although they were willing to install for me.

All in all any of these products is much better and faster than doing it by hand. I prefer Tweet Elite Pro even with the drawback of the limited account usage, because of the extra features and the totally transparent usage. It also had the best statistics of all of them. I also think that this company has some features and stuff they’re not yet revealing, but may already be in there, because I found out stuff as we were going that wasn’t mentioned in their literature. Bonus!

My second choice would be Hummingbird, especially if they upgrade it and if you have many Twitter accounts. But it is the most expensive.

My last choice is Twitter Snipe. It’s the cheapest and is cool looking when it runs, but it’s also the biggest pain.

If you’d like to get TweetElite Pro click below:

Hummingbird vs Tweet Elite Pro vs Twitter Snipe

Hope this helped. Check back next week. We’ll send out a link and track to see which account has the most people click on it (probably a good sign that the followers are niche oriented and rabid fans or it could just be a bogus test… you decide) If you want to see MLM Success Media were I copy and paste from click here

Look for my next article about a new up and coming Guru, who is releasing a new ebook called Newbies Nightmare.

Talk to you soon, Vince