There are dozens of Twitter Marketing Tools available that will search the entire Twitter database and retrieve those Twitter users based on your search query. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, the two main tools I use to find the major Twitter users in my niche markets are Tweet Spinner and Follower Wonk. These Twitter marketing tools let me search for Twitter users based on keywords found int their Tweets or keywords that are contained within their Twitter Bio.

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Knowing this technique is used by millions of Twitter users to find “like-minded” individuals in a specific niche market, then doesn’t it make sense for you to modify YOUR Twitter profile using the prominent keywords in your niche market so that your Twitter profile can be easily found (and followed) based on these keywords?

The answer is: YES.

Here’s a screen shot of the profiles I alternate every 6 hours on Twitter. I do this so that my Twitter Profile is identified with a variety of keywords in my niche markets. I set the Tweet Spinner API to change / rotate my Twitter Bio profile every six hours. In the 6 weeks I’ve been testing this feature of Tweet Spinner, I’ve noticed that I am getting almost 4 times the reciprocal follow rate as I did when I was doing this manually. Give it a try and track how much faster your Twitter follower count grows.

Here’s how it Works

1. Insert the URL you want listed next to the WEB field
2. Insert your Twitter Bio description you want to insert
3. Tell Tweet Spinner how often you want to Rotate Your Twitter Bio
4. That’s it – All Done

Recommended Tools to Accomplish this Task:

• Follower Wonk

• Tweet Spinner

• Market Samurai

• Micro Niche Finder

• YouTube Twitter Marketing

Here is a fast and easy way to get targeted Twitter followers. This is how I find the Top 50+ Twitter people in any niche market and how I use Tweet Spinner and Follower Wonk to automatically find and get their Followers to Follow Me Back. All you have to do is Code your “Mimic Follow” settings in Tweet Spinner ONCE and the software takes care of the rest.

Here’s the 5 Simple Steps.

1. Get yourself a Tweet Spinner account

2. Visit Follower Wonk and type in your niche keywords

3. Add the Top 5 Twitter people to Tweet Spinner Mimic Follow List

4. Wait 3 days visit Follower Wonk again & add the next 5 people

5. Repeat Step 3. until you’ve added Top 50 people in your niche or until you have reached your goal of adding a few thousand new targeted Twitter followers in that specific niche market
   

This is the fastest and easiest to Find the Top 50+ Twitter people in any niche market and then get “their” Friends and Followers to Follow you back.

Using these two tools, and this simple 5 step process, you can quickly and easily grow your Twitter Follower count by 100-200 targeted Twitter Followers every day without having to spend endless hours of your time clicking the Twitter follow icon.

3 Ways to Monetize Your Twitter Account

• Visit Sponsored Tweets

• Visit Ad.ly Advertising

• Visit Social Oomph

Follow Me on Twitter

One of the best ways I’ve learned on how to get Twitter followers is by using the Tweet Spinner tool. With Tweet Spinner, you can use one of two different Twitter auto follow system. One is based on keywords and the other is based on a specific Twitter profile.

Tweet Spinner provides a robust set of filters you can set, so you don’t follow spammers or people who don’t contribute value to your social network. If you set your filters properly, your reciprocal rate will be 50% or better, which is better than any other system I’ve used in the past. I choose not follow anyone whose account is less than 90 days old, has less than 500 followers and if their friend/follower ratio is greater than 75%, they won’t be added to my Twitter auto follow system.

Follow Manager

764 New Friends 385 Added 50.3%

Using the Mimic feature, you select a specific Twitter person and decide if you want to follow their followers or the friends or both. In this filter set, this account got a 42.6% reciprocal following, which is still better than any other Twitter auto follow system I’ve used in the past. What’s nice about this tool is that once you set your filters, you’re done. No more clicking the follow icon anymore, a real time saver.

2,525 New Friends 1,076 Added 46.2%

Filters

Under the “Follower Manager” heading, you will find powerful filtering options that you should take advantage of. The first, “show/edit filters,” is broken down into four parts.  The “show/edit follower filters” lets you choose how you’re going to follow users on the service. This is further divided into two parts:

• General Follower Filter: You’ll be following users with Tweet Spinner, and based on other criteria, you can pause the rate that you follow users for a specified amount of time.  You can also set a specific follower-to-following ratio, and if you exceed this point, the system will stop following any additional users.  Further, you can limit the frequency of your following behavior; for instance, you may choose to follow 30 people at any specific time and then cool down for a bit so as not to be too aggressive.
• Specific Follower Filter: Let’s say you’re going to follow some users.  They need to meet specific criteria (of your choosing) before you go ahead and proceed, and this will apply to the various types of following options that Tweet Spinner offers (to be discussed).  These are:

• • The number of friends and followers they have.  If they have too many friends and not many followers, for example, you might not want to follow them.  You can set the follower-to-following ratio range in this section.
  • Number of friends. You can also follow users who have a specific number of friends (e.g. between 40 and 40000).
  • Age of account. You might not want to follow Twitter accounts that are 3 days old.  You might also want to see that they are future upstanding members of the community.  This is the section where that magic is made.
  • Tweet frequency. You might choose to only follow active users (who tweet between 1 and 100 times a month, for example) and not users who are either way too inactive or are too excessive.
  • Tweet activity.  You might want to follow users who have sent tweets recently.  Why follow someone who last tweeted in January of 2008?  You can set a day here.
  • User-filtering/pruning. If you’ve pruned them before, why would you follow them again?  You might not want to, and here’s a way to prevent the system from re-following someone you’ve unfollowed already.
  • Location. If you’re a local business, you’ll go crazy with the ability to follow Twitter users who are based on a geographic location. I believe that location filtering is based on the location listed in the bio, so someone entering their latitude and longitude will not be followed by this system.
  • Tweet content: URLs.  You might want to follow real people who are engaging.  If a high percentage of the user’s Tweets are filled with URLs, you might not have an interest. You can specify the percentage threshold here.
  • Tweet content: @replies: You also might choose not to follow people if they are a broadcast tool. If their tweets contain more than a user-specified percentage of replies, you might opt in.  After all, it shows that they’re involved in their Twitter stream.

Specific Follow Filters

With this filter system, all the criteria you set must be met before a person is followed. This is Twitter marketing automation in motion and how you save yourself many hours of manual marketing tasks by using this powerful software.

How to Find Twitter Leaders?

How to Find Twitter Leaders

When you have a Tweet Spinner account, you also get access to Follower Wonk. This sister tool, let’s you find Twitter people who are leaders in a specific niche. Again, so long as you set your filters right, you won’t get casual or low level accounts in your Twitter circle. I set the friend / follower ratio high to make sure the people I follow have the right set of metrics I look for in a Twitter friend / follower.

If you follow me a Twitter and send me a DM with your niche, I will send you the Top 50 Twitter people in any category you choose and a link for you to get a test drive account of Tweet Spinner so you can see for yourself how well this tool does the job.

Making Money on Twitter is easier now with the launch of reTweet.it

Buy Retweets

If you’re ready to take your marketing to the next level, consider buying one of their (3) three retweet packages. The starter package has a good starting price and enough credits to take it past using just free credits. Their most popular option, the $10 package, offers a balance of retweets and price. Their final package, which is the best value, gives you a hefty 300 retweet credits for only $25 – making it an exceptional value.

Their Twitter Followers See Your Tweeted Message

The traffic and exposure goes further than just the retweets. If you purchase 100 retweets, your message will be introduced to every one of those users followers. Since there’s a 50 follower minimum for all reTweet.it users, your link has the potential to be seen by tons of Tweeple and like I said, some of my Followers have over 20,000 Followers. Imagine if your message received 20,000 Retweets!

A few weeks ago, the CEO of TwAitter, Ryan Bell announced that Twitter had required that TwAitter to remove the “recurring tweets” feature from their site. This caused an uproar from the TwAitter user base. I was party to the banter. For many months, like most of us, I’ve been using “recurring Tweets” to post updates on my portfolio of current and new affiliate products. These were mostly my main social media marketing products like:

• Google Cash e-Book by Chris Carpenter
• Undercover List Building by Ryan Diess
• YouTube Cash Secrets by Chad Kimball

Luckily, a pal of mine from the Warrior Forum, told me about Twit Automator by Bill McRea. Now, not only can I schedule Tweets for the multiple time zones I have with my Blog readers from 12 different countries but, this nifty tool has an “Auto Follow” feature that let’s me “tag” the major players in my different niche markets and automatically collect his/her followers without having to do a thing (other than) click the Add a New Peer option (what a time saver) and the Twit Automator algorithm makes sure I don’t violate any Twitter TOS requirements that could get my account suspended!

I’ve discovered a very neat way to identify the major players in each of my 1/2 dozen niche markets. As a matter of fact, this technique is so effective, I plan to write an eBook on this technique with step-by-step directions on how find the Top 10 movers & shakers in “any” niche and automatically add their followers to your Twitter circle. If you’d like a preview copy, drop in your name and eMail address and I’ll send you an advance (comp) copy before I make it available to the public. Include your @Twitter address in the message box so I can follow you.

Quality v. Quantity

The way I see it, I’d much rather have 8,500 quality (like-minded) Twitter followers vs. having a more impressive 20,000 Follower count with little or no interest in any of my niche markets. After all, who cares how many followers you have if the Tweets you post are of no interest to them whatsoever? It takes a little more time and effort, but I make it a practice to always convert my links using the Bit.Ly service, so I can mouse of the link and see the # of views that link has generated. [Note] Read the “Bit.Ly” article I wrote about on how and why I love the Bit.Ly Firefox add-on to track my Affiliate links and Tweets.

Summary

For a limited time, you can try Twit Automator for 14 days for Free! Then you can use the (basic) service for $4.95/month or if you have multiple Twitter accounts like I do, you can upgrade to the $9.95/month version and manage up to 9 different accounts (or) if you’re a major Twitter player, you can go Pro for $19.95/month and manage 20 accounts. For posting recurring tweets (SSDD or using the “spin” mode code) adding targeted followers to your Twitter account Twit Automator does the job well.

Twitter Expands Lists Beta Testing | A Great New Feature

I recently got an invite from Twitter to paticipate in the “beta” version. The first list I created will be to engage my Twitter followers involved in “Video Article Marketing“. Mostly because I have recently started using a nifty tool that converts my text article into video articles with a few mouse clicks.

I named my first Twitter List: @FerreeMoney/video-article-marketing which translates into the long URL as http://twitter.com/FerreeMoney/video-article-marketing. It’s early in the game on how this new feature will enhance the user experience on Twitter, but my initial impression is that Twitter Lists will go a long way to help me “filter” the massive amount of junk (aka) “buy my stuff” Tweets that I tolerate in order to retrieve quality and relevant content my the Twitter feeds I take the time to read.

If you have received in invitation from Twitter to participate in their early beta testing of this new feature, please leave a comment so we can compare notes on how to leverage this evolving feature set. (or) you can ping me directly by using this form.

Twitter Followers and Facebook Friends and Fans are much more likely to follow you on Twitter or become a Fan when you share with them fun, fresh, interesting and relevant content. Watch this YouTube video to see how easy it is to publish interesting, fun and meaningful content to your Twitter and Facebook accounts with 3 quick clicks of the mouse, once you connect the Bit.Ly sidebar java applet to  your Firefox browser and link them to your Twitter & Facebook accounts.

This Social Media Marketing Video Tip will show you how easy it is to share good stuff with your Facebook Friends and Twitter Followers with a few clicks of your mouse.

Note If you’d like a step-by-step PDF on how to set up the Bit.Ly sidebar java applet with the Firefox browser and connect them to your Twitter and Facebook accounts so you can dupe this routine, click over to Contact Neil enter SMMT22 in the Subject area and I’ll send you a detailed “How To” PDF so you can copy this routine.

I recently attended the Social Media Money System webinar. I was one of 12,000 people on this call. My objective for being on the call was to learn more about these FOUR things:

What is Social Media Marketing?

What are the Best Social Media Tools?

What is best Social Media Marketing Software?

How can I use Social Media to help Promote My Business?

The moderators were two well known guys who (if you keep score by dollars & cents) are Rock Stars! The statement was made that by the end of this 90 minutes teleseminar, I was going to know more about Social Media Marketing than 99% of the people who actively participate in the Social Media wave.  In retrospect, I’m not so sure I know more than 99% of the people out there, but I did come away with some good info I can use to improve my social media persona and just as importantly, how to contribute to my social media network in a meaningful way.

THE DO’S and DONT’S OF SOCIAL MEDIA

I took copious notes during this 90 minute call, I hit the screen capture button more than thirty times and after reviewing my notes, I documented a few dozen key lessons from this event. In some ways, the things I learned NOT to do were as valuable as learning what I should be doing. For example, I learned that Social Media Marketing is NOT about posting a Click Here Affiliate Link every 30 seconds on Twitter. I learned that it’s critical to establish a casual and mutually beneficial relationship with your Twitter followers and your YouTube Fans loooong before you try and get them to “Buy My Stuff” or subscribe to your newsletter.

THE SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING PLATFORM

There seemed to be an over simplification of what the key Social Media platforms to be involved with. The main speaker kept referring to his concept of the “Triangulation” of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube all pointing back to his Money Page (his Word Press Blog) when in reality, the social media platform includes a few dozen properties. The diagram below shows just how expansive the social media platform really is and it will probably be twice as large one year from now.

TOP 10 SOCIAL MEDIA SITES

Twitter

Facebook

YouTube

USTREAM

Flickr

DIGG

Stumble Upon

My Space

Squidoo

The speakers gave us a couple of very useful social media tips and tricks when it comes to getting major exposure to your quality social media content. I won’t list them all in this single post, but what I can tell you is that making a fun and informative 4-5 minute video and posting it to YouTube with your website link coded into the description is something you should do on a regular basis.

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING BRANDING

If I had an extra $3,000 lying around, I would have signed up for the MASTER MIND program that was offered. Not only would I have gotten access to the DVD video training and the one-on-one  coaching, but this Platinum Package provided a customized “Branding” of all my social media properties with the same look and feel. That’s why McDonald’s doesn’t one day decide to paint a new Franchises store Purple. It’s important to have your Facebook page have the same “branding” as your Twitter background you’re your YouTube Channel.

SOCIAL MEDIA TRAFFIC (Embed & Comment)

Keep this in mind when posting to your Blog. Make sure you “push” your content to ALL of your Social Media properties (see the list above).

Besides using your RSS feeds, I find the “Share This widget to be a very effective social media marketing “promo” tool. As a matter of fact, let me shamelessly invite you to use Share This right now!

Simply click the flashing “Share This” icon below this post and if you like this content, send it to any of the 30+ social media sites listed. You might ADD this widget to your Blog site if you haven’t already done so.

Lastly, it would be GREAT if you could Leave a Comment about this post (be it good, bad or ugly) just tell me what you thought and if this was a good read for you or not?

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING TOOLS

In my next post, I’m going to include a video on How you can simply “mouse over” a Bit.ly link on Twitter or any social media site to quickly determine whether or not its worth investigating further, using a free Firefox add-on. This one technique alone saves me a ton of time culling through the hundreds of Tweets I read  every day from a bunch of very smart social media marketing people.

To create a successful website or blog, you must have web Traffic or visitors to your site. Without traffic, your perfect site is useless; it might as well not even exist.

Moreover, because web traffic is an essential element of any successful site, many novice webmasters make the mistake of believing all traffic is created equal.

Huge mistake.

For if traffic is King; targeted Traffic is God. All traffic is good, but there is a great distinction between ordinary traffic and targeted traffic. Someone clicking on a link to your site who is looking for the exact information or product you have displayed is said to be a targeted visitor. These are the kinds of visitors or traffic you must try to obtain in your marketing and link building.

Why?

Because targeted traffic is often the key to building a successful site on the web. Targeted Traffic will greatly increase your sales conversions, bring back repeat visitors and help your site gain a prominent online presence.

So here are 10 targeted Traffic building steps you can take:

1. Google Is God!

Only half-kidding but at least where targeted traffic is concerned, Google is still the all important being you should be worshipping online. Don’t ignore the other two major demigods Yahoo! and MSN, but Google will deliver most of your traffic. Your website stats will point this out to you daily, so you must optimize your site for Google.

As a general rule make your pages Google friendly by only using one topic per page, include your keywords in the title, meta description and url for that page. It would also be helpful to have your main keywords in the first headline on the page and most experienced webmasters try to place their keywords in the first 90 words and in the last 25 words. Sprinkle your keywords and variations throughout the copy but don’t keyword spam, just let the engines know this is what your page is about.

2. Target The Right Keywords

You must target the right keywords in order to get useful traffic to your site. You must first check the number of searches and amount of  competition for your chosen keywords. You can use software like Keyword Elite or sites like Digital Point which will give you the Overture and WordTracker monthly stats to help you pick the right keywords for your site. Instead of picking highly competitive keywords, take the middle road and milk the ‘long tail keywords’!

Most webmasters create a master keyword list for their site then branch off into sub-categories from this master list. For example, if you have a site on laptops your sub-keyword categories could be laptop accessories, laptop batteries and so on. Similar, most webmasters only develop their sites in a simple hierarchy with the homepage as the center with their major keywords as separate pages and then sub-categories branching out from these. Your webpages should not be more than three clicks away from your homepage as this will really displease the search engine gods!

3. Have Relevant Content

Perhaps what will appease the SE gods the most is relevant content. Your content has to be relevant to the topic of your site. Keep everything on topic and within the scope of your site.

Relevant, helpful content will also be the biggest magnet for targeted Traffic. Surfers are usually looking for information, give them what they want and your site will reap the rewards. Original high quality relevant content will draw in targeted Traffic to your site so make sure your have Traffic. Surfers are usually looking for information, give them what they want and your site will reap the rewards. Original high quality relevant content will draw in targeted Traffic to your site so make sure your have some good content to satisfy your visitors and the search engines.

4. Let The Search Engines Find You

Instead of submitting your site to the search engines, let them find your site. One of the best ways to do this is by placing your links on high traffic/spidered sites: on online forums matching your site’s content, on social networks such as MySpace, YouTube, Squidoo… and on articles directories like Ezinearticles, Goarticles, and Ideamarketers. The search engines will follow these links and index your site before you even know it.

5. Use Traffic Modules

One of the most effective ways to bring in targeted Traffic is to create traffic modules: whole areas of your site devoted to one sub-topic. For example, if you have a general site on cars, you could develop a whole section on a car-buying guide. Another section could be on car accessories, link all these pages together into a neat Traffic cluster on your site. The search engines will love these closely grouped pages and reward you with lots of targeted Traffic.

6. Use Articles

Don’t forget article marketing, just because it has become extremely popular doesn’t mean it has become any less effective. Writing short helpful informative articles on your site’s topic is still one of the best ways to get targeted traffic to your site. Place your links with your targeted keyword anchor text in the resource box.

Article marketing is an invaluable source not only of targeted traffic but also one-way links to your site. These links will help increase your rankings, especially in Google which considers each link as a democratic vote for your site and ranks each page with a PageRank PR 0-10.

Articles are also extremely important for pre-selling to your potential customers. These articles warm or soften up your prospective buyers to your sales pitch before they even reach your site.

7. Build Opt-in Lists

Most marketers and webmasters use opt-in lists to bring targeted visitors back to their sites. Instead of just receiving that visitor once, you can get repeat visits by using a simple follow-up system with an autoresponder. Studies have consistently shown it might take 6 or 7 follow-ups before a potential customer buys.

Building a subscriber list will also be helpful in creating a web community around your site. These community members may become your most targeted of all your visitors. Likewise, you should have a bookmark feature on all your pages, any repeat visitor is a targeted visitor!

8. Have Blogs & RSS Feeds

Make sure you have a blog and RSS feed attached to your site. This will not only bring in targeted Traffic but your visitors can also subscribe to your RSS feed. This will bring targeted visitors back to your site. Use a free site like Google’s own www.blogger.com or better yet create your own blog using free software such as WordPress.

9. Use Social Media

Build links and contacts in all the important social media networks such as MySpace, YouTube and Twitter. These social networks are a great source of very targeted Traffic.

10. Use Multimedia

Perhaps the biggest opportunity to build targeted traffic is using video and audio media on your site. These will help personalize your message or content and build trust with your visitors. Video clips also have a great viral potential which will bring in traffic.

Sites such as YouTube, Google Video can help you get your message or content in front of millions of eyes overnight. Savvy marketers are already exploiting the traffic potential of this new multimedia trend overtaking the web, why should they have all the fun? You too, can take advantage of these free media sites and pull in targeted Traffic to your site.

Of course, there are many more ways of getting targeted Traffic to your site. But just using one or two of these techniques should increase your targeted traffic in the coming months. Appease the traffic gods by putting these steps into practice and see for yourself.

The author is a full-time online marketer. For the latest and most effective web marketing tools try: Internet Marketing Tools Or why not try these excellent free training manuals and videos: Free Internet Marketing Courses

Over the last year or so, Perry Belcher and Ryan Deiss have been quietly developing and testing what is called The Social Media Money System. After having a ton of success with this system on their own and slowly releasing the training through their in-house list as well as a few JV partners, they’ve had some pretty phenomenal results (over $100K in sales) and now they’re ready to officially launch.

As I’m sure you’re aware, a slew of social media products are being released. Things like Twitter have exploded onto the scene. Some of these products have been good while others not so much. All of these products seem to have one thing in common; the vast majority of them have not provided clear and implementable strategies on How to REALLY Monetize Social Media. The Social Media Money System is going to reveal exactly how Perry & Ryan have been able to:

•    Grew from zero to 130,000 plus social media followers in 9 months
•    How they consistently earn over $1 per follower per month

And their 8 step paint-by-numbers plan that let’s anyone achieve similar results and build a huge mailing list in the process. This product is very timely and its’ “Brand Spanking” new which translates into BIG commissions for YOU.

Why Listen to Perry? Here’s why…

Over the last 100 days he has personally:

•    Added 8000+ Twitter Followers
•    Made more than 2000 Facebook Friends
•    Had 30,000+ Views to his YouTube Videos
•    Became a Top 10 Social Media Expert
•    Is Currently Charging $10,000 Day to Consult Companies on Social Media Strategies
•    Is a an International Celebrity Speaking All Over the World
•    Has 100% Devoted His Life To Helping Others with Social Media

Social Media IS the Future… Consider these Facts…

•    Facebook has 140 Million Active Users Up 89% This Year Alone
•    Facebook Users Check Their Accounts 3-4 Times Daily
•    They Spend an Average of 19+ Minutes Per Visit
•    Facebook signs up 250,000 New Users Sign up at Facebook Every Day
•    Twitter Grows at 300,000 New Users Per Month
•    Almost All Influencers or Sneezers Over 4,000,000 Tweets Every Day
•    YouTube’s 75M Videos is 150K Per Day Bigger Than TV Network
•    There are 12.9 Million Active Blogs in Existence With More than 5 Billion Readers… More Than Newspapers, Magazines and Books Combined. This is the future and it’s the last place you’ll have a chance to build you business online

We Do Business with People We Like

Even if you could get a lot of free traffic to your website there’s no guarantee people would do business with you. They don’t know you, but through social media they do. They will teach you how to make THOUSANDS of friends, influencers all over the world that will want to hear what you have to saw and will actually approach you!

Don’t Let This One Pass You By…

Here is your chance to get in on the biggest title wave to hit marketing since the paper. They will be teaching via a LIVE webinar one per week over the next 8 weeks that will get you started the right way in social media

On this training you’ll discover…

•    How to meet people that are pre-disposed to your opportunity
•    How to communicate with your friends to show them that you truly care about them
•    How to manage your entire social media program in 30 minutes or less per day
•    How to know when it’s cool to talk business
•    The 7 sins to avoid that could banish you from social media forever
•    The 5 big tricks to monetizing social media that work in every niche
•    How to create videos that are SURE to go viral (because you make them)
•    How to sync up Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and other services to build a media empire that’s all about you!

You’ll Never Have to Prospect Again

Once you understand social media your days of the cold call or face-to-face selling will be gone forever…Even if you’re good at face-to-face stuff social media is a 500X more effective use of your time. Here’s why…

Social Media People Talk To 521 People per Day

While the average person only speaks to 7 — that’s it 7. I hope you are starting to see the power of social media and will be one of the few that really get it.

This Live Training is Limited

The entire training is multi-media video based with downloadable audios for portable learning in your car or on your computer or iPod.

This is how YOU Build an Audience!

You will come off this training with a better understand of social media than 99.5 of all people on the web…So much so you will be able to TRAIN others to do the same with confidence…Are you starting to feel that power?

They Offer a 100% Guarantee to Your Success

If you don’t make at least 1000 new networking friends in the first 90 days as a result of social media networking Perry will insist that you take a full refund and keep all the work they have done as FREE gift. Pure and simple!