Thank you for your comment! It’s great to see someone who reall reads a post and puts some thought into a comment.

Let me be clear: I don’t have anything against Tahir or his product. And it’s great to hear that twittollower has worked as advertised, for you.

However, I can’t help but be a bit cynical about the “ethical” aspect of the unstoppable sales-video… I particularly wonder why there’s a navigation bar, but you get “punished” for trying to use it by having the video skip back to the beginning. At least, that’s what it was like when I looked at the sales page. I don’t see what’s so ethical about that.

More importantly, what really struck me about the presentation was that there were many NLP/hypnosis cues in it, at many points. And this isn’t something I’m just making up or guessing. There are several “picture-book” hypnosis phrases in the video that could be taken straight out of a Richard Bandler or Milton Erickson book. Saying that you want to get all the information across before people make a buying decision and having a sales-message full of emotional button-pushing is one thing (that’s simply how marketing works), but basically attempting to hypnotise people into buying and calling that ethical? I’m not so sure about that.

I don’t know if it’s still the same video since the last time I saw it was sometime in Febuary.

The way I see it, the video is the way it is purely for marketing purposes. The goal is a high conversion rate. Period.

There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s marketing, after all. I just highly doubt that Tahir would reject using, say, a long-form sales letter if it was shown to convert significantly better, just for the “ethical” aspect of the unskippable video.

Again, I don’t have anything against the product or the marketer.

Interesting article and I just want to present the reverse side of the coin viewpoint. I’ve used Twittollower to build my twitter account, and it works a charm.

The video DOES actually tell you what it does and you’ve touched on it in the above post. It allows you automatically build a twitter following 100% hands free after a 30 second setup, targeting any niche of your choosing. It’s set and forget technology at its best, and it works.

That’s all it’s designed to do and that’s exactly what it does.

I actually had an opportunity to meet with Tahir at a recent seminar in the UK.

I asked him why the Twittollower video was so long purely out of interest, as I found it enjoyable and well presented, and as a marketer I wanted to know what his reasons were for creating such a long video.

He told me several reasons, both from an ethical standpoint and from a sales standpoint.

The first of those reasons was to stop people doing what they do with long sales letters… scrolling through the sales letter, and buying without a clue of what they’re buying.

Who reads the long winded sales pages fully?

People read the hyped up headlines, scroll down to the buy now buttons and purchase then regret they ever did.

Tahir doesn’t even let you get to the order page UNLESS you’ve made an informed decision based on what he tells you in the video and only gives you the link when he knows you are in a position to make an informed decision.

I’d call that pretty ethical, wouldn’t you?

Tahir sets out the case for twittollower and clearly states in the video that he will let the person decide if it makes a sound investment decision based on time, cost, and also sets out to show that twitter is a proven medium for making money.

Also, yes it’s not like the semi-automated tools that are out there like tweet-adder and hummingbird… and the price is higher, than those two products as you stated, which are NOT 100% automated tools. They need manual input each day. Twittollower doesn’t, in fact after your initial setup, you never need to log into the twittollower panel again if you don’t want to.

It continues working for you around the clock, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

So it’s unfair to compare apples with oranges – you can’t compare a fully automated tool, with semi-automated tools that require a daily time investment.

And Tahir compares it with a fully automated service – the featured user service and it’s cost on twittercounter dot com. The people who pay for that kind of fully automated twitter building service, ARE being charged $850+ per month for building 2000 followers, so in comparison… Twittollower is at a fraction of the price of what others are currently paying and would have to pay, and Tahir clearly explains that. That’s why he mentions the higher price point of what he should be charging for it, based on another fully automated way of generating the same number of twitter followers he guarantees in a month that twittercounter dot com charge.

From a sales point of view, Tahir has done a brilliant job, getting the benefits across, building a case for why he is charging a higher price than other semi-tools which he mentions are out there… and explains his reasonings clearly, leaving the person to make an informed decision.

In fact, I’m glad I had a 40 minute video explaining the benefits compared to semi-automated tools like tweet adder and hummingbird, and the massive cost savings compared to fully automated services like twittercounter dot com.

I think it’s the same with most people. I had a look at some of the posts that people RT and some of them have thousands of followers, but I only get a tiny, tiny click through rate so I reckon most of their tweets are going unnoticed.