Affiliate Marketing Training: Simple Ways to Make Money on Twitter
Monday, May 31, 2010
When it comes to making money with social media, no affiliate marketing training is complete without a section on making money with Twitter. As marketing goes, Twitter is actually pretty straightforward. After all, there’s only so much you can do with 140 characters. Still, there are a few strategies that top users have in common.
- Follow thousands of users and unfollow those who don’t follow you back. This is the cornerstone of most Twitter building activity. The only caveat is that you must do it at a controlled pace in order to avoid getting your account banned. Don’t follow more than 50-100 people each day, and don’t unfollow in the same day that you follow.
- Encourage retweeting. It takes creativity, but eventually, you’ll get the hang of how to structure your tweets so that other people retweet more often.
- Tweet to famous people. If you can get people to reply, that’s a lot of eyeballs on your Twitter username – not to mention a subtle endorsement that you’re “cool enough” to get a celebrity’s attention for a few brief moments.
- Try Sponsored Tweeting. If you’re not having much luck promoting products, you may still be able to earn a tidy sum by accumulating followers and getting paid to tweet.
Have you had much luck with Twitter in the past? My hunch is that, while plenty of people are earning money there now, the numbers will only increase as we get better ideas about how to deal with this particular marketing channel.