How to Make Money With Twitter

Twitter is a micro-blogging site; it allows you to share up to 140 characters to your following in ‘tweets’.  Generally they are used for either sharing updates in your life or for sharing links about other people and this is where affiliate product marketing comes into play.  Part of your campaign to make money online may include Twitter and if you are an affiliate marketer, you can use this social network platform, but only if you are savvy about it.

Rule number one with Twitter marketing is to target the right audience of followers and treat people on Twitter with respect and dignity.  Look for other Tweets that are asking about your keywords and send them a comment or a message with your affiliate link.  This works really well with the extremely popular topics such as health, wealth and sex, but pretty much anyone’s thing can be found on Twitter if you do a bit of looking.  Don’t tweet the same affiliate message over and over again; change it up, talk about the product or service, and make sure to respond to queries and comment on other people’s tweets.  Tweet other things going on in your life or funny things you’ve seen as well; that way you are a Person, not just a shapeless advertiser.

Rule number two: be a person!  Set up your Twitter account with an avatar, a biography, and make sure to respond to private messages and converse with other members of Twitter.  Repost people’s stuff, recommend others in your niche, and generally be active in the social network.  Remember, the key here is Social network; if you aren’t sociable, no one will pay any attention to you whatsoever.  Building up traffic means building up trust which means building up your social network and that takes work, though it can be really fun too.  Good Twitter marketers will be doing the exact same thing, so when you promote them and their products, they may well return the favor and if they have a ton of followers, you’ll find yourself with a bunch as well; just with one tweet that took you seconds to write!

Twitter is very useful to many people looking to make money online.  Each link back to your page is considered a web page which makes your website rank higher in search engines and drives more traffic to your page.  However, Twitter, like many social networks only gives you as much as you put into it.  You have to be active, socialize with others and be willing to swap links and names around to get it back to you.  However, if you put the same effort into this aspect of making money online as you do into every other aspect, you’ll find that you get excellent returns on your time.