Over 10K Twitter followers And Still No Clickbank Sales

Maybe your twitter followers are also simply trying to sell clickbank products...


I just looked at your twitter account, every single tweet you send out is an advertisement. My guess would be that you used some type of software to increase your followers. Those followers are probably very similar to you.

In your entire page I don't see a single reply to any user. You may have 10,000 followers but you still don't get twitter.

Most people avoid marketing twitter accounts LOL, lets face it who wants to be bombarded by clickbank products on twitter, People want to find interesting people on twitter

People don't really buy off Twitter, do they?

They want to know if their favorite movie star or band member just sneezed or if their dog pooped.

I'm sure Twitter is fantastic; just not for me.

Regards,
PCRoger.

It's probably because twitter is always "Over capacity"

The post title told me everything. Have you ever come across someone who isn't in the public eye who has 10,000 followers?

The chances are, virtually all those followers are trying to market to anyone dumb enough to agree to follow them and it goes on ad infinitum. Vincent in post #4 gives the way to success with Twitter.

Nigel

How Many Twitter and/or facebook page/account 'Followers' do You Have?
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If you have around 20,000 followers, Over half probably have not
‘tweeted’ in over 6 months. I assume the real world called and they
went. over ½ of blogs (and web sites over all) appear to last less than 6
...months to a year before they are abandoned. Same appears to be true
with twitter accounts. It is said there are over 200,000 blogs on the
net, yet 3/4ths of them have not had a post on them in 3-6 months. So do
they count? If 3/4ths of my followers have not logged in for 30 days,
do I really have 20,000 followers? (Or just empty accounts 'following
me?) So even if you get a million followers in a month, within 6 months
most have stopped logging in so don’t read your messages anyway.
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So while Twitter says they have over 6 million users, what they mean is
they have over 6 million accounts. Between inactive accounts and
multiple accounts for one user, I doubt there is much more than a
million ‘users’. Paying to get users or joining programs to get them
seems like a temporary way to get a message out at best. In a short
time, it is only mostly accounts that are ‘following’ you, not people.
When I check the stats of my followers on an account a little over a
year old, 3/4ths of them have not even logged into their accounts in
over 30 days and ½ over 3 months ago (A lot haven't 'tweeted' for 6-12
months!). It is mostly smoke and mirrors, it would appear.
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Better to have a small number of followers and if what you say is
interesting enough, they may bother to log in to read it and/or buy from you. If not, then
it is just empty accounts following you as Twitter apparently never
deletes abandoned accounts, (although they claim they do after 6 months
of inactivity). Just ones that someone takes the time to delete
themselves. Even then the count shows up under your ‘followers’ for 30
more days.
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Of course, just like web sites and blogs, some will probably be around a
while, but as with web sites and blogs, those appear to be the
minority. (Except where you have a small intimate and like minded
following and you create a value that is enough for followers to log in
to read.)
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Of course, each of my 3 dogs has there own account! They just tweet
inspirational or funny sayings. (You know how dogs can be. ) When
Dempsey passed I 'told' his followers through tweets. I got over 100
pleas to not delete his account as they liked his dog wisdom and humor.
(As well as even more sympathy messages). So I guess there is no
telling. Dempsey still has his account as a result. Sometimes other dogs
come by and 'sniff his butt' as well. So now you know I am nuts, (as if you didn't).
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Facebook faces much the same situation. You can make as many accounts as
you like (just call them pages). Of my 300 friends, all whom I know,
3/4ths of them are too busy to have logged into Facebook for 3 months.
Over half haven't been on in 6 months and over half the ones on are
playing Farmville or Mafia Wars. Until recently, Facebooks policy was to
not delete inactive accounts. I have at least one friend that passed
away 2½ years ago, but he is still on my friends list!
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So is spending the time to get a few million 'fans' over 3/4ths of which
are 'inactive' in 6 months make sense? Pepsi spends over 20 million,
for less than half a million fans, (in lieu of Super Bowl commercials),
Coke spends over 40 million for almost 5 million fans. (Pepsi
incentivised fans by donating to charity based on the number of fans
joined. Coke did not. Polls of the respective fans show they already
drank the page's beverage they signed up to. Except in the case of
Pepsi, where several signed up to increase the donations, but still
drank Coke!)
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Going to take some convincing on my side to believe it is worth more
than a minimal presence. Obviously if a company commits a faux pas,
social media is the best place to admit liability and control the
damage. But does being a 'fan' or 'liking' a company's page due to some
incentive change where you shop or what you drink? And with effective
campaigns (even non-profit ones) costing in the millions of dollars in
man hours or incentivising, is it worth it? Are even successful not for
profit campaigns like the California State Parks Foundation (which looks
like it will fail in it's mission in the long haul after all, keeping
the parks open only one extra year), that used more man hours
volunteered than the money needed to keep the parks open, worth it?
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Even Dell, who says they sold 6½ million in computers GROSS last year
and hired over 100 people to just handle their Twitter account; did they
end up in the black net? Certainly not in the short run. Perhaps a customer's
LTV with them makes up for it down the road. They are certainly spending
more than they are getting in the short run. The only reason to pursue
SM for them would be to maximize the client's LTV.
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I have seen people say they are 'successful' with twitter and Facebook, but
have not seen confirmed statistics as to how much time they spend being
'successful'. I have no idea what the hourly wage would translate to. I
suspect if it were good, someone would have bragged about it. I have yet to see
anyone spend more than a passing interest in SM; usually using automated
means to duplicate content elsewhere on Twitter and Facebook for SEO and
residual income reasons. I have yet to be convinced that if limited to those
two sites, anyone could make a living income. Might be wrong. Might not.
No doubt some sell decently on those sites. Not sure it is worth the time.
(unless you are a Twitter or Facebook addict and would have been there anyway.)

You need to build an email list.

Your followers are probably all following you because you're following them and they're all trying to sell something too (That said, I still love twitter.)

The email list is great advice.

How did you build your follower base? The answer to this may reveal part of the answer to your question.

Train your twitter followers or pre-train them - that is before they follow you (if they find your links on your sites, etc) make some type of committment to what they can expect, and let that be clear in your tweets too.

I've never tried selling on Twitter, but I've also never heard of anyone making enough to buy dirt with it either. Twitter is not a sales medium, it's a communications / marketing medium. Use Twitter to take them to your sales page where you can display your unique selling point.

Some good content in this thread.

Good luck with yer twitter, hopefully you realize now that it's quality over quantity?

As mentioned above, if you don't build relationship with your followers, none will trust you, and therefore will buy what you promote to them.

Try another medium other than Twitter if you want to make some quick money because it won't happen.

Just my 2 cents ...

People think I'm crazy - but I "screen" my followers before accepting to follow them.

First I use Twellow to find "targeted" twitterers in my niche - they must be interested in what you tweet at least.

Sometimes I just follow back and sometimes I look at their website - when I see something there that interests me or my followers I'll tweet it. I also send the blog/site owner a direct message to let him know what I think about his blog or comment on his graphics of twitter background (without being too sugary)

When I notice some of my followers start to "spam" me, I unfollow them. Like in sending 5 or more tweets after one another.

Before following someone look at the amount of followers he has and the amount of people he is following. If it isn't more or less the same, he is not managing his twitter account. You can tell a lot about someone by just looking at his tweets and the info on his homepage.

I use Social Oomph that alerts me if someone mention me or send a RT - I then send a tweet to thank them.

I only send one tweet out at the end of the day to announce a new blogpost or site page to get it indexed - the rest of the time I connect with people in my niche and sent out quotes or some other interesting stuff! I also retweet if I see something interesting from other tweeple.

I mainly use twitter to build up connections to do guest blog posts in my niche and I've made a lot of valuable friendships and they use me often. This provide them with quality content and provide me with links - more valuable than a couple of sales!

Some great tools, free tools even, like basic Socialoomph.com will allow you to "Vet" your followers on Twitter, thereby increasing your chance of getting better followers who are followers that might by from you some day.

I imagine that you thought Twitter was designed for selling Clickbank products? Actually, it's a social network, designed for social networking. If you take that approach ... and actually network with real people instead of the 10,000 spammers you likely currently have, you'll find Twitter can be a valuable resource.

Here are a few tips, some of which may have already been said above:

* Use a nice profile that clearly illustrates what you do and what they can expect from your tweets

* Build a laser targeted list of followers that have the same interest as you (quality not quantity)

* Take the time to get to know at least some of your followers and interact with them at a personal level

* Make sure to have your own unique and genuine touch to each of your tweets

* Reply to others when possible specially when they mention you and retweet when someone says something noteworthy

* Don't direct your followers to landing pages and sales pages, but take them to a site (preferably your own) where you give them something of value (think great content) in return for their visit. They may come back if they like what they see.

* Above all, be genuine! Twitter is NOT a "sales platform". However, its an excellent "engagement platform". It can be a source of massive traffic if you play it right.

... is glad he read this post.

I've a question ... do you get click thrus to your Clickbank account? I'm not sure if I've made a sale with CB but I know I get click thrus and I believe I've signed up second tier affiliates with it.

For me its a 10 minute a day job so I don't obsess over it and ... er ... interestingly enough to support what Brad said ... I ended up clicking on one of Brads Tweets today and watching his YouTube video interview about his 10 yrs in the adult industry which was good stuff.

So ... useful tweets get traffic, create interest, build your reputation and I guess that's all part of internet 'marketing'.

P.S. That last statement was one of thoese conversations you have with yourself to confirm and 'log' what you've just learnt : )

I wasn't trying to tell you how to suck eggs (maybe i'm a bit punch drunk).