Is finding customers on social media difficult?

CPA CPL work very well on twitter
CPS sales are hard to get , make sure the niche your twitter account is in matches up with your offer,

I.E - @healthsource - email submit for coupon for health supplement
building relationships is hard and time consuming, post relevant information for your followers and that will build credibility

I've never tried it.

It doesn't appeal at all, though.

I do sell products (mostly from ClickBank) whose sales depend on relationship building, but I prefer to build those relationships with people whom I "met" because they were already looking for information/products in the niche.

I think of marketing as being about finding out what people are already looking for, and then being the person who supplies it to them.

I really wouldn't want to have to build online relationships with people just hoping in future to be able to persuade a proportion of them to become interested in whatever it is I'm promoting, without their originally effectively having said to me "I'm potentially interested in whatever it is you're promoting". That makes very little sense to me. It's not as if there's any shortage of far easier potential customers than that, after all. :confused:

I've never tried it and wouldn't really want to. No offense to anyone who might decide to try it this way, but I think I might feel pretty "sleazy" about it, to be honest.

"I'm actually selling information-products about x/y/z/ subjects but I'm not going to tell you anything about that until I've got to know you well enough for you to be willing to listen to whatever I have to say about x/y/z and meanwhile I'll chat with you about whatever interests you, just to gain your confidence?" Thanks, but no thanks. It lends altogether new meaning to the phrase "bait and switch", doesn't it?! :p

For myself, words like "unappealing", "unpalatable" and "unnecessary" (thankfully) are really the ones that come pretty strongly to mind; sorry.

Thanks Fraser But it's only a 20 dollar discount, lol not 30.

Either way its still a discount though. haha

And germc, it depends on a lot of things.. Like Fraser said, CPA offers work really great on there. You can also promote youtube videos, affiliate products, your own websites, ebay auctions, literally ANY URL you want.

As for your question about how we would "rank a lead" for those terms, I won't lie.. not really sure what you meant there. lol

But with that being said, YOU are the one who is responsible for setting everything up. The software is amazing, but its only as good as the person using it.

As for finding the right people to target, there are a couple of ways to do this. You can scrape the followers of a competitor's account and generate your messages to them, you can follow that competitor's followers and then send direct messages to them once they are following you back, I mean the list of features goes on & on.

I use Get Twitter Followers | Directory & Location Tools - You can go there, type in your niche or keyword and it will show you the top twitter accounts for that keyword/niche.

If you ever decide to buy, feel free to check out my classified thread. Plenty of buyer reviews in there too. Although keep in mind, I'm just an affiliate. I did not create the software - I just created the video tutorial.

I've had it for about 2 years. Spent like 7 months experimenting with the software, figuring everything out. Read the entire users manual, went through thousands of accounts.. But I also didn't have anyone or any tutorials to teach me how to use it. Thats what made me think to create one in the first place.. lol

But anyway, you can check out my thread in my signature to see buyer reviews of my tutorial, OR you can check out the official WSO by the creator at:

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...followers.html

Also, feel free to contact me on Skype if you have any questions about anything. Not just you germc, but anyone who reads this that might be interested in the software.

I do this full-time, so my Skype is always on. The mother-in-law is coming over to carve pumpkins so I will be on here for awhile. Not sure what the wife wants to do tonight, but for right now, yeah I'm here. lol

And thanks again for recommending me Fraser, glad to know you like my service that much!

I don’t like this tactic, like Alexa.

My time is too valuable. I charge 0.12 Euros per word for a professional dream translation. I can’t waste my time giving free advice without payment. My direct answer to your problems has a certain price because my advice is psychotherapy.

However, I give many very generous free lessons to whoever may care about studying them.

So, I don’t like this promotional method, and I don’t like the idea of pursuing customers. I prefer to attract them with the knowledge I provide in my articles.

This is why I’m not getting too much traffic from Twitter when I check my website’s statistics… Facebook is far better than Twitter for me. The truth is that I merely post my articles' and Squidoo lenses' links... and nothing else.

I’m not having any success on building relationships anywhere because these relationships are too time consuming and I prefer to spend my time writing something that will attract many readers, or translating dreams.

Wish I could have everything at the same time…

I forgot to mention that I even stopped answering questions at Yahoo Answers and Quora (where you are not directly marketing like you do at Twitter when you start answering people’s questions because these sites are about answering questions to the public) because I was not getting enough traffic from this occupation, and my valuable answer many times was not properly evaluated.

In the end I saw that this story of answering questions is a big waste of time with the hope to have positive results if you are lucky.

Interesting feedback thanks guys, it will be interesting to see how social media will effect Im in the future.

I do write some answers occasionally on Quora, I think Q helps with establishing credibility though not necessarily traffic.