Has anybody had success with twitter?

Somehow I thnk the decision on this one is null. The forum is not really conducive to sales pitches, not to mention the interface looks like crap.

-Kelli

I have had success! I just joined about a month and a half ago, and have gotten sales directly from Twitter. Mind you, I really went full bore with my attention there, there are ways to do things that will get you followers and the right attention.

So, to answer you...yes there is success to be had with Twitter, big time!

I have been playing around with twitter for about 2 months now, no success really.. if anyone has had success I'd love to hear how they did it

Chris....what is it that your trying to sell, promote there?

you call earning $20 for one month a success? well, thats what i earn so far from ppc. atleast, its still $20 straight to my paypal.

kim, mind telling us your way of making money on twitter?

So Kim, do you provide the link of the product you like to sell in your DM? or once they follow you then you tweet - but who's really reading these tweets with a dozen being flooded every second.. literally.

I have seen sales and customers from twitter, but I can't say how much because I don't track it, don't really know how, haven't spent the time figuring it out. Course mine are just auto rss new product tweets.

One thing I think marketers forget is that people do "search" on twitter. Helps to have keywords in your tweets, plus it could get noticed later on, say from a search.

I've also noticed my tweet url's show up in G.

A number of ways that twitter can bring in sales or traffic.

Just my thoughts

You may also use Twitter just like another monitoring tool.
Add its search feed to your feedreader,
e.g.
and get notified once your or e.g. competitors' products are mentioned on Twitter.

I'm going to test out my Twitter marketing abilities starting next week and will be sure to post the results in this thread as I progress.

There's so much talk at the moment about Twitter that I'd also love to know what it really can be used for marketingwise.

ok I have created a cool presell page and am going to buy a paid software to get followers. There are tons out there, is there a tried and tested one?

It also takes a lot of accounts.
Scaling is always a good thing, especially with twitter accounts and followers.

I've tried a few and still haven't gotten much, it might already be too played out?

As i wrote in an article ... I think twitter is also a good website to visitor relationship builder. By letting your client be closer to the website you automatically interest other and make them permanent clients. It is way better if you promote a whole website by twitter , not only for a service. By having a whole website you prove you're an experienced in that niche user and people will really trust you in your suggestions.

Twitter's main concept is getting followers fellow of your advertised product or your update news. I believe Twitter is the most powerful add in a site which can easily catch more profit to you by getting follower. So keep posting more attractive product feature of yours. Thanks.

If you're selling a product ... earn followers trust ... prove you know your product's niche better ... otherwise you're just a cheap affiliate which promotes free , which will make you loose clients.

I know someone who has had enormous success with twitter. He has 100,000+ followers and he did it in 9 months. He has also figured out how to make money from twitter and has made as much as $ 94,000 in one month from twitter alone.

He has written two quality reports which he is offering for free and he also has a paid product that just went live. I will PM you the links as they are my affiliate links.

If you would also like access send me a PM and I will send them to you!

First, I have to apologize. I haven't really contributed to this forum enough. Second, I am about to embark on a full on "Twitter Marketing" experiment. I will definitely report back with my findings.

I attended Perry Belcher's Social Media Marketing webinar this past week and was blown away by how he does it. Here are the basics:
1. Be yourself
2. Respect your followers by offering valuable content...it doesn't matter what it is, just make if valuable.
3. The more value you offer, the more your messages will be re-tweeted (a key to gaining a following)
4. Never send your followers directly to an sales letter or opt-in page without offering value in return. The best value is good content or information that will help them in their niche.
5. By using this method, eventually you will able to "move" your followers over to your email list, where again you will offer value, and then an occasional offer.

Perry has more methods and in the last year or so, he has grown his following to over 30,000 just on Twitter and he averages earnings of about $1 per month per follower.

I like this guy, and he has some great ideas. Why not follow him on Twitter?

Oh, one more tip. Find someone that is a leader in your niche by using some of the free Twitter apps out there, and begin to follow their followers. On average you will get about 30% to follow you back. I have gone from just under 400 followers to over 700 using this method in just about 2-3 days of actively working this method.

Now is the key, I need to provide good content.

has anyone found a solution to following more than 2000 people, I have 1600 followers and 300 updates but still cannot follow anymore people??

Ive had great success on twitter i took to it like a duck to water. I joined at christmas and now have around 55,000 followers my twitter ebooks have made me a great income and ive built my blog up from scratch. Ive advertised it through twitter and as a result six months later with very little effort and about 2 posts a week it has a page rank of 2 and lots of google search first pages.

It all depends on whether or not you want to put the effort in or get it.

kind regards


sam
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I know a few businesses increasing their sales from Twitter. For example, I know a photographer who takes photos of the sun rise every morning for christening presents / new born baby gifts etc. He does a Twitter search to see what people are talking about new babys and then sends them a link to his website.

twitter is a great way to promot cpa's..

I havent had much success, I have 900 followers, but very few if any optins...
and no sales. curious how to go about making this thing work/

I don't like Twitter, it's just another fad. But I do know some people that have been making money off of it via opt ins, etc

Twitter is like robot nowadays. Many people just follow to get another followers and this is magic wheel... Personally, I don't think you still can have success in this business. It's more better to create some twitter tool and earn money from it than promote your site there.

So is it more important on twitter to follow others or contribute to the channels and then basically twitter about your day and what your thinking to gain the followers then once a day send out a twitter with an affiliate link or blog link on it ?

Till now i had no success with twitter...i only got some visitors to my site but nothing more..

Cheers Patrick

Twitter is best bookmarking to get good traffic to site.

I have yet to do much with twitter, however I also haven't put in much time with it

I do however know someone with 10k followers or so and he does very well

Yes, you can have success with it. I use twitter as a means to update affiliates / the world of new offers and campaigns; this has even yielded us some new affiliates. So for us, it has been successful.

Learn marketing and social strategy instead of thinking in terms of spamming. Twitter is conductive to marketing, but only along the classic two-step lines. If you just sit around blatantly spamming like any unimaginative porn pusher you'll make nothing and you'll deserve every penny.

You want to build up a following of people who know, like and trust you with their time and attention and who'll click through to what you offer. But that only works if you demonstrate to the people following you that you're worth paying attention to first. You've gotta give value to get value.

It's still marketing, but it's more Seth Godin than Spamford Wallace - you're at the world's biggest floating cocktail party and can join in any conversation going on at the moment. If you step up and mingle and share in the conversation you'll have the know, like, and trust bit covered and can move people's attention where you want it.

If you're trying to direct sell, you're "that guy". You know the one. You're at your cousin's wedding, and "that guy" whips out his business card and tries to pitch you his MLM in the reception line and again over drinks after dinner.

You're at your high school reunion, and "that guy" whips out his business card and tries to sell you insurance when you ask him what he's up to these days.

You're at the church social, and there's "that guy" trying to sell you aluminum siding over the potato salad.

On twitter, don't be "that guy".

i started my twitter 6 months back mixture results i m have in past 6 months sometime 20$ but average i m earning around 10$ per month not a very big amount but its good with little affort !

ha ha Melkor.. I'm trying to not be "that guy". Actually now that I have more than 7000 followers I'm seeing my followers do click on my links.. but mind you only 1 out of 10 are actual something to sell, rest is all just good info.

Yes,Twitter is one of the best options to make money with CPA offer,because it is immediate,if you will make from this,you will make momentally

Everytime I make a twitter post, it seems people do clicks the links and it does drive traffic. So although I haven't figured it yet, i'm sure there is a way to utilize twitter effectively.

I got lucky and made some sales on Twitter, but only after building a relationship and it turned out the purchaser who I've since met in person, had been introduced to the product by someone else previously.

Good reminder that it is important to have multiple touch points in marketing. Think more about campaign rather than just one promotion. Get past the three or so times that it takes for someone to make their mind up to purchase. Make sure you're there still when they do. Some people even take as many as seven iterations before the buying decision, so make sure you're persistent. Like a kid does when it really wants a new toy... it just keeps asking over and over. Of course we need to be more subtle as adults or you kill the relationship and get blocked!

I Have 3 Accounts With An Average 1,000 Followers. I Make Money By Directing Back To My Own Website With Niche Related Materials.

Good pointer Clinch, and thanks for sharing. I have been very timid in putting out links that goes to sales pages.. but yes I think to get optins for a free guide would work.

I have a lot of followers on twitter, but they don't seem to be responding to any of my tweets. I've tried direct and indirect posts, but neither seem to be helping me much. I've heard of others who have had great success, but it doesn't seem to be working for me.

I'm just having problems getting more followers. I have plenty of ideas for using twitter i just need a bigger audience

Very successful here. I use to to recruit affiliates, not really sell the service though. Have over 38,000 so far following...

Yes i use twitter a lot to build relationships and to get free traffic to my websites. You need to have targeted followers that have the same interest as you to get traffic. But twitter works well

Here a link that may help you since you are used to doing ppc, www.twitterhawk.com sends people to you based off the keywords you place in. I believe it is about .5cents a dm. Anyway, just thought it might help ya. ++++++

my attempt is a failure so far...any good tips?

It depends how many and what type of followers you have. If you are having less then 1000 followers and they are from south asia its kinna difficult to make money via twitter.

Well twitter is good for traffic and bad for conversion.... That's my experience...

There is this program that I bought. It automatic builds twitter list for you and at the same time promotes what you are marketing. I have had some success with it so far but Im waiting to see some more since I just bought it. I think its good and you will be amazed at it. I got it from magiclisbot.com

Twitter is the new myspace. Marketers will kill it too.

Twitter can be quite effective when used properly! Building relationships on Twitter with your followers is of paramount importance. The site attracts alot of spammers, and marketers who put the effort into building relationships will clobber competition. Also, Check out john reese's blog on why Twitter auto - follow is a bad idea

I personally have had very little traffic come from twitter. maybe one or two people a day at the most All i run is a blog and have nothing im trying to sell just share information

Twitter is best to get traffic to your site...

With so many using automated software to tweet, retweet and follow, who really reads the tweets, who really cares? .... not too many.

I use to twitter to do product launches. It is great for creating a buzz if you know use it properly.

I went to a site called wth1 or was called wealth to haul?? (I think it was called).. It was tempting to sign up for a program designed for twitter used for getting thousands and thousands of followers through an automated system. There was a write up there I remember but soz, can't remember the addy though.. :-(

I'm getting more and more spam on Twitter. Just about every other post is promoting something. If you want to differentiate be different..

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Chapter 5 What the heck does dating have to do with getting people to buy my stuff?


What the DOES dating have to do with getting people to buy my stuff? Well, they both start with relationship building.

To illustrate how relationship building on the Internet really works, here's a quick story about an average guy... we'll call him Rick.

Things had never come easily for Rick, but he worked hard and landed a decent job after graduating from college.

Now that he was employed, he figured it was a good time to get married, settle down and start a family. So he was ready to go searching for 'Miss Right'.

One Friday night, Rick gets a call from his buddy who tells him about a great new bar that was opening up down the street from where he lived.

They both meet up and after nursing an iced cold one for a few minutes, he looks past the crowd... and there she was... Samantha, the girl of his dreams.
Rick fixes his hair, straightens his collar and walks right over to her...
Their eyes meet, sparks fly...
He reaches out to shake her hand and says:

"Hi. Will you marry me?"

"Whoa!! Stop right there creep!"

Talk about putting the cart before the horse!!
It's obvious that this approach doesn't work in the real world, yet, this is exactly what most online marketers are doing to build their business. It's no wonder why most of them fail; they're so impatient, they propose even before the "first date"!
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I'm in OZ. Sounds interesting ... where's the link to the tool?

Nick, tried your tool, its neat. I feel if it can be narrowed down to the city level instead of country that'll be awesome. Then i could pitch remodeling services to someone talking about this in my area.

I have started 2 months ago and it does give me some money. I got my account suspended due to some issues. But will be back soon. For those who sign up for many accounts, please be aware that, twitter will suspend you.

Also for those who autotweet sales link. Please beware.

Now i know how the Twitter support works. Anything regarding twitter support and help, you can message me directly.

Twitter is one of the most recommended social media and it can really helps.

Twitter is meant for exchanging short messages. Though many persons claim to have success in doing affiliate marketing but I too do doubt its effectiveness. But it can obviously used to gain followers and promote your site or blog.

jasma, how many followers do you have in each of these accounts? and are you targetting to sell diff niches within each on of them?

Twitter has been very successful for me as an AUTOMATED way of generating leads.

The keys to the system are:

1) TARGETING - You must have targeted prospects and so following each and every person on Twitter is useless. Only follow people who are targeted. I have a system that I set up to be automated that I might do as a WSO or do a post on one day, that goes through and finds highly targeted prospects based on the keywords they post about and their information and usernames

2) VOLUME - you gotta hit it big on Twitter you can't only follow a couple people because the CTR isn't there. So most people's problem is that they don't know how to follow enough people who are targeted towards their offer.

Either way Twitter is responsible for about $100 a day for me right now, BUT I had to do some testing to find out which offer converted for that traffic. Hint: it's an under $5 payout and doesn't require 25+.

Yeah - I get quite a lot of newsletter signups from Twitter traffic. Also a couple of direct enquiries and sales regarding my writing services. All up it has been a good thing for me.

Yeah - I get quite a lot of newsletter signups from Twitter traffic. Also a couple of direct enquiries and sales regarding my writing services. All up it has been a good thing for me.

I'm not doing direct sales on twitter, but yes newsletter and optin works very well. Like Glen mentioned, I'm targeting the followers who are interested in what I have to say and this makes the job much easier for a marketer.

Ok just to let everyone know.. I have started to use hummingbird to follow others on twitter.. they gave me a free trial, so just trying it out.
Does anyone else have good/bad experience with it as I like to know if I should continue after the free trial or not.

I have been using twitter for a good month now and not really sales has come up. I want to if anyone really makes a big success.

What do you mean by success?

I think the only thing Twitter is good for is giving people the perception that you have lots of followers. This might impress people who don't know anything about twitter

John Reese just sent out an email saying he has deleted his Twitter account. I think this is going to happen a lot. Twitter is just a distraction and probably not worth your time. How many tweets of total strangers do you read every day?

I`ve had 2 sales thru Twitter.Not much to brag about but the traffic is ok.

Nope, but Ive heard it is an upcoming way to market your ideas.

i believe that with some hard work, twitter is a goldmine

I hear it works for a lot of people. Personally i haven't had much of a success with twitter myself, but that's not to say it does not work!