Twitter - Does Anybody Actually Make Money Using It?

I'm using twitter as a secondary traffic/backlink generator for my main site. However i'm not selling ebooks.

You will need to have a couple of accounts as well as many followers to really start seeing the traffic.

I dont use twitter for internet marketing yet. basically Im new to this and getting followers can be a big pain. However it wont hurt to give effort in spending time to look for the "right" people to follow you. They say get the targeted followers, people who will be interested in your site's niche. Then conversions/sales/click through will follow.


Andrea

I think the potential is there but have not really worked with it yet.

Twitter is not meant to make money with, what you use Twitter for is to socialize and get your name out there with.

Sure, it's fine to tweet a link about your website or product every now and then. But don't go overboard with it.

I mean seriouslly, it's not hard to use it for those that choose to use it.

I am working on an ebook.....TWEET!

I am going to the store right now for a dr. pepper..... TWEET!

@whoever, message @whenever, he might know!.....TWEET!

People will get a higher reaction out of their followers if they act like a human instead of a computer marketing program.. Seriouslly...

/rant..

Matthew Roe

I think done correctly twitter marketing can yield some decent returns. Just find someone who is a "guru" in your niche and follow all the people who are following them. Then when you tweet something more people are interested and might be inclined to see what's going one.

This would be great to build a list fast.

I think as a form of "traffic generation," Twitter is almost useless. However, as a networking tool I've found it amazingly valuable. I've ended up on a few TV interviews as a direct result of engagement through Twitter.

I'm not making much from twitter.. I think it's only good for generating traffic and keeping your followers update with whatever it is your doing.

Twitter as a micro blogging service created a revolution in the world of social network, & people started to explore the way to use twitter not just keeping up with friends but to do things like marketing products, making sales, earning money through twitter & lots of other stuff as well.

These are some good ways to earn money using Twitter, but I suggest you don’t over do it as you would look like a spammer & no one likes to get spam not even on their Twitter Timeline. So use this method smartly.

- Affiliate Advertisement
If you are connected with many affiliates to sell their product and services, you can use Twitter account to tweet your affiliate links to your followers & get paid for the selling product. Be cautious using this method, see that you are not breaking the terms of service agreement.

- Increasing Traffic
This is indirect method of monetizing Twitter. Many people use this method effectively to send huge amount of traffic to their website which in turn generates revenue from the ads you post on your website.

- Look For Leads
Many Marketing executive have been using Twitter to find potential leads for the company. Twitter Advance Search offers some best method to find people who are looking for services & products. This is an indirect method but still you can try it.

- SIMPLEST METHOD is Get Paid To Tweet
This is one of the easiest way of making money on Twitter. You Don’t need to have a website, product or services to earn money, It’s one of the direct way of earning money through Twitter. There are various sites that offers services where you can get paid-per-tweet.

If interested follow this method to earn maximum

1. Create 10 Twitter accounts
2. Ensure that each account has a photo
3. Twitter does not require a valid email to create accounts. Thus you can create 10 accounts in 30 minutes.

4.Sign-up for Pay Per click Programs like:
- Sponsored Tweets
- Rev twt
- Twitt Ad
- My Likes
- Be A Magpie

After signing up,

5. Add followers using a software bot.
6. Wait 24 hours then clear all the tweets who are not following you back
This ensures that you can add 500 people again without being blocked or flagged.
7. Remember to follow new people every day to increase your followers
8. Bulk remove Tweeters who are not following you back
9. Post realistic updates to your accounts each day

Believe me, Stick with it! At first you'll only see a $1 a day then $5 then $10 $20 etc

- Sell Your Product & Services
Selling your product & services through twitter is an also effective way of making money on twitter. You can use Twitter Advance Search option to find out people that are looking for product or services that you are offering & you can directly get in contact with them offering your services.

Thanks,
www.manziworkers.com

i use sponsoredtweets and only made 25 bucks with a follower base on one of my accounts of 1,224

Just blasting out affiliate links is ineffective. You may get some traffic but the conversions will be low.

The same as if you went out onto your high street and shouted out your Tweet. How many would run up to you, dollars in hand?

There is a marketing method that I use with some success where you only need a Twitter account - even without a single follower. The key is to market to those who want something and are ready to buy.

I don't sell anything over twitter, I just use it to build my email list and give out free information.

A while back... almost 2 years ago... I decided to check
Twitter out because I'd seen a number of high profile marketers
using it. My strategy was to follow them and observe what they
were doing.

I didn't learn much but I did have a chance encounter with a
guy who followed me. He asked a question about tools for
promoting small businesses. I responded and sent him some
info on the best tool I've ever seen.

Cut to the chase... the guy joined my business and I've
earned thousands of dollars from his production since that
chance encounter.

Right place, right time, I guess... LOL

Tsnyder

Try using Twitter as a backdoor method to building your list. Set-up an automated DM, and funnel people to your squeeze page or fanpage. You can even rotate your DMs to go other places of your choosing.

Also, twitter is great for networking with like-minded people, but you have to semi-automate the process to keep from burning up your day.

Twitter works, but you need to be creative. Hope this helps...

Twitter can be a useful "marketing medium" if used in correct ways. Did you see for example the NameCheap competition that pays out some cool prizes, but also gave them some expanded publicity?

Tweeting is used for updates, chatting, promotion, information, linking, list building, relationship building and more.

It is like many other means on the web.

Email marketing can be very effective, or it can blow up in your face if you abuse it. So include twitter in your list building, marketing and money making, but use it wisely.

Martin

I use Twitter as a testing bed for certain niches before I fully get involved with it. Because if people are socializing about a certain problem dealing with my niche then that means there's current traffic to be had "right now" in the niche. So I will test a product, normally a CB product, and direct traffic straight to the CB page.

But this is done by answering the persons question in a way that looks like I'm helping or offering advice. This is a process so it would be a mini article to explain all the parts but you can get the basic idea.

I have seen some traffic coming from there recently again but the sales that came from there were from networking with people who were interested in what I was writing about or doing at the time.

The post might draw interest then after that it's up to you/your site to network and connect.

I agree, I have built up a steady 2k followers although very time consumming. post the news and direct to your websites, free bees are good and work, learnt the hardway after being banned..we live and learn...lol, anyone have a good autmation tool for twitter ?.

main revenue way is to use tweets to drive people to an article where you host ads: adsense, clickbank, cpa..... whatever....
best though to think of it as an email management alternative but only when you know how to target niches properly.

Twitter is good for leads. You do a twitter search for your keywords and then socialize with the people who mention your keywords(the ones who use your keywords without a tinyurl).

Twitter cosistantly brings me $500 a month in CPA traffic. I have a few very targeted lists of followers. I send out maybe 6 tweets a month.

i am about to use twitter also... though, I am not sure of the traffic in twitter.. there are rumors that traffic is getting low, and facebook is conquering the world..