Make Money With Twitter
Twitter is one of the fastest growing websites of all time. It has gone from zero users to tens of millions in an incredibly short time. And as you must already know, where there are millions of people there is money to be made!
Right now the guys who own and run Twitter don’t make a penny from it. They haven’t worked out yet how to make money with Twitter, but for you as a user it’s an entirely different challenge. You’re not looking to monetize a database of users with the service, you’re looking to simply reach a particular audience.
Where the money can come from:
There are literally hundreds of ways to make money with Twitter. Hundreds, and thousands. What will stop you is not a shortage of ideas, it’s your dedication to doing any of them. Just like with all things; nothing worth doing ever came easy.
Each of the ideas below can be implemented by building up the right Twitter audience. We’ll explore that a bit more below.
Here are some money making ideas you can apply to Twitter right now:
1. Promote your business. This one is fairly obvious. With occasional links in tweets, the link in your bio, and by feeding your latest blog posts onto your Twitter profile.
2. Recommend affiliate products. If you have a large following of dog lovers then it’s pretty easy to recommend a great dog leash or guidebook or chew toy. You can recommend clickbank products, which will pay you very well.
3. Sign up with Magpie. Magpie is a service where businesses can advertise on your Twitter profile for your followers to see. You get paid based on how many followers you have, among other things. It’s used by a lot of people and is one of the most trusted sites of its kind.
4. Promote your blog, running adsense and other ads. Twitter is an excellent way to drive quality visitors to your blog or website. Twitter users love blogs, and promoting your latest posts is perfectly acceptable.
5. Make deals with website/service owners to promote their site. It’s a great way to get a discount in a product or get free stuff by saying how you will Terry about it. I recommended a product I bought the other day to a buddy of mine, she tweeted the link, I showed the product owner and he gave me a whole extra bonus for free!
6. Build a mailing list. If you offer some kind of free bonus or incentive to your followers to sign up to your mailing list you can grow your list very fast, with targetted people. You can then email these subscriber whenever you have something good to say, and earn a LOT in the process.
These are probably the most obvious methods. There are many many more ways to tailor it specifically for your product or service. Anything you can do with an audience you can do on twitter.
Things You Need:
To make money on twitter you need to be able to tick a few things off from the following list.
You need:
A Twitter account (obviously)
Something to sell (being an affiliate is just fine)
A blog (a free one will work)
Optional:
Multiple Twitter accounts, to target smaller groups of people
Automatic friend adding software (reviewed at twitteradders.com)
The automatic friend adding software isn’t free but is totally worth it.
