Twitter is more than a cool way to stay in touch with your friends and family; it also offers you many opportunities to make money on the side. You just need to look for ways to use the website and its features to make that extra cash, and with a dab of your creativity and resourcefulness, then you’re on your way.
With traditional advertising proving less effective, marketers need new outlets like Twitter and Facebook to help create interest and demand for whatever it is they are selling. Here are some ways you can monetize your Twitter experience.
Twitter is a micro-blogging platform where short messages or ‘tweets’ are made and sent out as updates to everyone in their online network, helping people keep in touch and connect with other
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They will pay you for this, depending on how many followers you have. You can also do direct advertisements by tweeting daily on the products of advertisers. You would need to have a high click-through rate as a result of your tweets, though, which also means having a wide reach or a large number of followers. So choose this option if you have both.
Affiliate marketers have gone beyond their websites and entered the world of Twitter in their marketing strategies. They now also sell their affiliate products by placing their links in their tweets, and everyone who is subscribed to the marketer’s tweets can click on the links which will take them to the marketer’s webpage. You can even sell your own stuff by telling other people on Twitter about what you’re selling. That’s an obvious way to expand your customer base.
If you’re adept at blogging and social media and the rudiments of Twitter, you could twit professionally for a company who wants to have an online presence with Twitter. Professional twitters blog about the companies that pays them to tweet; they do not ‘tweet’ about themselves, unless it is about their experiences with the company’ goods or