Make Money on Twitter? Here's How to Do It
Twitter is an evolving social network that simply asks "What are you doing?" Although most people do not respond specifically to that question, it serves as the basis of this ever popular way of communicating and staying in touch with your social world. There are millions of people on Twitter, which presents a vast pool of potential contenders to help you make money!
There are multiple ways that you can make money with your beloved tweets. You should probably first concentrate on building a solid following and developing a good scheme of what you would like to tweet about and how you can make it interesting for people to read. Here is a detailed list of things you can do to start receving checks.
Direct Advertisement- You can display an advertisement on your page to your followers. You can recommend a product or service on behalf of your advertisers and instruct your followers to take an ‘action’. You can also promote a new product or service to your twitter followers for specific advertiser.
Affiliate Marketing- Use those affiliate marketing website skills and transfer them to Twitter. Sign up with different affiliate programs and sell products for other companies. You can put you affiliate links in any tweets you want. If it's a good product and someone retweets it, your link keeps floating around the twitterverse! If don't know what affiliate marketing is or need information, see this article.
Sell Your Own Product- Similar to affiliate marketing, but this time, you are selling your own product. If you sell any item in a store or online, you can promote it with your tweets.
Advertising Using a Service- Allow a 3rd party service to access you account an tweet advertiements on your behalf. You can get paid per tweet, the rate depending upon the amount of followers you have. The two sites to take a look at are Twittad and Magpie.
Background Rental- You can monetize your profile by renting out your background image and profile thumbnail. You can specify a time limit, cost, and even auction it off on ebay (has been done). If you have a good, solid following, advertisers could potentially pay big bucks to put their logo and product on your Twitter background (info on how to get followers here).
Sponsor a Contest- A great way to make money and gain followers at the same time! Hold a contest or giveaway on behalf of an advertiser to drive traffic and awareness to their products. Charge a flat rate, or customize it on your own based upon the response.
Pay Per Twitter Message- Say you had Twitter username "MiamiEvents". You could start by posting all of the relevant events in Miami. After you have a consistent amount of tweets and get a good following, you could charge companies to advertise their event on your tweets.
Charge for Access to Your Twitter Messages- There is a setting where your username can be private and only the friends you approve can view your twitters. If you have valuable information, charge a subscription fee to those who wish to receive your updates. It could be a one time fee, or a monthly fee, entirely up to you. Be sure to have exclusive tweets so people actually want to sign up for your service!
For all of the above scenarios, the more followers you have, the more money you can potentially make. If you already have an account, your already on your way. Take some of the ideas and advice from www.cashfortweets.com and combine them with one of the above strategies.
