Is Twitter Any Good For Affiliate Marketing?
Some time back I decided to test the theory if I could make money from twitter. So I did just that. As a background I had 6500 followers the day of the test, not a big number but hey bigger than 6. This took me 8 weeks to grow and now I am putting on around 1000 a week. Important to note that these are all in my niche. Anyway back to the point.
The test I decided was a simple one. Tweet an affiliate link out. Don’t put the link anywhere else, just on twitter. I tweeted it just six times, this would help cover all time zones. what I wrote was @ Matt Bacak and Shawn Casey together, what more could you want? to make money on line. Go here http://www.ipcgold.com/ad/2079/CD74819.
The result was I got 36 clicks and no sales, which is a click rate of 0.005%. I did it on a Saturday night so a lot of people would be online and tweeting. So what does this prove?
Twitter can be a funny place as not all your followers will read you tweets. So its not to be treated like a list, its more like an advert in a newspaper. Even though my followers are within my niche, this is not a precise tool. I would have expected a bigger reaction so lets look at some reasons this did not happen.
1. This is social media its not meant to be precise.
2. No one could care less, well my followers are IM based and the product is an IM one. So that should have been a runner.
The final reason is possible the most logical. People have some many tweets, they can only read some of them. I get over 1200 tweets every few minutes, I can’t read them all. So this is reducing the effectiveness of trying to make money on Twitter. But the reason it bombed was simple, not enough tweets. You need to tweet every few minutes to have a great campaign.
A great thing for twitter is you can build relationships. The more people see your name, the more they get to know you, the more you will sell. Of course another great way is… make a course on twitter.
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