How to Make Money Tweeting
Many people on Twitter are making a great deal of money. Websites like Alltop.com sell no products or services, but they generate advertising revenue from tweets made by Guy Kawasaki. Author John Locke credits Twitter for helping his books to become bestsellers. If you simply want to make money for tweeting without creating your own website, or selling your own products or services, you can always find businesses willing to pay someone to tweet on their behalf.
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Instructions
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Advertising and Promotion
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Create a website selling a product or service you can offer. For example, if you make crafts, take pictures of your crafts and post it on a website.
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Create an account with a service that accepts credit card payments, like PayPal.
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Include a sales page, or link to a sales page like eBay, and make it prominent on your website.
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Tweet about your crafts with links to your sales page.
Website Advertising
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Sign up for a service that offers pay-per-view or pay-per-click advertising like Google AdSense.
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Place the ads on your website. Create interesting pages with articles, pictures or videos that people will want to share. Add new pages on a regular basis.
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Post links to your website on Twitter.
Selling Your Twitter Expertise
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Contact local businesses you believe would benefit from having a presence on Twitter. Familiarize yourself with their business needs. For example, a restaurant or retail store generally thrives on customers coming through their doors. Other businesses may benefit from visits to their website.
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Create a business proposal to manage a Twitter account on their behalf. Agree on a weekly or monthly fee for your services.
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Create a Twitter account for the business, start following others and begin tweeting on their behalf.
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Use the Twitter search function to identify potential customers for your client. Reply to their questions with helpful advice. For example, if your client is a paint store, you would look for anyone tweeting about painting or renovating in your client's city, then suggest that they come by the store.
Things to Remember
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Use Twitter on a regular basis. While it is not as important to have many followers as it is to have a solid base of devoted followers, you should be trying to get more followers on a regular basis. Follow and interact with people who look like they will be helpful for your business.
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Tweet interesting links, and interact with others on a daily basis. There is little that turns people off faster than posting only links to a sales page.
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Keep your integrity by being honest about the links you tweet. If you are tweeting links to affiliate sales websites, for example, include this fact in each tweet. This is also important if you plan to become a Twitter consultant for another business. The business will want to see your Twitter account and what others say about you. It only takes one person to announce publicly that they are unfollowing you for spam to ruin your reputation.
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