How to Make Money and Promote your Site Using Twitter
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July 24, 2009 by Steve Peachey
Filed under Getting Traffic, Social Networking, Twittering
If you want to learn how to make money, then you should try tweeting on Twitter. It’s one of the simplest ways to promote your site, but one that most people have little knowledge.
Messaging services are commonplace, but Twitter is now a world-wide phenomenon. You can use it not only to communicate with people, but to make money and turn it into a marketing tool more effective than any that you have used before.
Twitter is Google bait! However, this will only last for a short time. If you only have a blog that you want to promote you need to learn how to use Twitter to promote it. If you have a Squidoo lens, Twitter can be used to give you visitors.
How does that work? The question is … when you tweet on Twitter,who will see it? A tweet is not a web page, and is not listed on a search engine. It isn’t an email, or any other direct means of communication. The only people that will come across those short messages you send are those that are ‘following’ you. To do that, they must deliberately click a link so that they do so. Why should they?
Many beginners to Twitter make their tweets and that’s where they stop, because they don’t have any followers. But what if you could choose your own followers. I am not saying that Hugh Jackman would follow you because if you check out Hugh’s link you will see no tweets except his and his manager’s and agent’s. He uses Twitter as an advertising medium, and follows nobody.
You can use Twitter that way too, and can advertise products and web pages but refuse followers – you will then make nothing. It is very important that learn how to get followers, but the followers that suit you. There are ways to do that, and there are ways to choose the Tweeters that you want to follow. If you get it right, two things can happen:
1. You can make a lot of friends, even if you have no desire to use Tweeter to make money.
2. You can use Tweeter to make a lot of money, even if you have no desire to make friends.
What you want to be shooting for is a combination of each. They need a service or have a problem to be solved, and you can provide either or both. But how do you get together?
By Tweets of course! But you have to get them following you. Let’s take just one social networking site – Facebook.
You can posted your tweets on your wall in Facebook, so that all of your friends can see them. That is just one simple way of advertising yourself totally free of charge…. And it adds content to your Facebook.
Learn how to post your tweets. You will be able to put everything you learn into practice and will be able to make money and promote your site by Tweeting on Twitter!
Think of all the many social networking sites out there on which you can make your tweets visible, even to non tweeters? At one time it was tag and ping – that is old fashioned now (but I’m still kind of old fashioned in many ways and I still use tag and ping too.)
Check out Twitter Technique – you will also find out how Twitter can be used to help you make money.
Let me also recommend Twitter eCourse . There are a lot of get rich quick Twitter methods out there that will end up getting you banned… This eCourse will teach you the strategies and methods you need to know to stay on their good side… so you can continue to make money while the scam artists are scratching their heads asking “What Happened?”
Copyright © 2009 Steve Peachey
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