subject: Using Twitter to Make Money and for Fun [print this page] Using Twitter to Make Money and for Fun Using Twitter to Make Money and for Fun
Although most people find using Twitter fun easy and absorbing, specialist training and teaching is needed before it can be used competently to make money.A friend once asked me what I do to make money using Twitter and I gave him details of one or two of my more commonly used methods. So then she asked me how to make money.So I requested some information about what she was selling because I knew that she had ever created a product of her own. "What do you mean?", she asked. It became evident that she believed that it was possible to use Twitter to make money without having any service or product.I am pretty sure that she isn't the only one. There is a popular belief that making money online is easy: all you need is to learn how to generate it from nothing. It isn't - it is an advertising and marketing tool, and you have to have a product or a service to sell, apart from a few rare secrets that enable a few people to make money without such things. I didn't make 160 profit from the Aintree Grand National this year - although that is not something to be discussed here.Sure, there are ways that I know whereby money can be made with no product at all but unfortunately nobody will be offering that information for just a few bucks. To be realistic, you must accept that using Twitter for fun is entertaining, but if you want to use Twitter to make mony then it is essential that you have a product or service to sell - and a product to offer for which there is a demand. So, let is take it that you have that - what next?Twitter is not itself a sales platform - it is more a marketing platform, whereby you can market products or services using Twitter, but cannot actually sell anything from it. Let's put that another way: you can present your sales page in a form that is easy for followers to click on (Twitter shortens your URL to a form that cannot be easily identified) and then be directed right to it, and once that happens then a Twitter visitor is just the same as any other - they are on your sales page!You can also link to what is known as a 'squeeze page', where you have a form for people to fill in giving you their name and email address in return for some form of gift such as a report, eBook or training course. I normally use a course, generally of 10 - 14 parts, along with a free gift that gives them something immediate. Then I can send my emaillist at least 10 - 14 times, once for each part of the course they receive.If you are trying to sell a product or service online it has been established that it takes roughly 7 - 8 sights of a product before their mind will be made up to buy it. This is why a course is such a great idea, because you can place your product or service in front of hundreds or thousands of eyes with each part you mail. The same psychology is used by advertisers that use television and magazine adverts.You can achieve the same with Twitter by making frequent tweets. Your follower will be given a sight of your service or product with each tweet. Selecting the most appropriate followers is also a science - those that will interested in buying yopur products. There ways of selecting the correct followers for your business and also of you can use them to your best advantage (and theirs of course).There are a whole host of techniques that you can use with any of the social networking sites, and using Twitter to make money is fun, certainly, but it is also a science just like any other form of internet marketing. However, that is not for now because I can't reveal all my Twitter secrets here, can I!
