subject: Twitter tips to help you as an affiliate marketer [print this page] Twitter tips to help you as an affiliate marketer
Many people are making money online as affiliate marketers. On the other hand twitter has become one of the greatest ways in which one can increase online sales. If you are very careful you can use your twitter experience to profit your online business. There are a few important tips that those who want to do business using twitter as affiliate marketers need to bear in mind if they want to succeed in this endeavor. These include the following;
a) The tweets that you send to people should be private according to the needs of each of them. Avoid using the same tweet for many people. This might show that you are not serious about what you are doing.
b) You should always present genuine information on your tweets.
If you misrepresent certain facts about you it will only make people suspect that you may be up to something bad.
c) Any sales link provided should be made part of the conversation instead of being portrayed as a business link.
When chatting with people many of them will enquire what you do and in the process you can give the link to your site. This will help you to increase traffic in your site and at the same time stand out as a genuine person who is not only after getting followers for selfish gains.
d) Avoid links that take people to your services directly.
When directing traffic to your site direct them to your blog with general information about your services then to you business site. This will portray you as a genuine person who is not bent on only advertising his products.
e) Help people with your tweets.
Do not dwell too much on yourself and forget that people also need to hear about how you can help them overcome some of the challenges that they face in life. If you dwell too much on you and what you do people will not trust you and your services. Tweet about other people and offer solutions to other peoples problems if you want to be trusted.
e) Take note of what your followers are telling you.
It's very important to listen to what your followers are telling you. If it's any help that they may be in need of you should be ready to help them. These followers can help you improve as an affiliate marketer and even help you deal with the problems that might be hindering traffic increase in your site. You should engage your followers more by asking questions about your affiliate products so that you can make improvements.
f) Do not over tweet.
There are people who tweet on almost everything including how they went for lunch and the like. This is not wise. Only tweet on the necessary things and those that people mind about but again do it wisely.
If used well, Twitter is a grand way to increase traffic in your site and lead to increased sales.
