How to Earn Money Using Twitter

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X, formerly known as Twitter, is a social media network that has gained more than 300 million users since its launch in 2006. Many of these users are businesses. They use X to keep in track with consumers and give them messages about deals and brands. Personal users also use X to promote their careers, services and partners. If you are a talented X user, you can use this platform to make money. You should be good at marketing yourself, marketing for others and staying in touch with trends and current events. This article will tell you how to earn money using X.

Steps

Improving Your Skills

Become an adept X user. No one with rudimentary X skills can make money on X. You need to be good at getting followers to your accounts, using multiple accounts and crafting catchy tweets.

Get experience in marketing. In order to monetize yourself, you should understand concepts, such as Internet marketing plans, lead generation and affiliate marketing. You should have a website or resume that shows your marketing and X experience to websites who are looking to outsource their X account.

Affiliate Marketing

Use your blog and your X account to become an affiliate marketer. Find products that people who read your blog would be interested in, and then contact the company to get an affiliate link to put on your website. Every 10 to 50 tweets, include the affiliate link in a Tweet, with a high recommendation. Affiliate marketing allows people who advertise their products on a website to get the portion of a product's sales. The producers of the product gain valuable advertising, while the affiliate marketer can expect a monthly check for a percentage of sales, if the marketing is done well.

Promote products through Kwerdo.com. Kwerdo has a list of campaigns from various companies who are trying to promote their products online. Sign up to as many campaigns as you like that relate to your X followers (location and interests). Share the shortened URL that you're given on your X page with an interesting description of the product. Each time you generate a valid page view on Kwerdo you earn money. Earnings are sent directly to your PayPal account with a click of a button.

Sponsored Tweeting

Research sponsored tweets via Internet search engines. Many companies are looking for popular X accounts to occasionally post about their products. Contact the company, make a monetary agreement and begin your pay-per-tweet arrangement. Make sure you have a written agreement with the company and proof of your tweets that you can submit to them. Also, make sure you choose an interval of sponsored tweeting that does not annoy your followers. If you lose followers, you lose potential sales and your sponsored ad contract may be canceled.

Sign up for sponsored tweeting through one of the new sponsored tweeting businesses, such as Ad.ly, Magpie, TwitPub or Twittad. These sites aggregate the companies that need to have sponsored ads and make them available to willing X users. Sign up for an account, tweet an ad at the interval of your choice, and usually you will be paid by PayPal.

There are also some companies out there like SponsoredTweets which will tweet for you.

Selling

Sell your own products. Many people use X to promote eBay auctions and etsy.com crafts. You can simply post a shortened link on your X account, and with a personal touch, you are likely to get more bids.

Sell your services on X. Many professionals use X as a way to stay in touch with other people in their industry. This new kind of networking allows you to develop relationships, develop partnerships and sell yourself to do work. If you feel embarrassed promoting yourself from your professional account, understand it is a common practice. A little self promotion can quickly lead to a job.