What if you could combine two of your favorite things: tweeting & money and create an additional source of revenue for yourself? Or, let’s say you even already have a business/money-making project. Maybe you’re a blogger or a freelancer, but haven’t yet capitalized on Twitter to increase revenue. If any of these scenarios sound fitting for you, stick with me. We’re going to take a look into why you might be the perfect candidate for either creating revenue or adding revenue to an already in-the works idea using none other than the world’s favorite social media outlet: Twitter!
Twitter & the Blogger
Twitter is your very best brand ambassador out there. Twitter allows you to promote yourself, without promoting yourself at all, which is generally how people like to like someone. Take a look at any successful, money-makin blogging mom. Let’s use Naomi Davis (@lovetaza) of the Rockstar Diaries. You can bet that she makes a very, very nice side income from her little family’s blog, not to mention that she probably scores enough product discounts and/or donations to double the cash she’s making from those ads and sponsors. Now, Naomi Davis is not “selling” anything. She’s writing cute, adorable, warm-fuzzy bloggy posts about her and her husband and their adorable little baby girl. But. You can bet that 12,000 people know that her favorite color is yellow, that their English bulldog Kingsley rocks “freckles on the ears” and that her little daughter Eleanor, has never been away from momma for more than 2 hours. She’s got 10,936 followers on Twitter. And every time she tweets, she’s not literally saying “Go Buy ______!” But she is indirectly, and ever so subtly, pointing us to her blog, where we become another page view that increases her page rank that increases her appeal to blog sponsors who become willing to pay even more for that side ad spot. Naomi Davis, or @lovetaza, has created herself an incredible brand without selling or at least seemingly selling, a darn thing.
Twitter & the Freelancer
If you’re a freelancer and you aren’t using Twitter to spread the word, you are absolutely, 100% missing out on revenue you could be adding to your bank account. Not only can you promote yourself, you can find outlets to write for.
Let’s start with the first. Every time you freelance for anyone, you want a tweet going out about that article. You want to tweet that article to influential people. Just finished up an eco-friendly piece about the salmon in the Clarkfork? Then you should be tweeting that link at REI, at Outdoor Magazine, at the local college’s ecological professors, etc. The bigger the popularity of whoever you tweet it to, obviously the better, because you could really go places if they ever decide to retweet that article back. AND, you never know who will read it and who will want to hire a freelancer just like you.
For the second option: finding work via Twitter. There are plenty of hirees who have realized that they can avoid the hassle of advertising and hiring the old-fashioned way that took ridiculous amounts of time to write out professional job advertisements, read incoming emails, cover letters, resumes, etc. Instead, they can just tweet out a simple hashtag to the entire world (for free I might add) and sit back while the people come to them with quick 140 character pitches they can read in 10 seconds flat. If you need to add in some extra income, go to Twitter and start searching all relevant hashtags: #hiring #writer #freelancer #editor #copywriter #freelancerneeded, and so on. Send out your own: #freelancerforhire; #freelancer in need of work, all topics suitable. See www_____.com for portfolio. Make sure you’re following all the businesses who promote and offer work to freelancers. There’s a world of opportunity and wealth on Twitter for freelancers if they’re willing to go look for it. Follow magazines who hire freelancers. Follow other freelancers to see where they are posting links to of sites who’ve hired them. The options are endless here.
Twitter All on Its Own
Finally. Maybe you’re not a freelancer. Maybe you’re not a blogger. Maybe you’re a virtual assistant or have the whole 9-5 job thing well covered, but you are avid in social media and wouldn’t really mind adding a few extra dollars into the big scheme of things. While you generally need a fairly large following for these money-making options, and hence the “avid in social media” clause, that’s not to say that you cannot start to build up this following starting today. And once you do, there are countless options to look into. We’ll cover a few of the more common and basic here.
1) Sponsored Tweets
Sponsored tweets come from big companies like Kmart, Disney and Blockbuster. They write up a short 140 or less messages, and you sign up and choose which messages you’re willing to tweet (opting between those you can and cannot edit). Once you choose, the company will then automatically schedule the tweet to go live at the time of their choosing. For those of you with high enough followers, you can make upwards of $250 for just one sponsored tweet.
2) ClickBank
By creating a topic specific twitter account, you can then sign up to find and promote topic specific products in the role of an affiliate marketer. If your topic is organic, you could promote organic foods, organic books, organic restaurants, etc. Clickbank will help you find the most applicable products to promote.
3) RevTwt
This is incredibly simple. When anyone clicks on an ad you post, you get paid for every single click.
These, of course, are just a few of the plethora of options available to you. Any number of companies may be willing to pay you to send out occasional tweets. Options like @magpie will post on your account as frequently as every other post, as infrequently as 1 in 20 posts. At the basis of all of these methods, however, is a large, extensive Twitter following. So, if you’re looking at a few hundred followers, your first job is likely going to have to be increasing that number drastically.
No matter what, if you’re already making money and want to make more, Twitter can easily become that tool. Promote your name, your brand, even your product. Take advantage of the easiest, cheapest way to connect with the entire world. You’ve really got nothing to lose!
I’ve heard about it, If you have huge number of followers then you can easily earn money via twitter but now I know from where you can make money.
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Twitter? Of course not.
Blogger? Yes, of course!
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Hash-tags and lists go really far! Good tips.
Great info here about Twitter. Also, has anyone heard of http://www.fiverr.com? It’s this wild site where you can offer any kind of service (non-sexual and total PG rated of course) for 5 bucks a pop. There’s a guy on there who, for $5, will put a message of your choice on a piece of lettuce and film his bunny eating it. He’s gotten 73 people buying so far! I know it’s not the fastest money making idea to make only $5 a pop but Fiverr has thousands of users so it’s also great marketing for you if you have your own business.
I think I’ll need to check out the site you are referring to. That’s funny a message on lettuce and a bunny eating it! Maybe I need to think of something silly like that!
Its true that you can find money in twitter but its easy, I rather go to a blogger cause the guests and visitors are natural and can do good comments. There are some sites that selling twitter followers in that way they make money but are those followers real or fake? if they can go viral or it is just only for numbers.
I’m a freelance writer and a photographer. I need to tweet my own horn anytime I sell photos and articles.
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Twitter is a valuable resource if you know how to use it to your advantage. I like getting paid per click but you obviously must have the following to use this resource. Thanks for the tips.
These Twitter tips will help me a lot from now on. But I am not agree on sponsortweet they asking for a fee before you make a profit from companies.
Hey there
thank you for this Tips. Twitter, Facebook and Google+ are the Future.
I agree with Jeff.
Like this Site very much and i m thankful for Tips, because i m a new Blogger from Germany.
With best wishes for all Sandy
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Great tips that teaches us how to utilize Twitter as the best tool to add up our earnings. really amazing ways you discussed. Looking forward for more on your blogs.
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Twitter isn’t something that I have really tried to make money with. I have signed up with Sponsored Tweets and did accept a few offers, but I really did feel right about sending out sponsored links on my Twitter account.
I guess it all depends on what you promote. If I promote a product that I like and use, then I wouldn’t feel bad about creating a tweet about it.
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Hi,
I guess I have been disappointed by Twitter. I have some followers and I have been tweeting on a regular basis but really haven’t seen any results. Maybe I need to be more consistent and more subtle and try to drive people to my blogs. Plus I need to combine Twitter with Facebook and integrate the whole process.
Thanks for the good article.
Jim
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Twitter is really good for promotion and earning. Good information you shared.Thanks for sharing.
Twitter is so absolutely amazing, I would have never thought that I would generate such an amount of daily traffic. I even have added a Twitter page on my facebook page. I have my blog completely twitterized and it has served me well. Facebook is the second thing that helps a lot. 30% of my daily traffic comes from these sources and it’s probably one of the reasons why my blog is growing fast. Sponsored tweets are something that I keep my hands off from I have tried it and it didn’t work out well for me.
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I joined twitter a few weeks ago. I have been adding followers and getting people to follow me. But I have really been tweeting. I guess I need to start doing next. Sometimes I’m slow to jump in on something.
Hey,
I thought Twitter is only a network that is used in social conversation and interaction with other people, since I am a user for a month now. Your headline insights me, that is why I am so eager to read it’s whole body. And I am so glad to read it, since it gives me an idea. Thanks.
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The better question would be “Did you know Twitter can make you money?”, cause that’s what stuck in my head when i read your title, lol.
Some of these methods of using Twitter never crossed my mind, but i admit they’re quite intriguing.
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Twitter in my opinion is even better than facebook.
Because as you know if we combine twitter with any post we write on our blogs, also if we use some tools like revtwit, and socialoomph , some content agregators , all this together can spread around our word, and its almost all automated.
Twitter os amazingly important for bolggers.
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I use Twitter, but I tend to get busy and neglect it, which I know doesn’t help a lot. But you’re right… a lot of people do make money with it. I tend to favor Facebook, it seems more social to me, but I think that’s a personal preference. The key with either is to sound natural. I think a lot of people fall into the money-making mindset trap with social media and forget the social part. That defeats the purpose, really.
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I use twitter for ranking my sites knowing google is using these social pointers in its algorithm. so i guess indirectly twitter is making me money. Good post.
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I’m aware of the potential of Twitter, it’s a huge market which can bring great profit if handled right. But it’s not the only one, and i’ve found others to be easier to work with. Twitter is limited in many ways, and time consumed on trying to squeez money from it may be put to better use elsewhere.
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I’ve never though even through the use of twitter you can make money. But I am not really surprise since twitter is part of social media that gives way to socialize with people. It is really amazing that there are a lot of ways on how to make money on the things that you usually doing.
Every social media allows us to be more productive by advertising ourselves or our products online. But just a reminder, there’s still lots of social marketing sites where you can promodize your product but tweeter will also do since it is now the most common site used by most of the people.
Hello Danica,
Social media has proven to be an excellent marketing tool for companies, but the greater power social media becomes undoubtedly apparent at certain times.
Thanks,
Andrea