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Easy Ways To Make Money With SponsoredTweets

January 5, 2012 By 2 Comments

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Have you ever heard of SponsoredTweets.com before? If you have not heard of this, then you are in for a treat. The reason I want to talk about SponsoredTweets.com today is because it is extremely simple to make money using it. For instance, the queen of Twitter, Kim Kardashian is said to make as much as $25,000 per tweet when somebody sponsors her.

How would you like to get in on that money making machine?

So how does it work you are probably wondering?

It is pretty simple, all you need to do is get yourself a decent sized following on Twitter and then signup to offer sponsored tweets through SponsoredTweets.com. Sounds pretty simple, right? Well there is a little more to it than that.

One of the things that you need to understand is that a responsive twitter following is very important. If you can tweet something and a good percentage of your following clicks the link or does what you ask, then you have a responsive following. The reason why this is important is because some people will want to make sure you have decent FAR (follower activation rate) score. If you have a rate of 10, then everybody is responsive on your list and because of that you can charge more for your tweets.

Now I know this seems to be too good to be true but the truth is that anybody can do this. All you need to do is start building your Twitter following and make your list more responsive. In order to do this there are some things that you need to know and that is what I am going to teach you right now.

4 Ways To Make Easy Money With SponsoredTweets.com

Get More Followers

The first thing that you need to do is quite simple, you need more followers. Whether you have 100,000 or just 1,000 followers doesn’t matter right now, what matters is that you keep growing your list. The reason you need more followers is because people like to have a huge list to market to and the bigger the list the better.

Tweet Relevant Things

Another way to make easy money is to tweet relevant things. If you want to make money with SponsoredTweets.com, then it is imperative that you don’t promote something that is not relevant to your following. For instance, with the PLRNetmarketing I would not want to promote a sale on dentures because you, my following, wouldn’t want to know about that. This is why tweeting something that is relevant to your following is a must, both for you and the sponsor.

Get Retweeted

Another thing that you need to do is ask for Retweets. The reason why you want to do this is because this will help increase your FAR score. What you need to understand is the more followers you have and the higher your FAR score is, the more money you can charge. Asking to be Retweeted is not that difficult and that is why I highly recommend asking every once and a while. While we are on this subject, do me a favor and Retweet this so that more people are aware of what SponsoredTweets.com can do for them.

Promote Your Twitter Account

The last thing that you need to do in order to make easy money with SponsoredTweets.com is to promote your Twitter account. The reason why you need to do this is for a couple of reasons. The first reason is so that you can get more followers and the second reason is so that more people see your tweets. Just remember, the more people that you can get to follow you and read your tweets, the better.

Out of all the ways people are trying to make money with Twitter, this is probably one of the easiest things you can do. The reason I say this is because it doesn’t take a genius to get more followers on Twitter and the next thing you need to do is just sign up for an account at SponsoredTweets.com.

Before you go ahead let me ask you one thing – Out of all the different ways to make money online, do you know of anything easier that simply tweeting a message and getting paid for it?

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Make it easy for People to Share your content

April 4, 2011 By 2 Comments

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You go to a lot of effort to research and then type up a post articles for your blog so I’m sure you’d like to receive that maximum amount of visitors to that post as humanly possible right? Sharing that knowledge is what makes our blogging world go round, and round.

I’m still very surprised when I see blogs with no sharing, or social buttons anywhere near those posts they spent so much time on. It’s probably no wonder that their Alexa rank is way up in the millions either.

Take a look at some of the highest traffic sites and you’ll soon spot the Facebook “like” button, or the Twitter Retweet button. In some cases like Hubspot you’ll notice a Linkedin “Share” button as well those readers there are putting to good use, and which ultimately sends them even more traffic through each reader who stops by and finds value in their posts.

Heading over to the Huffington Post which as I’m sure most of you know was recently sold to AOL for 315 Million dollars, and you have very little trouble figuring out where the goals and priorities lie. There are no less than 14 opportunities to “like the articles on a page” as well as other social networking opportunities such as RSS and email subscriptions.

Social media is growing at an astounding rate, and should be every business and blog owners concern if they’re serious about being in business. There is very little return on your outbound marketing efforts, and the day of interrupting people at dinner or spamming their inbox in the hopes of either making a sale, or at the very least driving some traffic to your site is fading fast, if not already gone.

I’ll be the first person to say that social bookmarking sites like Digg, or Stumbleupon don’t really provide much in the way of quality traffic to most blogs and yet they do seem to find their way into our analytics reports driving hundreds, or thousands of visitors to our sites every month. If you’re looking at increasing the level of traffic to your blog and haven’t been taking advantage of these networks, perhaps now is the time to start.

You’ve already invested time into sharing something with your readers that ultimately is of use or benefit to them, so you’ve already instilled a certain sense of giving freely. Take advantage of the reciprocity that most people will likely feel, and go ahead and ask for that “share”!

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Tweet Frequency

March 23, 2011 By 8 Comments

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How often should you tweet for business in order to attract the most clicks, without diluting your twitter stream and ticking off your followers? It’s important to note that having a follower who has only a few hundred people that they follow, chances are if you tweet any kind of numbers daily, you’ll quickly take up their entire feed and might just get a message warning you that they are about to unfollow you, or even worse simply unfollow you without letting you know.

Now being someone with close to 40,000 tweets that are geared mostly towards SEO and Internet Marketing and the like I certainly know about tweeting quality tweets, and tweeting them often, but what about the timing of those tweets?

I’m sure you can see where this is heading, the Tweeter was me, and the follower was one of mine, here is the message I received when I woke up this morning:

“I’m interested in what you have to say.. but honestly, you tweet too much & dilute your msgs.. considering #Unfollow”

After taking a glance I saw this person had 46 followers, and was following 194 with 26 tweets to her account. (And I wasn’t one of her followers) I could easily have dismissed her, let her unfollow and gone on my merry way with 1 less follower which would put me at 20,280 instead of 20,281

Instead, I stopped tweeting and started doing some research, now I know precisely how often and what I tweet since I went to a lot of trouble to set it up, gather the information, write the posts etc. But the one thing I hadn’t really taken a look at was the effectiveness of a post (as determined by the number of clicks in relation to the frequency of posts). I have been posting every 7 – 15 minutes and my posts fall into 6 categories.

1.       Conversations

2.       Quotes I like

3.       SEO tips

4.       Blog Posts related to internet marketing

5.       Re-Tweets

6.       Affiliate links or promotional links

So I spent the morning analyzing click through rate statistics and analyzing my own twitter stream and stats that I’ve compiled and come up with some interesting discoveries, the first being that I have indeed been tweeting too frequently and because of it, losing my messages effectiveness.

The second thing of note is that there appear to be two optimal durations you should be tweeting for you businesses effectiveness. Sending messages between 24 and 58 minutes apart resulted in a much higher CTR (click thru rate) than when sending with greater or lesser frequency. The second most responsive timing fell between 58 min. and 86 min or roughly once every hour to hour and a half. This second time frame was only about 8% less effective than when tweeting every 30 minutes or so.

Now what this means for me is that instead of tweeting every 7 to 10 minutes, I’m going to have to cut back and tweet anywhere from 24 – 58 minutes which will drive the quantity of tweets from between 144 and 206 tweets a day to between 25 – 60 a day, but increase its effectiveness. (Not to mention uncluttering my follower’s feeds!)

The lesson we can learn from this is that even one customer, one fan, or follower should have a voice and should be considered in the efforts of keeping your business fresh and responsive while allowing it to adapt to the ever changing climate that is Social Media and the Net!

Thank you @cyanGal

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The Secret to Getting Retweeted

January 20, 2011 By 3 Comments

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Driving traffic to your blog is a never ending battle that you face, and with the help of some high traffic social media websites like Facebook and Twitter, we can at least capitalize on their popularity and siphon off some of their massive volume of traffic to our own blog and its posts. One of the ways that we do this is to implement the retweet button into each post, and then hope that people in the Twitterverse will be kind enough to share it with their followers and effectively open you up to a whole new potential audience that you might not have reached otherwise.

To get things started after you post to your blog, either implement a plugin that posts that new post to Twitter automatically or log in and retweet it yourself, this lets the people following you know about your new post, and since I’m going to assume most of your followers are either friends or people in the same niche as you are, so it stands to reason that they just might be interested in your post, and wander over to your blog for a read. If it’s a post that resonates with them, then they might just be inclined to hit that retweet button and share it with their own followers. (Which opens you up to potentially more retweets from people you don’t even know)

Another great way to entice people to retweet you is to be generous with the retweeting you do for them; I’m much more likely to retweet someone who has retweeted me, than someone who hasn’t. Often this isn’t even a “keeping score” type of thing, it’s simply a matter of out of sight, out of mind mentality. I get busy and forget, but if you retweet my post, then that pops up in my Tweet Deck, and serves as a reminder. A good rule is to have the retweet prominent in the last few tweets so that when they click over to your profile, they will have your current blog post just sitting there ready to be retweeted. If I click on a profile, and there is nothing but personal remarks for the first full page, and nothing really for me to retweet, then I click out and they miss out, but if there is a tasty tweet that they’ve recently posted, I jump on it, and retweet it for them.

Don’t be afraid to ask for it, when people ask me for a specific retweet, I actually like it. It serves as a reminder to me, and since the people that generally ask are people who often retweet me, I don’t mind in the least. 2nd it is easy, because they are showing me just which tweet is important to them today, so I don’t have to go in and retweet something of theirs that really holds very little value for them. It’s win/win for both of us.

And finally make sure you’ve invested more than a few seconds into choosing a title for your blog post, I’m sure you’ve heard that the title is probably the most important part of a blog post, and it’s especially true here. The more interesting your title is, the more likely it is to get people to click it, and potentially retweet it to their own audience.

If you are interested in Internet marketing, blogging, SEO, and entrepreneurship, then I’d like to invite you to follow me on Twitter.  http://www.plrinternetmarketing.com/twitter

I tweet often and usually about internet marketing related blog posts, or SEO tips with some quotes I like mixed in. I do include affiliate links at times, but always for programs I use myself.

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12 Tips for a Better Blog

October 14, 2010 By 7 Comments

Here’s a list of ideas that you may or may not have heard of already, perhaps you’ve taken the time to implement some, but are still waiting for others. I hope this gives you that push to take your blog to the next level. You can choose to implement just one or two, or you may decide on several, either way I want to wish you all the success with your blog.

1.       Install Google’s analytics, this might seem like a no brainer for those who are already using it, but I’m always amazed at how many people still haven’t taken advantage of it. It’s simple to setup, free to use, and gives you access to a wealth of data that will tell you exactly where your readers are coming from, which ads they are clicking, how long they stay on your site and so much more. It is one of the most powerful tools I have as an internet marketer, and did I mention that it’s free?

2.       Check the html code on your site for errors with sites like http://validator.w3.org where you type in your URL and they tell you how many errors and warnings you may have, as well as where they occur in the page, and they even offer suggestions on how to fix them.

3.       Optimize the images on your site both so that they load quickly and also so they are named in such a way as to provide you with some SEO benefit. Each day I receive a handful of visitors to my site through Google Images, and you never know which reader may stay on to become a loyal reader for years to come.

4.       Turn on your comments. Most of you already do this, but for the few out there that don’t (I was one for a while) it really is a great way to interact with your readers, as well as it provides you with free content that other’s write for you, and as we all know Google loves content!

5.       Install the subscribe to comments plugin, so that people are notified about subsequent comments left on the same post, often when I answer a question, I’ll get a response back right away because that person who asked the question had checked the box asking to be notified when a new comment was posted. It’s also a great way to get people to come back to your blog. If I leave a comment somewhere, and subscribe often I will return to read each subsequent comment left which then gives the blog owner another chance to capture my attention and I might just stay to read another article, or perhaps I’ll see an ad that interests me enough to click on it, and the site owner will earn anywhere from a few cents to several dollars.

6.       Go through and check your site for broken or dead links so that your readers will have less chance of stumbling into a dead end 404 page, there is plenty of software out there that can do it quite quickly.

7.       Add a Tweet this button to your posts so that others may share them with their own followers, remember I’m a blogger and if I find your article interesting and retweet it, I’ve now exposed your article as well as your site to my followers. This could open you up to thousands of new people who might not otherwise have stumbled upon your blog. It twitter isn’t your thing there are other social media tools such as stumble buttons, or Digg buttons, etc. Try and find one that works best for you. I was getting thousands of visitors from Stumbleupon, but ended up going with my retweet button because the people that came from Stumbleupon are used to quickly clicking in and out, so my bounce rate was getting higher and higher the more traffic I received from them. With Twitter if someone retweet an article on affiliate marketing chances are the only people who will click through are people who are interested in that topic, and there is a much greater chance they will stick around to read the article and perhaps check out the rest of what my site has to offer.

8.       Try doing some competitive shopping, spend a day visiting blogs around the net, and find things that they have implemented that you think your blog and readers would benefit from, this is the best way to go, because you can see what it looks like implemented before you even add it. Another blog might inspire you to add a certain plugin, or add some add space, perhaps take some away. Owning a blog is great because your site is continually changing and improving as you grow with your readers and it’s so much fun to see it progress, both for you and your readers. I love when a blog I frequent experiences positive change, I’m happy and excited for them.

9.       Create a video in the form of a commercial for your blog or website, I’ve seen some really cool work out there, and even if you don’t have the skills yourself you can usually get a pretty good one made up for under $200.00 depending on what you’re looking for.

10.   Spend an entire day visiting other blogs in your niche, and leave great comments on their blogs. Trust me, they love great content as much as you do, and your comment will stay there for years and people will be inclined to click through to your blog to see what else you have to say. The blog owner himself will most likely stop in and check you out, turn him into your next new reader!

11.   Create a Facebook fan page for your blog or website. I created a fan page a few months ago, and I have my blog posts and twitter feed post to it automatically for the fans. It didn’t take long before I soon had an audience of a few thousand people who stop in from time to time.

12.   Write an eBook that you can offer to your readers as a gift for opting in to your email list. You can then communicate with them more fully and individually and start to build your relationship with them further.

There are so many things that you can do to improve both the reader’s experience as well as the functionality of your site if you are willing to invest the time and effort into it.

Good luck to all of you.
Warren

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Why Twitter Matters for Marketing (and How to Do it Right)

April 12, 2010 By 4 Comments

twitter marketingIt seems like everyone is talking about Twitter. It wasn’t that long ago that no one had heard of it, and then the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 it became something that everyone talked about all the time. Words like “Retweet”, “DM”, and “hashtags” weren’t part of our lexicon before. And now they are.

Twitter skeptics wonder: “Why would anyone care that I’m stopping for coffee?” But Twitter evangelists know that it’s not about the coffee you’re getting. It’s about far more. Twitter is a lifestyle tool that keeps you connected with your followers. It’s a way to build a relationship by engaging people who want to be engaged. For that reason, Twitter is a marketing tool. Here are 5 tips to help you use Twitter effectively in your marketing:

  1. Twitter is a relationship tool first and a marketing tool second: Twitter is a place to be real, to have a personality, to share, to interact. Those are the foundations of a relationship. When you give, people will listen to what you have to say. Any salesperson will tell you that a sale is only made after you’ve built a relationship. For this reason, you should be tweeting about yourself with a ratio of 10:1. That is, tweet 10 things that build your relationships and once about yourself.

 

  1. Twitter is a marketing tool, not a sales tool: Twitter is a way to talk to people and to build attention about your business. It is not a place to sell. The difference: enticing people with benefits to click to your site (marketing) or asking them to buy from you (sales). When you tweet, share things of value – which is a marketing technique – and don’t tell people to “click here to buy”.

 

  1. Retweet often: If you’re not sure what to tweet about, retweet something that someone else has written. For example, if you’re following the 10:1 ratio that I mentioned above, make retweeting 1-3 of the 10 tweets.

 

  1. Share links: Share links that are valuable to your followers. Maybe an interesting article, maybe a useful tool. There is some debate about whether or not these should be affiliate links but I think it’s okay as long as you truly have the best interests of your followers in mind.

 

  1. Use hashtags for context: Hashtags are words that follow a “#” sign and they help people understand what your tweet is about. So if you write: Here is a great link! http://plrinternetmarketing #internetmarketing then people will know what your link is about. I recommend using hashtags as useful ways to embed SEO into your tweets (because individual tweets are indexed by search engines).

 

The most important thing you can do on Twitter is engage people. Talk about them, listen to them, ask them about their problems, and solve them. Just like in a regular conversation, avoid talking too much about yourself and spend more time listening to others.

Twitter success isn’t a secret recipe! It’s done by building relationships and solving problems.

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