My Little Test ON Making Money On Twitter
Posted by tmcmembe on 02 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: general
So can you make money on Twitter? I have seen a lot of people saying that you can, so I decided to do my own little test. To set the scene, when I did my test, I had 6500 followers. So not huge but reasonable for a test.
I decided to promote a brand new product by internet marketing giants, Matt Bacak and Shawn Casey. Why this, well I have used tweet spinner to get my followers and I have mainly targeted keywords like, internet marketing, making money on line etc. So a product by two internet greats seemed logical.
I also decided that I would use tweet later to set up six tweet’s to broadcast over a 14 hour period. This would allow for time variations for my followers. Another reason I chose the product was that Shawn Casey has great tracking, so I knew I would get statistics.
So I sent out ‘Matt Bacak and Shawn Casey together, what more could you need to make money online?’
Then I waited. So after 14 hours having tweeted 7 times in total, one at the beginning and 6 more with tweet later. I have 36 clicks on the link (One of which was by Matt Bacak himself). Not one single sale.
What does this mean? Well to me its simple! If you send out a message 7 times to 6500 people which is 45500 messages in total. Then you would expect say 100 responses anyway. So its shotgun marketing, which is, bang, bang please run into the bullet.
I personally do not believe that Twitter or a lot of the social media is a quick hit sales tool. I do believe that it is a great relationship builder, which is vital for long term sales and client retention. So don’t stop it, just add it in as a part of your overall strategy.
Oh by the by if you have made money on Twitter I would love to hear how, in the meantime, its filed under urban myth.
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