Is there money to made from twitter?. There has been so much hype about twitter I decided it was time to a test. So just a few facts first, at the time of the test my list was 6500 not to big and not to small. But all targeted followers within my internet marketing niche. Anyway lets get down to it.
To keep the test simple I decided that i would just tweet an affiliate link. That way, I did not put it anywhere else, I could see the stats from the affiliate site. What I tweeted was what I wrote was @ Matt Bacak and Shawn Casey together, what more could you want? to make money on line. Go here http://www.ipcgold.com/ad/2079/CD74819. I sent it out six times so to cover all time zones.
So what happened I had 36 clicks and no sales. Which in sales terms is 0.005% of a reaction ratio. Also I need to say I did this on a Saturday night, when you expect a lot of people to be tweeting. What has my experiment proved?
That Twitter is hit and miss, its not a precise tool. Its not to be treated as a list, more like an ad in a supermarket or a newspaper. I prefer list marketing but how so ever I do have a targeted followers. So to be honest I would have expected a bigger reaction. So that did not happen lets look at some reasons why not.
1. its Saturday night everyone is out.
2. No one interested in the product. Matt and Shawn are two of the greats in internet Marketing. So that doesn’t make sense.
The last reason is people have so many tweets coming across their screens, that there is no way they can read them all. I get over 1200 tweets a minute so maybe they just can’t read them all. Solution tweet like hell. Not just six, perhaps six every hour.
Twitters best use is helping people to get to know you. Thats what is was really made for, but remember people buy from who they know faster they from someone they dont.
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