Is Twitter Any Good For Affiliate Marketing?

Is a question that seems to be asked more and more. So I decided to test the idea. But first a bit of background, the day I tested it I had over 6500, followers. So not a lot, but not bad either. I had grown that in 8 weeks and I am adding around a 1000 people a week in my targeted keywords. Anyway I am wandering.

The test I decided was a simple one. Tweet an affiliate link out. Don’t put the link anywhere else, just on twitter. I tweeted it just six times, this would help cover all time zones. 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.

The result was I got 36 clicks and no sales, which is a click rate of 0.005%. I did it on a Saturday night so a lot of people would be online and tweeting. So what does this prove?

Twitter can be a funny place as not all your followers will read you tweets. So its not to be treated like a list, its more like an advert in a newspaper. Even though my followers are within my niche, this is not a precise tool. I would have expected a bigger reaction so lets look at some reasons this did not happen.

1. No one on line. Hey its social media and it was a Saturday night.

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.

A great thing for twitter is you can build relationships. The more people see your name, the more they get to know you, the more you will sell. Of course another great way is… make a course on twitter.

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