Do your own affiliate marketing with twitter by ericwelke

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Twitter has become one of the best ways to connect with people who share your interests. Compared to traditional forums and Social Networks, the brevity that Twitter cultivates in its users encourages quicker response and engagement. This makes it quite useful for Affiliate Marketing, especially those who are focusing on specific niches. I’ve listed a couple of very useful tips for Affiliate Marketers who plan to use Twitter: Create an Authentic Profile Your profile must include a link to your CV and your product site. Make sure that you set up at least two accounts on Twitter, using one as main account, and the other, for customer service. Build Your Social Equity To be successful on any social media site, you will need to gain the trust and credibility of your followers. Take note, this isn’t really based on the number your tweets, re-tweets, or followers you have. This is about the quality of interaction and engagement you foster with your followers. For an affiliate marketer, establishing your online image as someone who gives reliable and useful information is important. There must be some value in following you and the more trustworthy you are the better your prospect’s response will be to your marketing efforts. Track Your Results You can’t manage what you can’t measure has been a mantra I’ve faithfully subscribed to. This is true for all management related tasks. Information is important and tracking how much you’re getting out of your Twitter marketing activities will help you improve its effectiveness further. Try to see which type of post gets the most number of response or feedback. You can then use this as a guide on what to post. For example; if pictures of your product regularly gets commented on, then you should try posting more of it. Try to

create variations on the most popular themes on your feed. Do Your Research It is also crucial that you do all the necessary research beforehand. When starting out as an affiliate marketer, you must spend several weeks getting a feel for all the tweets that are going on sites related to your niche. Do this before formulating your own communication plan. Consistency will help drive up your follower count over time. If you do need a quick boost in your reach, you might opt to use sponsored posts. Timing is important Tweeting around 5 times throughout the day with at least 1 of those tweets about your Affiliate products will help generate more interest. You should consider scheduling these tweets around one-three o’clock eastern time during the weekends. This is the time where a lot of users are online. Just remember to space your tweets out to at least 2-3 minutes so they don’t flood your follower’s feeds. Affiliate Marketing With Twitter requires consistent effort. Sometimes it seems that replying to people’s quick tweets seem unproductive but it is a great way to fish for responses. These responses are shown on that profile’s wall which can help you get more followers for your own profile.

Try to post on trending topics too. A re-tweet or a mention is a great way to gain even more followers. Just make sure your tweeting something interesting and not parroting someone else’s post.