Is any one making money with twitter here?

[Alan Mater]

Hi Terry,

That's the approach I've been taking and implementing. And, I find Google indexing my tweets regularly, which tells me that my effort is at least paying off to a degree.

As far as making money with tweets, I suppose if you can automate the process, which is what the sites Trent links to seem to do, I don't see why we shouldn't at least try to make a little extra money since we're already using Twitter. Granted the amount of income won't be a lot, but since it's automated it doesn't really matter if we make anything or not as we'll still be doing the same thing. We won't be putting in any extra work or wasting anymore time. I think it's at least worth a try.

I suppose it depends on your main use for your Twitter account. For me, I use Twitter as a way to identify specific content that I think is of value to my readers. Adding ads into the mix, at least for my target market, devalues my stream. Not that there's anything wrong with automation -- if you can control the content.

I totally agree. As someone mentioned earlier, you can approve the ads before they're posted for at least one of the sites. Not exactly automated, but that is what I would do as I don't want to devalue my account, as you mentioned. I certainly want to provide value to my followers, so this is something that I would have to look into very closely before I started implementing any sort of ads.

[burnsrunner]

Are you talking about making money through referrals on Twitter. (Social Networking)
or
How to properly advertise on Twitter?
or
How to make money doing tweets for other people?

[dallasberry]

This is a great thread.

I disagree with the thought that twitter is at it's peak, or close to it. I do agree however that Twitter is beginning to seem saturated with ads, bots and all sorts of unwanted spam. You as an entrepreneur have to rise above this and stand out from the crowd. I think that these ad services are a bad idea, they make your twitter profile look like a spam bot, full of ads nobody wants to see. I would advise that you shy away from offers like these if you want to maintain the integrity of your profile. Twitter is a means of building your personal brand, when you build your brand people begin to trust you and when people trust you they will buy from you but you will dissolve that trust if you start posting ads all over the place.

Every single entrepreneur on my mastermind team uses twitter in conjunction with other free and paid methods. Twitter does make up the MAJORITY of my free traffic and offers extremely targeted leads that do generate cash flow for me. I will post some advanced twitter lessons on my blog in the near future.

Dallas.

[GT Bulmer]

... Twitter is a means of building your personal brand, when you build your brand people begin to trust you and when people trust you they will buy from you but you will dissolve that trust if you start posting ads all over the place...

Dallas.

I agree. I think Twitter started out as a good place to build your brand, then all the automated systems and bot scripts started taking over and legitimate members quickly became disillusioned with the service. Branding is still possible, as you have mentioned, but it definitely requires a focused program of personal involvement and daily activity.

GT

[dallasberry]

Daily activity is a MUST. I spend between 20-40 min a day on twitter building followers and relationships.