Some time back I decided to test the theory if I could make money from twitter. So I did just that. As a background I had 6500 followers the day of the test, not a big number but hey bigger than 6. This took me 8 weeks to grow and now I am putting on around 1000 a week. Important to note that these are all in my niche. Anyway back to the point.

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?

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

2. No one could care less, well my followers are IM based and the product is an IM one. So that should have been a runner.

So maybe the real reason is that people have just too many tweets coming across their screens, I now get around 1200 a minute. So is twitter bad at getting traffic. No its great you just have to tweet more. The reason it bombed is I only did it six times in a night, it should have been 6 times an 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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