With the Twitter network expanding increasingly fast, it has become a prime location for businesses, both large and small, to promote their products. There is no better advertisement for a product that a referral from a friend.
This is where Sponsored Tweets comes in. If you have a twitter account that is at least 60 days old, has 50 followers, and 100 updates, then you are eligible for Sponsored Tweets. Even if you don’t meet those requirements, you can sign up to refer others to the program.
Once you meet the minimum requirements, advertisers will be able to see your profile and make an offer for you to tweet. You are able to accept or decline any offer, and you are able to write and approve what you tweet. You are required to disclose that the tweet was sponsored; however, in my experience that doesn’t seem to hurt the click through rate of the tweet.
If you don’t have a ton of followers, don’t let that discourage you from signing up for this program. Many affiliates have found that the return on investment for tweeters with 50,000 followers that charge $500+ per tweet is way less than tweeters with 500 followers that charge only $1-2 per tweet. Since you get to determine your price, you can just set your price per tweet low until you start getting offers. Once advertisers see your PPC is a great investment, you’ll be able to raise your price and still continue to get offers.
What makes this the easiest money to make online is simple: you don’t have to change anything that you are already doing on Twitter. Continue to tweet about the same topics to the same people in the same way. Obviously, you can tweak your account to make more money, but for easy passive income there isn’t anything easier.
If you haven’t already, sign up for Sponsored Tweets; the worst thing that will happen is you’ll make a little easy money. Also consider Ad.ly in addition to Sponsored Tweets. It works almost the same exact way, but there aren’t as many options regarding pricing.
Disclosure: Both the links to Ad.ly and Sponsored Tweets are my referral links. That means if you sign up and make money from my link, I get a small percent in addition to what you make. We both win!
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After reading your article, I finally figured out how to sponsor someone else tweets. Good lesson learned. I am still trying to understand how twitter can be a great tool. Overall, informative post. Thanks!
Let me teach by a real life example. A local Dutch Brothers here in Vancouver WA was having their 2nd Year Anniversary. By luck, I swung through for a quick coffee fix. Expecting to pay my standard $4 plus tip, you can imagine my surprise when I found out it was only a $1. Now time jump backwards and pretend ALL of their coffee lovers were using Twitter. Dutch Brothers could have sent out “Come by for 2nd Anniversay, all coffee ONE DOLLAR,” message. How many sales and happy customers did they miss out on because of this?
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I heard that facebook, twitter, my space…All of them are social communities whereas people can make money online.
One thing that crosses my mind, is whether these sponsored tweets would look as spamming to my followers, or whether its genuine information being shared?
It all depends on your following and how many offers you accept. There is a fine line between selling out and adding value to your following.
If you are tweeting an ad more than once a day, it will probably come across as spammy. You don’t want your followers to remember the majority of your tweets as ads. Also, if you tweet unrelated ads, that could also have a negative impact. For example, if you tweet about art and music normally, but sponsor a tweet about teeth whitening, it’s going to seem a little shady. As long as you stay on topic and don’t bombard your following, you shouldn’t have any problems with followers being upset. :)