Social Media, Twitter and How To Cash In On This Mega Trend !

Amongst all of the social media sites, twitter is the one that most people are talking about at the moment.

Of course that can change as quickly as it started but as I write this that’s the state of play.

Anyone and everyone is tweeting at the moment.

For me , it’s like facebook stripped down to the barebones. A simpler and more efficient method of answering one simple question ” what are you doing ? .”

And apparently that’s the one question that everyone wants answered about you.

Imagine that.

The good thing about Twitter is that Tweets are limited to 140 characters.

They are short, sharp and succint.

They get straight to the crux of the matter.

But is that good for people wanting to use social media platforms to help their home intenet business ?

Is it possible to actually make money with twitter ?

Well below we have a very good article that is focused solely on how to make money with twitter.

Because on the face of it, it may seem a  bit trickier than other platforms for advertising online.

You can’t pitch, you are restricted to 140 characters per tweet, so no long sales letters.

But with a bit of a change in thinking , this can all be turned into a benefit for you.

If we’re honest we’re all sick of receieving blatant e-mail pitches all day every day.

Long sales letters, and an inbox that takes you an hour just to sift through.

So how do you go about turning your 140 characters into a system that help you make money with twitter.

Well firstly, there are some tools that are outlined in the article below to help you.

And although you are restricted to 140 characters, this can be a url, so you can link to an interesting video, article, or to your blog or website.

Posting interesting content relevant to your business, with a viral potential ( because your tweets , can be re-tweeted to other people if they are interesting ), seems to be the first part of it.

Again it goes back to over-delivering great quality free content first. Before you expect anything back from your prospective customers.

Well I won’t keep you any longer. Take a look at this article from our friends at StomperNet

Make Money With Twitter. Cheat Sheet To Make Your Tweets More Sweet

One thing to note is that people who are successfully using twitter and social media to make money is that you have to approach it with an attitude of fun and reciprocation.

You have to give before you get.

I’m sure you’ve all got those myspace, twitter or facebook messages that are obviously mass produced pitches that they just copy and paste and to hundreds of people

” Hi, I’m Joe , i foind this great site where you can blah blah blah”

I know how I feel when i get those messages.

I wouldn’t check them out on a matter of principle.

They are lazy, selfish, and not they way i would recommend using social media.

Social media , is just that SOCIAL.

You have to be a real person, you have to give and take.

You can’t go into it with an attitude that it is just another form of advertising for you because it will show.

Have fun, engage, reciprocate, and expect to give before you get.

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How You Can Make Money From Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc…

Social Media plays a big part in most of our lives.

There is a pretty good chance that you use at least one of the social media sites above if not all of them.

Whether it be catching up with old school friends on Facebook, tweeting about what you had for lunch on Twitter ( Stephen Fry has about half a million people following his dietary schedule ???) , or showing the world a humerous video you made for Youtube.

If you are on the internet , the odds are pretty good that you are using these social media sites.

But is anyone making any money from them ?

Apart from the founders of the sites obviously, although even that can be a struggle. Facebook is having numerous problems trying to monetize it’s massive users numbers, because no-one wants to pay to use the service and the ad space they are trying to sell seems  to be proving very difficult for advertisers to make money from.

As you know, when you’re on facebook, you’re in the midset of having a laugh with your friends and not looking to buy anything.

ITV are looking to sell Friends Reunited for £15m , having bought it for £175m in 2005.

So what can Social Media do for your internet business and how do you go about trying to make money from it?

After all, the traffic is free, so if you can figure out how to do it, you are on to a winner.

The best in the marketplace for this at the moment is probably a guy by the name of perry belcher. You can google him and find out how he makes his money from social media.

In a nutshell , it’s quite a simple concept.

I’m sure you are aware of the wrong way to go about building a business using social media. If you’ve had friend requests on Myspace and Facebook, followed straight away by a message saying “ I found this great site where you can get blah blah blah, ” you will know what I mean.

Now I’m sure there are people who have had some success using this method but I’m not sure that the social media equivalent of spam is the way to build a solid online business.

Perry belcher does things a little differently and it is all based around the model that we recommend on this site of building an internet business around a subject or market that you are knowledeable and passionate about and providing a quality experience and content for your prospective customers.

Sounds simple.

Well the basics of Perry’s model is . He merely treats his social networking contacts as he would people he has met at a party.

Meaning if you meet someone at a party, you don’t start trying to pitch them your product two minutes after meeting them. You would get a lot of yawns and soon find yourself standing at the bar by yourself.

It’s simply too early and not the time.

Perry has a set of social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and a Youtube Channel, all pumping out good contenet for free on subjects that he thinks his prosepctive customers would be interested in.

All of this content and these social sites all then push people to his blog for more good free content.

Then the more responsive and more likely to buy prospects, join his e-mail list in return for a free giveaway of some more content that they need.

And then through the e-mails on the e-mail list more content is deleivered mixed with sales messages and promotions.

It is a simple sales funnel that feeds the warm prospects through to his sales messages when they are ready for it, without upsetting his other contacts who may not be ready for it.

They can opt-in to his sales funnel at a later time as and when they are ready to do so.

It is the social media equaivalent of talking about your business with a new friend at your house, over a beer on the patio , rather than trying to pitch them within two minutes of meeting at a party.

Think about your sales funnel and how you can use social media to gather people with an interest in what you are doing, and slowly take them step-by-step towards your business and what you have to offer them.

Don’t go straight for the kill like a nervous teenager on a first date. Take the time to establish a relationship, provide the content and information that they are looking for, for free if possible and watch that one-off sale that you were going for, turn into a long standing business relationship based on respect and trust for you and your business.

Social Media is the perfect vehicle to start establishing that.

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