Learning how to use Twitter for affiliate marketing is one skill that you can leverage to make money.
Twitter, in recent time, has gone beyond being a platform for socialisation. It has evolved into a networking community with widespread impacts on different spheres of life; socially, politically and economically.
Before now, a conventional market structure consisted of two or more people- buyer and seller, coming together in a place to exchange goods or services. This has its limitations in terms of access to persons, availabilities and varieties of products. But today, marketing and the market place have revolutionised more with the rise of the internet.
Marketing and its numerous genres such as affiliate marketing has indeed gone global especially with the inception of social media, one of which is Twitter.
Twitter is a social platform that enables its users to interact through the sending of messages- tweets. People get to post write-ups, photos and videos. Also, they get to read other posts, like and share these posts; which is known as retweeting. Although, a user on the platform, is given a limit of 280 characters to tweets and also, audios and video tweets are limited in terms of memory space and time allotment as well (140 seconds).
In my opinion, Twitter has the highest population of the elites and a high population of the working class denominations of the world’s population, as its everyday user.
With over 330million active users monthly who are at lesser risk of losing their accounts to hackers, Twitter is one sure platform you would love to use for affiliate marketing.
Here are some guides to take you through the process of making use of Twitter for affiliate marketing.
- Build a Strong Twitter Bio.
- Meet Fellow Twitters.
- Always Tweet.
- Increase the Number of Your Followers.
- Use Hash Tags.
Build a Strong Twitter Bio
A Twitter bio is what I like to call a Twitter tagline. It is more than just a profile that you are to create; remember, you have a product you intend to make people aware of, to the end that they would patronize you, thereby maximizing profit.
So you should not be looking at creating a private account type. Instead, you should create an account that allows you to reach the kind of customers that you desire.
Therefore, creating a strong Twitter bio is pivotal. The sole aim of this is to put to bear what you have got to offer at the very first glance of your Twitter handle by just anyone. You need these people for your affiliate marketing, right? It’s a people network you are creating; therefore, your tagline should strongly pass such a message and be professional with it.
Meet Fellow Twitters
To meet fellow Twitter, there are a few things that you would need to do. And some of them are:
Follow People
The next thing you are to do after building a strong Twitter Bio is to meet people who are also on this platform. Recall, Twitter is a social network, that is, there are as earlier said, 330 million monthly active users on this platform – I mean, this is surely a huge number of people that you can network with.
But how do you create a network with them if you do not follow them? Yes, you should follow as many people that come up on your page.
Twitter brings out different people that share the same location with you, same hobbies, same viewpoints, and same likes as you. That is why you need to work well on your Bio.
You can also search for the names of people you know or have heard of and follow them.
Following people gives you access to their account (you can get to privately chat them up via their inboxes) and as well, what they tweet, retweet, and like.
Choose Who to Follow
The good thing about choosing who to follow is that you would be selecting the kind of people you want to interact with. This would be you choosing people based on the characters you desire; cutting across their age, status, gender, locations, and whatever personality you are on the lookout for, that would suit the products you are or want to promote.
For example, if what you have to promote is medically related, you will have to ensure that the people you follow are medically inclined and also would need things related to medicine.
Like, Comment and Retweet
Twitter, as earlier said, brings out a list of people with whom you share similar characters, with respect to locations, age, sex, etc. These persons, you have pulled together, building a network for yourself.
Now, to build your network, you have to be known. The persons you would like to network with should see you.
A good way of making them do is by liking, commenting, and Retweeting. There is a magical power in these three actions that can be used to its full potential by affiliate marketers, which would make using Twitter for affiliate marketing so easy for you.
Now, since their posts would be coming up on your page, all you have to do is to like or make some comments on them, thereby causing a thread, and also, you can retweet these posts on your wall.
In doing these, they would be notified that you did and if frequently done, would see you.
It’s just what it is, everybody loves attention; give it to them, they remain at your fingertip.
Always Tweet
When you have a Twitter handle, people have to see you. One way they can see you is by tweeting consistently.
Make your tweets concise and precise
I am sure nobody goes to the market, bid so well for a product, and when a consensus is reached, walks away leaving the product behind. There just have to be a follow-up action and in this case, leaving with the product is.
This stays true also in using Twitter for affiliate marketing. You have seen your intended customers by creating a strong Bio and following them.
Then also, they have gotten to see you by your frequent liking, commenting, and retweeting.
Tweeting is you using your space, given characters, audios and videos to promote what you have to sell. More to that, you have your brain and time pace to use as well.
While tweeting, you should recall that you are restricted to 280 characters. Although, this is not a problem as you can make a series of tweets in one post.
However, if you decide to make one tweet per post, then you have to be very concise and precise in whatever you have to tweet.
There should be no ambiguity of words nor should what you have to tweet not portray very clearly what you have to sell.
The power of words and visuals should come in here. You have to be skilled with words and creative with visuals. You must make sure that you capture the minds of your audience and not bore them.
Use links
A problem that may arise in making your tweets concise and precise is the fact that the number of characters and video space you have is limited.
You may find it hard to present all of the details, features, and merits of your products in just a tweet.
You may also not want to have multiple tweets on just one aspect of the product so as not to get your customers wearied from having to scroll so much in finding your continuing tweet, thereby losing them.
Of course, I have a solution that you can make use of. Links. Make use of a lot of links.
You could drop links as your tweets that could take customers to the website of the products where transactions can then be done.
Or, if you own a blog, the links could be used to redirect them your blog where you must have done a good review on the products you have got to promote.
Increase the number of your followers
There are different things you have to practice to increase your number of followers.
Tweeting
Having several followers on Twitter causes traffic on your page; popularity is made.
So many people get to see your tweets, not just those who you follow but those who follow you and also those who follow your followers especially if they like, comment, and retweet.
As affiliate marketers who use Twitter for affiliate marketing, you need all the traffic you can gather.
Tweeting therefore would cause this traffic, thereby, giving you more followers.
You will have to go beyond putting out information about the product you promote to making a thread and also a trend.
Get conversational. This will cause responses to your tweet. The more interactive your posts are the more thread and trend you acquire, causing traffic thus making your page known.
You can then become an influencer thereby becoming popular and people sure love associating with the popular!
Whenever you would later tweet, the little bluebirds will sure help you spread your tweets!
Retweeting
One of the ways of ensuring you stay at the top (being an influencer) is retweeting. You get to retweet posts of your followers and also those of other influencers.
You must however be careful to retweet authentic and authorized posts as your image is to be protected. You can’t afford to be involved in any form of scam.
Paid followers
Paying for more followers on your Twitter handle is not a bad idea as long as the majority of them are organic followers.
Followers could be bought from agents who deal with its selling
Use Hash Tags
If Twitter is known for anything, it’s sure known for its hashtags trends. The hashtags are very powerful tools you can use in affiliate marketing on Twitter. People, stories, events, and every form of content can go viral with the use of hashtags. You just have to create a trend, put up a sparing yet strong hashtag and watch such a trend go viral.
Conclusion
So here you have it! 5 guides I believe strongly could help you use Twitter for affiliate marketing.
Twitter has grown into a massive platform, from its inception till date; reaching so many people you may or may never get to physically meet.
And bringing worlds together and opportunities closer to your doorsteps. With these advantages, you need to be smart.
Being an affiliate marketer does not have to be stressful and time-consuming anymore should you follow the guides well explained above in using Twitter for affiliate marketing. You can now;
- Maximize profit
- Use less capital
- Save time
- Work comfortably
- And become popular.
All because you chose to use Twitter for your affiliate marketing and you followed carefully laid down guides.
