My Twitter Tactics and its associates have been keeping an eye on Twitter and it is a growing beast. It’s size dwarfs most of its social media competition.  Of course there are many who have tried to take advantage of twitters rapid growth and cash in on new members trying to get more followers and so on. But besides getting paid to tell people how to use twitter, how else can you make money on this site?

Well there are many huge companies that use twitter updates to let their clients know about the best deals and when they have sales and this is a great way to keep in contact with your customers.  However, we think that this is not much of a step up from email, especially since your customers will have to go get a twitter account to take advantage of what you are offering in this manor.

On the other hand, what about affiliate marketing?

Well there are some great aspects to twitters functionality that really tend to affiliate marketers.  So, lets cover some of the advantages of using twitter for affiliate marketing and see if this may be your next online business.

Twitter Affiliate Marketing Advantages

1. Massive User Base

Well if you are going to market anything, you will want to have a large number of people to show your offers to and twitter definetely has one of the largest user bases on the net, so this makes it  a perfect ground to start sharing or advertising any affiliate product or service.

2. Allows Links

Of course twitter allows you to send out links to whatever you want and if you are a marketer, there are no “google slaps” so to speak for sending out information on same or similar items.  Many sites ban users from sending duplicate links over time or mark certain addresses as spam by default, not twitter!

3. Target Market

Well if you want to preach to the choir with your advertising campaign, you will not find a better place to do it.  You can use the new search feature on twitter to find users who are discussing anything in the world.  So why not use this to do a little market research and see if you can find some new followers at the same time?

4. No Web Site Needed

Of course, you can add a website to your profile and it doesn’t hurt to do that, but the point is that you don’t need your own website to grow your web presence on twitter.  If you are promoting an affiliate site, you can simply add it as your homepage on your profile and drive even more traffic to your opportunity or service.

5. Tiny URL

OK, for some this may not make since right off the bat, but what I mean by this is the fact that twitter automatically uses tinyurl to shorten long urls.  In the past, an affiliate marketer who was sending out his affiliate link would be given away by the long web address with his affiliate code in it.  No more, your urls are shortened for you and nobody worries about the nondescript web address, because that is how so many show up by default on twitter.  This can be a huge advantage for an affiliate marketer!

Here is a link to one of my favorite items to use to make some extra money on twitter right now, its just like google adsense, but for twitter and it is free to use: RevTWT

I know this article was short and sweet, but if you think about the points I have made above, I think you will agree that twitter is quickly becoming an affiliate marketers best friend.  So go get you an amazon account and start making some extra cash today.  If there is ever anything that I can do to help you with your twitter marketing campaign, don’t hesitate to contact me direct, I would love to see how I can help.

To Success,
Nick Simpson