Some social media gurus swear that you can make money with Twitter, but many Internet marketers have a different opinion on this. So what does Matt Back say when it comes to the question of whether you can make money with Twitter? You can make money with Twitter, but it’s not how you think you would.

Don’t Be Spammy with Twitter

Twitter is fast becoming one of the most popular social media sites. People are spreading the word about everything and anything in 140 characters or less. So, how can you make money with Twitter? One way that you can’t make money with Twitter is by spamming your affiliate links one after another.  People will unfollow and block your account faster than you can say, “Twitter,” if this is how you try to make money from it.

Make a Sincere Effort to Network and Develop Business Relationships

The way that you can make money with Twitter is an indirect way. By making friends with common interest and actually interacting with these friends, you may be able to get more traffic to your site.

Let’s say you have a blog about weight loss and you promote a weight loss affiliate product. By making friends with fellow weight loss bloggers and fitness experts, you may just be able to get some backlinks from these other bloggers that can give you a higher search engine ranking for your website and send some more traffic to your site. This is one completely indirect way to make money with Twitter.

There’s More to Internet Marketing than Social Media

Twitter and other social media sites like Facebook may be good for a few dollars here and there, but they are prominently for making connections and friends online. In no way should you solely rely on social media promotion as your only affiliate marketing strategy.

You can learn real affiliate marketing strategies with the Internet Marketing Dirt Newsletter or come and see Matt Bacak’s seminar called Survival Tactics for Tough Times where you can learn more than you think about making money online and staying ahead of your competition.

Did you know that only 5% of the people who try their hand at Internet Marketing and making money online will have actual affiliate marketing success? It’s a sad statistic, but you don’t need to be in that 5% of people if you can follow these quick tips.

Get Rich Quick in Affiliate Marketing and Get Real

Realize that affiliate marketing success is not going to happen overnight. It is going to take time and hard work to become successful and make money. Some people get started in Internet Marketing with unrealistic expectations that they will be making thousands of dollars a month within the first 3 or 4 months. If you are willing to learn, work hard and smart, and stick with it, you can make the money you want from affiliate marketing.

Believe in What You Sell and It will Sell Itself

Be sure that you select your affiliate products that you are going to endorse and try to sell carefully. This means that you have tried the products and that you have trust in them. If you try to sell affiliate products that you have never used, you may be trying to sell something that is not so great and won’t give you the conversions that you need. You may also have a hard time promoting a product if you aren’t interested in it and don’t exactly know how it works.

Stay up-to-date on your products. If a seller releases a new version of the product that you are trying to sell, then be sure that you are aware of it and make your readers aware of it as well. Staying up-to-date and on top of the latest trends can help you have affiliate marketing success and make more money.

Learn more ways to have affiliate marketing success and earn a living online during this recession, by checking out Matt Bacak and Mark Joyner’s seminar called Survival Tactics for Tough Time. The seminar will provide you with the tools and information that you need to outlast your online competition and not become that 5% that quits Internet marketing.

“The money is in the list” is probably the #1 affiliate marketer saying of all time.  There’s a reason for the saying: in most niches, list building is by far the most profitable tool for amassing wealth.  After all, who could be better to sell to than a captive audience?

Offer your list something for free.

Even when your list caters to an emotion or interest that your prospect has already shown affinity for, it’s still hard to convince people to do something in exchange for nothing.  That’s why free report is the most commonly used list building tactic today.

But you don’t have to use reports exclusively.  In fact, in some niches it’s really not recommended at all!  Quick software downloads (games, screensavers, and personal organizers), discount codes, and electronic ‘coupons’ are all great incentives to get people to join your list.

Don’t sell with every message.

No one reminds their boss every day that they’ll get paid at the end of the week.  You don’t take an opportunity every day to remind your family of when your birthday is (at least I hope you don’t).  And you shouldn’t snag every single opportunity you have, to try and sell to your list.

If you do, you’re likely to end up with a pretty unresponsive list–if you end up with any list at all.

Everyone loves to buy–but nobody likes to be sold!  Even on internet marketing lists, where anyone with any sense expects to be sold to, most list owners don’t try and make a sale with every single email.

Trying to sell with every mail will make your readers ad-blind at best.  At worst, they’ll resent what you’re doing and opt out of your list.  Keep in mind that they joined in order to gain useful information for themselves–not to make you rich.  Give them that information!

Learn more about list building from Matt Bacak this December at the “Survival Tactics for Tough Times” seminar.

Even though Twitter has been around for a couple of years, it’s only now picking up major momentum as an affiliate marketing tool for most affiliate marketers.  Here are the two of the strongest tactics that I and the rest of the Bleeding Edge team have learned from Matt Bacak about how to make money with Twitter.

Send a link with your welcome messages.

You probably already know that you should send a direct message to every new follower you get (and if you didn’t–you do now!).  But most marketers, for some reason, neglect to put a link in this message.

This link doesn’t have to be for a paid product.  In fact, it probably shouldn’t be.

What kind of link should you send?  That all depends on your niche.  In the IM niche, you shouldn’t get any complaints if you send a link to a valuable report or some other helpful product that others can download.

In other niches, you might simply want to encourage your followers to check out your blog, website, or even your Facebook profile.  Pay attention to how low- or high-key your niche acts on Twitter, and you’ll have a good idea what to send.

Invest in some auto-posting software.

Sites like Postlater.com and Socialoomph.com allow you to post to Twitter even when you’re asleep!  (You can also have custom “dripped content” posting software made for you at rentacoder.com.  You really don’t need this kind of solution until you have plenty of twitter accounts however.

Combine this with a newsfeed Tweeting service like Twitterfeed, and you have a winning combination.  Your newsfeed service will keep you listed in Twitter’s search engine and attract new followers, while your auto-posting software will take care of the actual monetization.

You can learn more about how to make money with twitter at Matt Bacak and Mark Joyner’s “Survival Tactics for Tough Times” seminar in December.

Matt Bacak has nearly 90,000 followers on Twitter.  Here are two of his best tips that will help you get Twitter followers–even when you’re not at the computer!

Direct message people that follow you.

You don’t have to “hand-deliver” the message if you don’t want to.  Sites like Socialoomph.com (also known as Tweetlater) allow you to save pre-set messages that will be automatically delivered every time someone follows you.

Tweetlater also gives you the option to vary your welcome message from one delivery to the next.  People expect a bit of canned Twitter text in the internet marketing niche, but not every market is as understanding.  Vary up your welcome or thank you message and people will be less inclined to think you’ve offended their sense of what is genuine.

Whichever option you go with, you should definitely make sure to direct message every new follower you get.  Even small personal touches like this will stand out in Twitter’s hyper-ADD environment.

Run news feeds through your account.

Sites like Twitterfeed.com enable you to broadcast a constant stream of keyword-focused content from your account.

If you pick enough keywords/news feeds and set them to search for new content every half hour (Twitterfeed’s quickest cycle), you should end up with a reasonably steady stream of niche or even sub-niche focused content.

This will keep you in Twitter’s search engine for your relevant terms, and people who want to know all about your niche are of course more likely to follow you if they can find you!  Newsfeeds make it easy for you to let yourself be found by putting you into search.twitter.com several times a day for your keyword.