Are you an “A” blogger or just an average kinda blogger? It is a possibility that it makes a very BIG difference as to whether or not you can make money on Twitter with tweets that are sponsored by advertisers.You have heard several A bloggers proclaim the virtues of this fabulous method of making serious money online. You sign up with an advertising company as an affiliate Twitter advertiser and you input your Twitter name and real quick they will tell you how much advertisers will be willing to pay for you just tweeting their ads.
Of course the program explains that your number of Twitter followers makes a difference in the payment per tweet amount. So I signed up, after all I have about 10,000 followers and that’s nothing to sneeze at. Holy smokes they say that advertisers will be willing to pay about twenty bucks per tweet, do I want to activate my account? Hell yes!
So I gave them my name, address, contacts and social security number, after all I will have to report my hundreds of thousands of dollars of income from this new program right? All I would have to do is sit back, relax and wait for the advertising offers to come rolling in.
Chirp, chirp, chirp, not even a peep to tweet. So I’m thinking maybe $20 is too much, lets lower it to $18, silence, lower to $15, nothing, lower to $9 per tweet.
The pins dropping around here are deafening.
Okay, so lower it right down to five bucks and lets get this sucker moving, right?
Nothing, no offers. I could become a lot more famous by putting my hat on sideways and pants on the floor.
So I took the banner ads down. I never promote anything that I do not believe in, and then I notice that this big time advertising company is running a massive campaign to sign up more affiliate publishers and they seem to be giving away just about every major computer toy that anyone would ever want, for just signing up with them as a Twitter advertiser.
Now this got me to thinking. Who told me about this in the first place? Well as I recall it was John Chow, certainly an A blogger, and I signed up under his affiliate link. I believe John when he tells how much money he is making with this program. After all he and the other A bloggers are the very best word of mouth promoters aren’t they?
Looking back, I have some thoughts that came to mind, lets see what you think.
Suppose an advertising company could sign up millions of affiliate tweeters, and suppose that company could build a gigantic database of names, contacts, and “Social Security Numbers”! Would that database have value?
I seem to recall once on one of the credit card company affiliate programs I looked in to, but did not sign up for, that they considered the full name, address, contact and SS numbers as being worth $35.00 each. Now I am not saying that this is an ulterior motive for this particular advertising company, but it does come to mind.
Lets hear it from all of you satisfied tweeters out there. All of you average Joes, and mommy bloggers, and hobbyists, that tweet for sponsored ads. Please share with our readers as to whether or not you have made a ton of money with this program, or if in fact you have made “any” money with this program.
I have a feeling that it will be primarily the big names in the blogging world that are seeing any cash flow. I know that advertising on Twitter does work and that people do make money with Twitter ads. For instance, Leo LaPorte, the tech guy, told on a recent podcast that just before he left for the CES show in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago that Ford offered him $10,000 for just one retweet of a Ford ad. Leo being the most ethical guy that I know of on the internet turned the offer down.
Please let us know your thoughts.