Can an affiliate marketer, in 140 characters or less entice a reader to check out their product or service? One day, just out of curiosity, I went to the Twitter website. Nothing fancy here. Seemed simple enough. I registered. As part of the process a list of my contacts from my Yahoo list who are on Twitter was presented. Nice feature. I decided to "follow" most of them. Then, the unexpected happened.
I started getting email notices of people who elected to follow ME. Wow! I had built a very basic entry. Not much in the Twitter profile. Just a couple of my areas of interest. Did not put in my blog address. Yet somehow I popped up on the radar. And I was thoroughly impressed with who opted in to follow me. Some had their own huge following of thousands, even tens of thousands. They had very professional sites. The kind of people that I would want to follow. So I opted in to follow them.
Then came the TWEETGLIDE. Oh man, a new app for organizing my tweets and a way to market to others for free. Add to that a promo where they pay for the best site reviews... An affiliate friendly site. Wonderful! When I read the Terms of Use for Craigslist I was disheartened at their banning people selling affiliate products. Weird! Whether it is my personal belonging in my house that I'm selling or an item that is provided by a dropshipper, what difference does it make? Either way, the consumer is buying what they want.
I like Twitter and will continue to use it to not only build my affiliate business and network of professional contacts. I will use it to build my knowledge in various niches in short, "bite size" portions.
Thus far I have only posted my coyote fur and leather coat eBay auction. Next will be Clickbank products. Stay tuned.
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