Are You Taking Advantage Of Social Media?

Social media and Web 2.0 caught fire a couple of years ago, and folks have been jumping on the bandwagon since then. Using Twitter a year go would have made you an early adopter, but nowadays using Twitter is more of a necessity than anything else. Twitter used to be just a micro-blogging platform that folks hated just a year ago, but you can’t imagine how much traffic Internet marketing geniuses are driving to their sites by staying active on Twitter.

If you have not been using Twitter so far, the least you can do is create a Twitter profile for yourself or your business. If you have no idea how to create a good Twitter profile, you can just learn from the top Twitter users. But if you look at guys like Ed Dale in the top 20, you’ll see that they don’t try to spam Twitter by continuously posting affiliate offers. They link to useful sites, and they engage with their followers.

Affiliate marketing on Twitter really can’t be done in a direct kind of way. Folks are too smart to fall for someone who’s just trying to make a quick buck. You can easily get ignored by the Twitter community if you are too pushy. But if you show the community that you are there to provide value and not just spam the community, you can generate lots of traffic and even make a greater number of sales.

Your take: are you using Twitter to promote affiliate offers? Have you had success linking directly to affiliate offers?