Anybody who tweets for business and income purposes knows that Twitter is an important tool to have in their social media marketing kit; especially if you are an affiliate marketer. Twitter allows account holders to tweet affiliate referral links. But did you know that according to Clickbank “99% of the affiliate marketers on Twitter have zero idea how to market correctly”.
I humbly confess to being among the 99%. But I happily admit to not being guilty of using the methods described in the CB article. Whew! My ignorance did not go that far.
My first Twitter account (@cmoneyspinner) was created April 2012. It was not used for affiliate advertising even though I had become an authorized affiliate for several vendors. Why? I didn't know how. (O.o) Years passed and as I learned more about how to use Twitter, I learned that "Twitter users are big online buyers" AND multiple Twitter accounts are allowed.
Following the advice of SMM experts, I created a few niche accounts and began using those accounts for affiliate marketing purposes. My niche accounts were created to advertise/market affiliate products for:
- food and drink; grocery and gourmet (@EverydaySpices; July 2015);
- entertainment – movies, music, and books (@FoxMarks_ATX; July 2015);
- general “wishlist” shopping (@goshoppingbees; Oct 2015); and
- health, beauty and personal care (@Rx4Wellness2018; Feb 2018).
How do I use Twitter for affiliate marketing purposes?
Two methods: indirect and direct.
INDIRECT: I create webpages suggesting affiliate products at sites like Wizzley and Webnuggetz; and publish my own websites / blogs : Everyday Exotic Spices, Insurance Mart and Insurance Smart, My Shopping Channel, and Go Shopping Bees. Then I tweet the post links.
DIRECT: Since affiliate links are allowed, using RSS feeds for affiliate products provided by the vendor and automation tools like dlvr.it and Google Feedburner, tweets are posted to the various accounts. Also, I manually compose specific tweets. Tweets can be created manually either as text; text with photo, video or GIF; or as a poll.
Using both of these methods keeps my tweet stream flowing.
Below is the first tweet ever composed using Twitter's POLL CREATION feature for affiliate marketing purposes.
Twitter is one tool in my social media marketing kit that has proven to be invaluable.
“Justice? — You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.” — William Gaddis, "A Frolic of His Own" ( https://t.co/IgktdKYrIT ) #Paperback #books #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #quotes— My Shopping Channel (@goshoppingbees) April 13, 2018
