How to Make Money with Twitter: Ad.ly

I recently came across another way to make money with twitter: Ad.ly.

What is Ad.ly?
Ad.ly is an in-stream advertising platform that matches top-tier Twitter publishers with top-tier brands.

Ad.ly for Publishers
Ad.ly enables Twitter publishers to make money from the content they produce on Twitter by sending one Tweet every day from advertisers that they approve. In order to ensure authenticity, every Ad.ly Tweet is explicitly approved by the Twitter publisher. The publishers are able to set the price they want advertisers to pay and can optionally donate part or all of their earnings to charity.

The system works almost the same way as the other sponsored systems with two major differences. One, you can set your price. Based on the number of followers you have, ad.ly estimates what your tweets are worth. If you aren't getting a response from advertisers, you can adjust it. And two, this platform seems to attract the high-end advertisers. I joined the system and about a week later I was contacted by ad.ly stating that Sony wanted me to post ONE tweet about one of their upcoming movies. For my efforts I was paid $171.50. Just for one tweet!!!

Go to Ad.ly to read more and sign up!

How to Make Money with Twitter: Sponsored Tweets

A big trend on how to make money with twitter is by getting your tweets sponsored. Sponsored Tweets is a new Twitter advertising platform that connects advertisers with tweeters. Advertisers can create sponsored conversations on Twitter. Tweeters can earn money for spreading the word.

All you need is a Twitter account to get started. Sponsored Tweets is a whitelisted Twitter application and uses your Twitter credentials to create an account.

Once you've created your account, you set your own price! Depending on your settings -- price, tags and your twitter account -- advertisers will start to make you offers.

SponsoredTweets.com is very user friendly and easy to follow. Join here.

RevTwt Reaches out to Facebook and Adds Greeting Cards

RevTwt has done it again! More new features! RevTwt started as a quick and easy way for publishers to make money with Twitter. Advertisers would create link ads to post, Twitterers would select which ads suit them best and tweet them. Easy money!

Now, RevTwt has created an almost identical platform for Facebook. Advertisers create ads, Facebookers select which ads suit them best and post it to their wall. Again, easy money!

RevTwt has also partnered with Twitter Greetings. Twitter greetings allows you to send greeting cards to your tweeps. The partnership allows RevTwt to place ads on the bottom of the card. If click, then cha-ching cha-ching!

It seems to me that RevTwt is becoming more and more the "how to make money with twitter" platform of choice. Everyday they seem to be updating or adding new services. Must mean that they have high traffic and advertiser volume to keep up the pace. Get your share of the pie at RevTwt.com.

How to Make Money with Twitter: Twivert

About a week ago, Twivert stepped up to the "how to make money with twitter" league.

Although, they are still in beta and have quite a few kinks to work out. It might be worth your time to check them out. Following in the footsteps of Magpie, Twivert (or Twitter Advertising) post ads/links to your Twitter account.

Once they have made a smoother platform, I will return and post some more information.

Hummingbird Gets an Upgrade: Hummingbird 2

You might remember a few months back, I wrote about a product called Hummingbird. This product was so unique that it enabled you to gain an unlimited amount of Twitter followers and at the same time, provided you with an affiliate ID so that you could potentially sell the Hummingbird product to one of your followers. It was a win / win situation.

Today, Mesiah Labs (the creators of Hummingbird) has released a FREE beta of their Hummingbird 2 product due to be released sometime this week. I invite you to try the beta and purchase the new software when it is available. Many new features are available including automatic Twitter follows and an unfollows. More details can be seen on the site.

Have fun and let me know what you all think!

RevTwt Launches URL Shortener - Make Money!

Today, RevTwt.com launched a new URL shortening service. Much like LinkBee.com, RevTwt.com will shorten a long url into their own URL. What's more, you can make money!

For example:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=how+to+make+money+with+twitter&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g:p1

Becomes:
http://tinyurl.com/mfakql

You'll notice, however, that when you click the new, shortened URL the landing page is slightly different from the original. RevTwt.com places a small ad on the top of the page. If anyone clicks the ad, you receive a chunk in your RevTwt.com account.

Here's the best part: You can use RevTwt to shorten ANY URL out there! Did you find a funny video that you know all your friends will continue to pass along? Shorten it with RevTwt.com and make some money on the side!

TwtAd.com Becomes RevTwt.com

Recently, and for reasons I can't seem to grasp, TwtAd.com changed their name and their website to RevTwt.com.

This, in my opinion has accomplished two things: 1) Made more work for me. Because they have changed their URL to RevTwt.com, I have to go and change all of my posts that mention TwtAd.com to the new URL. Furthermore, they also changed my referral link to reflect their new URL. Basically it's like starting over. Okay, enough about me... 2) It's seems that with the new URL, RevTwt.com is adding or changing more and more services every day! This is good news! Let me share...

A) RevTwt.com is crackin' down on the TOS! For the true publisher (like me :]) this is very good news. This means, that spammers/cheaters out there will get banned/blocked from using the site. This in turn means more advertisers will likely use RevTwt.com's system because of the integrity and honest publishing that is going on. Which, in turn, means more money for me! (Or you ;]).

B) RevTwt.com is now offering TWO more methods of getting paid. Besides the normal post-click-get paid method, now publishers can get paid for each ad they post based on the number of followers they have. What's more, the followers don't need to click on anything! You just get paid for posting! Granted their are limitations on most of the ads like, "up to a certain amount of followers" or the ad must be published in your Twitter feed for 3 days, etc. The last method actually doesn't even have to be used in conjunction with Twitter! More or less, they are ads that can be placed anywhere, (Twitter, Blogs, Emails, Signatures, etc.) and you get paid based on the traffic driven or the actions the users take after they click on the ads.

C) Lastly, RevTwt.com seems to be getting serious about how they are delivering click stats to their publishers. I have yet to see a day where something is different about how the stats look. But change, in my opinion is good. It can only mean that it's a work in progress and future results will be sublime.

That is all I have for today. Hope nobody got thrown of the track with the change from TwtAd.com to RevTwt.com. Let me know if you have any questions and as always post your comments below!

Make Money By Posting Links

A number of you have asked about the different websites that allow you to make money by posting links. Today, I would like to discuss some of the more popular websites that allow you to do so.

Before we begin, you must remember that when you make money by posting links, that you are advertising a product. If this is done incorrectly, you will lose your Twitter followers. Please refer to Make Money With Twitter Advertising for information on how to properly advertise on Twitter.

You will notice that I have left "Twitter" out of the title on this post today, because while you can make money by posting links on Twitter, you can make money by posting links on just about anything! Again, be careful where you post the links. You do not want to SPAM any system, website, blog, etc.

With that said... Let's begin!


The first and most common method to make money by posting links is with HootSuite.com. This is the only one of the three systems I will mention today that can only be used with Twitter. HootSuite.com integrates your Google Adsense account into your links. You supply the link to HootSuite.com and they will supply you with a shortened link. You write a quick tweet and submit the tweet to twitter. When a user clicks on this new, shortened link they will be taken to the original webpage with a small difference. A Hootsuite.com banner will be placed on top of the page with two sections. One containing all you Twitter information, a retweet button and a website voting system. The other section contains an ad from your Google Adsense account. Here is an example of a HootSuite.com link: http://ow.ly/5jvs. How to start: 1) Register with Hootsuite.com. 2) Provide your Twitter account information. 3) Provide your Adsense account information. 4) Grab ANY web link. 5) Shorten the link with Hootsuite. 6) Submit your tweet. 7) Make money by posting links!
WARNING: Seems that HootSuite.com is having issues making things work with Adsense. Here is a direct quote from their site: "We are currently experiencing issues with AdSense integration. Your ads may not be displayed. We are in communication with Google about this issue, and we will keep our users updated."


The next two methods on how you can make money by posting links are very similar. Linkbee.com and Adjix.com allow you to shorten links and post them ANYWHERE! Both of these mediums do the same "banner" thing as Hootsuite.com except this time, they provide their own ads. You do not need to get your Google Adsense account involved. They both pay you through your PayPal account. Here is an example of an Adjix.com link: http://adjix.com/d6q3

Linkbee.com takes the process a step further with it's easy to use design, it's link tracking capabilities, it's referral program, among many other things. All you need to do is sign up and you can start making money by posting links.


Also, Linkbee.com allows you to post the link with another money making option. Instead of using a banner you can select to have the link take you to a "landing page" before it takes you to the actually link. The landing page acts as a 10 second commercial (with clickable ads) between the link click and the final link result. Here is an example of a Linkbee.com banner: http://linkbee.com/Z54D. And here is their commercial: http://linkbee.com/Z54W

Hope this has been an informal post on how to make money by posting links. Please feel free to try out the examples given (and click on ads :)) and let me know if you have any comments or questions!

Make Money With Twitter Affiliates: Hummingbird

I'm sure most of you have heard or seen by now the many different spams, emails, direct messages or advertisements about your Twitter account and how you can make money with twitter by signing up and paying a one time fee. These are called Pyramid Schemes and for the most part THEY DON'T WORK! Do not waste your money on them. HOWEVER, there are a few companies out there that offer products for sale and pay you a commission for referring them a client. These are called affiliate sales or affiliate networking.

Today, I want to go into some detail about THE BEST Twitter Affiliate. Not only do they offer a solid product which I use every day, but they pay you very well for referring them business. This Twitter Affiliate is known as Hummingbird by Mesiah Labs.

Hummingbird allows me to capture targeted followers on Twitter. The program is an actual browser that will log you into your Twitter account. Once you log you, you search for people based on your interests. Find a Twitter user that seems to have a good following of people. Click on his/her follower list to view all of their followers. Once you are on this page, you can click a button on the Hummingbird browser that will automatically follow all of these users. The Hummingbird creators would like you to wait one day to allow time for those that will follow you back. After the 24 hour period, you can go to your list of followers and click an "unfollow" button to only unfollow those that did not follow you. Then you can start the whole process over again.

Doesn't that classify as spam? No! Hummingbird has taken it a step further. Once you unfollow someone, the program remembers them and you will never follow that person again. In Hummingbird you will never follow the same person twice!

For example, I have a real estate license and one of my Twitter Accounts, @RealtorRyan, is all about real estate. When I open Hummingbird, I search for the term "real estate". I take a look at one of the most followed real estate gurus. I then click on his/her follower link. Then hit the button to "follow all" and now I'm the guru! I invite you to check out my Twitter following. I started about 2 or 3 months ago and currently I have about 24,000+ followers who actually like to know about real estate. I don't think you will ever find a better solution to getting targeted followers. What's more, it's all automatic! I can set the browser to "follow all" or "unfollow all" and go grab a cup of coffee!

Okay... So where do you get paid? Once, you purchase the program, you are giving a referral code. I know what you are thinking... "How much?" This is gonna hurt... $197.00. Yes, I thought it was a lot at first as well. Why would anyone pay almost $200 for a program that no one has heard of. Well I went for it... and as you can see in the Twitter account I posted above, It's well worth it. Not to mention, this whole blog is about how to make money with Twitter. The more followers I have, the better.

So, I figured, in my case anyway, that this product is twofold. I can buy the product, get the referral code, gain followers and refer them the product I am using to get the followers. How genius is that? For every referral that purchases Hummingbird, I get 30% of the entire sale. That's $59! Quick math says, I only have to bring in 4 referrals to get my money's worth. Not to mention, now that I have huge followings, I'm making a killing on all the other methods I use to make money with Twitter.

This is just one methods of how you can make money with Twitter Affiliates. Check back again for some details on others. In the meantime, check out Hummingbird and please leave any comments or questions!

UPDATE (5/4/09): For one month only, the creators of Hummingbird are allowing your to purchase a copy for 15% off. That's almost $30! Please enter this discount code at checkout: RECESSION

Get Paid by RevTwt.com

A lot of you have been asking, "How do you get paid by RevTwt.com? And how does RevTwt.com work?" Toady, I will go into some detail on what you need to do to start working with and get paid by RevTwt.com.

First and foremost, you must have a valid Twitter account. Duh! Okay, I know that was lame, but you wouldn't believe how many people don't.

Then, sign up for an account at RevTwt.com. You will have to fill in your Twitter account details, some other minor details and of course, your PayPal details. At this moment in time, RevTwt.com only uses PayPal to send money to you. If you do not have one, it is also very easy to set one up at PayPal.com. You really should have an account there anyway. There are plenty of online sites that use PayPal as well.

Once you have logged into RevTwt.com. You can click on the "Post Ads" link to start posting some ads. I would read through this list of ads carefully. Remember to select ads that only pertain to you and your "Twitter Style." You can read exactly what will be posted to your account and for how much money per click. After you find the ad (or ads) that you like, you may select it and agree to post it to your Twitter profile.

Now you are on autopilot! Anytime someone clicks on your ad, you get paid by RevTwt.com! RevTwt.com keeps a tally of how many ads your followers clicked on and an amount for which to pay you. After you reach $20.00 you may withdraw your money. Then continue posting!

Some good practices to stand by: Don't spam the system. Ideally it would be great if you could just keep posting ads and getting clicks all day long. Unfortunately, your followers will NOT like you anymore if you do this. So fray away from spamming. A general rule of thumb is to post an ad, and go on about your normal Twitter posts about your coffee break or snow-boarding vacation. Then come back to RevTwt.com after a while.

Please make some comments or let me know if there are any questions!

Make Money With Twitter

I just wanted to give a quick update on how I can make money with Twitter. Below are some pictures of what I make in one day from different advertisers. Here is proof that I can make at least $80 a day just from advertising on Twitter.

Please click on the links to sign up!

RevTwt.com


TwittAd.com


Be-A-Magpie.com


Adsense from HootSuite.com


Let me know if you have any questions about how you can make money with Twitter.

Twitter Pay Per Click Ads

I just ran into something very special today. I found a company that pays by the number of clicks a link gets in your post! Also known as "pay per click," this is a very fast and sure fire way of how to make money with Twitter.

RevTwt.com has a very easy and simple slogan: "Earn money from your tweets!" After all, isn't that why you are here, reading this very article?

I will try to break it down for you. RevTwt.com has, again, taken the hard part out of advertising. They have found the advertisers already! The advertiser than supplies RevTwt.com with an amount they will pay for clicking on their link. All you have to do is sign up with RevTwt.com, register your Twitter account, supply your paypal account details, select which ads you would like to post on your Twitter account and RevTwt.com does the rest.

After you post your ad you should see the post on your Twitter profile with a link from the advertiser. Every time someone clicks on that ad, YOU GET PAID! It's that simple!

Again, be resourceful on which ads you are going to select. They must sound like they are coming from you and not some advertiser. I've already spoken with a rep from the company on how to clean these up to be more personal instead of a full-blown ad.

I knew that someone (I thought Google) would come around eventually and get Pay Per Click ads on Twitter. You see them everywhere else. Why not here?

Place Ads on Twitter Profile

Last week I discussed How to Make Money with Twitter Advertising. I went in to detail about how one should choose which advertising elements they should use according to their own personal style and character. I then went into some detail on some companies that provide services on how to make money with Twitter. This week, I want to go into a little bit more detail about www.TwittAd.com and the ad services they provide for your Twitter Profile.

What is TwittAd.com? Twittad is a Social Media Affinity Network that connects Advertisers and Twitter users. By using Twittad, Twitter users can monetize their profiles & Advertisers can reach ALL of Twitter; the Website, 3rd Party Applications and Mobile Devices!

The way TwittAd.com works is simply by allowing Twitter users to register their Twitter profiles to TwittAd.com and allowing advertisers to place ads on their Twitter profile. Once, an ad has been placed on the Twitter profile for a predetermined length of time, the Twitter user gets paid! It's that simple.

The fun doesn't stop there. TwittAd.com allows Twitter users two different methods on how to make money with Twitter ads: 1) A sort of auction-like method that allows Twitter users to list the Twitter profile for sale. The Twitter user can set the amount based on an amount per follower. Usually, the lower the better. The Twitter user approves the ad and the fun can begin. And 2) Advertisers can announce that they need a certain amount of Twitter users' profiles to place their ads and set an amount to be paid. The Twitter user can apply and the advertiser can choose which profiles best fit their needs. Once they approve the user's profile, again, the fun begins!

I have opted to do both methods! Why not? Place your profile for auction and in the meantime, check out what some of the advertisers are offering to place ads on your Twitter profile.

Once you have registered your Twitter profile and sign up for a method (or both) the magic can begin. TwittAd.com (in a way) logs into your Twitter profile and places the ad as a background picture on your Twitter account. TwittAd 's technology will continually check to make sure that a Twitter user is serving the ad. Every hour the ad is served, the Twitter user will receive money in their TwittAd account. Once the TwittAd users account reaches $30 they can request payment. If Twitter user removes the image before the advertiser's time has expired, they alert the advertiser and they have the option to give negative feedback to the Twitter user. So don't do that! :)

I hope this was an informative post about one company's version of placing ads on your Twitter profile. There are many more to cover! Stay tuned!

Make Money with Twitter from Advertising

The most popular form of making money online is by monetizing your web presence. Hence the reason Google is doing so well. The most popular website in the world gives away free applications, free space, free email, free everything practically, yet somehow they make tons of money! How do they do it? Advertising! Long story short... because of their high volume of traffic, advertisers pay Google to get noticed on their site. Google developed two systems: one for advertisers (Adwords) and one for publishers (Adsense). Adwords allows advertisers to buy keywords that when searched on Google places their link higher or in a more prime position for users to click on. Adsense allows publishers to place advertisements from advertisers on the publisher's page. Any time an advertisement is clicked, the publisher gets paid by the advertiser.

What does this have to do with making money on Twitter? Well, as a twitterer :), you are a publisher of information. You broadcast information to a targeted group of followers. The same method that applies for Adsense could be applied to your twitter profile.

Many people have said, "Don't do it! You'll lose your followers! You'll be deemed as a spammmer!" Are they right? In a sense, yes! But if you follow my directions, I can show you how making money with Twitter from advertising can be done properly.

Like anything you do, you have a unique style. For instance, I am an Entrepreneur, with a real estate license who loves technology, UFC, anything Google, and so on. Therefore my style, is hanging out, making connections, talking about real estate news, grabbing the next gadget, etc. I'm not about to talk about something that I have no clue about or is not in my character or style. So why would I do that in my twitter profile. I remain consistent and talk about things I know and love and that's the way your advertising should be. When you select an advertiser, find an ad that shows off the things you know and love. For me, it will be real estate or UFC or Google or technology related. That way, even though you are publishing an ad, it looks like you are just talking about stuff you always talk about.

Okay, I know what you are thinking... "Where do I find the advertisers?" Here are a few that I can recommend:

I'm sure most of you have heard of Be-A-Magpie.com. They have done a lot of the work for you. They found the advertisers! The advertisers then decide how they want to pay: Per Click, Per View, Per Sale, etc. All you have to do is sign up, (give them your twitter account) ,select the ads you would like posted and ads will be posted in your name. Here is where I mentioned "your style" comes in to play. Make sure the ads you select are ads you would normally talk about. I tend to stay away from the ads that involve a sales pitch like: "Come take a look at our $99 phones! www.somerandomphonelink.com" That is a surefire ad and you will definitely lose followers with that. Some advertisers got smart and put normal talk into the ads like: "I just played around with Gmail's new 'insert picture' feature! It's awesome! www.somerandomgmailblog.com." These ads sound like me and they are things I normally talk about. You have some control over when they push your ads and there are some other neat features as well.

Another popular site for making money with twitter advertising is Twittad.com. Again, these guys have done the work for you. They found the advertisers! All you have to do is sign up. Except this time, they aren't posting links on your twitter profile. These guys replace your profile background picture and use the whole background as an ad. The advertisers set an amount to be paid and the length of the duration your background needs changed. This site is a little harder to find advertisers that will post pics that fit your style. Occasionally they do! I tend to stick away from the longer duration ads (1 month). The shorter the better. This site also has one more unique function. They allow you to post your profile background for sale on the site for an amount of time and money that you set and then advertisers can buy your background.

The last one I will talk about is HootSuite.com. While being your one-stop-shop for Twitter, HootSuite takes it a bit further by shrinking any links you install in your posts. By shrinking these links, HootSuite, creates a brand new webpage. On the new webpage are two things: 1) The original site you had HootSuite shrink the link for. and 2) A HootSuite Banner across the top of the page with all your information and a tiny place for you to insert a Google Adsense ad. Essentially any page you want to forward to your friends can now have one of your Adsense ads on it.

UPDATE: I just ran into something very special today (4/21/09). I found a company that pays by the number of clicks a link gets in your post! Also known as "pay per click," this is a very fast and sure fire way of how to make money with Twitter. RevTwt.com has a very easy and simple slogan: "Earn money from your tweets!" After all, isn't that why you are here, reading this very article? Make sure you check them out!

These are only a few of the more popular advertising companies that use Twitter. There are many more available. Don't be afraid to mix and match. I always use as many as possible. The more you use the more likely you will get paid. Remember what I said though! Be true to your style and you will be fine!

Please feel free to comment or ask any questions. I usually respond right away. Stay tuned for my next post on how to make money with Twitter.

See ya!

How to Make Money with Twitter

Hello everyone, this will be brief - a short welcome message to introduce mself. I am an entrepreneur of sorts and found that making money online is possible. I've recently stumbled upon a new avenue of how to make money online... with Twitter!

How can twitter make you money? I know it's a hard concept to understand, but hopefully with my new blog, I will be able to show you how it is possible. Some of you think you have tried everything and it's worth pennies. But, maybe I have some tips for you that just might help you out.

Btw - let’s get something cleared up right from the start - I’m not selling anything - no ebook or miracle software that will make you rich beyond dreams. No - I provide free information on my blogs and will continue to do so here.

I intend to discuss some of the main programs I use and exactly how to use them. Please feel free to ask questions or leave comments. Stay tuned for my next post which includes how to make money with twitter using advertisers.

See you then!